[ad_1] A woman is tested for the coronavirus in East Los Angeles, Calif., November 10, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The coronavirus surge across the U.S. heartland again broke records on Tuesday, both for the number of patients hospitalized as well as numbers of new cases. Almost 62,000 people were hospitalized with coronavirus as of Tuesday, breaking

[ad_1] At Texas Public Policy Foundation, Andrew Gillen has been doing some excellent work analyzing higher education. In a recent study, he used the Obama administration’s “Gainful Employment” methodology to see how law schools would fare if they were put to that test. What he found was that the great majority of the schools would

[ad_1] (Larry Downing/Reuters) Norman Ornstein’s tweet about how to help Democrats cement power might have been a bad joke — but it was revealing. Many prominent Trump opponents have centered their message on a defense of “democracy.” It’s easy to suspect that such appeals reflect little true commitment to democratic norms but are rather a

[ad_1] (BigNazik/Getty Images) The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s legitimization of ‘hate speech’ restrictions undermines American principles and foreign policy. The United States supports a robust view of free speech and does not recognize any government ability to restrain so-called hate speech. Instead, the U.S. Supreme Court has held repeatedly that government attempts to

[ad_1] The Pilgrims Signing the Compact, on board the Mayflower, Nov. 11th, 1620, engraving by Gauthier (Library of Congress) The Mayflower Compact, signed 400 years ago this week, helped lay a foundation for America’s commitment to government by consent of the governed. In his famous Leviathan, the 17th-century theorist Thomas Hobbes argued that members of

[ad_1] Read it here (hat tip to Tyler Cowen). Using state-level data from the former Confederacy all the way back to 1913, it checks to see if trends in black gun ownership correlate with trends in lynchings and homicides. The key findings: • From 1913 to 1949, lynchings were less common when and where more

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., November 10, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that he does not see a need to launch legal action to compel the Trump administration to cooperate with Biden’s transition team. “We’re just going to proceed the way we have,” Biden said. “We’re going

[ad_1] Democratic Senate challenger Cal Cunningham speaks to voters in Durham, N.C., November 3, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham on Tuesday conceded the North Carolina race to incumbent Republican Thom Tillis. “Earlier this afternoon, Cal Cunningham called me to offer his concession,” Tillis said Tuesday in a statement. “This was a hard-fought

[ad_1] An article in The Spectator discusses the embarrassing nature of Joe Biden’s invocation of the dismal Catholic hymn “On Eagle’s Wings,” loosely based on Psalm 91, during his speech on Saturday. Coincidentally, this happens to be the same psalm that Satan abused during the temptation of Christ: Then the devil took him to the

[ad_1] Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) questions judicial nominees during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 4, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) slammed the FBI for not investigating sexual assault allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. The

[ad_1] U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., August 5, 2020. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters Pool) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said the State Department is “ready” to begin a transition to the next administration after “every legal vote” cast in the election

[ad_1] (Matt Anderson/Getty Images) At least five Supreme Court justices, including two of the Court’s six conservatives, have indicated that they are leaning toward upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, clashing with Republicans who argue that the entire law is unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested during oral arguments

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Trump campaign has filed a lengthy complaint in federal court, challenging Pennsylvania’s administration of the 2020 presidential election as a violation of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. This is the theory under which, 20 years ago, the Supreme Court invalidated Florida’s presidential election vote-counting procedures in Bush v. Gore.

[ad_1] President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Opa-Locka, Fla., November 2, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Donald Trump has left an indelible mark on American politics, but not on American policy. National populists had high hopes for a new conservative agenda after the 2016 election, but they were disappointed.

[ad_1] Voters cast their ballots to vote in state and local elections at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, U.S. November 5, 2019. (Ryan M. Kelly/Reuters) A post-presidential case for the Republican candidates Hi. Me again. I know — I’d hoped we wouldn’t be having this conversation, too! But here we

[ad_1] Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick during an interview with Reuters at the North American College in Rome, February 14, 2013 (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters) Pope John Paul II knew of allegations of sexual misconduct against defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick, but did not follow up on them, according to a new report released by the Vatican. Pope Francis

[ad_1] Medics care for a man found unresponsive after overdosing on an opioid in the Boston suburb of Salem, Mass., August 9, 2017. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Public-health measures should not trigger another wave of unintended consequences. On November 5, the New York Times reported that four major companies are closing in on a $26 billion settlement

[ad_1] The state of Mississippi’s certiorari petition in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is teed up to be voted on at the Court’s conference on Friday. The petition concerns Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, enacted in 2018, which allows abortions after 15 weeks of gestational age only in medical emergencies or in instances of severe

[ad_1] Dr. Saulo Castellano labels a nasal swab sample at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in Madison, Wis., October 31, 2020. (Bing Guan/Reuters) The United States on Monday recorded its ten millionth case of  COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins, with one million cases confirmed in just the

[ad_1] President Trump holds a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., November 2, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump is reportedly discussing running for president again in 2024 even as he mounts multiple lawsuits challenging President-Elect Joe Biden’s victories in several battleground states. The president has already raised the possibility with advisers of launching another campaign

[ad_1] This morning, President-elect Biden announced that his coronavirus task force would include Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. In a 2014 essay in The Atlantic, Emanuel, explained why he hoped to die at age 75, and why he finds the idea of

[ad_1] Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) on Monday issued a harsh rebuke of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s comments that it is “bad news” that a coronavirus vaccine

[ad_1] Pfizer’s announcement that its coronavirus vaccine could be ready for distribution within the next two months was partially “bad news” because it comes before President Trump leaves office, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday morning. Pfizer and BioNTech revealed on Monday that their vaccine was 90 percent effective according to preliminary data,

[ad_1] People react as they watch a speech by Democratic 2020 presidential nominee Joe Biden after news media announced that he has won the 2020 presidential election in New York City, N.Y., November 7, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) New York City Council member Mark D. Levine, chairman of the health committee, warned that the city was

[ad_1] President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich., November 3, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump plans to hold a series of large-scale rallies focused on his “ongoing litigation” as he files lawsuits in a number of states alleging, without evidence, that fraudulent voting swung the

[ad_1] Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden greet supporters at an election rally, after news media announced that Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, in Wilmington, Del., November 7, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris unveiled their Transition COVID-19 advisory board on Monday, a

[ad_1] A woman holds a small coronavirus vaccine bottle in front of the Pfizer logo, October 30, 2020. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Pfizer announced on Monday that its coronavirus vaccine developed with BioNTech SE prevented 90 percent of infections in a trial with tens of thousands of volunteers, in a major step toward authorization of a vaccine

[ad_1] A man crosses a nearly empty Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the coronavirus outbreak, March 25, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Almost overnight, the coronavirus diminished young professionals’ once-bright economic prospects. Here’s how they’re coping. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, life was pretty good for post-graduate Gen Zers, budding young professionals, and graduating college seniors. America

[ad_1] Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez holds her filled ballot as she votes early at a polling station in The Bronx, New York City, October 25, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The Biden team is promising that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) will not be disappointed by the president-elect’s “incredibly progressive and aggressive agenda” once he takes office. Asked

[ad_1] No one in their right mind believes that Donald Trump will still be president come January 20. This is not Bush v. Gore. In that instance, the candidates were separated by barely 1,000 votes in a single state. Trump, in contrast, has lost the electoral college by tens of thousands of votes across several