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District Judge Rules Congress Lacks Spending Power, Must Fund Planned Parenthood No Matter What

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Dan Mclaughlin

This Is How You Get a Truly Imperial Presidency

yesterday 20

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Jeffrey Blehar

Yes, the Press Should Tell Voters When Elected Officials Are Senile

yesterday 20

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Dan Mclaughlin

Life in Kathy Hochul’s Hands

yesterday 6

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Abortion Preferred to Adoption by Pregnant Moms?

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Rise of a Libertarian Left?

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Benjamin Rothove

When It Comes to Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity, North Carolina Schools See Mixed Results

For years now, after allowing the leftists to dominate our campuses, opponents of their intellectual monoculture have been fighting back. One state...

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George Leef

Elon Musk: What Was the Point of DOGE If We’re Just Adding $5 Trillion in New Debt?

Some folks didn’t like my recent piece in the magazine, “DOGE Takes a Nibble Out of Big Government,” because it was allegedly too pessimistic and...

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Jim Geraghty

Katrina and the Itch to Turn Disaster into Instant Narrative

Long before the flood waters had receded or the death toll was counted in Texas, there were people swarming on social media to blame Donald Trump,...

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Dan Mclaughlin

The Left Finally Finds a Mamdani Scandal Worth Caring About

It seems we learn something new about Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York City, every day. Those things we learn...

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Noah Rothman

The Madness Rises

Some Democratic voters now apparently believe that the most valuable contribution their elected representatives can make to their shared cause is...

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Noah Rothman

Obviously, Israel Cares More About Protecting Itself Than About World Opinion

In the New York Times, Michael D. Shear writes: Yet many Israelis welcome the prospect of a future in which they are no longer surrounded by well-...

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Charles C. W. Cooke

A Call for Media Decency Toward Families in the Throes of Tragedy

“Put your f***ing hands up.” You haven’t lived until this has been screamed at you by law-enforcement officers with semiautomatic rifles as you...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Cynthia Nixon’s Love Affair with Abortion

Season three of the television series And Just Like That (a sequel to Sex in the City) features a lesbian tryst between Cynthia Nixon's Miranda and...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Displaying a Trans-Critical Sign Gets a Man Arrested in the U.K.

Activist Montgomery Toms was arrested on Saturday by eleven police officers in Westminster, London, because he attended an LGBTQ demonstration...

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Abigail Anthony 

Hamas Wounds Two Americans in Attack on U.S.-Israeli Humanitarian Organization

In a post yesterday regarding the New York Times’ persistent peddling of Hamas talking points, I countered (specifically, in response to the Gray...

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

‘Third Country’ Deportation Saga Ends as Criminal Aliens Arrive in South Sudan

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve extensively detailed (see here and here) the controversy over the Trump administration’s effort to deport eight...

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Hey, New York Times, Are We Really Still Touting ‘Gaza Health Ministry’ Propaganda?

This is from the Newspaper of Record today, reporting on Trump administration pressure for a cease-fire between Israel, i.e., our ally, and Hamas,...

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Medical Journal: Don’t Deport Illegal Aliens Vital to Health-Care System

The New England Journal of Medicine is at it again. It just published a dire warning that deporting illegal aliens will hobble our healthcare...

05.07.2025 10

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Wesley J. Smith

What to Watch on the Fourth of July

Few filmmakers have grasped how cinema can distill the spirit of a nation quite like John Cassavetes, who once remarked, “Maybe there really...

05.07.2025 4

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Giancarlo Sopo

George Mason University Wastes No Time Promoting Anti-American Ideology

How “woke” are American colleges and universities? That is to say, how much do they seek to implant in the minds of their students ideas hostile to...

04.07.2025 1

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George Leef

Why College Leaders Need to Put Their Schools Through a Rights Audit

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled against racial discrimination, and the Trump administration is taking violations of law by colleges and...

04.07.2025 1

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George Leef

About Those Medicaid Cuts

The Congressional Budget Office projects that the bill President Trump is signing today will throw 11.8 million people off Medicaid. I don’t...

04.07.2025 2

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Justices Alito and Thomas: Bring Us a Case on Parental Consent Regarding Child’s Abortion

Late yesterday, I related that the Supreme Court had admonished a federal judge, in the so-called third-country deportation case, for trying to...

04.07.2025 4

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

What National Review Loves About America

We here at National Review love America; it is this affection that animates the institution and inspires our jealous defense of our country’s...

04.07.2025 1

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Luther Ray Abel

An ‘Imperfect’ Victory Toward a More Humane Health Care in America

Louis Brown, executive director of the Christ Medicus Foundation, whom I mentioned here last week, had this to say about the legislation more...

04.07.2025 1

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Defunding Planned Parenthood: One Big Beautiful Victory

The other shoe just dropped. The final language of the "One Big Beautiful" bill prohibits clinics and providers that offer abortions from accepting...

04.07.2025 1

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Moira Gleason

A Phrase to Avoid

Henry Olsen has a commendable article about a commendable law: Iowa’s new effort to educate students about the early development of human beings....

03.07.2025 2

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Mamdani and the Democratic Schism

James Carville and Stanley Greenberg say they aren’t worried that their party is positioning itself too far to the left. The Democratic Party of...

03.07.2025 1

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Supreme Court Admonishes District Judge in ‘Third Country’ Removal Case

The Supreme Court has bluntly instructed a Biden-appointed federal district judge in Boston that it meant what it said when it vacated his attempt...

03.07.2025 2

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

Trump’s Triumph

I would have preferred for Republicans to have spent more time on this reconciliation bill — there was no rush to pass it before July 4, and a lot...

03.07.2025 1

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Britain’s Finances: The Chancellor’s Tears

It is not impossible that the U.K. may be the first heavily indebted Western country to enter a fully fledged financial crisis (this time around)....

03.07.2025 1

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Andrew Stuttaford

Watch Me Talk About Free Markets on a TFAS Podcast

03.07.2025 3

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Dominic Pino

What Diddy Did Was Bad Enough

Sean Combs was acquitted of sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy (RICO charges), the most serious charges against him, on Wednesday. He was...

03.07.2025 1

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Haley Strack

No, Pixar’s Latest Film Didn’t Bomb Because It Lacked Queer Representation

Pixar’s latest film, Elio , was a commercial failure that left the studio in shock. Plagued by behind-the-scenes controversies, the film struggled...

03.07.2025 1

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Benjamin Rothove

Defunding Planned Parenthood Is Only a Baby Step

It’s a historic moment — defunding Planned Parenthood, now that Congress has sent the “Big, Beautiful” mess to the White House. But also make no...

03.07.2025 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

A Big Beautiful Win for Pro-Lifers

On Thursday afternoon, the House of Representatives passed a budget by a 218–214 margin that will head to President Trump for his signature. This...

03.07.2025 8

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Michael J. New