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From The Federalist to Fox News, Ben Domenech's flip-flop on vaccine mandates highlights right-wing media hypocrisy
During his stints as one of the rotating guest hosts on Fox News Primetime, Federalist co-founder Ben Domenech has hammered viewers over the tyranny of vaccine mandates -- bemoaning the supposed creeping authoritarianism of public health requirements that, according to an earlier defense of the same policy by Domenech himself, have been in place “since before the Emancipation Proclamation.” In a 2015 piece for The Federalist titled “The Insane Vaccine Debate,” Domenech condemned Republican politicians for being unable to “discuss vaccination policy without sounding like anti-science fools,” and he lauded the right of public and private institutions to require vaccinations in the name of public safety. Now that Domenech has fallen in line with Fox’s hysterics about the COVID-19 vaccines, however, the earlier piece serves to starkly highlight the lack of principle needed to become a Fox News talking head.
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Biden thought he could persuade vaccine skeptics. He couldn’t. So he embraced mandates. by Annie Linskey
President Biden also shed his hesitancy to wade directly into the rough currents of “pandemic politics” — as he calls the deep divide over how to approach the virus — triggering the kind of red-hot reaction on the right that he’s sought to avoid in the opening months of his presidency.
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These corporations bankrolled the sponsors of Texas' abortion ban 
Texas just enacted the nation's most draconian abortion ban, prohibiting all abortions after six weeks — before many women even know they are pregnant. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. Further, the law places a $10,000 bounty on anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion in Texas after six weeks. Private citizens can collect the bounty by filing a lawsuit.

And all the people who have been screaming about how corporations should stay out of politics recently have been and continue to be strategically silent.

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No, criminal justice reform isn’t causing the current crime wave
Conservative criminal justice reformers have faced occasional skepticism over our tried-and-true criminal justice solutions, but never something quite so outlandish as a recent suggestion, by an avowed conservative, no less, that conservative reformers somehow bear blame for rising violent crime in liberal bastions such as New York City and Portland. Sean Kennedy, in his recent Washington Examiner article ,...