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“Hate Group” Fatwas from SPLC’s Ayatollahs Are Losing Their Sting

As Ericka Andersen points out below, Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz has been targeted as an “extremist” by the Southern Poverty Law Center and is...

Mark Krikorian

National Review

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Characters and Character

Last night, I was reading Jonah’s Twitter feed, always a pleasant thing to do. He has a “pinned tweet” (a tweet pinned to the top of the...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

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The John McEnroe-Serena Williams Controversy Shows the Insanity Radical Gender Politics

Watch this extraordinary exchange between the CBS This Morning crew and tennis great John McEnroe: At issue was his “controversial” response to...

David French

National Review

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Nancy MacLean’s Methods

Nancy MacLean has written a harshly critical book about the late libertarian economist and political theorist James Buchanan, whom she portrays as...

Ramesh Ponnuru

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On Senate Bill, All Is Not Lost

Just as the House health bill had to be pulled, the Senate bill has now been delayed. Taking another couple of weeks to pass the thing certainly...

Rich Lowry

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Memory Lane, with Billy J.

It is not like me to bring up Bill Clinton’s State of the Union addresses. I lived through them once — year by year — and am not eager to...

Jay Nordlinger

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The Redhunter Catches You

As Corner readers know, NR is moving, downsizing, and discovering in the process — we have come across 17 copies of the beautiful hardcover...

Jack Fowler

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Understanding Russia

Like other readers around the world, NR readers are familiar with David Satter, the authority on Russia. His latest book — arresting title — is...

Jay Nordlinger

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Blood: The Story of a Qaddafi

In Impromptus today, I talk about a number of things, from the GOP to Putin to cake-bakers to wind turbines to the ballet. But I lead with Saif...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

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423 to 4

When I was coming of age, learning about Congress, I was always fascinated by lopsided votes — 425 to 3, let’s say. Or 428 to 1. (There are...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

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What Is It about 17 Percent?

There was a poll a while ago that had the House health-care bill at 17 percent. Now there’s a poll that has the Senate bill at 17 percent....

Rich Lowry

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Anti-Radical-Muslim Activist Group Labeled a ‘Hate Group’ by Southern Poverty Law Center

Maajid Nawaz runs Quilliam, a London-based organization that aims to counter jihadism and extremism around the world. Nawaz, who considers himself...

Ericka Andersen

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Looting Google: When Mercantilists Turn To Theft

Politico: The European Commission issued Google a fine of €2.42 billion Tuesday for abusing a dominant position over internet search, concluding...

Andrew Stuttaford

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Three Thoughts on the Masterpiece Cakeshop Cert Grant

Today the Supreme Court granted review in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. This is an important — and dangerous — case...

David French

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Senator Sanders’s Wife Lawyers Up after Allegations of Bank Fraud

Senator Sanders’s wife, Jane, has hired two prominent attorneys — Burlington, Vt.-based attorney Rich Cassidy and Washington, D.C.-based...

Austin Yack

National Review

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A Space Needle, Spaciness, Needles . . .

In Impromptus today, I have a few notes on Seattle — about its go-go capitalism, for example. (There is more than flakiness in Seattle.) I have...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

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How the Logic of Tribalism Is Driving the Health-Care Debate

I’m just thinking out loud here. But it seems to me this is one of those moments in American politics where no one can simply say what they...

Jonah Goldberg

National Review

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Some Progress against the Evils of Civil Asset Forfeiture

Kevin Williamson nailed the truth in his recent essay — civil asset-forfeiture laws are indeed the death of due process. Justice Thomas sees that...

George Leef

National Review

3 yesterday

Anti-Radical Muslim Activist Group Labeled a ‘Hate Group’ by Southern Poverty Law Center

Maajid Nawaz runs Quilliam, a London-based organization that aims to counter Jihadism and extremism around the world. Nawaz, who considers himself...

Ericka Andersen

National Review

0 yesterday

In the U.K., Normalcy Returns to the Tory Administration

Today’s deal between the Tories and the Democratic Unionists is one more sign that at least a limited normalcy is returning and that the Tory...

John Osullivan

National Review

20 yesterday

NR Institute Seeking Regional Fellows in Dallas and San Francisco

National Review Institute (NRI) is seeking applicants for its Fall 2017 Regional Fellows Programs in San Francisco and Dallas. The ideal applicant...

