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Seeing Putin Clear

yesterday 10

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Jay Nordlinger

Tariff Tales: Borrowing from the Biden Playbook?

Tariff Tales: Borrowing from the Biden Playbook?

The disruption caused by the Trump tariffs is going to mean price increases. That’s not going to play well. Back a long, long, long time ago,...

previous day 2

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Andrew Stuttaford

Tariffs: The First Time as Farce, the Second as Tragedy

Tariffs: The First Time as Farce, the Second as Tragedy

The administration’s tariff hikes show next to no evidence of care or thought, other (it seems) than a certain knowledge of ChatGPT. The only Greek...

previous day 2

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Andrew Stuttaford

Meanwhile, on the Fiscal Side

friday 9

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Veronique De Rugy

The Strategic Folly of a Global War on Trade

The Strategic Folly of a Global War on Trade

Remember all the arguments that were made against "neocon" foreign policy? Because it sure looks as if the Trump-Vance team is bent on repeating...

friday 7

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Dan Mclaughlin

How Law Schools Became Illiberal

American law schools used to be rather stodgy places where students would learn about the pillars of our legal system. That began to change about...

friday 4

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George Leef

Colleges Aren’t Dropping Mandatory DEI Courses

Most of our college officials are deep-dyed “progressives” who don’t want to abandon their beloved forms of indoctrination. The Trump...

friday 5

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George Leef

Tariffs: Another Awkward Question

Simon Nixon: Much of the extraordinary performance of US assets in recent years has been fuelled by vast exports of European and Asian capital....

friday 5

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Andrew Stuttaford

Bioethics Think Tank: Defy ICE!

Bioethics Think Tank: Defy ICE!

The American people voted for President Trump, in large part, because they want immigration law to be enforced across all of society. But many...

friday 5

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Wesley J. Smith

We Told the Truth About Biden’s Decline

We Told the Truth About Biden’s Decline

I had to laugh a little when I read the news that former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain is claiming, according to a new book, that he was...

friday 4

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Mark Antonio Wright

The Senate Resolves to Balloon the Deficit

The Senate Resolves to Balloon the Deficit

In the midst of the pandemonium created by the president’s tariff debacle, it would be easy to miss the action on the budget in the last couple of...

friday 3

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Yuval Levin

Tariffs: The Politics of ‘Liberation’

Tariffs: The Politics of ‘Liberation’

A couple of days (or a million years) ago, I wrote about the politics of Trump’s tariff policies (this was before Americans had been told just how...

friday 2

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Andrew Stuttaford

Trump Supports Proxy Voting for New Parents Days After Speaker Johnson Tried to Tank Same Proposal

Update on my last post: President Donald Trump just told reporters he supports Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s (R., Fla.) proxy-voting proposal...

friday 2

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Audrey Fahlberg

Man Inducted into National Women’s Hall of Fame

Man Inducted into National Women’s Hall of Fame

When in 1969, Shirley Hartley learned that only 10 percent of honorees in the Hall of Great Americans were female, she helped create the National...

03.04.2025 10

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Haley Strack

It Turns Out That You Can’t Trust Ron Klain

It Turns Out That You Can’t Trust Ron Klain

Travel back with me to January 2023. Something called “bathleisure” was the fashion trend of the age. Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” topped the charts,...

03.04.2025 5

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Noah Rothman

Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba Drops Foreign Corruption Case Against Cognizant Execs

Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba Drops Foreign Corruption Case Against Cognizant Execs

In one of her first official acts after President Trump appointed her as the acting United States attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba asked a...

03.04.2025 2

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Bad Marketing

Bad Marketing

Yesterday, MBD made the case for the president to talk about tariffs in a better way. He suggested justifying them on grounds of reciprocity. He...

03.04.2025 2

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Veronique De Rugy

McKinsey Chief Speaks at Beijing Forum Hosted by China’s Government

McKinsey Chief Speaks at Beijing Forum Hosted by China’s Government

McKinsey’s top executive, Bob Sternfels, quietly traveled to Beijing last month for a high-powered business conference during which Chinese...

03.04.2025 4

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Jimmy Quinn

Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work — on Their Own Terms

Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work — on Their Own Terms

I am probably more open to tariffs and industrial policy than most folks at National Review, but I think there could be a significant structural...

03.04.2025 1

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Fred Bauer

The Trump Team’s ‘Sit Back, Take It In’ Advice to Irked Allies and Trade Partners

The Trump Team’s ‘Sit Back, Take It In’ Advice to Irked Allies and Trade Partners

As laid out in today’s Morning Jolt, the “reciprocal” tariffs announced by the Trump administration yesterday are considerably higher than whatever...

03.04.2025 6

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Jim Geraghty

‘The Donald Trump Tariff Extravaganza’

‘The Donald Trump Tariff Extravaganza’

On episode 85 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I talked to Scott Lincicome about Donald Trump’s massive unilateral tariff hike. What is a...

03.04.2025 10

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike

If implemented, the tariffs announced yesterday by President Trump would constitute the largest tax increase since the 1968 levies to fund the...

03.04.2025 10

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Michael R. Strain

Our System for Funding Academic Science Is Inefficient

Federal funding for scientific research is often inefficient. In today’s Martin Center article, Duke professor John Staddon explains why and...

02.04.2025 4

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George Leef

Tariffs: Not Trump’s Strongest Card

Tariffs: Not Trump’s Strongest Card

Obviously, we don’t know yet what “Liberation Day” holds, but its politics are likely to be tricky. Sara Dorn in Forbes cites a recent (March...

02.04.2025 2

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Andrew Stuttaford

Liberation Day Is Here

Liberation Day Is Here

Are you ready to be liberated from rising wages, massive foreign direct investments, a growing economy, and friends worldwide? Doug Holtz Eakin has...

02.04.2025 2

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Veronique De Rugy

In Ireland, Immigration vs. Preservation

In Ireland, Immigration vs. Preservation

As it gained its independence from the United Kingdom, Ireland tasked its state with a unique language mission. Irish (Gaeilge), is recognized as...

02.04.2025 2

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Reciprocity

As I write, we are still a few hours away from Trump’s Liberation Day announcement. Although the Trump administration has argued (mostly correctly)...

02.04.2025 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Unlike NPR, We Can’t Depend on Taxpayer Money

Noah Rothman highlighted the cringeworthy testimony of National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher, who struggled to explain her organization’s...

02.04.2025 1

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Philip Klein

Behold: The New and Improved San Quentin Experience

Behold: The New and Improved San Quentin Experience

San Quentin’s stone walls no longer turn blood cold: California’s infamous correctional facility is getting a $239 million makeover, courtesy of...

02.04.2025 1

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Haley Strack

Democratic Spending Group Encourages Elon Musk to Campaign for GOP Candidates in 2026

Democratic Spending Group Encourages Elon Musk to Campaign for GOP Candidates in 2026

Following Republicans’ drubbing in last night’s Wisconsin’s supreme court race, and their slight underperformance in two Florida special...

02.04.2025 1

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Audrey Fahlberg

Former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain: Biden Didn’t Understand His Own Argument on Inflation

Former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain: Biden Didn’t Understand His Own Argument on Inflation

Once again, now it can be told! Apparently Joe Biden’s former chief of staff, Ron Klain, is now ready to tell the American people they elected a...

02.04.2025 30

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Jim Geraghty

No California Democrat Is All That Scared of Taking on Kamala Harris, Huh?

No California Democrat Is All That Scared of Taking on Kamala Harris, Huh?

Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s former secretary of health and human services, is running for governor of California in 2026. He brings to the...

02.04.2025 10

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Jim Geraghty