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Supporters of truckers gather in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to support truck drivers on their way to Ottawa to protest Covid vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers January 27, 2022. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters) Pundits are attempting to cast the fundamental value as a ‘far-right’ code word, reinventing the notion of liberty itself. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he
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Gold medallist Gu Ailing Eileen of China celebrates on the podium. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Eileen Gu, the American-born freestyle skier who won a gold medal for China, has attracted her fair share of controversy. For one, critics have pointed out that she may have been afforded special treatment by the Chinese government, which appears to have
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A 15-year-old first-year student is still fighting for his life after collapsing during a basketball game last Saturday at Brooks School in North Andover. According to a Boston report, Preston Settles, who plays hockey, football, soccer, and lacrosse, complained to one of his teammates during a basketball game that his heart feels like it’s spasming.
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(bobakphoto/iStock/Getty Images) It is a matter of cultural identity, not a matter of policy or science. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hile there has been a quietly energetic campaign to memory-hole the fact, some of you will remember that, in the run-up to the 2020 presidential campaign, vaccine skepticism was a Democratic thing, not a Republican
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) flanked by House Democratic leaders as she discusses the formation of a select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It is doing the impeachment investigation Democrats failed to do, but this poses legal problems. This is the
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.). (Tom Williams, Sarah Silbiger/Pool via Reuters) Conservatives should address the censorship crisis in social media with more speech, not less. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T ed Cruz doesn’t shrink from invoking the “s” word, inveighing against socialism at every chance he gets. The Texas senator
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(Tero Vesalainen/iStock/Getty Images) The campus ideology that has seeped into other spheres of American life has replaced language as communication with language as power. Editor’s note: If you value reporting like this, we hope you will support our ongoing webathon. More here. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen I started a student magazine of conservative opinion during
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters) America’s national-security apparatus is deeply interested in the link between Covid-19 and terrorism. Given that scientists have yet to identify Covid’s source, our intelligence agencies should be investigating whether the Covid catastrophe began with human hands in a lab because if so, it can be weaponized
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The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency request to block New York City’s vaccine mandate for teachers. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who oversees emergency applications for the Second Circuit which includes Connecticut, New York and Vermont, rejected the request without comment. Friday is the deadline for New York City employees, police officers and firefighters
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(claffra/Getty Images) The week of February 7: ESG, net zero’s troubles, inflation, modern monetary theory, and much, much more. Before we dive into this week’s Capital Letter, a reminder: NRI’s biennial regional seminars are back, starting with Palm Beach (February 16), Newport Beach (March 2), and Menlo Park (March 3). Please scroll down for more
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Longtime Fox News journalist Jim Angle passed away at the age of 75. Angle joined Fox News in its first year in 1996. Jim Angle passed away at his Arlington, Virginia home on Wednesday. The cause of death is unknown. TRENDING: Developing: Justin Trudeau Warns Freedom Truckers from Hidden Bunker that Crackdown Is Coming after
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Demonstrators protest against gerrymandering at a rally at the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., March 26, 2019. (Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Images) It’s no coincidence that the overheated Democratic rhetoric about gerrymandering is cooling off. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D emocrats are mostly winning the redistricting wars, as they have historically done more often
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CAIR executive director Nihad Awad speaks during a press conference to support Rep. Ilhan Omar on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 6, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) Some journalists stoutly defend their rosy picture of the Islamist group — by citing CAIR as a source. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Council on American–Islamic Relations
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This is developing… The Ontario government reportedly successfully petition a court to shut down the GiveSendGo freedom convoy fundraiser. Global News reported: The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to the truckers convoyprotesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at
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A woman walks out of a store in Manhattan, February 9, 2022. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) On the menu today: The furious online reaction to an Atlantic article proposing to “open everything” illuminates the fact that a loud minority of those who exercise influence over pandemic policies are trapped in a fearful, risk-averse mindset. State and local governments may not
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President Joe Biden listens to a reporter’s question during a press conference on Afghanistan, August 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The more we learn about the administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal, the more it becomes clear that its decisions were driven by political considerations and panic. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s the Biden administration’s chaotic and inept withdrawal
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