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Life Inside Iran Is Becoming Intolerable

There was a perceptible hint in dispatches from CNN and the Wall Street Journal over the last two weeks that their journalists couldn’t believe...

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National Review

Noah Rothman

Do Republicans Need More Trump?

The GOP’s problem heading into the 2026 midterms has been obvious for months and so visible that you could see it from space: Democrats are...

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National Review

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The Brewing Anti-DSA Backlash in Seattle

The Seattle residents who filmed a shootout between what locals called the “known drug dealers” operating out of a city park and “roughly six...

27.08.2026 6

National Review

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The ‘Vocabulary’ Is Only a Symptom of the ‘Problem’

Over a year after the self-consciously anti-partisan think tank Third Way warned Democrats against adopting the left-wing newspeak native to the...

27.08.2026 6

National Review

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Good Luck Making Jared Moskowitz into a Household Name, Progressives

“Translation: a giant f*** you from Democratic leadership to Democratic voters.” So wrote Ben “Hamas” Rhodes in response to Representative...

26.08.2026 5

National Review

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The CIA Director’s Surprise Visit to Moscow Comes at an Ominous Moment

Andrew Stuttaford has been a devoted chronicler of the “gray zone” provocations that cannot be directly pinned on America’s adversaries but sure...

25.08.2026 7

National Review

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No One Who Bought the Gaza Starvation Narrative Deserves to Be Taken Seriously

The Free Press’s Olivia Reingold published a bombshell report this week: At the rate of 0.5 percent, Gaza has one of the lowest rates of acute child...

25.08.2026 10

National Review

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El-Sayed’s Circumcision Quip Was Too Clever by Half

You know that a Democrat has done or said something indefensibly asinine when the political press covers the reaction to it with more vigor than the...

25.08.2026 7

National Review

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Blinded by AIPAC

The Washington Post eventually came to its senses, but not before all the wrong people saw how it characterized the race to replace former...

21.08.2026 10

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Noah Rothman

The hubris of the Democratic Socialists

The hubris of the Democratic Socialists

The Democrats’ left wing might be more persuasive if they didn’t dismiss their critics as corporate tools.

21.08.2026 10

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Mamdani’s Bodega Bailout

New Yorkers were treated to a vivid illustration of the delusions fueling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to get his city-run grocery stores up and...

20.08.2026 9

National Review

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Trump’s Iran Strategy May Actually Be Working

The “rhetoric” coming from both sides of the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz has “caused considerable confusion and doubt,” CNN’s David...

19.08.2026 10

National Review

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Darline Graham Didn’t Do the Homework

In my years observing American politics, I’ve had the displeasure of witnessing some genuinely mortifying debate performances. I cringed along with...

19.08.2026 10

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Florida Democrats Just Made the GOP’s Case for Them

Charlie will no doubt have a more detailed take on last night's seismic political events in Florida. Jeff, workhorse that he is, already has one....

19.08.2026 10

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Only Trump Gets to Do the Insult Comic Act

All the self-confidence with which Jon Ossoff delivered a pointed barb at Donald Trump — or, more accurately, his relatively unknown aide Natalie...

18.08.2026 10

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Mamdani Solves the Problem of Too Much Liberty in New York City

Mamdani is trying to solve a problem, although not one that most New Yorkers would recognize as an issue. It’s the same conundrum that vexed Gavin...

13.08.2026 20

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Trump Scores an Unexpected Success in Syria

To hear Donald Trump’s more vehement critics on both the right and the left tell it, the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

12.08.2026 10

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Yes, ‘Woke 1’ Was Crazy. Now, About Those Fascist Cartoon Dogs . . .

Democrats just needed permission to express their pent-up resentments over the hoops they were made to jump through during the era Alexandria...

12.08.2026 10

National Review

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You Didn’t Build This, Establishment Democrats

Mainstream Democrats are patting themselves on the back this morning, a target into which the party’s jilted far-left fringes would love to shove a...

12.08.2026 10

National Review

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The GOP Can’t Beat Something with Nothing

Commentary executive editor Abe Greenwald’s admonition for the GOP ahead of the midterms is worth careful consideration. The rise of the Democratic...

10.08.2026 10

National Review

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The Pro-Science Left Is More Pro-Left Than Pro-Science

An organization “promoting science” is dragging Senator Mark Kelly into the 2028 presidential race, according to Axios’s Holly Otterbein. The...

10.08.2026 10

National Review

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Don’t Blame the Iran War for the Awful Jobs Report

“US employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs amid strain from the Iran war,” said one headline that exemplified what seems to be the consensus in...

07.08.2026 10

National Review

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Hasan Piker Is a Symptom, Not the Cause

It’s pretty bleak out there. But if you’re looking for a sliver of hope, it seems that a critical mass of Democrats understand that most Americans...

06.08.2026 10

National Review

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Cori Bush Bet It All on Israel and Lost

“I have not heard one single tangible policy from the other side,” Missouri Congressman Wesley Bell (D.) told his supporters on Tuesday night....

05.08.2026 10

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The ‘Autonomous Zones’ Are Back

Stop me if this sounds familiar. Late last month, a police officer in Madison, Wis., was attacked by a knife-wielding man who was resisting arrest....

