Nicholas Kristof appears on Real Time with Bill Maher (Screenshot via YouTube) One of David Foster Wallace’s funny little pleasures in life was insisting that journalists and literary types who wanted to interview him make the journey down to the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Bloomington, Ill., where he habitually conducted such business. He wanted to

A woman holds a pro-Trump sign outside the State Senate Building during the announcement of interim findings from the audit of the 2020 election in Phoenix, Ariz., September 24, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Maricopa County Elections Department released a 93-page report on Wednesday debunking claims of fraud in the 2020 election, with county officials saying

Nicholas Kristof speaks at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers event in Manhattan, N.Y., September 20, 2017. (Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters) Shemia Fagan, Oregon’s secretary of state, notified longtime New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof Thursday morning that he was ineligible to become Oregon’s next governor. Fagan’s office issued a press release after informing Kristof of

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. (CBS via YouTube) Isaac notes that: Shemia Fagan, Oregon’s secretary of state, notified longtime New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof Thursday morning that he was ineligible to become Oregon’s next governor. Fagan’s office issued a press release after informing Kristof of her decision to reject his filing, citing the fact that “Article V, §

People fill out ballots during early voting at a polling station in Baltimore, Md., October 26, 2020. (Hannah McKay/Reuters) If you want a good barometer of the dispirited sentiment among relatively moderate local Democrats in the suburbs, check out this recent Fox News interview with Laura Curran. Curran lost her job as Nassau County executive

Left: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, October 26, 2021. Right: Senator Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters, June 2, 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz, Erin Scott/Reuters) Mitch McConnell appears to realize the advantages of Electoral Count Act reform. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R eforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is not just

Here’s another tidbit from that Washington Post poll that has been weirdly and widely ignored. Question 7: Regardless of whom you supported in the 2020 election, do you think Joe Biden’s election as president was legitimate, or was he not legitimately elected? Answer: After a chaotic COVID-era election, 29 percent of Americans don’t believe Biden

Benjamin Harrison in 1896 (Library of Congress) There are a number of issues with the overwrought New York Times “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now” editorial, but let’s not gloss over its selective use of history. The Times, scrounging around in the attic for a safely dead Republican it could co-opt, picks our 23rd president,

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. December 7, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Left doesn’t want a debate over the details because it would show that the state laws they rail against simply make it easier

The Washington Post has a new poll out which shows that only 69 percent of Americans consider Joe Biden’s election legitimate. But as our friend Byron York has pointed out, as of October 2017, only 57 percent of Americans considered Donald Trump’s election legitimate. And in three polls through December 2000 and April 2001, only

Stacey Abrams speaks with a member of the press after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge commemorating the 55th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Ala., March 1, 2020. (Michael A. McCoy/Reuters) An exceptionally revealing paragraph, in an essay from the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan, under the headline, “If American democracy is going to

(Jeenah Moon/Reuters) But politicians resist term limits, the most popular idea to help do that. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A lot of polls have been taken in the run-up to Thursday’s anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol, and they make for sobering reading. A CBS/YouGov poll finds that 68 percent of respondents see the

Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy at an event in Anchorage in January 2020 (Yereth Rosen/Reuters) Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy accepted the endorsement of former president Donald Trump on Thursday, including Trump’s condition that the Republican governor cannot endorse Republican senator Lisa Murkowski in her reelection bid in the state. Trump announced in a statement that Dunleavy,

(Reuters/YouTube) An unavoidably incomplete compendium Dear Weekend Jolter, This is a risky endeavor, to compile a listicle of colleagues’ best, most influential, and/or most widely read work. Many excellent articles inevitably get omitted, feelings are bruised, professional relationships are frayed, debts are called in for spotted bar tabs, threats are issued by letter, mysterious accidents

