Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., November 10, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that he does not see a need to launch legal action to compel the Trump administration to cooperate with Biden’s transition team. “We’re just going to proceed the way we have,” Biden said. “We’re going to

Democratic Senate challenger Cal Cunningham speaks to voters in Durham, N.C., November 3, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham on Tuesday conceded the North Carolina race to incumbent Republican Thom Tillis. “Earlier this afternoon, Cal Cunningham called me to offer his concession,” Tillis said Tuesday in a statement. “This was a hard-fought campaign

Voters cast their ballots to vote in state and local elections at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, U.S. November 5, 2019. (Ryan M. Kelly/Reuters) A post-presidential case for the Republican candidates Hi. Me again. I know — I’d hoped we wouldn’t be having this conversation, too! But here we are,

Medics care for a man found unresponsive after overdosing on an opioid in the Boston suburb of Salem, Mass., August 9, 2017. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Public-health measures should not trigger another wave of unintended consequences. On November 5, the New York Times reported that four major companies are closing in on a $26 billion settlement of

This morning, President-elect Biden announced that his coronavirus task force would include Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. In a 2014 essay in The Atlantic, Emanuel, explained why he hoped to die at age 75, and why he finds the idea of living

The Associated Press has called the state of Pennsylvania for Joe Biden, and with that, Joe Biden appears to have won the presidential race with at least 273 electoral votes, with Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina yet to be finalized. Pennsylvania law requires a recount when the margin for a … Read More

The state of Mississippi’s certiorari petition in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is teed up to be voted on at the Court’s conference on Friday. The petition concerns Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, enacted in 2018, which allows abortions after 15 weeks of gestational age only in medical emergencies or in instances of severe fetal

Dr. Saulo Castellano labels a nasal swab sample at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in Madison, Wis., October 31, 2020. (Bing Guan/Reuters) The United States on Monday recorded its ten millionth case of  COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins, with one million cases confirmed in just the past

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) on Monday issued a harsh rebuke of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s comments that it is “bad news” that a coronavirus vaccine may

A man crosses a nearly empty Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the coronavirus outbreak, March 25, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Almost overnight, the coronavirus diminished young professionals’ once-bright economic prospects. Here’s how they’re coping. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, life was pretty good for post-graduate Gen Zers, budding young professionals, and graduating college seniors. America was

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holds her filled ballot as she votes early at a polling station in The Bronx, New York City, October 25, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The Biden team is promising that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) will not be disappointed by the president-elect’s “incredibly progressive and aggressive agenda” once he takes office. Asked by

Monica Wyman at work. (Independent Women’s Forum/via YouTube) While it’s nice that industries with deep pockets were able to win carve-outs via ballot measure, the devastating effects of AB5 persist for thousands of independent workers and small-business owners. Voters in California approved Proposition 22 by a wide margin last week, a ballot initiative that would

Supporters hold signs as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in campaign stop in St. Paul, Minn., October 30, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The only thing that has been made clear is that the much-anticipated flood of majority votes in favor of a leftward shift in America did not happen. Most of the press

Governor Mario Cuomo at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in 1991. (National Archives) In a compelling new biography, George Marlin examines the political career of ‘Hamlet on the Hudson,’ full of promise never quite realized. Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man, by George J. Marlin (St. Augustine’s Press, 340 pp., $35) New York governor Andrew

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P resident Trump is projected to lose a close election. This being modern America, nothing is final until the courts have spoken (particularly the Supreme Court, which has been too timid to say much). That process must be allowed to play out. To my knowledge, there is no hard evidence at this

Captiva Island, Fla. (dosecreative/iStock/Getty Images Plus) I have been warning for years against the “nature rights” movement — only to be met mostly by eye-rolls and complacent chuckles of, “What will they think of next?” But the movement is advancing steadily. In that time, four rivers have been given human-style rights, two glaciers, and Lake

President Trump likely will be defeated in a close election. This being modern America, nothing is final until the courts have spoken (particularly the Supreme Court, which has been too timid to say much). That process must be allowed to play out. To my knowledge, there is no hard evidence at this point of …

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden makes a statement on the status of the election results during a brief appearance before reporters in Wilmington, Del., November 5, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Biden would be a ceremonial president. The Democrats gambled that if they chose the least offensive, most avuncular establishmentarian to lead them — a guy who

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) questions witnesses during committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 17, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Reuters) Representative Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) slammed newly-elected congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has expressed support for the wild internet conspiracy theory QAnon, after Greene accused him of being insufficiently supportive of President Trump’s reelection

Sister Loraine McGuire with Little Sisters of the Poor after the Supreme Court heard Zubik v. Burwell, an appeal demanding exemption from providing insurance covering contraception, in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) When the Little Sisters of the Poor and allied groups won their most recent victory at the Supreme Court this summer,

The inconclusive, unsatisfying outcome of Tuesday’s election might be read as evidence of a country bitterly divided. Which it is, of course, but the election also provides evidence of a country strangely united — united in spite of itself. Here is a seldom spoken fact of American political life: There is … Read More

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, June 12, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) hit back at moderate Democrats on Friday who complained that progressives’ support for socialism and defunding police departments had hurt the party on Election Day. Republican candidates managed to unseat several House Democrats,

On the menu today: the state of play in the six states not yet called in the 2020 presidential election: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Alaska. Wait, Alaska? What, are they delivering the absentee ballots by dog sled? What We Know So Far As of this hour, Joe Biden has won … Read

On the menu today: the state of play in the six states not yet called in the 2020 presidential election: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Alaska. Wait, Alaska? What, are they delivering the absentee ballots by dog sled? What We Know So Far As of this hour, Joe Biden has won … Read

On the menu today: the state of play in the six states not yet called in the 2020 presidential election: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Alaska. Wait, Alaska? What, are they delivering the absentee ballots by dog sled? What We Know So Far As of this hour, Joe Biden has won … Read

A trader speaks on a phone outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) following Election Day in Manhattan, New York, November 4, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) U.S. stock index futures saw a sharp increase early Thursday as the nation waited for a victor to be named in the U.S. presidential election. Futures contracts tied to the

A demonstrator holds up hands in front of police during a protest the day after Election Day in Portland, Ore., November 4, 2020. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) Police declared a riot in downtown Portland Wednesday night as protests turned violent and votes in the general election continued to be counted a day after Election Day. Governor Kate

A person holds an “I voted” sticker during early voting in Los Angeles, Calif., October 30, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It turns out that Californians generally understand freedom when they see it, even if they’re occasionally baffled by party labels. Ballots are still being counted, but the data emerging from Tuesday’s California voting offer a fascinating

On the menu today: the state of play in the six states not yet called in the 2020 presidential election: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Alaska. Wait, Alaska? What, are they delivering the absentee ballots by dog sled? What We Know So Far As of this hour, Joe Biden has won … Read

Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) I’m hearing from a few Republicans who are wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would effectively do a potential President Biden a favor, by discouraging hard-left cabinet nominees