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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally in Moscow, Russia February 29, 2020. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters) That Alexei Navalny, potentially Putin’s most dangerous critic in Russia (outside any figures within the regime, if they even exist, about whom we know nothing) chose to return to Russia after the attempt to poison him last
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Some on the right were concerned when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated a potential willingness to support the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Republicans indeed have shown more openness to support the nominees of Democrat presidents compared to vice versa, and given that Jackson’s confirmation wouldn’t change the balance
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during the third day of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2022. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) If only Lindsey Graham were in a job where he had the power to propose a law requiring judges to sentence
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It’s Episode 30 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Facebook censored Heritage Action’s video compilation of President Joe Biden praising his anti-American energy plan.  On March 10, Heritage Action, a grassroots advocacy subdivision of The Heritage Foundation, posted a video that showed Biden and administration officials advocating for an anti-American energy
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(Nicky Ebbage/iStock/Getty Images) I wrote today on the homepage about the important work being done by NR’s own Maddy Kearns on the trans insanity in women’s sports. If you value this work, we hope you’ll consider a donation: Realizing the significance of the trans fight, especially for the status of women, Maddy took it up when it was
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Ironically, President Joe Biden’s post-election progressive turn seemed to inspire many people to reject far-left policies. Who would have guessed on the eve of Biden’s inauguration that, one year later, parents across the country would attend local school-board meetings to challenge critical race theory?  Or that, sensing their constituents’ anger at progressive spending proposals like the
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Monday’s edition of The NPR Politics Podcast sounded a little bizarre to conservatives. NPR congressional reporter Susan Davis marveled at “just how much bitterness lingers among Republican senators over the nomination process of Brett Kavanaugh.” It was mildly comical that their discussion of Kavanaugh didn’t describe the actual subject of the bitterness — unproven allegations of
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks beside Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov (not pictured) at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, February 16, 2022. (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters) On Friday, Bloomberg reported a rise in Venezuela’s bond prices after news of a meeting on March 5 between the Biden administration and the Maduro government became public:
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In Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, two weak aristocracies clash. U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Yes, as promised, she would be the first black woman appointed to the
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Turning Point USA founder and executive director Charlie Kirk slammed Twitter on Tuesday after he was suspended for posting a tweet in which he referred to President Joe Biden’s Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine, a transgender individual born a biological male, as “he.” “When I sent the tweet, I took great
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Lawrence Summers attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. (Ruben Sprich/Reuters) Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think that Larry Summers is entirely confident that the Fed has got this whole inflation thing under control. He writes: The stock market responded positively Wednesday to the
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ABC’s left-wing late night host and alleged comedian Jimmy Kimmel tried his hand at Supreme Court analysis on his Monday show and failed miserably as he accused Republicans of treating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings as a “subtle racism jamboree.” He then declared the prospect of her being approved to the high court by
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Ukrainian servicemen attend a prayer service in Kyiv before going into battle, March 13, 2022. (Thomas Peter / Reuters) There is a man in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, who goes to his balcony every day and plays the national anthem on his saxophone. See it here. Love of country in the midst of hell. • The vice
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This is a version of an article published in the Out of Frame Weekly, an email newsletter about the intersection of art, culture, and ideas. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. The thing about defending universal moral principles is that it means you have to defend fair treatment, even for
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An Intel computer chip logo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Calif., June 11, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) It isn’t difficult to see why capitalism gets a bad name when many big companies have the receipt of government subsidies as part of their business plan. See the Wall Street Journal here: Intel Corp. INTC said it
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Moments after President Biden’s left-wing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson concluded her opening statement during Monday afternoon’s Senate confirmation hearing, the broadcast networks went to work hailing her performance and preemptively declaring her immune from any Republican criticism. The swooning coverage marveled over Jackson and advised the GOP “this is not the hill maybe
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On Monday, Stuart Varney interviewed Donald Trump on Fox Business. During the interview, Trump made some interesting comments about the upcoming elections. As usual, Trump pointed out how the 2020 election was “rigged” and how any discussion on it is censored. “Well, they don’t like the truth,” he said. “So look at all the hundreds of
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