[ad_1] Before becoming a judge, Greg Katsas faithfully served as a top lawyer in both the Department of Justice and the White House, and he also built a distinguished career in private practice. After Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, Judge Katsas is one of President Trump’s most consequential judicial appointments, sitting on the influential

[ad_1] A man walks by as riots turn into fires after a black man, identified as Jacob Blake, was shot by police, Kenosha, Wis., August 24, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) Key details still have not been released, but a picture is emerging. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R ioters didn’t wait to hear the full story of the

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., August 20, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) After Mike Pence’s speech at the RNC yesterday evening, an NBC News fact-checker got to work attempting to disprove the vice president’s

[ad_1] Rep. Ayanna Pressley questions during the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., August 24, 2020. (Tom Williams/Reuters) Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) said on Wednesday that the 17-year-old who allegedly fatally shot two people in Kenosha, Wis. while trying to defend the city from looters is a “white supremacist domestic terrorist.” 

[ad_1] Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg (L) and TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer (R), speak on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, N.Y., October 22, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer said he is resigning from his post after only three months with the short-form video app, as the company

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., August 20, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Joe Biden supports the right of unlimited abortion, funded by the taxpayers, up until the moment of birth. It’s a position that

[ad_1] Sister Deirdre Mary Byrne, superior of the D.C. Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts and a retired U.S. Army colonel and board-certified general surgeon, speaks during the 2020 Republican National Convention broadcast from Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020. (2020 Republican National Convention/Handout via Reuters) Sister Dierdre Byrne, a physician who served in the military

[ad_1] Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul speaks during a news conference in Kenosha, Wisc., August 26, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) The Wisconsin Justice Department revealed Wednesday that Jacob Blake had admitted to investigators that “he had a knife in his possession” when he was shot seven times in the back by Kenosha police on Sunday. Investigators

[ad_1] President Donald Trump participates in a naturalization ceremony in the Cross Hall of the White House, August 25, 2020. (Joyce N. Boghosian/White House) The reality is that nobody in either party has any intention of ever enforcing the Hatch Act against senior people on their own side. The Trump campaign is under fire in

[ad_1] Sister Loraine McGuire with Little Sisters of the Poor speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) As part of the Republican convention last night, Cissie Graham Lynch said that “Democrats tried to make faith organizations pay for abortion-inducing drugs.” Rachel Maddow was first out the gate with a response,

[ad_1] A man on a bike rides past a city truck on fire outside the Kenosha County Courthouse during riots following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, Kenosha, Wis., August 23, 2020. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA TODAY/Reuters) Pernicious consequences arise from mob rule. A  clear and metastasizing disdain for law, order, and reason is

[ad_1] From left: Sohrab Ahmari, moderator Ross Douthat, and David French at the Catholic University of America, September 5, 2019 (Institution for Human Ecology/YouTube) Whatever legitimate grievances of which Ahmari speaks, actually doing something about them cannot merely be a matter of wish-casting and fan service. ‘Dreams feel real when we’re in them,” says Cobb,

[ad_1] Rep. Mark Meadows speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, October 29, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday dismissed criticisms of Trump administration officials for speaking to the Republican National Convention in apparent violation of the Hatch Act of 1939. The law prevents employees of the federal government’s executive

[ad_1] An incendiary device goes off in front of a Kenosha Country Sheriff Vehicle as demonstrators take part in a protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. August 25, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Local politicians from Kenosha, Wisc., pleaded with Governor Tony Evers to send additional National Guard service

[ad_1] Abby Johnson, a former clinic director for Planned Parenthood, speaks during the 2020 Republican National Convention broadcast from Washington, D.C., August 25, 2020. (2020 Republican National Convention/Handout via Reuters) The Republican convention featured a speech attacking unlimited legal abortion, while last week Democrats ignored the issue entirely. The Republican convention yesterday evening featured a

[ad_1] A portrait of George Floyd during a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of his death, in New York City, June 8, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) You can read them here. Three in particular stood out to me. Two describe how Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County chief medical examiner, assessed the level of fentanyl

[ad_1] Flames engulf the Community Corrections Division building as police officers stand watch in Kenosha, Wisc., August 24, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) If Americans are safe, we can get back to living, loving, building, working, and socializing. In response to riots, looting, violence, and iconoclasm in American cities, President Trump and other Republicans are counting on

[ad_1] It makes sense to prioritize paid family leave. Because families need help. They did before the pandemic, and they need it even more now. I am not fond of the game of including everything but the kitchen sink in a list of what is pro-life, but the fact of the matter is if we

[ad_1] People line up for taxis across the street from the New York Times building in New York City. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) The New York Times runs a “fact check” of the same claim as the Washington Post. It’s by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, whose reporting on this subject earlier this year went awry. I’ll take its

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden waves next to Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Wilmington, Del., August 19, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Biden–Harris is the most pro-abortion ticket in history — and the Democratic Party is out of step with its own voters. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t a convention

[ad_1] A Uyghur man in front of a wall painted with slogans, Xinjiang Province, 2012 (Stringer/Reuters) The Trump administration is considering whether to formally label China’s treatment of Uighurs a “genocide,” Politico reported on Tuesday. A genocide designation by the U.S. government could have political and legal consequences for the country. If the genocide label is

[ad_1] The Post‘s “fact check” on the convention speeches last night includes this passage: Most abortions are performed in the earlier stages of pregnancy. About 1 percent happen after the fetus reaches the point of viability. In short, [RNC chairwoman Ronna] McDaniel and the president are describing something that rarely happens and that no Democrat

[ad_1] A deli closed due to the coronavirus outbreak in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 26, 2020. (Stephen Yang/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter (coming soon) about finance and economics. On the (abbreviated — Daniel Tenreiro is away) menu today: Lockdowns, a small-company debt crunch, a motel revival, nukes, and short sellers. Lockdowns and the

[ad_1] Nikki Haley delivered the most politically savvy line of the night. (Not a sentence I thought I’d write.) It was a theme the organizers should have hammered more instead of talking about “socialism.” “In much of the Democratic Party, it’s now fashionable to say that America is racist,” she said. “That is a lie.

[ad_1] Last night brought the odd phenomenon of Trump fans — and his former campaign manager! — complaining that they had to tune in to other networks because Fox News hosts kept talking over the speakers at the GOP convention. This is one of those rare moments where the interests of Fox News primetime hosts and

[ad_1] Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf at the launch of a new initiative to combat online child sexual exploitation during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., March 5, 2020 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate acting Department of Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf to

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden and Senator and Democratic candidate for Vice President Kamala Harris celebrate outside the Chase Center during the 2020 Democratic National Convention, in Wilmington, Del., August 20, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) It celebrates itself as the party of norms, except the ones necessary

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during the third presidential debate with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nev., October 19, 2016. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) After suffering a loss in the 2016 presidential election herself, Hillary Clinton is warning 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not to concede “under any circumstances”

[ad_1] CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Va. (Larry Downing/Reuters) He twisted the meaning of a CIA term to define Carter Page as an unwitting CIA source rather than what he was: a CIA informant willingly providing info for use against Russians. Author’s Note: This is the second of a three-part series (see Part 1). Kevin

[ad_1] Using the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System, National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearm trade association, estimates that there were over 12 million guns bought in the first seven months of 2020 — up more than 70 percent over the same time span in 2019. This number is likely to include nearly 5 million