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January 6 Martyrology Is a Foolish Campaign Tactic

You would need a private investigator to find the voters who will head to the ballot box in November intent on clearing the January 6 rioters’ good names.

Supporters hold plackards as they attend a campaign event held by former president Donald Trump, in Clinton, Iowa, January 6, 2024.

NBC Cites a TikTok-Funded ‘Expert’

NBC has just published an article pushing TikTok’s talking points.

TikTok app is seen on a smartphone

New Guttmacher Data Purportedly Show Increasing Abortion Rates in 2023

New data from the Guttmacher Institute show an increase in the U.S. abortion rate since 2020, but there are reasons to be skeptical of the finding.

A patient prepares to take Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, at the Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Ill., April 20, 2023.

The New Lobotomies

Sex is real. It can’t be changed. Procedures that activists describe as resulting in ‘sex change’ are essentially sexual lobotomies.

A demonstrator holds a transgender flag at a protest in New York City, 2018.

Mike Pence Is the Man He Claimed to Be

He’ll never be president, but his reward for the choices he made during his career (and particularly near its end) is that history will judge him kindly.

Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Day Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, July 28, 2023.

Econception: Talking Chicken with Daniel Hannan

The latest episode of Econception, my podcast with the American Institute for Economic Research, dropped today. I talked to Daniel Hannan about why the chicken…

Cage-free hens at an egg farm in San Diego County, Calif., July 29, 2008.

The Supreme Court Reins In the No Fly List

The ruling ensures that anyone who’s earned his day in court can’t so easily be deprived of it just because the government doesn’t want to explain its actions.

U.S. Supreme Court Building

Independent and Third-Party Candidates Continue to Spook the Biden Coalition

Biden’s abysmal poll numbers have the Democratic National Committee worried about the threat of spoilers in 2024.

President Joe Biden looks on during a campaign event at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Ga., March 9, 2024.

Will France Be Next to Ban Puberty Blockers?

Transgender ideology has hit the iceberg of reality.

The Real Mother Cabrini

A review of the film Cabrini.

Cooke: Let’s Face It, Bloodbathgate Is Pure Tribalism 

‘He didn’t say without any context that there’d be a bloodbath if he lost.’

Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Erie, Pa., July 29, 2023.

Freedom vs. Tyranny, Cont.

Notes on NATO, Ukraine, Russia, etc.

Imposing martial law, Polish tanks enter the town of Zbąszyń on December 13, 1981.

The Bar Exam Begins to Fail Its Own Test

If the bar exam went away entirely, hardly anybody would miss it.

Republicans Are Right to ‘Fixate on Messy Afghanistan Withdrawal’

The Biden administration didn’t take responsibility for the failure then, and the president continues to make the same fundamental errors to this day.

U.S. Marines provide assistance at an Evacuation Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan, August 22, 2021.

Higher-Ed-Reform Efforts in Arizona

In quite a few non-blue states, we find higher-education-reform efforts moving forward.

Trump and Democracy

Not really accepting defeat vs. literally not accepting defeat; prospect vs. retrospect; catastrophes are breaks, not continuities.

Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Ga., March 9, 2024.

The Debt: Another Gray Rhino

The CBO isn’t looking for a financial crisis until 2053. That looks optimistic, but setting a precise alternate date is unwise.

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

Progressives Are Leading Joe Biden Astray, Again

This White House’s staff can’t seem to tolerate it when progressives experience even a moment of modest discomfort with their leadership.

President Joe Biden receives a briefing at the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, February 29, 2024.

If We Call Ukraine Aid a ‘Loan,’ Can the GOP Support It?

The key to unlocking desperately needed lethal aid for Ukraine in the GOP-led House seems to be finding a formulation that Donald Trump can accept.

New recruits of the First Da Vinci Wolves Separate Mechanized Battalion, named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo, attend a military excercise in an undisclosed location in central Ukraine, March 12, 2024.

Don’t Tolerate the Rewriting of Covid History

We won’t stand for it either.

A teacher works with students at the Sokolowski School in Chelsea, Mass., September 15, 2021.

The Loneliness Epidemic Extends to Middle-Aged Americans

That those who form the ‘backbone of our society’ have fallen victim to our loneliness epidemic is particularly troubling.

People walk through a tunnel to the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2023.

Blame the Phones

Staring into a machine designed to maximize user engagement is an easy way to miss out on life’s joys.

People look at their smartphones in New York City, May 8, 2019.

Abortion Rights vs. Abortion Bans: Can You Spot the Difference?

A 15-week ban would give women in the U.S. a more liberal ‘right’ than the one women in France are now celebrating.

Women's March activists attend a protest in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, in Washington, D.C., July 9, 2022.

More Whittaker Chambers Content

More thoughts on Whittaker Chambers and wheat allotments.

Whittaker Chambers in 1948

Is It Being ‘Down on D.C.’ to Recognize Its Problems?

Contra Mayor Muriel Bowser, recognizing the deteriorating quality of life in D.C. is an important step in addressing it.

