The once-frenzied debate over TikTok is ending with a whimper. First, the Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the Trump administration’s proposal to require that parent company ByteDance sell the popular video sharing app to American companies is now under review by the Biden administration. The new team is significantly less likely to advocate

1. Virginia House advances bill repealing protections for faith-based adoption agencies 2. Daniel Frost and Hal Boyd: The Moral Incoherence of “Family Privilege” Ideology The desire to foster greater social inclusion and advancement for all people is certainly noble. But marriage simply won’t survive in any recognizable form if “family privilege” ideology prevails. Marriage is

I am not in any real mood to defend Ted Cruz, who has disgraced himself recently, and whose reasons for opposing the conviction of former President Trump are perhaps the most transparently malleable of anyone serving in the Senate, but facts are facts, irrespective of to whom they attach, and I am therefore obliged to

Chad Bown reviews: US manufacturing exports to China, which had nearly doubled between 2009 and 2017, flattened in the second half of 2018 and fell by 11 percent in 2019 (figure 3). This was partially a result of Chinese retaliation against Trump’s tariffs. But in the first year of the phase one agreement, US manufacturing

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he United States and Iran each wants to reenter the nuclear deal they struck in 2015 — also called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — but neither wants to go first. During an interview with CBS on Sunday morning, Biden said that Tehran would have to stop enriching uranium

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 8, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has reportedly suggested to his Republican colleagues that voting whether to convict former President Donald Trump of “inciting an insurrection” is a matter of conscience and need not

[embedded content] The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins on February 9, 2021, but a fierce debate as to the constitutionality of trying a former president in this manner has been ongoing in the legal community for weeks. To bring some possible clarity and resolution to the matter, we assembled three of best and

Pipes for Transcanada Corp’s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline at a depot in Gascoyne, N.D., 2017 (Terray Sylvester/Reuters) A group of 14 state attorneys general sent a letter to President Biden on Tuesday urging him to reconsider his revocation of the Keystone XL pipeline permit, saying the president’s decision will harm thousands of American workers

The Senate votes on the rules to govern the trial as it begins the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2021. (U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters) The Senate voted  56-44 largely along party lines to declare the impeachment

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at LaGuardia Airport in New York, June 10, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo has asked a federal court to block the state’s own restrictions on capacity at houses of worship in areas with high rates of coronavirus spread. Cuomo issued an executive

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he origin of the left-wing activist group MoveOn someday will be lost to memory, though its email list is sure to live on ’til Gabriel blows his horn. The group’s name comes from the Bill Clinton impeachment, when Democrats insisted that we “move on” from the sex-and-perjury scandal so that we

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N ews reports indicate that the Biden administration wants to dramatically expand the welfare state, starting with an increase in the refundable “child tax credit,” a program that provides extensive welfare cash grants to families who owe no taxes. If enacted permanently, the Biden plan would constitute the second-largest expansion of means-tested welfare entitlements in U.S.

(tupungato/iStock/Getty Images Plus) California’s ban on indoor worship was the most sweeping in the country. Gavin Newsom’s bad 2021 got worse late last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, issued emergency relief suspending California’s months-long ban on indoor religious services for violating the First Amendment. California’s ban

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or the third year in a row, Senate Democrats have blocked a bill that would require doctors to care for newborn infants who survive an attempted abortion procedure. Late Thursday night, the Senate voted on an amendment from Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) containing his Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which

President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to strengthen American manufacturing at the White House, January 25, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) They are trying to shut down debate, and they have plenty of help. During his Super Bowl interview on CBS Evening News, President Joe Biden declared that “all the economics” of a $15 minimum-wage hike

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I ’m more sanguine than a lot of columnists when it comes to the question, “How divided are we?” In the George W. Bush years, I started to play a little game, which is to pretend people are drunk when they start talking about politics. “Pay him no mind,” I tell myself

In a post on the Originalism blog, Andrew Hyman points out that the concept of viability was well known at the time the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified but that it was “universally rejected as a legal standard” for regulation of abortion. Hyman quotes to similar effect an article (“Is ‘viability’ viable? Abortion, conceptual confusion and

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen people look back at our current era of woke intolerance, perhaps the most disturbing artifact will be reporter Donald McNeil’s apology upon his ouster from the New York Times. The reason for his abject self-abasement is a bit of a mystery. He didn’t grovel to save his job — he

Hondurans taking part in a new caravan of migrants set to head to the United States try to cross the border in El Florido, Guatemala, January 16, 2021. (Luis Echeverria/Reuters) The Biden administration is ending asylum deals brokered under the Trump administration with three Central American countries just as the number of migrants arriving at

U.S. Representative Liz Cheney addresses the media in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 25, 2017. (Mark Makela/Reuters) Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, on Sunday defended her vote to impeach President Trump and responded to the Wyoming Republican party’s decision to censure her, saying the GOP should not embrace the former president. “The oath that I took

Secretary of State George P. Shultz with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1986 (National Archives) George Shultz, who served as President Reagan’s secretary of state and whose diplomacy helped bring about the end of the Cold War, has died, his family said Sunday in a statement. He passed away at his home in Stanford, California.

Writing for the Foundation for Economic Education, Professor Gary Galles argues against the idea that has been put forward by sundry left-wing zealots for the appointment of a “reality czar,” with powers to suppress what he or she finds to be lies and misinformation. That would be done, of course, only in the interests of

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing. (Reuters photo: Jonathan Ernst) 2017—In his desperate effort to obstruct the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer continues to propagate the myth that a 60-vote standard exists for Supreme Court nominees. Never mind that even the Washington Post’s Fact

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E verything old is new again. Democrats and the new administration have gotten the confirmation of their new attorney general tangled up in their Trump Impeachment II choreography, but things are nonetheless humming at the Biden Justice Department. This week, right on cue from the White House’s messaging on equity — not

Sen. Mitt Romney walks through the subway system at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 17, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I’ve been meaning to briefly lay out why I think Mitt Romney’s new Family Security Act is a good idea and the right direction for family policy. But between them, Ramesh Ponnuru and Ross Douthat have

President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to strengthen American manufacturing as Vice President Kamala Harris listens at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 25, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Biden is trying to defend his $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal from the charge that it is too big. Last week, the president said: “The biggest

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exits her office to walk to the U.S. Capitol prior to a news conference in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) This will be remembered as another inflection point in the steady unraveling of institutional norms on Capitol Hill. At least Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t have to spend time

A Customs and Border Protection vehicle patrols along a new section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in El Paso, Texas, August 27, 2020. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuter) Border crossings from Mexico into the U.S. have begun to climb in recent weeks as thousands of migrant families have made their way to the area, The New York Times

H. Lee Sarokin 1992—Ruling on a pre-trial discovery motion in a personal injury action against cigarette manufacturers (Haines v. Liggett Group), New Jersey federal district judge H. Lee Sarokin declares that “the tobacco industry may be the king of concealment and disinformation” and charges that its members “knowingly and secretly decide to put the buying

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene held a press conference on Friday, the day after she was was stripped of her committee assignments by a House resolution on Thursday because of her past remarks that endorsed