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Here’s what GOP can and should do for their last two months in power

Republicans in Congress will lose power at the start of January, and they won’t get it back soon.

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New York Post

Dan McLaughlin

No, It Wasn’t Just the War

The emerging narrative, or rather excuse, from the right-populist wing is that last night's across-the-board electoral disaster for Republicans...

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National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Things Are Also Breaking Against Republican Candidates for Governor

Let’s close the circle after my final wrap of the Senate polls, by looking at the races for governor. The picture is not pretty: We’re still not...

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National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Senate Is Breaking Republican Hearts at the End

I am a great believer in hope, and in the value of holding on to it even as the creeping sensation of doom approaches. Maybe I learned that as a Mets...

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National Review

Dan McLaughlin

No matter who wins the midterms, one thing is certain: Congress will only become weaker

It's the lapdog branch of government.

01.11.2026 5

New York Post

Dan McLaughlin

No matter who wins midterm elections, the biggest loser is Congress

We don’t know yet who will win what elections in the midterms. But we can already predict this much: the biggest loser is likely to be Congress.

01.11.2026 20

New York Post

Dan McLaughlin

In Alaska, the World’s Least Surprising Scoop

Sometimes, journalists break news that surprises us and changes what people believe and how they see people and situations. But sometimes, it just...

28.10.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

What American Diaspora?

In the never-ending debate over whether America is a people with an idea or an idea with a people, it is worth considering an important measure of a...

27.10.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Sneaky troll polls boost the far left — yet we keep falling for them

A brand-new pollster with no track record, no known institution behind it, and nobody checking its work? Voter beware.

21.10.2026 10

New York Post

Dan McLaughlin

Closing the Enthusiasm Gap

A tracking poll from Echelon Insights suggests a dynamic that may yet help Republicans limit the damage this fall: Republican voter enthusiasm is much...

16.10.2026 50

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

‘Oh, Shut Up’: The Transparent Fraudulence of Feminist Politics

One of the common themes pushed by Democrats and their media flacks, which regularly gets weaponized into bite-sized memes for Instagram, Facebook,...

16.10.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

A Modest H-1B Visa Proposal

The H-1B visa program has been controversial for some time, especially among American-born tech workers who see it as a source of competition. In...

15.10.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Copyright Protects Against Training AI on Legal Headnotes

When is training artificial intelligence on somebody else's work a copyright violation? The Third Circuit federal court of appeals decided to...

01.10.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Jodi Kantor and the New York Times Invite Protesters to John Roberts’s House

Jodi Kantor of the New York Times has been one of the leaders of a two-pronged assault on the Supreme Court. One prong is leaks from the Court, the...

01.10.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

A Question Avoided

I wrote last week about an emergency application to the Supreme Court to stay an order from a Westchester County, N.Y., judge. That order attempted to...

30.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Tell Me Where Jack Bauer Is

The immediate difficulty with offering a critique of the New York Times list of the best 100 television shows of this century is the immensity of the...

28.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court Allows Trump DHS to Share Social Security Data with Elections Officials

Another Friday afternoon, another Supreme Court decision on the ground rules for the midterm elections. Today's 6–3 decision in Department of...

25.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Today in Democrats Behaving Badly

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned just nine months into his term, following the release of an internal investigation. . . . The...

25.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Cheap Weapons and Empires

An interesting argument from scholar Patrick Fitzsimmons that what ended the Bronze Age was not a better substitute for bronze but a cheaper one: The...

24.09.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Last Original Mets Fan

Michael aptly summarizes the unique charms of Howie Rose as a Mets announcer, a job he has held since 1987 and, as a play-by-play man, since 1995. As...

22.09.2026 10

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Scourge of Obsessive Positioning in the Right’s Media and Politics

Right-of-center media and politics are suffering from a glut of obsessive positioning. Once you start noticing this, you can't stop. As with many...

22.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Our Great American Heritage Belongs to All Americans

In my column on some people's effort to make the status of "Heritage Americans" (i.e., descended from multiple generations on American...

17.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Against Losing Our Souls Along with Our Liberties

Erick Erickson has a must-read, deeply researched dive into Charles Haywood and other “Schmittian” thinkers insinuating themselves into positions...

16.09.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

It’s Harder to Win with Bad Friends

As Noah observes, Donald Trump Jr. is acting as if there could be no consequences for behavior that just reeks of the same sort of ethical morass that...

15.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Order Dies (for 2026) at the Supreme Court

As I noted when the Supreme Court ruled in late August in favor of Donald Trump's executive order (EO) on mail-in ballots and threw out a...