District of Columbia mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during 'March For Our Lives' in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2022.

‘My Own Little Filibuster’: Joe Manchin Holds the Bipartisan Line with Judicial Nominees

The West Virginia Democrat is concluding his two years as the regent of the Senate on his own terms.

Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) delivers remarks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., November 1, 2021.

Biden’s Vehicle-Emissions Gaslighting

Subsidizing electric vehicles to compete with internal-combustion-engine cars is stealing from the future to reward yuppie liberals today.

President Joe Biden tests a new Ford F-150 electric truck in Dearborn, Mich., May 18, 2021.

‘The Parent Trap’

On episode 58 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, Charles talks to Tim Carney about his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be.

Two boys play atop a pile of snow at the end of a street in Union City, N.J., in 2016.

Another Doubtful Educational Improvement

Dual enrollment is one of those much-touted improvements in American education. Sounds good, but how well does it work?

Israel’s Critics Want an Israeli Victory without the War Part

There are irresolvable obstacles before a Palestinian state that are never addressed by its advocates.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023.

Confessing My Unbelief

We’ve seen some polls showing Trump’s small but somewhat astonishing inroads among black men. I’m skeptical of these polls, however.

Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Greensboro, N.C., March 2, 2024.

Leo’s Leap

In Ireland, Leo Varadkar is getting out of politics while the getting’s still good.

Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2024.

Industrial Policy and Electoral Politics

If you believe that the politicization of industrial policy will only afflict the leftist industrial policy, I have a subsidized bridge to sell you.

Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022.

Our Niche Is the Truth

If you’d like us to keep cutting through the media fog, please donate.

An Israeli soldier shows thumbs-up from a military vehicle while moving out of the Gaza Strip,amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, seen from southern Israel, January 15, 2024.

A Financial Lifeline for Trump?

Is Trump about to get a $3.5 billion windfall from the merger of his Truth Social platform with a public shell company? He sure needs it.

Former president Donald Trump holds a rally in advance of the New Hampshire presidential primary election in Rochester, N.H., January 21, 2024.

Chris Christie Not Ruling Out No Labels Run in 2024

‘I will do whatever I can to try to make sure that the country doesn’t go through the misery of a second Trump term,’ Christie said on David Axelrod’s podcast.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie speaks at a town hall event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester, N.H., June 6, 2023.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Is the Real Loser of Tuesday’s Primaries

He must have lost enough of his progressive coalition to make it truly sting, and all through his own cack-handedness.

Then-Cook County commissioner and mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson campaigns a day ahead of the runoff election in Chicago, Ill., April 3, 2023.

An Alternative to Doing Nothing about Foreign Subsidies

More Section 301 tariffs, as the United Steelworkers are requesting, isn’t the answer.

Solar panels are seen at a solar farm in Merced, Calif., August 17, 2022.

Any President Prior to Joe Biden Would Have Found This Intolerable 

The latest images of chaos at the border are terrible on the merits and politically devastating to Joe Biden.

Howard Buffett and a Helping Hand

On a podcast with Howard G. Buffett about Ukraine, America, poverty, and more.

A rescuer works at the site of a building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 21, 2024.

A Beautiful Tribute

This is going to stay with you for a long time.

The FTC Agrees: Government Weakens the Baby-Formula Market

When government steps between customers and producers, price signals stop working as they should.

Shelves with baby formula at a Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pa., June 2, 2022.

Why Bitcoin Will Take Over the World: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

An Uncommon Knowledge interview in which Armstrong explains the basics of how digital currencies work and responds to criticisms of cryptocurrency.

Blatant Falsehoods in CNN Trans Report

This is indefensible journalistic malpractice.

Bernie Sanders’s Dream

‘Bernie Sanders is trying to change American work culture.’

Sen. Bernie Sanders, (D., Vt.) questions former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm during a hearing to examine her nomination to be Secretary of Energy on Capitol Hill, January 27, 2021.

Yeah, Michael Cohen Should Be a Great Witness in Bragg’s Trump Trial

A Manhattan federal judge finds that Trump’s former ‘fixer’ has committed perjury . . . again.

Michael Cohen, former attorney for former president Donald Trump, attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York City, October 24, 2023.

How Good or Bad Are Online College Courses?

Online courses have had their enthusiastic advocates and gloomy nay-sayers from the beginning.

Biden’s Reelection Goals Increasingly Conflict with U.S. National Priorities

If Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s and Ukraine’s respective goals looks like the fair-weather sort come November, voters may conclude that we can do better.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on lowering costs for American families, in Las Vegas, Nev., March 19, 2024.

See You in Chicago for NR Institute’s Regional Seminar on April 11

Former VP Mike Pence and former AG Michael Mukasey will headline NRI’s Chicago seminar on the foundations of freedom.

Former vice president Mike Pence sits down with NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert for a town hall event at NewsNation's headquarters in Chicago, Ill., September 13, 2023.

Truth Social Merger Approved by Shareholders

This could help Trump out of his apparently dire financial straits.

Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Ga., March 9, 2024

Senator Durbin and the CDC

Senators Durbin and Welch, at a hearing earlier this week, made false claims about abortions late in pregnancy.

Representative Grace Meng Congratulates Pro-Chinese Communist Party Activist for His ‘Leadership’

Representative Grace Meng celebrated the ‘leadership’ of a pro-Chinese Communist Party activist at a banquet dinner celebration in New York last week.

Representative Grace Meng (D., N.Y.) speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., July 27, 2016.

Congratulations Ed Whelan!

Along with his work at NR, Ed’s contributions to the cause of originalism and preserving the Constitution have been immeasurable.

Dune’s Messiahs

Two critics of Dune: Part Two get parts of the movie wrong, one out of excess admiration and the other out of excess antipathy.

Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya in <i>Dune: Part Two</i>

How Two Countries on the Same Island Get Vastly Different Economic Results

Explaining the tragedy of Haiti and the thriving of the Dominican Republic comes down to property rights and incentives.

Houses pack a hillside in the Jalousie district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 3, 2023.

The Final Countdown

We’re planning on wrapping up the fundraiser on Monday, and we are hoping you would help us raise another $20,000 to close out our campaign.

<span style="font-variant:small-caps">National Review</span> founder William F. Buckley Jr.

Coffee-Shop Unions Aren’t as Popular as They Might Seem

The vast majority of American workers don’t want what organized labor is selling.

Members of the Starbucks Workers Union and other labor organizations picket and hold a rally outside a Starbucks store in New York City, November 16, 2023.

Combine Unchecked Power with Ideological Zealotry and You Get …

You get awful results. You get the Inquisition. You get Stalin’s purges. You get the Canadian medical establishment.

Nikole Hannah-Jones vs. Color-Blindness

Hannah-Jones believes in affirmative action as a form of redress for the ongoing harms of slavery and Jim Crow.

Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks during a rally to support a union walk out at the <i>New York Times</i> building in New York City, December 8, 2022.

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong about Retirement Savings, Too

‘Sanders’s statements . . . are so inaccurate as to be irresponsible.’

Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses an audience during a rally in support of striking United Auto Workers members in Detroit, Mich., September 15, 2023.

Baltimore Introduces Dollar Menu for Vacant Properties

The ‘Buy into BMore’ map shares some uncanny overlap with the Baltimore Police Department Crime Map.

Young boys ride their bikes past boarded-up and abandoned houses in Baltimore, Md., May 26, 2019.

Poor Kate

If her PR game has not been at its best recently, I think we can all cut her some slack.

Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales attend a ceremony in London, November 21, 2023.

Man Cuts Off Wife’s Head During a Cannabis-Induced Psychosis

Any drug that can induce such a response in a person ought to be taken seriously.

Covering Every Front in a Turbulent World

Please help sustain our mission with a contribution—every bit helps—to NR and/or NR Institute.

Migrants seeking asylum in the United States gather near the border wall after crossing a razor-wire fence deployed to inhibit their crossing into the United States, while members of the Texas National Guard stand guard, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, January 2, 2024.

‘Bipartisan Health-Care Hokum’

Why don’t the parties concentrate on items that would actually make health care better and less costly for ordinary people?

Putin and His Congratulators

Among those congratulating Vladimir Putin on his latest ‘election’ was Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán shakes hands with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Beijing, October 17, 2023.

Roll Chargers

Turns out Hillsdale College can produce more than just classical schoolteachers, lawyers, and journalists.

Oakland Golden Grizzlies guard Jack Gohlke jumps to shoot a three-pointer in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 21, 2024.

Utopian Visionaries Who Won’t Leave People Alone

The last thing you can ever say in Washington is, ‘Why not just leave people free to do what works best for them?’

The Met Life Tower (left) and Chrysler Building in Manhattan's midtown east skyline seen out the windows from the 54th floor of the 77-story One Vanderbilt office tower in midtown Manhattan, New York City, September 9, 2020.

Chinese Tanker Struck by Houthi Missile

The strike marks the first time that the Iran-backed Islamists have targeted Chinese property.

Houthi followers hold a cutout banner portraying the <i>Galaxy Leader</i> cargo ship which was seized by Houthis, during a parade as part of a "popular army" mobilization campaign by the movement in Sanaa, Yemen, February 7, 2024.

Bomb Mexico

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Americans’ fears that Mexico is exploiting mass immigration.

Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during his daily press conference in Acapulco, Mexico, December 20, 2023.

A Well-Run Community-College System

The “purple” state of North Carolina does a few things right. 

A New Study Purportedly Shows an Increase in the Demand for Chemical Abortions

Academic journals should not be publishing politicized studies to influence the outcomes of Supreme Court cases.

Misoprostol pills are put in envelopes at Alamo Women's Clinic in Albuquerque, N.M., January 10, 2023.

The Islamic State’s Terribly Inconvenient Terrorism

No one’s political agenda is advanced by the barbarism in Moscow. But terrorists don’t much care if their brutality is useful.

