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Free Trade Is Ancient Wisdom

My predecessor, Dominic Pino, wrote for NR last year that "free trade is how you live your life," since international commerce is simply the...

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John R. Puri

Sacrificing Human Thriving on the Altar of Environmentalist Earth Religion

Environmentalism continues its radical shift from reasonable conservationism to environmentalist earth religion. This growing faith was most recently...

yesterday 0

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Wesley J. Smith

Why the Republicans Started Panicking This Week

Conservative talk show host Steve Deace wrote earlier this week, “Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a ...

yesterday 1

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Jim Geraghty

This Is Who the Protesters Are

What did the celebrities, activists, and politicians who joined the terrorist-curious group Jewish Voice for Peace outside the U.N.’s headquarters...

yesterday 0

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Noah Rothman

Let’s Stop Obsessing Over ‘Prestige’ Colleges and Universities

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, blah, blah, blah — our national conversation about higher education is dominated by the supposedly elite schools, and...

yesterday 1

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George Leef

Trump Loses Selzer Case, Wins in His Heart

A small footnote on a case I’ve written about several times in past: In Iowa in 2024, esteemed pollster Ann Selzer — she of the “Iowa Poll,”...

yesterday 1

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Jeffrey Blehar

De Gaulle Cinema

Having read Julian Jackson’s absolutely astonishing biography of Charles de Gaulle, I was excited to know that two feature-length films based on the...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Benjamin Netanyahu Turns the Tables on Zohran Mamdani

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rarely misses an opportunity to criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to accuse him of various...

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Noah Rothman

Beleaguered Lesbian Bar Hits Potential Jackpot

Readers, I’ll cut to the chase: Everybody else is having fun with this western Massachusetts lesbian bar story, so why can’t I? By now you may...

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Jeffrey Blehar

Xi and Jimmy Lai

We’re getting two pandas from China. Trump and Xi Jinping joked about a picture of Joe Biden’s autopen on a White House wall today. And, then, of...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

After Libertarianism

Daniel McCarthy has written a provocative column in the new issue of The Spectator, arguing that libertarianism has "disappeared" from our...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Cheap Weapons and Empires

An interesting argument from scholar Patrick Fitzsimmons that what ended the Bronze Age was not a better substitute for bronze but a cheaper one: The...

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Dan McLaughlin

Susan Collins Is Defying the Headwinds

Maine Senator Susan Collins famously trailed in every survey of her 2020 reelection race. But in the end, she defeated her opponent by 8.6 points....

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Noah Rothman

Celebrating — and Imitating — America’s Dolly and America’s Sheen

Every once in a while, I truly covet my neighbor’s idea. That happened yesterday afternoon, when I learned that this piece by my friend Mike...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Three-Year College Gaining Traction

Traditionally, it has taken four years to earn a college degree — but what is so important about that number? Lots of students actually hang around...

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George Leef

Russia Is Going to Do Something Really Stupid and Dangerous

Why would the Trump administration invite Vladimir Putin back onto American soil? “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with...

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Noah Rothman

Irish Identity and Palestine

It now seems like every week there is a big controversy in Ireland related to the Palestinian cause. Ed Sheeran got into hot water with the Irish...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

AI Doom as the New Climate Catastrophe

Oren Cass has a very smart essay on how to respond to the AI doom scenarios with what we’ve learned from the environmental catastrophists: The...

wednesday 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Environmentalists Care More About Wilderness Than About People’s Lives

King Cove is an Aleut Alaskan fishing village of about 400 people. It is adjacent to the 300,000-acre Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, which was...

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Wesley J. Smith

A Bipartisan Deal on Fraud Prevention, if Congress Wants It

A pair of House Republicans has introduced a bill, the Anti-Fraud Fund Act of 2026, to crack down on pervasive fraud in federal health-care programs...

wednesday 3

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John R. Puri

The Next Vibe Shift

When Trump was reelected, there was a lot of talk about “the vibe shift.” It was basically a phrase meaning the end of the woke era and the start...

wednesday 2

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Nose-Diving into Moral Relativism

When the Center for Strategic Politics asked 683 Democrats how they would feel if they “woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following headlines,”...

wednesday 3

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Noah Rothman

What’s the Best Line in the Boston Globe Lesbian Bar Story?

The Boston Globe has an extraordinary story on a woke lesbian bar named Last Ditch that has a mandatory masking policy and has been hit by a backlash...

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Rich Lowry

Late-Period Periodicals

The magazine and newspaper industry was chomped to pieces by the internet and chewed up in the great financial crisis. The survivors of the larger...

wednesday 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Saying No More en Français

In his U.S. House race, former Maine Governor Paul LePage throws a little French into a campaign ad. It might be the first time we’ve seen French...

wednesday 3

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

When You Just Can’t Get Enough Trump, Now There’s ‘Trump TV’

Even those of us who are allergic to conspiracy theorizing struggle with the timing of, and apparent lack of any precipitating incident inspiring,...

wednesday 3

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Noah Rothman

That Should Be Curtains for Nikole Hannah-Jones

I wrote yesterday about Nikole Hannah-Jones. One thing I implied, but didn’t say explicitly, was that this incident ought to be the end of...

wednesday 3

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Charles C. W. Cooke

The Quiet Dissidence of the Boston Globe

There are two different Boston Globe pieces making the rounds in my mentions at the moment. The first is a down-the-middle opinion piece from...

wednesday 5

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Daniel Foster

The Last Original Mets Fan

Michael aptly summarizes the unique charms of Howie Rose as a Mets announcer, a job he has held since 1987 and, as a play-by-play man, since 1995. As...

