Politics & Policy

A U.S Army soldier walks behind an Afghan policeman during a joint patrol with Afghan police and Canadian soldiers west of Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2007. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) Two decades of the conflict have shown us what American…

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B y the time the reader of the Stacey Abrams book Our Time Is Now gets to page 89, he is numb with the relentless contentions that any effort to make the Georgia elections system more secure or economical, any…

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…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer addresses a news conference about the coronavirus response on Capitol Hill, May 5, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Democrats can pass two more pieces of…

Sen. Roy Blunt listens during a confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Reuters) Senator Roy Blunt (R., Mo.) said that the Biden administration could pass an infrastructure bill as long as the…

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred addresses representatives from the grapefruit league in West Palm Beach, 2019. (Steve Mitchell / USA Today Sports via Reuters) Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, has managed to get to…

Governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) speaks at a vaccination site in New York, March 8, 2021. (Seth Wenig/Reuters) The New York State attorney general’s office has subpoenaed a number of aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo as part of its…

Rachel Levine speaks during her confirmation hearing to be Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington, D.C., February 25, 2021.…

A U.S. Border Patrol Agent escorts two asylum-seeking unaccompanied minors from Central America as others take refuge near a baseball field after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on rafts in La Joya,…

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2021. (Susan Walsh/Reuters) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Friday vowed to prioritize “equity”…