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My predecessor, Dominic Pino, wrote for NR last year that "free trade is how you live your life," since international commerce is simply the...
Environmentalism continues its radical shift from reasonable conservationism to environmentalist earth religion. This growing faith was most recently...
Conservative talk show host Steve Deace wrote earlier this week, “Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a ...
What did the celebrities, activists, and politicians who joined the terrorist-curious group Jewish Voice for Peace outside the U.N.’s headquarters...
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, blah, blah, blah — our national conversation about higher education is dominated by the supposedly elite schools, and...
A small footnote on a case I’ve written about several times in past: In Iowa in 2024, esteemed pollster Ann Selzer — she of the “Iowa Poll,”...
Having read Julian Jackson’s absolutely astonishing biography of Charles de Gaulle, I was excited to know that two feature-length films based on the...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rarely misses an opportunity to criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to accuse him of various...
Readers, I’ll cut to the chase: Everybody else is having fun with this western Massachusetts lesbian bar story, so why can’t I? By now you may...
We’re getting two pandas from China. Trump and Xi Jinping joked about a picture of Joe Biden’s autopen on a White House wall today. And, then, of...
Daniel McCarthy has written a provocative column in the new issue of The Spectator, arguing that libertarianism has "disappeared" from our...
An interesting argument from scholar Patrick Fitzsimmons that what ended the Bronze Age was not a better substitute for bronze but a cheaper one: The...
Maine Senator Susan Collins famously trailed in every survey of her 2020 reelection race. But in the end, she defeated her opponent by 8.6 points....
Every once in a while, I truly covet my neighbor’s idea. That happened yesterday afternoon, when I learned that this piece by my friend Mike...
Traditionally, it has taken four years to earn a college degree — but what is so important about that number? Lots of students actually hang around...
Why would the Trump administration invite Vladimir Putin back onto American soil? “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with...
It now seems like every week there is a big controversy in Ireland related to the Palestinian cause. Ed Sheeran got into hot water with the Irish...
Oren Cass has a very smart essay on how to respond to the AI doom scenarios with what we’ve learned from the environmental catastrophists: The...
King Cove is an Aleut Alaskan fishing village of about 400 people. It is adjacent to the 300,000-acre Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, which was...
A pair of House Republicans has introduced a bill, the Anti-Fraud Fund Act of 2026, to crack down on pervasive fraud in federal health-care programs...
When Trump was reelected, there was a lot of talk about “the vibe shift.” It was basically a phrase meaning the end of the woke era and the start...
When the Center for Strategic Politics asked 683 Democrats how they would feel if they “woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following headlines,”...
The Boston Globe has an extraordinary story on a woke lesbian bar named Last Ditch that has a mandatory masking policy and has been hit by a backlash...
The magazine and newspaper industry was chomped to pieces by the internet and chewed up in the great financial crisis. The survivors of the larger...
In his U.S. House race, former Maine Governor Paul LePage throws a little French into a campaign ad. It might be the first time we’ve seen French...
Even those of us who are allergic to conspiracy theorizing struggle with the timing of, and apparent lack of any precipitating incident inspiring,...
I wrote yesterday about Nikole Hannah-Jones. One thing I implied, but didn’t say explicitly, was that this incident ought to be the end of...
There are two different Boston Globe pieces making the rounds in my mentions at the moment. The first is a down-the-middle opinion piece from...
Michael aptly summarizes the unique charms of Howie Rose as a Mets announcer, a job he has held since 1987 and, as a play-by-play man, since 1995. As...
For weeks, the progressive left has alleged that America is in the grip of a new outbreak of racist lynchings, the total lack of supporting evidence...
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the writer behind the 1619 Project, published an essay over the weekend in the New York Times Magazine detailing how she...
As one long familiar with the folkways of Trump, I was not a bit surprised to read that, in May, his son Donald Trump Jr. married Bettina Anderson in...
The saga of New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones and the subpar education of her daughter in a lower-rated New York City public school is no...
Over the past few years, the American health-care sector has seen a real-time experiment in what happens when a revolutionary treatment runs outside...
Right-of-center media and politics are suffering from a glut of obsessive positioning. Once you start noticing this, you can't stop. As with many...
The subject line in Monday’s Politico Playbook newsletter blasted “Huckabee’s ‘walking counterintel red flag’” – which one would expect...
Every few decades, a technology emerges that changes the balance of power among nations. The countries that master it gain extraordinary economic and...
When you see that the Trump White House has revoked the press passes for correspondents of MSNOW, CNN, and Politico, it is understandable if you feel...
Across from 60 Minutes host Ross Douthat, Patrick Clancy sat somberly with his shoulders slouched slightly. He described the lead-up to the murders...
Kevin Warsh aspires to be a Federal Reserve chair of few words. He doesn’t think the central bank should provide as much “forward guidance”...
ProPublica recently attempted to trick the public with a misleading article titled “Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in...
We’re a long way from those heady days when the Trump administration’s foreign policy theorists objected to finishing the campaign against...
I've found the two-week freak-out about AI unenlightening for the most part. The vast majority of the people prophesying imminent doom know very...
It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats and their allies in the media would expectorate the word “populist” with unbridled contempt. But that was...
Back in July 2025, Kamala Harris decided to not run for governor of California, and I expressed some skepticism that she would run for president, and...
Euthanasia has become a way of life in Canada (he wrote ironically). More than 100,000 people have been killed by doctors and nurse practitioners. At...
A recent Truth Social post by President Trump suggests that he realizes he has to do something about AI but hasn’t figured out what yet: We will not...
Maybe artificial intelligence will kill us all in the next few years. Count me dubious, but who knows? We’re certainly doing our best to deserve it....
We live in irrational times epitomized by the "rights of nature" (RoN) movement that seeks to grant human-type rights to various aspects of...
Hasan Piker doubled down on his claim that America deserved 9/11 this past week in an interview with Axios, during which he compared the U.S. to...