04.08.2026 10

National Review

Noah Rothman

The Reflecting Pool Is Now a Serious Scandal

Granular observers can probably distinguish between the left’s objections to this Trump construction project and that. But the layperson — i.e.,...

04.08.2026 10

National Review

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When It Comes to Iran, the Trump Administration Leaks Like a Sieve

It would be one thing if, even on the rarest of occasions, we were privy to a leak from the most sensitive quarters of the U.S. military and...

03.08.2026 10

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Francesca Hong: A Conversion without a Conversion Narrative

The Wisconsin Democrats panicking over their own voters’ seemingly imperturbable support for socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong could...

31.07.2026 10

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Fauci’s Treatment at Republican Hands Retraumatizes Politico

The Covid-era retrospectives that Anthony Fauci’s congressional testimony (or lack thereof) inspired are not exclusive to the right. Politico, too,...

30.07.2026 10

National Review

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Is Iran’s ‘Surprise Attack’ a Sign of Strength or Weakness?

According to the Western press, time is on the Iranian regime’s side. The Iranians themselves may not agree. U.S. officials called the volley of...

29.07.2026 10

National Review

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On Voter ID, California Democrats Back Unions over the Public

Sure, a majority of Californians support a proposal that would compel Golden State voters to produce identification at the polls or to vote by mail,...

28.07.2026 10

National Review

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The Democratic Party Fights Back Against the Socialist Takeover

Joe Biden didn’t mince words when his White House set out to kneecap the radicals in his party who nearly cost him the presidential nomination in...

28.07.2026 10

National Review

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For the Left, the ‘Genocide’ Lie Does All the Heavy Lifting

Even the left’s own house organs acknowledge that accusing Israel of “genocide” has become a “litmus test” within the Democratic Party — a...

22.07.2026 10

National Review

Noah Rothman

For the DSA, ‘Working Class’ Is a State of Mind

For a movement that is obsessed with class distinctions and interclass conflict, the Democratic Socialists of America don’t seem to have an...

21.07.2026 10

National Review

Noah Rothman

Russian and Chinese Support for Iran Is a Testament to the War’s High Stakes

The two U.S. service members who were killed in an Iranian missile attack on an American base in Jordan were reportedly victims of Iran’s...

21.07.2026 20

National Review

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Kamala Harris’s Advisers Are Delusional

New York magazine’s David Freedlander assembled a variety of juicy quotes from Democratic insiders for his piece on Kamala Harris’s insatiable...

20.07.2026 10

National Review

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It’s the Loudest Issue on the Internet, but Congress Has Logged Off

On the internet, Israel is at the center of everything. Israel is to blame for the collapse of the cease-fire with Iran, not the Iranians who fired on...

16.07.2026 10

National Review

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Does JD Vance Think Trump Is an Agent of Foreign Influence?

Typically, an embattled administration looking to shore up support within what it views as influential elements of its base will dispatch its...

16.07.2026 20

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Congress Cannot Rearrange the Cosmos

As Congress once again attempts to meddle with America’s clocks, it’s worth reviewing how Americans think about daylight saving time. A March...

15.07.2026 10

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The ICC Deserves ‘Dismantling’

The Guardian probably didn’t set out to make Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s point when it critiqued the secretary of state’s searing...

14.07.2026 10

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We Don’t Need a Moral Pretext to Enjoy Mansion Porn

I don’t know how many Wall Street Journal subscribers would justify the periodical’s expense because they cannot get enough class envy, but that...

14.07.2026 10

National Review

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Trump Confronts the Iranian Threat by Copying Them

By now, it shouldn’t be hard for even the staunchest supporters of President Trump to admit that the effort to strong-arm Europe into giving up...

13.07.2026 10

National Review

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Is Iran Trump’s ‘Forever War?’

America is “drifting into a new kind of forever war,” Georgetown University adjunct and senior fellow at the Stimson Center Kelly Grieco proposed...

13.07.2026 10

National Review

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Lindsey Graham’s Finest Moment

The sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham at the age of 71 on Sunday morning prompted many reflections on his long and immensely influential career...

12.07.2026 10

National Review

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Where’s the Contradiction?

Here’s a revealing admission from progressive commentator Emma Vigeland, a co-host of The Majority Report:...

10.07.2026 10

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Journalistic Negligence in Defense of the Violent Left

If the Washington Post’s news reporters were capable of shame, they probably would not be sticking with their description of a small-cell left-wing...

09.07.2026 10

National Review

Noah Rothman

Democrats Can’t Wipe Away the Platner Stain That Easily

Democrats are patting themselves on the back for cleansing their party of Graham Platner, and to hear them tell it, you’d never know that party...

09.07.2026 10

National Review

Noah Rothman

Iran Tests Trump’s Appetite for Humiliation

A little over a week ago, I wrote that Iran’s tests of Trump’s resolve to pretend that his memorandum of understanding is intact and in force will...

07.07.2026 20

National Review

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Does Josh Shapiro Have a Fight in Him?

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro sounds like he’s itching for a fight with his party's insurgent socialist wing, whose uncomfortable marriage...

06.07.2026 20

National Review

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The Intifada Sidelines the Resistance

Four years ago, Mallory McMorrow wasn’t just a rising star within Michigan’s Democratic Party but a “role model” that every Democrat in...

06.07.2026 20

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