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Don’t Trust Don’t Worry Darling

By Armond White 6:30 AM

How Kim K explains Olivia Wilde’s anxiety fantasy.

NR PLUS Politics & Policy

North Carolina Governor’s Assault on Separation of Powers

By Donna King 6:30 AM

N.C. governor Roy Cooper wants to bypass the state legislature and let California consultants dictate state policy. The state supreme court must stop him.

NR PLUS Elections

Mandela Barnes’s Soft-on-Crime History May Haunt Him in Wisconsin Senate Race

By Brittany Bernstein 6:30 AM

Barnes’s flirtation with the ‘defund the police’ movement as lieutenant governor may cost him in a cycle defined by crime.

Elections

Oregon’s Republican Hope

By The Editors 6:30 AM

Despite the state’s decisive lean left, Christine Drazan is a serious contender for governor of the deep-blue state.

NR PLUS Capital Matters

The SEC’s Consistent Ambiguity

By Jennifer J. Schulp 6:30 AM

The agency should formalize rules for crypto and revise onerous climate-risk regulation before causing more business uncertainty.

NR PLUS National Security & Defense

Vlad and Me

By Michael Brendan Dougherty 6:30 AM

Realism means admitting that our leadership is unworthy, deluded, and stupid.

Law & the Courts

22 GOP Lawmakers Demand Answers from Garland on FBI Raid of Pro-Life Activist’s Home

By Caroline Downey 9:31 PM

The members of Congress requested an explanation letter from the attorney general by Friday.

Health Care

‘Top Surgery’ for Teenage Girls

By Madeleine Kearns 8:45 PM

As much as $40,000 can be made from a double mastectomy.

Immigration

Importing Even More Crime

By Peter Kirsanow 8:33 PM

The U.S. already is experiencing significant increases in crime, even without a boost from illegal immigration.

NR PLUS World

The Nord Stream Whodunit

By Mark Antonio Wright 7:19 PM

We must ask, ‘Who benefits?’ The answer to that question isn’t as easy to elucidate as one might expect.

Education

Poll: Majority of Americans Disapprove of Affirmative Action in College Admissions

By Caroline Downey 7:04 PM

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a pair of landmark affirmative-action cases this fall.

World

On Those Oppressive Speculators

By Michael Brendan Dougherty 6:20 PM

There is very good reason to believe that the EU will act to privilege the interests of German speculators over Italian citizens.

Politics & Policy

McConnell Endorses Electoral Count Act Reform

By John McCormack 5:06 PM

‘The bill’s sponsors debated every provision and found bipartisan consensus. Bad ideas were left on the cutting room floor.’

Energy & Environment

‘Nature’ Gets a Seat on the Board

By Wesley J. Smith 4:43 PM

A corporation that sells beauty products called Faith in Nature named ‘Nature’ as a member of its board of directors.

Education

Teachers’ Union Leader Says Competition in Education Is Bad for Students

By Caroline Downey 4:31 PM

The president also said his district isn’t to blame for 5,000 students leaving it since the start of the pandemic.