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The economist William Nordhaus died on October 30. In 2018, Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economics for developing an economic model of climate...
In the endless to and fro about causes of electoral disaster in which the polling experts agree that the war made a normal defeat into a disaster, and...
Reminder: The Social Security Board of Trustees says its reserves are projected to run out in the fourth quarter of 2032, which — unless Congress...
After Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts scolded the “venomous coalition” of conservatives who recoiled from Tucker Carlson and the...
President Trump told Ross Douthat on 60 Minutes that he now favors giving amnesty to illegal aliens who’ve been here for many years, and that his...
There is no sign yet of any resolution to Poland’s increasingly febrile judicial crisis, which (an obvious speculation) may have inspired a gunman...
In my earlier post about President Trump’s offer of the position of White House press secretary to Dana White, I said I’d separately address the...
If you thought President Trump would construe his party’s midterm demolition as a demand that he change course away from the unsettling zaniness of...
What was the difference between a regular or even serious midterm defeat and the disaster we saw? It was the war. I don't even think this is...
At various points during each of Donald Trump’s two presidencies, the political class has looked up in astonishment and exclaimed, “Goodness me!...
The ideological activism of the medical and science journals has not slackened. An editorial in The Lancet (once again) extols redefining climate...
I should have never doubted the Oracle of Authenticity Woods, Jim Geraghty. Readers may recall that I was unconvinced by Jim’s — and others‘ —...
Jim Antle offered a pithy summary of the postmortems on Trump 2025–26: "Some people think the Iran war is worth the costs. Some people think...
I was upset on Wednesday. In my view, the Democratic Party — not just its self-described socialist faction — is a grave threat to America. But...
I will let Michael have the last word on his own characterization of his own position. But I will add a few further comments and a lot of polling data...
Zohran Mamdani forced a chuckle at Fox News Channel host Shannon Bream’s mere mention of the name Hasan Piker. The political commentator embraced by...
During their postelection podcast this week, NR’s editors offered their nominations for Tuesday’s biggest winners and losers. Their choices were...
Democrats dominated in the midterms largely on a kitchen-table message of affordability. Naturally, one of their first legislative acts will be to...
In formal terms, Donald Trump is officially a lame-duck president. He's constitutionally barred from running again, the next election cycle...
Jeff’s post about the Trump administration’s corruption as a political issue in the midterms reminded me of something the president said at the...
The red walls have fallen. The president’s coalition has collapsed. In January, the GOP will be reduced to a rump in Congress. Then, for the first...
Underplayed in the post-midterm coverage is the role of the White-House-driven campaign last year to redraw congressional maps in the middle of the...
Late yesterday, President Trump got a taste of life as a lame duck whose party has just been electorally walloped and who will soon face a hostile...
The left’s long march through our institutions has been extraordinarily successful, particularly with our colleges and universities. With the...
In his defense of the argument that Republican travails are entirely about the war in Iran (and, for that matter, only about the war and not about its...
Today is the 40th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, the big...
Yesterday, the Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan reported a quote from a (one assumes Vance-associated) “National GOP operative” licking his...
What can explain a Democrat becoming Mississippi's next senator? As with other stupefying, reality-altering events, it helps to look to fiction....
Ro Khanna's takeaway from the midterms? "DEI is BACK!" Democrats like Khanna ought to not take this sweep as a positive referendum on...
On the eve of this week’s stunning midterm elections, National Review and Old Parkland hosted a debate on immigration in Dallas. The resolution was...
In January, I wrote that by putting extreme pressure on the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates to nearly zero and thereby blow out the money...
Gas was expensive, so I naturally expected the Death to America Party to do well in the midterms. But as I read the coverage about the states that we...
In his defense of the argument that Republican travails are entirely about the war in Iran (and, for that matter, only about the war and not about its...
The Dispatch’s Sarah Isgur points out — in response to more than a few conservatives who are clamoring for Samuel Alito and/or Clarence Thomas to...
President Trump, speaking to reporters Wednesday: Q: Are you considering replacing Secretary Hegseth? Donald Trump: No, I think he’s doing a very...
With Democrats firmly in control of both houses of Congress by large margins beginning in January, the investigations are coming. Subpoenas will fly,...
Democrats are downplaying talk of impeaching President Trump now that they have the Congress. But that’s what they said after his first midterms,...
The debate is raging on the plugged-in right, including on NR‘s pages, over whether Republicans’ midterm obliteration was mostly precipitated by...
Among the many criticisms of our colleges is that they are wasteful because they aren’t run on business principles. No bottom line, so...
Mark, Dan, and Tanner Nau all take issue with my post pointing to the war in Iran as the most consequential factor driving down Republican fortunes in...
The national elections, just completed, added five states that will be completely controlled by Democrats next year, i.e., legislature and governor....
As the acrimony over Republican losses sorts itself out, there's going to be a pretense that the battle of ideas can be settled easily and...
The Beijing regime’s onslaught on the German auto sector is also causing severe damage to the engineering companies that have traditionally serviced...
To say that last night did not go well for Republicans would be the understatement of the century — we lost, big time. However, there are some...
Read how Gabriel Zucman is reacting to the defeat of his wealth tax proposal in California. He’s mad that opponents were able to spread...
The vice president has figured out the midterms. It calls to mind Milton’s description of Eden, and the terrible folly by which mankind forfeited...
President Trump wanted voters to behave like he was on the ballot in the 2026 midterms, and he sure got his wish. Voters delivered a massive...
In three competitive Senate races — those in Maine, Michigan, and Minnesota — Democratic candidates endorsed Medicare for All, which would kick...
In Federalist No. 62, the author, likely James Madison, describes the advantages of dividing legislative power between the House and Senate by...
During a night when Republicans faced loss after loss after loss across the country, a handful of states approved ballot measures to establish voter...
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