Russian president Vladimir Putin lights a candle in memory of the victims of the Crocus City Hall attack, on the day of national mourning in a church at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, March 24, 2024.

Is $90,000-Plus Too Much to Ask?

Please consider chipping in something, from $50 to $5,000, to help us close out this fundraiser on a successful note.

Unplugged

Reflections on being phone-free for four days.

Re: Unplugged

On a glorious week in September, 2016.

Components taken from iPhones, like these camera modules, are sorted for further processing after Daisy deconstructs them at an Apple recycling facility in Austin, Texas, August 21, 2019.

TikTok Bill Pits Legislator-Parents against App-Obsessed Children

A dangerous Chinese app has secured advocates among the children of the very legislators who may separate it from China’s government.

Biden’s Tax Cut for the Rich?

The administration’s proposed tax credits related to housing would mainly benefit people well above the median.

A Sims Movie?

Some of the team behind Barbie have their sights set on a film adaptation of the popular computer game. What might they do with the material?

Scene from the trailer for Electronic Arts' <i>The Sims 4</i> video game

The NHS Is Still Prescribing Cross-Sex Hormones

The battle of replacing transgender ideology with evidence-based medicine is just beginning.

Transgender rights protesters gather outside Downing Street in London, England, January 21, 2023.

Trump’s Imminent Criminal Trial: April 15 in Manhattan

Thoughts on developments at today’s hearing in Trump’s state criminal prosecution in Manhattan.

Former president Donald Trump comments for a pre-trial hearing on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, at Manhattan criminal court in New York City, March 25, 2024.

State Department Denies It Accused IDF of Sexually Abusing Palestinians

Israeli officials have referred to claims from U.N. rapporteurs and UNRWA as unsubstantiated and said Israel would investigate concrete allegations of abuse.

Outside the State Department Building in Washington, D.C.

Archivist Defends Constitution and Declaration against Vandals

It’s a relief to know these documents are in good hands.

Visitors view the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., in 2013.

Electric Vehicles: Volkswagen’s Woes

It’s not hard to see why Volkswagen wants EU regulators to ease up.

Volkswagen charging station at the Auto Shanghai Show in Shanghai, China, April 18, 2023

So Close to $100,000

Any amount makes a big difference, and helps ensure that this institution continues to survive and thrive.

<span style="font-variant:small-caps">National Review</span> founder William F. Buckley Jr.

The (Federal) Benefits of Marriage

We’re a very long way from too-generous government policies for stay-at-home parents.

The Girl Scouts, Saint Urho, and More

Reader mail on subjects familiar and less so.

A Girl Scout troop marching in a Veterans Day parade, Miami Beach, Fla.

Republicans Didn’t Underperform in 2022 Because Everyone Loves Joe Biden

You would not know from virtually any American cultural product that Joe Biden is one of the most unpopular presidents in living memory.

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Ga., March 9, 2024.

Ireland’s Hate Speech Law ‘Not Fit for Purpose’

The incredible about-face of Sinn Fein on this issue is notable.

Sinn Féin supporters hold a national flag as votes are counted in Ireland's national election in Dublin, February 9, 2020.

Enter the Harvard Salient’s Essay Contest

All high-school students (or homeschoolers enrolled in an equivalent grade) are eligible to participate in an essay contest run by Harvard’s student-run conservative paper.

The Zombie ‘Establishment GOP’ Problem

Danielle Pletka and David Drucker join Noah Rothman to discuss the state of the GOP establishment.

Cooke: Face It, the Attack on Ronna McDaniel Is Disingenuous 

‘They think we can’t see it.’

Then-Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel speaks at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee in Dana Point, Calif., January 27, 2023.

As Biden Turns on Israel, Trump Offers Mixed Signals

As is often the case, Trump’s odd way of speaking often creates more confusion about his ultimate positions than it clarifies. 

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with then-president Donald Trump at the White House, Washington, D.C., March 25, 2019.

Ponnuru: House Republicans Lack the Will to Live

‘A majority can be large or small and it can be united or fractious. And the Republicans are currently in the one quadrant that doesn’t work.’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) speaks with a reporter at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2023.

The Worst Cold War Documentary Ever Made, Part 2

The first three episodes are organized around the notion that the United States was the foremost belligerent in the Cold War.

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., December 8, 1987.

Will NBC Please Spare Us Their Sanctimony?

‘For my friends, everything; for my enemies — the law.’

From left to right: Rachel Maddow, Ronna McDaniel, and Chuck Todd

The Coming Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil, Part III

Open-borders advocates casually note that no one on the terror watch list who has crossed the border has committed a terrorist act on U.S. soil. Yet.

Texas State Troopers walk towards a fence after migrants broke through razor wire to enter the U.S., seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 21, 2024.

Senator Durbin’s Office Defends His Late-Abortion Comments

The senator left out reasons that women seek late-term abortions, such as difficulty coming up with the money and not being aware of the pregnancy.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in 2016.

Reagan Biopic to Release in Late August

Newly launched U.S. distributor ShowBiz Direct picked up the film, which will be the company’s debut release.

Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan with director Sean McNamara

House Wants Answers on $127 Million in Pension Payments to Dead Teamsters Members

Even Teamsters president Sean O’Brien said improper payments should be returned.

Sean M. O’Brien, International Brotherhood of Teamsters general president, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., November 14, 2023.

Is America Finally Ready to Make Needed Higher-Ed Changes?

Our higher-education system has been hijacked by the far left, but could it be that people have finally realized how bad things are?

Confessions of a ‘Double Hater’

Anti-Biden, anti-Trump voters should stick to our guns.

How First Responders Saved Lives before and after Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Even being able to rescue two of the workers in dark, cold water, 50 feet deep and strewn with mangled steel, is commendable. ‘Heroes’ is the right word here.

An emergency marine boat with divers works near the collapsed section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, after the <i>Dali</i> cargo vessel crashed into it, in Baltimore, Md., March 27, 2024.

The Gaza Pier Makes Less Sense with Each Passing Day

It’s hard to avoid the impression that Joe Biden’s plan to deploy the U.S. military to construct a humanitarian pier in Gaza wasn’t that well thought out.

Personnel board the U.S. Army Vessel (USAV) General Frank S. Besson (LSV-1) after President Biden announced the U.S. would provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., March 9, 2024.

Thank You!

Thank you for getting us over the top.

The Macy's Fourth of July fireworks explode behind a U.S. flag in New York City, July 4, 2021.

Republican Study Committee Budget Supports Ending Web Welfare

Letting the Affordable Connectivity Program expire is the right thing to do.

Rep. Kevin Hern (R., Okla.) departs after a House Republican candidates forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 23, 2023.

Road House Stumbles Despite Jake Gyllenhaal’s Physical Performance

Its critical flaw is a lackluster screenplay that produces an unremarkable supporting cast.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in <i>Roadhouse</i>.

Well, Well, Well . . . If It Isn’t the Consequences of Your Own Actions

Openly calling for the assassination of the president of the United States, as Hamza El Boudali has done, is newsworthy — and not just to the Secret Service.

A banner depicting President Joe Biden and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during a protest in Jordan, October 24, 2023.

$236 Billion in Improper Federal Payments in 2023, GAO Says

Just five government programs were responsible for most of these payments.

U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

Joe Biden, Liar Extraordinaire

The president’s decades-long practice of fabricating his life story and résumé is finally starting to get some attention.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Chavis Community Center in Raleigh, N.C., March 26, 2024.

Beware the ‘Right to Health’

Health and wellness are becoming the primary justifications for international technocracy.

Director-General of the World Health Organisation Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 12, 2024.

Abortion Robots: Welcome to Hell

The new wave of Roe-bots and abortion chatbots has just begun.

A demonstrator for abortion rights uses a megaphone during a protest outside the Supreme Court as justices hear oral arguments in a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to preserve broad access to the abortion pill, in Washington, D.C., March 26, 2024.

Pete Buttigieg Is a Hack

Buttigieg lets people who actually know how transportation works answer the transportation questions and takes the partisan political tasks for himself.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during a press briefing the day after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 27, 2024.

Monty Python, Call Your Office 

A video of pro-Hamas kids at Vanderbilt berating a black cop is like a spoof of entitled woke students.

On Senator Lieberman’s Passing

A great American patriot.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D., Conn.) waits for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) before a news conference with the Entertainment Software Rating Board  to launch a television campaign to encourage parents to use the video game ratings when buying games for their children, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 7, 2006.

Biden Buries ‘Bidenomics’ in a Shallow Grave on the South Lawn

Biden is right to bury Bidenomics, or else it may bury him.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 23, 2024.

Christie Rules Out Running with No Labels

Christie is only the latest high-profile politician to rule out running on the No Labels ticket.

In Alabama, a Legislative Seat Flips from Republican to Democrat

In Alabama, a Democrat wins a state legislative seat by a wide margin in a Republican-leaning district, but some important context is needed.

Democratic candidate Marilyn Lands looks for voter support in the suburbs of Huntsville, Ala., March 20, 2024.

Cesar Chavez Couldn’t Get the Feds to Enforce the Border, Either

This Sunday, March 31, isn’t just Easter — it’s also National Border Control Day, i.e., Cesar Chavez’s birthday.

Cesar Chavez in 1979

Sounds of Music, Etc.

Reader mail on a musical, a symphony, digital addiction, and more.

Images of Beethoven in Bonn, Germany, his hometown, May 15, 2019

Joe Lieberman: Edel

May his family find comfort among the many mourners of this gentle, sensitive, and refined man.

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) addresses the second session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., September 2, 2008.

Stop Wasting Money on DEI in Education

The Left is very good at using money taken from taxpayers to advance its agenda, and nowhere is that more evident than in our schools.

People walk past Columbia University in New York City, October 30, 2023.

Supreme Court Silly Season at Politico, Part One

Politico dove face-first into the shallow end of this pool with a pair of articles over the past week.

