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Politics & Policy

Former Obama Ethics Chief Says Biden Admin Family Hires Are ‘F*** You’ to Watchdogs

By Caroline Downey

Shaub’s comments come as the president faces scrutiny over new revelations about his son Hunter Biden.

U.S.

MacKenzie Scott’s Politicized Philanthropy

By Aron Ravin

Charity is becoming just another low-risk method for people to engage in politics and virtue-signaling.

Politics & Policy

Marco Rubio: Marxism Is Not Dead, Will ‘Destroy this Country’ if Not Confronted

By Ryan Mills

Marxism is very much alive, and it’s spreading through American institutions, said Senator Marco Rubio on Friday.

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Lindsey Graham: 2022 Elections Will Determine How Long GOP Remains Party of Trump

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Catholic Democrats: Bishops Engaging in ‘Weaponization of the Eucharist’

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Ted Cruz: Critical Race Theory ‘Is Every Bit as Racist as the Klansmen in White Sheets’

7h

Former Obama Ethics Chief Says Biden Admin Family Hires Are ‘F*** You’ to Watchdogs

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Marco Rubio: Marxism Is Not Dead, Will ‘Destroy this Country’ if Not Confronted

Politics & Policy

Bernie Sanders’s Unimpressive New China Strategy

By Jimmy Quinn

As it stands now, if we are to take Sanders’s essay as its main expression, there’s not much meat on the bones.

CNN Piece Praising Beijing’s Vax Effort Fails to Mention That Their Vaccines Are Unreliable

By Isaac Schorr

Cooke: Breaking from CNN: Chinese Communist Party Approves of Chinese Communist Party

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Elections

Lindsey Graham: 2022 Elections Will Determine How Long GOP Remains Party of Trump

By Ryan Mills

The GOP must be a movement based on more than the personality of a single person, the South Carolina senator said.

NR PLUS U.S.

A Grad Student Tried to Correct a Misleading COVID Narrative. Rebekah Jones Tried to Ruin His Career for It

By Jack Crowe

Jon Taylor had a disagreement with Jones over COVID data, so she falsely accused him of sexual harassment.

Fauci Acknowledges He Privately Entertained Lab-Leak, Genetic-Engineering Theories Early in Pandemic

By Zachary Evans

Fauci publicly backed the natural transmission theory and said lab-leak proponents were advancing a ‘circular argument.’

World

NPR’s Complete About-Face on the Lab-Leak Theory

By Jim Geraghty

An interview on NPR detailing the evidence supporting the lab-leak theory illuminates how dramatically their conventional wisdom has flipped.

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

What Is Wrong with the Lawyer Persecuting Jack Phillips?

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Autumn Scardina keeps trying to force the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner to bake a cake with a message that offends his religious beliefs. Why?

NR PLUS Politics & Policy

Justice Barrett Proves Democrats’ Obamacare Doomsayers Wrong

By Dan McLaughlin

Will all the Democratic Party luminaries who claimed Barrett’s confirmation would mean the end of the health-care law now apologize?

NR PLUS Law & the Courts

Catholic Foster Care Wins on Religious Liberty

By Dan McLaughlin

The Supreme Court rejects intolerance, but leaves questions unanswered.

Media

CNN Piece Praising Beijing’s Vax Effort Fails to Mention That Their Vaccines Are Unreliable

By Isaac Schorr

Sinovac is just 50 percent effective after two doses.

Film & TV

The Breaking of Stephen Colbert

By Peter Spiliakos

The demands of nightly doses of craven partisanship for year upon year have ruined him.

World

NPR’s Complete About-Face on the Lab-Leak Theory

By Jim Geraghty

An interview on NPR detailing the evidence supporting the lab-leak theory illuminates how dramatically their conventional wisdom has flipped.

Media

NBC Left Out Key Details on Critical Race Theory Fight at Maine School, Parent Says

By Ryan Mills

‘The issue with NBC is they started the story at the end,’ McBreairty told NR.

Media

Have Journalists Ever Met the People They Write About?

By Charles C. W. Cooke

The latest explanation of why workers are staying home is astounding.

