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The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is challenging recent media coverage of migrant children appearing in court without legal...
A few things about the somewhat infamous Democrat running for senator in Texas, James Talarico, and the exchange on abortion during last night's...
The president announced on Truth Social (of course) today that Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan “will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but...
There’s a pretty straightforward accountability story today: Four pro-life organizations are asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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...
I just recorded this conversation with author (and occasional contributor here at NR) Andrew G. Doran about the third anniversary of the October 7...
***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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have announced that they are suing New York, California, and Massachusetts over abortion-pill "shield...
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...
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...
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...
I talked this morning with Matthew Mehan, author of The American Book of Fables. Our conversation is about history, memory, faith, hope, wit, and...
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...
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...
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...
The prosecution was “harsh.” Kevin Reddington, Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, on the other hand, “was entertaining, which was good, because we...
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...
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...
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...
John Galliano, the designer to be featured at an upcoming exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, has officially withdrawn, after...
Critics of the Trump administration’s proposed reforms to the federal Head Start program warn that they will gut the program’s comprehensive...
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...
SBA Pro-Life America is encouraging Republicans to highlight Democratic extremism in the final stretch of the midterm elections. The...
The Trump administration is getting grief for gutting and upending Head Start -- to use verbs that have come up in coverage and commentary -- because...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our forever friend John J. Miller writes in the cool “Free Expression” section of the Wall Street Journal today about the Dominican Sisters of...
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...
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...
A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo. ...
Being at a Final Profession Mass for the Sisters of Life is like entering into heaven for just a moment. (Sisters becoming Sisters of Life for life.)...
Every once in a while, I have a moment where I am kinda sorta on the same page as Jessica Valenti, who has the “Abortion, Every Day” Substack....
Assisted suicide is law here -- officially beginning to be implemented today, August 5 -- in New York State. You’ve likely heard by now about...
I hate the fact that whenever one writes something about antisemitism, it almost immediately becomes timely. A kosher restaurant in Montreal, Canada,...
Yesterday, as I mentioned in some temporary good news about nuns in New York getting a temporary religious-freedom reprieve from the state’s new...
Peggy Noonan writes in her latest column about the Anthony Fauci diary release and his appearance on Capitol Hill this week. She offers a reflection...
Thanks be to God the great man, Kevin “Seamus” Hasson, started the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. New York's assisted-suicide law becomes...
On August 5, New York State’s assisted-suicide law goes into effect — and so four communities of Catholic religious sisters have petitioned for a...
I know politics has mimicked children on the playground before, but there’s a particularly nasty strain of name-calling and misogyny lately. And...