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‘Death by Organ Donation’ Pushed in the New England Journal of Medicine

The legalization of assisted suicide/euthanasia corrupts medical ethics and not just because killing patients or assisting their suicides is a direct...

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Wesley J. Smith

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...

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Noah Rothman

It Turns Out the New Qatari-Donated Air Force One Isn’t Completely Secure

Last month, President Trump started using his new Qatari-donated version of Air Force One. “The safety and security of the commander in chief is our...

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Jim Geraghty

Open Mind on Nolan’s The Odyssey

I think Christopher Nolan is a brilliant filmmaker, and especially gifted on the technical side of the ledger. A lot of influencers and accounts on...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Scruton on the Sacred and Profaned

From his lecture series “The Face of God”: Only that which is sacred can be desecrated. Hence the habitual desecration of death and sexual love...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Iran Won’t Make War with Iran Popular

Iran’s defiance and skirting around the peace deal that was talked up in recent weeks, and its firing on U.S. vessels in the strait is an outrage...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Democrats Suddenly Hobbled by a Bad Case of Platner Fasciitis

Readers, we are gathered here together on this sunny afternoon at the political graveside of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for...

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Jeffrey Blehar

Toy Story 5 Remembers What Playtime Is For

Thirty-one years after a cowboy first panicked over being replaced, Pixar can still find the ache under the plastic. The best sequence in Toy Story 5...

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Giancarlo Sopo

Democratic Governor Andy Beshear Would Decide When to Hold a Special Election for a Senate Vacancy in Kentucky

Mitch McConnell has been absent from the Senate for three weeks, since June 14, when he was hospitalized. McConnell's absence leaves the Senate...

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Dan McLaughlin

The Last Thing to Say About Anthony Bourdain

On Anthony Bourdain's show about travel and food, Parts Unknown, I liked that he was an old-fashioned kind of liberal, one who would make room...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

We Are All Still Living in Bill Clinton’s Moral World

Thirty years ago, the entire Democratic Party set out to convince the country that the character and morals of our leaders were irrelevant —...

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Dan McLaughlin

Debating the Top Ten Founders

A friend thinks our Independence Day edition of The Editors podcast praised John Adams insufficiently: I can’t believe the injustice y’all...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

‘The Line Is Burnt’

Readers know my preoccupation with fertility rates and population decline. If, as conservatives, our political and social project is an appreciation...

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Back in Ol’ St. Lou

When Chuck Berry sang about his hometown in 1959, St. Louis was coming off its peak. The 1950 census put the city's population at more than...

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John R. Puri

The Intifada’s Nasty Tactics Against Our Colleges and Universities

The leaders of many American colleges and universities have long shown that they have no backbone when it comes to opposing radical elements who want...

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George Leef

Dorothy Day and Her Abortion

“God forgive us the sins of our youth!”   Dorothy Day wrote this in 1973, in Commonweal.   She wasn’t direct. And she told us that.   As...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Platner Was No Good from the Start

A new, credible allegation of sexual abuse has surfaced against Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner, causing numerous left-wing figures and...

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Nr Staff

There Are No Christians Without Jews

Marcion of Pontus “was one of the most dangerous men in Christian history,” according to my friend Mike Aquilina. He wanted an Old...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Planned Parenthood Regains Access to Federal Funds

This past weekend, the federal ban on Planned Parenthood funding expired. As of July 5, Planned Parenthood facilities can obtain reimbursements from...

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Michael J. New

Nuns in Court, Again: The Ongoing — Unnecessary — Little Sisters Ordeal

The Little Sisters of the Poor are still asking for Obamacare relief — 15 years later. In 2020, the Supreme Court did rule in their favor --...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

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...

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Noah Rothman

Go to Work — Physically

From my latest Project Syndicate column: My advice for the two million young people who graduated with bachelor’s degrees over the last few months...

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Michael R. Strain

Home in Iowa

When I was a child, I had moderately bad OCD. Not so much an aversion to germs or a set of superstitious rituals, but a painful anxiety related to...

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John R. Puri

Democrats Have Less Leverage Over Graham Platner Than They Think

After winning his climactic street fight in the fifth installment of the eponymous series, Rocky approaches villain George Washington Duke, a sleazy...

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Philip Klein

Shameful Days in America: Funding Planned Parenthood Again

We should be deeply ashamed about something that happened this weekend.  “Defunding Planned Parenthood” expired.   Hoopla was made about...

06.07.2026 4

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

When Does Lyndsey Fifield Get Her Post-Platner-Campaign Apology?

I just noticed this in my inbox:   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson released...

06.07.2026 20

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Condemning Communism Shouldn’t Be This Hard

President Trump condemned communism during his Salute to America 250 Fourth of July celebration speech. The Democratic Socialists’ inability to do...

