Former president Clinton speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, September 23, 2010. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) According to Politico’s White House reporter, Vice President Kamala Harris will host an event this Friday featuring President Bill Clinton, a one-on-one discussion of ways to “empower women and girls in the U.S. and around the world” in light

Florida teachers, whose unions were against their members returning to school, hold a car parade protest in front of the Pasco County School district office in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., July 21, 2020. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten says she’s “not convinced” by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance calling

Fifth-grade students study in a classroom with plastic partitions at Louise Elementary School in Louise, Texas, November 20, 2020. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) The people hold the power, but we need to act quickly. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S ometimes it seems like the pandemic that started in Wuhan in the winter of 2019 has held us in

A few hours ago, I suggested that it was possible that Joe Manchin would revive his 2013 background check bill; that, if he did, it would be a tough sell for Democrats and Republicans alike (for different reasons); and that, whatever happened, he would likely not want to nuke the filibuster over it. CNN’s Manu

Customer inspects a gun at a store in Phoenix, Ariz. (Reuters photo: Ralph D. Freso) From Forbes: 84%. That’s the share of voters who said they support requiring all gun buyers to go through a background check in a Morning Consult/Politico poll released earlier this month. That includes 77% of Republicans. However, far fewer – just

Sen. Joe Manchin speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, May 16, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The shootings in Colorado and Virginia have prompted many of the filibuster’s critics to add gun control to the list of Democratic agenda items that the 60-vote threshold is supposedly throttling. Having looked around a little today, though, I’m really not

President Joe Biden speaks about the mass shooting in Colorado from the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) “As president, I’m going to use all the resources at my disposal to keep the American people safe.” It’s a wonderful sentiment. But for longtime observers of Joe

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris deliver remarks during a stop at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., March 19, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) On the menu today: As the Biden administration envisions using reconciliation more frequently, I look back at Democrats’ objections to the use of it in 2017; Senate Democrats conclude they can

Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, November 28, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) In a nation where all of us may find ourselves in a minority from time to time and place to place, that is a protection we may all come to rely on. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE

(giftlegacy/iStock/Getty Images Plus) University of Notre Dame professor of political philosophy Patrick Deneen, one of the critics of originalism emerging on the right, seems to think he has hit upon a killer “gotcha” argument: that nobody cared about what the Founding Fathers thought about the Constitution or the American order until the mid-20th century. Deneen

(DONGSEON_KIM/Getty Images) Philip Klein noted a few days ago that the nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association, urges “the CDC to provide far more detail about the rationale for the change from six feet to three feet for students in classrooms” because they “are concerned that the CDC has changed one of the basic rules

(GlobalStock) Kevin Williamson and Philip Klein have both been talking about whether we need one. I’m in the “no” camp: I can’t see that federal involvement in K–12 education has done much good, or that it is likely to do much good in the future. But I’d raise two cautions about abolishing it. The first

(Mike Blake/Reuters) U.S. border agents have been authorized to release migrants detained at the southern border before scheduling an appearance in court, multiple outlets reported. Border Patrol agents have already begun releasing illegal immigrants who claim asylum without issuing a “notice to appear” (NTA), which includes details about the hearing at which a court determines

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, October 16, 2018. (Umit Bektas/Reuters) Turkey’s President Tayyip Recep Erdogan has done it again. Late last Friday, he ousted the governor of the Central Bank of Turkey, Naci Agbal, replacing him

(smolaw11/Getty Images) If anything, he looks set to make a centuries-old trend worse. For over a half century, from Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society to Barack Obama’s Race to the Top to the new education package within the COVID stimulus bill under Joe Biden, well-meaning presidents have tried in vain to remake America’s public schools. Why

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccination in Los Angeles, Calif., March 17, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Writing in The Atlantic this past week, Brown University economist Emily Oster did what she does best by using data and research to reassure parents. She made an obvious point: By the summer, adults will have been able to get

People wait in line to receive a coronavirus vaccine at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on midtown Manhattan, March 2, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The vast majority of Americans, including African Americans, support photo-ID requirements for voting. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R ecently, I went to get my first COVID-19 vaccination. I was impressed by how

(maroke/Getty Images) Today, Kevin Williamson has written a column arguing that we actually could use a Department of Education — among other reasons, to combat the rising threat from China. I would advise reading his whole piece to consider his argument. But to be clear, Kevin acknowledges that, “The actual Department of Education we have

Alejandro Mayorkas, nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday underscored the Biden administration’s messaging to migrants that the southern border is closed, though he

(utah778 / Getty Images) On his personal blog, Professor Thomas Smith of the University of San Diego Law School wrote a post that was sharply critical of Chinese government policies. Shortly thereafter, the academic mob accused him of ethnic bias against Chinese people. You would think that law students should be able to distinguish between

Ranking Member Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2020. (Bonnie Cash/Pool via Reuters) On Thursday, as reported by John McCormack, California Senator Dianne Feinstein was holding firm in her support for the filibuster: Despite being under

Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a visit to a coronavirus vaccination site in Old Westbury, N.Y., March 15, 2021. (Mark Lennihan/Reuters) An eighth woman has come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against New York governor Andrew Cuomo, in an interview with the New York Times published on Friday. Alyssa McGrath, an executive assistant in

Rep. Deb Haaland holds a Transgender Pride flag beside democratic colleagues on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, February 25, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The issues raised by the Equality Act are serious and need open, honest debate. But the March 17 hearing on this bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee showed that serious legislative consideration is

Asylum-seeking migrant families and unaccompanied minors from Central America take refuge in a makeshift Customs and Border Protection processing center under the Anzalduas International Bridge after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Granjeno, Texas, March 12, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) The Biden administration has entered an $86 million contract to

A U.S. Border Patrol agent instructs asylum-seeking migrants as they line up along the border wall after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on a raft, in Penitas, Texas, March 17, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have requested airplanes to fly migrants to the U.S.-Canadian border

Then-Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao speaks to the news media at the White House, March 4, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The GOP cabinet official and wife of Mitch McConnell was essentially cleared, but she hardly received the Hunter Biden treatment. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or reasons I can’t possibly imagine, the media that wouldn’t cover

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Molly Riley/Reuters) Four conservative legal thinkers have written a jurisprudential manifesto in favor of “A Better Originalism,” by which they mean an originalism that accepts that the proper enterprise of judging includes taking account of moral truths. They set themselves against what they call the “morally neutered,

Michael Mann on Real Time with Bill Maher in 2015 (via YouTube) If you wait nearly a decade, the courts might finally do what’s obviously been right all along. That’s one of the lessons of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia granting National Review’s motion for summary judgment in Michael Mann’s seemingly interminable lawsuit

Warning: if you are easily disturbed by lists discussing how easily disturbed some people are, you may want to look away. This entry may include references to adult content, as well as mockery of childish adults who can’t deal with anything remotely risqué without receiving official notice beforehand. When Disney movies, centuries-old art and even

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited the CDC headquarters in Atlanta today as the agency announced new social-distancing guidance saying it was safe for students to maintain three feet of separation from other students, rather than six feet. The decision, which