[ad_1] Steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., January 2020 (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Montana may not bar religious schools from participating in the state’s tax-credit scholarship program, a major win for school choice advocates and parents who wish to use their scholarship funds to send their children

[ad_1] Joe Biden, Democratic 2020 presidential candidate and former vice president delivers remarks on health care during a campaign stop in Lancaster, Pa., June 25, 2020. (Mark Makela/Reuters) President Trump had a great riff at his rally the other day in Phoenix. It was all about “abolish,” about how the Left wants to abolish the

[ad_1] Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife Jane depart following the State of the Union address, February 5, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Four years after voting to uphold a modest state law regulating abortion clinics, John Roberts votes to strike down a nearly identical law. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F our years ago, the

[ad_1] Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (center) attends the State of the Union address, February 5, 2019. (Doug Mills/Pool via Reuters) The Constitution does not prohibit Louisiana from requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges in hospitals near where they operate. We know this fact from reading it; from the debates over the ratification of

[ad_1] A man and woman draw their firearms on protestors as they enter their neighborhood during a protest against St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, in St. Louis, Mo., June 28, 2020. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) A couple pointed guns at protesters who were on private property outside their home Sunday night, as the demonstrators marched past on

[ad_1] Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia Museum in Florence, Italy. (Max Rossi/Reuters) Only a culture soaked in a belief in original sin can honor men for the good they did, for the events at which they were present. This magazine’s former Washington editor, George Will, is displeased at the sight of his nation’s statues toppling

[ad_1] Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts stands at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., December 3, 2018. (Jabin Botsford/Pool via Reuters) Decisions on abortion and separation of powers demonstrate how good ideas about the law become empty words on a page. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here is a saying — perhaps as old as

[ad_1] Anti-abortion marchers rally at the Supreme Court during the 46th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Court’s justification for blocking anti-abortion state legislation rests on shaky grounds and ignores common-sense constitutional interpretation. Pro-abortion activists are sure to be celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision this morning in June

[ad_1] Members of the Taliban hand over their weapons in Jalalabad, Afghanistan June 25, 2020. (Parwiz/Reuters) A U.S. intelligence official claims that intelligence reports alleging Russia offered bounty payments to Taliban militants to target American forces in Afghanistan were “uncorroborated” and hence not presented to President Trump as part of his briefings on national security

[ad_1] Former President Barack Obama speaks during an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. (Lim Huey Teng/Reuters) Former President Barack Obama told aides this month that the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd are “a tailor-made moment” to help his former vice president Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in

[ad_1] A self-driving robot checks a body temperature during a demonstration at the headquarter of SK Telecom in Seoul, South Korea, May 26, 2020. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters) Few trends better highlight our desperate need for reassurance than the nearly universal installation of temperature checks in ever more workplace environments. The approach is quick, easy, cheap, and

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., March 2, 2020. (Lucas Jackson / Reuters) Today on the homepage, I have a brief essay called “The Curse of Identity Politics.” It was motivated by two events yesterday. Early in the morning, President Trump circulated a video in which a supporter of

[ad_1] This morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Chinese government perceives its “its dominance in strategic rare-earth minerals as leverage that can be used against the West — including in trade disputes with the U.S., according to a new report by U.S.-based researchers. Rare earths are metals used for a variety of advanced

[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) Our ‘burn it to the ground’ maligner of the Republican Party should just give it a rest. It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump, by Stuart Stevens

[ad_1] Frederick Douglass, c. 1879 (National Archives/via Wikimedia) Through retrocession, the capital’s residents could become residents of a new Maryland county named after Douglass. If ever an issue called out for compromise, it’s finding a way to give the 700,000 Americans who live in the District of Columbia full congressional representation. But that’s not what

[ad_1] Florida governor Ron DeSantis in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 30, 2020 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The coronavirus hasn’t gone away. As the Northeast, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. for months, has seen steep, persistent declines in confirmed cases, other parts of the country have spiked. A month or so ago, most the increased

[ad_1] President Donald Trump during a meeting in the East Room of the White House., Washington, D.C., June 26, 2020 (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The pandemic has robbed Trump of his ability to control events. On March 18, at a press conference flanked by high-ranking officials, President Trump described himself as a “wartime president” fighting an “invisible

[ad_1] Demonstrators hold a Black Lives Matter banner during a protest against racial inequality in front of the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 7, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) This narrative is driving the nation to ruin. Have you seen that mountain of evidence that Derek Chauvin is a racist? Me neither. In that regard,

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (left) attend a joint news conference in advance of a House vote on a District of Columbia statehood bill on Capitol Hill, June 25, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The House Democrats’ D.C. statehood vote is, as NR’s editorial notes, just for show: D.C. statehood would

[ad_1] Bloomberg: Companies shoring up cash to survive the global pandemic raised funds in the U.S. high-yield market at the fastest monthly pace ever. Junk issuers have already sold $46.7 billion of bonds in June, surpassing the prior monthly record of $46.4 billion in September 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. [Tuesday’s] $500 million

[ad_1] The dome of the U.S. Capitol Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 26, 2019 (Erin Scott/Reuters) The House voted to approve statehood for Washington, D.C., on Thursday in a bill expected to be dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate. The 232-180 vote fell along party lines, with Representative Collin Peterson (D.,

[ad_1] Protestors attempt to pull down the statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park during a protest in Washington, D.C., June 22, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) In the face of far-left radicalism, we must hold the line. ‘Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) during her weekly news conference with Capitol Hill reporters in Washington, D.C., May 7, 2020 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Democratic leader still won’t apologize for accusing Republicans of trying to ‘get away with . . . the murder of George Floyd.’ It takes a lot in the year 2020

[ad_1] In two separate rulings today in Sierra Club v. Trump and California v. Trump, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled that the plaintiffs have causes of action (legal claims) to challenge the Trump administration’s transfer of appropriated funds to build a border wall with Mexico and, further, that such transfer is unlawful.

[ad_1] A lone worker passes by the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., October 8, 2013. (Jason Reed/Reuters) Breathes there a citizen of this great republic who believes that the most pressing problem in America today is that Washington, D.C., and its denizens simply do not have enough influence on the national government? To listen to

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a daily briefing at North Shore University Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in Manhasset, N.Y., May 6, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) New York’s governor surveys the smoldering wreckage of the hardest-hit state and declares victory. Andrew Cuomo is spiking the football, dunking the basketball, and dashing around the

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio deliver remarks at a news conference regarding the state’s first confirmed case of coronavirus in New York City, March 2, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A federal judge on Friday ruled that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo

[ad_1] The Mississippi state flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag, hangs with other state flags in the subway system under the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 23, 2015. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Mississippi legislature may have the votes necessary to change the state flag, which currently features the emblem of the Confederacy. “Supporters of

[ad_1] U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci and Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic attend the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 14, 2020. (Michael Dalder/Reuters) Nobody is denying that the EU plays a critical role in the future of the Western Balkans — but so does the United States. When it

[ad_1] (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) When an influential slice of the electorate believes that America is evil, effectively projecting power abroad becomes much more difficult. As I write, protesters are seeking the destruction of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., a statue paid for entirely by freed slaves. Abraham Lincoln is not the only one of America’s