[ad_1] Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly in ‘Mrs. America’. (FX Networks/Screenshot via Youtube) In April, the political drama Mrs. America debuted to critical acclaim on FX and Hulu. The show chronicles the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and the opposing campaign led by Phyllis Schlafly, played in this production by

[ad_1] National security adviser John Bolton listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, February 12, 2019. (Carlos Barria / Reuters) Today’s Impromptus begins with two Lennons, John and Sean. They came into my life (so to speak) in interesting ways this week. I also talk Diamond & Silk,

[ad_1] Pro-democracy protesters hold banners as they march during a lunchtime demonstration at the Pacific Place mall in Hong Kong, China, June 12, 2020. (Laurel Chor/Reuters) The Senate passed a bill on Thursday that places sanctions on individuals, entities, and banks that help facilitate greater Chinese control over Hong Kong. Senator Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.),

[ad_1] Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch (Jabin Botsford/Reuters) Gorsuch failed to recognize how Supreme Court precedent deviated from, and distorted, the text of the Civil Rights Act. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T itle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it unlawful for employers to “discriminate against” employees “because of . .

[ad_1] 1. I love this police officer: It turns out the cure for woke nonsense is the Gospel of John. https://t.co/CRTWcMGJvJ — Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) June 25, 2020 2. This is disgusting and wrong. Don’t be that which you claim to fight against. https://t.co/zqGfo2RvqI — Kyrsten Sinema (@kyrstensinema) June 25, 2020 3. June 2020 Trafficking

[ad_1] The self-proclaimed Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, Wash., June 14, 2020. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) The “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP) moved towards disintegration on Thursday as protesters began leaving the area. Four shootings have occurred in the CHOP over the past several days, leaving one person dead. The area, which covers six blocks in

[ad_1] Ari Schulman has an excellent essay on COVID-19 and dueling claims of scientific expertise: In other words, the U.S. mask advisory changed not because of what the evidence plainly dictated; rather, it was because experts’ judgment of the existing evidence had shifted. And the judgment itself was not mainly scientific—it was a prudential assessment

[ad_1] President Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Bolton’s foreign-policy revelations show a president crass in pursuit of electoral gain, but admirably circumspect about making war. The leaked extracts of former national-security adviser

[ad_1] The Emancipation Memorial stands in Boston, Mass., June 23, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Jamelle Bouie mounts a dishonest effort to rewrite history. According to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, “Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves.” Instead, “the slaves freed the slaves.” Emancipation “was something they took for themselves.” The most

[ad_1] United States Treasury check on a 1040 tax form (Getty Images) The Government Accountability Office revealed in a new report that almost 1.1 million dead people received coronavirus relief checks from the government that totaled nearly $1.4 billion. The GAO explains that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department “moved quickly” to

[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2020. (Will Dunham/Reuters) The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration on Thursday in a landmark immigration case involving the asylum process. In the case, Dept. of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, the court ruled 7-2 that if an asylum seeker is denied

[ad_1] A demonstrator sits at the self-proclaimed Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Wash., June 15, 2020. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) Over a dozen businesses and residents in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood have filed a lawsuit against the city for its “unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood” to allow for the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump takes questions during a news conference at the White House in Washington, June 24, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) In May, the U.S. experienced an unemployment rate of 13.3 percent. The Congressional Budget Office expects that rate to remain above 10 percent throughout the year. This pandemic-stricken economy is not exactly crying out

[ad_1] Chicago police at the scene of a fatal shooting in 2015. (Jim Young/Reuters) About three weeks ago, we published my column, “The ‘Institutional Racism’ Canard.” In it, I made a point about black-on-black murders, drawing on FBI statistics from 2016. Though the data I drew from the published stats was accurate, there are caveats

[ad_1] (MarianVejcik/iStock/Getty Images Plus) In the midst of massive economic interventions, Congress should push public-pension reform. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s spring turns to summer, temperatures are rising outdoors and on the Hill. Last week, Mitch McConnell noted that the Senate will assess in July whether another spending bill, which the House Democrats and Trump

[ad_1] Justice Neil Gorsuch in his chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., September 13, 2019 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) One of the reasons I declined to support Trump’s election in 2016 was my belief that he didn’t keep his promises. Even where he promised an injection of nationalist views I found welcome, I didn’t trust

[ad_1] The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., June 19, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It deserves to stand forever, a silent monument whose history and character speak louder than anyone who would destroy it. In a quiet, tree-lined area about a mile from the U.S. Capitol building, a statue has stood since 1876. Unveiled eleven

[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) Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) is proposing a bill to revise the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act to protect statues of former U.S. presidents and the signers of

[ad_1] A cross stands stuck in the ground along Highway 17 at the entrance of the Saltillo Shores neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot, in Brunswick, Ga., May 8, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters) A Georgia grand jury returned an indictment of nine charges against the three suspects in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Cobb County district

[ad_1] President Trump walks with Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido prior to holding talks at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 5, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Trump has stuck his foot in his mouth yet again. In an Axios story published Sunday, Trump was quoted as saying, of the prospect of a meeting with Venezuelan

[ad_1] Michael Flynn boards Air Force One at West Palm Beach International airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., February 12, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A divided panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals this morning ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to grant the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the indictment against Michael Flynn, who fleetingly served

[ad_1] Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) speaks about his new police reform bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The Republican police reform bill stalled in the Senate on Wednesday after Senate Democrats voted against starting debate on the measure and demanded bipartisan talks. Senators voted

[ad_1] The headquarters of Wirecard AG, an independent provider of outsourcing and white label solutions for electronic payment transactions in Aschheim near Munich, Germany April 25, 2019. (Michael Dalder/Reuters) The Wirecard story highlights once again the utility of short sellers. Selling a security short has rarely been a way to make friends, whether with investors,

[ad_1] Back in the office for the first time in months, I’ve had time to dig into an amazing Ninth Circuit opinion that’s been sitting on my desk. In Al Otro Lado v. Wolf, a divided panel denied the Department of Homeland Security’s motion for a stay pending appeal of a district court’s preliminary injunction.

[ad_1] FBI Director James Comey at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2015. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Former FBI director James Comey told President Obama that the 2016 conversations between Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and incoming national-security adviser Michael Flynn were not criminal in nature, according to notes from former agent Peter Strzok released

[ad_1] When it comes to real research — the kind that leads to breakthroughs that make our lives better — a high percentage of it comes out of American universities. Why is this so? Columbia University professor Miguel Urquiola has written an intriguing book in which he argues that the reason why is that compared

[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, Washington, March 11, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) Blunderbuss rules can fuel paralysis among educational leaders. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T his spring was

[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces introduction of public housing legislation as part of the Green New Deal in Washington, D.C., November 14, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Here is something Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said this week: Latinos are black. . . . We have to have conversations around “colorism,” and we have to have conversations around the

[ad_1] NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace during the Daytona 500 race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., February 16, 2020. (Mike Dinovo-USA TODAY Sports) A “noose” found in the garage of the only full-time African-American driver in NASCAR had been there since 2019 and was not planted as part of a hate

[ad_1] President Trump speaks in a roundtable briefing on border security in Yuma, Ariz., June 23, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Twitter placed a warning on a tweet by President Trump on Tuesday afternoon, saying the tweet violated the company’s policy on “abusive behavior.” “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long as