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‘Trade-Offs’: The New Issue of NR Is Out

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Mark Antonio Wright

To Hell with Hamas

yesterday 1

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

A Signalgate Coda

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Rich Lowry

75 Percent of Scientists in Nature Survey Thinking About Leaving U.S.

yesterday 30

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Wesley J. Smith

The Stat: Poland to Surpass Japan in GDP per Capita

yesterday 10

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Dominic Pino

One Way Jasmine Crockett Is Just Like Other Democrats

One Way Jasmine Crockett Is Just Like Other Democrats

There has been a bit of a pile-on this week at National Review on Jasmine Crockett. A House Democrat representing Texas, Crockett has of late been...

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Jack Butler

The Campaign Against Mike Waltz

There is clearly a concerted effort by a wing of MAGA to use the Signal chat controversy as an opportunity to defenestrate Mike Waltz (and/or his...

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Rich Lowry

The Libertarian DOGE Derangement Syndrome?

The Libertarian DOGE Derangement Syndrome?

Gene Healy at the Cato Institute has an excellent piece about The libertarian DOGE derangement syndrome. He claims that libertarians are hard to...

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Veronique De Rugy

Is the Trump Administration Sabotaging Its Own Peace Deal?

Is the Trump Administration Sabotaging Its Own Peace Deal?

On Monday, the Trump White House announced that it had reached separate but contingent agreements with Ukraine and Russia to pause their respective...

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Noah Rothman

Did Viking Explorers Reach Heavener, Oklahoma?

Did Viking Explorers Reach Heavener, Oklahoma?

Five hundred years before Columbus made landfall on San Salvador, the Norseman Leif Erikson set foot in North America, becoming the first European...

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Mark Antonio Wright

Communism, Just Getting Started

Some readers may remember my interview with historian Sean McMeekin about his book To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism....

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Real Women Rock

Real Women Rock

Female educators in Santa Rosa, Calif., started the tradition of celebrating Women’s History Month in March 1978. A group of women founded the...

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Haley Strack

Trump Tariffs Come for the Auto Industry

Trump Tariffs Come for the Auto Industry

On this Friday edition of The Editors , Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Dominic discuss the brouhaha over Trump’s recent announcement of tariffs on...

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Nr Staff

A Blessed Refuge from Wokeness

A Blessed Refuge from Wokeness

Would you indulge me a bit of personal history before I urge you to donate to the worthy cause of National Review? My first exposure to NR came when...

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Jessica Hornik

Trump Tightens the Ring Around Iran

Trump Tightens the Ring Around Iran

Within days of taking office, Donald Trump surprised observers by entertaining the prospect of a new nuclear deal with Iran. “It would be nice if...

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Noah Rothman

Senate Republicans Are Surprised and Disappointed That the White House Pulled Stefanik’s Nomination

Senate Republicans Are Surprised and Disappointed That the White House Pulled Stefanik’s Nomination

Senate Republicans left their Thursday afternoon luncheon to some surprising news: The White House had decided to pull Representative Elise...

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Audrey Fahlberg

Remember When Jill Biden Gave a Man the Women of Courage Award?

Two years ago, during Women’s History Month (as March is so designated), Jill Biden awarded the International Women of Courage Award to a man. The...

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Haley Strack

Bioethicist: ‘Queer the Genome’ Through Same-Sex Reproduction

Bioethicist: ‘Queer the Genome’ Through Same-Sex Reproduction

The mainstream bioethics movement aims to destroy human exceptionalism and Judeo-Christian morality as the philosophical foundations of society....

thursday 20

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Wesley J. Smith

From Soup to Nuts

From Soup to Nuts

Imagine the thought process that has led dozens upon dozens of activists over the years to conclude that defacing priceless cultural artifacts was...

thursday 3

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Noah Rothman

‘Restoring Meritocracy’: Trump Administration Cuts DEI as Factor in State Department Promotions

thursday 2

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Jimmy Quinn

The Signal Leak’s Fallout Is Serious

The Signal Leak’s Fallout Is Serious

Over the 48 hours since The Atlantic exposed the Signal chat snafu, the administration’s defenders have deployed a variety of conflicting excuses...

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Noah Rothman

Fetterman’s 2022 Primary Rival, Conor Lamb, to Hold Town Hall This Weekend

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Audrey Fahlberg

Questioning the White House — the Way It Should Be Done

thursday 4

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Jack Crowe

Non-Binary Latin at Oxford

Non-Binary Latin at Oxford

According to the Telegraph, Oxford University deems it “necessary” to bastardize the language that has been used for about 800 years in Oxford’s...

thursday 2

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Abigail Anthony 

Two Visions of Industrial Policy, Both Flawed

thursday 1

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Veronique De Rugy

Protect Pregnancy Resource Centers

Protect Pregnancy Resource Centers

One of the many calumnies flung at pro-lifers is that we are not, in fact, “pro-life,” but just “pro-birth.” That is, we just want babies to...

