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France Legalizes Euthanasia

The West continues its love affair with the culture of death as the French National Assembly just voted to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide,...

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Wesley J. Smith

Charleston Charming

The Palmetto State is not naturally hospitable in July. Its drenching goulash of heat and humidity makes you feel like you're walking through a...

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John R. Puri

Black Voters Keep Putting the Brakes on the Socialist Revolution

The Detroit News is out with a new poll showing Haley Stevens opening up a seven-point lead over the socialist Abdul El-Sayed. Especially interesting...

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Philip Klein

Birthrates and Immigration

MBD notes some of the practical reasons for doubting immigration as a solution to the problems caused by declining birth rates. But there’s another...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

You Can’t Turn a Shredder Into a Printing Press by Feeding It More Paper

Last week, Lyman Stone wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about how the population bust is coming sooner than people realize: There are two major...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Congress Cannot Rearrange the Cosmos

As Congress once again attempts to meddle with America’s clocks, it’s worth reviewing how Americans think about daylight saving time. A March...

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Noah Rothman

The Odyssey Is Going to Be a Smash

I’ve questioned the determination in some quarters to hate on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey before seeing it. Much of this corner of the...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

My Memory of Lindsay Graham

At the very beginning of the 2016 cycle, I was asked by a magazine if I wanted to profile Lindsey Graham. They thought it would be fun to assign a...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

No, Justice Amy Coney Barrett Most Definitely Should Not Resign from the U.S. Supreme Court

What the hell is wrong with us?   (I learned recently -- writing about cruelty toward Erika Kirk -- that people pay more attention when I use...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Dresses with Pockets and Kaitlyn Kiepert

This is Part One of a series spotlighting, nay, flaunting, National Review‘s young talent. For those who don’t already know, Kaitlyn Kiepert is a...

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Luther Ray Abel

Clayton Confirmation Hearing for DNI: Take Two

A month ago, I related that, after nominating his Manhattan U.S. attorney, Jay Clayton, to become director of national intelligence in an effort to...

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Hungarian Parliament Abolishes Elected Opposition

As if to make their cheerleaders choke on all their words, the new government of Hungary, led by Péter Magyar, used its constitution-shaping majority...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

CNBC’s State Rankings Are Hilarious

CNBC just published a ranking of all 50 states in the Union, and was rightfully ridiculed online. As it turns out, their criteria for the "best...

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Corinne Cowan

Will the Trump Administration’s Accreditation Changes Matter?

Accreditation supposedly ensures that colleges and universities are delivering a sound education to their students. It actually hasn’t done that for...

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George Leef

A Stake in Helsing

For reasons that need no explanation, the European defense sector is attracting more and more investment. Once, in another era, there was a brief...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Tom Cotton to Save Noon!

In an act of lip-curling intransigence and futile defiance of Nature and Nature’s God, the United States House of Representatives voted to make...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The ICC Deserves ‘Dismantling’

The Guardian probably didn’t set out to make Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s point when it critiqued the secretary of state’s searing...

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Noah Rothman

I Regret to Inform You The Bear’s Final Season Worked

The Bear is a drama on FX about a top-tier chef coming home to his grief-stricken family to take over and ultimately transform the beef sandwich shop...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Sam Neill, Crazy Like a Fox

I wrote this morning about Lindsey Graham, but I’d like to add a brief word about another unfortunate (unrelated) death. It would be a shame to let...

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Jeffrey Blehar

CNBC’s State Rankings Are Comedy

CNBC just published a ranking of all 50 states in the Union, and was rightfully ridiculed online for its efforts. As it turns out, their criteria for...

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Corinne Cowan

Ro Khanna’s Lame Attention Grab

California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna entered a restricted area during his recent visit to Israel and claimed he was stopped by armed civilians,...

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Nr Staff

Savannah, Kept in Amber

Savannah, Ga., is not the oldest city in America, but it sure wants you to think it is. The downtown has been painstakingly preserved and restored —...

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John R. Puri

We Don’t Need a Moral Pretext to Enjoy Mansion Porn

I don’t know how many Wall Street Journal subscribers would justify the periodical’s expense because they cannot get enough class envy, but that...

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Noah Rothman

Bipartisan Call for Federal Oversight over Hospice Assisted Suicides

Assisted suicide legalization is bad medicine and even worse public policy. It abandons the sick, destroys human equality by creating a killable caste...

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Wesley J. Smith

Trump Decrees Illegal Toll on Hormuz Strait Transit

On his private Truth Social platform (where else), the president of the United States has announced a new government policy: American armed forces...

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Trump Confronts the Iranian Threat by Copying Them

By now, it shouldn’t be hard for even the staunchest supporters of President Trump to admit that the effort to strong-arm Europe into giving up...

