Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) The policy doesn’t work and the agency doesn’t have the power to extend it. So what is the CDC doing? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just announced that it is extending its nationwide eviction moratorium through June. The agency is

Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. (MSNBC/via YouTube) MSNBC host Joe Scarborough suggested that reporters continuing to cover the fallout of the Trump-Russia collusion canard are “useful idiots for Russia, or . . . on Russia’s payroll” during a Monday morning segment. Scarborough was responding to a statement from former president Donald Trump,

(DONGSEON_KIM/Getty Images) Last Thursday, Michael Q. McShane and Jason Bedrick explained how Kentucky governor Andy Beshear had vetoed what would be one of the most expansive school-choice bills in the nation. As they wrote: For the first time in the Bluegrass State’s history, an educational-choice bill cleared both legislative chambers. Previously, no choice bill had

Like most state university systems across America, North Carolina’s has become suffused with politics. Those who believe that it’s more important to have people with the correct ideology teaching than to find the most capable ones have managed to get their hiring preferences written into many job descriptions. Unless you can demonstrate that you are

Baker Jack Phillips speaks with the media following oral arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., December 5, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) When Jack Phillips opened Masterpiece Cakeshop in 1993, he never envisioned that he would become a household name defending religious freedom against an increasingly

(Michał Chodyra/Getty Images) 2018—So much for Congress’s restriction, enacted in 1996, providing that a federal prisoner may file a second habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. 2255 only upon a showing of new evidence of innocence or a new rule of constitutional law from the Supreme Court. In United States v. Wheeler, a Fourth Circuit panel

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas (Courtesy of the Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28)) Senator Mike Braun (R., Ind.) on Saturday said a Biden official asked a group of Republican senators who visited the southern border to delete photos they had taken of the overcrowded conditions at a migrant

White House press secretary Jen Psaki gives a briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 17, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday that reporters would soon be granted access to Border Patrol facilities sheltering unaccompanied minors. Psaki’s comment came in response to questions from Chris Wallace on Fox

President Donald Trump tours a section of recently built border wall in San Luis, Ariz., June 23, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Former President Trump said Saturday that he will likely visit the southern border “over the next couple of weeks” to get a firsthand look at the worsening border crisis created by a surge of migrants

Skulls at an exhibition of artifacts at the Templo Mayor Aztec complex in Mexico City, Mexico, in 2017. (Henry Romero/Reuters) Apparently, for the sake of the state’s schoolchildren, we need to set the record straight on the blood-soaked worship of ancient deities. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Board of Education in California recently voted unanimously

Hunter Biden attends his father Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/Reuters) The basis for a criminal investigation was already considerable before the sudden emergence of an apparent false statement on a firearms form. NRPLUS

(TebNad/Getty Images) Electricity is essential to modernity. Prosperity depends on it. So does longevity and health. If you doubt that, ask those in impoverished nations who still don’t have access to reliable electrical power! Indeed, if we could create a continental power grid in Africa — regardless of the means — it would ameliorate so

Protestors hold signs at a “March For Our Lives” demonstration demanding gun control in Sacramento, Calif., March 24, 2018. (Bob Strong/Reuters) The Left’s favored talking point on guns is simply dishonest. ‘You can’t really be pro-life unless you support X, or oppose Y,” or, most commonly, “agree with me on Z.” It’s a favorite refrain

Governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) speaks at a vaccination site in New York, March 8, 2021. (Seth Wenig/Reuters) The New York State attorney general’s office has subpoenaed a number of aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo as part of its investigation into sexual-harassment allegations against him, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. One of the

Judge Stephen Reinhardt 1931—Stephen Reinhardt is born in New York City. Appointed to the Ninth Circuit by Jimmy Carter in 1980 and serving in active status on that court until his death in March 2018, Judge Reinhardt will earn notoriety as the “liberal badboy of the federal judiciary.” In his overtly political view of judging,

President Biden speaks in Atlanta, Ga., March 19, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) William Saletan, writing at Slate, isn’t as tough as NR’s editors. But he’s not buying what the president was selling, either: When Univision reporter Janet Rodriguez pointed out that it would take many years to improve life in Latin America — and asked Biden

Freeway interchange in Los Angeles, Calif. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) Over at Reason, Walter Olson looks at why building infrastructure has become so much slower and costlier in the United States than it used to be, and than it is in many other developed countries. Costs per mile of new interstate highways, for example, tripled between the 1960s and 1980s.

Having written this week and last about the many successes conservative organizations are having educating public-sector union employees about their Janus rights, it’s a pleasure to see that our friends at the Bradley Foundation have, as the star of its most recent “We the People” interview, none other than Mark Janus, who joins his Liberty

(Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters) The vice president of the San Francisco school board was stripped of her title and committee assignments Thursday in response to a 2016 tweet thread that many community leaders deemed racist and anti-Asian. In the tweets, board member Allison Collins referred to Asians as “house n****r[s],” and accused Asians of using “white supremacist

Protesters tear down a barricade as they clash with Capitol police at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) But rioters savagely attacked the cops, and it’s on video. Let’s roll the tapes. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D uring a Fox News interview on Thursday night, Donald Trump said of the storming

Then–president-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters in New Castle, Del., December 15, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Joe Biden’s lies about his position on the legislative filibuster are so audacious, so brazen, so extraordinarily disingenuous that is is hard to know where to begin. Having supported the provision for nearly five decades, Biden now says that he

President Joe Biden holds his first formal news conference in the East Room of the White House, March 25, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The president brazenly lied about the border crisis. Reporters aren’t in the practice, obviously, of being particularly tough on President Biden. But at his first press conference as president this afternoon, Cecilia Vega

It’s doubtful Frank Sinatra would have sung that about 2020, but our friends at Kite & Key Media, makers of make-you-think videos, believe a future generation will look back and see 2020 not as the annus horribilis it was, but as the year of an extraordinary and revealing accomplishment that answered the question: How did

President Joe Biden listens to a question as he holds his first formal news conference in the East Room of the White House, March 25, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) There is much to criticize in the substance of Joe Biden’s first press conference as president, including his egregious abandonment of his prior defenses of the Senate

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R., Ark.) chats after a news conference in Havana, Cuba, September 28, 2015. (Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters) The Arkansas Legislature has passed a bill to protect the medical conscience of professionals and medical institutions in the state. The usual suspects are screaming the usual baloney, criticizing medical conscience protections as authorizing discrimination against LGBT

A mother and her children, members of a caravan of migrants from Central America, enter the United States border and customs facility in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 2, 2018. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters) I wrote yesterday about the attempts to deny the border crisis, including a data-analysis piece at the Washington Post that was completely unpersuasive. I

Hunter Biden attends an event at Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center at New Castle County Airport in New Castle, Del., January 19, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Secret Service agents allegedly involved themselves in an incident in which Joe Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie threw a gun belonging to her husband Hunter Biden in the

Andrew (left) and Chris Cuomo (Mike Segar/Reuters) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is at the center of yet another scandal involving his handling of COVID-19. Yet this one implicates his brother, CNN’s Chris Cuomo: The Times Union reports: ALBANY — High-level members of the state Department of Health were directed last year by Gov. Andrew

Jack Phillips speaks at a press conference outside the Supreme Court after oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, December 5, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) They want to break him to send a message. But the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner is standing his ground. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J ack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece

Rich Lowry’s informative article on the Biden administration’s border doublespeak quotes DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “We are expelling families. We are expelling single adults. And we’ve made a decision that we will not expel young, vulnerable children.” That’s not what the administration is actually doing. But it also wouldn’t be wise. At some point, I