What if you could stop a crime before it happened? It’s been a staple of fiction since at least 1956, when Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novella The Minority Report, imagined a world in which psionic “precogs” were able to predict and stop “precrime.” It was later adapted as a 2002 film directed by Steven …

Over the past two decades, the Fourth Circuit has gone from being arguably the best federal court of appeals to being perhaps the very worst. Yesterday’s en banc ruling in Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Azar marks another low. Title X of the Public Health Service Act authorizes the Department of Health and

President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House, August 27, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, has authored an incendiary story about President Donald Trump. It accuses him

What if you could stop a crime before it happened? It’s been a staple of fiction since at least 1956, when Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novella The Minority Report, imagined a world in which psionic “precogs” were able to predict and stop “precrime.” It was later adapted as a 2002 film directed by Steven …

Representative Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 24, 2014. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Representative Thomas Massie (R., KY) said Thursday that if he were a juror, he would not convict 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse on any of the charges he is facing in connection with the fatal shooting of two people in Kenosha,

A Google logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., November 1, 2018. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) The Justice Department is reportedly planning to bring antitrust charges against Google in the coming weeks after Attorney General William Barr decided to move forward over the objections of DOJ lawyers who say they need more

Central American migrants surrender to a U.S. Border Patrol agent south of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, March 6, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Efforts to cope with the fallout can miss the point. Immigration was not a major theme of the recent Republican convention, but there was one sentence that caught my attention.

University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles. (Jupiterimages/PHOTOS.com/Getty Images Plus) The University of Southern California has placed a communications professor on leave after a group of black MBA candidates threatened to drop his class rather than “endure the emotional exhaustion of carrying on with an instructor that disregards cultural diversity and sensitivities” following the

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Axel Schmidt/Reuters) German chancellor Angela Merkel’s support of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline is coming to a head following her statement yesterday that the poisoning of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was “attempted murder.” The proper response here would be to end the project, which doubles the capacity of another pipeline

(Stock photo: rtolympic/Getty Images) What if you could stop a crime before it happened? It’s been a staple of fiction since at least 1956, when Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novella The Minority Report, imagined a world in which psionic “precogs” were able to predict and stop “precrime.” It was later adapted as a 2002 film

Left: President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colo., February 20, 2020 Right: Former vice president Joe Biden at a campaign rally in Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2020 (Kevin Lamarque, Mike Blake/Reuters) Half of American voters don’t believe the next election will be legitimate before it has even been conducted. A

Supporter of President Donald Trump holds up a “Trump Pence” campaign sign at the president’s rally in Cleveland, Ohio, November 5, 2018. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters) A woman assaulted a 12-year-old boy on Monday Boulder, Colo. over a Trump yard sign he was carrying, according to police. Boulder police are investigating a report of the assault, which

Walgreens pharmacy in Austin, Texas, in 2018. (Mohammad Khursheed/Reuters) He can still do the right thing and set a great example. Opioid addiction and abuse has devastated thousands of communities across America since at least 2010 and probably earlier. West Virginia is one of the states most terribly affected. Those persons or entities who actually

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi walks through the Capitol in Washington, D.C., August 22, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding an apology from a San Francisco hair salon owner for what she is calling a “set up” against her, after the California Democrat was caught inside the salon without a mask

Wick Allison (via @wickallison/Twitter) Goodbye to a visionary political fighter and longtime NR friend. Lodowick Brodie Cobb Allison, better known as “Wick,” once referred to in these parts as “The Publisher” — a position he held and wielded for roughly three years following the retirement of Bill Rusher — has passed away. He fought a

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a weekly news conference with Capitol Hill reporters, July 26, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) I keep getting reassured that House speaker Nancy Pelosi is a master strategist who earns all of that glowing press coverage. Today Pelosi insisted she had been “set up” by the hair salon where she had her

President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr arrive back in Washington aboard Air Force One after a trip to Kenosha, Wis., after landing at Joint Base Andrews, Md., September 1, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Joining President Trump in Kenosha yesterday was Attorney General Barr, who did not mince words about mounting an aggressive federal response

(Matt Anderson/iStock/Getty Images Plus) In late May 2018, I arrived in Washington, D.C., to work at the late, great Weekly Standard through a fantastic program called the National Journalism Center (NJC). It was my first time living in a city and working in a professional setting, and I had only two months to find housing.

The New York skyline and the One World Trade Center in the distance as a man makes his commute after a night of snow from New York City to Exchange Place in New Jersey, February 14, 2014. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Around two out of every five residents of New York would leave the city if they

From Coleman Hughes’s insightful critique of Ibram X. Kendi’s book How to Be an Antiracist and from other arguments in the public square, I gather that a central tenet of the ideology of so-called antiracism is that any racially disparate outcome that disfavors blacks is compelling evidence of white supremacy. I wonder, then, how the

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn departs after his sentencing was delayed at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 18, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) There are many words one might use to describe Judge Emmett Sullivan. Chastened is not one of them. Yesterday, in an en banc (full court) ruling that went 8–2 in Judge

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Md. (Jason Reed/Reuters) This afternoon, a group of 20 Republican senators, led by Texas senator Ted Cruz, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, calling on Commissioner Stephen Hahn to “classify the abortion pill as an ‘imminent hazard to the public

Protesters gather around after setting fire to the entrance of a police station as demonstrations continue after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Once the hysteria devolved into violence, it caught up to Democrats in the polls. Now they’re just attempting to whitewash history. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I

A row of Victorian homes known locally as the “Painted Ladies” glow in the early evening sun following a rain shower in San Francisco, California. (Robert Galbraith /Reuters) Although a small army of media fact-checkers claim otherwise, Joe Biden wants to end single-family zoning in America’s suburbs. On the first night Republican National Convention, Patricia

Kenosha, a city of 100,000 in Wisconsin’s southeastern corner, now confronts the question of when lethal force is justified in two different cases. One, the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer, I addressed yesterday. The other is the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is alleged to have killed two people and … Read

Ostensibly, the NBA boycotts, which other sports are adopting, are illogical. But then, the animating concept behind the player protests — “systemic racism,” derived from the smear that the nation’s police forces are hunting down young black men — is irrational, a triumph of distorted narrative over … Read More

Testing for COVID-19 in Houston, Tex., August 18, 2020 (Adrees Latif/Reuters) The U.S. coronavirus case count surpassed 6 million on Monday, less than eight months after the first American case of the virus was recorded, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The milestone comes a little over three weeks after the country topped 5

Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel speaks at the RNC in Washington, D.C., August 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) As children around the country head back to school, whether online or in person, the school-choice debate has taken on a new sense of urgency. We’re witnessing how in many parts of the country, as public-school classrooms

Flynn testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in 2014. (Reuters photo: Gary Cameron) The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s request to immediately drop his case. The Justice Department in April moved to drop its case against Flynn for allegedly lying to FBI agents as part of

People yell at a line of police officers outside the Kenosha County Courthouse after Jacob Blake was shot several times by police in Kenosha, Wisc., August 24, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) Kenosha police revealed on Sunday evening that most of the people arrested for rioting over the past week have an address outside the city itself.