06.07.2026 4

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Lauren Veldhuizen

Happy Birthday, W.!

Well, he’s still younger than the United States.   I’d be disappointed if I found out that former President George W. Bush, hasn’t been...

06.07.2026 4

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Graham Platner Watch

The Bangor Daily News reports that the embattled Maine Senate candidate, Graham Platner, “has postponed a string of events Sunday and Monday as...

06.07.2026 3

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Dan McLaughlin

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 3

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Noah Rothman

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 5

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Noah Rothman

McCarthy Report Takes a Break

NR’s legal maven, Andy McCarthy, and his intrepid podcast host, Rich Lowry, are taking a summer break from their podcast. Dedicated listeners to The...

06.07.2026 3

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Sarah Schutte

Solutions That Actually Work

Tim Chapman and John Shelton argue that to understand what President Trump means for the future of the political right, we must look back to 2016:...

06.07.2026 4

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Michael R. Strain

The Drone Race Speeds Up Again

With characteristic subtlety Moscow has launched another attack on Kyiv just ahead of the NATO summit. At the time of writing seven people had been...

06.07.2026 3

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Andrew Stuttaford

Kudos to the Trump Administration for Securing Ezra Jin’s Release

It may be small and little-noticed, but I would rank it among President Trump’s finest achievements in his second term so far: getting Chinese house...

06.07.2026 7

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Jim Geraghty

Happy Fifth of July!

Happy lazy day-after-Independence-Day! It's not a national holiday, but it should be and already informally is, like the day after Thanksgiving,...

05.07.2026 5

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Jeffrey Blehar

Bioethicists: Prepare People for Public Health Coercion

One would have thought that bioethicists and technocrats would learn from the COVID debacle that coerced public health policies can easily become...

04.07.2026 9

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Wesley J. Smith

America’s Naysayers Need to Get a Grip

This weekend, America’s 250th birthday deserves an explosive, unapologetic national celebration. Apparently, though, many of those fortunate enough...

04.07.2026 8

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Guy Denton

Sometimes You Have to See It to Believe It — Reflections from a Reenactor

You can read as many history books as you’d like, but there’s nothing quite like stepping into the past and experiencing it for yourself. I’ve...

04.07.2026 6

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Kaitlyn Kiepert

Why Public Policy Schools Aren’t Working

The country has a number of schools of public policy, which supposedly graduate savvy young men and women who will bring expertise to government...

03.07.2026 5

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George Leef

Spain’s Opened Door

More details are coming in about the number of applications filed by illegal immigrants looking to “regularize” their residence in Spain under the...

03.07.2026 6

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Andrew Stuttaford

Who Is Going to Be Next to Donate $1,776 to Our July 4 Fundraiser?

At NR, we’ve always been proud to be a star-spangled organization in a frankly patriotic cause — defending this country from smears and radical...

03.07.2026 10

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Rich Lowry

Trad Schism, Again

The Society of Saint Pius X went ahead and ordained four bishops without a papal mandate, reprising the events of 1988. The Vatican, in turn, has...

02.07.2026 7

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Roe v. Wade of Birthright Citizenship

The president was never going to win the birthright citizenship case. But what makes it, in Justice Samuel Alito’s words, “one of the most...

02.07.2026 6

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Mark Krikorian

Will Jefferson and Smith Reach the Tricentennial Intact?

This weekend marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Declaration of Independence — America’s birthday. And this year also marks the...

02.07.2026 6

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Michael R. Strain

The Handful of Democrats Fighting Back Against the DSA Takeover

For the most part, the most prominent Democratic lawmakers in the country are making peace with the rise of the Democratic Socialists. Democratic...

02.07.2026 6

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Noah Rothman

New York Times Story Features ‘Tree Rights’

I recently wrote critically about a Quebec town that granted “rights to trees.” These include the rights “to life, to natural growth, to...

02.07.2026 8

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Wesley J. Smith

The Great Audacity of American Ambition

I spent five months of my academic career in Vienna, Austria. During my time abroad, I visited many places and took home many souvenirs. My favorite...

02.07.2026 6

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Lauren Veldhuizen

A Larger Socialist Coalition Is Bound to Form in Congress, Whether We Like It or Not

Melat Kiros, socialist, barista, and Ph.D. student, won her primary in Colorado’s first congressional district, ending what would have been a...

02.07.2026 7

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Kamden Mulder

Trump and Crypto, Again . . .

In 2021, President Trump described cryptocurrency as a scam that could undermine the U.S. dollar. Yesterday, on the eve of the long holiday weekend...

02.07.2026 9

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Andrew C. McCarthy