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Hamas Postponing Hostage Releases, Testing Trump’s Patience

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Philip Klein

Which States Are Best at Protecting Free Speech on Campus?

yesterday 3

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George Leef

If Trump’s a Pawn of Moscow, Why Are the Russians So Upset?

yesterday 2

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Jim Geraghty

Congressional Democrats Have Little Leverage over DOGE or Spending Fights

yesterday 2

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Jim Geraghty

Axios’s Window into the Trump-Addled Mind

yesterday 1

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Noah Rothman

Veganism’s Worst Poster Child

yesterday 4

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Abigail Anthony 

Trump’s Super Bowl Show

yesterday 2

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Haley Strack

Patrick Mahomes vs. History

yesterday 2

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Mark Antonio Wright

Talking Trump

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Against Valentine’s Day

yesterday 10

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Mark Antonio Wright

Asteroid 2024 YR4: Odds Worsen (for Now)

The chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a rock between 130 and 300 feet wide, will crash into the Earth (or, probably, just explode above the planet’s...

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Andrew Stuttaford

Bioethicist Urges Hospitals to Defy ICE

Bioethicist Urges Hospitals to Defy ICE

Mainstream bioethics discourse is often just progressive politics by a higher-brow name. Now, the Hastings Center — the world’s most influential...

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Wesley J. Smith

The Greatest Hollywood Awards-Season Story Ever Told

The Greatest Hollywood Awards-Season Story Ever Told

The news is so hectic these days that it feels like you can barely get a moment to catch your breath, much less enjoy yourself. Look to your left...

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Jeffrey Blehar

Of Course Trump Is Funny

Of Course Trump Is Funny

The New York Post ’s Miranda Devine is out today with an exclusive story that comes with one of the early contenders for headline of the year:...

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Mark Antonio Wright

Bud Light, Still Grappling with the Consequences of Embracing Progressive Politics

Bud Light, Still Grappling with the Consequences of Embracing Progressive Politics

Tomorrow the Bud Light please-take-us-back campaign continues with a Super Bowl commercial featuring Shane Gillis, Post Malone, and Peyton Manning...

saturday 2

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Jim Geraghty

The War on Cars: A Macro(n) Tax

The War on Cars: A Macro(n) Tax

As New York has recently demonstrated with its congestion tax, the war against cars has been relentless, although the arrival of a new...

saturday 4

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Andrew Stuttaford

Lee Zeldin Urges EPA Employees to Report ‘Waste, Fraud, and Abuse’ at Agency

At the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has come under intense scrutiny from Democrats for spearheading efforts to dismantle...

saturday 10

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Audrey Fahlberg

A Sporting Victory

A Sporting Victory

Donald Trump has signed an executive order keeping male trans athletes from competing in female sports, and the panelists on today’s Editors...

saturday 2

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Nr Staff

Montana Senate Passes Bill That Would Make Physician-Assisted Suicide Illegal

Montana Senate Passes Bill That Would Make Physician-Assisted Suicide Illegal

Pro-assisted-suicide activists like to say the unethical act it is legal in Montana. Strictly speaking, that isn't true. Some years ago, a muddled...

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Wesley J. Smith

Mainstream Media Mislead on a Decline in the U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate

Mainstream Media Mislead on a Decline in the U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate

This week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released updated data on the U.S. maternal mortality rate. Maternal mortality has been a salient...

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Michael J. New

Israel Still Has Work to Do in Gaza

Israel Still Has Work to Do in Gaza

Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States should take an “ownership position” in the Gaza Strip and take point on rebuilding the war-torn...

07.02.2025 30

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Mark Antonio Wright

South Africa’s ‘Anti-Americanism’ Is in Rubio’s Crosshairs

South Africa’s ‘Anti-Americanism’ Is in Rubio’s Crosshairs

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement that he is boycotting the upcoming G-20 Summit in Johannesburg is, at first glance, primarily about a...

07.02.2025 4

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Jimmy Quinn

Don’t Squander the Promise of DOGE, Elon

Don’t Squander the Promise of DOGE, Elon

Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that 25-year-old DOGE staffer Marko Elez was, in fact, a “special government employee” and could access U.S....

07.02.2025 10

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Noah Rothman

Honoring the Pronouns of . . . Trans Vegan Anarchist Cult Members?

