Salena Zito makes the case that President Trump’s promotion of American manufacturing will aid his reelection. But in the course of making that point, she generalizes too much: Trump’s brashness and unorthodox dealings also made members of his own party and the Washington political class cringe and recoil to their enclaves. But it made people

The case of a transgender Virginia high school student who sued for the right to use the girls’ bathroom returns to court on Tuesday. The high-profile case, which has garnered national attention and been closely watched by transgender rights proponents, began in 2015 when Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester County School Board over its policy

United Nations headquarters in New York City (Mike Segar/Reuters) In a letter, the USAID administrator requested that the U.N. stop using the global pandemic to push abortion as an ‘essential service.’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has written to the United Nations, asking the

Students on the UCLA campus in 2009. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) In 1996, Californians voted to end racial preferences at state universities. The Left has been fighting to restore them ever since. Rather than focus on COVID-19 or the economic recovery, California liberals insist on pushing their pet issues. The “stimulus” bill rammed through the House this

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic candidates debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Joe Biden puts his foot in it, and deep. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ho among us, in the presence of a man calling himself Charlamagne tha God, would be immune to grandiosity’s temptation? Mr. God hosts

In a ruling Friday in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit denied a church’s challenge to state and county orders barring in-person religious services. Judge Daniel Collins forcefully dissented. Collins rejected California’s “extraordinary claim that the current emergency gives the Governor the power to restrict any and

A  couple of months ago, the media, almost as one, decided that Governor Ron DeSantis was a public menace who was going to get Floridians killed with his lax response to the coronavirus crisis. In an interview with National Review, DeSantis says he was surprised at “how knee-jerk” the hostile coverage … Read More

President Donald Trump takes questions as he addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 13, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump on Friday said he would move to define houses of worship as essential services to be opened during the coronavirus pandemic. “I am identifying houses of worship — churches, synagogues

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the Bureau’s proposed 2020 budget, May 7, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review to assess the bureau’s handling of the investigation into former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, the FBI announced Friday. “FBI

A member of the New York Police Department stands outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in N.Y., November 28, 2015. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) 1957—Three Cleveland police officers arrive at Dolly Mapp’s home seeking a suspect wanted in connection with a recent bombing. After Mapp refuses to admit them, the police forcibly enter and search the home and

(Pixabay) Over at Bloomberg, John Authers takes a look at ESG funds: Amid all the horrors of 2020, ESG ETFs have so far suffered only two weeks of outflows, both of minimal amounts. Meanwhile, when it comes to investment performance ESG has also had a good crisis. Prices are down but in all the main

Chinese President Xi Jinping walks past officials wearing face masks at the opening session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, May 22, 2020. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) The PRC’s geopolitical hardball could reshape Asia. Under cover of the global coronavirus crisis, China is moving to rewrite Asia’s

Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Last month’s Presidential Proclamation temporarily suspending a tiny sliver of permanent immigration in response to Great Depression 2.0 also called for a review of the alphabet soup of foreign-worker programs. The relevant cabinet departments were instructed to offer recommendations “to stimulate the United States economy and ensure

CNN reports: Trump said he was calling upon governors to “allow churches and places of worship to open right now.” “If there’s any question, they’re going to have to call me, but they’re not going to be successful in that call,” Trump added. “The governors need to do the right thing and allow these very

Anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators argue in front of the Supreme Court, January 2011 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) My colleagues Ramesh Ponnuru and David Harsanyi already have ably pointed out the many factual deficiencies in Laura Bassett’s recent article in GQ, in which she claims, among other falsehoods and unsubstantiated insinuations, that the pro-life movement in the U.S.

A cross stands stuck in the ground along Highway 17 at the entrance of the Saltillo Shores neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot, in Brunswick, Ga., May 8, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters) The man who filmed the death of Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery has been arrested on murder charges, state authorities announced on Thursday. William “Roddie”

Michael Flynn arrives at a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Is Judge Emmet Sullivan’s collusion cameo nearing its end? Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, on its own motion, ordered Judge Sullivan to respond within ten days to the petition for a writ of mandamus

Pro-life demonstrators carry a banner outside the Supreme Court during the 47th March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Peddling easily disproven lies about abortion and racism According to a new documentary, Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, made a deathbed confession that her pro-life conversion and activism

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink takes part in the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in New York in 2017. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Say what you will about BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Wall Street’s most prominent player of the climate game, but he knows a thing or two about politics. Bloomberg reports: When the Federal Reserve needed Wall Street’s

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Eight steps to massively expand absentee voting and ensure safe methods by which to vote in person. The coronavirus pandemic has taken lives and wealth, but it presents another challenge as well: a challenge to our form of government. An election is coming in November. The pandemic will not be over. Just as

Former president Barack Obama speaks during a rally for New Jersey Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy in Newark, New Jersey, October 19, 2017. (Mark Makela/Reuters) Over the last two weeks, considerable evidence has been released related to what appears to be a major, historic political scandal. The declassification of Susan Rice’s CYA email to herself

(Evgen_Prozhyrko/Getty Images) Stiffing creditors violates property rights, spikes interest rates, and destabilizes markets. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ith U.S. debt at record levels, calls are being heard for a debt jubilee, in which all or part of the country’s mountain of debt would be written off, to the great relief of debtors and the despair

General Flynn’s counsel, Sidney Powell, has filed petition for a writ of mandamus in the D.C. Circuit, seeking to have the appeals court instruct District judge Emmet Sullivan end his tantrum over the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case. Judge Sullivan’s antics include inviting a torrent of amicus briefs to help him figure out

Free speech is not free if the government can force you to say things you disagree with. That is the principle behind the Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus v. AFSCME (2018) that public-sector workers cannot be forced to pay for a labor union’s speech. The same idea is being litigated in the context of state bar

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Democrats hold a news conference at the U.S. Capitol before the start of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, January 31, 2020. (Amanda Voisard/Reuters) Senator Kamala Harris last week introduced a resolution condemning the use of the phrase “Wuhan virus” to refer to SARS-CoV-2, the deadly

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Parkland, Fla., February 14, 2019 (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Wednesday lambasted the mainstream press for confidently projecting a disastrous Covid outbreak in his state. “You’ve got a lot of people in your profession [journalists] who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks, about how Florida was

A voter holds an “I Voted” sticker after casting his ballot in the New Hampshire presidential primary in Allenstown, N.H., February 11, 2020. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) This fall, Colorado voters might have the opportunity to use direct democracy protect unborn children.  Colorado currently has no gestational limits on abortion and is home to the infamous late-term

Mike Garcia (Campaign image via Facebook) A GOP candidate straight out of central casting won big in last week’s special election. Can he do it again in November? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A  few months ago, not many political analysts thought the Republicans had a shot at winning back the House seat that Democratic congresswoman Katie

(Christian Hartmann/Reuters) Comedian Joe Rogan has signed a deal to air his popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, exclusively on Spotify. Rogan’s podcast currently receives tens of millions of downloads per month, and is currently available for free on YouTube and Apple’s podcast app. Spotify, a streaming services platform, offers listeners free access to content

A U.S. Border Patrol agent at the U.S.-Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., in 2017. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Trump administration on Tuesday finalized a rule that imposes indefinite restrictions on the land borders of the U.S. The rule gives Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Robert Redfield the authority to reopen U.S. borders to tourist