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Announcing NR’s ChatBot: RightWingGPT

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 28th 2024 at 22:14
The chatbot pulls its source material from such thinkers as Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, G. K. Chesterton, and Roger Scruton.

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Biden’s Deceitful Betrayal of Israel

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 28th 2024 at 18:26
And he’s getting a pass from Donald Trump.
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‘Extraordinary Leadership’: America’s China Lobby Heaps Praise on Xi Jinping

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn — March 28th 2024 at 18:11
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.
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Steven Spielberg Likes Dune: Part Two

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler — March 28th 2024 at 16:19
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.
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Trump’s VP Options

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte — March 28th 2024 at 15:25
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.
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An Absolute Gimme for Trump

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 28th 2024 at 14:52
Trump went to the wake of Jonathan Diller, the heroic New York City police officer who was gunned down in cold blood.
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Supreme Court Silly Season at Politico, Part Two

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 28th 2024 at 14:43
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.
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The Brutal Murder of New York City Cop Jonathan Diller

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 28th 2024 at 14:17
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.
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Bankman-Fried Learns the Hard Way That Stealing to Make the World Better Is Still Stealing

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 28th 2024 at 11:54
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.
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Supreme Court Silly Season at Politico, Part One

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 28th 2024 at 11:19
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.
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Stop Wasting Money on DEI in Education

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 28th 2024 at 11:17
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.
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Joe Lieberman: Edel

By: David Klinghoffer · David Klinghoffer — March 28th 2024 at 09:34
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.
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Sounds of Music, Etc.

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 28th 2024 at 08:25
Reader mail on a musical, a symphony, digital addiction, and more.

Images of Beethoven in Bonn, Germany, his hometown, May 15, 2019
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Cesar Chavez Couldn’t Get the Feds to Enforce the Border, Either

By: Mark Krikorian · Mark Krikorian — March 28th 2024 at 07:31
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
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In Alabama, a Legislative Seat Flips from Republican to Democrat

By: Michael J. New · Michael J. New — March 28th 2024 at 06:16
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.
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Christie Rules Out Running with No Labels

By: Audrey Fahlberg · Audrey Fahlberg — March 27th 2024 at 22:34
Christie is only the latest high-profile politician to rule out running on the No Labels ticket.
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Biden Buries ‘Bidenomics’ in a Shallow Grave on the South Lawn

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 27th 2024 at 22:31
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.
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On Senator Lieberman’s Passing

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 27th 2024 at 20:37
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.
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Monty Python, Call Your Office 

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 27th 2024 at 18:11
A video of pro-Hamas kids at Vanderbilt berating a black cop is like a spoof of entitled woke students.
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Pete Buttigieg Is a Hack

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 27th 2024 at 17:11
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.
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Abortion Robots: Welcome to Hell

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — March 27th 2024 at 16:38
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.
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Beware the ‘Right to Health’

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — March 27th 2024 at 15:04
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.
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Joe Biden, Liar Extraordinaire

By: Haley Strack · Haley Strack — March 27th 2024 at 14:50
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.
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$236 Billion in Improper Federal Payments in 2023, GAO Says

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 27th 2024 at 13:59
Just five government programs were responsible for most of these payments.

U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
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Well, Well, Well . . . If It Isn’t the Consequences of Your Own Actions

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar — March 27th 2024 at 13:37
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.
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Road House Stumbles Despite Jake Gyllenhaal’s Physical Performance

By: Giancarlo Sopo · Giancarlo Sopo — March 27th 2024 at 11:53
Its critical flaw is a lackluster screenplay that produces an unremarkable supporting cast.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in <i>Roadhouse</i>.
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Republican Study Committee Budget Supports Ending Web Welfare

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 27th 2024 at 11:30
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.
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Thank You!

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 27th 2024 at 11:17
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.
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The Gaza Pier Makes Less Sense with Each Passing Day

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 27th 2024 at 11:09
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.
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How First Responders Saved Lives before and after Baltimore Bridge Collapse

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 27th 2024 at 11:02
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.
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Confessions of a ‘Double Hater’

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 27th 2024 at 09:58
Anti-Biden, anti-Trump voters should stick to our guns.
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Is America Finally Ready to Make Needed Higher-Ed Changes?

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 27th 2024 at 09:08
Our higher-education system has been hijacked by the far left, but could it be that people have finally realized how bad things are?
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House Wants Answers on $127 Million in Pension Payments to Dead Teamsters Members

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 26th 2024 at 19:35
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.
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Reagan Biopic to Release in Late August

By: David Zimmermann · David Zimmermann — March 26th 2024 at 18:07
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
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Senator Durbin’s Office Defends His Late-Abortion Comments

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 26th 2024 at 17:40
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.
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The Coming Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil, Part III

By: Peter Kirsanow · Peter Kirsanow — March 26th 2024 at 16:49
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.
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Will NBC Please Spare Us Their Sanctimony?

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar — March 26th 2024 at 14:42
‘For my friends, everything; for my enemies — the law.’

