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Spring is here, and with it the Spring 2022 issue of National Affairs. Among the pickings this time: Chris Griswold on how to save kids from social media Mark Warshawsky on how to reform Social Security Brian Riedl on presidents as economic managers Paul DeHart and Ronald Oakerson on state power over localities Will Haun
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Senate confirmation hearings for Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began Monday morning. Senate Judiciary ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday revealed the White House is covering up 48,000 documents on Ketanji Brown Jackson. Grassley expressed his disappointment for being unable to obtain Judge Jackson’s documents from her time as the Vice Chair
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Russian businessman and founder of USM Holdings Alisher Usmanov during an awarding ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, November 27, 2018. (Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via Reuters ) On the menu today: Let’s start the week with a deep dive into the Russian oligarchs, and see how this
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After manufacturing fake news to assist the Democrat Party with rigging the 2020 election results, propagandizing the public with COVID- 19 misinformation, and pushing the experimental mRNA gene therapy compliance, a corporate media outlet is offering tips for working Americans who are struggling with inflation. Bloomberg News recommends people who are struggling to make ends
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Joe Biden will travel to Poland on Friday after his meetings in Brussels, Belgium. Biden will hold a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Sunday evening. Joe Biden will discuss “the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created,” Psaki said.
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The Supreme Court announced Sunday evening that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized since Friday with an infection. The court said the infection was “abating” and that Thomas should be released within days, but that he would keep up with cases before the court while recovering. “Justice Clarence Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial
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Tattoo artist “JuJu” Becker works to apply a tattoo to the forearm of National Guardsman Brian Wood at the Crescent City Tattoo Parlor in the Garden District of New Orleans, La., October 18, 2005. (Lucas Jackson / Reuters) I have a piece on the homepage today titled “Changing, and Staying the Same.” What gives? A
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“So, let’s get back to the name-calling,” said “journalist” Leslie Stahl in an interview with then-President Donald Trump after dismissing what should have been one of the most consequential October surprises in presidential election history, the Hunter Biden laptop story. The New York Post’s October 2020 bombshell story, which exposed a presidential candidate’s planned business
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People watch a broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech during a concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea outside Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, March 18, 2022. (RIA Novosti Host Photo Agency via Reuters) It is as true today as it’s ever been that freedom is not only a moral good
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Migrants, mostly from India, are transported by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico at Yuma, Ariz., January 23, 2022. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) Repeal of Title 42, which expelled asylum-seekers on Covid grounds, will swell the number of migrants and put border policy to a critical test. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T his week,
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla., February 24, 2022. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Several ESPN broadcasters on Friday participated in an on-air moment of silence to protest Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, which would prohibit classroom instruction relating to sexual orientation or gender identity for students in
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Lake Braddock coach George Rumore talks with his team in the tenth inning of a game against Madison in Burke, Va., June 2, 2014. (Mark Gail/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) In memory of George Rumore, a Marine and a man for others NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I first met George Rumore at a weekly
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Republican Rep. Don Young, 88, of Alaska, the longest-serving member of the current Congress, has died after having served for 48 years. The Dean of the House, and its oldest member, has passed away while traveling to his home state of Alaska. “It’s with heavy hearts and deep sadness that we announce Congressman Don Young
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(File photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The president of the University of North Texas issued a statement of solidarity with the LGBTQ student community in the wake of the March 2 protest that erupted during the campus speech of Jeffrey Younger, a father who lost a child-custody battle with his ex-wife after contesting his nine-year-old son’s transgender diagnosis.
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Sign on a Planned Parenthood building in New York in 2015. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of the abortion behemoth, advertised an “abortion rights” ice-cream truck distributing condoms, which the organization stationed at a festival in Austin, Texas, late last week. “Ice cream, you scream, we
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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas (center) prepares for the 500 free prelims at the NCAA Womens Swimming & Diving Championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga., March 16, 2022. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports) In this line of work, I’m often confronted by intelligent people who are progressives, and they ask me to give account
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Texas State Police officers watch over the Rio Grande River near the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, September 21, 2021. (Marco Bello/Reuters) What can states do when federal enforcement falls short? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n late February, a grim morale survey of National Guard troops stationed along the Texas border was leaked to
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