For 67 years, National Review has given voice to the best conservative opinion and analysis out there. For decades, that opinion and analysis relied almost exclusively on underlying facts supplied by news-gatherers at institutions like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the major broadcast networks.

And that was all well and good — until it wasn’t.

Sure, those institutions still do great reporting, which we rely on to provide you quick updates on the news of the moment, often made available for free in our NRWire section. News editors at the Post and the Times have massive resources available to them — and when they decide they want to get to the bottom of something, they usually can. But there are a great many subjects of interest to conservative Americans that those editors don’t want to explore, leading to massive blind spots in their coverage.

On some topics, such as the harm being done to children in the name of critical gender theory, those blind spots are the product of near-religious ideological fervor. On others, like the refusal to acknowledge the obvious causes of the crime spike we’re living through, they’re willfully imposed out of partisan allegiance.

Whatever the cause, NR’s news team is here to fill the vacuum left by the institutions we used to trust to gather the facts for us.

We had to start doing it ourselves.

That’s why we hired the irrepressible Ryan Mills. Who else was going to expose the degree to which Democratic partisans influenced the Covid regulations that kept your kids out of school — and then kept them masked — for months? Who else was going to make you aware of climate stories that don’t fit neatly within the progressive agenda?

It’s why we hired Caroline Downey, who works full time keeping you up to date on the madness unfolding daily in our nation’s schools — and, occasionally, its prisons.

And, if just getting the facts that are ignored by the mainstream outlets isn’t enough for you, we have Isaac Schorr and Brittany Bernstein keeping those outlets in check when they let their biases lead them around by the nose.

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