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Noah Rothman

Senator Lindsey Graham, Patriot

Lindsey Graham was an American patriot. His first priority was always to protect the United States, and his first instinct in this regard was to...

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Is Iran Trump’s ‘Forever War?’

America is “drifting into a new kind of forever war,” Georgetown University adjunct and senior fellow at the Stimson Center Kelly Grieco proposed...

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Noah Rothman

The Last Interesting Man in Washington

Lindsey Graham was the last truly interesting man in Washington. Even when you knew where he wanted to go, you never quite knew how he was going to...

12.07.2026 5

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Dan McLaughlin

Lindsey Graham’s Finest Moment

The sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham at the age of 71 on Sunday morning prompted many reflections on his long and immensely influential career...

12.07.2026 4

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Noah Rothman

Young Washington Finds the Man Beneath the Monument

Critics have dismissed Young Washington as hagiography, a marble idol buffed for the country’s 250th, and that is the one thing it is not. What...

11.07.2026 4

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Giancarlo Sopo

Birmingham, Still the Magic City

I asked around, and people here do love the governor! But seriously, though. The name has fallen out of fashion, but Birmingham, Ala., was once dubbed...

11.07.2026 1

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John R. Puri

Graham Platner, Classy to the Last

It’s finally over. Graham Platner has filed papers with the state of Maine confirming his withdrawal from the race for the Democratic Senate...

11.07.2026 4

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Jeffrey Blehar

The American Founding’s Lab Notes and My Weekend in D.C.

I’ve continued on my adventure to read many primary sources from the American Founding from last week and have found myself deep in the pages of...

10.07.2026 1

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Corinne Cowan

The DSA vs. the Senate

In my column today, I mention that the Democratic Socialists of America have taken the official position that the Senate should be abolished. I should...

10.07.2026 2

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Sotomayor Slaughters Hamilton

In Trump v. Slaughter, handed down at the end of June, the Supreme Court ruled that because the Federal Trade Commission exercises executive powers,...

10.07.2026 3

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Substack Just Got Smarter!

Our friend Karl Rove is now on Substack. If, like me, you consider him an indispensable source for political analysis, independent-minded commentary,...

10.07.2026 3

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Rich Lowry

Keeping Nashville Hot

Talk about an old city turned young. Nashville was founded on Christmas Eve in 1779, located in the western frontier of the North Carolina territory...

10.07.2026 2

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John R. Puri

Where’s the Contradiction?

Here’s a revealing admission from progressive commentator Emma Vigeland, a co-host of The Majority Report:...

10.07.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

What ‘Democratic Socialists’ Believe

Their candidates are downplaying the group’s extreme beliefs. Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of the victorious New Yorkers, has deleted social...

10.07.2026 4

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Second Circuit Rejects Trump Motion to Delay Paying Carroll $5M Judgment

An update from my post yesterday regarding the state of play in the Carroll v. Trump litigation. As related there, Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday...

10.07.2026 2

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Harvard Medical Talks about its DEI Problem

Some of America’s most prestigious colleges and universities seem to be waking up to the fact that they have drifted far away from their educational...

10.07.2026 3

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George Leef

Facing The Anti-Ballistic Missile Gap

Russia’s mass air attacks on Ukrainian cities have recently been carried out by a mix of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. To shoot...

10.07.2026 5

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Andrew Stuttaford

The Smithsonian’s Leadership Must Go

A venerable institution is taken over by leftists who loathe America, free enterprise, religion, and the founding ideals of the institution itself....

10.07.2026 3

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Stanley Kurtz

Journalistic Negligence in Defense of the Violent Left

If the Washington Post’s news reporters were capable of shame, they probably would not be sticking with their description of a small-cell left-wing...

09.07.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Reconsider Birthright Citizenship Ruling

The president has moved the Supreme Court to reconsider its end-of-term ruling that the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship to nearly all...

09.07.2026 3

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Andrew C. McCarthy

The AI Cheating Tsunami Hits the Ivy League

Emma Whitford at Inside Higher Education has a story from Brown University that is hair-raising even by the appalling standards of the current...

09.07.2026 5

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Dan McLaughlin

‘Death by Organ Donation’ Pushed in the New England Journal of Medicine

The legalization of assisted suicide/euthanasia corrupts medical ethics and not just because killing patients or assisting their suicides is a direct...

09.07.2026 4

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Wesley J. Smith

Democrats Can’t Wipe Away the Platner Stain That Easily

Democrats are patting themselves on the back for cleansing their party of Graham Platner, and to hear them tell it, you’d never know that party...

09.07.2026 3

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Noah Rothman

It Turns Out the New Qatari-Donated Air Force One Isn’t Completely Secure

Last month, President Trump started using his new Qatari-donated version of Air Force One. “The safety and security of the commander in chief is our...

09.07.2026 8

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Jim Geraghty