Baker Jack Phillips decorates a cake in his Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., September 21, 2017. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) Jack Phillips — the Colorado bakery owner who prevailed in a religious-liberty case before the Supreme Court last year — has once again been sued, this time for refusing to bake a cake celebrating a customer’s gender

Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Progressive Democrats have backed down from their push to scrap the decades-old ban on federal funding for abortions in a $190 billion budget bill. The House Rules Committee on Monday night prevented the so-called Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of taxpayer funds for abortions, from being removed from

(Toby Melville/Reuters) Seventy years after 1984’s publication, the question is worth asking. George Orwell’s 1984 was published 70 years ago this month, and he died a few months after it was published. Suppose that he hadn’t, though. Suppose that he’d been cryogenically frozen in his last days, and reanimated in 2019. Whose side would he

(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to federal restrictions on gun suppressors, muzzle attachments that muffle the sound of a gunshot, leaving in place a law that requires such devices be registered. The appeal came from Shane Cox, who owns a military-surplus store in Kansas, and Jeremy Kettler, who purchased

(Regis Duvignau/Reuters) An Ohio jury just proved that old laws can remedy new injustices. Late last week, an Ohio jury reached a verdict that sent shockwaves through the American higher-education establishment. It ordered Oberlin College to pay a business called Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery a stunning $11 million in compensatory damages for defamation, intentional

The families of the troops waited anxiously. They hoped that the invasion would be a success, and they also prayed for their loved ones. Would he be wounded? Would he be killed? Will he come home to us? Fathers, brothers, sons. Husbands, fiancés, boyfriends. The families waited nervously for word of them all. Advertisement Advertisement

Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters on election night in Atlanta, Ga., November 7, 2018. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidates continue to swear her race was stolen. Stacey Abrams’s refusal to lose the Georgia gubernatorial election graciously was one of the low points of the 2018 midterms. But her insistence that Brian Kemp and the Republicans

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D, Minn.) outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) spent thousands of dollars of campaign funds on personal expenses in 2016 and 2017 when she was serving in the Minnesota state legislature, the state’s Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board revealed Thursday.

At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was … Read More

(Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Americans tend much more toward the middle on abortion than the polarized debate on the issue would suggest, according to a new a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Almost half the public, 47 percent, supports strict bans on abortion that would allow a mother to procure one only for a serious reason. About 9 percent

The U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville in the Philippine Sea, March 9, 2019. (Mass Communication Specialist Second Class John Harris/US Navy) The Department of Defense on Friday condemned the near collision of a Russian destroyer and an American guided-missile cruiser and said the U.S. will file a formal demarcate against the Russians for their

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in N.Y., December 20, 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The labor market cooled in May as jobs growth failed to meet analysts’ expectations, sparking concern among investors that an economic slowdown may have begun. The U.S. economy added only 75,000 jobs in May according to data released

(Pixabay) With the end of Roe now in sight, we must prepare more urgently for a future America where adoption is seen as both the lawful option and the loving one. This is a thrilling and encouraging moment for the pro-life movement in the U.S., as American society shifts further away from abortion in both

Texas governor Greg Abbott (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law Thursday allowing more teachers to carry firearms and expands mental health services for students in the wake of the mass shooting last year at a high school near Houston. The bill removed the previous on the number of armed teachers allowed on school

Steven Crowder (Screenshot from YouTube) Suppressing that kind of speech has nothing to do with “public safety.” For a certain kind of person, the highlight of William F. Buckley Jr.’s extraordinary television career was his losing his temper with Gore Vidal, calling him a “little queer” on a live broadcast and threatening to punch him.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.,) campaigns in San Francisco, Calif., June 1, 2019. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) In response to Joe Biden’s defense of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion, another 2020 presidential hopeful, Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), dismissed the notion of compromising with pro-life Americans and called for the amendment to be repealed.

Congressman Daniel Lipinski walks in Chicago Ridge, Ill., January 25, 2018. (Kamil Krzacznski/Reuters) Several contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination have thrown their support behind the progressive candidate mounting a primary challenge to pro-life House Democrat Dan Lipinski of Illinois as the party debates whether it can still make room for pro-life politicians. Senators Bernie

President Donald Trump speaks in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The Trump administration on Wednesday announced major cuts to funding for research using fetal material procured from abortions and said government scientists at the National Institutes of Health will now be prohibited from performing such research, which cost the government $13 million last year.

People wait in line at the Fred Jordan Mission in Los Angeles, Calif., during an annual back-to-school giveaway in 2015. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) A new poll shows that even those whom the War on Poverty aims to help believe it has failed. It’s long past time for a new agenda. It probably won’t come as much

Joe Biden gives a pep talk to Dallas County high school students during a campaign event at the SPARK! educational center in Dallas, Texas, May 29, 2019. (Brandon Wade/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden, who currently enjoys a hefty lead over his opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, released his plan to combat climate change

President Ronald Reagan in 1982 (National Archives) We face a challenge, not a crisis, and there is no need to turn our back on our nation’s founding principles to overcome it. One of the strange realities of the current fight over the direction of the conservative movement — double down on classical liberalism or reject

(Pixabay) All of this was completely gratuitous. Breaking news: Some guy posted a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi. But fear not. The website the Daily Beast sprang into action. It tracked down the random, Trump-supporting man who allegedly posted the offending clip, hounded him until he talked, then published his name and other details about

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Manufacturing in the U.S. dropped last month to its lowest point since before the 2016 presidential election as trade tensions continue to heat up between the U.S. and several major trading partners. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addresses the Center for American Progress (CAP) 2019 Ideas Conference in Washington, D.C., May 22, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) This punishment does not fit the crime. Over the weekend, the Daily Beast — apparently with Facebook’s help — exposed the identity of the man who allegedly uploaded the now-famous “drunk

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Supreme Court must reverse the ruling of a lower court in Love Terminal Partners v. United States. While public attention is riveted on Democrats with extravagant proposals for government expansion — a Green New Deal, single-payer health care, tuition-free college — few observers have noticed a recent federal court ruling that will,

A motley crew in the House and the Senate has resolved to prohibit former members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. In the bipartisan working group — which was formed ad hoc yesterday, on Twitter — are Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Senator Brian Schatz (D., … Read More

Attorney General William Barr looks on during a Department of Justice roundtable with Alaska native leaders in Anchorage, May 29, 2019. (Yereth Rosen/Reuters) Attorney General William Barr said Friday that the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign “crossed” a “serious red line” and should be “carefully looked at.” “The use of foreign intelligence capabilities

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan prior to his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Feb. 23, 2019. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters) Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on Friday condemned China’s amassing of military defenses on artificial islands in the South China Sea, calling it “excessive.” At a press conference in Singapore, Shanahan said that China’s

(Pixabay) Keeping track of the Jacksonians, Reformicons, Paleos, and Post-liberals. I like to start my classes on conservative intellectual history by distinguishing between three groups. There is the Republican party, with its millions of adherents and spectrum of opinion from very conservative, somewhat conservative, moderate, and yes, liberal. There is the conservative movement, the constellation

(Rick Wilking/Reuters) The Illinois House of Representatives has voted to legalize the possession and sale of cannabis to residents over the age of 21, making it the eleventh state to establish a recreational-cannabis market. The legislation, which passed in a bipartisan 66–47 vote, will now go to the desk of Governor J.B. Pritzker, who campaigned