22.09.2026 3

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Dan McLaughlin

Isn’t the Absence of Racial Violence Good News?

For weeks, the progressive left has alleged that America is in the grip of a new outbreak of racist lynchings, the total lack of supporting evidence...

22.09.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Learning the Hard Way

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the writer behind the 1619 Project, published an essay over the weekend in the New York Times Magazine detailing how she...

22.09.2026 4

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Nr Staff

Don Jr. and the Armor of Impunity

As one long familiar with the folkways of Trump, I was not a bit surprised to read that, in May, his son Donald Trump Jr. married Bettina Anderson in...

22.09.2026 2

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Jeffrey Blehar

If Only Nikole Hannah-Jones Knew Someone in the New York City School System

The saga of New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones and the subpar education of her daughter in a lower-rated New York City public school is no...

22.09.2026 7

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Jim Geraghty

Don’t Ruin GLP-1 Prices by Having the Government Cover Them

Over the past few years, the American health-care sector has seen a real-time experiment in what happens when a revolutionary treatment runs outside...

22.09.2026 2

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John R. Puri

The Scourge of Obsessive Positioning in the Right’s Media and Politics

Right-of-center media and politics are suffering from a glut of obsessive positioning. Once you start noticing this, you can't stop. As with many...

22.09.2026 3

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Dan McLaughlin

Politico’s Disgusting Yom Kippur War on David Milstein

The subject line in Monday’s Politico Playbook newsletter blasted “Huckabee’s ‘walking counterintel red flag’” – which one would expect...

22.09.2026 3

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Philip Klein

America’s AI Future Needs a Building Permit

Every few decades, a technology emerges that changes the balance of power among nations. The countries that master it gain extraordinary economic and...

22.09.2026 3

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John Noonan

Trump’s Familiar, and Legally Dubious, Move to Revoke White House Press Passes

When you see that the Trump White House has revoked the press passes for correspondents of MSNOW, CNN, and Politico, it is understandable if you feel...

21.09.2026 4

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Jim Geraghty

Patrick Clancy Lost His Children. We Lost Our Grace

Across from 60 Minutes host Ross Douthat, Patrick Clancy sat somberly with his shoulders slouched slightly. He described the lead-up to the murders...

21.09.2026 3

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Eva Terry

Warsh’s Quiet Ambition

Kevin Warsh aspires to be a Federal Reserve chair of few words. He doesn’t think the central bank should provide as much “forward guidance”...

21.09.2026 20

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Increased Ectopic Pregnancy-Related Deaths Show Why FDA Must Reinstate Abortion Pill Safeguards

ProPublica recently attempted to trick the public with a misleading article titled “Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in...

21.09.2026 2

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Jamie Bryan Hall

For Now, Trump Won’t Pull the Trigger on the Houthis

We’re a long way from those heady days when the Trump administration’s foreign policy theorists objected to finishing the campaign against...

21.09.2026 5

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Noah Rothman

Can Consumer-Focused AI Save Us from Doom?

I've found the two-week freak-out about AI unenlightening for the most part. The vast majority of the people prophesying imminent doom know very...

21.09.2026 4

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Left Loves Populism Now

It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats and their allies in the media would expectorate the word “populist” with unbridled contempt. But that was...

21.09.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

The Distinct Shift in the Kamala Harris 2028 Buzz

Back in July 2025, Kamala Harris decided to not run for governor of California, and I expressed some skepticism that she would run for president, and...

21.09.2026 8

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Jim Geraghty

Another Canadian Euthanasia Horror

Euthanasia has become a way of life in Canada (he wrote ironically). More than 100,000 people have been killed by doctors and nurse practitioners. At...

21.09.2026 4

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Wesley J. Smith

Will Trump’s AI Force Accomplish Anything?

A recent Truth Social post by President Trump suggests that he realizes he has to do something about AI but hasn’t figured out what yet: We will not...

20.09.2026 5

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Skyler Safriet

DOGE and the Doomers

Maybe artificial intelligence will kill us all in the next few years. Count me dubious, but who knows? We’re certainly doing our best to deserve it....

19.09.2026 3

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Yuval Levin

Push On to Grant ‘Rights’ to Arctic Sea Ice

We live in irrational times epitomized by the "rights of nature" (RoN) movement that seeks to grant human-type rights to various aspects of...

18.09.2026 9

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Wesley J. Smith

Hasan Piker Does Not Love America

Hasan Piker doubled down on his claim that America deserved 9/11 this past week in an interview with Axios, during which he compared the U.S. to...

18.09.2026 6

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Nr Staff