Evading Judicial Supremacy

I am not sure why these alumni of the University of Chicago Law School believe that their having walked the same sidewalks as Jonathan Mitchell,...

House Democrats Prepare to Pass Extreme Abortion Bill

Democrats have been threatening for years now to “codify Roe v. Wade,” by which they appear to have meant enacting the Women’s Health...

No, Mark Milley’s Insubordination Was Not ‘Courageous’

Bob Woodward thinks General Mark Milley’s secret talks with the Chinese military were “courageous.” In the face of the existential threat that...

Scientific American: Star Wars, Jedi Are Problematic

Sometimes, something gets published that is just so mind-bogglingly stupid, simply to read it is exasperating, and to comment on it seems...

Biden Backs Down on Extradition of Huawei Exec Meng Wanzhou

The Biden administration has reportedly reached a deal with Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to resolve the charges under which the U.S. sought her...

The Word ‘Women’ Is Evidently Too Controversial for the Lancet

The once respected British medical journal the Lancet continues its devolution into another hopeless liberal institution. Now, the word “women”...

U.N. Secretary-General Wants International Speech Code

This should have received a lot more attention than it did. A couple of weeks ago, U.N. secretary-general António Guterres issued a report that...

Latest Bogus White House Spin: Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Plan Actually Costs Nothing

Axios has a report out about how President Biden’s team is finally coming to the realization that with razor thin majorities in Congress, maybe it...

How Should Conservatives Do More Than Conserve?

Bruce Abramson has a column at RealClearPolitics complaining that conservatives should focus less on conserving and resisting change, and more on...

House Republicans Push the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

In response to House Democrats’ effort to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act today, Republicans in the House have offered the text of the...

From the Desk of Chauncey DeVega

If you ever took a college course that began with the prefix neuro-, then you know about the corpus collosum, which is the band of nerves that...

The Cost of the Biden Plan: A New Estimate

In a new study published by the Club for Growth Foundation, Dan Mitchell and Robert O’Quinn assess the macro-economic effects of President’s...

‘Reconciliation Abomination’

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the abysmal infrastructure and reconciliation bills, AOC’s House-floor playacting, and...

Joe Biden Gets Angrier at People Who Enforce Immigration Laws Than at People Who Break Them

A few weeks ago, Charles Cooke wrote about President Biden’s propagating an “upside-down system,” in which he is spectacularly engaged in and...

What Do Political Appointees Do?

My AEI colleague Scott Gottlieb’s new book about the COVID-19 pandemic, Uncontrolled Spread , is out this week, and I would recommend it to you...

Something Strange Is Happening at the Commerce Department — and across the Biden Administration

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told the Wall Street Journal that she sees one of her responsibilities as promoting U.S. business engagement with...

Republicans Tout ‘a More Conservative Direction’ in Defense-Policy Bill

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) sailed through the House of Representatives last night, but 75 Republicans voted against the annual...

The Debt Limit: All Games, No Fun

From my Bloomberg Opinion column: But if you look at the issue from the perspective of Thune and the other Republicans, you can see why Democratic...

Greg Mankiw vs. Biden’s CEA

The Harvard economics professor looks at the Council of Economic Advisers’ contention that the 400 richest households in the U.S. pay lower...

Poll: Americans Still Don’t Understand Roe

A Fox News poll out yesterday found that about two-thirds of Americans say they don’t want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, even though respondents...

Ron DeSantis Is Right about School Quarantines

Ron DeSantis is nothing if not a lightning rod for attention to his COVID policies, which have often gone his own way based on his own analysis of...

Poll: Youngkin Leads McAuliffe among Likely Voters in Virginia

A new poll out yesterday from the University of Mary Washington (UMW) finds that Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is well ahead of...

‘Unconventional Methodology’ . . .

. . . is a very polite way of writing — something that isn’t very polite. From the New York Times: The White House’s calculation of what the...

The Shipping Crisis Is Not Just Due to COVID

Scott Lincicome’s newsletter for The Dispatch yesterday was about the shipping crisis currently taking place in America. He emphasizes two things...

Exploiting Women

What is this supposed to mean? Let's see if the attention on #gabbypetito and the concern about neglect of others who are missing can generate...

Congress Needs to Know, but Won’t Find Out, What Happened with Capitol Security on January 6

In my column this morning, I waded back into January 6. Meanwhile, congressional investigators are pressing ahead with their (inherently and...

