[ad_1] Police officers stand guard during a protest in New York, June 5, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) In a piece last week, I mentioned a forthcoming study by Tanaya Devi and Roland Fryer about what happens when cops stop doing their jobs, specifically in the wake of viral incidents such as the one in Ferguson, Mo.,

[ad_1] A boarded up store on Broadway in SoHo after the 8 p.m. curfew in response to looting during the Black Lives Matter’s protests in the Manhattan borough of New York, June 6, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Protest as performance art, with lethal long-term consequences After the rager, the reflections. Bleary morning follows thrilling night. If

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks with supporters in Henderson, Nev., February 14, 2020. (Gage Skidmore) The Joe Biden campaign has announced its opposition to defunding police departments in the wake of widespread George Floyd demonstrations, advocating for reform measures and even additional funding instead. “As his criminal justice proposal made clear months ago,

[ad_1] (Mitt Romney/Screenshot via Twitter) President Trump sarcastically praised Senator Mitt Romney for joining a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington D.C. in a Sunday tweet, mocking him for his “tremendous sincerity.” “Hard to believe, with this kind of political talent, his numbers would “tank” so badly in Utah!” Trump tweeted of Romney, who became

[ad_1] Britain’s Prince Andrew near royal Sandringham estate, in Norfolk, Britain January 19, 2020. (Chris Radburn/Reuters) The Justice Department has formally requested testimony from Prince Andrew as part of its ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, after Andrew “completely shut the door on voluntary cooperation.” Federal prosecutors submitted the request through a Mutual Legal

[ad_1] South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (Courtesy photo) ‘The people themselves are primarily responsible for their safety.’ Pierre, South Dakota — The coronavirus crisis hasn’t been kind to the reputations of many governors. New York’s Mario Cuomo held effective news conferences that at first burnished his image, but he’s now ducking responsibility for sending virus

[ad_1] President Trump attends a briefing from his senior military leaders, including then-Defense Secretary James Mattis (left), in the Cabinet Room at the White House, October 23, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) In a time of crisis, their synchronized chorus of complaints, falsehoods, and partisan appeals to resistance threaten the very constitutional order they claim to revere.

[ad_1] From the cover of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (Encounter Books) As recent events show, the elites simply don’t play by the same rules as the rest of the country. Joel Kotkin’s new book explores why — and offers a way out. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or weeks on end, Americans were told to stay

[ad_1] People attend a rally at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul to protest against the death of George Floyd, May 31, 2020. (Eric Miller/Reuters) We have real people to hold accountable, and we know their names. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ho is responsible for the mess in Minneapolis? The answer to that question

[ad_1] Protesters gather at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver as they rally against the death of George Floyd, May 31, 2020. (Alyson McClaran/Reuters) The social-justice Left is pioneering a new tactic for shutting down dissent and amplifying groupthink. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you’ve followed the news in recent weeks, you’ll have noticed that

[ad_1] (Pixabay) In the United Kingdom, a 34-year-old unnamed patient (MSP) with a severe but treatable bowel problem is going to be kept in an artificial coma and denied sustenance until he dehydrates to death. This gets a bit complicated, so bear with me. MSP has a history of serious depression, mental illness and chronic

[ad_1] (iStock/Getty Images Plus) Whenever there’s an economic downturn, there’s a debate about the limits of the much-watched unemployment rate: People who give up looking for work are considered out of the labor force rather than unemployed; those who have to take part-time work when they’d rather be full-time are still considered employed; etc. Such

[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A  vigorous argument has erupted over the proper way to restore order in the face of riots, arson, and looting following the death of George Floyd. Should local police be supplemented by the National Guard, or by the Army, or would that make things worse? Tom Cotton led the charge for the

[ad_1] A woman holds a picture of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during a ceremony to mark the 18th anniversary of his death in the Behesht Zahra cemetery south of Tehran in 2007. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters) The Berkeley professor has made a career of glorifying the indefensible. Hamid Algar turns 80 years old this year. For 45 years

