Uber and Lyft drivers protest during a day-long strike outside Uber’s office in Saugus, Massachusetts, U.S., May 8, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) A California judge on Friday struck down a 2020 ballot measure that allowed Uber and Lyft to classify their gig workers as independent contractors, allowing them to deny said workers full-time benefits. After Uber,

A healthcare worker prepares a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination in Los Angeles, Calif., January 7, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The Food and Drug Administration is aiming to give full authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine by Monday, sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Friday. All coronavirus vaccines currently offered in the U.S. —

A healthcare worker prepares the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in El Paso, Texas, May 6, 2021. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) This is certainly creative . . . as judicial legislating often is: On Tuesday, a federal judge in Manhattan (the Southern District of New York, SDNY) ordered that a defendant who is unvaccinated

Texas Governor Greg Abbott addresses former U.S. President Donald Trump at a border security briefing in Weslaco, Texas, June 30, 2021. (Brandon Bell/Reuters) The Texas Supreme Court upheld school mask mandates in the state on Thursday, at least temporarily. After a judge in Travis County, which encompasses the state capital of Austin, issued a temporary

Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) The Texas House reached a quorum on Thursday for the first time in 38 days after 57 Democrats traveled to Washington, D.C., last month to boycott and delay GOP voting legislation. The Democrats fled the state last month, hoping to hide out in the Capitol and fight for

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army General Mark Milley hold a news briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., August 18, 2021. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Is anyone in the U.S. government accountable anymore? As the debacle in Afghanistan continues to unspool, there is no serious talk of anyone getting fired

The Trans Alaska Pipeline near the midpoint of the 800-mile line, near Fairbanks, Alaska, May 31, 2018 (Yereth Rosen/Reuters) A federal judge voided permits for a major Alaska oil project Wednesday, citing the government’s failure to evaluate its potential contributions to climate change, including how it might endanger polar bears. Supported by both the Trump

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 10, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) President Biden committed to keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan until all American civilians are evacuated in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos released on Wednesday. Up to 15,000 Americans are currently

A U.S. Marine assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit escorts Department of State personnel to be processed for evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2021. (US Navy/Central Command Public Affairs/Sergeant Isaiah Campbell/Handout via Reuters) Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. will continue to evacuate all the Americans

Parents walk their children on the first day of school at West Tampa Elementary School in Tampa, Fla., August 10, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Florida education officials on Tuesday ruled that the Broward and Alachua county school districts had issued mask mandates in violation of state law, with officials voting unanimously to consider penalties for the

Former president Donald Trump speaks at the “Rally to Protect Our Elections” hosted by Turning Point Action in Phoenix, Ariz., July 24, 2021. (Gage Skidmore) Former president Donald Trump labeled the Biden administration’s handling of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan the “greatest embarrassment in the history of our country,” in an interview with Fox News

Men try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2021. (Stringer/Reuters) Americans who requested to be evacuated from Afghanistan received a note from the State Department informing them that the U.S. can’t “guarantee” their security on the way to the Kabul airport, CBS News reported on Tuesday. The State Department

The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort enters New York Harbor during the coronavirus outbreak, March 30, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Coronavirus fearmongers and global-warming activists have a lot in common. There has been something rather ghoulish about environmental discourse throughout the pandemic. As lockdowns forced people to stay home, city skies cleared. Pollution went down, animals

A man receives his second dose of the Moderna vaccine in Westbury, N.Y., May 6, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The Biden administration will recommend that most Americans receive a coronavirus vaccine booster shot eight months after their initial vaccination, the New York Times reported on Monday. Health-care providers could be allowed to offer booster shots around mid-September,

Women with their children try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. (Stringer/Reuters) White House deputy press secretary Chris Meagher is citing “the rapidity and ease of the Taliban’s advance” as proof “that [President] Biden made the right decision” by pulling U.S. forces out of Afghanistan. Over the course

