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Rep Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Delivering the progressive response to President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday, “squad” member Representative Rashida Tlaib pitched a radical restructuring of America’s economy and institutions, including but not limited to: passing Build Back Better and
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Then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, Switzerland in 1985. (Denis Paquin/Reuters) A forgotten aspect of Ronald Reagan’s presidency: He wanted to abolish nuclear weapons. Advancing that cause was one of the main goals of his presidency. Reagan was an anti-nuclear activist from the beginning of the nuclear age: Long before he
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Kevin Lamarque, Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) spoke out on Monday after Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R., Ariz.) appeared at a white-nationalist event over the weekend. After
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin holds a news conference after the U.S.-Russia summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) The New York Times, back on February 5: “Over the past several years, Mr. Putin, Russia’s president, has restructured his country’s economy for the specific purpose of withstanding Western financial
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Moscow, Russia, February 15, 2022. (Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Pool via Reuters) The week of February 21: the need to reconnect energy policy with geopolitical reality, antitrust, Ukraine, inflation, and much, much more. Before we dive into this week’s Capital Letter, a
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, February 2022. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Far from ‘praising’ Russia’s strongman, the former secretary of state was warning that we underestimate him at our peril. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ike Pompeo is a West Point grad who served in Bavaria as an
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her staff at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., February 25, 2022. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Marjorie Taylor Greene (QAnon, Ga.) might be a preternatural dope, but that’s still doesn’t excuse her speaking at the junior varsity Ku Klux Klan jamboree this weekend. Greene pleaded ignorance, claiming she was
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2018—By a 4-3 divide, the California supreme court holds (in People v. Contreras) that very long sentences imposed on two juvenile offenders for brutal rapes violate the Eighth Amendment of the federal Constitution. According to Goodwin Liu, the justice who wrote the majority opinion, the two sentences (one of 50 years to life, the other
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A Laker Airways McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 airliner in flight, May 30, 1979. (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Who said it? Someone sitting in a room with a pencil and piece of paper is not going to be able to figure out the proper airline rate any better than allowing the consumers and producers in a competitive marketplace
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Supreme Court Police officers guard a barrier between anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights protesters outside the court building, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A new report from the pro-abortion research group the Guttmacher Institute indicates that more than half
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Lia Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania prepares to swim before winning the 400-yard freestyle team relay at the Women’s Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., February 19, 2022. (Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports) Conflating female-only teams with racial segregation is absurd. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L ast weekend, Lia Thomas
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On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in West Virginia v. EPA, a case that poses significant questions about statutory interpretation, the power of federal agencies, and federalism. At issue is the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping claim of regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act—essentially to do whatever it wanted to reduce or
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President Joe Biden hosts a virtual roundtable on securing critical minerals at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 22, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On the menu today: President Biden and his administration have spent the past few months accurately decrying the Russian threat to the “rules-based international order” that they envision. But if Biden finds
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Pedestrians pass the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., October 29, 2001. (Andy Clark/Reuters) At Slate, Mark Joseph Stern tries repeatedly to cast the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will consider the case of 303 Creative v. Elenis as some sort of looming judicial attack on LGBT people. But, because it’s not, he can’t quite
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Yes, argues Dr. Aaron Keriaty in this essay on the Brownstone Institute site. Keriaty was fired from his teaching position when he declined to obey the university’s vaccinate-or-leave rule. He’d already had Covid and regarded his naturally acquired immunity as sufficient and preferable to the jab. Too bad, said the authoritarians. You’re fired. It appears
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BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles during drills held by Southern Military District armed forces at the Kadamovsky range in Rostov Region, Russia, January 27, 2022. (Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters) Russia has ordered troops to the two separatist regions of Ukraine’s Donbas territory to fulfill “peacekeeping functions,” per an official order from the Kremlin, following Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recognition
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives start to training launches of ballistic missiles as part of the exercise of the strategic deterrence force, in Moscow, Russia February 19, 2022. (Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via Reuters) During his hour-long address today, Russian president Vladimir Putin articulated the historical grievances that purportedly led him to his decision to recognize the
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(cyril martin/Getty Images) The push is now on to allow assisted suicide for psychiatric patients. The Journal of Eating Disorders has published a piece urging that psychiatrists be allowed to assist the suicides of patients afflicted with anorexia who want to die rather than continue to struggle against their mental illness. Think about this. Seriously.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters following the Senate Democrats weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., February 8, 2022. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The Democrats’ Senate bill isn’t a real gerrymandering ban, either. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D emocrats see no problem in pursuing aggressive gerrymanders while also decrying the evils of
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