Sen. Bill Cassidy talks with reporters as he leaves the Capitol after the first day of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, in Washington, D.C., February 9, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Reuters) Senator Bill Cassidy (R., La.) said on Sunday that President Biden’s policies are “entirely” to blame for the influx of migrants crossing the U.S.–Mexico

(Mike Segar/Reuters) When you mix untrustworthy governments with untrustworthy citizens, the result is a grave threat to the most basic freedom of all. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N ews from Germany: The far-right political party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) was put under surveillance by the German government’s domestic-intelligence service as a possible threat to the state.

U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., January 2020 (Will Dunham/Reuters) 1963—Ernesto Miranda is arrested in Phoenix on charges of abduction and rape. His interrogation by police yields a written confession. His confession is admitted at trial, and he is convicted. Three years later, in Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court rules by a 5-4

Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) A mask mandate in the city of Austin and Travis County will remain in place for at least two weeks after a judge on Friday delayed action on Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s request to immediately end it. The ruling by Judge Lora Livingston allows the mandate to

A man walks through an empty campus green at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) By now, most Corner readers have probably heard about the incident at Georgetown Law, where a professor has been terminated for saying in a private conversation that she lamented that black students weren’t doing well in

A fenced area holding families at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, June 10, 2019 (Office of Inspector General/DHS/Reuters) Representative Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) on Friday blasted the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.–Mexico border crisis, calling out a delegation from the White House for failing to speak to anyone when they visited the

Senators Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) deliver remarks on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, November 2020. (Andrew Kelly / Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) on Friday called for New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation amid concurrent scandals involving the governor’s mishandling

Pharmacist Danny Huynh fills a syringe with the Moderna coronavirus vaccine in Chula Vista, Calif., January 21, 2021. (Mike Blake/Reuters) In some quarters these days, the conventional wisdom holds that America’s diplomatic commitments can no longer be taken seriously by its allies since the U.S. withdrew from diplomatic pacts such as the Iran nuclear deal

Three-term New York governor Andrew Cuomo is rightly being pilloried, in increasingly bipartisan fashion, both for his willful deceptions about nursing-home coronavirus fatalities and for his terrible treatment of women. Yet in a press conference today, he defiantly declined to resign, claiming he would not bow to “cancel culture” (yes, really). He also said that I’m

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Alexandra, and Jim discuss Biden’s Thursday evening speech, the garbage that is the newly passed COVID bill, and the continuing Cuomo saga. Listen below, or subscribe to this show on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Members of the National

President Joe Biden delivers his first prime time address marking the one-year anniversary of widespread shutdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic and speaking about the impact of the pandemic during an address from the East Room of the White House, March 11, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) My colleagues John McCormack and Isaac Schorr have already noted

Lots of the talk about the Republican Party becoming a “multi-ethnic workers’ party” has been a little premature, even if I’ve been hoping for it all my life. The great populist GOP president passed a corporate tax cut that wasn’t even popular when it passed. Everyone can recognize that affluent and educated voters are moving

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo greets people at the COVID-19 vaccination site at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, March 8, 2021. (Seth Wenig/Reuters) New York state lawmakers will begin an impeachment inquiry against Governor Andrew Cuomo amid a pair of burgeoning scandals. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat from the

North view of the Manhattan skyline from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan in New York City, June 24, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Luke Winkie is out for vengeance. A New Yorker who has remained in New York City over the entirety of the past year, he writes in

Yesterday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) chaired a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on “What’s Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary.” It was largely what you would expect. Senator Whitehouse and his hand-picked witnesses weaved a sinister tale of corporate influence and special interest manipulation, in which Leonard Leo played a

The Biden/Schumer/Pelosi Gang is pushing hard to enact something called The Protecting the Right to Organize Act. It is a prodigious piece of special-interest legislation for Big Labor. If you believe the rhetoric, the PRO Act is designed to help workers. The truth of the matter is that it is designed to help the Democratic

President Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Biden administration is committed to applying the freshest thinking of the 1930s to contemporary challenges, while congressional Democrats are keen on mandating that all 50 states adopt what is worst and most destructive in California practice. These two tendencies

In response to Manchin Will Vote to Confirm Xavier Becerra As John McCormack noted on the Corner earlier this morning, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin has announced that he’ll vote to confirm California attorney general Xavier Becerra to head the Department of Health and Human Services. In a statement released this morning, Manchin said he

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at the COVID-19 vaccination site at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, N.Y., March 8, 2021. (Seth Wenig/Reuters) A sixth woman has accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, according to a new report. According to the Albany Times Union, a member of the executive

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here is overwhelming bipartisan support for the $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan.” No doubt about it. Every poll says so. The latest Morning Consult poll, for instance, informs us that Americans support the bill by a wide 75–18 percent margin. Among Democrats, it’s 90–5. Among the GOP, it’s 59–35. Among independents,

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI investigation into links between Donald Trump associates and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election on Capitol Hill, November 10, 2020. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters) Republican senators criticized their Democratic colleagues on the issue of “dark money” organizations at a Senate

[embedded content] Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. He’s also been speaking and writing about climate science for almost 20 years. In this wide-ranging discussion with Peter Robinson, Lomborg analyzes the Biden administration’s plan to address

In what I’m reliably informed, and have separately confirmed, is a significant departure from longstanding practice, the Biden administration on Tuesday abandoned all of the government’s pending appeals of rulings against the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule governing admissibility of aliens, including the Supreme Court case in which the Court had granted review of an

(fuzznails/Getty Images) Several states and the Centers for Disease Control say that smokers should get priority access to COVID vaccinations because smokers are at greater risk of developing severe illness and dying from the disease. This raises an interesting question: What is the definition of a “smoker”? The state of North Carolina says that, as

The degraded college curriculum that leaves so many students with prodigious gaps in their knowledge of the world hurts us in many ways. In today’s Martin Center article, Shay Khatiri and Daniel Samet argue that one of those ways is that graduate students in foreign-policy programs are poorly equipped to understand strategic decision making. Advertisement

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on climate change prior to signing executive orders at the White House, January 27, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) At the end of January, President Biden issued an executive order to combat climate change. The whole thing is what you’d expect from this administration. The EO is lots of signaling to the

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen pundits solemnly tell one another that Andrew Cuomo is “in trouble,” I hear my children saying, “Uh-oh, you’re in trouble!” In trouble is, for a kid, a parlous state, fraught with terror. Kids don’t seem to notice that there is, generally speaking, no real punishment that goes with in trouble

Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks during a news conference at the Presidential House in Tegucigalpa, August 19, 2019. (Jorge Cabrera/Reuters) Federal prosecutors alleged that Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández helped move cocaine into the U.S., during the trial of an alleged Honduran drug trafficker in New York on Tuesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Gutwillig

A demonstrator holds up a “Black Lives Matter” sign in Rochester, N.Y., September 6, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) We always hear that the U.S. has to engage “a deep and honest conversation about race.” That’s good. We need to work out how to move past our nation’s greatest historical failing. But “conversation” doesn’t mean what it

Our friends Troy Senik (better known as “the other guy who hosts a Victor Davis Hanson podcast”) and Vanessa Mendoza today have launched an important new website, Kite & Key Media. It is certain to prove of consequence, and deserves the attention of conservatives — and for that matter of anyone who is interested in,