POLITICS & POLICY

(AlexLinch/iStock/Getty Images) True feminism shouldn’t be blind to the pathologies that now beset young males. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A merican women seem to be of two minds about feminism. Opinion polling from Pew in 2020 shows that most women under 30 (68 percent) identify as feminists. Feminism tugs at our aspirations and summons our loyalties.
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1970—A three-judge district court, consisting of Seventh Circuit judge Otto Kerner Jr. and district judges John W. Reynolds and Myron L. Gordon, rules that a Wisconsin law, dating from 1858, that prohibits abortion before quickening violates the Ninth Amendment.   Never mind that the Ninth Amendment sets forth a mere rule of construction—“The enumeration in the
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(Wikimedia Commons) Remember when former Virginia governor Ralph Northam blessed the right of a mother and her doctor to “have a conversation” and decide to neglect a newborn survivor of abortion to death? Well, now, a Maryland bill would effectively decriminalize Northam’s immoral proposal without regard to abortion. First, it reiterates current law that deprives
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Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election-night party in Chantilly, Va., November 3, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Charlottesville, Va. — In a keynote address last night at the Federalist Society’s annual student symposium, hosted this year at the University of Virginia, Republican governor Glenn Youngkin focused his remarks on the value and importance of federalism and state
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German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck addresses a news conference in Duesseldorf, Germany, February 22, 2022. (Roberto Pfeil/Pool via Reuters) To classify Germany’s Greens as climate-change “deniers” would, I reckon, be difficult, so the party’s reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been telling. Rather than, as the Wall Street Journal put it,
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Right: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (Kevin Lamarque, Greg Nash/Pool/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki said calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin is “not the position of the United States government” on Friday after Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) suggested someone close to the Russian president should “take
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U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Dan does his characteristically stellar job explaining today’s Supreme Court ruling that reinstates the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The Court also decided today a case at the crossroads of two bodies of law that rub our libertarian streak the wrong way —
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In response to Why Lindsey Graham Should Not Call for Putin’s Assassination Muppet News Flash: Lindsey Graham once again leaps into the arms of jackassery. But you know, Jack, I may be a Cold War nostalgist, but I think I’d rather we had a government that did nefarious deeds and didn’t talk about them than
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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, January 26, 2022. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) In his recent book, Ed Yardeni clears up confusion — and ideologues’ deceptions — about corporate profits. In Praise of Profits!, by Edward Yardeni (YRI Press, 234 pp., $15.99) NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or
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Jesse Singal has a great Twitter thread debunking the junk “science” used by transgender activists to justify the unjustifiable in children’s health care. 1/ Jack Turban ran a correlational study on a known-to-be-broken self-report dataset. He found no statistically significant correlation between youths’ access to hormones and the most important suicidality indicators — ideation with
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Ilya Shapiro speaks about constitutional law in 2014. (The Cato Institute/via YouTube) Ilya Shapiro, still under suspension from his position at Georgetown Law because of the campus cancel-culture mob there, went to speak at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law on Tuesday. He was prevented from speaking by a screeching, anti-speech mob
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Students protest an appearance by Ilya Shapiro at US Hastings College of Law. (via Instagram.com/ushastingsblsa) ‘Remove him off the f***ing campus!’ one student demanded at an event sponsored by the Federalist Society at UC Hastings College of Law. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE G eorgetown Law’s cancellation campaign against Ilya Shapiro has gone national. The libertarian-conservative constitutional law
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(Kuzma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A Texas judge granted a limited temporary restraining order on Wednesday stopping the state’s child protective services agency from investigating the parents of a 16-year-old transgender teen for alleged child abuse. In response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, Travis County District Court Judge Amy
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during an interview with Reuters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Wednesday suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin was emboldened to invade Ukraine by President Biden’s botched withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. “I think that precipitous withdrawal
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Stories where a group of hypersensitive “woke” students browbeat a timorous administration into punishing a professor who has somehow irritated them are now commonplace. Hardly ever do administrators say to the students, “Quit your griping and behave like adults.” That certainly didn’t happen at the University of Illinois-Chicago’s law school. A tenured professor is in
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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds speaks during the largely virtual 2020 Republican National Convention broadcast from Washington, D.C., August 25, 2020. (Republican National Convention/Handout via Reuters) One year into his presidency, it seems like Joe Biden and the Democrats in Washington, D.C. have sent the country back in time to the late-1970s and early 80s, “when
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Rep Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Delivering the progressive response to President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday, “squad” member Representative Rashida Tlaib pitched a radical restructuring of America’s economy and institutions, including but not limited to: passing Build Back Better and
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Students board a school bus outside of Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, Va., U.S., January 25, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Washington, D.C. public schools will continue to impose an indoor mask mandate for all students, staff, and visitors in defiance of updated CDC guidance relaxing masking recommendation for regions with low virus transmission, such as D.C.
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According to the New York Times, the European Union’s plan to exclude some large Russian banks from SWIFT will not target Sberbank or Gazprombank, Russia’s largest and third-largest banks, respectively. That’s a little like sanctioning U.S.-based social-media companies — but not Facebook and Twitter. There is a very strong and humane desire to make these
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attends a press event on the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Whether she’ll face any real consequences for it is another question entirely. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epresentative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a freshman Republican from
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