(diane39/Getty Images) National studies consistently find disparities between black students, especially black boys, and their peers in reading, mathematics, and other core academic subjects. Still other studies show these disparities follow black males into college. That is, notwithstanding the many root issues of these gaps, black males on average are failing to get to the right answer more

Axios reports that “Republicans in at least 25 states have introduced over 60 bills targeting transgender children.” And, additionally, that there were 41 bills introduced in 2020, focused on “transgender children.” But what is meant by a “transgender child”? Sometimes, this term refers to a child who does not conform to sex-based stereotypes. Instead of

Migrants from Central America walk toward a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle after crossing to the United States to turn themselves in to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, February 5, 2021. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) The number of migrant children detained in Border Patrol facilities has tripled over the past two weeks, amid an ongoing surge

President Donald Trump gestures while campaigning for Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler on the eve of the run-off election in Dalton, Ga., January 4, 2021. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The editors of the Journal had a strong editorial on the former president’s efforts to blame everyone but himself for his election defeat and the loss of the Republicans’

There are reasonable issues to be taken with the current system of voting and elections, and constructive steps Congress could take. But not since the Alien and Sedition Acts has one political party in Congress sought to bend the power of the federal government, on partisan lines, toward crushing political opposition to this extent. H.R.

(oatawa/Getty Images) About a month ago, news consumers were belatedly informed that New York governor Andrew Cuomo was not a pandemic hero, the Lincoln Project was not filled with noble Republican idealists who were effectively persuading conservatives to stop supporting Donald Trump, and progressive policies were not helping the least fortunate in California. This week,

It was about a year ago that Valarie Zupanik was laid off from her job doing payroll for a Montana trucking company. She’d worked there for a decade. She hadn’t seen it coming. But finding new work didn’t take long. Baker, the small Montana city near the North Dakota border where Zupanik lives, was in

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) 2013—Less than three weeks before oral argument in cases challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s marriage laws, Justice Anthony Kennedy uses the dedication ceremony of a new court library (the “Anthony M. Kennedy Library and Learning Center”) to distribute a reading list that he has

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference before the opening of a mass vaccination site in the Queens N.Y., February 24, 2021. (Seth Wenig/Pool via Reuters) Two additional women accused New York governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment on Saturday, including a former press aide who detailed an uncomfortable embrace in a

Sen. Joe Manchin in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2021 (Greg Nash/Reuters) Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) on Sunday defended the COVID-19 relief bill that passed the Senate with no Republican support on Saturday, saying the measure does not spell the end of bipartisanship as Republicans “had a tremendous amount of input.” The moderate Democrat’s

People attend a rally at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul to protest against the death of George Floyd, May 31, 2020. (Eric Miller/Reuters) With the Derek Chauvin trial imminent, complications abound.  Derek Chauvin’s trial for the alleged murder of George Floyd is about to start . . .  maybe. This case is what’s

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Nicholas Kristof is scandalized by the shortage of public toilets in New York City. It is, indeed a problem. (I stand by my description of Starbucks as a chain of public toilets with a sideline in coffee.) But he leaves out a big part of the story. New York used to provide public

Guns in a display case at the Cabela’s store in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2008. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) Non-violent crimes unrelated to guns shouldn’t deprive people of their right to bear arms for the rest of their lives. That the punishment should fit the crime is a widely held axiom. If you lie on a tax

(mj0007/Getty Images) 1857—Chief Justice Taney’s ruling in Dred Scott marks the Supreme Court’s first use of the modern liberal judicial activist’s favorite tool—“substantive due process”—to invalidate a statute. In striking down the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territories, Taney nakedly asserts: “[A]n act of Congress which

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio deliver remarks at a news conference regarding the state’s first confirmed case of coronavirus in New York City, March 2, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is eyeing a run for governor amid mounting scandals faced by Andrew

Migrant children are led by staff at a detention facility next to the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, June 18, 2018. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is allowing child-migrant detention facilities to operate at 100 percent capacity, despite the threat of coronavirus spread, multiple outlets reported on Friday. The agency recommended

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ost parents don’t know that the public schools were originally designed to replace them. The progressive education movement in the United States, which is almost solely responsible for the establishment and administration of our schools, has always looked down on what Ellwood Cubberley called “mere learning.” The movement’s luminaries have historically

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaks during a press event ahead of vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 on Capitol Hill, June 25, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act is a misnomer. If passed into law, it wouldn’t advance justice or

Ezra Klein writes: If Democrats won Senate seats roughly in proportion to how many people voted for Democrats to win Senate seats this would all look very different. The “center” of the Senate is well to the right of the center of the country. And today is the result. — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 6,

1.  Wall Street Journal: Cuomo Advisers Altered Report on Covid-19 Nursing-Home Deaths The changes Mr. Cuomo’s aides and health officials made to the nursing-home report, which haven’t been previously disclosed, reveal that the state possessed a fuller accounting of out-of-facility nursing-home deaths as early as the summer. The Health Department resisted calls by state and

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) questions judicial nominees during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 4, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The American Civil Liberties Union and other progressive groups have filed a brief in support of a Supreme Court challenge to California’s donor disclosure rule over First Amendment

This morning, three Republican senators introduced amendments to ensure that COVID-relief funding doesn’t underwrite abortion providers or cover abortion procedures at taxpayer expense. Both the relief bill passed by Democrats in the House and the plan proposed by President Joe Biden and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) include $50 million for Planned Parenthood’s

(MartinPrague/Getty Images) Devaluing the dollar would do nothing to close the current-account deficit. In a recent New York Times piece, “How Can Biden Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs? Weaken the Dollar,” Noam Scheiber leads with the following paragraph: “President Biden has made reviving American manufacturing a top priority. To deliver, he may first have to deal

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus arrive at Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, February 3, 2021. (Thomas Peter/Reuters) The World Health Organization team that investigated the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, will delay publishing its findings following calls for greater transparency in

An election worker drops mail-in ballots into a ballot box at the Registrar of Voters office in San Diego, Calif., June 2018. (Mike Blake/Reuters) At The Bulwark, Jonathan V. Last offers up a piece of historical illiteracy so remarkable that it can’t be left unremarked upon. Describing the Republican Party as a “revanchist minority,” Last

U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Here’s an excerpt from the transcript of the oral argument in the voting-rights case argued this week before the Supreme Court: CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: You — you talk about the concern being that the analysis would be driven to racial proportionality under the Respondents’ approach.  Now I understand the concerns about that

President Joe Biden speaks during a bipartisan meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2021. (Alex Brandon/Reuters) The Left’s venomous attacks against Texas for lifting restrictions are more divisive than usual. There seems to be some confusion over the origin and ownership of the three coronavirus vaccines approved

A nurse injects a boost dose during a coronavirus community vaccination event in Martinsburg, W.Va., February 25, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On the menu today: The CDC delays the release of its guidelines for vaccinated Americans, raising tough questions about what’s triggering its hesitation; the evidence that vaccination helps cut down on transmission a lot; and

President Joe Biden speaks about the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic at the White House, March 2, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) As currently being discussed, the COVID-relief package delivers billions of dollars to states even though their finances are sitting pretty. State and local governments have avoided a recessionary crunch thanks to recovering tax revenues

Neera Tanden attends a hearing with the Senate Committee on the Budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 10, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via Reuters) The Biden administration has not yet announced judicial nominations, but from the executive nominations submitted so far, it is already apparent that Democrats will play the race and gender card as