[ad_1] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, with his wife Chirlane McCray, speaks at a news conference in New York, September 20, 2019. (Jefferson Siegel/Reuters) New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, employs at least six staffers whose salaries are paid by taxpayers but are not listed on her official staff

[ad_1] A Chicago Police officer inspects an Apple store that was vandalized in Chicago, Ill., August 10, 2020. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters) Police officers in Chicago have been retiring at twice the average rate recently, sounding alarms among local officials that the city could soon be short of officers if the trend continues. Michael Lappe, vice president

[ad_1] Transgender rights activist waves a transgender flag as they protest the killings of transgender women this year, at a rally in Washington Square Park in New York, U.S., May 24, 2019. (Demetrius Freeman/Reuters) A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new rule that would have rolled back Obama-era sex

[ad_1] President Donald Trump gestures in front of supporters in Oshkosh, Wisc., August 17, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Charlie Sykes and Jonathan Last attacked me for the sin of ‘anti-anti-Trumpism.’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C. S. Lewis, writing in 1941, coined his famous definition of the logical fallacy of Bulverism: You must show that a man is

[ad_1] During the virtual Democratic National Convention tonight, New York governor Andrew Cuomo had the temerity to tell a national audience that, “Our way worked. And it was beautiful.” The shameless and vulgar self-aggrandizing — which he’s only able to get away with because of criminal lack of media scrutiny — didn’t end there, as

[ad_1] In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, more than 100 U.S. congressmen have called on the Internal Revenue Service to cease providing tax deductions for abortion procedures by designating them as “medical care.” “In all but the most extreme circumstances, abortion is an elective procedure that has nothing to do with, ‘the prevention

[ad_1] President Trump applauds during a signing ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 4, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump’s replacement of liberal judicial hero Stephen Reinhardt with Ken Lee, a constitutionalist judge, was a significant milestone in the Trump administration’s ideological balancing of the notoriously left-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the

[ad_1] Former Ohio Governor John Kasich speaks at the site of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 2019. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) Former governor of Ohio John Kasich will speak at the Democratic National Convention tonight. With the ongoing — and frequently overwrought — worries that the U.S. Postal Service will collapse upon the waves

[ad_1] Sen. Kamala Harris speaks during the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) Fact-checkers try — and fail — to distort the new vice-presidential nominee’s gun-control record. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here’s already a concerted gaslighting effort underway to convince voters that Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential

[ad_1] COVID-19 is proving to be a great help to those who want to get rid of standardized testing for college applicants. The push to suspend the requirement of an SAT or ACT score during the pandemic is creating herd momentum to dump the tests completely. As Shannon Watkins explains in today’s Martin Center article,

[ad_1] Houses in the Denver, Colo., suburb of Superior, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) President Trump and Secretary Carson have co-authored a strong op-ed entitled “We’ll Protect America’s Suburbs.” This piece is the administration’s most important attempt to date to break the media blockade on substantive discussion of the suburbs issue. Up to this point, instead of

[ad_1] U.S. troops patrol at an Afghan National Army base in Logar Province, Afghanistan, August 7, 2018. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters) Iran paid Taliban fighters to attack American soldiers and other coalition forces in Afghanistan, CNN reported on Monday. U.S. intelligence has assessed that a foreign government paid fighters who took part in at least six attacks

[ad_1] Pedestrians make their way amid the coronavirus outbreak in Tokyo, Japan June 29, 2020. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) Japan on Monday reported its worst drop in GDP on record, with its economy shrinking a record 7.8% from April to June as the coronavirus pandemic severely slowed economic activity in the country.  The decrease translates to an

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), speaks next to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., August 7, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is calling the House back to Washington from August recess to vote on legislation that would prevent the Postal

[ad_1] Police officers from the NYPD investigate a crime scene in Queens, N.Y., July 6, 2020. (Lloyd Mitchell/Reuters) The surge in violence that has emerged this summer in major American cities continued over the weekend, with at least 64 shooting victims in Chicago and 52 in New York City since Thursday. Five men were killed

[ad_1] (saengsuriya13/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The pandemic has forced new thinking into medicine — and it’s about time. The virus pandemic has put American medicine to the test like few other events in our history. As horrible as its toll has been, COVID-19 has also unleashed medical trends that will have the long-term effect of improving

[ad_1] Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama at the final presidential campaign debate in Boca Raton, Fla., in 2012. (Win McNamee/Pool/via Reuters) Romney was right about Russia in 2012, and he remains right today. Earlier this month, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center released a statement saying that Russia is once again involving itself in

[ad_1] Outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Calif. (Noah Berger/Reuters) Who says conservatives have lost California? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Second Amendment has won a small victory in California, with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down as unconstitutional the state’s ban on so-called high-capacity magazines — which, as

[ad_1] MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on location in June 2019 (Mike Segar/Reuters) As news broke Friday that John Durham’s criminal probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation had resulted in a former FBI lawyer pleading guilty to doctoring FISA evidence used against the Trump campaign, the formerly Russia-obsessed mainstream media did its best to

[ad_1] Michael Flynn arrives at a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) And if he somehow doesn’t prevail, he’ll be pardoned. So why all the legal maneuvering? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE G eneral Michael Flynn is going to lose the battle. That was the takeaway from Tuesday’s hearing before the D.C.

[ad_1] J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building in Washington, D.C. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Some interesting things to note about the false statements to which former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is pleading guilty today. Criminal Information Charging False Statements The charge is contained in a criminal information. That is a form of formal allegation the Justice Department

[ad_1] Dr. Scott Atlas speaks at a White House press briefing, August 12, 2020. (Screengrab via Fox Business/YouTube) The media-driven attempt to paint his views on health policy as “unscientific” is a smear. Almost as soon as Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford University was named a special adviser to the president last week, having been

[ad_1] Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine issues involving race and policing practices in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, June 16, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/Reuters) Making someone as extreme as Kamala Harris a president-in-waiting is a bone-chilling prospect. No conservative or moderate should support it. NRPLUS

[ad_1] Cross-partisan talks about another pandemic-relief bill are clearly bogged down. But the rhetoric, and even a lot of the journalism, around how that has happened tends to mask more than it reveals. Republicans say the Democrats are clinging to unreasonable demands and irresponsible spending levels. Democrats say Republicans don’t want a bill and aren’t

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks about a peace deal reached between Israel and the United Arab Emirates from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 13, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Flanked by some of his top advisers in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Trump announced that Israel and the United Arab

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, May 1, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) We can end the speculation. Yesterday, Attorney General Bill Barr indicated in an interview that, on Friday, there would be an announcement, significant but not earth-shattering in nature, about the Durham investigation into Trump–Russia probe that was

[ad_1] Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 17, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor for the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said this week that he sees “no reason” Americans should avoid voting

[ad_1] One-time advisor of former president-elect Donald Trump, Carter Page addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow, Russia, December 12, 2016. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to falsifying a document used to obtain a FISA warrant on former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was charged in Washington, D.C., on

[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) In a new campaign ad, Joe Biden discusses his 2016 meeting with Pope Francis in Rome and says that, on his way out of St. Peter’s Basilica, he happened to run in to

[ad_1] The U.S. Capitol (Sky Noir Photography by Bill Dickinson/Getty Images) On the home page, our Robert VerBruggen has a really smart and insightful piece on the breakdown in talks about pandemic economic relief, concluding that there has “rarely been a better example of a longstanding problem in American politics: Congress doesn’t feel like doing