1963—Ernesto Miranda is arrested in Phoenix on charges of abduction and rape. His interrogation by police yields a written confession. His confession is admitted at trial, and he is convicted. Three years later, in Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court rules by a 5-4 vote (with the majority opinion by Chief Justice Warren) that a

President Donald Trump walks on stage before delivering remarks during a Latinos For Trump campaign event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Fla., September 25, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The Democratic Party’s standing with Hispanic voters in the national polls continues to implode. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal numbers found that “by 9 percentage

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 6, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters ) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday said he is worried that any potential expansion of the Supreme Court could compromise its integrity. “You can cavalierly talk about packing or stacking the

A woman poses for a photo during a protest to mark International Women’s Day in San Jose, Costa Rica, March 8, 2022. (Mayela Lopez/Reuters) Anyone who cannot answer this question is worse than useless to the cause of women’s rights. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A ccording to its website, International Women’s Day (marked this past Tuesday)

Judge Amy Clark Meachum addresses the court as a court hearing is held on Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order that parents of transgender children be investigated for child abuse, in Austin, Texas, March 11, 2022. (Sergio Flores/Reuters) A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services from conducting investigations of

Supporters of then-president Donald Trump fight with riot police outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images) We can acknowledge the traumatic events of that day — and the role they might’ve played in some officers’ later deaths — without bending the truth. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis talks to the media during a news conference in Miami, Fla., August 29, 2019. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a sharp rebuke of Disney on Thursday, calling out the company’s “woke” stance on the state’s Parental Rights in Education bill and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party. A

Jussie Smollett arrives for his sentencing hearing after he was found guilty of staging a hate crime against himself in Chicago, Ill., March 10, 2022. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters) Former Empire star Jussie Smollett will spend five months in an Illinois jail after he was sentenced Thursday for staging a hoax hate crime against himself, setting off

After rapidly rising in influence, this faction of conservatism is suddenly beset with troubles on all sides. My new Bloomberg Opinion column. It’s been a rough few months for national populists. They’re the faction of the American right that is challenging the tenets of the conservatism we have known since the 1950s. That conservative consensus

Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra answers questions during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters) Agency guidance on ‘equity’ and ‘gender-inclusive’ language is a minefield of do’s and don’ts. NRPLUS

Mickey Mouse greets visitors at Shanghai Disney Resort as the Shanghai Disneyland theme park reopens following a shutdown due to the coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai, China, May 11, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) A shareholder of the Walt Disney corporation slammed the company Wednesday for its hypocrisy in advocating for domestic social justice while maintaining a strong

Senator Roger Marshall (R., Kan.) speaks during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee confirmation hearing for education secretary nominee Miguel Cardona on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 3, 2021. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters) Pregnant mothers deserve the opportunity to see their unborn child before choosing an abortion. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T his

Vice President Mike Pence waves to supporters at the end of a rally in Kinston, N.C., October 25, 2020. (Jonathan Drake / Reuters) Pence can’t win the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination. But if he were so inclined, he’d have a good chance to stop the party from renominating his old boss. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R

President Joe Biden announces the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve at the White House in Washington, D.C., November 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) President Joe Biden has been praised on the left for his deft statecraft and ability to rally our allies against Russia. Yet the Wall Street

(shironosov/iStock/Getty Images) Pressure from the Biden administration, regulators, activists, and younger employees is pushing private industry to emulate universities in adopting DEI. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P rivate businesses are under intense pressure from the government and activists to allocate employment and promotion opportunities to members of so-called marginalized communities. It’s not surprising that they are

(Halfpoint/iStock/Getty Images) In a legal complaint, Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the families, argues that the mandate unduly burdens free exercise of religion. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n March 1, the Washington, D.C., city government lifted its mask mandate for most indoor settings, such as stores, bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues. But schools have

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Moscow, Russia, February 15, 2022. (Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via Reuters) The Russian economy is being hammered. Economic sanctions will cause Russia’s GDP to contract by well over 10 percent. The value of its currency is plummeting. At the time of

(Willard/Getty Images) Inflation will not come under control until the Fed balance sheet comes under control. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I magine you were driving your car and it ran out of gas. Would you call for a new set of tires or a new battery and expect that to get you back on your way?

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro addresses the media from the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, August 16, 2021. (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters) On Saturday, the New York Times reported that senior White House and State Department officials were in Caracas engaging in conversations with the Maduro regime. The U.S. has not recognized the regime since dissolving diplomatic

UnionPay, a Chinese credit card company, displays on the exhibit hall floor during the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Nev., October 24, 2017. (Steve Marcus/Reuters) Multiple Russian banks on Sunday announced plans to begin issuing cards using a Chinese card operator’s system with Russia’s Mir network after Visa and MasterCard pulled out of Russia.

(AlexLinch/iStock/Getty Images) True feminism shouldn’t be blind to the pathologies that now beset young males. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A merican women seem to be of two minds about feminism. Opinion polling from Pew in 2020 shows that most women under 30 (68 percent) identify as feminists. Feminism tugs at our aspirations and summons our loyalties.

Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election-night party in Chantilly, Va., November 3, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Charlottesville, Va. — In a keynote address last night at the Federalist Society’s annual student symposium, hosted this year at the University of Virginia, Republican governor Glenn Youngkin focused his remarks on the value and importance of federalism and state

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks during an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. (Umit Bektas/Reuters) Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky made requests for lethal aid and additional sanctions against Russia in a Zoom call with members of Congress on Saturday, according to multiple reports. Zelensky requested planes that Ukrainian pilots are trained to

Protesters at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C, January 6, 2021 (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) This might come as a surprise to anyone following the House January 6 Committee’s investigation. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Justice Department issued a triumphal press release on Wednesday to announce that it had induced a leader of the Oath Keepers

Then-Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a rally at North Side middle school in Elkhart, Indiana, May 10, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Former vice president Mike Pence is expected to say that there is “no room in this party for apologists for Putin” during a speech to the GOP’s top donors Friday evening in New Orleans.

Rick Scott on election night in Naples, Fla., November 6, 2018 (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Florida GOP senator Rick Scott recently proposed changing the law so that all Americans pay some federal income tax. This would mean raising taxes on about half the country. “All Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game,

Jesse Singal has a great Twitter thread debunking the junk “science” used by transgender activists to justify the unjustifiable in children’s health care. 1/ Jack Turban ran a correlational study on a known-to-be-broken self-report dataset. He found no statistically significant correlation between youths’ access to hormones and the most important suicidality indicators — ideation with

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) leads a group of legislators including Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), to introduce a bill to ban Russian energy imports at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senators Joe Manchin (D., W.V.) and Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) introduced

Ilya Shapiro speaks about constitutional law in 2014. (The Cato Institute/via YouTube) Ilya Shapiro, still under suspension from his position at Georgetown Law because of the campus cancel-culture mob there, went to speak at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law on Tuesday. He was prevented from speaking by a screeching, anti-speech mob

(Kuzma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A Texas judge granted a limited temporary restraining order on Wednesday stopping the state’s child protective services agency from investigating the parents of a 16-year-old transgender teen for alleged child abuse. In response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, Travis County District Court Judge Amy