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Youngkin’s Big Win

National Review

What Youngkin needed to do was obvious if not necessarily easy — unite Trump and anti-Trump voters, and maintain big Republican margins in rural areas while eroding Democratic margins in the suburbs. He succeeded brilliantly.

What If Colin Powell Ran for President in 1996?

National Review

Powell would have overseen a booming economy, though he likely would have clashed with Gingrich-era Republicans in Congress and attempted to reach more compromises with Democrats. Without the Clinton second term and the Monica Lewinsky scandal establishing the precedent that character concerns and personal flaws don’t matter, it’s hard to see Donald Trump succeeding in 2016.

NY Times Retracts Exaggeration of Children Hospitalized by Covid-19

National Review

In an article published by New York Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli on Wednesday, Times readers were told that “nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.” A correction issued on Thursday notes that the correct number is 63,000 between August 2020 and October 2021, which means Mandavilli exaggerated the number of child hospitalizations by 837,000 cases.