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Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions...
When speaking extemporaneously about the course the war with Iran is taking, Donald Trump is as stalwart and resolute as he has been since the...
My latest Daily Mail column looks at the fraying of NATO in the heat of the Iran War, as both Trump and the leading Europeans talk out of both sides...
In the past few months, I’ve been particularly critical of President Trump’s comments on the economy, reiterating that you can’t spin people’s...
Last year, three defense department officials were marched out of the Pentagon under the shadow of the accusation that they were leaking classified...
I’ve been very critical generally of Europe in its reactions and relations to the Trump administration. I thought that the cumulative effect of...
This week, St. Louis University and YouGov released the results of a poll of likely Missouri voters. The results contain some good news for...
Christopher Caldwell has been just about the most perspicacious writer about Donald Trump, the phenomenon since 2015. So it is notable that in his...
I’m an enthusiastic admirer of Michael Fragoso’s work, but I’m puzzled by his piece today, “A Judicial Coup in Utah.” He argues that Melissa...
Rich Lowry has argued sensibly that, no, in fact, we did not go to war with Iran for Israel. “Trump runs U.S. foreign policy,” our fearless...
Remember fake meat? For a while, the ultra-processed, over-brined slurry of extracts and concentrates marketed as a healthier alternative to the...
Thirty years ago, “Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned,” the Associated Press reported...
The U.S. federal government’s 2026 fiscal year began October 1, 2025. Since that date, 137 days have passed. On that date, the federal government...
Trump defined victory by redefining “unconditional surrender” to mean his assessment of whether we’ve destroyed Iran’s navy, its ability to...
President Trump in an interview with Brian Kilmeade of Fox News Radio, March 13: Kilmeade: You think Putin is helping [the Iranians]? Trump: I think...
The question is of course a legendary one in Illinois, first made famous by being asked to a young Abner Mikva (later a judge and a representative)...
Much of what passes as academic research these days is often just propaganda designed to look like scholarship. In today’s Martin Center article,...
Recall that this question was a major bone of contention at the 2023–24 trial of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud suit...
Mayor Mamdani was surprised to face a question from reporters yesterday asking whether he favored the unification of Northern Ireland with the...
Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, has died, and Charlie, on today’s edition of The Editors, reflects on the absurdity of the man’s...
At first blush, the resignation of America’s Director of the National Counterterrorism Center in wartime — indeed, in protest against a war with...
The University of Sussex has published a "toolkit" to enable political and legal action to grant "rights" to trees. This is...
National Review is hiring a Washington, D.C.-based National Affairs Reporter to cover campaigns, Congress, the Trump administration, and other...
Legendary conservative movement leader David Keene passed away March 8, at the age of 80 years. Here at NR, Grover Norquist wrote a beautiful tribute...
In a February 22 New York Times report on Iran’s preparations for the war that would break out less than a week later, Ali Larijani featured...
Typically, a president would assemble an international coalition of the willing, so to speak, before the outset of a fraught military campaign against...
I’ll be playing a part in the Abraham Lincoln Institute’s upcoming and annual symposium on the late, great Civil War president. Ford’s Theatre...
The decision by the Bank of England to replace historical figures such as Winston Churchill on its bank notes with pictures of “wildlife” has...
In a badly needed effort at shining light on what professors are doing in their classrooms, some states have adopted a policy that mandates disclosure...
. . . that call to end the game last night was a total disgrace. To have a Dominican hitter, Geraldo Perdomo, fight one of the best relievers in...
This, from the New York Times, captures the problem with the Strait of Hormuz in a nutshell: At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated...
The comment of the Democrats’ Texas Senate nominee that has drawn the most flak is probably that “God is nonbinary.” He made the comment in a...
“I was a college student when I read Mr. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb,” wrote Wall Street Journal reader Kenneth Emde of “population...
Until Jeff posted about it, I had no idea that the Oscars were tonight. Now that I know, I couldn’t care less. Why would anyone watch the Academy...
It’s Oscar night, America! Can you feel the waves of meaninglessness gently washing over you? Get ready to soak one more time in Hollywood’s...
Among the counterattacks against leftist control of higher education has been a movement to create centers of civic education, where students learn...
I’ll confess: I walked into Vanessa Caswill’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel fully braced for manipulation, the Hallmark...
The CNN report the other day that the administration didn’t properly plan for a closure of the Strait of Hormuz has come in for heavy criticism. My...
Planned Parenthood is having a rougher time than it once did. Fifty or so clinics have closed due to financial difficulties associated with defunding...
Whether it is because of the need to replace equipment used in the Iran conflict, or the increasingly dangerous geopolitical situation, or European...
Jim Geraghty subjects the chief prosecutor for Norfolk to well-deserved criticism for his rant yesterday about how “we live in a country where...
Noah Rothman, on today’s edition of The Editors, is firmly of the opinion “that if you were to tally up a ledger that the pro side vastly...
People put far too much stock in college rankings, both in the U.S. and internationally. The metrics used rarely capture actual quality for students....
President Trump habitually publicly describes our European allies with thinly veiled contempt. (“Most European, nations, uh, they’re decaying....
Today Pew Research released the results of a new poll on public attitudes on sanctity of life issues. This poll, which surveyed over 8,500 people in...
“I’m dumbfounded,” said one unnamed “former U.S. official” who provided CNN with color commentary for its report alleging that Trump...
I met Lewis Lehrman when he was pursuing his second career, running for public office. It was the 1982 race for governor of New York. The Democratic...
Ibram X. Kendi, the man whose book, How to Be an Antiracist (along with its derivative satellites), was a fixture on the New York Times'...
Lee Smith voices a sentiment I’ve seen a lot these past few weeks: The fact is that no one before Trump had the courage to attack. Iran has been...
It’s too early to determine whether the attacker who drove a truck into a Detroit-area synagogue and childhood learning center — before he was...