Fifty years ago today, more than half a billion people watched Neil Armstrong become the first human to set foot on another celestial body. Necessary and impressive though they are, no robotic explorer could ever generate so much attention. We want to go. People yearn to explore space, if not ourselves personally, then at least vicariously through our astronaut

An American flag flies at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) Large majorities of Democrats and Republicans agree that inflammatory political rhetoric could inspire acts of violence, according to a new poll published by the Pew Research Center. 91 percent of Democrats and voters who lean Democratic say that aggressive or

Detail of an 18th-century engraving of the Bill of Rights being presented to William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution. (via Wikimedia) The complexity and bloodiness of liberalism’s roots don’t make it quite so condemnable as its critics imagine. My colleague Declan Leary raises some interesting points in his attempt to cast the

In one sense, the Commie Quad Squad (CQS) has done us all a favor by flushing out the extremism of the Democratic Party for conspicuous public display. House Leader Nancy Pelosi is quaking in her boots, realizing that it is getting increasingly difficult to hide her party’s radicalism from American voters, many of whom still

Senator Kamala Harris (D, Calif.) at the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) 2019 legislative conference in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a familiar promise Wednesday about Medicare for All, assuring voters that “you can keep your doctor” under her plan. “People think, ‘Well, maybe is this

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Do not speak ill of the dead. While that proposition surely must expire at some point, it strikes me as good advice to follow in the immediate aftermath of someone’s death. So with that in mind, I’d like to praise Justice John Paul Stevens’s opinion in 1978 in Regents of

In May, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Extremely unpopular in his own state and polling at zero, de Blasio had the distinction of being told not to run, by his own constituents. Last week, hedge fund billionaire and climate change activist Tom Steyer announced his

People at the March for Reproductive Freedom protest against the state’s new abortion law in Montgomery, Ala., May 19, 2019. (Michael Spooneybarger/Reuters) Abortion for anyone, anytime, anywhere — and you’ll pay for it. In 114 pages, over 70 groups recently laid out a legislative agenda in their “Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and

Poor Donald Trump Jr. He retweeted a post by a black man named Ali Alexander questioning whether Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., whose father is from Jamaica and mother is from India, is an “American black.” Alexander’s tweet reads: “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick

A medic escorts a 39-year-old woman to an ambulance after she was revived from an opioid overdose in Salem, Mass., August 2017. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Given government’s pattern of hurting when it tries to help, skepticism of even its well-intentioned efforts is in order. Earlier this week, J. D. Vance — a person I admire greatly,