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The Lancet: Wildfires the Latest “Health Emergency”

In recent years, editors of medical, science, and bioethics journals have proclaimed almost every major societal problem to be a “health...

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Wesley J. Smith

Mary Eberstadt’s Upcoming Novel, Washington Zoo

A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo.  ...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Gods of the Grid

Walk with me, for a moment, through a mostly forgotten bit of pop-culture ephemera that has something to say to the present. The 2010 science-fiction...

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Joshua Treviño

What Do We Want Congress to Do?

My defense of the filibuster today was partly prompted by this thoughtful post by my friend Mark Strand, a longtime supporter of the filibuster who...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

The Allegedly Awful Jobs Report

I’m not a fan of the tariffs that Noah criticizes in this post, or of the Iran war he absolves from blame for “sluggish hiring.” But does the...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Unintended Consequences on the Filibuster

Ramesh responds to my case for restoring the filibuster to its traditional rules: Whether we should have a filibuster, and if so whether we should...

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John R. Puri

Glimmers of Hope in Higher Ed

In a few states, schools and programs focused on teaching civics have arisen, giving students an alternative to the steady drumbeat of America-bashing...

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George Leef

Don’t Blame the Iran War for the Awful Jobs Report

“US employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs amid strain from the Iran war,” said one headline that exemplified what seems to be the consensus in...

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Noah Rothman

Who Really Speaks for the Working Class?

TV personality Mike Rowe has real street cred when it comes to the working class that Democratic Socialists claim they represent. As host of Dirty...

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John Fund

Don’t Eliminate the Filibuster, But . . .

Ramesh Ponnuru has a great column in the Washington Post about why the Senate should not eliminate the filibuster as a political check on shallow and...

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John R. Puri

Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses: Are We Guarding Against Dangers?

Media outlets are reporting that Stanford scientists used AI to create an artificial virus. From the Wall Street Journal story:...

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Wesley J. Smith

A Well-Wisher Advises El-Sayed

. . . to stop talking about the issue that clearly animates him most.

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Great Books Programs Aren’t for Everyone

Many who reject progressive ideology embrace the concept of great books education as a counter to the leftist project of getting students to hate our...

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George Leef

Does the Filibuster Make Sense Anymore?

I take up the question at the Washington Post. For decades, the United States has been moving away from the version of Congress in which the...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

The Sisters of Life: The Pro-Life Nuns with the Stairway to Heaven

Being at a Final Profession Mass for the Sisters of Life is like entering into heaven for just a moment. (Sisters becoming Sisters of Life for life.)...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Telling the Truth About Todd Blanche and Abortion

Every once in a while, I have a moment where I am kinda sorta on the same page as Jessica Valenti, who has the “Abortion, Every Day” Substack....

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The FDA Does a Very Good Thing

Despite what RFK Jr. says, mRNA-based vaccines have the potential to be groundbreaking. It came as a pleasant surprise this morning to see that one...

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John R. Puri

‘Why Is Food More Expensive?’ There’s a Simpler Answer

On the burgeoning burrito discourse, Jim Geraghty asks, "Why is food more expensive?" since the pandemic. A wide variety of reasons. Eggs...

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John R. Puri

In the Battleground States, Voters Like Their Economy More Than ‘the Economy’

Navigator Research has released a new poll. It features answers from 1,500 likely 2026 voters, across 67 competitive congressional districts. Among...

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Hasan Piker Is a Symptom, Not the Cause

It’s pretty bleak out there. But if you’re looking for a sliver of hope, it seems that a critical mass of Democrats understand that most Americans...

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Noah Rothman

Regarding Those Claims of $20 Burritos . . .

On X, there's been a considerable debate about the cost of living and whether burritos really cost $20. One of our TPUSA college students gave me...

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Jim Geraghty

Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money

The Government Accountability Office (which is within the legislative branch, not the executive, thank goodness) has a solid report out today,...

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John R. Puri

Republicans Are Cooling on the Supreme Court

Americans’ approval of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing has fallen to a record low of 33%, driven by a steep drop in Republicans’ backing...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Francesca Hong Is in the Driver’s Seat — but Can She Cross the Finish Line?

In the wake of the surprise slugfest that Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary turned out to be — with DSA-affiliated Abdul El-Sayed edging out...

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Jeffrey Blehar

Student Writing Skills and the Best Uses of AI

Most students these days are tempted to use artificial intelligence to do their work for them, merely cutting and pasting what they see on their...

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George Leef

The Attack on Kyiv

Russia's latest (as of the time of writing) mass attack on Kyiv was a brutal reminder of the consequences of Ukraine’s lack of anti-ballistic...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Four-Minute Refutation of the Genocide Charge

Now that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will be making the charge of Israeli genocide a centerpiece of the midterms, it’s helpful to have...

