2015—Never mind Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s repeated explanation at her confirmation hearing in 1993 that the judicial obligation of impartiality required that she give “no hints, no forecasts, no previews” about how she might “vote on questions the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide.” Never mind, further, that the question of the constitutionality of

Police officers stand guard on a street as truckers and supporters continue blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, Canada February 2022. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters) Canadian police moved on Saturday morning to clear protesters blocking most traffic on the Ambassador Bridge, a vital trade artery connecting Windsor, Ontario with Detroit, Mich. “The Windsor Police

Supporters of the various Supreme Court short-listers are working hard to elevate their preferred candidate while knee-capping the others. Much of this wrangling is occurring behind the scenes, but some of it is spilling out into public view. Case in point: This week, NBC News reported that former federal judge U.W. Clemon wrote a letter

A demonstrator screams and bangs gas canisters together as truckers and supporters continue to protest Covid vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 10, 2022. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Canadian political junkies, to the extent they exist, usually have to look south to get their fix. The last big scandal in Canadian politics — the subject of a

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 4, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) McConnell’s RNC rebuke was necessary, but he should now push to overhaul the January 6 Committee. Editor’s Note: This is the first column in a three-column series on the House Select January 6 Committee, prompted by the

Sarah Palin leaves during her lawsuit against the New York Times at the United States Courthouse in New York City, February 10, 2022. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Jury deliberations began on Friday for former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s libel suit against the New York Times. The jury discussed the case for two hours before taking a break for

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 11, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Public policy should have a role in adapting to a radically new and different technological landscape. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R obert H.

President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with CEOs of utilities to discuss the ‘Build Back Better’ agenda, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 9, 2022. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Democrats have been ignoring, dismissing, and dissembling on the inflation issue for months, but they’re fooling no one. NRPLUS MEMBER

Scenes from Covid-19-related protests, alongside a mask-mandate sign at the Phoenix airport. (Getty/Reuters — National Review Illustration) Dear Weekend Jolter, One of the most shocking scenes in the Netflix drama The Crown depicts the real-life Aberfan disaster of 1966, in which a mass of coal waste slid down a mountain and smothered 144 people, most

(peakSTOCK/Getty Images) It has been almost 25 years since pro-life activist Cathie Humbarger sounded alarms with local officials in Fort Wayne, Ind., after noticing that women were often stumbling out of an abortion clinic near her office. The events that followed continue to power her activism decades later. It was 1998, and Humbarger had strategically situated

U.S. Border Patrol agent Carlos Rivera guides migrants to be processed after they attempted to cross the border from Mexico into Sunland Park, N.M., September 17, 2021. (Paul Ratje/Reuters) The Ninth Circuit today, in United States v. Hansen, ruled that a federal law against encouraging illegal immigration violates the First Amendment. The opinion was written by

(File photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Rebutting the hysteria over Florida bills on children’s education NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epublican legislators in Florida have introduced a pair of parental-rights-in-education bills that create greater curriculum transparency and allow parents to review and object to age-inappropriate content. Naturally, Democrats and the media are outraged. President Biden condemned the legislation

Graduates attend commencement ceremonies at the University of California, Berkekely in 2015. (Noah Berger/Reuters) There’s no good reason to keep saddling students with debt — and using them as a human slush fund for relatively wealthy Democratic constituencies. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s Democrats prepare to run themselves into a cinder-block wall at 103 mph

A nurse prepares to administer a Covid vaccine booster at the North Oakland Health Center in Pontiac, Mich., December 21, 2021. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) The mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Thursday rescinded their vaccine-or-test requirements for restaurants and bars as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have fallen. The rule, first instituted on January 19 as

A woman who is five months pregnant attends a sonogram at a local hospital in Shanghai, China, September 12, 2014. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The ‘news’ piece criticizes pro-life centers for receiving a few million in taxpayer funding. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne of the most common slanders of the pro-life movement is that its members care

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy and the Labor Department’s September jobs report at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 8, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The consumer price index went up by 7.5 percent over the last year, the highest annual increase since February 1982. Inflation increased at the fastest rate in 40

Power lines and wind turbines at a wind and solar energy storage and transmission power station of the State Grid Corporation of China in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China, March 18, 2016. (Jason Lee/Reuters) To be sure, China may be evolving into a fascist state (albeit one with Chinese characteristics), and there’s the little matter of

As I discussed in August, the case of Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer presents a dilemma for baseball: Bauer roughed up a woman, but it appeared that the violence was part of a consensual agreement to rough, violent sex. He has now been cleared by a criminal investigation. That means that baseball, and the Dodgers, have

Central American migrants are escorted out of private land as they are detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, April 27, 2021. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) Two watchdog groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services for records

The Virginia State Capitol building in Richmond (Jay Paul/Reuters) The Virginia Senate voted 20-18 on Wednesday to approve legislation that would require schools to notify parents before sexually-explicit materials are used in classrooms. The bill, known as S.B. 656, would also give parents the right to review any such material and to request alternative, non-explicit

Arizona Democratic senator Mark Kelly was already facing a tough reelection in November, and Chuck Schumer’s decision to turn Arizona’s senior Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema into a villain may have made things a bit tougher for Kelly:  When Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer held a doomed vote last month to override the rules regarding the

President Biden speaks from the White House in Washington, D.C., February 8, 2022. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Biden condemned a pending piece of Florida legislation that is designed to limit young students’ exposure to conversations about gender and sexual orientation before they’ve matured. While proponents believe it’s important to protect children’s innocence, Biden interpreted it as a

Nikole Hannah-Jones on CBS This Morning in 2019. (Screengrab via YouTube) Nikole Hannah-Jones went on Twitter Monday night to respond to our issue looking at American slavery and the 1619 Project. Those familiar with how she typically responds to engagement with her work — engagement that typically appears only on Twitter, and not in any

Stacey Abrams speaks to the media in Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2021. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams issued an apology for appearing maskless in a photo with masked elementary-school students in Decatur, Ga. earlier this week, calling it a “mistake.” “I approached the podium with my mask on, I followed the protocols. I

People try to keep social distance as they use a New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 22, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) How to fight Covid is not the only seemingly technical or scientific issue that has become corrupted by ideological politics as described in my earlier

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) arrives at the U.S. Capitol after a Senate Republican caucus luncheon in Washington, D.C., January 12, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Tuesday rebuked the Republican National Committee’s censure of Representatives Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) and refuted the

(Illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) TikTok has over 1 billion monthly users, the majority of whom are under the age of 24. On Tuesday, the video-sharing app updated its Community Guidelines to ban “misgendering,” “deadnaming,” and content supporting so-called “conversion therapy.” “Misgendering” is activist-speak for referring to a person by the pronouns associated with his or her

Joe Rogan performs at The Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, Calif., in 2015. (Michael Schwartz/WireImage) Under pressure once again from the roving digital mob, the CEO of Spotify told his staff on Sunday that he was “sorry” for “the way The Joe Rogan Experience controversy continues to impact” and lamented that the ongoing “situation”

A person waves a Canadian flag in front of a truck as truckers and supporters continue to protest Covid vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2022. (Lars Hagberg/Reuters) The callous message to Canadian truckers NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he trucker convoy in Canada is the most dramatic, and most effective, protest against Covid-era

Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks after being ceremonially sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) President Biden’s top science adviser Eric Lander resigned on Monday after an investigation revealed he violated the White