Honoring the Pronouns of . . . Trans Vegan Anarchist Cult Members?

My recent article “How I May Have Solved a Murder” details how I began reporting on a shooting in Vermont, but ended up identifying a murder...

07.02.2025 10

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Abigail Anthony 

Are Schools Really Politicized?

Are Schools Really Politicized?

In an article previewing his forthcoming book on civic education, noted author and reporter James Traub argues that conservatives — including me —...

07.02.2025 10

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Stanley Kurtz

The International Criminal Court Has Put Itself at Trump’s Mercy

The International Criminal Court Has Put Itself at Trump’s Mercy

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof reportedly said of the new Trump sanctions on the International Criminal Court: “We don’t know the exact impact...

07.02.2025 10

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Jimmy Quinn

Consequences for the International Criminal Court

Consequences for the International Criminal Court

Donald Trump and his administration deserve all the credit they’re due and more for withdrawing (as we recommended) from some of the United...

07.02.2025 10

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Noah Rothman

Who Let the DOGEs Out?

Who Let the DOGEs Out?

Some depressing news: It feels like every other media company in America was getting paid beaucoup bucks by the federal government for digital...

07.02.2025 20

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Jeffrey Blehar

Will the Super Bowl Ads Be Woke?

Will the Super Bowl Ads Be Woke?

The most interesting part of last fall’s ridiculous Jaguar ad campaign — complete with weird costumes, a pseudo-Martian landscape, grumpy faces,...

07.02.2025 10

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Mark Antonio Wright

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, German Chancellor

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, German Chancellor

It's safe to say that the foreign-policy-focused writers here at National Review have not been big fans of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel....

07.02.2025 30

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Jim Geraghty

The New York Times Misleads on President Trump’s Pro-Life Pardons

The New York Times Misleads on President Trump’s Pro-Life Pardons

Last month, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg criticized President Trump’s pardons of 23 pro-lifers, convicted of violating the Freedom of...

06.02.2025 10

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Monica Miller

The Wilderness Democrats

The Wilderness Democrats

It’s a fairly common (and annoying! ) tradition at NR to wake up to discover that Jim Geraghty has swooped in and beaten you to the punch on an...

06.02.2025 4

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Mark Antonio Wright

Why Egg Prices Are So High

Why Egg Prices Are So High

In perhaps the most ominous news of the young Trump administration, Waffle House is now charging an extra fifty cents per egg. You’re not imagining...

06.02.2025 10

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Jim Geraghty

Move Over UFOs and Drones, Here Comes an Asteroid

Move Over UFOs and Drones, Here Comes an Asteroid

UFOs and even their lowly drone successors are, whether real or imagined, relatively sophisticated bits of machinery, but a colossal rock headed...

06.02.2025 8

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Andrew Stuttaford

Microcredentials as an Alternative to College

Now that the idea that getting a college degree is the key to prosperity has faded like a week-old bouquet of flowers, students are considering...

06.02.2025 1

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George Leef

The Gipper and the Bambino in 1935

The Gipper and the Bambino in 1935

Today is a notable double birthday. Ronald Reagan was born this day in 1911 in Tampico, Ill. George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born this day in 1895 in...

06.02.2025 2

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Dan Mclaughlin

Men of Letters, Etc.

Men of Letters, Etc.

In Impromptus today, I begin with Gaza — “We’ll own it,” President Trump says — and end with Paul Plishka, the basso who died earlier this...

06.02.2025 2

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Jay Nordlinger

Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Gambit

Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Gambit

According to Bloomberg, Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, plans to present the administration’s plan for a durable...

06.02.2025 3

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Noah Rothman

Gaza Annexations, Trade Wars, and Elon vs. the World? You Need NR’s The Week

As we move into the second month of the Second Trump Era, the nation’s news cycle is spinning faster than the planet Jupiter (which rotates about...

06.02.2025 1

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Mark Antonio Wright

Vermiglio Shines as an Honest Portrait of Motherhood, Faith, and Tradition

Vermiglio Shines as an Honest Portrait of Motherhood, Faith, and Tradition

It’s fitting — maybe even more than coincidence — that I stumbled upon Vermiglio, a film deeply rooted in the trials and joys of parenting, just 72...

06.02.2025 2

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Giancarlo Sopo