Former President Donald Trump talks to the press on the grounds of his Mar-a-Lago resort on midterm elections night in Palm Beach, Florida, November 8, 2022. (Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters) After a profoundly disappointing midterm cycle, it’s even harder to argue that Trump’s time atop the party has been anything but a disaster for Republicans. NRPLUS MEMBER

J.D. Vance (L), Tim Ryan (C.L.), Gretchen Whitmer (C.R.), Tudor Dixon (R). (Gaelen Morse, Yuri Gripas, Rebecca Cook,Dieu-Nalio Chery/Reuters ) The wave has put Republicans within striking distance of 54 Senate seats, but the gubernatorial map is a lot less clear. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t is Election Day at long last. Barring a runoff in Georgia, there

Sarah Palin arrives for the trial in her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times at the United States Courthouse in New York City, February 4, 2022. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin announced a run for the state’s lone House seat on Friday. “Today I’m announcing my candidacy for the U.S. House seat

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.” (See p. 79 of her response to written questions.) Jackson’s answer comes immediately after this Q&A: Please explain, in your own words, the theory prevalent among members of the Founding Fathers’ generation that humans possess natural rights that are

(Lucas Jackson / Reuters) Blue cities and states have lost ground since the spring of 2020. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Census Bureau formally counts the population only once every decade, but it updates its population estimates annually. While those estimates are not always rock-solid, they reflect the best available data — more precise than

President Joe Biden responds to a question about Ukraine during an event to announce his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, in Washington, March 28, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Marist is the second pollster this week to find Biden’s job-approval rating below 40 percent: President Joe Biden’s post-State of the Union job approval rating bounce has

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to the Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy/Reuters) During the September 2005 hearing on John Roberts’ nomination to be chief justice, then-senator Joe Biden compared such gatherings to a “Kabuki dance,” with

Then-President Barack Obama meets with health insurance chief executives at the White House in 2013. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The law has failed to fulfill numerous promises and expectations. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L ast week, many people put on rose-colored glasses to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of Obamacare. A reality check is needed. Higher government subsidies along

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey speaks with attendees at the end-of-year board meeting for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Phoenix, Ariz., June 17, 2021. (Gage Skidmore) Republican Arizona governor Doug Ducey signed a bill Wednesday restricting participation in women’s sports to female athletes and another bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Debate moderator and then-Fox News anchor Chris Wallace directs the first 2020 presidential campaign debate on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via Reuters) Wallace is obviously more comfortable living in a media culture that allows liberal conspiracies and biases but not

Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks to reporters after briefing Senators on the coronavirus outbreak in China on Capitol Hill, January 24, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Dr. Anthony Fauci said he doesn’t believe it is possible to determine whether the overall costs of Covid lockdowns were worth the benefits, in an interview on the BBC’s Sunday Morning. “I’m interested

And another “strict guideline to prevent abuse” bites the proverbial dust. Oregon has just eradicated the requirement — always weak, as Brittany Maynard proved by just moving there — that a patient accessing assisted suicide be a resident of the state. From the AP story: Oregon will no longer require people to be residents of

President Joe Biden responds to a question about Ukraine during an event to announce his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, in Washington, March 28, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In and of itself, President Joe Biden’s crib sheet isn’t a big deal. Politicians often need written cues to remind them to stress certain angles, especially when

Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino (left) and advisor Peter Navarro. (Carlos Barria, Erin Scott/Reuters) The House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol voted 9–0 on Monday to recommend that two former advisers to President Trump, Dan Scavino Jr. and Peter Navarro, be held in contempt of

Shipping containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China. (Aly Song/Reuters) Shanghai is locking down as Covid cases rise. The measures are expected to be the most extensive lockdown in China since the Wuhan lockdowns over two years ago. Chinese authorities have ordered nonessential

Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett to be the U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice on the South Lawn of the White House October 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) In 2004, Pablo Castro, a father of nine, was working the night shift at a

The new NBC News poll confirms that Biden is getting no bump — he’s at flat 40 percent approval — and it’s inflation that’s destroying his presidency: Approval of Biden’s handling of the economy is declining as the cost of living has jumped to become Americans’ most important issue in the poll, displacing jobs and

President Joe Biden announces new actions against Russia for its war on Ukraine at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) At the Atlantic, Tom Nichols criticizes the “unforced error” that Biden made during his speech in Poland yesterday, but praises the habit that led to it: What Biden was doing,

Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) attends the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., April 28, 2021. (Tom Williams/Reuters) Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) on Sunday criticized Republican senators’ questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings as “beyond the pale” but defended Democrats’ treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during

President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, March 26, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) President Biden said Russian president Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” in a speech on the invasion of Ukraine on Saturday. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. For free people refuse to live in

President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, March 26, 2022. (Slawomir Kaminski/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via Reuters) Some things are best not said aloud. CNBC: President Joe Biden spoke in Warsaw, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” as a result of his invasion of Ukraine. The

1997—After two decades of school-desegregation litigation in Jenkins v. Missouri, federal district judge Russell G. Clark issues his final order in the case. Clark’s desegregation plan for the Kansas City, Missouri, School District has been (according to the description embraced by Chief Justice Rehnquist) the “most ambitious and expensive remedial program in the history of

Navy SEALs and Members of the Special Operations Team of the Cypriot National Guard participate in a joint military training in Limassol, Cyprus, September 10, 2021. (Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters) The Supreme Court granted an emergency request from the Defense Department on Friday, temporarily freezing a lower-court ruling that required the Navy to deploy unvaccinated Navy SEALs.

(liseykina/Getty Images) Judge Jackson said she didn’t know whether an unborn child could feel pain at 20 weeks. But our understanding has advanced considerably since Roe. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE ‘C an an unborn child feel pain at 20 weeks?” That was Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R., S.C.) question to Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

And what does that question even mean? Today’s Bloomberg Opinion column gets into it: If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, it’s already obvious what one of the main Democratic lines of attack will be: He’s just like Donald Trump, only worse. “He increasingly acts like his role model, the

Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger attends the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool via Reuters) Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger doubled down yesterday on his company’s apology for singling out forced-labor practices in the Xinjiang region, where the Chinese Communist Party is carrying out crimes against

Utah Governor Spencer Cox ( Gov. Spencer J. Cox/YouTube) On Tuesday, Utah governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, vetoed a bill that would have barred biological males from competing in women’s sports. “I believe in fairness and protecting the integrity of women’s sports,” he wrote in a lengthy letter explaining his decision. But he argued that

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, D.C., December 1, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It remains highly unlikely. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t this week’s confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji

Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. (JTGrafix/iStock/Getty Images) The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed the Save Women’s Sports Act in a party-line vote on Wednesday, a bill that would keep biological men from competing on female sports teams at public schools or universities. The bill, which says athletic teams “designated for ‘females,’ ‘women’ or ‘girls’

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about ARPA-H at the White House complex in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2022. (Al Drago/Reuters) Given a new wave of bipartisan hesitancy, the Biden administration has changed its tone on these negotiations. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or those following the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, the Biden administration’s