On Monday night last week, at 10 p.m., Israeli TV announced that after a day of voting, all three exit polls showed the right-wing bloc, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party, had secured 60 seats out of Israel’s 120-seat Knesset. It seemed to mean victory was assured, since all the bloc

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York, September 14, 2018. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced a one-mile “containment zone” in New Rochelle, where the first cases of coronavirus in the state were observed. The “containment area,” which is about three-square-miles, centers around Young Israel of New

The closing numbers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, March 9, 2020. (Bryan R Smith/Reuters) Stocks fell over 7 percent on Monday in the Dow’s worst one-day decline since 2008, driven by fears of the economic impact of the Wuhan coronavirus and a drop in oil prices due

A passenger wearing a face mask checks his mobile phone on a bus following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country in Beijing, China, February 21, 2020. (Stringer/Reuters) Here’s why. Fine, I’ll say it: I’m afraid of it, the virus. For a significant portion of readers, that’s enough to write me off. “It’s

Elizabeth Warren cannot believe that she was defeated by the campaigns of Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders — she insists, instead, that she was defeated by their testes. We sympathize, truly. It is difficult to believe, and must be tough to accept, that any barely competent political operation could be defeated … Read More

I suspect we are both over- and underreacting to the coronavirus. People fleeing air travel, and not just to hot spots, but to everywhere, seems entirely unwarranted. I’ve followed the coronavirus news pretty closely, and I don’t recall reading about any case where anyone has been suspected of getting it by taking an ordinary domestic

Elizabeth Warren cannot believe that she was defeated by the campaigns of Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders — she insists, instead, that she was defeated by their testes. We sympathize, truly. It is difficult to believe, and must be tough to accept, that any barely competent political operation could be defeated … Read More

Should Chuck Schumer be censured? Of course he should, in the sense that the rule of law, were it actually our cynosure, would cry out for it. On Wednesday morning, the Democrats’ Senate minority leader stirred up the mob outside the Supreme Court, unabashedly threatening Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett … Read More

United States Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Jim Young/Reuters) Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) has implied that 80 recent Supreme Court decisions are illegitimate due to the “partisan” nature of the decisions and the influence of Republican donors on the court’s composition. “As the architect of an 80-case barrage of partisan, 5-4 decisions for big

Sen. Mike Lee on Capitol Hill in 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Repealing vital national-security powers is not the right way to hold government officials responsible for abuse of power. National security has become an afterthought in the latest national-security debate. The debate centers, instead, on what is called “FISA reform,” the imperative of which appears to

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during May Day celebrations at the Revolution Plaza of Havana in 2002. (Rafael Perez/Reuters) Cuba’s supposed educational triumph is better understood as a product of propaganda and statistical chicanery. Last month, on 60 Minutes, in a moment that starkly illustrated his worldview, Bernie Sanders repeated his longstanding admiration for Communist

Rep. Mark Meadows speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, October 29, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) President Trump on Friday named Representative Mark Meadows (R., N.C.) as White House chief of staff, replacing acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. “I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one,” Trump wrote

The Harvard Crimson distributed a survey to more than 1,000 faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, seeking to gauge the political and electoral commitments of faculty members at Harvard. The anonymous survey received just short of 500 responses. Of the responding faculty, 38.4 percent identified themselves as “very liberal,” 41.3 percent identified

People wear protective face masks in London, England, March 2, 2020. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) Holman Jenkins makes the case that everyone is overreacting. Meanwhile, this piece in the New York Times sheds some light on the debate over the death rate. First, it notes the similarities with the flu: For most people, the disease is probably

Signs at the Huawei offices in Reading, England. (Toby Melville/Reuters) The Trump Administration’s National Security Council launched a review this week of what military and intelligence assets will be withdrawn from Great Britain if the U.K. goes ahead with its 5G deal with Chinese telecom giant Huawei. U.S. officials told Bloomberg’s Eli Lake that the

It appears – for the time being, at least – that Los Angeles County has narrowly avoided a catastrophe. No, it wasn’t a fire or flood that was averted, nor was it an outbreak of the coronavirus or some other contagion. It was something far more threatening and potentially deadly than any of these. It

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Last weekend the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy attack on originalism as a method of constitutional interpretation, and on its allegedly cynical advocates. Ed Whelan and John McGinnis have posted sound criticisms of Emily Bazelon’s article. What I’ll add here is a comment on her discussion of the origins of originalism.

