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National Review

Rich Lowry

Women’s basketball is out to destroy superstar Caitlin Clark — and itself, too

Caitlin Clark is a generational talent in women's professional basketball — but the WNBA has treated the Indiana Fever star like a virus that the...

07.07.2026 4

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Karl Marx knew what the DSA doesn’t. America hates socialism

If the Democratic Socialists' movement succeeds, it will do it by running against the grain of American tradition and mores.

06.07.2026 10

New York Post

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Who Is Going to Be Next to Donate $1,776 to Our July 4 Fundraiser?

At NR, we’ve always been proud to be a star-spangled organization in a frankly patriotic cause — defending this country from smears and radical...

03.07.2026 10

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Mamdani’s Israel dodge is nothing but bad faith and hypocrisy

Zohran Mamdani is trying to justify his blatant anti-Israel stance — but his purported universalism is a pretext, a way to dress up his irrational...

30.06.2026 7

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‘Temporary’ deportation shield for immigrants has always been a total farce

The Temporary Protected Status program for immigrants has long been a one-way ratchet — always extended but never revoked — that's made a mockery...

28.06.2026 8

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Trump’s three big retreats lay bare the limits of his power

If the theme of the first year of Trump's second term was aggression on all fronts, his second year has so far been defined by significant retreats.

23.06.2026 3

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The one growing gap between Dems and Republicans that shouldn’t ever exist — patriotism

A new NBC News poll captured the partisan gap over pride in America.

19.06.2026 20

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The one thing that played no role in Karmelo Anthony’s murder of Austin Metcalf

The case has garnered national attention entirely for its racial angle.

12.06.2026 10

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Democrats’ Gaza genocide claims reveal the depths of their depravity

Progressive Democrats and radical influencers are reveling in a grotesque libel: accusing the Jewish state of genocide, the same enormity that...

10.06.2026 20

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Rich Lowry

Democrats’ Supreme Court threat puts the United States in mortal danger

Should they sweep in 2028, Democrats are vowing they'll push the American constitutional order past an event horizon from which it will never return.

05.06.2026 10

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Britain banned the odious Hasan Piker — now far-left influencer gets to play the victim

In an open society, official hostility tends to make targeted voices more famous and interesting, whether it’s James Joyce, the Sex Pistols — or...

02.06.2026 30

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James Talarico’s desperate drive to detransition from his woke past

Anyone who has relied on the Texas senatorial candidate for theological guidance might be experiencing whiplash.

30.05.2026 20

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AOC’s ‘dirty water’ trick feeds the left’s delusional data-center panic

The left's fight against data centers is a moral panic — except there's nothing moral about sabotaging America's AI race with China based on...

28.05.2026 10

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Why DNC’s belated 2024 election ‘autopsy’ term paper warrants a ‘D’ grade

Under pressure, the DNC finally released its autopsy of the 2024 election, after rampant speculation about what it contained and why it hadn’t yet...

21.05.2026 10

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Rich Lowry

‘The Odyssey’ sparks classic duels over race, casting — and fairness

What’s good for Lupita Nyong'o should be good for Scarlett Johansson, and vice versa — but Hollywood wants to put its finger on the scale.

19.05.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

How our schools’ foolishness is courting ‘civilizational failure’

Our children aren’t learning to read — first because we’ve forgotten how to teach them, then because we're outsourcing their education to screens.

15.05.2026 10

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Socialist AOC targets billionaires — and aims to make us all poorer

Typical: Socialist AOC is taking a strength of American society — its openness to talent and innovation — and portraying it as a fundamental problem.

13.05.2026 20

New York Post

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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson is hell-bent on destroying the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s decision in a landmark gerrymandering case makes leftists — including one of the court's own justices — even more determined...

08.05.2026 30

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Rich Lowry

Democrats’ fingerprints are all over the Spirit Airlines crime scene

The demise of Spirit Airlines was wanton economic destruction masquerading as antitrust enforcement.

05.05.2026 20

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Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of ‘Drill, baby, drill’

The Western hemisphere stands to gain from the Iran crisis, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz underlines the inherent risks of reliance on Middle...

03.05.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of ‘Drill, baby, drill’

The Western hemisphere stands to gain from the Iran crisis, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz underlines the inherent risks of reliance on Middle...

01.05.2026 20

New York Post

Rich Lowry

So Close to Our Final $175,000 Goal — Please, Help Us Get There

Here we go again! Once again, we’ve run a webathon. Once again, you’ve responded in an amazing fashion. And, I’m hoping, once again, you’ll...

30.04.2026 20

National Review

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Trump’s defiance of assassins shows why he’s so exceptional a history-maker

President Trump's omnipresence, ambition and willingness to exercise power are making him one of the most dominant figures in American political...

29.04.2026 60

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Hasan Piker’s ‘cool crimes’ chatter exposes the left’s toxic rage

Is robbing the Louvre a good idea?

