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An Additional Word on the Common Good Debate

I do not have a whole lot more light to shed on the common good debate, but I think I owe Michael Brendan Dougherty and our readers a short reply to...

05.08.2026 3

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

When Polling Errors Aren’t Random

That Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate by (at this writing) less than a point, after the last five polls in the race all...

05.08.2026 3

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Two Things That Will Struggle to Coexist in the AI Era

The stock market just keeps roaring ahead, as if the country and the global economic outlook were much more bullish than they are. A major reason is...

04.08.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Pete Buttigieg, Constitutional Arsonist

It's not just the self-identified socialists who aim openly to destroy the American constitutional system of government. And the evidence of this...

04.08.2026 7

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Common Good Should Be Explained in Terms Clear to the Common Man

Finding common ground on the common good continues to be elusive. Allow me to add a few more words in reply to Michael Brendan Dougherty. If you are...

03.08.2026 6

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

What Exactly Is the ‘Common Good’?

I’ve written on several occasions about the imprecision and dubious legitimacy of the "common good” as a theory of interpreting the...

31.07.2026 7

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Why JD Vance Generates So Much Heat

On social media and in the commentariat, the right has spent the past few months in a sort of numb denial, talking about anything and everything but...

30.07.2026 8

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Jews Must Do For Themselves, Publishing Edition

The internal controversy at PEN America shouldn’t obscure the original point that touched it off: that progressive mania about Gaza has so pervaded...

28.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

PEN America Has Lost Its Way

As Ramesh notes, PEN America is yet again in turmoil for straying from its mission, which is supposed to be the championing of the freedom of the...

27.07.2026 9

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Maybe Don’t Believe the Polls?

Bill Scher at Washington Monthly is sounding the alarm from the establishment-liberal corner of the Democratic Party on an issue that is likely to...

24.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Who Let the Non-Citizens onto New Jersey’s Voter Rolls?

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is blaming a computer error for thousands of non-citizens being added to the state’s voter rolls under...

24.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Legal Academy and Race Discrimination

Brian Fitzpatrick has a very telling anecdote in his defense of Louisiana v. Callais (2026) at SCOTUSBlog: This publication has been inundated with...

22.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court to Rule on the Cost of a Six Pack of Beer

Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to take an extremely Alaskan case that reads like something out of Smokey and the Bandit. As Amy Howe at...

21.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

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 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

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 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Democratic Governor Andy Beshear Would Decide When to Hold a Special Election for a Senate Vacancy in Kentucky

Mitch McConnell has been absent from the Senate for three weeks, since June 14, when he was hospitalized. McConnell's absence leaves the Senate...

08.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

We Are All Still Living in Bill Clinton’s Moral World

Thirty years ago, the entire Democratic Party set out to convince the country that the character and morals of our leaders were irrelevant —...

08.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Graham Platner Watch

The Bangor Daily News reports that the embattled Maine Senate candidate, Graham Platner, “has postponed a string of events Sunday and Monday as...

06.07.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Birthright Citizenship Dissents and Illegal Immigration

The first thing to understand about the dissents in Trump v. Barbara is that they are not about children of illegal immigrants. The Trump executive...

01.07.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Birthright Citizenship: The Majority Opinion

Given the stakes and the extensive body of scholarship on the citizenship clause, the 26-page majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts in Trump...

30.06.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court in Barbara Rejects Effort to Limit Birthright Citizenship

The Supreme Court this morning, in Trump v. Barbara, settled by a 5–4 vote the long debate: Children born in the United States are entitled to...

30.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Monsanto Pesticide Case Was a Win for the EPA

To read the headlines and social media hyperbole, you might think that yesterday's 7–2 decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell was in favor of...

26.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Black Codes Are a Cautionary Tale, Not a Useful Precedent

It has not been a great few months for Neal Katyal. As Charlie Cooke has detailed, Katyal and Hawaii got trounced, and properly so, in Wolford v....

26.06.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Collusion and Hypocrisy in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado

My column discusses the contortions of language and common sense required by the dissent in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. Here, I’ll add another angle. In...

25.06.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Exclude Criminal Aliens

This morning's Supreme Court decision in Blanche v. Lau is probably the least of the three immigration cases that remained on the Court's...

23.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Today in ‘Things That Never Happen’

A northern Minnesota election judge was sentenced to 30 days in Hubbard County Jail for accepting 11 ballots from unregistered voters in the 2024...