Members of the media set up their work area outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in former president Donald Trump's appeal of a lower court's ruling disqualifying him from the Colorado presidential primary ballot, in Washington, D.C., February 8, 2024.

Bankman-Fried Learns the Hard Way That Stealing to Make the World Better Is Still Stealing

That he believed himself to have been doing good makes his criminal behavior worse.

Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, arrives at Manhattan federal court in New York City, February 16, 2023.

The Brutal Murder of New York City Cop Jonathan Diller

Gunned down by a career criminal who should have been in prison, not on the city’s streets.

A portrait of late NYPD officer Jonathan Diller is pictured during a candlelight vigil at Brady Park in Massapequa, N.Y., March 27, 2024.

Supreme Court Silly Season at Politico, Part Two

The ‘one-weird-trick’ progressives are back.

Abortion rights demonstrators protest outside the United States Supreme Court as the court rules in the <i>Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization</i> abortion case, overturning the landmark <i>Roe v. Wade</i> abortion decision in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2022.

An Absolute Gimme for Trump

Trump went to the wake of Jonathan Diller, the heroic New York City police officer who was gunned down in cold blood.

Trump’s VP Options

Rich and Co., on today’s edition of The Editors, touch on what Trump might be looking for in a VP.

Former president Donald Trump holds a rally in advance of the New Hampshire presidential primary election in Rochester, N.H., January 21, 2024.

Steven Spielberg Likes Dune: Part Two

The legendary director has given Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic his approval.

Steven Spielberg attends the Nominees Luncheon for the 96th Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., February 12, 2024.

‘Extraordinary Leadership’: America’s China Lobby Heaps Praise on Xi Jinping

Despite what he said in the meeting, Xi is not nearly as enthusiastic about the pursuit of good-faith engagement as his American friends have suggested he is.

Chinese president Xi Jinping delivers a policy speech to Chinese and U.S. CEOs during a dinner reception in Seattle, Wash., September 22, 2015.

Biden’s Deceitful Betrayal of Israel

And he’s getting a pass from Donald Trump.

Announcing NR’s ChatBot: RightWingGPT

The chatbot pulls its source material from such thinkers as Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, G. K. Chesterton, and Roger Scruton.

Trump’s Affection for Cops Is His Most Redeeming Trait

The cops like Trump because he doesn’t look to make their jobs a Sisyphean task.

Former president Donald Trump speaks after attending a wake for New York City Police Department officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop on March 25 in the Far Rockaway section of Queens, at a funeral home in Massapequa Park, N.Y., March 28, 2024.

How American Higher Education Turned into ‘Conformity Colleges’

Traditional academic standards are falling while the ideological obsessions of progressivism and DEI take root, even in medical schools.

’16 and ’20, Revisited

On the question of election-denying.

President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016

The Cross Is the Only Intersection Worth Anything

The idea of intersectionality is divisive and self-indulgent, and it highlight our incompatibilities rather than our mutual bonds.

The Progressive Attack on Consumer Preference

The greatest obstacle to Joe Biden’s electric-vehicle mandate is you — and your damnable preferences.

The Challenge of Propaganda

On a conversation with Peter Pomerantsev about how to win, or lose, an information war.

Sefton Delmer in 1958

Parenthood Is a Conservative Value, Too

Why Nate Hochman is wrong about parental rights being a hollow abstraction.

Apple: Cook’s Chinese Tour

Cook can kowtow to the regime all he likes, but Beijing has a far broader nationalist and mercantilist agenda to pursue.

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the China Development Forum 2024 in Beijing, China, March 24, 2024.

About Biden’s Easter ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’

What Biden has done is malicious and wrongheaded but powerless before the love of God for His Creation that we celebrate on Easter Sunday.

President Joe Biden participates in a discussion moderated by Stephen Colbert during a campaign fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, March 28, 2024.

That Other High-Stakes Contest in North Carolina This Year

The Biden campaign adamantly insists that North Carolina is on its list of competitive swing states this cycle, but there are good reasons for skepticism.

Former president Donald Trump is introduced by North Carolina Republican Party chairman Michael Whatley before speaking at the North Carolina GOP convention dinner in Greenville, N.C., June 5, 2021.

Visibility?

Transgender people cannot simultaneously be distinct and indistinct from the sex or gender they wish to embody. 

New York’s Anti-Israel CHAZ Wannabes

Comrades in New York City have constructed an autonomous zone at Zuccotti Park in the Financial District.

Pro-Palestinians demonstrators gather around Zuccotti Park demanding a ceasefire, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during a protest in New York City, December 28, 2023.

Campus Protesters Tell Us a Lot about Themselves

Educated people don’t behave this way.

An Alleged Attack on the United States Isn’t the Time for Snark

How the West should respond to crippling attacks on U.S. officials is a matter for serious policy-makers. For now, we have unserious ones.

Senator J. D. Vance (R., Ohio) walks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2023.

Rejoice! You Are Living in the Golden Age of Fruit

The produce aisle has become a cavalcade of marvels that reliably delight the senses.

