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Finally, ICE Catches and Detains the Worst of the Worst

Reasonable people can have disagreements about the the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, but the news...

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Jim Geraghty

Andy Burnham Meets the Standard of Misconstrual

U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham was asked (I think) about what his agenda was while visiting Northern Ireland. He was asked about a "border...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Blues Brothers and the Pope

Pope Leo XIV recently met Lou Marini, who is best known popularly as the saxophonist from the Blues Brothers band on several albums and in the Blues...

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Dan McLaughlin

Nature: Scientists Should Have to Register with Governments to Prevent ‘Misinformation’

Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a...

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Wesley J. Smith

Kevin Warsh Makes the Case for Rate Hikes

The words of Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh are consistently more impressive than his actions on monetary policy. But during his speech in Jackson...

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John R. Puri

Life Inside Iran Is Becoming Intolerable

There was a perceptible hint in dispatches from CNN and the Wall Street Journal over the last two weeks that their journalists couldn’t believe...

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Noah Rothman

The Most Ridiculous Presidential Ranking

Donald Trump yesterday took time out from his "let them eat lakes" campaign to post on the internet a ranking of the U.S. presidents, with...

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Dan McLaughlin

A Grievous Gap in One State’s Higher Ed

In today’s Martin Center article, Christopher Schilling explains that, though North Carolina “requires Holocaust education for public school...

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George Leef

I Don’t Like Flock Cameras, but I Don’t Think They’re Unconstitutional

On today’s episode of The Editors, we discussed Flock cameras. I said that they made me uncomfortable — not because they “don’t work,” but...

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Charles C. W. Cooke

An Unsatisfactory Settlement

Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement yesterday to resolve a lawsuit alleging harm to America’s youth. Today on The Editors, Rich asks Dan Foster...

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Lauren Veldhuizen

Do Republicans Need More Trump?

The GOP’s problem heading into the 2026 midterms has been obvious for months and so visible that you could see it from space: Democrats are...

previous day 2

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Noah Rothman

Resistance Judging at Its Worst

After the Supreme Court on Monday threw out the injunction against Donald Trump’s executive order on noncitizen mail-in ballots, you might have...

thursday 3

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Dan McLaughlin

Lake America? Spare Us

Do I really have to do this? Must I talk about yet another pointless, stupid publicity stunt by America’s flailing president? I suppose so, if only...

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Jeffrey Blehar

As If Electronics Weren’t Expensive Enough

Amid the AI build-out, the country is experiencing a historic surge in the cost of memory and other computer chips. This demand shock has forced...

thursday 2

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John R. Puri

Even Democrats Are Souring on Higher Education

For many years, a large number of Americans had a positive view of our higher education system. Then, due largely to federal meddling, the system...

thursday 5

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George Leef

The Brewing Anti-DSA Backlash in Seattle

The Seattle residents who filmed a shootout between what locals called the “known drug dealers” operating out of a city park and “roughly six...

thursday 4

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Noah Rothman

The ‘Vocabulary’ Is Only a Symptom of the ‘Problem’

Over a year after the self-consciously anti-partisan think tank Third Way warned Democrats against adopting the left-wing newspeak native to the...

thursday 4

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Noah Rothman

Even Abortion Supporters Admit Post-Dobbs Predictions Have Not Come True

In a Wednesday editorial that appeared on StatNews, Dr. David Hackney, a professor of reproductive biology at Case Western Reserve University candidly...

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Michael J. New

The Other Side

I was harsh today on America’s approach under Trump to Canada in these trade negotiations, but it is worth hearing the other side. Michael Taube,...

26.08.2026 10

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Dolly Parton Was a Mother to the World

Why is everyone so torn up about the death of yet another pop singer? Don’t these come and go every four months or so? “Why should the world fall...

26.08.2026 3

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Jeffrey Blehar

‘Bioethics Community’ Publishes Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci

I once respected Anthony Fauci. But, during the Covid pandemic, I believe his power and the astonishing international celebrity generated by a fawning...

26.08.2026 4

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Wesley J. Smith

A Troubling Listen

The series covering the Troubles on the podcast The Rest Is History is really quite good. The hosts, Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland, have a knack...

26.08.2026 2

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Good Luck Making Jared Moskowitz into a Household Name, Progressives

“Translation: a giant f*** you from Democratic leadership to Democratic voters.” So wrote Ben “Hamas” Rhodes in response to Representative...

26.08.2026 2

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Noah Rothman

My Burrito, Your Burrito

I went on vacation as the debates about the common good were blending into a mole sauce and became a debate about burritos, but I had a thought on it...

26.08.2026 5

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Inflation Update: Still Too High

The government released new data for the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index,...

26.08.2026 3

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John R. Puri

Civics Education Belongs in Small Colleges, Too

A good trend in higher education in recent years is the rise of programs to teach students about civics. Long ignored in schools and colleges (while...

26.08.2026 3

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George Leef

Trump Administration Threatens to Demolish the Kennedy Center

You don’t have to care about the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But the president clearly cares a great deal about it, and...

