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The rapid collapse of the COVID state, politicians insist, is just a matter of following the science. And that’s true. They neglect to mention that it’s the science of polling that they’re following. As bad as the public polls are (and public polls are usually bad in more ways than one) the internal polls are…

Ruben Navarrette makes an interesting point in his attack on affirmative action. There’s a lot to disagree with in the article which is filled with rhetorical shorthand and sloppy analogies, but in his conclusion, he takes a different tack on how affirmative action hurts minorities. I see that Americans have again missed the chance to…

Are those the rules? Those are the official rules, now. It’s okay for AG’s to abuse their power to go after their political opponents because persecuting people for their political views is not a civil rights violation. Just ask Xi, Putin, and Judge Arthur F. Engoron of the New York State Supreme Court. At the end…

Former civil rights groups the ACLU has finally found a cause it can really get behind: taking away civil rights. From Virginia to Iowa, to Missouri and Colorado, the ACLU has been sending threatening letters and joining lawsuits against school districts to pressure them to take away the civil rights of students and to force…

If you want Attorney General Letitia James to do her job, good luck. The only people she’s interested in going after wear MAGA or NRA hats. And so we have the surreal scene of a city and state melting down under the heat of an escalating crime wave while the state’s top prosecutor courts headlines and…

Palin v. New York Times came down to arguing that the paper was sloppy, but not malicious. That may be the best defense that Judge Jed Rakoff, who dismissed the case before the jury had finished its deliberations, can manage. Why dismiss the case before the jury has even reached a verdict? The obvious answer is…

I know we’re all excited about the DNS surveillance story. The media is frantically spinning it and conservatives are playing it up with pictures of a scowling Durham. Building cults of personality around prosecutors rarely ends well. And when all is said and done, Durham may disappoint conservatives as much as Mueller disappointed leftists. Just…