The Saturday agenda for CPAC featured two governors whose work on prison reform has likely gone underappreciated. Governor Ken Stitt from Oklahoma and Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee were interviewed by Matt Schlapp regarding their efforts to decrease recidivism and reintegrate former prisoners into American society. Both commented that former president Trump’s leadership on the

(diane39/Getty Images) American moms and dads now know that forcing critical race theory onto children is a priority for teachers’ unions. Twenty twenty-one is shaping up to be the year of one of the largest grassroots movements since the Tea Party movement in 2009. Millions of parents across the country are fighting back against the

(gorodenkoff/Getty Images) Our friend David French and his New York Times co-authors complain that rules that would constrain certain kinds of classroom indoctrination amount to “speech codes.” Of course, we already have speech codes, formally and informally, in public-school classrooms: Try hitting the students with some young-Earth creationism or nonconforming views about the transgender controversy

Hunter Biden in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live/via YouTube) During an appearance on CNN on Friday, former Obama-era Office of Government Ethics chief Walter Shaub called the White House’s arrangement allowing Hunter Biden to sell his art “the perfect mechanism for funneling bribes” to the president. Shaub’s statement comes amid the development

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they arrive for the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. (Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Reuters) During a phone call with President Vladimir Putin on Friday, President Biden demanded that the Russian leader “take action” against cybercriminals based in his country,

Logo of the Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) at a gas station in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 2020. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) The more an oil company is controlled by the state, the less responsibly it behaves — from the treatment of workers to corruption to environmental impact. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you

Police clear the U.S. Capitol with tear gas in Washington, D.C. January 6, 2021. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters) Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt claimed on Wednesday that the Capitol riot is a more dangerous event for the future of the United States than the September 11 terrorist attacks were and is likely to cause more deaths. “The

Rep. Mark Green (R., Tenn.) (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Representative Mark Green (R., Tenn.) called for an Air Force Academy professor to be ousted from her role on Wednesday after she suggested that critical race theory should be taught at the service academies. Lynne Chandler García, an associate professor of political science, wrote in an essay in the

A healthcare worker prepares a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination in Los Angeles, Calif., January 7, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines is not the ‘triumph’ of government intervention that industrial-policy advocates claim. As President Biden picks up the “industrial policy” baton from Donald Trump, it has become accepted wisdom that “Operation Warp Speed”

Rudy Giuliani outside his apartment building after his law license was suspended in New York City, June 24, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from practicing law in Washington, D.C., pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings in New York. A D.C. appellate court issued the ruling on Wednesday, two weeks after a New

Voters line up to cast their ballots in the Senate run-off election, at a polling station in Marietta, Ga. January 5, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) On Wednesday, District Court Judge J.P. Boulee denied a motion calling for a preliminary injunction against S.B. 202, the controversial Georgia election law passed earlier this year. It was filed by

(gpointstudio/Getty Images) It might be time to admit that education is an induction into a metaphysical and moral worldview. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he balance of opposition to critical race theory in schools is not led by people who have an alternative comprehensive vision of education and schooling. It’s led primarily by people who, inchoately

A visitor walks past Raytheon stand at the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, June 21, 2019. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Defense contractor Raytheon launched an “anti-racism” program in summer 2020, encouraging white employees to “identify their privilege” and “step aside” in favor of minority employees, according to documents obtained by

A worker removes razor wire from the top of security fencing at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The remaining fencing outlining the perimeter of the U.S. Capitol, installed as a precautionary measure following the January 6 insurrection on the Capitol grounds, is soon to be deconstructed. What’s left of the

Neera Tanden during a Senate hearing while she was a nominee for OMB director, Washington, D.C., February 10, 2021 (Anna Moneymaker/Reuters) Senior White House officials are engaging in “informal discussions” with external experts and GOP members on creating a second bipartisan package as an offshoot from a Democratic-only reconciliation bill that addresses “human infrastructure,” one

