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Arlington Bishop to Virginia Catholics: Do Not Despair

Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Catholic Archdiocese of Arlington, Va., writes this morning: Tragically, a majority of Virginians voted this election...

04.11.2026 9

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

And Now, to Begin to Get Out of Our National Emergency

If you’re part of the solution to these Trump years, you are thinking along the lines of what Peggy Noonan wrote in her most recent column,...

04.11.2026 8

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Virginia Is for the Culture of Death & Other Harsh Electoral Realities

Well, if I were JD Vance this morning, I’d go back to being Dumbledore. I did some morning BBC radio and was struck by the presenters' take...

04.11.2026 7

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Michigan, Cheap Dates, and Abortions

I’ll confess: Arguing about Michigan and abortion the morning before Election Day made for one miserable Monday morning. The good news is, most 2026...

02.11.2026 10

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The Chicago Archbishop’s Cynical Move

You may know me as the annoying church lady who's always trying to find common ground. Sometimes, that’s constructive. Other times, I have to...

27.10.2026 10

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A Last-Call Invite to New York City–Area Folks: End-of-Life Planning

On Saturday, October 24, some friends of mine are putting on a super-practical End-of-Life Principles & Planning Presentation. It’s sponsored by...

23.10.2026 10

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‘Hitting Pay Dirt’ vs. ‘Remember You Are Dust’

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, would like you to know that “the Dumocrats” and the “fake news” don’t realize that Vivek...

22.10.2026 9

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Go Ahead and Hug Your Grandchild

The culture of radical autonomy and consent above all other values has run amok to the point of self-parody in Ireland. The Dublin Rape Crisis...

22.10.2026 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

When Character Was Obliterated

"Politics is a tough business. And my message to my fellow elected Republicans is if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in,...

21.10.2026 8

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Disgusting Pro-Vivek Ad in Ohio Today

The pro-Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad featuring his opponent’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar is despicable. It’s likely to backfire,...

20.10.2026 10

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Office of Refugee Resettlement Pushes Back on Reports of Children Facing Court Without Lawyers

The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is challenging recent media coverage of migrant children appearing in court without legal...

16.10.2026 50

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James Talarico Fails on Abortion

A few things about the somewhat infamous Democrat running for senator in Texas, James Talarico, and the exchange on abortion during last night's...

15.10.2026 10

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Trump Somewhat Reluctantly Reverses Hegseth on Livestream Execution

The president announced on Truth Social (of course) today that Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan “will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but...

15.10.2026 10

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Pro-Lifers to the CDC: Where Are the Abortion & Maternal Mortality Numbers?

There’s a pretty straightforward accountability story today: Four pro-life organizations are asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

14.10.2026 10

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We’ll Screen the Execution, Too: The Firing Squad on Live Stream

This is disgusting: We are going to execute the Fort Hood murderer by firing squad, and it will be live-streamed. Department of War (I still rue the...

08.10.2026 10

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The Resilience and Hope of the Israeli People

I just recorded this conversation with author (and occasional contributor here at NR) Andrew G. Doran about the third anniversary of the October 7...

07.10.2026 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Babe Among Wolves: Another Alarm Sounds on the Cruelty of Surrogacy

***Expletive warning. There’s a disturbing video of a man with a baby on his chest that’s been making the social media rounds. The baby appears to...

06.10.2026 10

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Usha Vance and the Arms of Men

The impressive reflexes of Usha Vance were on display Monday -- in what has become both an image of a mother doing what mothers do best and an...

06.10.2026 20

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The State as Executioner Is a Moral Failure — and Turns Out to Be a Practical One, Too

“Hospital staff are working to save Ms. Pike’s life and to clear the pentobarbital from her system.” This is the most recent update from her...

02.10.2026 100

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Remembering, and Praying for, Dovie Eisner

As I mentioned in The Lifeline today, there will be a Mass for the repose of the soul of Dovie Eisner, a reader of National Review and friend of many...

02.10.2026 20

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The State Should Not Kill Bipolar People

I think that should be a rule: We should not execute people who have severe mental illnesses. I’m only catching up, but this seems to be the case...

30.09.2026 150

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Life vs. Death, States Edition

Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have announced that they are suing New York, California, and Massachusetts over abortion-pill "shield...

30.09.2026 10

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Xi and Jimmy Lai

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...

24.09.2026 20

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Celebrating — and Imitating — America’s Dolly and America’s Sheen

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...

24.09.2026 10

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Remembering the Noble Life of Dovie Eisner

Dovie Eisner has died.   Dovie was a New Yorker whose last public writing act was to speak out against assisted suicide in a very personal practical...

17.09.2026 40

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America and the Great Gift She Is

I talked this morning with Matthew Mehan, author of The American Book of Fables. Our conversation is about history, memory, faith, hope, wit, and...

11.09.2026 20

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Britain Votes for Life: A Defeat for Assisted Suicide in Parliament

This morning, as the names of those murdered 25 years ago today in the September 11 attack on the United States were being read in memoriam, the...

