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America Has Tried Socialism Before — and Quickly Abandoned It

The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America is nothing new, says historian Michael Barone, who for 40 years was the principal author of the...

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John Fund

Alberta Isn’t Likely to Become Independent . . . At Least Not Anytime Soon

Way back in the early 1990s, when we rode dinosaurs to school, I remember a college professor looking at the breakup of the Soviet Union, and...

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Jim Geraghty

From the Supreme Court to Philadelphia to Boston: Is Abortion in America Ever Going to Be Extreme Enough for Us?

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...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

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...

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Noah Rothman

Representative Stefanik Probes the Disaster of Higher Education

Elise Stefanik is a Harvard graduate who represents an upstate New York district in Congress. She took the lead in questioning three university...

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George Leef

A Pro-Life Thing That Caught My Eye: Abortion in Massachusetts, Prenatal Diagnosis, and Gratitude for Life

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...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Pro-Life Movement’s Blue State Problem

This week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed legislation that legalizes abortion in the Bay State until birth. As a matter of public policy,...

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Michael J. New

On Late-Term Abortion, Massachusetts Removes the Fig Leaf

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed a law explicitly legalizing abortion throughout pregnancy, that is, to the moment of birth. State law...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ceuta’s Numbers

Posting earlier today on the situation in the Spanish city of Ceuta, I noted that, in an editorial published in the Financial Times on August 4, it...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Flushed: Watching Francesca Hong’s ‘Sewer Socialist’ Dreams Disappear in Wisconsin

Madison, Wis. — It was just before 11 p.m., and the mood in the Atwood Music Hall's auditorium waxed to euphoria as Democratic Socialist...

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Luther Ray Abel

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...

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Noah Rothman

In Your Dreams, Mike Lindell

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary, state house speaker Lisa Demuth has 179,545 votes, and...

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Jim Geraghty

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...

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Noah Rothman

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...

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Noah Rothman

Commercial Surrogacy Turns Women into Machines, Babies into Products

An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy. From the Texas Tribune story: [McKenna] West, a...

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Wesley J. Smith

Telling the Truth About Ceuta

In an editorial published on August 4 about the recent (if largely temporary) influx of would-be migrants into the Spanish city of Ceuta, the...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Burritogate

A dustup over the cost of burritos recently swept the internet, with claims that a burrito now costs $20. This spurred all manner of debate over the...

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Nr Staff

The Federal Department of Time-Wasting Vendettas

Nearly one year ago, on August 15, Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent the U.S. Department of Justice the first of...

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Jim Geraghty

All the Customers Are Wrong

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) recently filmed herself injecting medication into her stomach, uploaded the video to the internet,...

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Abigail Anthony

Matters of Life and Death

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...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Massachusetts Makes Way for More Death

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...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Comparing Socialism with Interventionist Capitalism

With so many young (and clueless) Americans clamoring for socialism, it’s worth asking about the likely consequences of such a move. What happens to...

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George Leef

Why Did Illinois Duck the DSA Wave?

As I’ve watched stormy Democratic primaries overtake my neighbors in Michigan and Wisconsin, with their angry throngs of DSA hordes o’ertopping...

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Jeffrey Blehar

Debating AI

Humanity’s ability to innovate has delivered a once-unimaginable level of abundance. And yet innovation has often been shadowed, slowed, or...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Nun Sense: Sometimes a Life of the Fullest Freedom Is Mistaken for Sexism

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...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Don’t Blame Ukraine for Munitions Shortages

Jim quotes President Trump, who claims that the depleted munitions stockpiles in the news are because of past transfers to Ukraine: By the way, they...

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John R. Puri

Hawthorne Sisters Fight for Freedom — and Life

Our forever friend John J. Miller writes in the cool “Free Expression” section of the Wall Street Journal today about the Dominican Sisters of...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

President Trump: Our Munitions Stockpile Is ‘Fine’ and ‘Low’

President Trump in a phone interview with Wayne Allyn Root, yesterday: By the way, they talk about munitions and we’re fine with munitions. You...

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Jim Geraghty

A New Kind of War, a New Kind of Missile Procurement

As grim as the news is about the United States’ missile shortfall, there are some signs that the administration is trying to change the way the...

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Andrew Stuttaford

We Should Try to Prevent All Suicides

The Washington Post has a heartwarming story about a Nashville cop who dissuaded a suicidal man from jumping off a bridge: “It was emotional. This...

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Wesley J. Smith

El-Sayed’s Health Care Sleight of Hand

Fresh off winning Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Dr. El-Sayed rightly pointed out to Kristen Welker that big insurers, big hospital-centric...

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Michael P. H. Stanley

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...

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Noah Rothman

Once Again, More Evidence That Putin Is Already at War with NATO

The Morning Jolt, reporting from Riga, Latvia, back in May: And a Latvian official who deals with national security issues speculated that perhaps a...

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Jim Geraghty

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...

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Noah Rothman

Fashionable Antisemitism at the Met Museum

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...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

AOC and Her Eggs: A Cynical — and Winning — Play?

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...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

A 21st Century ‘Shell Crisis’

Rich Lowry is right to warn that our shortage of munitions — specifically missiles — is not only embarrassing but dangerous. The initial focus on...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Rolling Stone Predictably Swoons Over Hasan Piker

“Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?” asks the headline at Rolling Stone. Five paragraphs later, correspondent Josh Eells writes: Among his...

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Jim Geraghty

Understanding the Founders Through Their Books

Leftists would have us believe that the Founders were a bunch of greedy white racists whose only concern in establishing the United States was to...

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George Leef

The Lancet: Wildfires the Latest “Health Emergency”

In recent years, editors of medical, science, and bioethics journals have proclaimed almost every major societal problem to be a “health...

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Wesley J. Smith

Mary Eberstadt’s Upcoming Novel, Washington Zoo

A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo.  ...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

The Gods of the Grid

Walk with me, for a moment, through a mostly forgotten bit of pop-culture ephemera that has something to say to the present. The 2010 science-fiction...

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Joshua Treviño

What Do We Want Congress to Do?

My defense of the filibuster today was partly prompted by this thoughtful post by my friend Mark Strand, a longtime supporter of the filibuster who...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

The Allegedly Awful Jobs Report

I’m not a fan of the tariffs that Noah criticizes in this post, or of the Iran war he absolves from blame for “sluggish hiring.” But does the...

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Unintended Consequences on the Filibuster

Ramesh responds to my case for restoring the filibuster to its traditional rules: Whether we should have a filibuster, and if so whether we should...

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John R. Puri

Glimmers of Hope in Higher Ed

In a few states, schools and programs focused on teaching civics have arisen, giving students an alternative to the steady drumbeat of America-bashing...

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George Leef

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...

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Noah Rothman

Who Really Speaks for the Working Class?

TV personality Mike Rowe has real street cred when it comes to the working class that Democratic Socialists claim they represent. As host of Dirty...

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John Fund

Don’t Eliminate the Filibuster, But . . .

Ramesh Ponnuru has a great column in the Washington Post about why the Senate should not eliminate the filibuster as a political check on shallow and...

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John R. Puri

Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses: Are We Guarding Against Dangers?

Media outlets are reporting that Stanford scientists used AI to create an artificial virus. From the Wall Street Journal story:...

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Wesley J. Smith