Jack Fowler

National Review

4 yesterday

Two Gun Cases the Supreme Court Won’t Hear

There was a lot of action at the Supreme Court yesterday, hidden among which were decisions to take a pass on two Second Amendment cases. One of...

Robert Verbruggen

National Review

7 yesterday

The Relevance of the ‘Collusion with Russia Isn’t a Crime’ Argument

Jonah, I imagine I was one of the first commentators to posit the argument that “collusion with Russia” (without further defining what...

Andrew C. Mccarthy

National Review

70 yesterday

Why Keep Colleges from Being Responsible Lenders?

Putting the federal government into the business of financing higher education was a great blunder, with adverse consequences daily. Among those...

George Leef

National Review

10 yesterday

Tuesday links

Today is Helen Keller’s birthday. Here are quotes, links, some history, and a selection of (non-PC) jokes. 14 of History’s Craziest Baldness...

Debbywitt

National Review

9 yesterday

The Trump Non-Catastrophe

The Trump Non-Catastrophe The coverage of Trump has had a catastrophic tone since the election, shared by some of his critics on the right. In the...

Rich Lowry

National Review

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Did Obamacare Boldly Redistribute Wealth?

Further to David’s point below, it is a theme in the coverage and the criticism of the Republican health-care bill that it will redistribute...

Rich Lowry

National Review

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Nancy MacLean vs. Tyler Cowen

Nancy MacLean has a book on the libertarian economist and political theorist James Buchanan. It seems to conduct a drive-by on another libertarian...

Ramesh Ponnuru

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Death and the Parties

Hillary Clinton said passing the health bill would make Republicans the “death party.” I don’t think it has quite the same ring as The Party...

Ramesh Ponnuru

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There’s No Such Thing as Just Short on the GOP Health-Care Bill

This feels like one of those dynamics where if there are three hard Republican “no’s” on the bill (which is quite plausible), another dozen...

Rich Lowry

National Review

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It’s a Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake World

Matt Continetti had a good column last week on the group think, speculation, and innuendo that inform so much of our political world at the moment....

Rich Lowry

National Review

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Why Argue That ‘Collusion with Russia’ Isn’t a Crime?

So far there is no evidence of “collusion” between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. And if they ever find any, I suspect the...

Jonah Goldberg

National Review

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‘It is not sufficient for us simply to add more people to Medicare or Medicaid to increase the rolls, to increase coverage in the absence of cost controls and reform.’

Guess who said that? Answer here.

Rich Lowry

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SCOTUS’s Good News for Medical Conscience

The State of Missouri cannot discriminate against a church school’s request for a generally available grant based on religion, the SCOTUS has...

Wesley J. Smith

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The U.S. Should End Its OECD Subsidies: It’s Good Policy and Self-Protection

Tomorrow, the Committee on Appropriations’s Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs is having a “United Nations and...

Veronique De Rugy

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Finding the Roots of Violent Campus Protests

As our campus “progressives” (actually, they’re primitive tribalists) grow increasingly bold and violent, it’s worth asking where such...

George Leef

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Color-Coded Meds

Professor Mark J. Perry has posted some important data that show graphically (in both senses of the word) the extent to which racial preferences...

Roger Clegg

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Uncommon Knowledge: Governor Bruce Rauner and the Budget Crisis in the Land of Lincoln

The 42nd governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, is my guest on Uncommon Knowledge to discuss Illinois’s budget crisis. With the...

Peter Robinson

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A Groundbreaking Minimum-Wage Study

Basic economics holds that when you mandate a higher price for something, you get less of it. But reality is a bit messier than that, and there’s...

Robert Verbruggen

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Victory for Trump: SCOTUS Restores Vast Majority of Travel Ban

Today, in a per curiam ruling, the Supreme Court restored the vast majority of the Trump administration’s temporary travel ban — including the...

David French

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Bill at the Ballgame

Impromptus today is a variety show, traversing politics, policy, Islam, Russia, Seattle, music, and more. Something to please and displease...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

10 previous day

The Good, The Bad, And The Senate Health-Care Bill

The health-care bill now before the Senate has been shaped by a number of lessons that Republicans have learned in the course of a six-month,...

Yuval Levin

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Kate’s Arlington Cemetery Burial

The family of my dear friend and former Washington editor of National Review and president of the National Review Institute sends along the details...

