[ad_1] A man passes a sign at MGM National Harbor as the hotel and casino opens its doors to guests after an easing of restrictions imposed to control the spread of the coronavirus in Oxon Hill, Md., June 29, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Businesses large and small face crippling lawsuits. Will the GOP step up to

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force news briefing at the White House, July 30, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Assertions that the focus was ‘the Trump campaign’ are now known to be ludicrous Long-sought documents finally pried from U.S. intelligence agencies prove that the Obama administration used the occasion of providing a standard

[ad_1] BlackRock CEO Larry Fink takes part in the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in New York in 2017. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) From the New York Times: Laurence D. Fink presents himself as the vanguard of a progressive form of capitalism in which profits are not everything: The enlightened money is supposed to press for environmental

[ad_1] Voters wait in a line, which continued a few blocks south of the polling location, to vote in the presidential primary election while wearing masks and practicing social distancing at Riverside High School in Milwaukee, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters) Fears that the elections would be

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about his plans to combat racial inequality at a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., July 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Joe Biden says he wants equality. Who could be against that? But if just declaring yourself in favor of equality were enough, we would not still be arguing about

[ad_1] A protestor attempts to pull down a statue of President Andrew Jackson in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., June 22, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Its religious aspects can, however, tell us something about what ails our culture. This summer, those protesting for social justice have torn down statues of saints and national

[ad_1] Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston/Reuters) A federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonated two pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April 2013, killing three and injuring over 260 bystanders. Tamerlan was

[ad_1] People walk in Tripoli, Lebanon, July 29, 2020. Picture taken July 29, 2020. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) Economic and political corruption and mismanagement have left the Lebanese people coping with shortages, exorbitant prices, loss of wealth and security, and a generally uncertain future. This week, while reading a slew of WhatsApp messages from family in Lebanon,

[ad_1] (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) You might think music theory is an academic area that’s safe from the illiberal mob, but a University of North Texas professor has learned otherwise. Chances are you have never heard of the music theorist Heinrich Schenker or the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, a publication at the University of North Texas (UNT)

[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July 25, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Charles “Chas” Freeman, a veteran U.S. diplomat who served in East Asia and as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, slammed a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a “psychotic rant” in an interview Wednesday with a

[ad_1] A trader wears a mask on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the building prepares to close due to the coronavirus, March 20, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Welcome to the inaugural Capital Letter. At National Review Capital Matters we publish a daily Capital Note between Monday and Thursday. On Friday, we will review

[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in Queens, N.Y., February 22, 2020 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) singled out a statue of Father Damien, a Catholic priest who ministered to a Hawaiian leper colony, as an example of “white supremacist culture.” Father Damien, born Jozef de Veuster in Belgium, arrived in Hawaii in

[ad_1] Burned ISIS banner in the recaptured city of Palmyra, March 27, 2016. (Maher el Mounes/AFP/Getty) In the case of Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, the United States needs to hurry up and intervene. Imagine you had a beloved child, born in a free and prosperous country. Imagine that he or she grew into

[ad_1] Over on the home page, I take a look at 20 things you probably didn’t know about Susan Rice — and Benghazi isn’t one of them, because you almost certainly already know about that. In about a week, that list is going to look prescient and important . . . or quickly forgotten. And

[ad_1] Academic freedom now takes a back seat to the tender feelings of social-justice warriors on campus. Just how bad have things gotten? A recent incident at UCLA tells us. Education writer and former UCLA faculty member Walt Gardner writes about it in today’s Martin Center article.  A lecturer in political science made the horrible

[ad_1] Rioters throw back tear-gas canisters fired by federal law-enforcement officers in Portland, Ore., July 29, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) An interview with independent journalist Michael Tracey NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ichael Tracey is an independent, left-leaning journalist who is a thorn in the side of the progressive consensus that is set on Twitter. He has

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about his plans to combat racial inequality at a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., July 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) If it were passed, the result would be more violations of free-speech rights in the workplace and economic ruin for countless small businesses. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J oe Biden

[ad_1] (traveler1116/iStock/Getty Images Plus) On July 30, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the law P. L. 84-140, which made “In God We Trust” the nation’s official motto. The motto had appeared on coins since the Civil War era, but now it would also be printed on paper currency. Critics grumbled about the new motto

[ad_1] DACA supporters outside the White House, September 2017 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) DACA is shaping up to be like the Spanish-American War tax or Jim Geraghty’s USDA Agency of Invasive Species — an almost unkillable absurdity. Since the first days of this administration, I’ve been trying to hold the president to his unequivocal promise to terminate

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks about legislation for additional coronavirus aid in the Oval Office at the White House, July 20, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump outdid himself this morning with a tweet floating the idea of delaying the election. Obviously, this is an incendiary and absurd idea unworthy of being spoken — or even

[ad_1] (Dado Ruvic/File Photo/Reuters) YouTube removed a livestream of Heather Mac Donald challenging the Black Lives Matter narrative on police shootings due to a violation of “Community Guidelines” after the lecture was “flagged to us for review.” In a statement to National Review, Mac Donald said her Thursday lecture “presented the facts about police shootings

[ad_1] Sen. Dianne Feinstein during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the DOJ Inspector General’s report, June 18, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) labeled China a “respectable nation” in a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The committee convened to discuss a bill introduced by Senator Martha McSally (R., Ariz.)

[ad_1] I know I should be jaded by now by the persistence of Linda Greenhouse in seeking to stigmatize defense of religious liberty as a religious crusade. But I was still startled today to see her do it yet again in her online column ever so subtly titled “The Supreme Court’s Religious Crusaders Take On

[ad_1] Former President Barack Obama addresses the service during the funeral of late Congressman John Lewis at Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Reuters) Former president Barack Obama slammed the Senate filibuster as a “Jim Crown relic” and urged lawmakers to back statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, during a

[ad_1] A worker takes a break while cleaning up a basketball court at Glasgow Middle School, a Fairfax County Public School, during deadline day for families and teachers countywide to decide between teaching/learning from home or in the classroom due to the coronavirus, in Falls Church, Va., July 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Over several decades

[ad_1] If you would like an example of how it is that our political discourse gets dumber by the day, tune in to NPR. This morning, Morning Edition host David Greene interviewed Senator James Langford (R., Okla.) about unemployment benefits. The interview was a fiasco, and you can listen to this exercise in incompetence in

[ad_1] Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump formally accepts the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 21, 2016. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) President Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the 2020 election “until people can properly, securely and safely vote.” In a series of tweets, the president attacked mail-in voting, saying it “is already proving

[ad_1] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a discussion hosted by the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2019. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) After recently announcing that she has been undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in the hospital for the second time this

[ad_1] Michael Brendan Dougherty writes that “Trump has faced an unprecedented wave of insubordination by his own White House staff, and he has often met that with an unthinkable, unleaderly passivity.” The worst example of these tendencies came in Syria, when Trump said we were withdrawing and his underlings effectively overruled him. Dougherty goes on

[ad_1] The Capitol Building at sunrise in Washington, D.C., November 17, 2008 (Jim Young/Reuters) With a $2 trillion gap between the parties’ respective proposals, the last-minute scramble to get something done is just beginning. You can give House Democrats credit for one thing: When they realized that another COVID-19 relief bill would be necessary, they