[ad_1] Donald Trump and Mike Pence at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 2016 (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters) National Review readers are well familiar with Tim Alberta — who covered Campaign 2016 for us. (Did anything interesting happen that year?) He is now the chief political correspondent for Politico — and is covering Campaign

[ad_1] Senator Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 1, 2019 (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) A group of congressional Democrats signed a letter on Wednesday demanding that the Department of Education allow males to participate in girls sports. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal and 27 other Democratic members of Congress signed the letter,

[ad_1] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Washington, D.C., June 1, 2017 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Michael Kruse writes in Politico about the Hill–Thomas hearings of 1991, when Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Joe Biden supposedly “opted not to have testify at least three corroborating witnesses to the alleged sexual harassment and ended up presiding over a panel

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks prior to signing an executive order on police reform at a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House, June 16, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The historic heart of the Republican Party, particularly at the presidential level, is in the Midwest. The party was founded in the Midwest, it drew

[ad_1] Opponents of a white nationalist-led rally hold a Black Lives Matter flag in downtown Washington, D.C., August 12, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The patronizing claim that America is systemically racist robs the black community of any sense of agency. It goes without saying that the death of George Floyd was shameful and wrong. However, the

[ad_1] Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts departs the Trump impeachment trial in Washington,January 29, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The most likely explanation is that neither of the Court’s ideological factions was confident enough of Roberts’s support to risk granting certiorari. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review all ten of the Second

[ad_1] An Indian Army convoy moves along a highway leading to Ladakh, at Gagangeer in Kashmir’s Ganderbal district June 18, 2020. (Danish Ismail/Reuters) China returned ten captured soldiers to India on Friday following deadly clashes between the two nations’ militaries in the Himalayan border region, the Wall Street Journal reported. Two senior Indian officials told

[ad_1] President Trump, in an interview with Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender in the Oval Office Wednesday evening, discussing John Bolton: He had a lot of policy disputes, he and I. And after the first month or so, you know, I asked him one question. I said, “So, do you think you did the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on the reopening of small businesses in Washington, June 18, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump said his Friday his administration would be resubmitting a memorandum to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, explaining that “nothing was lost or won” in the Supreme Court’s Thursday

[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It’s not enough just to expect Congress to appoint conservative judges. The legislative body must legislate. On Tuesday, a Supreme Court majority ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, written to protect against discrimination on the basis of sex, also protects against discrimination on

[ad_1] White House national security adviser John Bolton attends a meeting between President Donald Trump and Fabiana Rosales, wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, at the White House, March 27, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) John Bolton has written the harshest book about a sitting president by one of his former top advisers that anyone has

[ad_1] (Bill Chizek/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For the second time in a week, the Supreme Court has allowed liberals to enact one of their longstanding legislative priorities without the consent of Congress or the president. Conservatives could be forgiven for wondering why liberals need win only one election — or none — to have their choices

[ad_1] Pro-DACA demonstrators near the White House, September 5, 2017 (Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty) Dan’s piece on the home page nicely explains the absurdity of the Supreme Court’s DACA ruling. In his conclusion, he writes, “DACA repeal will still happen — if Trump is in office long enough for DHS to finish the task.” This is probably

[ad_1] A protester watches as a Wendy’s burns following a rally against the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, in Atlanta, Ga., June 13, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Capital murder charges conform to the slanderous anti-cop narrative, not the facts in this case. If you broadcast that you are willing to be bullied, then you invite the

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news conference with Capitol Hill reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told reporters on Thursday that Democrats were readying a possible $1.5 trillion infrastructure spending bill. There have already been various proposals to tie

[ad_1] Megyn Kelly (Mike Segar/Reuters) The lesson seems to be: Liberals will suffer no grave consequences for proving Megyn Kelly was correct about blackface, unless they bring up Megyn Kelly. The best-known person to suffer serious adverse consequences pertaining to the wearing of blackface makeup is, as far as I can tell, Megyn Kelly. Kelly

[ad_1] DACA supporters outside the White House, September 2017 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) I understand that procedural arguments are boring, ineffective, and passe, and that fewer and fewer American are moved by them. But we might wabt pollsters and media outlets to understand the difference between policy outcomes and constitutional process. Take a look at this non

[ad_1] Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) speaks in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2020. (Win McNamee/Reuters) America didn’t invent it, and arguing otherwise makes it harder for us to end its continued practice abroad. On Tuesday, the Democratic Party completed its unconditional surrender to the forces of historical illiteracy when Tim Kaine, the senator from Virginia

[ad_1] DACA recipients celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) For voters who care about this issue, that means it will be back on the ballot this fall. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C hief Justice Roberts, joined by the Supreme Court’s four liberals, restored the Obama administration’s 2012 Deferred Action

[ad_1] Sen. Dick Durbin, speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2020. (Carolyn Kaster/Reuters) Democratic Senator Dick Durbin apologized to Senator Tim Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, after he dismissed Scott’s police reform bill as “a token, half-hearted approach.” “The minute Sen. Durbin heard that

[ad_1] Justice Neil Gorsuch in his chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., September 13, 2019 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) In my analysis of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion for the Court in Bostock v. Clayton County, I noted his past adherence to originalism and textualism, citing as an example the following passage from Wisconsin Central Ltd.

[ad_1] NYPD officers during a rally against the death of George Floyd at Times Square in New York City, June 1, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Reform is going to involve all levels of government. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the past few days, both President Trump and Senator Tim Scott have put forth plans to reform

[ad_1] 1. From the WSJ excerpt from John Bolton’s new book: At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the

[ad_1] A Wendy’s burns following the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks, in Atlanta, Ga., June 13, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) A white Atlanta police officer was charged with murder on Wednesday after shooting African American suspect Rayshard Brooks during an attempted arrest last week. Officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan were called to an Atlanta Wendy’s

[ad_1] (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) A number of U.S. civil-rights groups are calling on major advertisers to pull their ads from Facebook to protest what they say is the mammoth social media company’s “repeated failure” to adequately address the proliferation of hate speech and misinformation on its platform. The Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP along with four

[ad_1] Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) speaks in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) While unveiling the Republican police reform bill on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott said that the U.S. is “not a racist country” and criticized Democrats for what he saw as their relentless focus on race, advocating a discrete approach to policy solutions designed to

[ad_1] Sen. Josh Hawley during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 11, 2019 (Erin Scott/Reuters) Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) is proposing legislation that would set conditions for big tech companies to receive Section 230 immunity, Axios reported on Wednesday. The proposal comes less than a day after Google threatened

[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivers remarks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 12, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has confirmed that Senate Republicans will introduce a police reform bill next week, setting up a legislative fight with Democrats over the outline of the bill. The Republicans’ legislation

[ad_1] The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., September 16, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Public spaces should be reserved for historical symbols whose animating principles, achievements, and insights we want to keep alive in contemporary politics. On October 9th, 1896, 2,000 Confederate veterans, packed together in 40 train cars, arrived in Canton,

[ad_1] Google logo at the Viva Tech summit in Paris, France, in 2018. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) We know Google can’t be evil, because it says it’s not, and that’s how reality works now. But what about stupid? I’m about as big a supporter of Section 230 as you’ll find on the right. In my view, the