The Federalist Daily Briefing for 05/24/2018

Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. May 24, 2018 [The FBI Used Its Secret Spy Program To Protect Killers, Jail Innocents, And Screw Victims]( By Sean Davis An internal FBI spy program reportedly used to surveil the Trump campaign has a long history of being used to protect killers and jail innocents. [Full article]( [I’m A Democrat, And The Left’s Russia Gaslighting Scares Me More Than Trump Does]( By Saritha Prabhu My fellow Democrats are increasingly becoming the kind of low-information voters they despise and think are only on the other side. [Full article]( [Tastemakers Have Opened The Floodgates Of Preachy PC Art]( By Robert Tracinski An Alanis Morissette jukebox musical shows how mainstream culture is openly embracing the idea of a didactic or propagandistic role for art. [Full article]( [6 Ways To Help Women When Abortion Is Finally Outlawed]( By Georgi Boorman When Roe v. Wade is finally overturned, the matter will be left to the states. Some states will ban the practice, and more will follow suit. [Full article]( [Study: The No. 1 Reason Any Americans Are Poor Is They’re Not Working]( By Joy Pullmann The No. 2 reason is making kids before marriage. This means not working and pre-marital childbearing are not just the two leading causes of U.S. poverty, but almost the only causes of U.S. poverty. [Full article]( [Culture, Not Guns, Is At The Root Of Our Mass Shootings Increase]( By Jim Hanson Take away all the guns and we will simply see death by other means until we address the real issue: Our culture has become toxic. [Full article]( [What’s Wrong With Using Solely Reason To Undergird A Political Philosophy]( By Nathanael Blake Conservatives (and libertarians) must confront the Enlightenment’s failures, and address the philosophical triumph of its critics. [Full article]( [Netflix’s Contract With The Obamas Likely Won’t Pay Financially, But It Might Politically]( By Ellie Bufkin While it seems unlikely that a great number of people would cancel their Netflix accounts, it seems far less likely that anyone who didn’t vote for Obama would sign up to see his content. [Full article]( [‘Deadpool 2’ Isn’t A Great Film, Which Means Superheroes Have Become A Robust Movie Genre]( By Aaron Gleason The film presents as something shallow and not really worthy of deep critical attention. Then it feeds the viewers deep issues in rather overt ways. [Full article]( [Does The Heritage Foundation’s Health Plan Include Taxpayer Funding For Abortion?]( By Christopher Jacobs A few short words in a summary of the Heritage plan leave the real possibility that the plan, if enacted as described, could lead to taxpayer funding of abortion coverage. [Full article]( [Nearly Four In Five College Departments Don’t Employ A Single Republican]( By William Estes Among tenure-track college professors at the nation’s top-ranked liberal arts schools, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by more than 10 to 1. [Full article]( [Andrew McCabe Spent $70,000 On A Table. The FBI Hid It From Congress]( By Bre Payton Andrew McCabe, who was fired for lying under oath, spent $70,000 in taxpayer dollars on a conference table, and the FBI later hid it from Congress. [Full article]( [Podcast With David Frum On Civil Discourse, Foreign Policy, And Impeachment]( By The Federalist Staff Senior Editor at The Atlantic, David Frum, joins the Federalist Radio Hour to weigh in on alarming changes in social and political society. [Full article]( [Trump Should Be Allowed To Block Whomever He Wants On Twitter]( By Bre Payton A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Donald Trump isn't allowed to block anyone on Twitter because it violates the U.S. Constitution. [Full article]( [Sen. John Kennedy: The ‘Mueller Investigation Needs To End’]( By Bre Payton In a statement released Wednesday, Sen. John Kennedy called for the ongoing Department of Justice probe led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to end. [Full article]( [The Media’s Defense Of Obama Administration Spying Defies Logic]( By David Harsanyi It doesn't matter what you think about Donald Trump, revelations that one major party’s administration was spying on another deserves an investigation. [Full article]( [Is Donald Trump The Most Pro-Life President Ever?]( By Ben Domenech The pro-life movement has come to grips with the reality that it does not matter who represents pro-life views from the bully pulpit of the presidency – what matters is what they do. [Full article]( THE MOST PRO-LIFE PRESIDENT EVER? night at the Susan B. Anthony List’s annual gala, there was more than one reference to President Trump as the most pro-life president ever. This is an odd reference for a president who, in private life, was an emphatic supporter of abortion for his entire life. The arrangement here is a demonstration of the pragmatism that has led single-issue voters to feel such loyalty toward the president despite him having to sing off of a sheet someone else wrote for him (the same phenomenon is true of gun-owners). It’s early yet, but they might turn out to be correct. Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. 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