A student attends a virtual class as limited in-person learning resumes at Wilson Primary School, Phoenix, Ariz., August 17, 2020. (Cheney Orr/Reuters) Advocates are attempting to smuggle training in leftist activism into K-12 schooling under the guise of “civics.” Backers of what is variously called “action civics,” “civic engagement,” and “project-based civics,” have succeeded in

Gallup finds interest in a third-party increasing, particularly among Republicans. Independents are usually much more likely than Republicans or Democrats to favor a third political party, but in the current poll, Republicans are nearly as likely as independents to hold this view, 63 percent to 70 percent. That represents a dramatic shift for Republicans since

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media prior to meeting with Kuwait’s Foreign Minister in Washington, D.C., November 24, 2020. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters) The Nixon Foundation has announced a seminar that will “advance U.S. foreign policies based in conservative realism,” led by two former top Trump officials. Mike Pompeo and Robert O’Brien

The sun sets behind power-generating turbines of a wind farm in Mirnyi, Crimea, June 1, 2018. (Pavel Rebrov/Reuters) Baby, it’s cold outside! Much of the Midwest and Mountain states are seeing subzero temperatures and blizzard conditions as the polar vortex sweeps through. As far south as Dallas, the temperatures dipped into the 20s. In parts

Pro-life activists hold placards as they walk during the 48th Annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 29, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Democrats want to remove safety requirements on chemical abortion, posing a significant risk to pregnant women. As part of a broader effort to expand access to chemical abortion, House Democrats are demanding that

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he United States might be “A City upon a Hill,” but, for the most part, the ‘mayors’ of that city have been awful. And now that we’ve settled the constitutional question of post-term impeachments, we might begin contemplating the idea of posthumous ones. Okay, okay — let’s draw the line at

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L ast year, as the pandemic was just striking the U.S., there was a minor kerfuffle over Congress’s plan to give the unemployed an extra $600 a week. Some Republicans initially assumed it was a drafting error, because it would give many laid-off workers more money than they’d made while working. It

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) Earlier this month, I pointed out that the excuses for keeping schools closed are crumbling. Case counts are falling, vaccine shots are going into arms, and the Centers for Disease Control recently published a paper showing that schools are not big COVID-19 spreaders

George Will has a superb, and as far as I can tell, spot-on column on what McConnell was thinking when he coupled his vote to acquit with a condemnation of Trump’s conduct: McConnell knew that if he voted on Saturday to convict Donald Trump, he would have been lionized, briefly, by many of his detractors,

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White House Deputy Press Secretary T. J. Ducklo at a White House press briefing, February 2021. (Carlos Barria / Reuters) Deputy White House press secretary T. J. Ducklo resigned on Saturday following revelations that he lashed out at a reporter pursuing a story on his relationship with another journalist, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

(Michał Chodyra/Getty Images) 1972—By a vote of 6 to 1, the Florida supreme court rules (in State v. Barquet) that the state’s statutory prohibition of abortion violates the federal and state constitutions because its exception for abortions “necessary to preserve the life of [the] mother” is supposedly “incapable of certain interpretation.” 1997—Ninth Circuit judge Betty

Houses in the Denver, Colo., suburb of Superior in 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) More subsidized housing, in the tragic public-housing tradition, will do little to help minority groups in their quest for upward mobility. President Biden’s flurry of executive orders has now extended to housing policy — and to a pledge to reverse the Trump administration’s

Pennsylvania GOP senator Pat Toomey on his decision to convict Trump: “President Donald Trump’s defense team made several accurate observations at the impeachment trial. Many elected Democrats did want to impeach President Trump from the moment he won the 2016 election. The mainstream media was unrelentingly biased and hostile to the president. Both often overlooked

After voting that Trump was “not guilty” on the purported grounds that the Senate lacks constitutional authority to convict a former president, Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing 20-minute speech on the Senate floor laying blame for the January 6 attack on Congress squarely on Trump: January 6 was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own

Nebraska senator Ben Sasse, one of the seven Republican senators who voted that Donald Trump was guilty of inciting the January 6 attack on Congress, explains his vote: “An impeachment trial is a public declaration of what a president’s oath of office means and what behavior that oath demands of presidents in the future. But

Then-president Donald Trump prior to boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., January 12, 2021 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The impeachment trial is hurtling toward a conclusion, after brief drama over potentially calling witnesses. Former President Trump is almost certain to get acquitted, but it won’t be much of a vindication. His conduct in the

Politico‘s Burgess Everett reports that Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell told GOP colleagues in a brief email that he will vote to acquit President Trump. McConnell says his rationale is that the Senate lacks the constitutional authority to convict a former president: McConnell says it was a “close call” but says impeachment is “primarily a

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you figure the fate of Donald Trump and the future course of constitutional governance in the United States hinge on how Justin Trudeau feels about the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, you would have loved being in the Senate chamber watching Democratic House managers’ prosecution of the impeachment case.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 22, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) On Wednesday, Disney fired Gina Carano for making an ill-considered Holocaust comparison to convey the positive message that we shouldn’t harbor hatred for our political opponents. Today, White House press secretary Jen Psaki

1. New York Times: New Allegations of Cover-Up by Cuomo Over Nursing Home Virus Toll 2. New York Post: Cuomo aide Melissa DeRose admits they hid nursing home date so feds wouldn’t find out . . . .Instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors or the

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the Democrats’ impeachment case, the Lincoln Project’s collapse, and the firing of Gina Carano. 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 Review editorial and operational teams

Nikki Haley in the Oval Office with President Trump, October 9, 2018 (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley distanced herself from former President Trump in comments to Politico on January 12, less than a week after pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol and forced lawmakers to evacuate. Haley, who served as ambassador to the U.N.

(Andrew Kelly/Reuters) According to new reporting from the Daily Caller, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been sitting on emails exchanged with Planned Parenthood officials about COVID-relief loans that the abortion provider illegally obtained last spring. The emails were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and were heavily redacted, but one

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation nomination hearings to examine the expected nomination of Peter Buttigieg to be Secretary of Transportation in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via Reuters) As John McCormack notes, Senator Ted Cruz thinks that late impeachment trials are constitutional but that the Senate’s jurisdiction

Back on February 3, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on the Today show and said of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine: “The J&J data right now that we discussed last week is being reviewed with the FDA right now, so we could see literally within a week or so that they wind up getting the kind

Hillary Clinton arrives at President Biden’s inauguration in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Hillary Clinton on Wednesday claimed that if former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial ends in his acquittal it will be because “the jury includes his co-conspirators.” “If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won’t be because

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F ollowing a meeting with top Pentagon officials last week, newly confirmed Defense secretary Lloyd Austin directed a Department-wide “stand down” to address the issue of extremism and white supremacy in the ranks of the U.S. military. This comes after multiple news outlets reported that a handful of veteran and active-duty military

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n its article of impeachment, the Democrat-controlled House alleged that former president Donald Trump, by his “incitement of insurrection,” was responsible for murder. That is an essential rationale for impeaching Trump. It is the most serious accusation that has been leveled. The impeachment article states that, incited by Trump to storm

I’m interested to learn that Ninth Circuit judge William Fletcher is serving on the American Constitution Society panel charged with selecting the recipients of ACS’s 2021 Carliner Award. According to ACS, the award, named after civil-rights lawyer David Carliner, “recognizes outstanding public interest lawyers whose work best exemplifies its namesake’s legacy.” Advertisement Serving on this