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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...
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...
Up in the Maine Democratic Senate primary battle, the Graham Platner campaign contends to Axios that the contest is already over, and that governor...
Over in the most recent issue of the print magazine, I wrote about Virginia’s new Democratic governor Abigail Spanberger, and concluded,...
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...
Ruy Teixeira, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of the 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, announces that his...
Back on March 8, my old traveling companion Kyle Orton wrote about the unlikelihood of a Venezuela scenario in Iran, and how it was unlikely that any...
Anybody who still believes that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a defender of Christian values is someone who wants to be fooled, and who is willfully...
The New York Times headline declares, “G.O.P. Bid to Target Transgender Athletes Falls Flat in the Senate.” Now, it did “fall flat” in the...
Today’s Morning Jolt notes the approximate location of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its carrier group in the eastern...
In the past few months, I’ve been particularly critical of President Trump’s comments on the economy, reiterating that you can’t spin people’s...
The U.S. federal government’s 2026 fiscal year began October 1, 2025. Since that date, 137 days have passed. On that date, the federal government...
President Trump in an interview with Brian Kilmeade of Fox News Radio, March 13: Kilmeade: You think Putin is helping [the Iranians]? Trump: I think...
Legendary conservative movement leader David Keene passed away March 8, at the age of 80 years. Here at NR, Grover Norquist wrote a beautiful tribute...
President Trump habitually publicly describes our European allies with thinly veiled contempt. (“Most European, nations, uh, they’re decaying....
Jonathan Martin of Politico wrote a long piece on Kamala Harris’ book tour, now having lasted than her actual presidential campaign, 166 days to...
I will believe that the MAGA crowd genuinely is concerned about the wrongdoing of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates when Epstein biographer, public...
I would have figured, if you’re the Iranian regime, and you have sleeper agents or sleeper cells on U.S. soil, and you find yourself in an all-out...
I would not pretend to be a constitutional scholar when it comes to Iran, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is just about the last expert I would cite...
In early February, Vogue‘s Maya Singer wrote a profile of California governor Gavin Newsom that described the governor as “embarrassingly...
Democrats have not won a statewide election in Texas since 1994. From 2002 to 2020, predictions that Texas will “turn blue” and elect a Democrat...
Iran Watch wrote on January 26, “Israeli officials reportedly estimated the size of Iran’s remaining arsenal to be 1,500 missiles and 200...
An ironic detail in the developments of the Pentagon’s ongoing fight with Anthropic about how it can use the company’s artificial intelligence,...
Axios writes that President Trump has “attacked seven nations, three of which — Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela — had never been targeted by U.S....
The Morning Jolt, back on January 12: If the U.S. wanted to target the parts of the regime that are most directly attacking the protesters, it would...
One: Forty-six days after Trump posted on Truth Social to the protesters, “help is on its way,” U.S. military airstrikes against Iran began. Much...
I suspect there is a giant sign in the campaign headquarters of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, counting the number of days since...
A week ago, the Morning Jolt noted the World Economic Forum was investigating CEO Børge Brende for his friendship with Epstein. “He denied...
President Trump told Larry Kudlow earlier this month, “in theory, we’ve gotten everything passed that we need,” and he has no interest in a...
On August 23, 2023, in the small Ukrainian city of Kovel, not far from the Belarussian border, I interviewed “Wolf,” a commander in one of...
“It’s my opinion that the [Supreme] Court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever...
The Supreme Court striking down Trump’s tariffs made me think of this comment from the president, a bit more than a month ago, in an Oval Office...
In 1982, the U.S. government under President Ronald Reagan was attempting to navigate a tense moment among the U.S., the people’s Republic of China,...
The Incite Institute, a social science research center at Columbia University, is releasing a new oral history of the Obama presidency. Judging from...
Monday’s Morning Jolt noted the lack of American ire at American-born, Chinese-competing freestyle skier Eileen Gu, compared to, say, U.S. skier...
The University of New Mexico Hospital removed former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s name from one of its buildings, but insisted it had...
From the January 12 edition of the Morning Jolt, entitled, “How to Help the Iranian People”: Up until last year, the U.S. State Department...