President Joe Biden speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, D.C., July 30, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The utterly nauseating and unnecessary abandonment of Afghanistan to its fate recalls a similar humiliation at the hands of Islamist radicals in the Jimmy Carter administration. President Biden’s profligate spending policies are unleashing inflation that is sparking

(Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) We live in decadent times, led by Big Tech, which not only promotes woke agendas but stifles heterodox opinions. Thus, Amazon, infamously, refuses to sell Ryan T. Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment as well as  Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters. Both books

(Chris Ryan/Getty Images) They face a hostile environment much more often than their liberal peers do. With schools reopening for in-person instruction in a few weeks, many people are understandably fixated on the dangers COVID-19 poses to students’ safety and well-being. While the pandemic remains a real concern, another very worrisome issue will face our

(serggn/Getty Images) When nominal conservatives start rushing to the left as left-wing dollars flow into their institutions, skepticism is warranted. ‘The Conservative Case for [Liberal Thing]” is a punchline. These “conservative cases” are drafted by think-tankers in the metaphorical hot-take mines who in many cases are paid to do so by a left-of-center foundation seeking

A customer shops for marijuana at the MedMen store in West Hollywood, Calif., January 2, 2018. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) States where recreational weed is legal have seen more drug crime, not less. At the outset, I’d like to lay my cards out on the table: I despise weed. I think that it reeks, that it’s a

Philadelphia, Pa. (vichie81/Getty Images) The city of Philadelphia announced this week that it will require all unvaccinated city employees to double-mask at all times on the job as a method of “protecting the city” from the Delta variant of COVID-19. The city will require its employees to receive a COVID vaccination by September 1, and

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky speaks during a Senate hearing in Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021. (Greg Nash/Reuters) A CDC advisory committee voted unanimously on Friday to recommend some immunocompromised Americans receive booster shots of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky will now receive the recommendation and decide whether to

Police officers work at a crime scene where gunmen killed at least 13 Mexican police officers in an ambush in Coatepec Harinas, Mexico, March 19, 2021. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters) It will not make the country any safer. Mexican officials, assisted by the gun-control group Brady United, filed a lawsuit against several U.S.-based firearm manufacturers alleging that

A woman walks past the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., May 17, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked part of New York’s residential-eviction ban that was implemented as a public-health precaution and economic support during the COVID pandemic. Injunctive relief was granted to a collection of small landlords who challenged a part

A person dressed as Uncle Sam attends an anti-mandatory coronavirus disease vaccine protest held outside New York City Hall in New York City, N.Y., August 9, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) There are many moral failings government might punish via taxes. ‘Tax the Unvaxxed,” writes Anne Kim in the Washington Monthly, arguing that “people who refuse the

Demonstrators surround the grave of former Portuguese dictator Antonio Oliveira Salazar during a protest at his hometown in Santa Comba Dao, Portugal, in 2007. (Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters) Conservatives should abandon their fantasies of savior strongmen. It’s hard to reason people out of positions that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place. One of the

(photosbyjim/Getty Images) The Loudoun County School Board approved a measure 7–2 Wednesday that would allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports, among other items. The board’s two conservative members, John Beatty (Catoctin) and Jeff Morse (Dulles), voted against it. In addition to permitting students to participate in sports that align with their gender identity,

An Atlanta Public Schools bus is parked outside a school in Atlanta, Georgia, April 14, 2015. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) The principal of an Atlanta elementary school is the focus of a federal civil rights complaint after she was accused of segregating students in classes based on the color of their skin. According to a complaint filed

A woman receives a dose of a coronavirus disease vaccine at a temporary vaccination unit set up at a former TikTok studio in the MEGA Park mall in Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 23, 2021. (Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters) Members of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group recommend a Marshall Plan for COVID-19. The group released a letter to this

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asks questions during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs/Rules and Administration hearing to examine the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters) 46 Republican senators have pledged to abstain from voting to raise the debt ceiling in order to