GameStop store in Manhattan, January 27, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) After the army of day traders that populates Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum started piling into GameStop stock, the company’s share price went from $40 to $400 in the span of a week. The brick-and-mortar video-game retailer garnered so much attention that it ranked as the single most-traded

Greg Weiner wrote an important contribution to the conservative reckoning at hand. He proposes republicanism as a philosophy well suited to cut through the clamor of elites and the condescension of populists. He contrasts Edmund Burke’s famous passage, about how representatives don’t owe their constituents their vote but their best judgment, with James Madison’s view

Donald Trump’s impeachment-trial defense lawyers have quit, CNN reports:  Former President Donald Trump’s five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy. […] A person familiar with the departures told CNN

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reconvenes a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January, 6 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via Reuters) Jared Bernstein, a member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, claimed Sunday that Americans “really couldn’t care less” about what process lawmakers use to pass another round

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he patience of historically literate Americans is being tried once again by another attempt to cancel Abraham Lincoln. On Tuesday, the San Francisco school board voted to rename 44 schools the names of which are associated with “dishonorable legacies.” Among these are Washington and Jefferson. But the inclusion of Lincoln involves

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ow interesting that the familiar array of Islamist-apologist and left-wing groups, notoriously opposed to U.S. counterterrorism efforts, has lined up in support of congressional Democrats’ latest push for a “Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act.” Could it be because the proposed legislation goes out of its way to shield domestic terrorists who are

(Lucy Nicholson/REUTERS) 2006—Senator Kerry’s Davos-led fili-bluster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito fails. The Senate respects its longstanding tradition of providing an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor to Supreme Court nominees who have been reported to the full Senate. 2014—By a vote of 5-1, the Maine supreme court, purporting to reconcile two statutes, rules that a

The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., August 29, 2020 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A growing number of federal judges are electing to take senior status in the wake of President Biden’s inauguration. This will provide the Biden Administration with the opportunity to begin making an imprint on the federal courts. Thus far in January, at least

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) in Washington, D.C., January 3, 2021 (Erin Scott/Reuters) Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is drawing scrutiny for a 2018 post on Facebook in which she suggested that laser beams from outer space may have started California wildfires and that the vice chairman of “Rothschild Inc” may have been involved

National Guard soldiers maintain a watch over the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 14, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) A push by law enforcement for permanent fencing around the U.S. Capitol following the violence on January 6 has been met with opposition from lawmakers and the public, with critics arguing that fencing off “The People’s House”

(Eachat/Getty Images) An emphasis on inclusiveness, however necessary and legitimate, does not define or exhaust the moral foundations of democracy. This essay is part of RealClearPublicAffairs’ 1776 Series, which explains the major themes that define the American mind. Until a half century ago or so, there was a moral consensus, however fraying, that informed and shaped the

Outside a GameStop store in New York City, January 27, 2021. (Nick Zieminski/Reuters) The week of January 25: GameStop, Larry Fink’s ambitions, Biden’s job-destroying agenda, and much, much more, including the debut of our new podcast series, the Capital Record. National Review’s Daniel Tenreiro has been doing such good work on GameStop (see links below) that

Huawei logo at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China (Aly Song/Reuters) Asked Friday about the future of the China trade deal negotiated by the Trump administration, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that “everything the past administration has put in place is under review as it relates to our national security approach.” This

A medical worker fills a syringe with Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) coronavirus vaccine at a clinic in Moscow, Russia, December 5, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) The Reuters interview in which U.N. secretary general António Guterres neglected to come out against Chinese authoritarian influence on the global stage wasn’t the only interview on his schedule Thursday. He also

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne of the lessons that ought to be drawn from the riot at the Capitol is the grave danger of undermining the legitimacy of American elections with large segments of the public. That ought to give pause, in particular, to those on the political left who continually argue for unsettling the

(Screenshot from University of Dallas/YouTube) The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher reports on a recent episode at the University of Dallas concerning the now-common conflict between transgender ideology and academic freedom. Unusually for a story of this genre, there was a satisfactory resolution. The story, as documented by Dreher, is that of a disgruntled transgender alumnus

Pro-life marchers at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) You can’t have one without the other. The year 2020 was yet another inflection point in the American conversation about justice. Once again, we experienced as a nation how different justice issues intersect and converge; we saw firsthand how the

Most scholars believe that the Constitution allows Congress to impeach former officials, including former presidents, but Stanford law professor Michael McConnell points out that isn’t the question facing the Senate today. McConnell writes to Eugene Volokh at Reason: Whether a former officer can be impeached is beside the point. Donald Trump was President of the

Robert Delahunty and John Yoo are in good company in thinking that the Constitution forbids the Senate from convicting a former official in an impeachment trial. But I think their argument for that view has two great weaknesses. The first is that they wrongly take the other side of the debate to “concede. . .

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry speaks while White House national climate advisor Gina McCarthy listens during a press briefing at the White House, January 27, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Biden administration officials have pledged to seek cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party on questions of combating climate change, and they’ve promised that their negotiations would not

My new Bloomberg Opinion column is about how the schools’ response to COVID strengthens the case for educational choice. An excerpt: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is pretending that the unions are not posing an obstacle. The problem, he says, is that schools need $130 billion extra to implement safety measures. It’s an excuse. Using CDC

House Clerk Cheryl L. Johnson and acting House sergeant-at-arms Timothy P. Blodgett lead House impeachment managers to deliver an article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 25, 2021. (Melina Mara/Reuters) The Democrats’ late hit will only end up costing them. The Democratic congressional leadership is determined to

U.S. Border Patrol agents detain illegal immigrants near Roma, Texas, May 11, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The Biden administration displayed profound disregard for blue-collar Americans within minutes of taking office by issuing a  series of executive orders that will do both immediate and long-term damage to the wage and employment levels of lower- and middle-class workers.

(LIgorko/Getty Images) States shouldn’t demand money from people who live and work elsewhere. Let’s say you work from home, and your employer is located in another state. Which state has the authority to tax your income? The legal status quo may surprise you: possibly both of them. Several states, most famously New York, tax people

San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 2019. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) San Francisco mayor London Breed has criticized the city school board’s decision to change the names of schools christened after historical figures who “oppressed” people while the board has not formulated a plan for in-person

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) speaks during a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 26, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) All while using a ‘climate emergency’ as the pretext. This week, Senate majority leader Charles Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that it may be “a good idea for President Biden to

I’m old enough to remember when most “liberals” (that is to say, leftists who weren’t thoroughgoing authoritarians) stood for freedom of speech. They enjoyed an argument and defended the First Amendment as sacred. But now there are few of them who hold that belief. Most are so committed to their agenda of economic and social

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 26, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Joe Biden is set to direct federal agencies to reopen enrollment in the Obamacare marketplaces on Thursday, a step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to revitalize the Affordable Care Act. The executive order is expected to direct the Department of

(maroke/Getty Images) Parents and community groups in big, Democrat-run cities from New York to Chicago to San Francisco would very much like to reopen the public schools. But parents and community groups in big, Democrat-run cities from New York to Chicago to San Francisco are only incidental inconveniences to the teachers’ unions, who proceed from

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) questions David Marcus, head of Facebook’s Calibra, during testimony before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Over the weekend, Newsweek changed a 2015 article on two women widely hailed as America’s first female Army Rangers in order to conform to