U.S. soldiers with Alpha Troop, First Battalion, Sixth Infantry Regiment, Second Armored Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division, dismount from a M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle in the Central Command area of responsibility, November 2, 2020. (Specialist Jensen Guillory/US Army) The U.S. should stop the Syria flip-flop and stand with allies, building on successes from
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President-elect Joe Biden speaks about health care during a news conference at the theater serving as his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., November 10, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst
/Reuters) Joe Biden shouldn’t want to begin his administration with a renewed migrant crisis at the border, but that’s what his priorities risk creating. After many false starts —
On a lonely stretch of road leading to an old Florida fishing village, Bubba’s Roadhouse & Saloon is a rugged little watering hole that’s hard to mistake for a corporate chain. Built with brick and recycled wood and located next to a German social club on the state’s southwest coast, Bubba’s is the kind of
President Donald Trump during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., November 13, 2020 (Carlos Barria/Retuers) President Trump appeared to admit on Sunday that Joe Biden won the general election, but then claimed the race was “rigged” and refused to concede defeat. Major networks including the Associated Press, Fox
(Michał Chodyra/Getty Images) 2012—By Any Means Necessary, indeed. That phrase—a shorthand for the very long name of the group challenging Michigan’s Proposal 2—aptly describes the modus operandi of the en banc Sixth Circuit majority in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary v. Regents of
(MarianVejcik/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Conservatives need to rethink economic policy if they want to build a viable political coalition. The Donald Trump who ran for president in 2016 was a populist. And, as president, Donald Trump used tariffs and slowed immigration, just like you’d expect a populist would. But when it came to tax policy, President
(BogdanVj/Getty Images) A proposal to tax working from home has gotten some attention this week. You can find a description of and case for it on pp. 32-34 of this DeutscheBank report. Here’s how it would work: [T]he tax will only apply outside the times when the government advises people to work from home (of
(Melissa King/Dreamstime) I missed this article from ten days ago, but it seems misguided enough to deserve comment. The thesis is that Justice Barrett threatens the right to contraception that the Supreme Court invented in Griswold v. Connecticut — a line of argument I’ve already criticized in this space. Julie Rovner writes: “[F]rom what Barrett
American Greatness, the online outlet that sprung up in the summer of 2016 to, in its own words, “be the leading voice of the next generation of American Conservatism,” has never lived up to that lofty mission. Mostly, it has had its hands full defending Donald Trump, particularly from any Republican who … Read More
NASA Advanced Space Suit Engineer Kristine Davis wears the xEMU prototype space suit during a presentation at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., October 15, 2019. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) Authors of paper submitted to NASA committee warn against human space exploration — and of putting “violent colonial practices” into orbit. In October 2020, NASA’s Planetary Science and
President Donald Trump delivers an update on the Operation Warp Speed program in the Rose Garden at the White House, November 13, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The White House is projecting that a vaccine for the coronavirus will be distributed to 20 million people by the end of December. Two vaccines that are finishing up their phase three
(rarrarorro/Getty Images) Without any extreme gerrymandering, reapportionment and redistricting alone will likely cost Democrats their majority. Following last week’s elections, Democrats will retain control the House of Representatives. At the same time, their margin will be considerably smaller than it was in the preceding Congress. Republicans will likely hold between 208 and 212 House seats,
(ChristianChan/Getty Images) A First Amendment case in Mississippi exposes the hostility to religion in our public schools. In the middle of the 20th century, when Nazism had only just been vanquished and Soviet Communism was still on the march, C. S. Lewis could already see the next permutation of tyranny appearing on the horizon of
Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks during an Election Night event in Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Reuters) What else to call claiming that the Jewish state goes around picking off God’s children as if ‘they don’t matter at all’? Raphael Warnock, the Democratic Senate candidate seeking to unseat Republican Kelly Loeffler in
Earlier this year, a misguided effort emerged to tear down the Emancipation Memorial, a statue that has stood since 1876 in Lincoln Park, a part of Washington, D.C., about a mile away from the Capitol. The memorial depicts President Lincoln in the act of welcoming a former slave to freedom, and that freed slave in
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in Queens, N.Y., February 22, 2020 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Since last week, when we first learned of election results that were surprisingly close at the presidential level and unexpectedly bad for Democrats at the congressional level (and elsewhere), there has been a low-level civil war brewing within the Democratic Party. More
President-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters about efforts to confront the coronavirus pandemic in Wilmington, Del., November 9, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Electoral College votes on December 14, 2020. Until that day, there is formally no president-elect. Traditionally, when an election’s outcome is not disputed and the losing candidate has conceded, the winner on Election
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump group of ex-Republicans founded by George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, Rick Wilson, and others, has sunk to a new low: personal harassment of lawyers representing Donald Trump and Republicans in post-election lawsuits: Defend your democracy: 1. Created a LinkedIn account. 2. Message someone who works
Senator Ben Sasse (R., NE) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2020. (Tom Williams/Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse on Thursday slammed the Justice Department’s investigative report that concluded former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta did not engage in misconduct in 2008 when he approved a sweetheart non-prosecution agreement for billionaire and accused sex trafficker
Joe Biden departs from his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., November 10, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) An adviser to President-elect Joe Biden on the coronavirus on Thursday floated a national lockdown lasting four to six weeks to slow the rise of virus cases across the country. Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease expert and one of the 13 members
President Trump approaches reporters as he departs the White House in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump is considering founding a digital media company to compete with Fox News, Axios reported on Thursday. Trump has complained vociferously in recent months about Fox polls showing he would lose the presidency, and he was furious
We’ve all had those types of shower thoughts, where we take the time to consider how the world would be if some niche thing were different. For example, have you ever thought about what would happen, say, if humans devolved to monkeys? Perhaps maybe you joked once about how we’re ruled by the less intelligent?
Governor Andrew Cuomo adjusts his mask during an event in New York, October 12, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Governor Andrew Cuomo announced new lockdown and social distancing restrictions for New York on Wednesday as coronavirus numbers in the state continue to trend upward. Under the new statewide restrictions, all bars and restaurants with state liquor licenses
(bodrumsurf/iStock/Getty Images Plus) I put up a couple of posts last month about the possibility that Arizona might, by approving Proposition 208 in this November’s vote, impose a sharp tax increase on, of course, “the rich.” It was, I argued, a measure, perhaps, of that state’s changing politics that such an item was on the
Joe Biden said he will follow “the scientists” on whether to lock down the country a second time. Based on Biden’s COVID advisory task force appointments, that harsh approach looks increasingly likely in the new administration. Ezekiel Emanuel previously called for another lockdown. Now, a second panel member seconds that proposal. From the CNBC story:
Protesters pass the Massachusetts State House as they protest the death of George Floyd in Boston, Mass., June 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The Massachusetts Legislature may vote next week to expand the right to abortion through an entire pregnancy, a measure to be placed in a budget bill. If passed, the bill will permit post-24-week
Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) walks from Senate Republican weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 6, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Pat Toomey called on the Trump administration this week to start working with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team even as President Trump mounts various legal challenges challenging the election results. “We’re on a
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) addresses a question regarding citizenship while participating in a Census Town Hall at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, N.Y., February 22, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A number of progressive House Democrats are pushing back against moderates’ claims that progressive policies and messaging are the reason for the party’s subpar performance
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) questions judicial nominees during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 4, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) slammed the FBI for not investigating sexual assault allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. The hearing
On the menu today, another serving of what you need to know, regardless of whether or not it’s what you want to hear. First, what is and what is not happening in the presidential transition, and what part of the transition needs President Trump’s approval before it can begin; in Michigan, a Trump campaign …
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