[ad_1] Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, March 18, 2020. (File photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Some sectors have fared better than others. The general market thrust was greatly assisted by the trillions of dollars of stimulus. Today’s rally in the market is, of course, all about the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visit the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) On Saint Patrick’s Day in 2016, United States secretary of state John Kerry acknowledged that a genocide was happening in Iraq and the surrounding region against Christians and other religious

[ad_1] A sheet of United States one dollar bills on a light table during production at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C., November 14, 2014 (Gary Cameron/Reuters) I got this email (which I’ve lightly edited) a few weeks ago, in response to this column, but am responding to it only now: Leave it

[ad_1] Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 17, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in an interview with local D.C. radio station WTOP on Friday that protests could spread the coronavirus: The congregation of large

[ad_1] A woman holds a prescription of hydroxychloroquine, Seattle, Wash., March 31, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) A retracted study about hydroxychloroquine’s dangers is another sign of the publication’s political bias poisoning its medical reports. Remember when we were told that the administration of Donald J. Trump posed a pernicious threat to science and medicine? In an

[ad_1] Protesters rally against the death of George Floyd, San Francisco, Calif., May 31, 2020. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Apparently, the social-distancing guidelines that were a matter of life and death yesterday can be disregarded today — for the right cause. Did you know there is a giant loophole to the legally enforceable social-distancing guidelines of the

[ad_1] (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) On the New York Times’ disgrace ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” How quaint seems this trenchant observation by the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the greatest progressive thinkers of the 20th century’s latter half. Not because of the patriarchal pronoun presumptions of the aging

[ad_1] A pro-life campaigner holds up a model of a 12-week-old embryo during a protest outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland, October 18, 2012. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters) Westminster overturns abortion law in Northern Ireland. The pro-life cause is more Whig than Tory. This week witnessed what could well be the last stand for

[ad_1] President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping shake hands in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) And even its harshest critics should hope that it doesn’t. Prophecies of American decline are almost as old as America itself. Until now, the United States has had a stubborn and inconvenient habit of defying such

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Rose Garden at the White House on the ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd, June 1, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) A number of prominent political reporters misrepresented comments President Trump made about George Floyd during his Friday press statement, falsely claiming that the president suggested

[ad_1] I have seen the futures move around a Friday morning jobs report in my day (pre-market equity prices), but I have never seen 300 points tick up on the Dow in one second. Such was the case this morning on the jobs print, which, rather than reflecting 8 million jobs lost, showed 2.5 million

[ad_1] Nearly all colleges sent students home back in March, and the big question they now face is whether to resume normal operations in August. Quite a few voices have argued that it’s just too risky to do so. College leaders who reopen will be responsible for a lot of illness and death. Do the

[ad_1] NYPD officers detain a protester who was involved in the looting of a store after marching against the death of George Floyd in New York, N.Y., June 2, 2020 (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) A New York judge has ruled that looters and peaceful protesters who violate curfew may be detained by police for more than 24

[ad_1] (Pixabay) Such an expansion of the welfare state would have once kept conservatives awake at night. Amid all the momentous events that have defined the coronavirus pandemic, the decision by both the Trump administration and, in near-unanimous votes, both houses of Congress to institute a “stimulus” program — an element of which amounts to

[ad_1] Protesters react after setting fire to the entrance of a police station after as a white police officer was caught on video pressing his knee into the neck of African-American man George Floyd, Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The indefensible killing — captured on video — of George Floyd, following closely after

[ad_1] A priest listens to a confession by a member of his congregation while practicing social distancing at the S.S. Sacramento church in Rome, Italy, March 26, 2020. (Remo Casilli/Reuters) Religious leaders in Madison, Wis., have written to local officials, calling its reopening policy unconstitutional and a “discriminatory restriction.” The letter asks that the City