Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks after being ceremonially sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) President Biden’s top science adviser Eric Lander resigned on Monday after an investigation revealed he violated the White

Federal prosecutor Samantha Trepel speaks during opening statements in the trial of three former Minneapolis officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights during his 2020 arrest, in St. Paul, Minn. January 24, 2022, in this courtroom sketch. (Cedric Hohnstadt Illustration via Reuters) Well, this is not how the Justice Department had it on the

Zhao Dan of China and Gao Tingyu of China lead their contingent during the athletes’ parade at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics in Beijing, China, February 4, 2022. (Marko Djurica/Reuters) My alma matter came under fire over the weekend when the Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao posted an email sent from George Washington University’s

Gas prices at a BP station in New York City, November 24, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) This morning, the American Automobile Association reports that the national average price of gasoline is $3.44 per gallon for regular unleaded – ten cents higher than it was less than two weeks ago! That price is actually a few cents

Students on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 2018. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) It started as a crude joke among friends at the University of Michigan’s Student Veterans of America chapter, one member ribbing another in an online chat about her sexual proclivity. But the joke didn’t land well, and the

(FooTToo/Getty Images) Indoctrinating corrections officers in critical race theory will make a difficult, dangerous job even tougher. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D iversity training is hot right now. And you may have heard that employers are doubling down on the concept, forcing their employees to take additional and more aggressive forms of “equity and inclusion” training.

Virginia Delegate A.C. Cordoza speaks at the Virginia House of Delegates, February 3, 2022. (vahousegop/via YouTube) If you’re not a liberal, you need not apply. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE V irginia Democrats are certainly taking their defeat last November hard. Last week, they spitefully refused the application of the lone black Republican in the House of

People are silhouetted in front of the Canadian national flag at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 21, 2019. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters) A judge in New Brunswick, Canada recently blocked a father’s shared custody of his three children over his refusal to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, according to a new report. The parents

A child rides in a stroller while wearing a mask in Times Square in New York City, December 15, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Two conservative advocacy organizations—the State Government Leadership Foundation (SGLF), a subsidiary of the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), and N2 America, a PR group dedicated to “supporting center-right policies and ideas that better

Sarah Palin arrives for the trial in her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times at the United States Courthouse in New York City, February 4, 2022. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Advantage: Palin NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A fter the 2008 election and “The Masked Singer” and all the rest of it — finally, here is a contest

Putin and Xi used the occasion of Putin being in Beijing to further cement their partnership: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping vaulted their growing partnership into a forward-leaning pact avowedly aimed at the U.S., opposing America’s global network of alliances and seeking to nudge it aside as the sole superpower. With Friday’s opening of the Beijing

President Joe Biden participates in a Gun Violence Strategies Partnership meeting at NYPD Headquarters in New York CIty, February 3, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) Effective policing calls for the establishment and projection of the rule of law, and nothing less. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n his much-hyped visit to New York City this

Vice President Kamala Harris gives a speech on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., January 11, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I have noted previously the hemorrhaging of senior people from Kamala Harris’s staff just a year into her rocky tenure as vice president. That trend should be particularly surprising when

Students in a second- and third-grade combination class during the first day of school at Laguna Niguel Elementary School in Laguna Niguel, Calif., Augut 17, 2021. (Paul Bersebach, MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) The policy solution here is really quite simple: End the mandates and take off the mask. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O

(Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Ulrik Boesen has a simple yet fascinating blog post for the Tax Foundation about Massachusetts’ ban on flavored tobacco products. He writes about a medical study that found that after Massachusetts banned flavored tobacco products, sales declined. Obviously. But Boesen points out that doesn’t mean the ban worked, if the goal was to

Cade Costales mobilizes students to protest Washington state K-12 mask mandate. (via Twitter@XJCasper) The mask wars have been heating up in school districts across the country in recent weeks, notably in purple Virginia, where Governor Youngkin’s administration has been battling defiant school districts over his recent executive order making masks optional. Even in reliable blue

Jose Espinoza, 27, receives a Covid vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, Calif., August 17, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Adrian Vermeule, a law professor at Harvard University, wants to use the power of the federal government to make you take a coronavirus vaccine. He argues as much in a recent New York Times

An oil tanker is docked while oil is pumped into it at the ships terminal of PDVSA’s Jose Antonio Anzoategui industrial complex in Anzoategui, Venezuela, April 15, 2015. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Prepare your final farewells to the already tenuous Monroe Doctrine.  Earlier this week, an Iranian oil tanker, the Starla, docked in Venezuela to deliver

The Hill reports:  Members of the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) resolutions committee on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), though they declined to call for Cheney and Kinzinger to be expelled from the House Republican Conference. The resolution’s passage was confirmed to The Hill by two

(Stephanie Rausser/Getty Images) Francis Fukuyama is an eminent, and controversial, political scientist. (Most people who are worth anything, I’ve found, are controversial, to some degree.) He is my latest guest on Q&A: here. We talk about a wide variety of subjects — political, philosophical, and personal. You can learn a great deal from this man.

Lia Thomas of the Pennsylvania Quakers after finishing a freestyle event during a tri-meet against the Yale Bulldogs and the Dartmouth Big Green at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa., January 8, 2022. (Hunter Martin/Getty Images) Sixteen swimmers on the University of Pennsylvania women’s team sent a letter to the school and the Ivy

(Photos.com/Getty Images) These days, that question arises rather often, and the usual answer is: Appease the mob. A particularly disturbing example is the story of Bob Kuczewski, who was a computer specialist at the Salk Institute. But one day he made the unpardonable mistake of taking issue with BLM rhetoric, writing: At the risk of

(Mark Makela/Reuters) There was an interesting post on the FRED blog today at the St. Louis Fed. It looks at the data on real personal consumption expenditures (so, adjusted for inflation) for durable goods, nondurable goods, and services. It indexes each of those such that 100 is equal to the February 2020 level of real

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about gun violence and how to address it at the New York Police Department headquarters in New York City, February 3, 2022. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Here is Joe Biden repeating one of his well-worn talking points about the Second Amendment: BIDEN: “This doesn’t doesn’t violate anybody’s Second Amendment right…You

(Zolnierek/Getty Images) American law schools have significant percentages of “woke” students who just love to throw their weight around, knowing that they can get away with just about anything. The current fight at Georgetown, with irate students demanding that Ilya Shapiro be dumped because he expressed the view that Supreme Court nominees shouldn’t be chosen

A pedestrian wearing a face mask walks near an overpass following an outbreak of the coronavirus, Shanghai, China March 17, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) They tout their work to save the world while investing in perhaps the worst violator of environmental, social, and corporate-governance standards. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B lackRock CEO Larry Fink wants you to know

Warehouse workers at an ABT Electronics facility in Glenview, Ill., in 2018. (Richa Naidu/Reuters) Businesses affected by supply-chain disruptions are currently looking at ways to build resilience to future supply-chain shocks. Reliance on just-in-time supply chains has left some businesses without goods as shipping delays abound, so they are looking to keep larger inventories to

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaks at the North Carolina GOP convention in Greenville, North Carolina, June 5, 2021. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) South Dakota governor Kristi Noem introduced legislation Wednesday to prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools and higher-education training and orientation for students and staff. The bill ensures that “critical race

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., December 8, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Is the Senate majority leader terrified of a primary challenge in New York? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ow scared is Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer of the progressive base? Scared enough to risk his

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki said she doesn’t have any “new pledges to announce” when a reporter asked if President Biden will vow to nominate an Asian American or LGBTQ justice