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We’re Seeing Both Failure and Progress on Student Loans

The federal student-loan program looks more than ever like a handout, not a genuine extension of credit that is expected to be repaid. Allysia Finley...

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John R. Puri

Governor Ron DeSantis and the Free State of Florida

https://youtu.be/Yx9EDpo58rw?si=_8tgtb0FjZq3_fhI Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joins Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at the governor’s...

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Peter Robinson

A Good Sign: Alberta Makes Legal Euthanasia Harder to Access

Canada has gone hog wild for euthanasia. But the pro-death tide may — may — be beginning to turn. The province of Alberta just passed a bill that...

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Wesley J. Smith

The Wooing of John Fetterman

Speculation has swirled around Senator John Fetterman lately, about whether he might switch his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. Charlie...

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Nr Staff

The Torching of Los Angeles Was Anti-Capitalist Vigilantism

Among the many things progressives would probably like to forget about the moral panic they succumbed to in the summer of 2020 is the extent to which...

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Noah Rothman

Announcing Our 2026 Buckley Prize Honorees

Today, National Review is proud to announce the distinguished recipients of the 2026 William F. Buckley Jr. Prize — two remarkable leaders who have...

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Chuck Defeo

Syllabus Transparency Is Important — Which States Require It?

Among the serious problems with American higher education is that faculty members often hide the true nature of their courses. They’re eager to...

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George Leef

Arctic Power

The New York Times has a wonderful feature on an American experiment in training troops for battle in the extremes of the Arctic. Well worth your...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Will Gas Prices Become a National Obsession?

This is obviously happening in much of the rest of the world. In Asia, there are serious shortages of cooking gas. In Europe the price of petrol, and...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Telehealth Abortion Ban

Today, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an interim order pausing a Friday decision by the Fifth Circuit Court ‌of Appeals that would have...

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Michael J. New

Does It Make Sense for John Fetterman to Flip Parties?

Jonathan Martin of Politico writes that the scenario of Pennsylvania Democratic senator John Fetterman switching parties or  becoming  an...

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Jim Geraghty

John Fetterman Isn’t a Republican

There’s a lot of buzz today about John Fetterman becoming a Republican. It is not going to happen. Politico‘s story on the matter notes that: If...

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Biting the Hand . . .

As is becoming all too obvious, Europe is on the edge of an oil crisis. And so (via the Daily Telegraph) this, a few days ago, is what Ed Miliband,...

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Andrew Stuttaford

The Illusion of Control

There is still much debate over whether banning advertisements for tobacco products on television and radio had the intended effect of ensuring that...

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Noah Rothman

Fifth Circuit Court Decision Blocks Telehealth Abortions

On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous ruling that reverses existing FDA policy and prevents the mailing of chemical...

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Michael J. New

Oil: Mayday

Many (most?) of the day-to-day gyrations in the oil price reflect scares or hopes of the moment. There is only so much information that can be derived...

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Andrew Stuttaford

A Conversation with Justice Gorsuch

We’re on a journey, and that’s exactly how I think of our declaration, right? I mean, those three big ideas in the declaration that all of us are...

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Dan Mclaughlin

The Chicago Teacher’s Union Parks Itself Outside my Window for May Day

As devoted readers of this august institution may already know, May 1 — historically a global day of Marxist “pro-labor” celebrations — has...

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Jeffrey Blehar

Trump Tells Congress ‘Hostilities’ with Iran Have ‘Terminated’ Despite Dueling Blockades

My weekend column addresses the implausibility of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s claim, in Senate testimony, that the so-called cease-fire ordered...

02.05.2026 3

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Uterine Transplants and Reproductive Anarchy

Uterine transplants are becoming more common to enable infertile women — and perhaps, eventually men — to give birth. How’s that project going?...

02.05.2026 3

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Wesley J. Smith

The Pressure’s on in Maine

With Janet Mills out of the Maine Senate race, the competition is likely between incumbent Susan Collins and Democrat Graham Platner. Dan Foster, on...

01.05.2026 3

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Nr Staff

We Meant to Do That

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson recently manufactured a viral moment for herself: https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/2049562844862324861 This one deserves...

01.05.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

Buy Fast or Lose Slow

For decades, the Pentagon has enjoyed the luxury of time. It could afford to buy slowly, build exquisitely, and assume that America’s technological...

01.05.2026 2

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John Noonan

XTC: All Hail the Amazing Crash-Boom-Band

I try not to make it a habit to promote my side podcast here at NR too often, or too obstreperously. It’s a niche thing — Political Beats was a...

01.05.2026 4

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Jeffrey Blehar

A Court Case Challenges IRB Restrictions on Research

Across a wide range of academic fields, scholars who want to do research that in some way involves human beings need to get approval from their...

01.05.2026 3

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George Leef

The Monarchical Logic of Trump’s Tariffs

Americans were summarily informed by the president on Thursday that he would loosen the reins he had imposed on American importers in deference to the...