(Stock image: Halfpoint/Getty Images) As if we needed further evidence that medicine is growing increasingly impersonal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal has published a study that claims a computer program can predict when seniors have six months to live. From the Global News story: Amid a lack of proper support for Canadians receiving home-based support

Logo from the National Education Association’s 95th Representative Assembly in Washington, D.C., July 5, 2016 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The representative assembly of the National Education Association (NEA), the country’s largest teachers’ union, rejected an anti-Israel resolution that would condemn the Jewish state for its “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. The failed measure, which only 23 percent of

(diane39/Getty Images) Today’s historians prize emotion over evidence and fiction over fact. On June 16, I received an email from the American Historical Association (AHA), of which I am a member, trumpeting its “firm opposition” to anti-critical race theory legislation nationwide. Amid our culture of near-omnipresent virtue signaling, wherein businesses and organizations rush to embrace

(Jason Reed/Reuters) Politically, it would be difficult to return the job’s focus to foreign affairs, as the Constitution intended. But it would do the nation a lot of good. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he American presidency is a deeply weird job: The president’s legitimate constitutional powers and his fundamental responsibilities have overwhelmingly to do with

The Declaration of Independence (Wikimedia Commons) 1776—The Declaration of Independence is a stirring statement of America’s creed, but is it also a sexist and xenophobic document? Defending the Supreme Court’s increasing use of foreign law in support of its rulings on the meaning of the Constitution, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg titles a 2005 speech “‘A

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada July 2, 2021. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on Friday condemned vandalism and suspected arson of churches following the discoveries of unmarked graves at former schools for indigenous children. Around 150,000 indigenous Canadians were forced to attend the “Indian

Outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Calif. (Noah Berger/Reuters) 2019—In Sierra Club v. Trump, a divided Ninth Circuit panel bars the Trump administration from reprogramming appropriated funds to build a border wall with Mexico. Specifically, the panel leaves in place, pending its consideration of the government’s appeal, a permanent injunction entered

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrives for a special session of the National Constituent Assembly to present his annual state of the nation in Caracas, Venezuela, January 14, 2019. (Manaure Quintero/Reuters) Representatives of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist political organization in the United States, met with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro Friday. In

Opponents of Critical Race Theory attend a packed Loudoun County School board meeting in Ashburn, Va., June 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) I wrote yesterday about a couple of outlandish attacks on anti-CRT bans, especially the one by Timothy Snyder in The New York Times Magazine. He gets Florida so blatantly wrong that it deserves a

1. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi presents Pope Francis with a painting in leather of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper. Al-Kadhimi told the pope it was painted in secret by a woman while she was being held captive by ISIS. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) pic.twitter.com/XYKPE77pFU — Catholic News Service (@CatholicNewsSvc) July 2, 2021 2. Turns out

Social-distancing dividers in a classroom at St. Benedict School in Montebello, Calif., July 14, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) After a year-plus of destructive behavior, these selfish organizations aren’t done abusing their power yet. The children may be on summer vacation, but the teachers’ unions haven’t taken a break from trying to harm them. This week, the

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Legal constitutionalists and political conservatives have had reason to be disappointed at times with the Roberts Court, but today is not one of those days. The Court concluded its 2020-21 term with a pair of 6-3 rulings written by George W. Bush’s appointees (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito) and joined

(Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Washington, D.C., attorney general Karl Racine has subpoenaed Facebook for information dealing with the company’s coronavirus misinformation policies and how it mitigates violations among users. Racine has demanded that Facebook disclose the findings of research it conducted into vaccine skepticism among its account holders. The study aims to trace the transmission of ideas

In its decision today in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, the Supreme Court addressed two Arizona election measures: (1) its policy of not counting votes cast in the wrong precinct; and (2) and its law, HB 2023, allowing only postal workers, election officials, or a voter’s caregiver, family member, or household member to collect and

(Photo Illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) On Wednesday, a federal judge blocked recently enacted Florida legislation spearheaded by Republican governor Ron DeSantis prohibiting Big Tech companies from de-platforming political figures and engaging in censorship against conservative users. In his decision, Judge Robert Hinkle of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled that the