In any list of The Greatest Movies ever, the same films seem to crop up over and over again. Sometimes the people who compile the lists have even watched them. And, sure, these are all pretty good films. The first time you watch them. And maybe even the second, or the third. But after that,

Visitors pass by the logo of Google at Viva Tech in Paris, France, May 16, 2019. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) The Justice Department is expected to launch an antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as this summer, with a group of state attorneys general planning for a case in the fall, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Both

It’s generally agreed that ghosts, if they indeed exist, were once living, breathing human beings. And, unfortunately, human beings are more than capable of committing crime. So it may follow that ghosts also seek to transgress against their (former) fellow men. The following ten crimes were allegedly committed by paranormal entities. True ghostly perpetrators or

(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) House Democrats passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Friday despite trepidation from some moderate and progressive Democratic lawmakers about the effectiveness of the package. The massive relief package, dubbed the HEROES Act, passed the lower chamber in a 208 to 199 vote Friday evening. Fourteen Democrats bucked party leadership to vote against the

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives for the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 20, 2019. (Yves Herman/Reuters) Although most of the euro zone’s attention in the last week has been fixed on the clash between the German constitutional court (the BVG) on one side and the European Central Bank (ECB) and European

Nurse Teresa Malijon waits for patients at a drive-through testing site for coronavirus in a parking lot at the University of Washington’s Northwest Outpatient Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., March 17, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The COVID-19 crisis has fast-tracked long-contemplated, patient-centric changes in medicine. The coronavirus pandemic has challenged health care as much as any

Education secretary Betsy DeVos delivers a policy address on Title IX enforcement at George Mason University, September 7, 2017. (Mike Theiler/Reuters) A headline from The Onion from a few years back: “ACLU Defends Nazis’ Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters.” This is comic hyperbole built on an underlying truth: The ACLU had principles and was

A police officer walks near demonstrators in vehicles protesting against lockdown measures during a demonstration calling for the reopening of the state of Virginia in Richmond, Va., April 22, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) We want to enjoy the pleasures and benefits of civil disobedience without paying the price for them. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Republican

People with face masks walk at Columbia University in New York City, March 9, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Leading college Republicans and Democrats have teamed up to establish a non-profit to combat Chinese government influence on American campuses. In its first official act, the Athenai Institute released a letter on Wednesday calling for the closure of

You might recall the notorious Second Circuit ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano in 2008, in which then-Second Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor and her panel colleagues tried to bury the claims by 19 white firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter that New Haven city officials engaged in racially discriminatory practices by throwing out the results of two

A man reaches for a face mask being distributed by Urban Park Rangers as the coronavirus outbreak continues in Queens, N.Y., May 4, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Be charitable to your fellow Americans, because they’re just like you: trying to live the best they can while the coronavirus remains a threat. If you judged by social

Demonstrators protest the extension of the emergency Safer at Home order by State Governor Tony Evers to slow the spread of the coronavirus, outside the State Capitol building in Madison, Wis., April 24, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The state supreme-court decision strikes a blow for separation of powers. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hile several federal courts

Former Vice President Joe Biden talks to the media in Washington, D.C., April 5, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Biden campaign on Wednesday brushed off the former vice president’s presence on a list of Obama administration officials who apparently sought to “unmask” former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, saying Biden was unaware of Flynn’s identity when the

Larry Boes, 84, of Brooklyn, sits and watches the sun set over Manhattan from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 22, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Why are so many activists saying so anyway? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J ust about every day, someone claims that the air is cleaner. That, we are told, is a

According to the standards now set by Obama-administration defenders, it would be no big deal if Donald Trump’s Department of Justice opened criminal investigations into high-profile Democrats such as John Kerry (now a member of Joe Biden’s campaign) who met with Iranians officials over the past four years in an effort to undermine the foreign-policy

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn exits a vehicle as he arrives for his sentencing hearing at District Court in Washington, D.C., December 18, 2018. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) The judge presiding over the Michael Flynn case ordered the appointment of a third party “to present arguments in opposition” to the Department of Justice’s decision to drop

President Trump has been right, in my view, to seek a looser monetary policy throughout his time in office. On that fundamental question, his instincts have been better than Fed chairman Jay Powell’s. Over the last two days, Trump and Powell have expressed differing views on another monetary issue, with the former seeking negative interest

President Donald Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The president has not been as tough on Beijing as he’d like you to think. How much of what we hear from day to day is really just meant to please the Chinese Communist

(Pixabay) In my piece this morning, I argue that Congress should provide some aid to states as their tax revenues tank from the coronavirus shutdown, but that that aid should be conditioned in such a way as to prevent its being diverted to the treatment of what we might call “preexisting conditions,” meaning the states’

Illinois State Capitol in Springfield (benkrut/Getty Images Plus) Provide assistance, but require states to pay off their unfunded liabilities. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen Congress was deliberating about a massive coronavirus stimulus package in late March, the Democrats decided that they wanted to attach some strings to the money they were handing out. For example,

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Congress gets ready to pick some more lucky winners. Like it or not, this is a time when borrowing money makes sense. We are facing a severe but temporary economic disaster, and we can smooth out the damage by having the federal government offset the losses of businesses, workers, and even lower levels

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham are demonstrating that the U.S. Senate generally, and the confirmation of judges specifically, is an essential business. One that can operate quite smoothly during this pandemic. Last Wednesday, the Committee held a hearing for Judge Justin Walker’s elevation to the D.C. Circuit in a

President Obama at a White House press conference in 2016. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) There’s no reason to ignore the mounting evidence that Obama administration officials were corrupt in their handling of the Trump–Russia investigation. Those sharing #Obamagate hashtags on Twitter would do best to avoid the hysterics we saw from Russian-collusion believers, but they have no

Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley. (Noah Berger/Reuters) Racial preferences are never quite dead, no matter how many times you put a stake through them. Overturning Prop. 209, which bans racial preferences in public employment, public contracting, and admissions at California’s state university system has long been one of the goals

Phil Murphy speaks after being elected Governor of New Jersey, in Asbury Park, New Jersey, U.S., November 7, 2017. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) New Jersey recently became one of the seven states (plus the District of Columbia) to legalize assisted suicide by statute. In effect, New Jersey sanctions suicide for some residents through its public policy. Now,

One week ago, a Sixth Circuit panel, in enjoining Kentucky governor Andy Beshear from enforcing pending appeal two COVID-19 social-distancing orders against a church’s drive-in religious services, allowed him to ban that church from offering in-person services. But this past Saturday, in an unpublished order published today as a precedential opinion, the panel also enjoined

Michael Flynn at the White House, February 1, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The Flynn prosecution was a transparent attack on the rule of law. ‘There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free,” former president Barack Obama reportedly told members of the Obama Alumni Association.

Scientists work in a lab testing COVID-19 samples at New York City’s health department in New York City, April 23, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) We’re still nowhere close to herd immunity. A study of nearly 6,000 Major League Baseball employees found that just 0.7 percent tested positive for antibodies present in individuals who have recovered from

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A fair and thorough hearing of the facts serves the larger principle that’s at stake. Mona Charen argues that conservatives are being hypocritical in covering Tara Reade’s sexual-assault allegations against Joe Biden: “Doesn’t it matter if Biden is

Mark Hayward, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin who advises the Centers For Disease Control on its mortality statistics, told Britain’s Independent newspaper the “overall burden of mortality” from COVID-19 in the U.S. could be closer to double the current 75,000 deaths. That claim is only true if you believe the