[ad_1] BlackRock CEO Larry Fink takes part in the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in New York in 2017. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Say what you will about BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Wall Street’s most prominent player of the climate game, but he knows a thing or two about politics. Bloomberg reports: When the Federal Reserve needed Wall

[ad_1] Pro-life demonstrators carry a banner outside the Supreme Court during the 47th March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Peddling easily disproven lies about abortion and racism. According to a new documentary, Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, made a deathbed confession that her pro-life conversion and

[ad_1] The crest for the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, D.C. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The Justice Department announced Thursday that a former Pennsylvania election official was convicted of accepting $2,500 in bribes to stuff ballots for three Democratic candidates for Common Pleas Court judge in

[ad_1] (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Eight steps to massively expand absentee voting and ensure safe methods by which to vote in person. The coronavirus pandemic has taken lives and wealth, but it presents another challenge as well: a challenge to our form of government. An election is coming in November. The pandemic will not be over. Just

[ad_1] People walk through a nearly empty Times Square during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, March 19, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) We were slow to act in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. But would people have followed lockdown orders if they’d come earlier? The lead story in the New York Times today is

[ad_1] U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters) Representative John Ratcliffe (R., Texas) was confirmed as national intelligence director by the Senate on Thursday, securing President Trump’s preferred pick for the position despite Democrat protests. The

[ad_1] Over at FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux reports on a new study about unemployment-benefit expansion:  A new analysis by Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel and Joseph Vavra, economists at the University of Chicago, uses government data from 2019 to estimate that 68 percent of unemployed workers who can receive benefits are eligible for payments that are greater than their lost earnings. They also found

[ad_1] Certain governors, including Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, seem to apply one standard for reopening “non-essential” secular services and another for religious. This week, Walz made the bizarre announcement that while bars, restaurants, and barbers can reopen on June 1, churches can’t. From the Wall Street Journal: The churches are asking for equal treatment

[ad_1] The headline of this post would be an alternative—and, as I will discuss, perhaps a more reliable—takeaway from a study by law professor Leah Litman of the Supreme Court’s recent telephonic arguments, but it’s obviously not as attention-grabbing as the National Law Journal’s story titled “Female Justices Were Cut Off More Than Colleagues During

[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) wears a protective face mask during the coronavirus outbreak on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) This morning, 27 Republican senators — including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) — sent a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr, calling on the Department of

[ad_1] (Evgen_Prozhyrko/Getty Images) Stiffing creditors violates property rights, spikes interest rates, and destabilizes markets. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ith U.S. debt at record levels, calls are being heard for a debt jubilee, in which all or part of the country’s mountain of debt would be written off, to the great relief of debtors and the

[ad_1] Free speech is not free if the government can force you to say things you disagree with. That is the principle behind the Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus v. AFSCME (2018) that public-sector workers cannot be forced to pay for a labor union’s speech. The same idea is being litigated in the context of state

[ad_1] Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Democrats hold a news conference at the U.S. Capitol before the start of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, January 31, 2020. (Amanda Voisard/Reuters) Senator Kamala Harris last week introduced a resolution condemning the use of the phrase “Wuhan virus” to refer to SARS-CoV-2, the

[ad_1] General Flynn’s counsel, Sidney Powell, has filed petition for a writ of mandamus in the D.C. Circuit, seeking to have the appeals court instruct District judge Emmet Sullivan end his tantrum over the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case. Judge Sullivan’s antics include inviting a torrent of amicus briefs to help him figure

[ad_1] Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Parkland, Fla., February 14, 2019 (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Wednesday lambasted the mainstream press for confidently projecting a disastrous Covid outbreak in his state. “You’ve got a lot of people in your profession [journalists] who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks, about how Florida

[ad_1] Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanks the NHS in a video message on Easter Sunday, London, England, April 12, 2020. (Pippa Fowles/Reuters) New opposition leader Keir Starmer is projecting strength at the expense of the prime minister and his Tory government. It didn’t take much to exude more parliamentary confidence than Theresa May, or Jeremy