Kathryn Jean Lopez

National Review

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No, the Republican Health Care Plan Doesn’t ‘Steal’ From the Poor

Here’s the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson with an odd attack on Republican health care plans: The “health-care bill” that Republicans...

David French

National Review

2000 24.06.2017

Republican Health Care Plans Don’t ‘Steal’ From the Poor

Here’s the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson with an odd attack on Republican health care plans: The “health-care bill” that Republicans...

David French

National Review

1500 24.06.2017

Illinois Compels MDs to Discuss “Benefits” of Abortion

I have predicted that “medical conscience” will become a huge social controversy in the next decades as culture of death proponents seek to...

Wesley J. Smith

National Review

50 24.06.2017

A Conservative Brain (and Excellent Teacher)

John J. Pitney Jr. — less formally, Jack — is a famous conservative political scientist. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College, in...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

7 24.06.2017

Friday links

Tomorrow (June 24) is the birthday of Ambrose Bierce, author of The Devil’s Dictionary. Caterpillars Recruit Friends with Anal Scraping. If you...

Debbywitt

National Review

8 23.06.2017

How Handel Won

Henry Olsen concludes that the biggest factor was that Ossoff fell far short of the percentage of Gary Johnson/Evan McMullin voters he needed.

Ramesh Ponnuru

National Review

9 23.06.2017

Bowled Over by a Book

I guess I have more of a political bent than I do a literary one. I wish it weren’t so, but can we help it? All my life, I had read Mario Vargas...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

6 23.06.2017

Poetry

LOST PRAYER A prayer well known and repeated, and repeated, the mind focused on the words, on the words, becomes an internal ceremony, with little...

William W. Runyeon

National Review

6 23.06.2017

What Should Become of Steven Donziger?

Neither persistence nor determination are virtues. Yes, people value them: We all want to cheer for The Little Engine that Could and Rudy. But...

Jack Fowler

National Review

30 23.06.2017

The Most Dangerous Places in America (for Un-P.C. Ideas, Anyway)

The Left used to dominate film, but in recent years, conservatives and libertarians have been catching up. Since fewer and fewer Americans read...

George Leef

National Review

10 23.06.2017

Where the Public Stands on Gun Issues

Pew has a big new report on that topic, with this summary of the results being a handy guide: A few things pop out to me here. Like other surveys...

Robert Verbruggen

National Review

10 23.06.2017

Moderate Republicans Blink on Health Care

My new Bloomberg View column: For most of the last decade, moderate Republicans have sounded just like their conservative colleagues on Obamacare:...

Ramesh Ponnuru

National Review

5 23.06.2017

Drawing a Line on Federalism: Who Should Do It?

Jake Curtis, writing on the home page, brings attention to an issue that deserves it: the way the federal government uses money to get the states...

Ramesh Ponnuru

National Review

3 23.06.2017

Trump Administration Must Reform Flawed System Allowing MS-13 to Recruit Unaccompanied Minors

The Trump administration is prioritizing the prosecution of those who are affiliated with MS-13, an international criminal gang formally known as...

Austin Yack

National Review

6 23.06.2017

Fourteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 23, 2017)

1. Two brave women write in the New York Times. 2. Christianity Today: Evangelicals Tell Trump: Don’t Deport Christians to Face Genocide in Iraq...

Kathryn Jean Lopez

National Review

7 23.06.2017

Dan Hannan and Conservatives International

Our pal, the Conservative MEP and Brexit champion, is determined to engineer an honest-to-goodness global right-wing conspiracy. Minus the...

Jack Fowler

National Review

4 23.06.2017

Evidently, the Left Hasn’t Calmed Down Yet

Johnny Depp, acclaimed American actor, producer, and musician, recently played with the notion of assassinating President Trump. At the Glastonbury...

Sapna Rampersaud

National Review

6 23.06.2017

Deposing Assad Could Hurt Syria’s Christians

In Syria, most Christians and other religious minorities, primarily Alawites and Druze, support Assad, certainly according to conventional wisdom....

Nicholas Frankovich

National Review

20 23.06.2017

The Incomplete Media Narrative about a Murdered Muslim Girl

Early Sunday morning, a 22-year-old man bludgeoned a Muslim girl, Nabra Hassanen, to death with a metal baseball bat on her way home from an...

