Hunter Biden celebrates onstage at an election rally after the media projected his father as the winner in Wilmington, Del., November 7, 2020. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) If you are really industrious, you can dig 20 pages into the A section of today’s New York Times and find a 1,700-word news story by three of its top

Sarah Bloom Raskin is seen during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 3, 2022. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) The welcome decision by Sarah Bloom Raskin to withdraw her candidacy for the Federal Reserve Board has been poorly received where you would expect it to be poorly

A U.S. Navy officer from the amphibious ship USS San Diego (LPD 22) receives a vaccine at the navy port in Manama, Bahrain, on February 26. This image was released by the U.S. Navy on February 27, 2021. (Brandon Woods/U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters) It has been said that the only law that works is the

Jussie Smollett appears at his sentencing hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, Ill., March 10, 2022. (Brian Cassella/Pool via Reuters) Jussie Smollett will be released from jail pending the appeal of his conviction for staging a hoax hate crime against himself and then falsely reporting it to police, an appeals court ruled

President Joe Biden listens during a virtual roundtable at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 22, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In return for pleading guilty, the terrorists would demand to remain at Gitmo, keeping Biden from closing the facility. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Biden administration is apparently leaning toward abandoning the death penalty as

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Ukraine crisis at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 18, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In remarks commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta shootings on Wednesday, President Biden attributed a never-proven racial motivation to the killer, calling last year’s tragic events “a stark reminder that anti-Asian violence and

Hillsborough High School students walk out of school to protest the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, in Tampa, Fla., March 3, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) A narrow majority of U.S. voters support Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill, which prohibits the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity to public school students in kindergarten through third grade.

Why is the surgeon general commenting on Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill? Florida’s recent law restricting discussion about gender identity in school has understandably raised serious concerns. The law concerns me too. Let me explain why: 1/4 — Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) March 14, 2022 Also, he could at least make

A conductor wears a mask while waiting for passengers to load into the New York City Subway during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 30, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Senate voted on Tuesday night to overturn the federal mask mandate that applies to people traveling on planes, trains, and the like: 57-40,

(Eucalyptys/iStock/Getty Images) The Senate passed a bill by unanimous consent on Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023. The main objection to making daylight saving time permanent is that sunrise will occur later than 8 a.m. in the dead of winter (in some locations even after 9 a.m.). The benefit, obviously, would be no

Sarah Bloom Raskin is sworn in before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 3, 2022. (Bill Clark/Pool via Reuters) Sarah Bloom Raskin withdrew her nomination for the Federal Reserve Board Monday after centrist Senator Joe Manchin declared his opposition, denying her the crucial vote

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. from Cuba wait to be transported by the U.S. border patrol near the border fence after crossing the border from Mexico at Yuma, Ariz., February 18, 2022. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) U.S. border agents encountered 164,973 migrants at the southern border in February, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data

President Joe Biden holds a virtual meeting in Washington, D.C., March 9, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Following up on a point I made last week: Americans may say they approve of banning Russian oil imports, but that doesn’t mean they actually want to pay more for gasoline. (Russian oil accounts for a small percentage of American

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to the media regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, March 14, 2022. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The United Nations Secretary General warned Monday about the possibility that the Ukraine-Russia crisis could escalate into nuclear war.  “Raising the alert level of Russian nuclear forces

Idaho State Capitol in Boise. (jerryhopman/iStock/Getty Images) The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy It includes a Texas-style mechanism that leaves enforcement to private citizens, rather than the state government, to sue abortion providers. In a 51-to-14 vote, the state House approved the measure after

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) This is your regularly scheduled reminder that stupidly repeating Russian propaganda and/or being wildly politically ignorant are not illegal in the United States, do not constitute “treason,” and should under no circumstances lead to your investigation or

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting via video conference in Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via Reuters) Today, 49 Republican senators came out against the Biden administration’s impending nuclear deal with Iran. Republicans stressed two points: Any deal pursued by the

The statue of Teddy Roosevelt that stands in front of the main entrance to the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West in Manhattan, June 21, 2014. (© Luigi Novi/Wikimedia Commons) The statue of former president Teddy Roosevelt that previously stood outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York should be

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at CPAC in Orlando, Fla., February 24, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) A glimpse at what Trumpism without Trump can look like NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R on DeSantis had another moment that lit up the Right last week, this time pushing back against Disney’s critique of the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Those on the right and left who throw ‘neoliberal’ around as an insult are typically more interested in cheap shots at opponents than in deep thought on markets. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ho’s a neoliberal? Apparently that is an

Stacked containers at the Port of Los Angeles, November 22, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) If a market constrained by national borders is what you want, all you need do is look around. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ren Cass, the executive director of American Compass, has written a long article called “Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage

George Washington University students pass through campus in Washington, D.C., September 5, 2019. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images) It seems like a no-brainer, but on one American campus, critics of a campaign against a tyrannical regime charge racism. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n early February, posters criticizing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 6, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters ) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he is worried that any potential expansion of the Supreme Court could compromise its integrity. “You can cavalierly talk about packing or stacking the

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, September 17, 2021. (Didor Sadulloev/Reuters) An Iran deal under Biden will be eliminated when Republicans get the chance, but that may not matter to the Iranians, who gain plenty in the meantime. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here was

President Donald Trump walks on stage before delivering remarks during a Latinos For Trump campaign event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Fla., September 25, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The Democratic Party’s standing with Hispanic voters in the national polls continues to implode. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal numbers found that “by 9 percentage

Members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces hide a road sign to prevent navigation by Russian army in Kyiv Region, Ukraine, March 8, 2022. (Maksim Levin/Reuters) Pranksters in Odessa have altered street signs to confuse Russian forces and direct them ‘straight to hell.’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ur much-missed P. J. O’Rourke taught us that

A woman poses for a photo during a protest to mark International Women’s Day in San Jose, Costa Rica, March 8, 2022. (Mayela Lopez/Reuters) Anyone who cannot answer this question is worse than useless to the cause of women’s rights. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A ccording to its website, International Women’s Day (marked this past Tuesday)

Bob Chapek speaks during the 10th anniversary ceremony of Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong, China, September 11, 2015. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Disney will not make political donations in the state of Florida pending a review, and oppose legislation modeled after the state’s Parental Rights in Education bill in other states, CEO Bob Chapek said in

In 2015, Princeton University adopted the “University of Chicago principles” on free speech. Edward Yingling and Stuart Taylor Jr. have an article lamenting the way the university has been betraying those principles lately, and in an underhanded way. It has been punishing a professor for expressing his conservative views and then reinterpreting its rules to

Judge Amy Clark Meachum addresses the court as a court hearing is held on Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order that parents of transgender children be investigated for child abuse, in Austin, Texas, March 11, 2022. (Sergio Flores/Reuters) A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services from conducting investigations of