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Stanley Kurtz

Mopping Up the Michigan Mess

So, that was exciting, was it not? The Michigan primaries are over, and it was admittedly hugely entertaining to watch the madness unfold last night:...

05.08.2026 1

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Jeffrey Blehar

The Most Indefensible Political Pander

I will try to get through this calmly. Thomas Kean Jr. is a Republican congressman running for reelection in a highly affluent New Jersey...

05.08.2026 1

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John R. Puri

Winter Is Coming Still Closer

I wrote the other day about the concern that Europe’s LNG (liquefied natural gas) reserves are lower than they should be at this time of year:...

05.08.2026 4

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Andrew Stuttaford

RFK Jr. Decertifies Kentucky Organ Procurement Organization

Say what you will about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but he definitely cares about ensuring that organ transplant...

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Wesley J. Smith

An Additional Word on the Common Good Debate

I do not have a whole lot more light to shed on the common good debate, but I think I owe Michael Brendan Dougherty and our readers a short reply to...

05.08.2026 1

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Dan McLaughlin

The Left’s Abuse of American History

Wesley J. Smith aptly exposed the absurdity of Anthony Conwright's essay in the New York Times denouncing the use of "Civil War" to...

05.08.2026 2

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Joshua S. Treviño

When Polling Errors Aren’t Random

That Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate by (at this writing) less than a point, after the last five polls in the race all...

05.08.2026 2

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Dan McLaughlin

El-Sayed’s Coalition Is More Highly Educated and White Than He Lets On

Detroit — Throughout Abdul El-Sayed's campaign, he repeated these three taglines: "Medicare for all," "Money out of...

05.08.2026 1

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Kamden Mulder

Cori Bush Bet It All on Israel and Lost

“I have not heard one single tangible policy from the other side,” Missouri Congressman Wesley Bell (D.) told his supporters on Tuesday night....

05.08.2026 2

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Noah Rothman

Hasan Piker Declares Socialism the ‘Real America First’ Movement at El-Sayed Victory Party

Leftist streamer Hasan Piker told National Review that he thinks socialism is the “real America first” movement as he attended a primary victory...

05.08.2026 2

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Kamden Mulder

Will This Year’s Midterms Look Like 2006 All Over Again?

Yesterday, Amy Walter, Editor-in-Chief, Cook Political Report and former editor of National Journal’s Hotline, suggested that this year’s midterm...

05.08.2026 2

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Jim Geraghty

My Friend Dovie and New York’s Assisted-Suicide Cruelty

Assisted suicide is law here -- officially beginning to be implemented today, August 5 -- in New York State. You’ve likely heard by now about...

05.08.2026 2

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Common Misrepresentation

In yet another post (of several) trying to end the debate about the common good simply by reasserting that the people who are credited with...

04.08.2026 4

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The ‘Autonomous Zones’ Are Back

Stop me if this sounds familiar. Late last month, a police officer in Madison, Wis., was attacked by a knife-wielding man who was resisting arrest....

04.08.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

We’ve Survived Ray Bradbury’s Nuclear Holocaust

“Today is August 4, 2026 . . . in the city of Allendale, California.” Over 75 years after Ray Bradbury first published his science fiction short...

04.08.2026 2

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Kaitlyn Kiepert

Tackling ‘Corporate Greed’ the Old-Fashioned Way

Yes, yes, American politicians talk about the scourge of higher prices. Only yesterday, Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump was on the warpath about the...

04.08.2026 5

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Andrew Stuttaford

The Reflecting Pool Is Now a Serious Scandal

Granular observers can probably distinguish between the left’s objections to this Trump construction project and that. But the layperson — i.e.,...

04.08.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

Two Things That Will Struggle to Coexist in the AI Era

The stock market just keeps roaring ahead, as if the country and the global economic outlook were much more bullish than they are. A major reason is...

04.08.2026 7

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Dan McLaughlin

Iran Owns the Strait of Hormuz

Enough time has passed for a conclusion: Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and there is essentially nothing we can do about it. No new deal, no...

04.08.2026 3

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John R. Puri

Hiking Taxes on Capital and Corporations Is the Wrong Response to AI

AI should lead policymakers to reduce taxes on capital income and corporate income, not to increase them. This is a minority view. A few weeks ago,...

04.08.2026 4

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Michael R. Strain

Pete Buttigieg, Constitutional Arsonist

It's not just the self-identified socialists who aim openly to destroy the American constitutional system of government. And the evidence of this...

04.08.2026 5

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Dan McLaughlin

Bye-Bye, BP

Insult a company enough, tax a company enough, inhibit a company’s business enough, and it will go. BP, a pioneer in offshore oil production, has...

04.08.2026 7

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Andrew Stuttaford

Fighting the New Antisemitism Every Single Day

I hate the fact that whenever one writes something about antisemitism, it almost immediately becomes timely. A kosher restaurant in Montreal, Canada,...

04.08.2026 6

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Kathryn Jean Lopez