01.05.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

‘The Declaration of Independence’

On this week’s episode, I talked to Michael Auslin about his new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America. Among...

01.05.2026 3

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Chicago’s May Day Action Civics Nightmare

Are you concerned that the torrent of leftist rhetoric making President Trump out to be an authoritarian, a tyrant, and a fascist is legitimating...

01.05.2026 6

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Stanley Kurtz

A Great Idea for Data Centers and Electricity Rates

Charlie Cooke argued yesterday that there is no rational reason to oppose the construction of data centers, which make this website and all others...

30.04.2026 4

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John R. Puri

Dementia Patients and Death by Intentional Undernourishment

Last year, I wrote here warning about a bioethics paper that advocated restricting the amount of orally received food and water given to dementia...

30.04.2026 5

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Wesley J. Smith

Wages of Lawfare: Powell Will Stay on at the Fed

I’ve noted a number of times that President Trump’s lawfare jihad against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was doubly self-destructive....

30.04.2026 4

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Maine Shows Antisemitism Is a Shortcut to Success in the Modern Democratic Party

Governor Janet Mills on Thursday announced that she was dropping out of the Maine Senate race, with polls showing her way behind Graham Platner, who...

30.04.2026 5

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Philip Klein

Mills Has Fallen; Platner Triumphant

My Monday Corner post about data centers asserted, “Janet Mills’s defiance of the state’s Democratic state legislative majority may be seen...

30.04.2026 4

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Jim Geraghty

So Close to Our Final $175,000 Goal — Please, Help Us Get There

Here we go again! Once again, we’ve run a webathon. Once again, you’ve responded in an amazing fashion. And, I’m hoping, once again, you’ll...

30.04.2026 4

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Rich Lowry

Keeping an Eye on Josh Shapiro’s Far-Reaching Ambitions

At the tail end of today's Morning Jolt, I mentioned a curious expenditure on the part of Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s...

29.04.2026 6

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Jim Geraghty

The Helium Crisis

People have noticed that the great AI build-out, including all those data centers, is driving the economy forward, or at least driving a lot of the...

29.04.2026 4

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Lee Zeldin Awards Rosa DeLauro No Points, May God Have Mercy on Her Soul

A brief dispatch from the world of congressional comedy, because in all honesty we’re starved for any kind of comedy these days. On Monday,...

29.04.2026 8

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Jeffrey Blehar

Worst Best Lists

The New York Times put out a list of the 30 best living songwriters. It’s a mess. Some of the names make sense: Babyface, Stephin Merritt. But you...

29.04.2026 9

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Leave the United States Out of Trump’s Lawfare ‘Indictments’

Forget the passport. And the dollar. And the Kennedy Center. And the battleships. Forget the national park passes, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the...

29.04.2026 10

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

College Accreditation Helps Promote Leftism

The left has thoroughly infiltrated American education, using it to shape the thinking of students — to accept collectivistic beliefs and reject our...

29.04.2026 5

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George Leef

A Unanimous Supreme Court First Amendment Victory for Crisis Pregnancy Centers — but Not Only a Win for Pro-Lifers

The Supreme Court this morning decided First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, a case at the hot-button intersection of abortion, free...

29.04.2026 8

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Dan Mclaughlin

OPEC: UAExit

Giving only a week’s notice, the UAE will be quitting OPEC after 60 years. The news is not entirely a surprise, the UAE had long felt constrained by...

29.04.2026 10

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Andrew Stuttaford

Transatlantic Tensions

King Charles III is on a state visit to the U.S. this week, and on today’s edition of The Editors, Charlie Cooke looks at the strained relations...

28.04.2026 4

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Nr Staff

Trump DOJ Brings a Second Bogus Comey Indictment

If it’s possible, the Trump Justice Department’s new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is even more absurd than the previous...

28.04.2026 10

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Are Preppers Deluded?

The New York Times has a provocative column by Kit Dillon on preppers and what we really need during an emergency. He takes as paradigmatic the...

28.04.2026 8

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

De Gustibus to the New York Times’ ‘Greatest Living Songwriters’ List

So, the New York Times is out this week with its carefully assembled, critically reviewed list of the “30 Greatest Living American Songwriters.”...

28.04.2026 10

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Jeffrey Blehar

Exhaustion on the Home Front

Owen Matthews looks at the signs of war exhaustion in Russia and Ukraine and wonders if domestic turmoil could determine the outcome before attrition...

28.04.2026 10

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Coming Rupture in the Catholic Church

The Society of Saint Pius X was founded in 1970 by the French traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. It was founded to preserve the celebration of...

28.04.2026 8

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Energy Price Watch: Europe

Here’s a little survey. Ireland, from the Irish Times: Irish wholesale electricity prices climbed by 19.2 per cent last month compared to February,...

28.04.2026 8

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Fauci Colleague’s Indictment Might Shed Light on Covid’s Murky History

David Morens was formerly a senior adviser to Anthony Fauci when he was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...

28.04.2026 10

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Wesley J. Smith