[ad_1] Students crossing the lawn on the campus of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, September 18, 2018. (Harrison McClary/Reuters) New data sources make it more plain than ever that the U.S. has oversold college. Lots of young people spend years of their lives and plenty of often borrowed money to earn degrees

[ad_1] (GlobalStock/Getty Images) A recent New York Times op-ed suggests that today’s education reformers care more about bringing the top down than bringing the bottom up. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N early every news article on the coronavirus and K–12 education has lamented that school closures and budget cuts are hitting low-income students the hardest. Earlier

[ad_1] Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn departs U.S. District Court, where he was expected to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2017. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) After permitting Judge Sullivan to defend himself, the D.C. Circuit should dismiss the

[ad_1] Ambulances lined up at the emergency entrance outside Mount Sinai Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 13, 2020 (Mike Segar/Reuters) The New York Department of Health has apparently deleted a March order issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo that forced nursing homes to admit Covid-positive residents. The order, which was implemented

[ad_1] Ambulances lined up at the emergency entrance outside Mount Sinai Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 13, 2020 (Mike Segar/Reuters) The New York Department of Health has apparently deleted a March order issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo that forced nursing homes to admit Covid-positive residents. The order, which was implemented

[ad_1] (Stock photo: artolympic/Getty Images) Four Minneapolis police officers have been fired amid outrage over video footage showing an officer kneeling on the neck of a black man who died after being transported to the hospital in police custody. Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo announced the decision to fire the unnamed officers at a press

[ad_1] The Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma, Okla, September 30, 2015 (Jon Herskovitz/Reuters) As many in the bioethics movement push various schemes to ration health care based on “quality of life” — such as the odious QALY (quality adjusted life year) system beloved of the New England Journal of Medicine — some are pushing back

[ad_1] A pro-life demonstrator holds a placard during the March For Life, an anti-abortion protest in London, England, May 11, 2019. (Peter Nicholls/Reuters) Activists have mounted a campaign against a policy that permits unlimited abortion of unborn children diagnosed with disabilities. In the United Kingdom, activists are pushing to reform the country’s abortion law to

[ad_1] A faculty member cheers on graduates from California State University San Marcos during a car parade. (Mike Blake/Reuters) In my column on the “Gap-Year Gap,” I looked at the potential financial impact on college campuses if the minority of students who pay full tuition are disproportionately missing when the fall semester starts, especially in

[ad_1] Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo speaks during the Super Bowl LII security press conference in Minneapolis, Minn, January 31, 2018. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports) Video footage shot Monday by a bystander shows a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man, who can be heard pleading with the officers before

[ad_1] (REUTERS/Tom Brenner) Democrats in politics and the media, including Obama and Biden, must not escape examination for promoting the ‘Russian collusion’ fiction. The president was perfectly accurate, and for once insusceptible to questions about his good faith, when he expressed surprise at Attorney General William Barr’s comment last week that former president Obama and

[ad_1] The case of a transgender Virginia high school student who sued for the right to use the girls’ bathroom returns to court on Tuesday. The high-profile case, which has garnered national attention and been closely watched by transgender rights proponents, began in 2015 when Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester County School Board over its

[ad_1] Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses a news conference in Washington, D.C., October 26, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Alabama Senate candidate Jeff Sessions said that President Trump “is not all unjustified” in his frustration over the former attorney general’s 2017 recusal from the Trump-Russia investigation, but insisted his “conscience is clear” with respect to

[ad_1] The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Md. (Jason Reed/Reuters) A new Trump Administration executive order is a step in the right direction. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f a regulation isn’t needed during a crisis, it was probably never needed at all. To his credit, President Trump signed an

[ad_1] United Nations headquarters in New York City (Mike Segar/Reuters) In a letter, the USAID administrator requested that the U.N. stop using the global pandemic to push abortion as an ‘essential service.’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has written to the United Nations, asking

[ad_1] Students on the UCLA campus in 2009. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) In 1996, Californians voted to end racial preferences at state universities. The Left has been fighting to restore them ever since. Rather than focus on COVID-19 or the economic recovery, California liberals insist on pushing their pet issues. The “stimulus” bill rammed through the House

[ad_1] In a ruling Friday in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit denied a church’s challenge to state and county orders barring in-person religious services. Judge Daniel Collins forcefully dissented. Collins rejected California’s “extraordinary claim that the current emergency gives the Governor the power to restrict any

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic candidates debate in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Joe Biden puts his foot in it, and deep. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ho among us, in the presence of a man calling himself Charlamagne tha God, would be immune to grandiosity’s temptation? Mr. God

[ad_1] Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Last month’s Presidential Proclamation temporarily suspending a tiny sliver of permanent immigration in response to Great Depression 2.0 also called for a review of the alphabet soup of foreign-worker programs. The relevant cabinet departments were instructed to offer recommendations “to stimulate the United States economy and

[ad_1] Chinese President Xi Jinping walks past officials wearing face masks at the opening session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, May 22, 2020. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) The PRC’s geopolitical hardball could reshape Asia. Under cover of the global coronavirus crisis, China is moving to rewrite

[ad_1] Ambulances lined up at the emergency entrance outside Mount Sinai Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 13, 2020 (Mike Segar/Reuters) While pandemic-control measures have understandably focused on protecting adults, the coronavirus apparently poses some risk to kids as well. Although COVID-19 continues to pose much less risk to children than

[ad_1] FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the Bureau’s proposed 2020 budget, May 7, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review to assess the bureau’s handling of the investigation into former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, the FBI announced Friday.

[ad_1] President Donald Trump takes questions as he addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 13, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump on Friday said he would move to define houses of worship as essential services to be opened during the coronavirus pandemic. “I am identifying houses of worship — churches,

[ad_1] Oberlin College (Wikimedia) The Department of Education has discovered at least $6 billion in unreported donations to American universities from adversarial foreign nations, Townhall reported on Friday. The DoE revealed its updates in a May 19 letter to Congress and a subsequent briefing to several ranking House Republicans who are conducting an investigation into the

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks in Columbia, S.C., February 28, 2020. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) As Joe Biden’s veepstakes heats up, it’s worth pondering the different pools from which he could choose a running mate. Word came Thursday that Joe Biden has formally asked Amy Klobuchar to submit to vetting

[ad_1] Richard Grenell, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 18, 2019. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on Friday implied that he plans to release the transcripts of December 2016 phone calls between former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. “Those are coming. It’s very

[ad_1] Anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators argue in front of the Supreme Court, January 2011 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) My colleagues Ramesh Ponnuru and David Harsanyi already have ably pointed out the many factual deficiencies in Laura Bassett’s recent article in GQ, in which she claims, among other falsehoods and unsubstantiated insinuations, that the pro-life movement in the

[ad_1] Joe Biden departs after a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., June 5, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative advocacy group, announced on Friday the launch of an ad campaign casting prominent Democrats as hypocrites for their reaction to the sexual assault allegation leveled against Joe Biden. Tara Reade, a former staffer

[ad_1] Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) announces a bipartisan agreement during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 17, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Senators from both parties will introduce legislation to sanction Chinese officials and entities over a suite of new national security laws that threaten the Hong Kong’s independence from mainland China.

[ad_1] A medical staffmember wearing protective gear administers tests for the coronavirus at a test facility outside Skane University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, April 29, 2020. (TT News Agency/ Johan Nilsson via Reuters) Not so hot. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen Sweden’s government took a more lax approach than other western countries to fighting the