Politics & Policy

Pelosi Dodges on Whether 15-Week Unborn Baby Is a ‘Human Being’

By Caroline Downey

‘Let me just say that I am a big supporter of Roe v. Wade,’ Pelosi said.

The Latest

Elections

Lindsey Graham: 2022 Elections Will Determine How Long GOP Remains Party of Trump

By Ryan Mills 8:44 PM

The GOP must be a movement based on more than the personality of a single person, the South Carolina senator said.

Religion

Catholic Democrats: Bishops Engaging in ‘Weaponization of the Eucharist’

By Caroline Downey 8:24 PM

The 60 members of Congress say they are committed to ‘protecting the least among us.’ But they don’t mention the unborn.

Education

Shoveling Money into the Bottomless Pit of Student-Loan Debt

By George Leef 7:17 PM

Forgiving student debt is good politics. The Dems get to look compassionate, and lots of students will be grateful at not having to pay off their loans.

Politics & Policy

Ted Cruz: Critical Race Theory ‘Is Every Bit as Racist as the Klansmen in White Sheets’

By Caroline Downey 7:03 PM

‘Critical race theory seeks to turn us against each other.’

U.S.

MacKenzie Scott’s Politicized Philanthropy

By Aron Ravin 6:39 PM

Charity is becoming just another low-risk method for people to engage in politics and virtue-signaling.

Economy & Business

Airline Seats Are Getting Smaller — but Americans Aren’t

By Sean-Michael Pigeon 6:06 PM

Obesity is a problem that not many like to talk about, but in air travel and other areas, it is becoming an inescapable issue.

Politics & Policy

Former Obama Ethics Chief Says Biden Admin Family Hires Are ‘F*** You’ to Watchdogs

By Caroline Downey 4:51 PM

Shaub’s comments come as the president faces scrutiny over new revelations about his son Hunter Biden.

Politics & Policy

Marco Rubio: Marxism Is Not Dead, Will ‘Destroy this Country’ if Not Confronted

By Ryan Mills 4:48 PM

Marxism is very much alive, and it’s spreading through American institutions, said Senator Marco Rubio on Friday.

World

Biden and the EU’s Shameful Ignorance of Northern Ireland

By Cameron Hilditch 4:07 PM

Their simplistic view of the situation has real-world impacts in the U.K.

Politics & Policy

Rick Scott Strikes Optimistic Note on GOP’s Future: Americans ‘Like What We’re Doing’

By Ryan Mills 3:27 PM

Scott dismissed the idea of a 2024 presidential run in comments to NR.

NR PLUS Economy & Business

How the Government Makes Corporations Woke

By Dan McLaughlin

It starts by getting in businesses’ business.

NR PLUS Culture

Wokesters, Wake!

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

What’s special about the modern world is not exploitation.

NR PLUS Economy & Business

Against a Social-Justice Fed

By David L. Bahnsen

Its job is to adjust interest rates and protect jobs, not change society.

Latest Podcasts

The Editors

Episode 338: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

SCOTUS rulings, Biden’s meeting with Putin, and the growing critical race theory uproar.

The McCarthy Report

Episode 133: Judges, Journalists, and the DOJ

Andy and Rich discuss the recent SCOTUS decisions, more debate over January 6th, the media uproar around leaked investigations, and more.

Capital Record

Episode 22: Past, Present, and Future

Supply-side economic historian and best-selling author, Brian Domitrovic, joins Capital Record to talk about the real history of supply-side economics.

Videos

Biden Snaps at CNN Reporter over Post-Summit Putin Questions

AstraZeneca Vaccine Recipients Will Be Barred from Broadway Show

Jon Stewart Endorses Lab-Leak Theory, Says Pandemic ‘More Than Likely Caused by Science’

Greta Thunberg-Inspired Climate Org Labels Itself ‘Racist’ and Disbands

Biden Snaps at CNN Reporter over Post-Summit Putin Questions

AstraZeneca Vaccine Recipients Will Be Barred from Broadway Show

Jon Stewart Endorses Lab-Leak Theory, Says Pandemic ‘More Than Likely Caused by Science’

Greta Thunberg-Inspired Climate Org Labels Itself ‘Racist’ and Disbands