[ad_1] On Sunday night, the basement of historic St. John’s Episcopal church near the White House was set on fire by rioters. On Monday night, President Trump decided to take a photo in front of the church holding a Bible in the air. To clear the way for the photo op, protesters near the church

[ad_1] A protestor throws a brick at a Sheriff van during a protest in the wake of the death George Floyd, in St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 2020. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) Four St. Louis police officers were shot by an unknown assailant as protests over the death of George Floyd turned violent Monday night, with the

[ad_1] (Mike Blake/Reuters) Government officials around the world are learning from history’s hard lessons. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E urope was awash in protests on a scale seen neither before nor, arguably, since. The year was 1848. “A specter is haunting Europe,” Marx wrote. “The specter of communism.” Others saw it as the “springtime of the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Rose Garden at the White House on the ongoing protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, June 1, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Trump promised that he “will fight to protect” the nation in an address from the Rose Garden Monday night as protestors

[ad_1] The Swiss Parliament Building in Bern, Switzerland (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) Switzerland is generally a well-run place, with a healthy respect both for the preservation of capital and for the way that its referendums help ensure that Swiss democracy is genuinely bottom-up as well as top-down. But, judging by this Financial Times report, these two qualities

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Wilmington, Del., March 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Staffers for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that they have donated to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis as riots over the death of George Floyd consume the city. At least 13 Biden campaign

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds his daily briefing at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., May 7, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that New York City would implement a mandatory curfew and increase its police presence to 800 officers

[ad_1] Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Miss., March 8, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) As Dan McLaughlin writes, Joe Biden has no idea how guns work. Today the candidate suggested that cops who are rushed by “unarmed person” with “a knife or something” should be trained to “shoot them in the

[ad_1] People loot Soho businesses after the protests in New York, June 1, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) George Floyd was deprived of the ultimate civil right — the right to live — by a lawless police officer. The State of Minnesota has charged that officer with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. If convicted, former police officer

[ad_1] A protester holds a sign in Portland, Ore., May 31, 2020. (Terray Sylvester/Reuters) An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of George Floyd found that Floyd died from asphyxia caused by pressure to the neck and back, which stopped blood flow to his brain, attorneys for the family told reporters. Floyd also had no

[ad_1] President Donald Trump responds to a question during a news briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 6, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) There is a time for careful nuance, and then there is a time for the foghorn. Violent, racially charged disorder in our nation’s cities, and the involvement of Antifa, evokes memories

[ad_1] Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and other regional leaders attend a news conference to announce measures to combat the spread of novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Karen Ducey Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan alleged on Sunday that “white men” were responsible for many of the riots that have occurred in

[ad_1] Protesters hit a defaced NYPD vehicle during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Times Square in New York City, May 30, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) I keep seeing public officials offer up this slogan: Life is more valuable than property. — Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) May 30, 2020

[ad_1] Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison answers questions about the investigation into the death of George Floyd, during a news conference in St. Paul, Minn., May 27, 2020. (John Autey, Pioneer Press, & Pool/Reuters) Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Sunday appointed the state’s attorney general Keith Ellison to lead the prosecution for cases relating to

[ad_1] Police officers amid tear gas as protesters continue to rally against the death of George Floy, in Minneapolis, Minn., May 30, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) They hide the rotten apples under the guise of privacy protection. Police brutality has been seared into the consciousness of many Americans — especially blacks — since the 1960s, when

[ad_1] This isn’t anywhere close to the most important thing that been going on over the last week, but the hypocrisy on social distancing has been extraordinary. Just about a month ago, when protestors surrounded the Michigan state capitol from the safety of their cars, with about 75 or so people scattered outside on the

[ad_1] A protester gestures in front of a fire during a demonstration against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., May 30, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Riots aren’t a tool for fighting oppression, they are an oppression. I knew I was tempting fate a week ago when I said that the coming nomination of Joe

[ad_1] Rioters gather after setting fire to the entrance of a police station, Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) What has happened over the last few nights in major cities of the United States is unacceptable. It has gotten worse because of federal and state passivity. Law enforcement is a vital response to any

[ad_1] (Kuzma/Dreamstime) 1990—In an otherwise insignificant case (Shriners Hospitals v. Zrillic), Florida chief justice Rosemary Barkett, completely botching case law governing the federal Equal Protection Clause, asserts that “underinclusive or overinclusive classifications fail to meet even the minimal standards of the rational basis test” and, on that misunderstanding, invalidates a six-month statutory time period. There

[ad_1] Lost (ABC) It wasn’t a perfect show, but today’s critics give it short shrift. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A  man in a suit opens his eyes in the middle of a jungle. He doesn’t know how he got there. He is hurt but not seriously injured, though definitely disoriented. Out of nowhere, a yellow Labrador

[ad_1] President Donald Trump takes questions in the Rose Garden at the White House, May 26, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Republicans should stop making excuses for the president’s lies, threats, and abuses — or stop wrapping themselves in the mantle of patriotism. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I ’ve never really thought of Mark Steyn as a Palestinian

[ad_1] Protesters outside the Orlando, Fla., home of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, May 29, 2020 (Scott Audette/Reuters) The official complaint submitted to a Minnesota district court answers some questions, but raises others. Things are often more complicated than they appear at first blush. That is certainly the case with the murder of George

[ad_1] President Donald Trump talks to reporters following a closed Senate Republican policy lunch meeting to discuss the response to the coronavirus outbreak on Capitol Hill, May 19, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The president faces a much tougher road to reelection than most seem to think. President Trump was disappointed. Bad weather on Wednesday forced a

[ad_1] Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) arrives for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing evaluating the Intelligence Community Assessment on “Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections” on Capitol Hill, May 16, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Not every problem of fairness and ethics is fit for a criminal-law solution. This week, our Tobias Hoonhout reported that the

[ad_1] Protesters gather around after setting fire to the entrance of a police station as demonstrations continue after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Demand accountability for George Floyd’s death, yes, but don’t romanticize rioting, now or ever. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he tragic death of George Floyd

[ad_1] A poll worker places a mail-in ballot into a voting box in San Diego, Calif., in 2016. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Cutting past the confusion and misinformation in the battle over balloting. The battle over voting by mail flared up over the last week, thanks in part to some presidential tweets that, as they often do,

[ad_1] Michael Flynn at the White House in February (Reuters photo: Carlos Barria) Michael Flynn asked Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to respond to U.S. sanctions on Russia on a “reciprocal basis,” according to transcripts of conversations between the two men released on Friday. The conversations between Kislyak and the incoming Trump national-security adviser in late

[ad_1] State patrol members in the aftermath of a protest against the death of George Floyd, Minneapolis, Minn., May 29, 2020 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Romanticizing disorganized violence is not just wrong in some factual way about how the world works; it’s depraved and vile. Sometimes a responsibility falls to you that you never anticipated. Sometimes history

[ad_1] John Ratcliffe testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) Transcripts of conversations between former Trump advisor Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak were declassified on Friday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced. The move is the latest in a series

[ad_1] Police officers stand outside the Florida home of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was recorded with his knee on the neck of African-American man George Floyd, Orlando, Fla., May 29, 2020. (Scott Audette/Reuters) The claim that the prosecutor had to wait to authorize an arrest until the investigators nailed down all the