Media: Wow, Our Coverage of Missing Girls Cases Sure Is Racist

I haven’t really followed the awful story of the murder of Gabby Petito, but the coverage has now become, in part, about the coverage, with the...

Why Pick a Fight Over Iron Dome Funding Now?

The House Democratic progressive “Squad” effort to eliminate U.S. assistance for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system seemed to come...

Pew Research Center: Only 43 Percent of Americans Think Biden Is ‘Mentally Sharp’

More evidence disputing the “Biden will rebound once Afghanistan is out of the news” argument, from the Pew Research Center: “Fewer than half of...

Afghanistan

‘Most Movement out of Afghanistan Is Paused Right Now’

Ian Bickford, president of the American University of Afghanistan, tells CBS News, “We’re advocating at every level of government. We are paying...

Majority Says Biden Isn’t ‘Mentally Sharp’: Poll

A majority of Americans now say that President Biden is not “mentally sharp,” according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center. The survey,...

Susan Collins: Congressional Democrats’ Abortion Bill Is Too ‘Extreme’

House Democrats will vote tomorrow on the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would invalidate almost all state abortion laws and...

The ACLU’s RBG Tweet Shows Once Again That It Has Abandoned Free Speech

This tweet is doing the rounds: With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality. And on the...

AOC on Defense Budget Cuts

A spirited debate on defense spending broke out on the floor of the House of Representatives this afternoon, as members of Congress closed in on...

It’s a Sign There Are Too Many Letters When Even Justin Trudeau Can’t Get Through Them All

This amusing, but presumably would have gotten him expelled from Oberlin College: If you can pronounce the word “straight” but you struggle with...

Media Outlets Claim the Coverage of Gabby Petito’s Death Is Proof of Racism

The media’s coverage of Gabby Petito’s tragic death is racist, according to . . . the media. As a recent NPR headline read — without a hint of...

Scenes from the Twilight of a D.C. Wendy’s

Dave Thomas Circle doesn’t exist. Or at least, not officially. It’s the nickname Washington, D.C., residents have given to the labyrinthine...

Norm Macdonald, Christian Comic

Matthew Walther wrote a beautiful piece for the New York Times a couple of days ago on the late comedian Norm Macdonald’s religious faith. As a...

The Congressional Spending Negotiations Are Exhausting, Even If You Don’t Care

On quite a few editions of The Editors podcast this year, the topic of the ongoing (and ongoing and ongoing) negotiations over the infrastructure...

Critical Race Theory Is Just a Distraction from Learning

In this Newsweek article, Robert Woodson and Ian Rowe argue that critical race theory (CRT) has no place in our schools because it distracts...

Today In COVID News . . .

March For Our Lives’s Corlett Amicus Brief Is a Non Sequitur

CNN tells us that the March For Our Lives gun-control group has filed a brief with the Supreme Court in the case of New York State Rifle and Pistol...

Vermeule, the Law, and Vaccine Mandates

Vaccine mandates are a fraught subject at the intersection of the twin conservative values of public order and private liberty. They are...

Looming Constitutional Crisis in the SBC

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a convention of churches. It is not itself a church, and it is not a clerical body. It has no formal...

After Mandating Masks Outdoors, Oregon’s Active COVID-19 Cases Increased 73 Percent

On August 24, Oregon governor Kate Brown instated a state masking requirement that requires everyone five years and older, regardless of...

Hey, Wasn’t Biden’s Approval Rating Supposed to Have Rebounded By Now?

Reuters, August 20: White House officials believe Americans’ horror over graphic images of the chaos in Kabul and pleas from Afghans who fear...

Where Is the Democratic Agenda Headed?

We are at the outset of what promises to be a frenzied and confusing fall on Capitol Hill, with a lot on the table and a lot of posturing over...

Cato and the Court

If you’re like me, you will have enjoyed reading the legal commentary that’s been published ahead of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Dobbs...

Woke Corporations Defend ‘People’s’ Right to Abortion

Several dozen U.S. companies have published a statement proclaiming their support for “reproductive healthcare” and suggesting that the Texas...

‘Why Trump Didn’t Have a Haitian-Migrant Crisis’

I wrote today on the home page about the Trump team’s approach that avoided what we’ve seen in Del Rio over the last week: Alejandro Mayorkas...