26.08.2026 8

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Jim Geraghty

More Reasons Why Democrats Can’t Moderate on Abortion

John Gerardi makes some very good points in his NRO article “Why Democrats Can’t Moderate on Abortion.” In fact, the situation is even worse...

25.08.2026 7

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Michael J. New

Sticks and Karats

When I last mentioned gold, almost two weeks ago, it was trading close to $4,400/oz, up quite a bit after having fallen below $4,000 in mid-July  The...

25.08.2026 5

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Andrew Stuttaford

Dolly, We Will Always Love You

My first memory of Dolly Parton is of her short-lived late 1980s variety show Dolly. At the end of each episode, Dolly would sing one of her most...

25.08.2026 5

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Jennifer Tiedemann

Will Darline Graham Be Anointed Tonight?

I wanted to slip a quick Corner hit in under the wire before polls close in South Carolina at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, because a surprise may be...

25.08.2026 5

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Jeffrey Blehar

Sofia Coppola Wasn’t What Killed The Godfather Part III

The upcoming Dune installment got me thinking about the burden of following two great films. Few know the hazard better than Francis Ford Coppola. Not...

25.08.2026 4

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Giancarlo Sopo

Thank You, Lord, for Dolly Parton

Last November, I was in Nashville for a quick trip to see a new pilot program that Her PLAN (Pregnancy and Life Assistance Network) was running. Among...

25.08.2026 9

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The CIA Director’s Surprise Visit to Moscow Comes at an Ominous Moment

Andrew Stuttaford has been a devoted chronicler of the “gray zone” provocations that cannot be directly pinned on America’s adversaries but sure...

25.08.2026 5

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Noah Rothman

The Meaning of Air-Conditioning in France

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Rally party, a descendant of the National Front, has been a political renovator. Her party, like other...

25.08.2026 6

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Will Republicans Work to Expose Democrats’ Abortion Extremism?

SBA Pro-Life America is encouraging Republicans to highlight Democratic extremism in the final stretch of the midterm elections.   The...

25.08.2026 9

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

No One Who Bought the Gaza Starvation Narrative Deserves to Be Taken Seriously

The Free Press’s Olivia Reingold published a bombshell report this week: At the rate of 0.5 percent, Gaza has one of the lowest rates of acute child...

25.08.2026 10

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Noah Rothman

Dethroning King Dollar

The vice president thinks the dollar’s global status is a curse. Even if he were right, I ask in today’s column, what’s the U.S. government...

25.08.2026 4

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Ramesh Ponnuru

People Are Not Victims or Puppets: The Anti-Liberal Critique Lets People off the Hook for Their Choices

To put it mildly, economic liberalism is not in vogue. In the United States, the energy in the Democratic Party is with self-described socialists who...

25.08.2026 5

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Michael R. Strain

The Gray Zone Descends on Leipzig (Again)

As a reminder, the term “gray zone” describes an action or series of actions that are not quite war, and not quite not war, either. I...

25.08.2026 3

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Andrew Stuttaford

New York Times Ethicist Column Blesses Adultery Because Husband Has Alzheimer’s

The Ethicist column in the New York Times -- a high-brow Dear Abby -- has blessed adultery if one's spouse is permanently incapacitated. The...

25.08.2026 8

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Wesley J. Smith

Giving Head Start a New Start: ACF Responds to Critics with New Look at Recent History

The Trump administration is getting grief for gutting and upending Head Start -- to use verbs that have come up in coverage and commentary -- because...

25.08.2026 8

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

El-Sayed’s Circumcision Quip Was Too Clever by Half

You know that a Democrat has done or said something indefensibly asinine when the political press covers the reaction to it with more vigor than the...

25.08.2026 7

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Noah Rothman

The Profit Prophet David

Kudos to NR pal David Bahnsen on this, the formal publication date of his important new book, Profit from the Profit: The Past, Present & Future...

25.08.2026 7

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Jack Fowler

The Hard Part of the Mail-In Ballots Decision Trades Short-Term Chaos for a Long-Term Setback for Trump

As I noted in my first post on today's decision in Alabama v. California -- which gives the background of what follows here -- the Supreme Court...

24.08.2026 10

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Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court Kicks the Can on Trump’s Mail-In Ballots Order

The Supreme Court exists to resolve disputes. It does not exist to clean up messes. That is the mood in which the Court today — in a 6–3 unsigned...

24.08.2026 10

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Dan McLaughlin

The Depleting Platoons

Jim Geraghty writes about the declining number of births to Americans last year and the knock-on effects of this. He alludes to an issue that has...

24.08.2026 5

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Beef Tariffs Are Still Doing What They’re Supposed to Do

Over the weekend, many Republican lawmakers found the one issue on which they could break with President Trump: beef taxes. Trump announced on Friday...

24.08.2026 7

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John R. Puri

Gravesides and Vacations

Normally around this time of year, I write a casual column about the joys of summer. I was asked for one specifically by The Spectator for their diary...

24.08.2026 8

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Schrödinger’s White House Ballroom

From the U.S. National Park Service’s court filing before the Supreme Court in defense of the continuing construction of the White House ballroom:...

24.08.2026 10

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Jim Geraghty