[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July 25, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended the firing of the State Department’s inspector general and took aim at Democrats investigating him over the decision, singling out Senator Robert Menendez for particularly harsh criticism. President Trump

[ad_1] Gloria Allred (right) and Norma McCorvey (“Jane Roe”) demonstrate at the Supreme Court in 1990. (Greg Gibson/AFP/Getty Images) There are reasons to doubt new claims about Norma McCorvey’s activism, but in any case her conversion isn’t the heart of the pro-life movement. According to a new documentary being released later this week, Norma McCorvey

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 18, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Pandemics call for a willingness to break medicine out of the usual red-tape mentality and accept some risks in combating a fast-moving, deadly virus. In that spirit, there was nothing wrong in theory with

[ad_1] Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, holds a copy of the Constitution while speaking during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., December 12, 2019. (Andrew Harrer/Reuters) Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) on Wednesday indicated that she backed a GOP-led probe into a Chinese drone maker that has donated drones

[ad_1] A voter holds an “I Voted” sticker after casting his ballot in the New Hampshire presidential primary in Allenstown, N.H., February 11, 2020. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) This fall, Colorado voters might have the opportunity to use direct democracy protect unborn children.  Colorado currently has no gestational limits on abortion and is home to the infamous

[ad_1] Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speaks about sanctions against Turkey at a news briefing at the White House, October 11, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Tuesday warned that continued lockdowns meant to slow the spread of coronavirus could scar the U.S. economy. “There is the risk of permanent damage” if the economy

[ad_1] Mike Garcia (Campaign image via Facebook) A GOP candidate straight out of central casting won big in last week’s special election. Can he do it again in November? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A  few months ago, not many political analysts thought the Republicans had a shot at winning back the House seat that Democratic congresswoman

[ad_1] A U.S. Border Patrol agent at the U.S.-Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., in 2017. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Trump administration on Tuesday finalized a rule that imposes indefinite restrictions on the land borders of the U.S. The rule gives Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Robert Redfield the authority to reopen U.S. borders to

[ad_1] (Thilo Schmuelgen/Reuters) The virus’s devastating toll on long-term-care facilities in New York and New Jersey is the result, more than anything else, of bad governance. In the New York Times on Sunday, Fordham theology professor Charles Camosy wrote that America’s long-standing disregard for the elderly and infirm “made the nursing-home crisis” touched off by

[ad_1] Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks during a campaign event in Detroit, Mich., March 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer revealed Tuesday that she talked to former vice president Joe Biden this week about possibly being his running mate. “I’ve had a conversation with some folks,” Whitmer said in an interview on the

[ad_1] (Christian Hartmann/Reuters) Comedian Joe Rogan has signed a deal to air his popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, exclusively on Spotify. Rogan’s podcast currently receives tens of millions of downloads per month, and is currently available for free on YouTube and Apple’s podcast app. Spotify, a streaming services platform, offers listeners free access to

[ad_1] Former FBI director James Comey speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) In a newly declassified email that Susan Rice sent to herself on January 20, 2017, the former national-security adviser said that former FBI director James Comey had “no indication” that Michael Flynn had passed along classified information

[ad_1] A customer walks into a clothing retailer J.Crew store in Manhattan, N.Y., March 3, 2014. (Mike Segar/Reuters ) If you want to see free enterprise for all it is and all it will ever be, then rejecting the demonization of private equity is a good place to start. The New York Times has been

[ad_1] Rep. Elise Stefanik, November 19, 2019 (Jacquelyn Martin/Reuters) Representative Elise Stefanik called Tuesday for an investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision to order nursing homes to admit residents who tested positive for coronavirus. “The governor took executive action forcing positive COVID cases back into nursing homes,” the New York Republican, who represents the state’s