Then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, Switzerland in 1985. (Denis Paquin/Reuters) A forgotten aspect of Ronald Reagan’s presidency: He wanted to abolish nuclear weapons. Advancing that cause was one of the main goals of his presidency. Reagan was an anti-nuclear activist from the beginning of the nuclear age: Long before he

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Kevin Lamarque, Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) spoke out on Monday after Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R., Ariz.) appeared at a white-nationalist event over the weekend. After

A Ukrainian service member at a check point in the city of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, February 27, 2022. (Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters) Welcome back to “Forgotten Fact-Checks,” a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we recap the media’s shortcomings in covering the war in Ukraine, HuffPost’s dramatic framing of the Texas governor’s recent directive

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin holds a news conference after the U.S.-Russia summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) The New York Times, back on February 5: “Over the past several years, Mr. Putin, Russia’s president, has restructured his country’s economy for the specific purpose of withstanding Western financial

A child wearing a face mask arrives at school in New York City, January 5, 2022. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) ‘The science’ has suddenly changed, so kids can go unmasked. And war in Ukraine has distracted us. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D itching the Covid masks at school and starting 1950s-style air-raid drills wasn’t my idea of a

Shell petrol station in Berlin, Germany, in 2018. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters) And Russia has played a role, exploiting social media to disparage the use of natural gas and fossil fuels.  NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he U.S. is now less energy-independent than it was a year ago and thus less able to send liquified natural gas (LNG)

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a news conference in New York, N.Y., December 14, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) New York Governor Kathy Hochul says she is dropping the statewide school-masking mandate as of Wednesday. Why Wednesday? Why not now? What might change between now and Wednesday? Who knows? The whole process continues to be

1998—In Brause v. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Anchorage trial judge Peter A. Michalski rules that Alaska’s statutory definition of marriage as between “one man and one woman” violates the state constitution unless Alaska can show a “compelling state interest” in support of its definition. In November 1998, Alaska voters approve, by a 68% to 32%

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Moscow, Russia, February 15, 2022. (Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Pool via Reuters) The week of February 21: the need to reconnect energy policy with geopolitical reality, antitrust, Ukraine, inflation, and much, much more. Before we dive into this week’s Capital Letter, a

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, February 2022. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Far from ‘praising’ Russia’s strongman, the former secretary of state was warning that we underestimate him at our peril. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ike Pompeo is a West Point grad who served in Bavaria as an

Vice President Kamala Harris listens as U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson accepts President Joe Biden’s nomination to be a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 25, 2022. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Why conservatives should oppose President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J oe Biden has nominated

Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (in Orlando, Fla., February 25, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., Friday evening, former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard accused the modern progressive movement of hypocrisy for punishing dissent at home while standing up for

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger / Reuters) At the America First Political Action Conference, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman from Georgia, was the star speaker. The No. 2 star, probably, was the conference’s leader, Nick Fuentes. In the

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her staff at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., February 25, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Marjorie Taylor Greene (QAnon, Ga.) might be a preternatural dope, but that’s still doesn’t excuse her speaking at the junior varsity Ku Klux Klan jamboree this weekend. Greene pleaded ignorance, claiming she was

Tthe Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project logo on a pipe at the Chelyabinsk pipe rolling plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia, February 26, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) So, how are those Biden sanctions working out? You know, the toughest sanctions since, well, ever, by which we – collaborating closely with our European allies – were were going

2018—By a 4-3 divide, the California supreme court holds (in People v. Contreras) that very long sentences imposed on two juvenile offenders for brutal rapes violate the Eighth Amendment of the federal Constitution. According to Goodwin Liu, the justice who wrote the majority opinion, the two sentences (one of 50 years to life, the other

A Laker Airways McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 airliner in flight, May 30, 1979. (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Who said it? Someone sitting in a room with a pencil and piece of paper is not going to be able to figure out the proper airline rate any better than allowing the consumers and producers in a competitive marketplace

Fairfax County school buses sit in a in Lorton, Va., July 22, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) After an onerous legal battle, a grassroots parents’ group has won its lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools that challenged the Virginia district’s equity admissions policy over its alleged racial discrimination against Asian-American students at one of the most competitive, elite

U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson smiles as she accepts President Joe Biden’s nomination to be a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 25, 2022. (Leah Millis/Reuters) They should show the nation that it is possible to oppose a nominee without trying to destroy her character. NRPLUS

CDC director Rochelle Walensky on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021 (Greg Nash/Reuters) CDC, which had been stubbornly refusing to revisit its nonsensical masking guidance long after most states had abandoned it, magically discovered new science just days before a desperate President Biden is set to give his State of the Union address.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 28, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool/Reuters) Republicans should be realistic about what they can do to oppose Biden’s Supreme Court pick. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J oe Biden has made it official: He will

Pro-life and Pro-choice activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court building, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The U.S. Senate will next week take up S.1975, the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA). Its backers want everyone to believe that

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Russia’s attack on Ukraine in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 24, 2022. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The president is working his way up the escalation ladder, but not quickly enough. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or months, the White House pledged that a Russian invasion of

Senator Mitt Romney asks Antony J. Blinken, a question during his confirmation hearing to be Secretary of State at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2021. (Alex Edelman/Reuters) There are two related arguments right now that everybody needs to shut up and get behind Joe Biden. One is that a national crisis is no

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 24, 2022. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Takeaways from the president’s latest statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M uch of what President Biden said in this afternoon’s press conference on

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday denied recent reporting that President Biden had been presented with options to disrupt Russia’s Ukraine invasion with massive cyberattacks. “This report on cyber options

The abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, March 23, 2016. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters) Russian and Ukrainian forces were fighting for control of the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Thursday evening local time, with Ukrainian officials warning that damage to nuclear storage facilities could send “radioactive dust” across Europe. “Russian occupation forces

2010—President Obama nominates Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to a Ninth Circuit seat. With his volatile mix of aggressive ideology and raw inexperience, the 39-year-old Liu is that rare nominee who threatens to make the laughingstock Ninth Circuit even more ridiculous. Liu openly embraces a freewheeling constitutional approach that yields a plethora of extreme left-wing

The Justice Department Building in Washington, D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) The Department of Justice is cancelling the Trump-era “China Initiative” program that was aimed at curbing spying by the Chinese Communist Party on intellectual property and academia after a review concluded that it was discriminatory against the Asian-American community. Spearheaded in 2018

Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a media briefing at the White House, August 11, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki reportedly plans to hang up her briefing binder this year and is seriously entertaining the idea of taking her career to a mainstream news network for a hosting role. For much of