24.04.2026 50

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Michigan’s ‘Dearborn Democrats’ herald the Islamization of US politics

The trend will tie the Democratic Party even closer to campus radicalism — and will leave many Jewish Democrats politically homeless.

21.04.2026 20

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Rich Lowry

Can You Help Us Reach $100,000?

I’m guessing that our occasional webathons aren’t your favorite product here at NR, but they are very important to us and it’s always amazing...

21.04.2026 20

National Review

Rich Lowry

Here’s what Code Pink and Pope Leo get wrong about war

Military conflict is, at times, necessary and highly consequential; it can achieve beneficent ends, as well as awful ones.

17.04.2026 30

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Pope Leo needs to brush up his Bible — and its lessons on war and peace

The Bible is not an injunction for pacifism, and it doesn’t entail a condemnation of the Iran war.

14.04.2026 20

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How San Francisco is licking crime — and offering hope forAmerica

Unlike some of the city’s other adventures, this one is actually working out.

11.04.2026 60

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Why Trump’s huge $1.5T defense budget is worth every penny

It reflects a correct assessment of what should be the federal government’s priority — not funding social services, but providing for the common...

07.04.2026 40

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Why the Artemis II mission is exciting everyone so much

BBC science editor Rebecca Morelle, who was covering the launch of Artemis II, couldn’t contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread...

04.04.2026 40

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Rich Lowry

Gulf states’ Iran battle scars push them closer to Trump — and Israel

There’s no insurance policy against having a fanatic millenarian state as a neighbor.

31.03.2026 50

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What Jimmy Kimmel gets wrong about ‘plumbers’ like Markwayne Mullin

The late-night host took a shot at newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who used to run a plumbing business.

27.03.2026 20

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Why rescuing Christopher Columbus redeems America, too

Happy ending: An act of destruction seeking to change our public landscape and the story we tell about ourselves has been resisted and reversed.

23.03.2026 50

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Nobody owns Donald Trump — including his Israel-hating ex-allies

We have never had a president who is so thoroughly his own man as Donald Trump.

19.03.2026 30

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Why freeing the Strait of Hormuz is America’s burden to bear

Guarding the safe passage of commerce has been a core Anglo-American commitment for a couple of centuries, so this fight is on us.

17.03.2026 40

New York Post

Rich Lowry

I Love America, but . . .

. . . that call to end the game last night was a total disgrace. To have a Dominican hitter, Geraldo Perdomo, fight one of the best relievers in...

16.03.2026 30

National Review

Rich Lowry

Damn Strait

This, from the New York Times, captures the problem with the Strait of Hormuz in a nutshell: At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated...

16.03.2026 40

National Review

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Dire Strait

The CNN report the other day that the administration didn’t properly plan for a closure of the Strait of Hormuz has come in for heavy criticism. My...

14.03.2026 30

National Review

Rich Lowry

Trump is obliterating Obama’s Iran-appeasement plan — to America’s benefit

But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs so directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran War.

13.03.2026 40

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Mamdani gets mugged by reality — after ISIS bombers target NYC

The mayor’s narrative of Islamic victimhood runs so deep that it's presumably hard for him to process that two Muslim men were more hateful than...

09.03.2026 50

New York Post

Rich Lowry

‘Self-serving glory hound’ Kristi Noem got the heave-ho she deserved

Incompetent and preposterously self-promoting, Noem took a serious role and made it like something out of the HBO political spoof “Veep.”

05.03.2026 50

New York Post

Rich Lowry

Bring on the Golden Dome — with Iran war, the age of missile defense is here

The conflict with Iran is putting US and Israeli missile defenses to the ultimate test.

03.03.2026 40

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Rich Lowry

Candace Owens hits new low with ‘depraved’ Erika Kirk conspiracy madness

It’s impossible to discredit Candace Owens — because she's not in the credibility business to begin with.

27.02.2026 40

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Rich Lowry

Patriotism and its enemies — the Jack Hughes-Eileen Gu Olympics debate

The Olympics bring athletes around the world together, but the Games themselves are testament to the enduring power of patriotism.

25.02.2026 80

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Amid Olympics, new documentary recalls America’s Miracle on Ice — and what ‘The Boys of ‘80’ won for red, white and blue

Amid this year’s Winter Olympics, Netflix's new documentary, “Miracle: The Boys of ’80,” recalls the victory of the gold-medal-winning US...

19.02.2026 100

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Rich Lowry

AOC’s ignorant slam of Marco Rubio’s Munich speech proves she’ll never be ready for prime time

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did a star turn at the Munich Security Conference, and her appearances went about as well as you’d expect of a celebrity...

17.02.2026 1000

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Olympian Eileen Gu’s decision to snub US and ski for China is nothing short of a hypocrisy

It isn’t easy being Eileen Gu.

13.02.2026 100

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Rich Lowry

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 halftime show made history — in all the wrong ways

For the first time ever, the NFL gave its stage to a performer who sought to put the country in its place.

11.02.2026 70

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