22.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Today’s Action at the Supreme Court on Nondelegation, Race, Child Murder, and Confessions

Unfortunately, in its order list this morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear RMS of Georgia, LLC d/b/a Choice Refrigerants v. EPA, the...

22.06.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

80-Year-Olds Should Not Be President

Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday. When Joe Biden was president, 80 was too old for the job (even if people who mocked Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, and...

15.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

BREAKING: Supreme Court Takes Case on How Long Criminal Aliens May Be Detained

The Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari to hear Genalo v. Black, a petition by the Trump administration seeking to overturn a Second...

15.06.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Partisan Sectional Polarization and the Civil War

I was running some numbers while working on my book, and while the history is a staple of the best commentary on the period, putting it in graphical...

12.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Justice Thomas, Standing Athwart Judge-Made Law

Nobody would confuse this morning's Supreme Court decision in Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction with a big case. In yesterday's roundup...

11.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Unanimous Supreme Court Restricts Prosecutorial Venue-Shopping

The current Supreme Court may not be the most sympathetic to violent criminals, but it has been vigilant in policing abuses by overly creative federal...

11.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Jungle Primaries Are Still Stupid and Corrosive

I don't have that much to add to our editorial and what Jeff and Jim have written about California's shoddy, shady, perennially slow-moving...

09.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

R.I.P. Gordon Wood

The great American historian Gordon Wood died yesterday at age 92 — not of the usual complaints of age, but because he was hit by a car in a...

08.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

The Silliest Hungary Take You Are Likely to Read

In January, I took on "The Silliest Venezuela Take You Will Read Today" from M. Gessen of the New York Times. Well, Gessen is at it again,...

03.06.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund Died Because Political Reality Still Exists

It turns out that Donald Trump isn't immune to the ordinary forces of political gravity. Sure, Trump's actions in his second term often...

03.06.2026 10

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Ignoring the Voters Will End Badly

Let’s consider a list of some of the things Donald Trump and his administration have been in the news for recently: The massive $1.776 billion...

28.05.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

The Supreme Court Tightens the Screws on the Cuban Regime

It may not be the largest of steps, but the Supreme Court's decision this morning in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd....

21.05.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Bill Cassidy Unchained

Bill Cassidy is free now. That's the downside of targeting sitting members of a narrow caucus in primaries over relatively rare deviations from...

19.05.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Utah Republicans Get Their Scalps

It hasn't attracted as much attention as the donnybrook in Virginia, but the epic battle between Utah's Republican-controlled legislature...

15.05.2026 30

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

The Supreme Court, Like Trump, Goes Wobbly on the Abortion Pill

As I explained ten days ago, the Fifth Circuit had a strong basis to stay the 2023 Biden FDA ruling that allowed the abortion pill to be dispensed...

14.05.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Kamala Harris Dials Up the Democrats’ Radical Assault on the Rules of American Democracy

I've written often about the mounting radicalism of progressive plans to bulldoze central props of our constitutional order, such as packing the...

14.05.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

R.I.P. Ted Turner

Ted Turner has died, at 87. Much like our current president, Turner was one of those classic American characters, a tycoon who was larger than life...

06.05.2026 30

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

A Conversation with Justice Gorsuch

We’re on a journey, and that’s exactly how I think of our declaration, right? I mean, those three big ideas in the declaration that all of us are...

04.05.2026 30

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

A Unanimous Supreme Court First Amendment Victory for Crisis Pregnancy Centers — but Not Only a Win for Pro-Lifers

The Supreme Court this morning decided First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, a case at the hot-button intersection of abortion, free...

29.04.2026 30

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Time is on Trump’s side versus Iran, but not forever

President Trump says, “I don’t want to rush it. I want to take my time,” while Pete Hegseth said, “we have all the time in the world, and...

24.04.2026 30

New York Post

Dan Mclaughlin

The Powell Investigation Was Everything Wrong with Trump’s Second Term

The Justice Department has dropped its investigation into Fed chairman Jerome Powell, just in time for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as his...

24.04.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Help Us Defend America’s Greatness

One of the great lines in Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles is early in the film when the superhero Mr. Incredible complains: “No matter how many...

24.04.2026 20

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Heckuva Job, Kari Lake

Reading through Jim Geraghty's characteristically thorough compendium of the personal baggage of Ruben Gallego, I am reminded once again of how...

21.04.2026 30

National Review

Dan Mclaughlin

Why give Democrats more tax money to burn? They’ll just waste it again or let their friends steal it

Dems’ ideas laid to ‘waste’

20.04.2026 30

New York Post

Dan Mclaughlin