[ad_1] Rioters use shields to block non-lethal rounds and react to tear gas fired by federal law enforcement in Portland, Ore., July 23, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) The comparisons to stormtroopers are a disgrace. We live in an age of viral videos that often can be deceiving. That’s certainly the case in Portland, where the hyperbolic

[ad_1] (Wavebreakmedia/Getty Images) This week, The Lancet Global Health released an interesting study on the incidence of unintended pregnancy and abortion worldwide, analyzing data from 166 countries between 1990 and 2019. The study contrasted the situation in countries with different income groups and in different geographic regions and analyzed cross-country data on both abortion rates

[ad_1] Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin exits after testifying before the House Small Business Committee at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 17, 2020. (Kevin Dietsch/Reuters) On the menu today: Senate Republicans are close to unveiling their first draft of a new coronavirus-relief bill, we have a little more good news on the coronavirus-vaccine front, and

[ad_1] Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) delivers remarks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 27, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Trump joined in criticism of House GOP Conference chairwoman Liz Cheney (R., Wy.) on Thursday after several House Republicans aired various grievances against the congresswoman, including over her support for the war

[ad_1] Princeton University campus in 2013. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) We cannot allow the United States to become a country in which the price of dissent is so high that all but the bravest among us are unwilling to pay it. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A “pall of orthodoxy” has descended over an increasing number of American institutions.

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks about sending federal law enforcement agents to several U.S. cities to assist local police in the East Room at the White House, July 22, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) ‘Operation Legend,’ named after a four-year-old shot to death in his sleep, relies on longstanding cooperation between federal, state, and local authorities. President

[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) and EU Commission Vice President Federica Mogherini (third from left) arrive for a photo together before a U.S.-E.U. Energy Council Meeting at the European Union’s European External Action Service in Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters) Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Rochelle Toplensky warns

[ad_1] Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del.,, June 1, 2020. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called President Trump the country’s first racist president during a virtual town hall Wednesday. “The way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national

[ad_1] Georgia Governor Brian Kemp greets President Trump as he arrives at the airport in Atlanta, Ga., July 15, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Kemp’s position seems to be that when it comes to public health, all men pretty much are angels and can be left to their own devices. Last Thursday, Brian Kemp, the Republican governor

[ad_1] Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, July 16, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters) New York Times reporter Julian Barnes implied on Tuesday that some intelligence officials believe that the Kremlin is fanning corruption allegations against Joe Biden’s son Hunter in order to “obscure” Russia’s ongoing

[ad_1] People are silhouetted in front of the Canadian national flag at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 21, 2019. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters) With the highest unemployment rate in the G7, Canada is running massive deficits with no signs of slowing down, causing Canada’s debt to be downgraded and yields to rise. Many

[ad_1] The U.S. Capitol during a morning rainstorm on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 25, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) As the potential for unified Democratic control of Congress and the White House in 2021 grows, so too has an appetite for nuking the filibuster. This recent Atlantic piece by Ron Brownstein lays out the arguments

[ad_1] A man walks inside a conference room used for meetings between military commanders of China and India, at the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, November 11, 2009. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) China may be a powerful adversary, but its bluffs can be called. On July

[ad_1] Tracey Pucci helps her son Foxton Harding, 12, with a school assignment for Northshore Middle School, which moved to online-only schooling for two weeks due to coronavirus concerns, at their home in Bothell, Wash., March 11, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) Last week, the Fairfax County, Va., public schools gave me two options for my soon-to-be

[ad_1] Joe Garcia has his heart rate and temperature checked before getting tested for the coronavirus, in Austin, Texas, June 28, 2020. (Sergio Flores/Reuters) On the menu today: Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. exceed 1,000 for the first time in a while as researchers work to pinpoint the virus’s fatality rate, a biological woman who

[ad_1] Chicago Police officers stand at a crime scene in Chicago, Ill., November 1, 2017. (Joshua Lott/Reuters) At least 14 people were shot outside a funeral home in Chicago on Tuesday night, in one of the most violent incidents the city has seen this summer. Police told reporters that gunmen began firing from inside a

[ad_1] Outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium (Yves Herman/Reuters) The continent’s market rigidities and its lack of effective federal structures and a shared political outlook are liabilities in times of economic distress. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E ven before Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States was rarely cited as a paragon of good governance.

