School buses remain parked in a lot due to the pandemic in San Francisco, Calif., April 7, 2020. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) An Indiana public school system is accused of segregating teachers and staff by pushing them to join affinity groups based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, and abilities. But the only group for staff “who

Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse issued an unsparing statement Monday night on President Biden’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan: “This national disgrace is the direct result of President Biden’s cowardice and incompetence. The President made the decision to trust the Taliban. The President made the decision to set an arbitrary August 31st deadline. The

Evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/Sergeant Isaiah Campbell/Handout via Reuters) We’ve heard a lot about how the Afghans evacuated from Kabul are being thoroughly vetted in third countries, often while held at American bases, before

Abortion activists are irrationally angry at a Fifth Circuit panel for what is, as I will explain, an elementary order that, in light of a pending appeal on threshold jurisdictional questions, prevents the district court from proceeding with a case challenging the Texas Heartbeat Act. Let’s put things in proper context. Texas governor Greg Abbott

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at an event in Delano, Calif., March 31, 2021; Larry Elder at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nev. (Mandel Ngan/Reuters, Gage Skidmore) Mail-in ballots for the September 14 referendum on whether the governor should be recalled have begun to roll in. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A ugust has been a

President Joe Biden reacts as he speaks about Hurricane Henri and the evacuation of Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, August 22, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) You can tell a Democrat is president, because we’re starting to see pieces blaming “us” for his mistakes. In the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago, Tom

Torre degli Asinelli, Bologna, Italy (Joseph Loconte) The modern university could use some intellectual nourishment, Bolognese-style. This essay series explores Italy’s unique contribution to the rich inheritance of Western civilization, offering a defense of the West’s political and cultural achievements. Bologna, Italy — The idea of the university, of an institution devoted to freedom of

People camp out on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to highlight the expiration of the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions, in Washington, D.C., July 31, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Much of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion striking down the CDC’s nationwide eviction moratorium reads as if it came directly from The Federalist Papers. “We

( Natalia Bratslavsky/Getty Images) 2019—In concurring in the denial of rehearing en banc of his panel ruling in CIC Services v. IRS, Judge Eric L. Clay accuses his seven dissenting conservative colleagues of “textbook judicial activism” and of trying “to inflict death by distorted originalism on the modern administrative state.” In particular, he objects to

(Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A mother in Illinois says a judge has stripped her parental rights because she is not vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new report. Earlier this month, Cook County judge James Shapiro ruled that Rebecca Firlit can’t see her eleven-year-old son until she receives a COVID-19 vaccine, FOX 32 Chicago reported. Firlit had

California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in San Diego, Calif., October 9, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) California Governor Gavin Newsom says he will “regret every damn one of” his recent policy decisions if he is recalled from office next month. Newsom, who is facing a recall election on September 14, said in an

Tthe Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project logo on a pipe at the Chelyabinsk pipe rolling plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia, February 26, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) Today I reported on a forthcoming letter by dozens of Ukrainian anti-corruption leaders, across government and civil society, warning that President Biden’s approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is

(Getty) Dear Weekend Jolter, The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan was thought to be the worst-case scenario. As it turns out, the worst had yet to happen. Horrific attacks on Thursday outside the crowded Kabul airport — already a chaotic scene amid the evacuation mission and, as such, a prime target for terrorists — killed at

The Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) Well, we have our answer to the question of whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh would sit still for Joe Biden daring him to do his job. The CDC’s renewed, flagrantly unlawful eviction moratorium survived in the district court and in the D.C. Circuit

Protesters clash with members of the U.S. Capitol Police as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The U.S. Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot publicly revealed his identity for the first time in an interview with NBC News released on Thursday.

President Joe Biden makes a statement from the White House about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, August 24, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) In response to Ezra Klein Tries to Wonk-Absolve Joe Biden of Responsibility for Afghanistan Charlie aptly skewers Ezra Klein’s latest folly: His attempt to “wonk-absolve” President Biden of the chaos and incompetence of America’s

Attorney Sidney Powell watches as L. Lin Wood speaks during a press conference on election results in Alpharetta, Georgia, December 2, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) A federal judge on Wednesday ordered disciplinary sanctions against Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and other lawyers who were involved in bringing a legal challenge against Michigan’s 2020 election.  The pro-Trump lawyers

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives to depart in his helicopter after announcing his resignation, in New York City, N.Y., August 10, 2021. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of New York, is an Emmy-award-winning politician no more. The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences released a statement yesterday announcing that “in

New York State Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during an opening ceremony on the first day of the Coney Island parks reopening, in Brooklyn, New York, April 9, 2021. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) New York governor Kathy Hochul’s administration on Wednesday reported close to 12,000 additional coronavirus deaths that were unacknowledged by predecessor Andrew Cuomo. Around 54,000

The Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block a lower-court ruling that will require the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers at the U.S. border. The court’s three liberal justices dissented, saying they would have

Benito Skinner in his White House vaccination TikTok video. (bennydrama7/TikTok) The underlying vaccination message is good, but the medium is cringe. Earlier this month, the White House put out a TikTok video by comedian Benito Skinner (a.k.a. Benny Drama) that was intended to serve as a public-service announcement encouraging people to get vaccinated. In the

Outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, February 3, 2021 (Thomas Peter/Reuters) On the menu today: The U.S. intelligence community’s review into the origins of COVID-19 is due to be presented to the president today, and the early indication is that our best spies, analysts, and experts are shrugging and concluding they can’t

A Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command provides assistance during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 22, 2021. (Sergeant Samuel Ruiz/USMC) ‘The consequences of not keeping that commitment to them will be dire,’ warns one congressman. It’s hard to get four out of five Americans to

Secretary of State Antony Blinken leaves after speaking during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, D.C., August 2, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS) President Biden and his top aides pledged to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy, and their emphasis on a loud, though toothless, effort to promote human

A member of the Taliban stands outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. (Stringer/Reuters) On the menu today: A reader shares his accounts from Afghan contractors who are hiding from Taliban death squads in Kabul; the FDA gives the Pfizer vaccine full approval — after doctors and nurses administer 202 million shots;

President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks about Hurricane Henri and the evacuation of Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, August 22, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) We are seeing the pent-up frustration with a politician it has never had much confidence or faith in. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here are countless stories that

A Taliban fighter stands outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. (Stringer/Reuters) The week of August 16, 2021: the ‘Islamic Emirate’s’ economic prospects, inflation, cryptocurrency, and more. In a week when the administration’s handling of the Taliban’s blitzkrieg veered between denial and delusion, one of many low points was reached on August

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg walks in Washington, D.C., January 12, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) 2014—Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is becoming quite a Chatty Cathy. In a wide-ranging interview, Ginsburg somehow sees fit to offer her views on all sorts of matters. She reveals, for example, that she assigned the dissent in Schuette v. Coalition

As post-Taliban-takeover surveys start to come in, the RealClearPolitics average of polls has President Biden’s approval rating at 47.8. Disapproval is at 48.6. This is the first time he has been underwater in his presidency, and as the catastrophe sinks in, those numbers are bound to get worse for him. How would you like to

A hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, November 2, 2020 (Shannon VanRaes/Reuters) We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Here’s an example: When organ transplant medicine began,