A Little News

Ramesh still hasn’t gotten the SCOTUS appointment he deserves, but I hope it’s some consolation that, beginning in January, he will take over...

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Lesson in Invisibilization, Unlocking Doors with Keys, and Other Cardinal Sins

Ninety-seven percent of Hispanics in the United States disfavor the term “Latinx.” How, I wonder, must they feel reading the rest of this...

Media Misleads on Catholics’ Views about Politicians and Communion

During last week’s General Assembly meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the bishops voted 168 to 55 to draft a...

Thomas Sowell in One Volume

Reviews are starting to come in for the intellectual life of Thomas Sowell, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L. Riley, the longtime...

Jen Psaki: ‘Language Barriers’ Delayed U.S. Shipments of COVID-19 Vaccine Overseas

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that “language barriers” are one of the reasons the Biden administration failed to start...

Bill de Blasio: Why Does Everybody Hate Me?

In his final hours before he becomes a lame-duck mayor, Bill de Blasio took a sympathetic Politico reporter along with him for an afternoon. In a...

Online Privacy Is Here

If you ever wanted Google to stop sending you eerily targeted ads, there is good news on the horizon. Google and Facebook have recently come under...

The Gas Tax Should Be Cut, Not Raised

A couple of articles in these parts have looked favorably on an increase in the gas tax. I think it would be a mistake. States should handle a much...

A Call to Communication

For more than a year, we have Zoomed, and Zoomed like mad, but now it’s time for in-person gatherings once more — and National Review Institute...

Senator Manchin Should Follow Senator Collins and Reject Biden’s ATF Pick

Senator Collins will vote against Joe Biden’s nominee for ATF director. Per Fox News: Sen. Susan Collins announced Monday that she will oppose...

California Bailout Money Is Paying for Traffic Fines

Last year, there was a panic about whether states would go bankrupt without urgently needed bailouts from the federal government. It’s one of the...

S. 1 Shows Why the Filibuster Is Needed

On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Democrats plan a motion-to-proceed vote on the so-called “For the People Act,” also known as H.R. 1 and S. 1. The...

Re: A Little News

I am of course grateful for the confidence that Rich and our colleagues are placing in me. It’s a great honor to be able to lead the magazine...

Will You Change Your Mind about the Filibuster, Senator Sinema? Will You? Will You? Will You? Will You?

Today, Garrett Haake, a Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News, asked Arizona’s Senator Sinema a question — or more, the specifically, the...

Want More Solar Panels? The Parts Might Be Made with Chinese Forced Labor

The typical Democrat supports solar power because it is clean, and generally thinks that the U.S. should not help support Chinese industries that...

Jen Psaki Contends the Remaining $1.6 Trillion In Unspent Pandemic Relief Funds Are ‘Minimal’

Also easily overlooked in yesterday’s White House press briefing: Q: Is the White House open to using those leftover funds to fund the ultimate [...

North Carolina Ban on Selective Abortion Awaits Governor’s Veto

One week ago, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law banning selective abortion, which prohibits physicians from performing an abortion...

Jonathan Chait’s Bad Sinema Review

At New York magazine, Jonathan Chait argues that Kyrsten Sinema’s position on the filibuster is irrational because the current exceptions to the...

Majority Again Says We’re on the Wrong Track

The question pollsters keep asking about whether the country is heading in the right direction or on the wrong track has yielded mostly depressing...

The Real Twist in Mare of Easttown: No Politics

Over the last few days I tore through all seven episodes of HBO Max’s acclaimed series, Mare of Easttown, an acting showcase for Kate Winslet,...

How Many Political Scientists Does It Take?

“More than 900 political scientists call on Congress to pass the For the People Act,” reads a tweet from a Berkeley Ph.D. candidate about a new...

Joe Biden’s Absurd Abortion Cop-Out

I’m not a Catholic, and so I don’t have much to say on the theological aspects of Joe Biden’s contortions on abortion policy. Yet, this...

Senator Sinema: No, Seriously, I’m Not Getting Rid of the Filibuster

Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has an op-ed in the Washington Post this evening in which she vows to protect the Senate filibuster. Confirming...