14.09.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Smell of Desperation in Texas

It can be hazardous to read too much into political fundraising emails. Hyperbole, deceptive tactics, ALL CAPS, colorful fonts, and a reek of...

14.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

How September 11 Changed My Life

We used to say that September 11 changed everything. And so it did — although, as we discussed on Charlie Cooke’s podcast, the world hasn’t...

11.09.2026 50

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules Return to the Supreme Court — but the Actual Dispute Is Missing

When last we looked in on the Supreme Court's review of Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot executive order, less than two weeks ago, it was clear...

04.09.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Victory in Iran and the Midterms

A perennial phenomenon every election season is the "October surprise," or some lesser version of the same: an event after Labor Day that,...

02.09.2026 40

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The September 11 Whataboutism of El-Sayed and Mamdani

A resurfaced, since-deleted September 11, 2021, tweet from Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is making the rounds. On that 20th anniversary of...

01.09.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court Refuses to Let ‘Aesthetic’ Objections Stop Trump’s Ballroom

The injunction against Donald Trump's East Wing ballroom has been shot down by the Supreme Court. The Court's 5–4 decision, by a per...

31.08.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Blues Brothers and the Pope

Pope Leo XIV recently met Lou Marini, who is best known popularly as the saxophonist from the Blues Brothers band on several albums and in the Blues...

28.08.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Most Ridiculous Presidential Ranking

Donald Trump yesterday took time out from his "let them eat lakes" campaign to post on the internet a ranking of the U.S. presidents, with...

28.08.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Resistance Judging at Its Worst

After the Supreme Court on Monday threw out the injunction against Donald Trump’s executive order on noncitizen mail-in ballots, you might have...

27.08.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Hard Part of the Mail-In Ballots Decision Trades Short-Term Chaos for a Long-Term Setback for Trump

As I noted in my first post on today's decision in Alabama v. California -- which gives the background of what follows here -- the Supreme Court...

24.08.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court Kicks the Can on Trump’s Mail-In Ballots Order

The Supreme Court exists to resolve disputes. It does not exist to clean up messes. That is the mood in which the Court today — in a 6–3 unsigned...

24.08.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

An Additional Word on the Common Good Debate

I do not have a whole lot more light to shed on the common good debate, but I think I owe Michael Brendan Dougherty and our readers a short reply to...

05.08.2026 20

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

When Polling Errors Aren’t Random

That Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate by (at this writing) less than a point, after the last five polls in the race all...

05.08.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Two Things That Will Struggle to Coexist in the AI Era

The stock market just keeps roaring ahead, as if the country and the global economic outlook were much more bullish than they are. A major reason is...

04.08.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Pete Buttigieg, Constitutional Arsonist

It's not just the self-identified socialists who aim openly to destroy the American constitutional system of government. And the evidence of this...

04.08.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Common Good Should Be Explained in Terms Clear to the Common Man

Finding common ground on the common good continues to be elusive. Allow me to add a few more words in reply to Michael Brendan Dougherty. If you are...

03.08.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

What Exactly Is the ‘Common Good’?

I’ve written on several occasions about the imprecision and dubious legitimacy of the "common good” as a theory of interpreting the...

31.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Why JD Vance Generates So Much Heat

On social media and in the commentariat, the right has spent the past few months in a sort of numb denial, talking about anything and everything but...

30.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Jews Must Do For Themselves, Publishing Edition

The internal controversy at PEN America shouldn’t obscure the original point that touched it off: that progressive mania about Gaza has so pervaded...

28.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

PEN America Has Lost Its Way

As Ramesh notes, PEN America is yet again in turmoil for straying from its mission, which is supposed to be the championing of the freedom of the...

27.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Maybe Don’t Believe the Polls?

Bill Scher at Washington Monthly is sounding the alarm from the establishment-liberal corner of the Democratic Party on an issue that is likely to...

24.07.2026 40

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Who Let the Non-Citizens onto New Jersey’s Voter Rolls?

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is blaming a computer error for thousands of non-citizens being added to the state’s voter rolls under...

24.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Legal Academy and Race Discrimination

Brian Fitzpatrick has a very telling anecdote in his defense of Louisiana v. Callais (2026) at SCOTUSBlog: This publication has been inundated with...

22.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

Supreme Court to Rule on the Cost of a Six Pack of Beer

Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to take an extremely Alaskan case that reads like something out of Smokey and the Bandit. As Amy Howe at...

21.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin

The Last Interesting Man in Washington

Lindsey Graham was the last truly interesting man in Washington. Even when you knew where he wanted to go, you never quite knew how he was going to...

12.07.2026 30

National Review

Dan McLaughlin