[ad_1] A member of the New York Police Department stands outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in N.Y., November 28, 2015. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Kate Smith poses as a neutral reporter, smuggling her support for abortion into her work and sacrificing her objectivity for scoops from prominent abortion-rights groups. Anyone who regularly reads my work is likely

[ad_1] Former national security adviser Michael Flynn departs after his sentencing was delayed at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 18, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) New documents suggest that Flynn ‘was set up by corrupt agents’ who threatened Flynn’s son and made a secret deal with Flynn’s attorneys. ‘Why was the FBI investigating General Flynn?”

[ad_1] A gavel sits on the chairman’s dais in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 14, 2019 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Earlier this month, I was overjoyed to learn that President Trump had selected my friend and former colleague, judge Justin Walker, to fill a vacancy on the U.S.

[ad_1] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 21, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is proposing a bill to ban President Trump from signing coronavirus checks, calling the current practice “a waste of time and money” and the “exploitation of taxpayer money

[ad_1] A U.S. flag hangs above an entrance to the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Financialization and globalization explain Marc Andreessen’s thesis on the U.S. economy. Marc Andreessen wants America to build again. In a recent essay, the technology entrepreneur attributes the U.S.’s lackluster coronavirus policy response to insufficient domestic manufacturing capacity.

[ad_1] A “closed” sign hangs in a local park in Exchange Place, N.J., with Lower Manhattan in New York City visible in the distance, April 25, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Americans were more resilient, less vulnerable to groupthink, and committed to going to work and washing their hands. We’re not just living through an earthshaking pandemic.

[ad_1] President Trump seems increasingly ambivalent about the utility of the daily and sometime marathon press conferences. He should be — and for reasons besides just their length and frequency. First, Trump gets bogged down into long, back-and-forth jousts with the touché Washington press corps. His impromptu skills, honed both as president and in his

[ad_1] Illinois State Capitol in Springfield (Library of Congress) This contagion has nothing to do with coronavirus. Bailing out the Illinois state pension system is the worst idea from a week in which we were discussing the health benefits of mainlining Lysol. (Please do not mainline Lysol. It will kill you.) Irresponsible state and local

[ad_1] 1906—William J. Brennan, Jr., is born in Newark, New Jersey. In his 34 years on the Court, Brennan will deploy his impressive backroom political skills in the service of liberal judicial activism. It is doubtful that anyone has done more to misshape the Supreme Court’s understanding of the Constitution. 1938—In his famous footnote 4

[ad_1] A woman walks past a sign at Seaward Park in Seattle, Wash., telling people not to overcrowd parks after Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan reopened parks that were closed Easter weekend as efforts continue to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, April 19, 2020. (Jason Redmond/Reuters) Expert opinion is helpful, sometimes invaluable, but it’s

[ad_1] President Donald Trump points at a reporter during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 23, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump should not spit-ball on live television, especially on topics that are outside his ken. How depressing is the erosion of the principle that when the president of the United

[ad_1] The Washington Post reports: Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller told White House supporters in a private call this week that the president’s new executive order curbing immigration will usher in the kind of broader long-term changes to American society he has advocated for years, even though the 60-day measures were publicly characterized as a “pause”

[ad_1] Comedian Louis C.K. at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2016 (Danny Moloshok/Reuters) The Biden presidential campaign announced on Wednesday that it would refund a $2,800 donation comedian Louis C.K., who has been accused of multiple instances of sexual misconduct. The donation was made on March 4, according to Federal

[ad_1] A man walks by an illuminated flag of The United States as the coronavirus outbreak continues in Manhattan, New York City, March 13, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) While there’s been plenty to criticize and lament in our nation’s response to this pandemic, such a sweeping charge is unsupportable. We’re living through a global pandemic and

[ad_1] President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Financial records show that President Trump still owes the state-owned Bank of China millions from a $211 million loan that he used to refinance his 30-percent stake in a New York City skyscraper.

[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) President Trump on Friday said he was being “sarcastic” during the previous day’s press conference when he expressed interest in exploring whether light, heat and disinfectants could be potential treatments for

[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questions Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan as he testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, July 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the $484 billion coronavirus relief package to replenish the depleted small business loan program, with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) being the only

[ad_1] Travelers stand at a Virgin Australia Airlines counter at Kingsford Smith International Airport, following the coronavirus outbreak in Sydney, Australia, March 18, 2020. (Loren Elliott/Reuters) Australia will keep its borders closed to foreign visitors for at least three more months to prevent the introduction of coronavirus cases into the country. “The international situation at

[ad_1] A pharmacy worker shows pills of hydroxychloroquine used to treat the coronavirus at the CHR Centre Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle Hospital in Liege, Belgium, April 22, 2020. (Yves Herman/Reuters) A doctor who was removed from his role overseeing a federal agency tasked with helping develop the coronavirus vaccine said that he was forced

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 21, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump on Tuesday said an immigration ban he announced the previous day on Twitter would consist of a 60-day “pause,” to be renewed if the administration deemed it necessary. The pause will affect

[ad_1] Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada, as efforts continue to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, April 20, 2020. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that two planes sent to pick up medical supplies in China were forced to

[ad_1] A police officer stands outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., January 22, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) The seemingly simple case generated five opinions but was correctly decided in the end. The Supreme Court has managed to transform a very straightforward issue into something quite complex. Don’t blame the current justices, though. On the

[ad_1] Attendees walk past a Facebook logo at the company’s developers conference in San Jose, Calif., April 30, 2019. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Instead of stifling protests against lockdowns, Facebook should treat political content dispassionately and allow users to curate their own experiences. A scattering of protests aimed at state lockdowns erupted across the country last week,

[ad_1] I have a piece up on the home page on how the administration handled the potential shortfall in ventilators quite deftly. It obviously helped that the lockdowns kept the disease from running completely out of control, but the administration almost certainly would have been able to handle worse numbers. A key, as I write

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 18, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) The administration handled the potential shortage deftly.  At a coronavirus-task-force briefing at the beginning of April, White House adviser Jared Kushner explained the approach that would — as events proved — get the country

[ad_1] Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference following a Senate vote on the coronavirus relief bill on Capitol Hill, March 26, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) They should be forced to tell Americans why racial and gender quotas are more important than saving employees from joblessness. Let’s not hear one more consonant

[ad_1] Joe Biden speaks at a rally in Philadelphia, Pa., March 10, 2020. Reuters/Brendan McDermid Joe Biden speaks at a rally in Philadelphia, Pa., March 10, 2020. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid) The United States of America cannot be governed by platitude. Edna Ferber, author of Giant, had a great ear for one of the subtlest American dialects:

[ad_1] Two ampules of the Ebola drug Remdesivir at a news conference at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, April 8, 2020. (Ulrich Perrey/Pool via Reuters) While the antiviral remdesivir shows promise, leaked results from a new clinical trial don’t really tell us much about its efficacy. On Thursday, STAT News reported positive results

[ad_1] Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., November 30, 2018. (Jim Young/Reuters) 1990—Dissenting in Osborne v. Ohio, Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Stevens opine that possession of child pornography is protected by the First Amendment. Though unmoored from any plausible meaning of the First Amendment, their position is

[ad_1] President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 17, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) He wants to invoke one archaic constitutional clause to trigger another one, but it won’t work. Even those who are not Trump devotees but would like to see the government function properly