Tiana Lowe

National Review

100 22.06.2017

California Court Dismisses Criminal Charges against Center for Medical Progress

This afternoon, the San Francisco Superior Court tossed out 14 criminal charges that had been brought by the state against two journalists from the...

Alexandra Desanctis

National Review

2000 22.06.2017

Spending Cuts Are the Best Way to Pay for Tax Reform

Yesterday, Speaker Ryan promised that tax reform would happen before the end of 2017. My two cents is that it won’t until Ryan finally agrees to...

Veronique De Rugy

National Review

20 22.06.2017

How Badly Do Democrats Really Want to Defeat Trump?

I wrote about this question today in the context of the Georgia special election: There’s no doubt that Democrats want to watch TV programs that...

Rich Lowry

National Review

7 22.06.2017

The Perverse Incentives in University Science Funding

When Troy Camplin and a co-researcher sought funding for a university institute devoted to the study of spontaneous orders, they were turned down....

George Leef

National Review

20 22.06.2017

Harper’s Bazaar Author Peddles Debunked Stat to Promote Overseas Abortion

In an effort to promote the global legalization of abortion, a number of articles published during the last few years have used the example of El...

Alexandra Desanctis

National Review

10 22.06.2017

Summer Reading

Summer is here, and so is the new summer issue of National Affairs. It’s filled with thoughtful, timely essays on policy and political thought,...

Yuval Levin

National Review

8 22.06.2017

Jeremy Corbyn: United Kingdom’s Prime Minister?

Here’s the cover of the new issue of National Review, out today for subscribers, featuring Michael Brendan Dougherty’s cover story on the rise...

Nr Staff

National Review

1 22.06.2017

How Many Libertarians Are There?

Likely writing in response to this study, which finds that only 3.8 percent of the public falls into the category, Emily Ekins surveys a range of...

Ramesh Ponnuru

National Review

10 22.06.2017

‘They Are Never Talking About Issues Like Russia.’

From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt: ‘They Are Never Talking About Issues Like Russia.’ “Our brand is worse than Trump.” That...

Jim Geraghty

National Review

20 22.06.2017

Netherlander Euthanasia Guru Bemoans His Handiwork

Boudewijn Chabot was the Netherlander psychiatrist who assisted the suicide of a deeply depressed woman who wanted to die after the demise of her...

Wesley J. Smith

National Review

70 22.06.2017

0-4 and an About-Face: Democrats Suddenly Believe Ossoff No Longer Matters

He was a candidate on whom it would be worth risking millions. He was a messianic, baby-faced neophyte slated to stage a Macron-esque takeover of...

Tiana Lowe

National Review

70 22.06.2017

This Acquittal Was Correct -- Jury Exonerates Cop in Milwaukee Shooting

Each police shooting has to be evaluated on its own facts Today, a Milwaukee jury rightly acquitted former police officer Dominique Heaggen-Brown...

David French

National Review

70 22.06.2017

Immigration Has Changed the Progressive Movement

Peter Beinart has an excellent essay in The Atlantic on how the American Left has shifted on immigration. Just a decade ago, he writes, progressive...

Jason Richwine

National Review

10 22.06.2017

A Few Lessons Democrats Aren’t Learning

After a day of commentary and hot takes following Karen Handel’s relatively comfortable win in Georgia’s Sixth District, it’s clear that...

David French

National Review

90 22.06.2017

In A Bad District For Trump, Karen Handel Persisted

For nine months in 1916, the French and German armies battled with insane ferocity over a small patch of land in Northern France, committing over...

Dan Mclaughlin

National Review

300 21.06.2017

NR Tweets the Georgia Special Election

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Nr Staff

National Review

100 21.06.2017

The Slow Death of an Important Constitutional Clause

When the Constitution was written, the Founders wanted to make sure that the states did not mess around with contracts. They understood that the...

George Leef

National Review

10 21.06.2017

Philando Castile Dash-Cam Footage Released

Over the weekend I noted that the Philando Castile dash-cam video had not yet been made public. Now it has been (this is obviously disturbing): As...

Robert Verbruggen

National Review

40 21.06.2017

Hard Choices, Hard Lives

When people under dictatorship decide to go dissident, they make a choice with huge consequences. (Almost invariably, they will tell you they did...

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

10 21.06.2017

Two Arguments on Immigration

My new Bloomberg View column: Part of the long aftershock of President Donald Trump’s election is a new debate over immigration. Two provocative...

