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Poisonous Falsehood from Ramin Fatehi

Jim Geraghty subjects the chief prosecutor for Norfolk to well-deserved criticism for his rant yesterday about how “we live in a country where...

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National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The myth of absolute parental rights

The myth of absolute parental rights
12.03.2026 6

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Commanders-in-Chief Courageous

Lee Smith voices a sentiment I’ve seen a lot these past few weeks: The fact is that no one before Trump had the courage to attack. Iran has been...

12.03.2026 4

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Parents, Governments, and Social Media

Stronger minimum-age laws for social media — we already have a federal law dating back to 1998; it’s just honored mostly in the breach — have...

12.03.2026 2

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The State of the Economy

I have been more positive about it than Jim Geraghty, although I acknowledge it’s a mixed picture — and that between when I wrote and when he did,...

11.03.2026 4

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

New York Times Reporters Downplay Talarico’s Radicalism

I’ve already said my piece about James Talarico’s attempt to put a left-wing gloss on Christianity and why I think it nearly self-evident that it...

09.03.2026 2

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Indiana Judge Uses Religious Freedom to Defend Abortion

Judge Christina Klineman has found that a sincere religious belief that unborn children are not persons with a right to life defeats Indiana’s law...

06.03.2026 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

What Texas will discover about James Talarico

What Texas will discover about James Talarico
04.03.2026 4

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Talarico in Theory and Practice

The Democratic nominee for senator from Texas wants to win conservative and moderate voters — but without giving them any ground on policy. At the...

04.03.2026 4

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

How to Avoid Thinking About a Better Retirement System

I suggested the other day that nobody would design Social Security the way it is if we were starting from scratch, and that it’s worth thinking not...

28.02.2026 6

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Saving Social Security Is the Wrong Goal

How to save Social Security is the wrong question, I write at the Washington Post. It’s even backward, in that it focuses on the program rather than...

25.02.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Don’t save Social Security

25.02.2026 8

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Learning from TV

Finished a season of a British murder show last night, and in just six episodes it packed a lot of powerful lessons: — Brexit supporters beat their...

24.02.2026 6

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Today’s Dubious Conventional Wisdom on Trade

It’s the uncontroverted remarks, the ones that barely elicit any comment, that tell you the intellectual fashions of the moment. Twenty years ago,...

23.02.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

They Hate Him, Really Hate Him

New Gallup findings confirm what we already knew: “Democrats’ views of national conditions throughout the first year of President Donald Trump’s...

20.02.2026 7

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

More Pushback on AI and Interest Rates

I’ve said a couple of times that the currently fashionable argument that AI will let us have lower interest rates without inflation is likely wrong....

18.02.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Government Benefits for Parents Are a Longstanding Conservative Policy

Whenever I’ve run into Richard Reinsch’s byline before, it’s been attached to something sensible and illuminating. Much of his essay in the new...

17.02.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

An Interest-Rate Fallacy

I’ve been surprised at how frequently I am seeing people argue that a productivity boom (usually AI is invoked here) will lead the way to lower...

14.02.2026 60

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Americans hated Biden’s economy. And Trump’s?

12.02.2026 10

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Shocking Truth About the Economy

11.02.2026 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Chomsky’s Judgments

10.02.2026 2

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Questions for Kevin Warsh

05.02.2026 2

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Tax Code Hasn’t Gotten More Pro-Family

05.02.2026 3

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Senators should press Trump’s Fed nominee on these comments

05.02.2026 7

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

They don’t give an inch. Even when an American is killed.

29.01.2026 100

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Road to Minneapolis

29.01.2026 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Yes to Pro-Life Realism, No to Pro-Life Defeatism

28.01.2026 6

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trumpism? It hardly exists.

22.01.2026 30

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Credit Card Caps and Paternalism

14.01.2026 8

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

A Test for Pro-Lifers

10.01.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trump’s Bets in Venezuela

08.01.2026 9

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Fear of Impeachment

08.01.2026 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trump may regret bypassing Congress on Venezuela

08.01.2026 50

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

A Myth About Andrew Jackson

07.01.2026 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

‘An Unbearable Cost’

30.12.2025 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

FDR and California’s ‘Wealth Tax’

29.12.2025 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

How Much Does the Battle for the U.S. House Matter?

24.12.2025 9

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Democrats’ hopes lie in a House win. But how much would it slow Trump?

24.12.2025 10

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Senator Hawley, the White House, and Abortion

20.12.2025 8

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

MAGA and the Kentucky Senate Race

16.12.2025 7

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Birthright Citizenship Comes to the Supreme Court

13.12.2025 20

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The fate of Trump’s birthright citizenship order will hinge on five words

13.12.2025 80

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Gleanings

02.12.2025 8

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

An Inflation What-Might-Have-Been

27.11.2025 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Trump is finally reacting to the cost of living. Is it too late?

27.11.2025 10

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

Another pointless shutdown. Shut ’em down permanently.

12.11.2025 20

Washington Post

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Predictable Fallout from the Shutdown

12.11.2025 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

Finding High-Skilled Immigrants

12.11.2025 5

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

The Filibuster ‘at This Point in Time’

08.11.2025 10

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru

MTG vs. Speaker Johnson on Health Care

07.11.2025 7

National Review

Ramesh Ponnuru