11.09.2026 20

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Do Not Forget Charlie Kirk

Last year on September 10, I was working in my mess of an office (I pretend it brings me closer to our beloved founder) in Midtown Manhattan. Sometime...

10.09.2026 20

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Let’s Prevent Suicide! Let’s Legalize Suicide! Britain Currently Makes No Sense

Britain cannot make up its mind. It’s either suicidal or it’s not. September 10 is a national suicide prevention day there, and tomorrow...

10.09.2026 20

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Let’s Never Get Over a Mother Viciously Killing Her Children

The prosecution was “harsh.”  Kevin Reddington, Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, on the other hand, “was entertaining, which was good, because we...

09.09.2026 20

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Remember When Bill Clinton Wanted an ABC 9/11 Miniseries Shut Down?

John J. Miller has a piece today in the Wall Street Journal‘s Free Expression section about The Path to 9/11 miniseries that aired once on ABC and...

08.09.2026 20

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Gloria Steinem, a Voice Against Commercial Surrogacy

Gloria Steinem has died, as you’ve likely heard by now. Obituaries note that she was a women’s rights activist. Not many of them are noting that...

03.09.2026 30

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A Spot-On Response to the Met’s Galliano Exhibition Cancellation

The Yad Vashem USA Foundation, responding to the news that fashion designer John Galliano would no longer be the subject of a major exhibition tied to...

31.08.2026 20

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Met Costume Exhibition Plans Collapse as Designer with History of Antisemitism Withdraws

John Galliano, the designer to be featured at an upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, has officially withdrawn, after...

31.08.2026 20

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Restoring Head Start’s Children and Families First Mission

Critics of the Trump administration’s proposed reforms to the federal Head Start program warn that they will gut the program’s comprehensive...

31.08.2026 20

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Thank You, Lord, for Dolly Parton

Last November, I was in Nashville for a quick trip to see a new pilot program that Her PLAN (Pregnancy and Life Assistance Network) was running. Among...

25.08.2026 30

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Will Republicans Work to Expose Democrats’ Abortion Extremism?

SBA Pro-Life America is encouraging Republicans to highlight Democratic extremism in the final stretch of the midterm elections.   The...

25.08.2026 30

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Giving Head Start a New Start: ACF Responds to Critics with New Look at Recent History

The Trump administration is getting grief for gutting and upending Head Start -- to use verbs that have come up in coverage and commentary -- because...

25.08.2026 20

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Making Sense of the Fertility Frenzy

I had a quick catch-up today with Jennifer Lahl, a nurse by training, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She is a powerhouse of...

21.08.2026 20

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From Noah, John, Luke, Paul & Mary to Cora, Dawson & Callan

I wish Cora, Dawson, and Callan could somehow meet Noah, John, Luke, Paul, and Mary. Perhaps they have. Those would be eternal encounters of the sort...

21.08.2026 30

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About Alternatives to IVF

We are not all in the same office, most of us NR writers. So Abigail and I weren’t talking about human reproduction at the water cooler earlier....

20.08.2026 30

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The Shameless, Unrelenting Scandal of Women’s Medicine

I started a rant last week in The Lifeline: Not only do women not know about their own fertility — something I will safely generalize — the whole...

20.08.2026 20

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From the Supreme Court to Philadelphia to Boston: Is Abortion in America Ever Going to Be Extreme Enough for Us?

I’d like it to be encouraged -- and encouraging -- that so many people are taking note of how ugly the abortion-signing ceremony at the governor’s...

13.08.2026 30

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A Pro-Life Thing That Caught My Eye: Abortion in Massachusetts, Prenatal Diagnosis, and Gratitude for Life

Never cease to be grateful for life. It is not to be taken for granted. This young woman, who I just happened to see on X, reminds us: The whole...

13.08.2026 30

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Matters of Life and Death

In an interview with Esquire, Brad Pitt says:  I’ve never been suicidal except for one little period. And in that one little period, I just...

11.08.2026 30

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Massachusetts Makes Way for More Death

Abortion at any time, for any reason, is now the law in Massachusetts. Governor Maura Healey, surrounded by women, made it so at a signing ceremony...

11.08.2026 30

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Nun Sense: Sometimes a Life of the Fullest Freedom Is Mistaken for Sexism

A reader alerted me to this last night over on X:   https://x.com/JillFilipovic/status/2086970529802866829  The tweet came in the midst of some...

11.08.2026 30

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Hawthorne Sisters Fight for Freedom — and Life

Our forever friend John J. Miller writes in the cool “Free Expression” section of the Wall Street Journal today about the Dominican Sisters of...

11.08.2026 30

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Fashionable Antisemitism at the Met Museum

I feel the need to begin by saying that, as anyone who knows me is well aware, I am not a fashion expert. But I am a New Yorker.   The Metropolitan...

10.08.2026 30

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AOC and Her Eggs: A Cynical — and Winning — Play?

Think twice before you comment on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her eggs. On Saturday on social media, AOC announced to us all that she has decided to...

10.08.2026 30

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