A shopper browses for fruits at a grocery store in Pasadena, Calif., June 11, 2020.

Is It ‘Inclusive’ to Speak of ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ Only in English?

The president must be mortified by the oversight.

President Joe Biden delivers an economic policy speech at The Old Post Office in Chicago, Ill., June 28, 2023.

Econception on How Trade Policy Is Made

A discussion about trade policy and who wins exemptions, protectionism for steel, and decentralized planning.

Trucks offload containers from ship at the port of Los Angeles Calif., July 16, 2018.

Scotland’s Next Farcical Frontier

Am I alone in finding this hilarious?

A women looks at Barbie and Ken dolls on display for sale in the Huber & Kosak antiquarian store in Vienna, Austria, August 2, 2023.

Net Zero: Trucks and Volts (2)

Yet more to consider about the government’s harmful, nonsensical mandates requiring electric heavy trucks.

Tesla unveils its new electric semi truck at a presentation in Hawthorne, Calif., in 2017.

‘Get Over Yourself’

Hillary Clinton displayed all the political skill for which she is famous in a Monday night appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Former secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at COP28 World Climate Summit, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4, 2023.

Welcome Home, Tammy Peterson

The Catholic Church received Tammy Peterson, Jordan Peterson’s wife, this Easter.

Princeton’s Nurseries

Charter students confirm what we already knew: ‘Safe spaces’ are nurseries that prohibit disagreement for the sake of intellectual and emotional soothing.

Students walk past Princeton University's Nassau Hall in Princeton, N.J.

What’s Wrong with Bidenomics?

Professor Nikolai Wenzel gets at the fundamental flaws of “Bidenomics.”

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

A column argues that assisted suicide will soon be seen as ‘socially responsible.’ It’s an argument to treat the most vulnerable among us as a killable caste.

Stolen-Election Litmus Tests Could Blacklist Competent Conservatives from Serving Trump

A party or movement that insists on cutting its ties with reality is choosing failure and abandoning any hope of delivering what it promises to its supporters.

Donald Trump looks on at a campaign event in Waterford Township, Mich., February 17, 2024.

Pence: TikTok Divestiture Bill Is ‘Consistent’ with the Trump Administration’s China Agenda

The former vice president’s advocacy group is rolling out a $2 million ad campaign in support of the bill.

Former vice president Mike Pence speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., October 28, 2023.

China’s Farmland Grab

Chinese purchases of American agricultural land increased 5,300 percent between 2010 and 2020.

The Left Has Broken Journalism. Can the Right Fix It?

Conservatives shouldn’t just complain about the media: They should start trying to change it.

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the press after a weekend in Delaware, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., February 19, 2024.

Where Abortion Stands in Ohio

With a state constitutional amendment that enshrines the right to abortion, pro-lifers in Ohio have their work cut out for them.

Rothman: Face It, the Biden Campaign Is Too Arrogant to Appeal to Disaffected Republicans

‘They cannot deign to address the concerns of voters who remain unconvinced.’

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Strath Haven Middle School in Wallingford, Pa., March 8, 2024.

Pro-Sports, Anti–Stadium Subsidies

Stadium subsidies are a bad deal for taxpayers.

Baseball fans stand during the national anthem before a game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Md., April 4, 2016.

Chinese Economic Decadence

The Chinese government’s vaunted economic stewardship is increasingly questionable.

People cross a street near office towers in the Lujiazui financial district ahead of the National People's Congress in Shanghai, China, February 28, 2023.

Big Day for Trump’s Presidential Records Act Defense in Florida Federal Prosecution

Has the former president’s defense gotten some traction with Judge Aileen Cannon?

Left: Former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Erie, Pa., July 29, 2023. Right: Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to reporters about the 37 federal charges returned by a grand jury in an indictment of former president Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., June 9, 2023.

Trying to Keep the Bubble Inflated, Colleges Try Direct Admissions

In today’s Martin Center article, Harrington Shaw explains what’s going on.

At the State Level, the National Political Landscape Benefits Trump

Eventually, voters’ negative impressions of Biden and his record will harden into something that no amount of slick advertising can overcome.

Left: President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event in Fort Liberty, N.C., June 9, 2023. Right: Former president Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event in Bedminster, N.J., June 13, 2023.

Oh, Look Who’s Leading in Almost All of the Swing States!

A new poll from the Wall Street Journal finds Trump holding leads of between 2 and 8 percentage points in six critical states.

Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., April 2, 2024.

Uber and Lyft Leaving Minneapolis Could Strand Progressives

Minnesota continues to face the bill for its hard lurch to the left.

A car drives past an Uber office at Redondo Beach, Calif., March 16, 2022.

Industrial Policy ‘Done Right’ Won’t Fix What Ails the U.S.

Industrial policy can direct money toward particular goals or industries, but it won’t deliver on the job promises made.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., April 19, 2023.

Does John Kirby Know Who He’s Working For?

Israel supporters are not entirely bereft of figures in the administration articulating a full-throated case in Jerusalem’s favor.

