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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...
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...
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...
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...
Elise Stefanik is a Harvard graduate who represents an upstate New York district in Congress. She took the lead in questioning three university...
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...
This week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed legislation that legalizes abortion in the Bay State until birth. As a matter of public policy,...
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed a law explicitly legalizing abortion throughout pregnancy, that is, to the moment of birth. State law...
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...
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...
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...
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary, state house speaker Lisa Demuth has 179,545 votes, and...
Democrats just needed permission to express their pent-up resentments over the hoops they were made to jump through during the era Alexandria...
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...
An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy. From the Texas Tribune story: [McKenna] West, a...
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...
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...
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...
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) recently filmed herself injecting medication into her stomach, uploaded the video to the internet,...
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...
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...
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...
As I’ve watched stormy Democratic primaries overtake my neighbors in Michigan and Wisconsin, with their angry throngs of DSA hordes o’ertopping...
Humanity’s ability to innovate has delivered a once-unimaginable level of abundance. And yet innovation has often been shadowed, slowed, or...
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...
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...
Our forever friend John J. Miller writes in the cool “Free Expression” section of the Wall Street Journal today about the Dominican Sisters of...
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...
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...
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...
Fresh off winning Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Dr. El-Sayed rightly pointed out to Kristen Welker that big insurers, big hospital-centric...
Commentary executive editor Abe Greenwald’s admonition for the GOP ahead of the midterms is worth careful consideration. The rise of the Democratic...
The Morning Jolt, reporting from Riga, Latvia, back in May: And a Latvian official who deals with national security issues speculated that perhaps a...
An organization “promoting science” is dragging Senator Mark Kelly into the 2028 presidential race, according to Axios’s Holly Otterbein. The...
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...
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...
Rich Lowry is right to warn that our shortage of munitions — specifically missiles — is not only embarrassing but dangerous. The initial focus on...
“Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?” asks the headline at Rolling Stone. Five paragraphs later, correspondent Josh Eells writes: Among his...
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...
In recent years, editors of medical, science, and bioethics journals have proclaimed almost every major societal problem to be a “health...
A very cool publishing note: Frequent National Review contributor Mary Eberstadt is publishing a comic novel, The Washington Zoo. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In a few states, schools and programs focused on teaching civics have arisen, giving students an alternative to the steady drumbeat of America-bashing...
“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...
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...
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...
Media outlets are reporting that Stanford scientists used AI to create an artificial virus. From the Wall Street Journal story:...