CNN data reporter Harry Enten discusses the results of new polls from AP-NORC and Quinnipiac on how the public is responding to the partial government shutdown. ” You might think, given that the Republicans are in charge of both the House and the Senate, that a government shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand — but in fact, it hasn’t.”

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – October 29, 2025 The problems it solves are real but comparatively minor. The risks it creates are enormous. In some ways, I understand why there is some demand for a digital ID. In theory, a digital ID could offer individuals more privacy. Instead of handing your driver’s license over to a bouncer — who then learns...

By: Brittany Bernstein – nationalreview.com – October 28, 2025 Gates is calling for a ‘strategic pivot’ toward focusing on disease and poverty and away from trying to stop rising temperatures. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise,” despite having spent years fearmongering over rising global temperatures. Gates authored a surprising blog post on...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 23, 2025 Critics of White House renovations also hated Jefferson’s colonnades and Truman’s balcony. But adding a ballroom to the White House isn’t destroying it, much less democracy, and controversy over such renovations is almost as old as the republic. The nonprofit White House Historical Association has an enlightening essay on the...

By: James Lynch – nationalreview.com – October 24, 2025 Sanger’s crusade has attracted some powerful allies. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has known for years that the website he helped create — the single largest repository of human knowledge ever assembled — was going off the rails. But it wasn’t until he read the entry for Yahweh, the Old Testament name...

The Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s media restrictions are attempts to control information, both true and false, and have been…

A line no longer runs between the north and the south, but between those on Bluesky and those on X.

By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – October 20, 2025 Bari Weiss at CBS and Jeff Bezos at the Washington Post are trying, but they’re sure to meet resistance. It isn’t quite true, as lore has it, that the New Yorker’s film critic was so unaware of her Himalayan elevation above her fellow Americans that she wondered aloud how Richard Nixon...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – October 16, 2025 I am prepared to share my foolproof technique for free. CNN reports that Graham Platner, who hopes to be Maine’s next senator, has a record of declaring himself a “communist,” of describing “white rural America” as “racist and stupid,” and of calling all cops “bastards.” The comments were made on Reddit,...

A unique PBS show that debates imaginary political scenarios without real-world facts.