People fill out ballots during early voting at a polling station in Baltimore, Md., October 26, 2020. (Hannah McKay/Reuters) Conservative groups and voters in Maryland have filed two lawsuits in the last two days challenging the state’s new congressional maps, which they say are unconstitutional and based on extreme partisan gerrymandering. On Thursday, nine Maryland

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on infrastructure at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority in Kansas City, Mo., December 8, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden said Wednesday he plans to run for reelection in 2024 and that he would only be even more likely to run if former President Trump is his opponent. “If I’m

Mehmet Oz poses during a photocall for the TV series The Dr. Oz Show at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in Monaco in 2012. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) The TV doctor and Senate candidate’s political and financial ties to the Turkish government deserve closer scrutiny. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A fter announcing his decision to run for U.S.

U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. (tupungato/Getty Images) The Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman, who meticulously follows congressional redistricting, says the process is shaping up to create more districts that Joe Biden carried in 2020: That said, there are going to be dozens of narrowly Biden-won seats that are very tenuous for Dems in a

The White House in Washington, D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) In 2008, Americans elected as president a first-term senator who’d spent most of his career as a backbench state legislator, a man with no executive experience, no political-leadership experience, no national-security experience, and no record in business or the military.  He was chosen

(Jennifer Strahan for Congress/ Image via Facebook ) The Georgia Republican faces a real contest, despite the conventional wisdom. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M arjorie Taylor Greene has been a political and moral embarrassment for Republicans ever since she won a primary in the summer of 2020 in Georgia’s 14th congressional district. The conventional wisdom is

Demonstrators at an immigration reform rally in Washington, D.C., October 8, 2013. (Jason Reed/Reuters) The GOP is making gains among Hispanics without liberalizing on issues such as immigration. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or years, elite conventional wisdom held that Republicans needed to liberalize on immigration to make inroads with Hispanic voters. This theory enjoyed bipartisan

Dusk falls over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., November 18, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) In a speech last night announcing her about-face on the filibuster (from supporting it while in the minority to opposing it while in the majority), New Hampshire senator Maggie Hassan proclaimed that “we must pass legislation to protect American democracy.” She

Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant restarts the “Tax Amazon” campaign she led in 2019 with a rally at Washington Hall in Seattle, Wash., January 13, 2020. (David Ryder/Reuters) Seattle’s openly Marxist city councilwoman Kshama Sawant appears to have narrowly defeated an attempted recall campaign and will likely hold onto her seat. As of Wednesday,

Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders during a Senate Budget Committee’s hearing to examine President Biden’s proposed budget request for fiscal year 2022, June 8, 2021. (Shawn Thew/Pool via Reuters) On a dime, Democrats shift to court the Twitter vote by claiming what’s really important is a new voting-rights bill. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE U nable

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Amid congressional Democrats’ pivot to federal voting legislation, placing President Biden’s Build Back Better plan on the back burner for now, moderate Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema has doubled down on her defense of the filibuster, indicating that she won’t vote to kill the

Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger at the capitol in Atlanta, November 6, 2020 (Dustin Chambers / Reuters) Georgia’s elections are the most secure and trustworthy in the country, according to an election integrity scorecard released on Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation. The No. 1 ranking comes barely a year after former president Donald Trump

Voters at the Oklahoma Election Board during early voting in Oklahoma City, Okla., October 29, 2020. (Nick Oxford/Reuters) If our political system is to be made sound again, we need to rethink this practice. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epublicans in a number of states are engaged in artful redrawing of congressional-district boundaries for their own

A delegate looks at an electoral map at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., in 2016. (Charles Mostoller/Reuters) The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an existential threat to our republic — and its supporters are getting closer to success. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ver the years we have witnessed a reliable pattern develop

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., December 9, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Pushing back on speculation that President Biden will bow out of the 2024 presidential race due to his advanced age, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that he has “every intention for

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives for the opening ceremony of the Generation Equality Forum at the Louvre Carrousel in Paris, France, June 30, 2021. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters) Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton warned that former President Trump is poised to run for election again in 2024, and said