[ad_1] Federal law enforcement officers, deployed under the Trump administration’s new executive order to protect federal monuments and buildings, face off with rioters in Portland, Ore., July 18, 2020. (Nathan Howard/Reuters) The mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing ‘protesters’ are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves. Despite some occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing,

[ad_1] President Donald Trump answers questions during a coronavirus response news briefing at the White House, July 21, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) It’s hard to remember a more damaging Sunday morning interview than Chris Wallace’s sit-down with President Trump over the weekend. Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, is always tough and well-prepared, but it

[ad_1] President Donald Trump points to a reporter for a question during a coronavirus response news briefing at the White House, July 21, 2020 (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump warned on Tuesday that the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. would likely take a turn for the worse before the situation improves. “It will probably, unfortunately, get

[ad_1] Today, the WSJ reports on environmental groups’ practice of free-riding on federal environmental enforcement actions to shake down polluters. Led by Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark, the environment division of the Department of Justice is now pushing to end the practice in a federal case involving DTE Energy, Michigan’s largest electrical utility and a

[ad_1] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to the press during a break in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial on Capitol Hill, January 31, 2020. (Amanda Voisard/Reuters) Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) signaled a willingness to end the Senate’s practice of imposing a 60-vote threshold for most legislation in a press conference

[ad_1] (Unsplash) Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday, along with four others as part of a $60 million racketeering and bribery investigation. The case involved the controversial $1 billion ratepayer bailout last year of two Ohio nuclear plants, which was led by Republicans including Householder. The criminal complaint,

[ad_1] (WestEnd61/Getty Images) The Justice Department on Tuesday indicted two Chinese nationals who are suspected of hacking numerous U.S. firms to steal trade secrets and coronavirus research. The Trump administration warned in May that China was attempting to steal or set back American research on a coronavirus vaccine. The new indictment alleges that one of

[ad_1] (18percentgrey/Dreamstime) The New York Times’s chief critic has launched a campaign to end the merit-based ‘blind audition’ hiring process for orchestras. Amid the current moment of moral panic in American racial politics, any proposal, no matter how regressive or discriminatory in nature, can become a non-negotiable demand if it is sold as part of

[ad_1] The pro-life movement has spent decades pointing out that Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, had racist views and was a leading member of the eugenics movement primarily because she wished to eliminate populations she called “unfit” and “feebleminded” (read: poor, non-white). Planned Parenthood is finally catching up: Its New York affiliate has disavowed Sanger

[ad_1] Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt speaks to Reuters after a news conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., September 9, 2019. (Bryan Pietsch/Reuters) Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is promising to seek the dismissal of charges against the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters outside their house last month in an

[ad_1] (GlobalStock/Getty Images) Florida’s largest teachers union sued Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday to overturn an emergency order requiring schools to offer in-person instruction five days a week next month, even as cases of COVID-19 surge in the state. In the suit, filed in circuit court in Miami-Dade county, the Florida Education Association accuses the

[ad_1] A man and woman draw their firearms on protestors as they enter their neighborhood during a protest in St. Louis, Mo., June 28, 2020. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) St. Louis’ top prosecutor has charged Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who pointed guns at protesters marching by their mansion last month, with felony unlawful use of

[ad_1] (Pixabay) A group of economists and business leaders urged Congress on Monday to include healthcare price transparency in the next COVID-19 stimulus package. In a letter sent to President Trump and other GOP leadership, signatories — including former House speaker Newt Gingrich, Forbes Media chairman and CEO Steve Forbes, former state treasurer of Ohio