Hollywood is one leg of the Axis of Indoctrination, with media and academia completing the trifecta. There are some outspoken nonliberals in Hollywood. Self-described “libertarian” Clint Eastwood comes to mind. But the list is short. A month before the 2016 election, I met a young actress at a party. She just arrived in Los Angeles

An anti-ICE rally in San Diego, Calif., July 2, 2018 (Mike Blake/Reuters) President Trump said Thursday that the federal government will begin withholding funding from sanctuary cities after a federal court ruling last week upholding the administration’s right to do so. “As per recent Federal Court ruling, the Federal Government will be withholding funds from

Don’t Let the Hippies Shower We’re going to lead off today with a topic that is sadly evergreen and that needs to be written and talked about until it no longer is. Higher education in America is a pathetic, roiling cesspool of leftist lunacy that works feverishly to mint new socialists/communists/whatever every day right under

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., December 20, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday criticized Senator Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) over comments the minority leader made in reference to an abortion case currently being debated by the court. “Justices know that criticism comes

Who ever imagined that the Democrat Party would move so far let that their main selling point would be “socialism”? With the leading candidate for Democrat nominee for president and the most influential junior member of the House declaring themselves “democratic socialists”—as if the modifier “democratic” was ever honored in socialist regimes—and most Democrat candidates

Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke endorses former vice president Joe Biden at a campaign event at Gilley’s in Dallas, Texas, U.S., March 2, 2020. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) They want to take your firearms away and make no bones about it. November 2020 will be known as the gun-control election. Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe

South Carolina mom Debra Harrell worked at McDonald’s. She couldn’t afford day care for Regina, her 9-year-old daughter, so she took her to work. But Regina was bored at McDonald’s. One day, she asked if she could just play in the neighborhood park instead. “I felt safe there,” she tells me in my new video,

Buses believed to carry the U.S. passengers of the cruise ship Diamond Princess, where dozens of passengers were tested positive for coronavirus, leave at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2020. (Issei Kato/Reuters) One of my regular themes is that Americans are disorderly and disobedient people — gloriously so

She’s Toast but She’ll Probably Burn a Little Longer Super Tuesday was a super bust for the super unlikable Elizabeth Warren, the truth-challenged former Native American from Massachusetts. In her bid for the “Worst Candidate of This Cycle” title, Warren wasn’t even the favorite socialist in her home state, where she finished third. As the

Ambulances to transport coronavirus infected patients parked in Daegu, South Korea, March 1, 2020. (Yonhap via Reuters) The World Health Organization on Tuesday announced that 3.4 percent of COVID-19 patients worldwide have died from the illness. The mortality rate of the coronavirus was previously thought to be around two percent. The illness has a much

We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once. The latest, of course, is COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus. In addition to China, where the virus originated, major cities in Italy and Japan are in lockdown mode, and Japan has closed all its schools.

Michael Bloomberg speaks during a press conference at his campaign office in Little Havana, Miami, Fla., March 3, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) His security detail packs plenty of firepower to protect him, but he doesn’t want you to have any guns at all. ‘How do you justify pushing for more gun control when you have an

After today, only two Democratic candidates for president will remain standing. Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, and Pete Buttigieg already dropped out before Super Tuesday. Klobuchar and Buttigieg went on to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden. They did so with only 24 hours to go until Super Tuesday. It was clearly an attempt to give