We’re Headed to Dallas!

National Review Institute’s Eighth Annual William F. Buckley Jr. Prize Dinner will be on October 21 at the Fairmont in Dallas, Texas. I, along...

Dems Want to Put Obama’s Title IX Enforcer Back in Charge

During the Obama administration, Title IX enforcement was vastly expanded and procedures for determining guilt so distorted that many courts and...

The Eastman Memo

In early January, constitutional scholar John Eastman was urging Vice President Mike Pence to act to keep President Donald Trump in office for a...

A Man to Remember

I have a couple of links to throw at you: to a Q&A and a Music for a While . The Q&A is with John U. Bacon, the veteran journalist and book-author....

Angelo Codevilla, R.I.P.

Angelo Codevilla, the historian of spycraft and powerful analyst of American political and social trends, has died. It is difficult for many...

Straight Talk on Afghanistan

Afghanistan seems like a million years ago, I know — it’s been about three weeks. But this is a very important subject, and it will likely...

‘The Chinese CDC Went Dark on Their U.S. Counterparts’

You already knew that the Chinese government was spectacularly unhelpful and secretive in the pivotal early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. You...

Progressives Discover Fiscal Restraint . . . When It Comes Israel

Democrats have finally found some spending that they can oppose: NEW: A little bit of drama with the Dem passage of the CR/ Debt ceiling in the...

‘Relentless Diplomacy’

The problem with Joe Biden’s going to the United Nations to promise a “new era of relentless diplomacy” is that while he says that, he keeps...

Biden’s Job Approval Plummets to 31 Percent in Iowa

One of the best pollsters in America finds Biden’s job-approval rating dropping like a rock in Iowa: Thirty-one percent of Iowans approve of how...

The No-Surprises Taliban

There’s a strange habit in the media of recounting long-established facts about non-progressives as if they are distant and surprising reports....

‘Feeling the Spirit’

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Alexandra, and Jim discuss elites’ masking hypocrisy, the border crisis, and the confusion over COVID...

Bill Maher Zings AOC for Her ‘Tax the Rich’ Stunt

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got a lot more heat than she bargained for when she paraded around New York’s elite Met Gala last week in...

Our Backwards Infrastructure Process Wastes Money

When funding infrastructure, federal elected officials do not start by asking, “What projects need to be done?” Instead, they ask, “How much...

We Need an ‘Operation Warp Speed’ for At-Home COVID Tests

President Biden’s unwise and probably unconstitutional vaccine mandate had a much-less-discussed second aspect. As an alternative to being...

Angelo Codevilla, Non Ti Dimenticherò

I only had the chance to meet Angelo Codevilla once, at the Claremont Institute’s Publius Fellowship in San Diego this July. Even as he had...

House Democrats Strip $1 Billion for Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ from Spending Bill

On Tuesday, House Democratic leadership stripped $1 billion for Israel’s defensive anti-missile Iron Dome program out of a bill to fund the...

Was Sodom Destroyed by a Meteor?

A new paper in Nature collects the scientific and archaeological evidence of a massive meteor explosion in the atmosphere, destroying an entire...

It Might Not Just Be Manchin and Sinema Who Sense That Their Party Is Loony

When Democratic proposals begin to fail, Senators Sinema and Manchin tend to take all the heat. But that doesn’t mean they’re actually alone in...

Canada’s Liberal Party Lost the ‘Popular Vote’ Again, but Still Won — and That’s Fine

Herewith, your regularly scheduled reminder that when progressives complain about mismatches between the “popular vote” and the overall...

House Democrats Still Stuck in Stalemate over Spending Plans

Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, leader of the House Progressive Caucus, emerged from a 90-minute meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on...

Message from Afghanistan: ‘Good Evening Sir. No Place Is Safe’

A few updates from “Samaritan,” my reader who’s been trying to get his company’s former employees, including at least one green-card holder,...

DHS Secretary: Only 3 Percent of 60,000 Afghan Evacuees in U.S. Have Special Immigrant Visas

Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in congressional testimony on Tuesday that “approximately three percent” of the...

Sean Wilentz Fires Back on the 1619 Project and the Climate of Anti-History

Sean Wilentz is a proud liberal and sometimes a hard-edged Democratic partisan. But he is also a distinguished Princeton University historian whose...