President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. A hard-core progressive, Judge Jackson is not the best pick Biden could have made. She is also not the best pick for progressives. That helps progressives dodge some cases they
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Political Satirist And ‘Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!’ Panelist P.J. O’Rourke Dies
NEW YORK (AP) — P.J. O’Rourke, the prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned the irreverence and “Gonzo” journalism of the 1960s counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary, has died at age 74. O’Rourke died Tuesday morning,
Xi Jinping’s Political Prisoners
As the Chinese Communist Party shows a happy face to the world, dissidents languish in its jails. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T his year, the Chinese New Year fell on February 1. Three days later, on February 4, the 2022 Beijing
Egyptian political prisoner dies after ‘denial of medical care’
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) said that Shaheen passed away on Wednesday in the notorious Tora prison after nearly five years in detention. Shaheen, 42, was the managing director of Azmeel Real Estate Company. He leaves behind a
Menace, as a Political Tool, Enters the Republican Mainstream
Even after corporations and donors vowed to withhold donations to the G.O.P. in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans out-raised Democrats this year. And they outperformed expectations in the elections this month, capturing the Virginia governorship, winning a
Journalists Publicly Embrace One-Sided Political Reporting
Welcome back to “Forgotten Fact-Checks,” a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we examine calls for the mainstream media to be more critical of Republicans, analyze the media’s coverage of the death of Colin Powell, and
How the Debt Ceiling Came to Be a Political Cudgel
The Democrats’ latest attempt to draw in the Republicans came Monday, when the Senate took up a bill to continue funding the government — an absolute necessity by Sept. 30 — with a temporary increase in the debt ceiling, along
Facebook eyes “Election Commission” in possible bid to shed political scrutiny
Enlarge / Guests stand next to a Facebook Elections USA sign in the Facebook Lounge ahead of the first Republican presidential debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. Facebook may finally be acknowledging