Immigration Cannot Solve the Challenges of an Aging Society

We hear all the time that America is growing old, and there won’t be enough workers to pay for Social Security or support the economy unless we...

U.S. Public Schools Lost 1.3 Million Students During COVID-19 Pandemic

The public school system in the United States lost nearly 1.3 million students over the 2020-21 school year, Education Week reports, based on its...

We’re Still Not Yet at Fauci’s Threshold for Easing Pandemic Restrictions

The vast majority of America’s coronavirus restrictions have been withdrawn or repealed. Mask mandates are largely lifted. As of June 7, just one...

Muffle ’Em

Impromptus today is a mixed bag, as the column is born to be, and it leads with Shaquille O’Neal. Asked for a prediction in the NBA playoffs, he...

Is UNC a Welcoming Place for Conservative Students?

Colleges and universities always tell us that they want diversity, but the wrong kind of diversity can make you an outcast. In today’s Martin...

Who Does Ted Lieu Think He Is?

I’m not a Catholic, and, as a result, I have no dog in this fight, but I must admit that this jumped out at me from the pages of the New York...

Fourth Circuit Blocks Pro-Life Law in North Carolina

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a North Carolina law prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a regulation based on...

Taxpayers Should Demand Their Airline Bailout Money Back

American Airlines has had to cancel hundreds of flights over the weekend. The mass cancelation will continue over the next few weeks. One of the...

Imagine If: Sheldon Whitehouse Edition

Axios’s Swan Dismantles Pakistan’s Endorsement of Uyghur Repression

Jonathan Swan of Axios has conducted another exceptional interview with a world leader, this one highlighting Pakistan’s abject capitulation to...

An Inspiring Voice from Hong Kong

Let me offer a couple of links, to two podcasts: to Q&A , with Nathan Law; and to Music for a While , my latest episode. The music podcast is named...

Thank You to the Washington Post

Kudos to the Washington Post, which has finally managed to describe Florida’s recent curriculum changes accurately: Uma Menon is a 17-year-old...

The False Promise of Term Limits for the Supreme Court

We might be better off if there were term limits for Supreme Court justices. But the idea is gaining support right now because progressives are...

The Biden Team Unveils Their Plan to Help Vaccinate the World

After what felt like a really long time of debating where to send COVID-19 vaccine doses, the Biden administration unveiled its allocation plan for...

NBC: Five, Maybe Seven, Democratic Senators Currently Oppose Abolishing the Filibuster

At NBC News, Julie Tsirkin and Sahil Kapur confirm what has been obvious for a while: That it’s not just Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema who...

Some Summer Reading

The Tax Milton Friedman Supported and Bernie Sanders Won’t Raise

Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that he wouldn’t support any infrastructure bill that raises the federal gas tax, which currently sits at 18.4...

Surprise, Surprise, the Taliban Is Retaking Control of Afghanistan

The fact that the Taliban is retaking provincial capitals and “forc[ing] the surrender and capture of hundreds of government forces and their...

Celebrating Fatherhood

I couldn’t have been older than seven when I came up with quite the one-liner. A real zinger. One day, I approached my parents and asked them...

The Shakespearean Father-Son Tragedy of the Biden Family

It was announced Saturday that Joe Biden’s dog Champ has died at age 13. By all accounts, the family German Shepherd was – as we would say – a...

Three Cheers for Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang is catching flak for this debate answer about letting untreated severely mentally ill people wander the streets, but he’s absolutely...

Shoveling Money into the Bottomless Pit of Student-Loan Debt

To nobody’s surprise, Biden & Co. have decided to forgive $500 million in loan debt for students who had enrolled in the now-defunct ITT...

Douglas Laycock on the Importance of the Fulton Decision

If you want the glass-half-full view of the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in favor of Catholic Social Services in the case Fulton v. City of...

Airline Seats Are Getting Smaller — but Americans Aren’t

It is customary for frequent fliers to complain about the traveling process. Going through TSA, navigating the airport, airplane food — all are...