John Conyers Is Facing a Bouquet of Accusations

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: The number of Conyers accusers grows almost large enough to field a baseball team; what James O’Keefe and Project Veritas should do now; President Trump and the lost art of decorum and respect for veterans; and an NR holiday shopping guide.

Counting All the Conyers Accusers

At some point, the “why did you keep working for him?” defense needs to be retired, or at least recognized as not much of a defense.

A former staffer of U.S. Rep. John Conyers said the veteran lawmaker made unwanted sexual advances toward her, including inappropriate touching, adding to allegations by other unnamed former employees that have prompted a congressional investigation.

Deanna Maher, Conyers’ former deputy chief of staff who ran his downriver office from 1997 to 2005, told The Detroit News that the Detroit Democrat made unwanted advances toward her three times.

Maher is the second former Conyers staffer to go public with accusations about the ...

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Nancy Pelosi Is Profoundly Confused about Due Process

David French

Last month Nancy Pelosi took her star turn as House Democratic Leader at an event unveiling the so-called Title IX Protection Act, an effort to codify in federal statutes Obama-era guidance on...

Save the Crusader

Dan McLaughlin

Save the Crusader

John Conyers Is the Albatross that Democrats Deserve

Rich Lowry

There are sexual harassers, and then there is John Conyers, the Democrat from Detroit who made his congressional office an adjunct of his libido. The evidence suggests that Conyers believed...

Mr. Romney Goes to Washington?

Hal Boyd

Political commentator Bill Kristol opened his speech to the Sutherland Institute’s annual gala in Salt Lake City earlier this month by noting how delighted he was to have spent time that evening...

The Nazi next door, &c.

Jay Nordlinger

The New York Times ran a superb piece by a reporter named Richard Fausset. Called “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland,” it was about a homegrown Nazi, or a homegrown extremist — the Nazi...

Sexual Power Dynamics: Examining the Missing Part of the Story

Douglas Murray

My essay last week on the worrying elision of the criminal and the minimal in the current wave of sexual-assault allegations seems to have stirred some colleagues. So at the risk of being...

Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative

Craig Shirley

'An honest and highly talented biographer who is also a man of conviction...In this deeply researched biography, while never glossing over missteps and mistakes, Craig Shirley has given us that honest accounting.'
- John R. Coyne Jr., author, Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement

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