White House coordinator for the southern border Ambassador Roberta Jacobson takes a question during a White House press briefing in Washington, March 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Roberta Jacobson, the Biden administration’s coordinator at the southern border, announced on Friday that she would step down from her position at the end of April. Jacobson said she always

People who have been vaccinated are less likely to consider it safe to travel than people who haven’t been vaccinated and don’t want to be. Philip Klein suggests that the perverse messaging from public-health officials helps to explain this pattern. I suspect, though, that part of the explanation is simply that people who have been

White House coordinator for the southern border Ambassador Roberta Jacobson takes a question during a White House press briefing in Washington, March 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Really? Roberta S. Jacobson, the former ambassador to Mexico whom President Biden chose as his “border czar” on the National Security Council, will step down at the end of the

Dan Crenshaw at Turning Point USA’s 2018 Student Action Summit. (Gage Skidmore) Representative Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) announced that he received emergency surgery on his left eye on Friday, which will leave the congressman “effectively blind” for the next month. Crenshaw said he noticed blurry spots in his vision over the past few days, and

Hennepin County medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker testifies on the tenth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minn., April 9, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) But that doesn’t mean they’ve clinched the case. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here are miles still to go in Derek Chauvin’s

Yesterday I wrote about the suppression by YouTube of a video with Governor DeSantis and a group of public-health experts. Allies of the mega-state would rather that criticism of its authoritarian COVID policies be suppressed. Today, I read that the Legal Insurrection Foundation is continuing its battle to get records from SUNY Upstate Medical School

Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci waits to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 23, 2020. (Kevin Dietsch/Reuters Pool) For months, public-health officials and the media have made the inexplicable decision to consistently downplay the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. Everybody from Joe Biden to Anthony Fauci

A healthcare worker prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site in New York City, January 29, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Unvaccinated Americans are nearly twice as likely as their vaccinated counterparts to believe it is safe to go out in public without a mask, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll. Just one

The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., August 29, 2020 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) All other things being equal, I would prefer that the Biden administration was not creating a bipartisan commission to examine expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court or setting term limits for justices. But I’m not that worried about it —

(Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Headed for almost certain defeat in its attempt to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is accepting the result with all the grace, humility, introspection, sanity, and public-spiritedness that Donald Trump so markedly lacked last November. Oh, wait. Nope, it’s not: SEATTLE — The union trying

(anyaberkut/iStock/Getty Images) Accounting identities don’t tell us how the economy actually works. Whenever the public discourse turns to economics, the results tend to be painful. Economists are forever pulling their hair out over the politicization of the discipline. But recently, things have gotten even worse than usual. It’s no exaggeration to say today’s economic deliberations

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) speaks during CPAC in Orlando, Fla., February 26, 2021. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Florida’s agricultural and consumer services commissioner, Nikki Fried, is the Democratic front-runner to challenge Governor Ron DeSantis next year. Fried was vaccinated yesterday: Ron DeSantis said if he vaxxed publicly it would be a “gun show.” He chose not

Former Georgia House of Representatives Minority Leader Stacey Abrams speaks in Atlanta, Ga., November 2, 2020. (Brandon Bell/Reuters) I’ve written a piece for the home page about an episode I come across, to my surprise, in the latest Stacey Abrams book: By the time the reader of the Stacey Abrams book Our Time Is Now

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The egregious decision by Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game from Georgia over its disagreement with a piece of legislation passed by the state legislature has been a seminal moment in the development of woke capitalism. Conservatives have, for decades, complained about the liberal cultural influence

Dan Pfeiffer explains that it’s a stupid nonissue cynically contrived by right-wingers to appeal to white men’s fears of losing their dominance, and that Democrats should respond to questions about it by brushing it aside — and yet weirdly a significant number of Biden voters share the concern about it.

A police officer watches demonstrators in Portland, Ore., September 26, 2020. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters) The Portland City Council on Wednesday approved a $6 million plan to curb a rise in gun violence in the city, without adding funds to the city’s police department. The plan will provide $4.1 million in grants to non-profit groups that work

(Igor Kutyaev/Getty Images) The CPI shows low inflation, but it doesn’t tell the full story. In the wake of unprecedented federal deficits and central-bank accommodation, market watchers are growing wary of inflation. The Fed projects no long-term inflationary pressure above its 2 percent target rate, but investors are split. While the consensus resides with the

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in Yalta, February 1945 (National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons) Roosevelt today would prefer Trump to Biden. Allow me to explain. In the many years that I have known him, I have always liked and respected Larry Kudlow. I think he was an excellent chairman of the National Economic Council, and

Senator Joe Manchin (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) “If the filibuster is eliminated or budget reconciliation becomes the norm, a new and dangerous precedent will be set,” Manchin writes. On Monday, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told the press that the Senate parliamentarian had issued a ruling that would give Democrats at least one extra

Courtroom sketch of James Reyerson, senior special agent with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, answers questions as images of George Floyd’s arrest play on a screen, on the eighth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minn. April 7, 2021. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) Prosecutors at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial

(Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Responses to my piece on voter qualifications have come in a number of predictable varieties. Kevin Kruse-ism, as practiced in this case by Professor Kruse himself. That goes roughly: “Here is an article that you didn’t write and don’t agree with, that was written the better part of a century ago and published

Vermont governor Phil Scott speaks to the press in Montpelier, Vt., March 13, 2018. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters) Vermont’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, has issued a statement responding to critics — including yours truly — of his state’s use of racial preferences in determining who is eligible for the life-saving coronavirus vaccines. Its title? “Statement by Governor

President Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 29, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden acknowledged that boycotts of states by large corporations could hurt lower-income workers, in comments at a White House press conference on Tuesday. Biden was asked at the conference if he thinks the Masters Tournament, a major golf competition,

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sits in front of a picture of George Floyd displayed during Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 29, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) If you’re watching the Chauvin trial on Court-TV, you are probably baffled by some of the commentators, who seem confused about when leading questions

Democratic congressman Don Beyer has executed one of those Twitter dunks that is sure to land on that hell-site, but falls apart under the slightest scrutiny: So, kind of like…. a vaccine passport? https://t.co/e5wpJVuBxo — Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) April 6, 2021 It should be axiomatic that these are separate issues. Presenting proof that you

(MisterClips/Getty Images) The boycott is merely a tool, and its consequences are neither universally deleterious nor rewarding. American boycotts have only proliferated since the early 1770s. Every other week, it seems, brings a new pocketbook-protest of one sort or another. Neither party has a monopoly on these efforts. Goya. The National Basketball Association. Chick-fil-A. Major

Okay, not really. But big news! Confirmed: Today, President Biden is expected to announce today that states should make all American adults eligible for the COVID-19 vaccines by April 19, moving up his previous deadline of May 1. He will also say that the US has reached 150 million shots since he took office. —

Former Georgia House of Representatives Minority Leader Stacey Abrams speaks in Atlanta, Ga., November 2, 2020. (Brandon Bell/Reuters) Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Monday called Democrat Stacey Abrams the “biggest flip flop since John Kerry” over her recent statements asking people not to boycott the state over its new voter laws. Abrams has been critical

Last week, President Biden announced his first tranche of judicial nominations. The eleven individuals on the list include three nominees for circuit-court seats. (One of them, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was profiled here last Tuesday after she was announced to fill the D.C. Circuit vacancy created by Merrick Garland’s appointment to be attorney general.) As the

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas participates in taking a new family photo with his fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 1, 2017. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Today Justice Thomas appended an intriguing concurrence to a short decision concerning whether President Trump had violated the First Amendment by blocking a limited