Ramesh Ponnuru

National Review

10 21.06.2017

Wednesday links

Summer started this morning at 12:24 EDT - here’s some solstice science, history, poetry and music. Related: Fridgehenge: to celebrate the...

Debbywitt

National Review

6 21.06.2017

A Reality Check about What Handel’s Win Means

Karen Handel, the Republican, won. Who among us can contain his excitement? It’s also a win for Donald Trump for one simple and obvious reason:...

Jonah Goldberg

National Review

100 21.06.2017

You’ve Earned a Little Victory Dance This Morning, GOP!

From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt… You’ve Earned a Little Victory Dance This Morning, GOP! Go ahead and do a little dance this...

Jim Geraghty

National Review

100 21.06.2017

FBI Report on Alexandria Quietly Debunks the Gun-Controllers’ Talking Points

The FBI has published a brief report on the shooting in Alexandria. It is devastating to the idea that the gun-control measures presently coveted...

Charles C. W. Cooke

National Review

100 21.06.2017

Planned Parenthood’s Spending Falls Short in Georgia’s Sixth

It’s difficult to determine who ended up as the biggest loser in yesterday’s special election in Georgia’s sixth district. The most obvious...

Alexandra Desanctis

National Review

200 21.06.2017

We Should Have Heeded This Warning From Ronald Reagan

Looking over the landscape of the Right (with its resurgence of blood-and-soil nationalism) and the Left (which these days is an uneasy alliance...

Dan Mclaughlin

National Review

100 20.06.2017

Free Speech Wins (Again) at the Supreme Court

If you’re a lawyer arguing against free speech at the Supreme Court, be prepared to lose. Today the Court affirmed once again the...

David French

National Review

300 20.06.2017

A Brutal North Korean Crime That Must Not Be Forgotten

From the Tuesday edition of the Morning Jolt: A Brutal North Korean Crime That Must Not Be Forgotten Let’s not mince words: Otto Warmbier was an...

Jim Geraghty

National Review

100 20.06.2017

Calling Shenanigans on Jake Tapper’s Superman-Haircut Theory

Jake Tapper has a fantastic tweet thread on how Superman cuts his hair. I’m glad you asked, Jesse. 1/ https://t.co/zL1mh1X4Pw Because it’s...

Jonah Goldberg

National Review

60 20.06.2017

Verdict First, Trial Later

Two items related to last Friday’s meeting of the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights perfectly capture knee-jerk bureaucratic and media hostility...

Peter Kirsanow

National Review

30 20.06.2017

$255,694

National Review’s Spring Webathon ends tomorrow, fittingly, it being the last day of Spring. Our goal is to raise $264,000. We’re close....

Jack Fowler

National Review

10 20.06.2017

Target Omega

You’ve seen his byline in this space. Now Peter Kirsanow has written a novel–a national-security thriller called Target Omega. He’s my latest...

John J. Miller

National Review

8 20.06.2017

A Majority of Infrastructure Spending Is Private

The New York Times had an article Friday warning us about the president’s plan to “lean heavily on private business in conjuring a trillion...

Veronique De Rugy

National Review

20 20.06.2017

Are Budget Cuts the Best Way to Address Campus Leftism?

In North Carolina, Republican lawmakers are looking to hit the UNC School of Law with a significant budget cut, clearly aimed at the far-left...

George Leef

National Review

10 20.06.2017

The London Mosque Attack: Anti-Muslim Hatred, Not ‘Islamophobia’

British police have now identified the man who plowed a van into a crowd of British Muslims exiting the Finsbury mosque in London at midnight as...

Andrew C. Mccarthy

National Review

100 20.06.2017

The Washington Post vs. Free Speech

The Washington Post was even worse on this issue, editorializing that the denial of a trademark to the Redskins was a “victory for tolerance.”...

Ramesh Ponnuru

National Review

7 20.06.2017

One-and-a-Half-Cheers for the New York Times

In the wake of the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court holding up First Amendment protections for offensive speech, the New York Times has...

Jonah Goldberg

National Review

8 20.06.2017

Other Than All These Simmering Crises, Everything Is Quiet

In just the past few hours… … a Russian Su-27 jet had air-to-air missiles under its wings and approached the U.S. Air Force RC-135 recon jet...

Jim Geraghty

National Review

3 20.06.2017