[ad_1] Monica Wyman at work. (Independent Women’s Forum/via YouTube) While it’s nice that industries with deep pockets were able to win carve-outs via ballot measure, the devastating effects of AB5 persist for thousands of independent workers and small-business owners. Voters in California approved Proposition 22 by a wide margin last week, a ballot initiative that

[ad_1] A runner jogs past a public-health sign on the beach in Oceanside, Calif., October 12, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) A second lockdown would smother our economic recovery and only delay the inevitable spread of COVID-19. European countries are imposing harsh lockdowns again as a second wave of COVID-19 spreads throughout Europe. It was a mistake

[ad_1] Governor Mario Cuomo at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in 1991. (National Archives) In a compelling new biography, George Marlin examines the political career of ‘Hamlet on the Hudson,’ full of promise never quite realized. Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man, by George J. Marlin (St. Augustine’s Press, 340 pp., $35) New York governor

[ad_1] Supporters hold signs as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a drive-in campaign stop in St. Paul, Minn., October 30, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The only thing that has been made clear is that the much-anticipated flood of majority votes in favor of a leftward shift in America did not happen. Most of the

[ad_1] Electoral workers count postal ballots in Philadelphia, Penn., November 6, 2020. (Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters) A Pennsylvania commonwealth judge on Friday ordered that all provisional ballots cast by voters who had previously cast an absentee or mail-in ballot be set aside until county election directors ensure they meet state code and can legally be counted. The

[ad_1] Sister Loraine McGuire with Little Sisters of the Poor after the Supreme Court heard Zubik v. Burwell, an appeal demanding exemption from providing insurance covering contraception, in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) When the Little Sisters of the Poor and allied groups won their most recent victory at the Supreme Court this

[ad_1] Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) questions witnesses during committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 17, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Reuters) Representative Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) slammed newly-elected congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has expressed support for the wild internet conspiracy theory QAnon, after Greene accused him of being insufficiently supportive of President Trump’s

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden makes a statement on the status of the election results during a brief appearance before reporters in Wilmington, Del., November 5, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Biden would be a ceremonial president. The Democrats gambled that if they chose the least offensive, most avuncular establishmentarian to lead them — a guy

[ad_1] Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) speaks during the third day of Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) on Friday said President Trump’s lawyers must present “real evidence” of voter fraud, as the campaign has

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here will be more lessons to draw from the 2020 election as the vote-counting proceeds, and after the two Georgia Senate runoffs decide control of the Senate. For now, we know that (1) turnout was extremely high for both parties; (2) Republicans had easily the better night than Democrats below

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 29, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) House speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed on Friday that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will enter the White House with a “bigger mandate than John F. Kennedy,” though a number of votes have yet

[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, June 12, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) hit back at moderate Democrats on Friday who complained that progressives’ support for socialism and defunding police departments had hurt the party on Election Day. Republican candidates managed to unseat several House

[ad_1] A polling station in Atlanta on Election Day in 2018 (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has announced that elections officials would conduct a recount of the 2020 vote in the state, because of the razor-thin difference in ballots cast for Joe Biden and President Trump. With 99 percent of the

[ad_1] Racial preferences are not popular in America.  Not even in California, where the effort to repeal Prop. 209 was handily defeated in the election, despite support from business, celebrities, institutions and the Democratic Party, backed by a huge bankroll. (Spending on the campaign to repeal the racial neutrality language was ten times the spending

[ad_1] A person holds an “I voted” sticker during early voting in Los Angeles, Calif., October 30, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It turns out that Californians generally understand freedom when they see it, even if they’re occasionally baffled by party labels. Ballots are still being counted, but the data emerging from Tuesday’s California voting offer a

[ad_1] Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) I’m hearing from a few Republicans who are wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would effectively do a potential President Biden a favor, by discouraging hard-left cabinet

[ad_1] A demonstrator holds up hands in front of police during a protest the day after Election Day in Portland, Ore., November 4, 2020. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) Police declared a riot in downtown Portland Wednesday night as protests turned violent and votes in the general election continued to be counted a day after Election Day. Governor

[ad_1] A trader speaks on a phone outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) following Election Day in Manhattan, New York, November 4, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) U.S. stock index futures saw a sharp increase early Thursday as the nation waited for a victor to be named in the U.S. presidential election. Futures contracts tied to

[ad_1] (giftlegacy/iStock/Getty Images Plus) 1996—If the First Amendment means anything, surely it must mean that the government must be open to funding a piece of “performance art” in which the performer smears chocolate on her breasts and another in which the performer urinates on the stage and turns a toilet bowl into an altar by

[ad_1] Demonstrators are seen in a line at a march for voting rights on Election Day in Graham, N.C., November 3, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Pollsters were widely wrong in 2016, yet learned nothing about their flawed methodologies. So how do they remain credible after 2020? A republic is not just a nation of laws. It

[ad_1] Counting mail-in ballots in Lehigh County, Pa., November 4, 2020. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters) Elections are not like criminal cases. On the matter of vote fraud, there is law and there are facts. We’ll hear plenty about fraud, but we’ll have to remind ourselves to ask: Did it make a difference? Even if the Trump campaign

[ad_1] 1. 2. 3. I hope you watched one or more of those. These women are amazing. 4. Bottom line: Looks like a win for Catholic foster parents—possibly a broad win by a broad margin. And the Justices clearly understood that protecting religious freedom here is not only required by the Constitution but also best

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about the current results of the election in Wilmington, Del., November 4, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that he believes when all votes are counted, he will be declared the next president of the United States. “I’m not here to declare that we’ve

[ad_1] President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump reacts to early results from the presidential election in Washington, D.C., November 4, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Donald Trump’s campaign on Wednesday declared victory in Pennsylvania, though hundreds of thousands of votes are still to be counted. Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien told reporters the campaign is

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacts to early results from the presidential election, in Wilmington, Del., November 4, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The lack of a clear election night winner has left some in the media dumbfounded, after countless predictions that former vice president Joe Biden would defeat Donald Trump in a “landslide.” CNN host

[ad_1] A member of the news media looks over the event site the morning after Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden’s election drive-in rally in Wilmington, Del., November 4, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Welcome to American democracy: same as it ever was. The most dangerous time to write an election analysis is when

[ad_1] An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign in Frankfurt, September 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach) Uber and Lyft won a vote among California voters Tuesday that exempts the companies from having to reclassify their drivers as employees, which would

[ad_1] Equipment in outside broadcasting van for live TV broadcast and production of television programs. (Getty Images) Will the media respond by being less hysterical, less partisan, more measured and reasonable and fair? Of course not. The media convinced themselves that their foamy-mouthed anger with Donald J. Trump was shared by the American people as

[ad_1] House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., waves after speaking in Charlotte, N.C., August 24, 2020. (Chris Carlson/Reuters) Republican candidates for the House defied polling expectations and are projected to gain additional seats this election, partially rolling back a wave of Democratic victories in 2018. While many election results have been delayed because of

[ad_1] E.D. Hirsch is one of our foremost education critics. He’s a liberal in politics, but he completely dissents from the way the Left has used its control over education to breed national division. Back in 1987, he wrote about the need for school curricula based on knowledge in his book Cultural Literacy.  Now he