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Jack Butler

Where Is the Outpouring for the Gaza Protests?

You’ve got to admit, the hundreds of brave Palestinians who publicly protested the Hamas-led regime in the Gaza Strip this week “have a point.”...

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Noah Rothman

After 75 Days, Los Angeles Has Issued Four Permits to Rebuild Houses

After 75 Days, Los Angeles Has Issued Four Permits to Rebuild Houses

Back in January 13, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass “issued a sweeping Executive Order to clear the way for Los Angeles residents to rapidly rebuild...

26.03.2025 10

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Jim Geraghty

Will Collective Action Take Down Andrew Cuomo?

Will Collective Action Take Down Andrew Cuomo?

At the outset of the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Republicans who hoped to derail Donald Trump’s trajectory to the presidency lamented the...

26.03.2025 10

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Noah Rothman

Meanwhile, Tim Walz

This CNN article by Edward-Isaac Dovere is pretty devastating. Take this quote: “Progressive donors and consultants loved the Coach Walz persona,...

26.03.2025 8

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Sometimes, It’s Best Just to Say, ‘We Screwed Up’

Sometimes, It’s Best Just to Say, ‘We Screwed Up’

Fair warning: I'm about to be naive again. Here goes: Why don't politicians -- in both parties, and across all of our institutions -- just come out...

26.03.2025 5

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Charles C. W. Cooke

A Couple More Thoughts on Bondi v. VanDerStok

A Couple More Thoughts on Bondi v. VanDerStok

Dan's summary of today's decision in Bondi v. VanDerStok is excellent. I'd just add -- or, perhaps, flesh out -- a couple of points. First, while I...

26.03.2025 2

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Charles C. W. Cooke

The Best Way to Parlay Your March Madness Winnings

I was caught up in getting ready for National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit last week, and so I didn’t manage to complete a March Madness bracket...

26.03.2025 1

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Philip Klein

Hegseth Responds

Hegseth Responds

In response to Jeffrey Goldberg’s release of screenshots of the infamous Signal chat this morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, currently...

26.03.2025 2

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Mark Antonio Wright

The Hillary Clinton Parallels Republicans Cannot Avoid

The Hillary Clinton Parallels Republicans Cannot Avoid

Revisionist narratives pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” email server have left us with one of two hazy recollections from that...

26.03.2025 10

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Noah Rothman

The Ozempic Economy: Adjusting to Longer Life Expectancy

25.03.2025 9

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Andrew Stuttaford

A Reminder of the Houthis’ Attacks and European Military Assistance

A Reminder of the Houthis’ Attacks and European Military Assistance

A quick reminder for whose who contend that there isn't a pressing U.S. interest in targeting the Houthis, because as the vice president noted in...

25.03.2025 8

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Jim Geraghty

Jasmine Crockett Is Tacky and Classless, and I Encourage This

Jasmine Crockett Is Tacky and Classless, and I Encourage This

Democratic congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (of Texas’s Dallas-based 30th Congressional District) is back in the news again, and once more for the...

25.03.2025 10

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Jeffrey Blehar

LGBTQ Activist and Trans Husband Housed Trans Minor Against Mom’s Wishes

The Daily Wire‘s Mairead Elordi has an insane story today: An LGBTQ activist and her trans-identifying husband housed a 17-year-old...

25.03.2025 9

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Haley Strack

I Don’t Care If It Wasn’t Classified

I Don’t Care If It Wasn’t Classified

After yesterday’s bombshell story of Jeffrey Goldberg being accidentally added to a group chat on military strikes on the Houthi pirates, one of...

25.03.2025 2

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Dan Mclaughlin

Canada’s Liberals Think Trump Has Saved Them

Canada’s Liberals Think Trump Has Saved Them

Canada's ruling Liberal Party, now under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney after Justin Trudeau stepped down on March 14 a few months...

25.03.2025 3

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Dan Mclaughlin

More on the Summary Deportation of Venezuelan Aliens, as We Await D.C. Circuit’s Ruling

More on the Summary Deportation of Venezuelan Aliens, as We Await D.C. Circuit’s Ruling

In a post last night, I noted that the three-judge D.C. Circuit panel that heard arguments yesterday afternoon in the Venezuelan deportation case...

25.03.2025 3

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Andrew C. Mccarthy

A Regular Guy Mishandling Classified Information Doesn’t Get the Hegseth Treatment

A Regular Guy Mishandling Classified Information Doesn’t Get the Hegseth Treatment

Our supposed betters can't get it through their thickly pomaded heads that tossing around classified info as if it's a derivative meme is not only...

25.03.2025 2

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Luther Ray Abel