Nicole Ault

Nov 3, 2024 | wsj.com | Nicole Ault

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul accused opponents of Proposal 1, a constitutional amendment on Tuesday’s ballot, of “trying to scare us” about what might happen if it passes. But at a Yonkers rally, she was the one appealing to fear: “Don’t let them win. Do not let darkness win over light. Don’t let bad, evil, win over good.” She called opponents “forces of darkness.”Ms. Hochul’s dramatic language isn’t entirely off the mark.

Oct 28, 2024 | wsj.com | Nicole Ault

You won’t be surprised to learn that a new United Nations report on “violence against women and girls in sports” says that “sports institutions are built on colonial and extractive structures.” That’s a fairly standard assumption among the international bureaucrats who work in places like Geneva and Turtle Bay.

Oct 17, 2024 | wsj.com | Nicole Ault

WSJ Opinion: The Battle for the HouseYour browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Paused0:00 / 6:06WSJ Opinion: The Battle for the HousePlay video: WSJ Opinion: The Battle for the HouseWest Haverstraw, N.Y.If American politics are tending toward ideological extremes, you wouldn’t know it from the race for New York’s 17th Congressional District. The first-term incumbent, Rep.

Oct 17, 2024 | wsj.com | Nicole Ault

Mr. Lawler’s challenger is former Rep. Mondaire Jones, who boasts that “I caught hell from the left” when he endorsed George Latimer, a primary challenger to Rep. Jamaal Bowman, over Mr. Bowman’s denunciations of Israel. “But I don’t regret it for a second,” Mr. Jones tells senior citizens at a candidate forum in Cortlandt Manor, “because I will always stand up for the Jewish community in this district.”Messrs. Lawler, 38, and Jones, 37, are in one of this year’s closest House races.

Aug 19, 2024 | wsj.com | Nicole Ault

Gender identity is a matter of feeling—one believes oneself to be the opposite sex, or neither sex—and the Biden rule doesn’t pretend otherwise. Public comments on the rule, the department acknowledges, protested that the term is “subjective, unconstitutionally vague, overbroad, and requires ‘self-identification’ of which others may not be aware,” as Judge Danny Reeves of Kentucky’s Eastern District summarizes in his injunction.