John Kirby, U.S. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, speaks to reporters during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 2, 2024.

She Thinks Podcast

Maddy Kearns discusses her Independent Women policy focus.

UCLA’s Med School Pushes Leftist Political Propaganda

Some officials in the medical school think it’s fine to compel busy students to waste their time on political propaganda.

McKinsey Pete Pushes Electric Cars

The technocrat in charge of the Department of Transportation disdains anyone who might prefer gas-powered cars as hopelessly antediluvian.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg tours the closed Hernando De Soto bridge in Memphis, Tenn., June 3, 2021.

The Immeasurable Stakes for Israel

Highbrow critiques of Netanyahu’s government may be as valid as they are irrelevant.

A banner depicting President Joe Biden and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during a protest in Jordan, October 24, 2023.

The Wrong Reason to Kill a Stadium Project

At George Mason University, the whiners won.

More Wokeness in Medicine

A prominent medical journal would prefer to blame preeclampsia on racism rather than on risk factors attributable to genetics and behavior.

Study: Most Gender-Confused Children become Gender-Conforming Adults

This data must be presented clearly and completely to parents and patients.

Saw Manufacturer Stumps for Regulatory Capture

There are a lot of fine ideas that have no business being mandatory.

Biden Is Losing to Trump — for Now

And what may remain to change that.

The Navy’s Woefully Tardy Frigates

We can’t build a boat, ship, or coracle to save our lives.

Ships of the U.S. Navy's Destroyer Squadron 23 — led by the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS <i>Russell</i> (DDG-59) — transit the Pacific Ocean, January 22, 2020.

Batter Up!

Reader mail on hitting in baseball; ‘guide rails,’ not ‘guardrails’; men named John Williams; and more.

Famed hitting coach Charlie Lau, at right, with two outstanding hitters: Hal McRae (left) and George Brett (middle).

Judge Merchan Abruptly Labels Trump Case ‘Federal Insurrection Matter’

The trial judge in Trump’s state criminal prosecution uses a legal opinion to peddle partisan Democratic campaign rhetoric.

Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., April 2, 2024.

Ben Rhodes Gives Away the Game

The Obama-era functionary’s ire was piqued by a report in Politico.

Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national-security advisor during Obama Administration, speaks during the Obama Foundation "Democracy Forum" in New York City, November 17, 2022.

Should College Students Ever Get Failing Grades?

When schools say that Fs may not be given, that further erodes the integrity of higher ed.

Princeton’s ‘Inclusive Private Club’ Reverses Policy

The decision is admirable, but the provided justification utterly evades accountability.  

Princeton University campus in Princeton, N.J., July 14, 2023

Andrew Roberts on Conflict: The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine

The historian talks about modern warfare, his support for Israel, and Ridley Scott’s mistake in saying that historians aren’t to be trusted.

Singing Spring

On a podcast of music, devoted to the new season.

In Central Park, New York City, March 24, 2024

Did the Biden Administration Fall for Russia’s Nuclear Propaganda?

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul charges the White House with failing to comprehend the logic of nuclear deterrence.

President Joe Biden attends a joint press conference with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, D.C., December 12, 2023.

The Great Party Switcheroo Continues

Is there any doubt that the GOP is now the party of rum, Romanism, and rebellion?

Buckley Documentary Eve

PBS will soon air its long-awaited documentary on William F. Buckley.

MBD: Israel Is Expected to Feed the Mouth That Bites It 

‘Israel is doing a very difficult job, very carefully, very sensitively.’

Palestinians carry aid as others struggle to receive their portion amid in Gaza City, April 3, 2024.

Pick One

Were the January 6 rioters duped by federal agents into engaging in mayhem, or were they patriots acting out of passion for the future of the country?

In Other Words, Lawfare Works

Let’s not pretend that the people who brought the cases against Donald Trump didn’t have agency and didn’t know what they were doing.

Godzilla x Kong Is Terrible

The mumbo-jumbo that’s supposed to explain what’s happening is utterly incomprehensible.

New York City Marathon Defeats Spiteful Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Sense prevails over spite as Governor Kathy Hochul overrules the MTA’s irrational demand that marathon organizers pay for lost toll revenue from the race.

Runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during the 2023 New York City Marathon, November 5, 2023.

Drama over Trump’s Presidential Records Act Defense in Florida Case

Judge Cannon fires back at Biden DOJ special counsel Jack Smith’s ‘unprecedented and unjust’ ‘demand.’

Left: Former president Donald Trump looks on as he attends the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, N.C., June 10, 2023. Right: U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives to make a statement to reporters about Trump's charges in Washington, D.C., June 9, 2023.

The New York Times Suffers a Cannon’s Broadside

There occurs now and then a journalistic accounting that is as marvelous as it is shocking.

Pedestrians walk by the <i>New York Times</i> building in New York City, December 8, 2022.

Boxing

On counting Americans by race and ethnicity.

Signs advertising the U.S. Census in Seattle, Wash., March 23, 2020
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