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The Financial Times published a report on how fuel shortages are about to become much more acute because of the war in Iran. Only now are the last...
Just some thoughts on the remarkable weekend in which, as many anticipated, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz Party were handily defeated by a united...
Hungarian politics has made big headlines this week, as longtime leader Viktor Orbán lost his election over the weekend. But on today’s edition...
The administration has, until now, been consistently (and I think unwisely) pushing for steep cuts in the interest rates that the Federal Reserve most...
Once killing becomes an acceptable answer to human suffering, the kinds of “suffering” that justifies killing continually expands. In the...
The dominant narrative for most of the past decade that a Trump endorsement just about guarantees a Republican will win his primary, and that crossing...
I'm freshly back from vacation; before I left, I went on Henry Olsen's Conservative Crossroads podcast to debate the Senate filibuster with...
A federal judge in Florida has dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, in which he claimed to have been defamed by the...
It’s a fatal weakness among American pundits: Every one of us is guilty at one point or another of overthinking the actions of Donald Trump,...
First it was the Coldplay kiss cam scandal that shook the internet and ignited a discourse about infidelity and whether cheaters belong in the...
The attempted firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home should be a wake-up call. Had the attacker, who also reportedly made threats...
You may be wondering why Democrats and their pundit class have turned so swiftly on Eric Swalwell. The California representative, a longtime fixture...
Even though North Carolina has been a “purple” state for quite a few years, legislators and officials in the UNC system have done remarkably well...
My friend Bobby Schindler, the late Terri Schiavo’s brother, is one of the most kind, decent, and humble people I know. And yet, because he dared to...
Author’s note: "Weekend Short" features a short story or novella. Analysis from the readership is encouraged in the comments section. If...
We heard a lot about eggs in early 2025. The average price per dozen reached an all-time high of $8 last February, up from a historical level of...
I just wanted to offer a quick note here from National Review’s Space Desk to mark the successful return of the Artemis II crew to Earth. At 5:07...
Trump took to social media to torch podcasters Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, and Alex Jones, raising questions among today’s Editors...
Debate over Social Security, scant though it is, usually and understandably focuses on its insolvency. I recently tried to call attention to some of...
There’s something that newly minted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani forgot to warn his supporters about as he was promising to be Santa Claus and...
Jeff and John have written matched pieces detailing why the Iran war is a "debacle," or if not that, then at least a net negative. Their...
Where is artificial intelligence appropriately used, and where is it not? That’s one of the crucial questions now facing us. In today’s Martin...
The entire business model of the modern Democratic Party is a bloated welfare state that provides social services supposedly to the most vulnerable....
I can think of one important way that Iran is better off — and the United States and the rest of the world far worse off — than before the war...
A Canadian activist has argued that the mentally ill must have access to euthanasia to prevent their committing suicide. From the National Post story:...
On any given week, the U.S. economy will generate numbers that look good in some ways (unemployment low by historical standards, inflation low by the...
Guy and Luther are back with the second episode of The Associates, this time to discuss Guy’s chemtrails piece for the magazine. In the course of...
I returned last night from a long drive (close to 2,000 miles if Google is correct) in the Southwest, in the course of just a few days (research...
CNN asks this morning whether Democrats are ready to embrace a “moderate” with a track record of “winning in Trump country,” like Michigan...
Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t be the first mayor of New York City to harbor contempt for the municipality and its residents. He may, however, be the first...
Fine day, save for one thing: I seem to have misplaced my pen. We have dozens of pens in the house, but this one was a matte black Lamy Studio...
I’m finally getting to the spring issue of the Claremont Review of Books. I have to recommend Michael Anton’s review of Laura K. Field’s Furious...
I think a lot of observers could have predicted that we were swiftly heading toward some kind of cease-fire once Donald Trump was talking about...
This week, JAMA Network Open published a study that analyzed the impact of recently enacted pro-life laws on maternal mortality rates. Overall, the...
What is it with American liberals and nuns who take care of dying people? My blood boils when I read that New York State’s “Bill of Rights for...
I’ve been humbled. I thought the pitch clock would be a disaster for MLB, introducing a kind of microwave-oven quality to broadcasts. It hasn’t....
Yes, yes, polls can be wrong, and the California state “jungle primary” won’t be held until June 2. There are 61 (!) candidates on the ballot to...
“A single regime has decided to exert control over a 21-mile passage, and as a result, we are living through the worst energy crisis the world has...
Most Americans who have been through college experienced academic life in semesters — courses usually lasting about 16 weeks. But do colleges have...
The cease-fire in Iran, which seems likely to be the end of the war for all practical purposes, fails my simple test for victory: There is not a...
This week, Planned Parenthood released its 2025 annual report. In recent years, these reports have taken on additional significance. That is because...
To live in a very large country such as ours is to accept that you’re never going to see all of it. But the flip side is the feeling that an...
Historians may someday trace the decline of America’s great cities in part to the mayors who were elected to run them. The most populous U.S. cities...
A recently released AEI study from Scott Winship about rising prosperity is being downplayed by various naysayers, but Charlie Cooke, on today’s...
Vice President JD Vance dropped a bombshell in his remarks to reporters during his swing through Hungary on Tuesday. The Trump administration is, he...
🚨 BREAKING: Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again' if Iran doesn't agree to deal to end...
Democratic politicians always need causes to keep their base riled up. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has proposed a wealth tax on the...
President Trump’s deadline for Iranian capitulation regarding the Strait of Hormuz is just over nine hours away, and he is reaffirming vows to...
Up in the Maine Democratic Senate primary battle, the Graham Platner campaign contends to Axios that the contest is already over, and that governor...
Have you missed the pairing of a mellifluous British accent with that of a machine-loving American? Guy Denton and Luther Ray Abel have heard the...