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Author’s note: "Weekend Short" features a short story or novella. Analysis from the readership is encouraged in the comments section. If...
We heard a lot about eggs in early 2025. The average price per dozen reached an all-time high of $8 last February, up from a historical level of...
I just wanted to offer a quick note here from National Review’s Space Desk to mark the successful return of the Artemis II crew to Earth. At 5:07...
Trump took to social media to torch podcasters Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, and Alex Jones, raising questions among today’s Editors...
Debate over Social Security, scant though it is, usually and understandably focuses on its insolvency. I recently tried to call attention to some of...
There’s something that newly minted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani forgot to warn his supporters about as he was promising to be Santa Claus and...
Jeff and John have written matched pieces detailing why the Iran war is a "debacle," or if not that, then at least a net negative. Their...
Where is artificial intelligence appropriately used, and where is it not? That’s one of the crucial questions now facing us. In today’s Martin...
The entire business model of the modern Democratic Party is a bloated welfare state that provides social services supposedly to the most vulnerable....
I can think of one important way that Iran is better off — and the United States and the rest of the world far worse off — than before the war...
A Canadian activist has argued that the mentally ill must have access to euthanasia to prevent their committing suicide. From the National Post story:...
On any given week, the U.S. economy will generate numbers that look good in some ways (unemployment low by historical standards, inflation low by the...
Guy and Luther are back with the second episode of The Associates, this time to discuss Guy’s chemtrails piece for the magazine. In the course of...
I returned last night from a long drive (close to 2,000 miles if Google is correct) in the Southwest, in the course of just a few days (research...
CNN asks this morning whether Democrats are ready to embrace a “moderate” with a track record of “winning in Trump country,” like Michigan...
Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t be the first mayor of New York City to harbor contempt for the municipality and its residents. He may, however, be the first...
Fine day, save for one thing: I seem to have misplaced my pen. We have dozens of pens in the house, but this one was a matte black Lamy Studio...
I’m finally getting to the spring issue of the Claremont Review of Books. I have to recommend Michael Anton’s review of Laura K. Field’s Furious...
I think a lot of observers could have predicted that we were swiftly heading toward some kind of cease-fire once Donald Trump was talking about...
This week, JAMA Network Open published a study that analyzed the impact of recently enacted pro-life laws on maternal mortality rates. Overall, the...
What is it with American liberals and nuns who take care of dying people? My blood boils when I read that New York State’s “Bill of Rights for...
I’ve been humbled. I thought the pitch clock would be a disaster for MLB, introducing a kind of microwave-oven quality to broadcasts. It hasn’t....
Yes, yes, polls can be wrong, and the California state “jungle primary” won’t be held until June 2. There are 61 (!) candidates on the ballot to...
“A single regime has decided to exert control over a 21-mile passage, and as a result, we are living through the worst energy crisis the world has...
Most Americans who have been through college experienced academic life in semesters — courses usually lasting about 16 weeks. But do colleges have...
The cease-fire in Iran, which seems likely to be the end of the war for all practical purposes, fails my simple test for victory: There is not a...
This week, Planned Parenthood released its 2025 annual report. In recent years, these reports have taken on additional significance. That is because...
To live in a very large country such as ours is to accept that you’re never going to see all of it. But the flip side is the feeling that an...
Historians may someday trace the decline of America’s great cities in part to the mayors who were elected to run them. The most populous U.S. cities...
A recently released AEI study from Scott Winship about rising prosperity is being downplayed by various naysayers, but Charlie Cooke, on today’s...
Vice President JD Vance dropped a bombshell in his remarks to reporters during his swing through Hungary on Tuesday. The Trump administration is, he...
🚨 BREAKING: Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again' if Iran doesn't agree to deal to end...
Democratic politicians always need causes to keep their base riled up. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has proposed a wealth tax on the...
President Trump’s deadline for Iranian capitulation regarding the Strait of Hormuz is just over nine hours away, and he is reaffirming vows to...
Up in the Maine Democratic Senate primary battle, the Graham Platner campaign contends to Axios that the contest is already over, and that governor...
Have you missed the pairing of a mellifluous British accent with that of a machine-loving American? Guy Denton and Luther Ray Abel have heard the...
According to the New York Times, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is a powerhouse fundraiser. “In the first two months of the quarter...
Over in the most recent issue of the print magazine, I wrote about Virginia’s new Democratic governor Abigail Spanberger, and concluded,...
Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari is, by her own admission, confused: https://x.com/RepYassAnsari/status/2041005005822689528?s=20 It’s a...
Unfortunately, the president violated one of the cardinal rules of combat: Never interrupt your opponent while he’s making a mistake. Even as Donald...
While the world is justifiably focused on Iran, the world remains a dangerous place for the U.S. and its allies on many fronts. I find myself wanting...
My National Review story began in Connecticut, where my parents often saw William F. Buckley sailing Patito, his 36-foot sloop, on Long Island Sound...
A new medical study out of Finland has found that gender-dysphoric adolescents and young adults who were subjected to gender reassignment...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that he has rescinded the green cards of two relatives of Qasem Soleimani, the top general of Iran’s...
For quite a while now, I've tended to reread parts of Father Richard John Neuhaus’s Death on a Friday Afternoon on Good Friday. I usually post...
Decades ago, the left captured the legal profession, turning it into a big part of their agenda for demolishing our traditions of free enterprise,...
Saint John Henry Newman was named a doctor of the church late last year — the first from the English-speaking world, by the first pope from the...
Some Democrats have concluded from recent election results that they ought to nominate more heterosexual, Christian white men — and especially that...
The eternal truths that informed the American founding need constant defending. National Review’s writers mount that defense each and every day in...
The Cato Institute has a great analysis today, on the anniversary of President Trump's "liberation day" speech, of the effects of...