Enough! Almost nine months into the American COVID-19 pandemic, we have learned so much about the disease, and yet almost nothing at all about how to confront it with policy. Or rather, we confront it with policies that make no sense, that do not relate to each other, and that impose all the costs of
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the face of clear evidence that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his surrogates have promoted wild and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that voting machines changed the votes needed to deliver Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Last week, President Trump shared a One America
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifies on the Trump administration’s response to the country’s economic crisis on Capitol Hill, September 1, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool via Reuters) Silly debates over whether emergency credit-facility programs should be allowed to expire — they should — distract from a more important question. On Thursday, Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin sent
Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing. (pabradyphoto/Getty Images) President Donald Trump met this afternoon with Michigan Senate majority leader Mike Shirkey and Michigan House of Representatives speaker Lee Chatfield, both Republicans in a state where Republicans hold both houses of the state legislature, but Democrats hold the governorship. It has been widely rumored that Trump
At least two Catholic bishops have been urging pro-lifers not to use the COVID vaccines on the ground that their development involved abortion. (You may recall a controversy last month regarding how President Trump’s COVID case was treated.) Drudge is linking to this story that centers on Joseph Brennan, the Catholic bishop of Fresno. Hayley
A polling station in Atlanta on Election Day in 2018 (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) A federal judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit from a Trump ally that sought to block the certification of Georgia’s election results, which is scheduled to take place Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Steven Grimberg, a Trump nominee, ruled against conservative attorney
Noah Rothman’s excellent piece in Commentary, “The Dumbest of Coups,” deserves to be widely read. I’ve been writing about conspiracy theories for a while now — QAnon, the Flat-Earth gang, etc. — and one of the things you quickly learn about conspiracy theories is that every conspiracy theory is, … Read More
As of this writing, Johns Hopkins University reports that more than 250,652 Americans have died from the coronavirus. The calculation on Worldometers, which usually runs a little ahead of JHU, is 256,447 deaths. In the last week, we’ve had 1.1 million new cases and 8,244 new deaths, according to the CDC. … Read More
A man wearing a face mask looks out at the beach in Huntington Beach, Calif., July 23, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) California governor Gavin Newsom issued a nightly curfew for most counties in his state as coronavirus outbreaks continued to surge. The state on Monday moved almost all counties to the “purple tier” designation, banning indoor
A friend just shared this new study by Zurich Insurance: It details the big jump in female job applicants (and hires) for senior management roles when those positions were described as potentially including part-time, job-share or other flexible work options. This could be a silver-lining of COVID-19. More employers recognize that at-home and non-traditional employment
President Donald Trump during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., November 13, 2020 (Carlos Barria/Retuers) Noah Rothman’s excellent piece in Commentary, “The Dumbest of Coups,” deserves to be widely read. I’ve been writing about conspiracy theories for a while now — QAnon, the Flat-Earth gang, etc. — and one
Registered nurse Glenda Perez waits to test people for the coronavirus in East Los Angeles, Calif., November 10, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) As of this writing, Johns Hopkins University reports that more than 250,652 Americans have died from the coronavirus. The calculation on Worldometers, which usually runs a little ahead of JHU, is 256,447 deaths. In
A person walks past the Pfizer headquarters building in New York City, November 9, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) The ‘follow the science’ Democrats care more about politics than science. Where has the coronavirus gone? Nowhere. The pandemic has gained a second wind, even as it is mysteriously scarcer in post-election headlines. If anything, COVID-19 seems more
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne must read to the end of the Washington Post’s editorial, “Abolish the electoral college,” before hitting on the real reason the Post’s editors want to upend the long-standing constitutional institution. “Mr. Trump’s election was a sad event for the nation,” notes the Post, “his reelection would have been a calamity.”
The regulations Sanders & Co. seek would destroy the incentives needed for innovation and leave us unprepared for the next pandemic. Bernie Sanders has described pharmaceutical companies as “crooks” who are “literally killing people every day.” So I guess we have some pretty nefarious characters to thank for the unprecedentedly rapid development of safe and
An emergency room door in Aberdeen, South Dakota, October 26, 2020. (Bing Guan/Reuters) A South Dakota nurse gained national attention this week for a tweet claiming that some of her dying coronavirus patients refuse to admit the virus is real. Jodi Doering, a traveling nurse who lives in a small eastern South Dakota town, had
In a complicated set of opinions today (in In re Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Execution Protocol Cases), a divided D.C. Circuit panel denied relief to federal death-row inmates seeking an injunction against their execution. The case involves several legal issues (including some on which the panel was unanimous), but I’m going to focus here on
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference in Washington, D.C., October 21, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/Reuters) The secretary of state noted the ‘pain and difficulty connected to the occupation,’ in meetings with officials. TBILISI — In a demonstration of U.S. support for Georgia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Wednesday morning with key
Judy Shelton testifies before a House committee on her nomination to the Federal Reserve Board, February 13, 2020. (via C-SPAN) Senate Republicans could not marshal enough votes on Tuesday to advance the nomination of Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve board, throwing Shelton’s candidacy into further doubt. Senators Rick Scott (R., Fla.) and Chuck Grassley
The distortions in the campaign and voting that we saw on November 3 will likely be child’s play compared with what will march through Georgia next January. If recounts don’t change the November 3, 2020, result, the January 5, 2021, Georgia senatorial election becomes a black-swan event like none other in … Read More
Mexico’s defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos attends an event at a military zone in Mexico City, Mexico September 2, 2016. (Henry Romero/Reuters) The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it would drop drug trafficking charges against former Mexico defense minister General Salvador Cienfuegos, allowing Mexico to prosecute the case instead. Cienfuegos was arrested in October
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks during an Election Night event in Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Pool via Reuters) Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock is trying to run away from his radical left-wing record in his campaign to persuade Georgia voters to elect him and hand Democrats unified control of Congress
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, as he departs the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey November 17, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters) Secretary of State visits houses of worship in Turkey at a contentious time. ISTANBUL — It’s not every day that the secretary of state gets
(digicomphoto/Getty Images) Amazon’s new online pharmacy feature made its debut on Tuesday, immediately disrupting the pharmaceutical landscape and sending the stock of other pharmacies tumbling. Amazon Pharmacy allows customers in the U.S. to order medication or prescription refills — including creams, pills and even medications that need to stay refrigerated, like insulin — and have
Across the country, school districts have closed classrooms once again, due to another uptick in COVID-19 cases. Online learning has become a fixture of life for students and families in 2020. Even advertisements, such as Google’s popular spot on teaching and homeschooling, are trying to depict this “new … Read More
A paramilitary policeman stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 2013. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) Whether due to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, or thanks to Beijing’s increasingly intimidating, if not aggressive, behavior in recent years, one of the more dramatic shifts in global opinion has started a long-overdue reconsideration of the
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) attends a hearing with the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hill, September 16, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via Reuters) Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) said he was “in no hurry” to give Joe Biden intelligence briefings, in a Saturday interview on Newsmax
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a campaign event for Joe Biden in Detroit, Mich., October 31, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) With a surging coronavirus outbreak across the U.S., state officials have instituted various restrictions and have warned that full lockdowns may be necessary if the outbreak does not ebb. The possibility of stay-at-home orders comes
Last week, President Trump sparred with Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that reported positive results for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. After reporting early results from its vaccine trial, Pfizer’s communications team was quick to point out that it did not receive funding from the White House’s Operation Warp Speed vaccine-development program. Advertisement “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine development
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to sue the Trump administration if it does not change its coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to allow for more equitable delivery among “black and brown communities” hardest-hit by the virus. “The Trump administration is designing the distribution plan, and their plan basically has private health care companies
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