From left to right: Rachel Maddow, Ronna McDaniel, and Chuck Todd
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The Worst Cold War Documentary Ever Made, Part 2

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 26th 2024 at 14:30
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.
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Ponnuru: House Republicans Lack the Will to Live

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte — March 26th 2024 at 14:08
‘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.
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As Biden Turns on Israel, Trump Offers Mixed Signals

By: Philip Klein · Philip Klein — March 26th 2024 at 13:52
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.
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Cooke: Face It, the Attack on Ronna McDaniel Is Disingenuous 

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte — March 26th 2024 at 13:20
‘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.
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The Zombie ‘Establishment GOP’ Problem

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 26th 2024 at 12:18
Danielle Pletka and David Drucker join Noah Rothman to discuss the state of the GOP establishment.
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Enter the Harvard Salient’s Essay Contest

By: Alexander Hughes · Alexander Hughes — March 26th 2024 at 10:51
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.
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Ireland’s Hate Speech Law ‘Not Fit for Purpose’

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty — March 26th 2024 at 10:11
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.
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Republicans Didn’t Underperform in 2022 Because Everyone Loves Joe Biden

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 26th 2024 at 09:33
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.
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The Girl Scouts, Saint Urho, and More

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 26th 2024 at 09:28
Reader mail on subjects familiar and less so.

A Girl Scout troop marching in a Veterans Day parade, Miami Beach, Fla.
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The (Federal) Benefits of Marriage

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 26th 2024 at 09:24
We’re a very long way from too-generous government policies for stay-at-home parents.

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So Close to $100,000

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 26th 2024 at 08:52
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.
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Electric Vehicles: Volkswagen’s Woes

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — March 26th 2024 at 07:29
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
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Archivist Defends Constitution and Declaration against Vandals

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 25th 2024 at 22:47
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.
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State Department Denies It Accused IDF of Sexually Abusing Palestinians

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn — March 25th 2024 at 18:47
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.
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Trump’s Imminent Criminal Trial: April 15 in Manhattan

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 25th 2024 at 18:28
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.
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The NHS Is Still Prescribing Cross-Sex Hormones

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns — March 25th 2024 at 17:41
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.
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A Sims Movie?

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler — March 25th 2024 at 17:39
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
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Biden’s Tax Cut for the Rich?

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 25th 2024 at 17:20
The administration’s proposed tax credits related to housing would mainly benefit people well above the median.

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TikTok Bill Pits Legislator-Parents against App-Obsessed Children

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler — March 25th 2024 at 15:09
A dangerous Chinese app has secured advocates among the children of the very legislators who may separate it from China’s government.

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Re: Unplugged

By: Charles C. W. Cooke · Charles C. W. Cooke — March 25th 2024 at 14:48
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.
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Unplugged

By: Abigail Anthony · Abigail Anthony — March 25th 2024 at 13:31
Reflections on being phone-free for four days.

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

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 25th 2024 at 12:46
Please consider chipping in something, from $50 to $5,000, to help us close out this fundraiser on a successful note.

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The Islamic State’s Terribly Inconvenient Terrorism

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 25th 2024 at 12:12
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.
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A New Study Purportedly Shows an Increase in the Demand for Chemical Abortions

By: Michael J. New · Michael J. New — March 25th 2024 at 11:26
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.
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A Well-Run Community-College System

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 25th 2024 at 10:52
The “purple” state of North Carolina does a few things right. 
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Bomb Mexico

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 24th 2024 at 22:56
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.
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Chinese Tanker Struck by Houthi Missile

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 24th 2024 at 22:47
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.
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Utopian Visionaries Who Won’t Leave People Alone

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 24th 2024 at 13:10
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.
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Roll Chargers

By: Haley Strack · Haley Strack — March 23rd 2024 at 19:16
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.
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Putin and His Congratulators

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 23rd 2024 at 18:22
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.
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‘Bipartisan Health-Care Hokum’

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 23rd 2024 at 14:01
Why don’t the parties concentrate on items that would actually make health care better and less costly for ordinary people?

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Covering Every Front in a Turbulent World

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 23rd 2024 at 10:19
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.
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Man Cuts Off Wife’s Head During a Cannabis-Induced Psychosis

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns — March 23rd 2024 at 08:43
Any drug that can induce such a response in a person ought to be taken seriously.
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Poor Kate

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns — March 22nd 2024 at 17:34
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.
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Baltimore Introduces Dollar Menu for Vacant Properties

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — March 22nd 2024 at 15:46
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.
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Bernie Sanders Is Wrong about Retirement Savings, Too

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 22nd 2024 at 15:28
‘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.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones vs. Color-Blindness

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 22nd 2024 at 15:01
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.
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Combine Unchecked Power with Ideological Zealotry and You Get …

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 22nd 2024 at 14:54
You get awful results. You get the Inquisition. You get Stalin’s purges. You get the Canadian medical establishment.
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Coffee-Shop Unions Aren’t as Popular as They Might Seem

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 22nd 2024 at 13:41
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.
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The Final Countdown

By: Philip Klein · Philip Klein — March 22nd 2024 at 13:00
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.
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How Two Countries on the Same Island Get Vastly Different Economic Results

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 22nd 2024 at 12:44
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.
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Dune’s Messiahs

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler — March 22nd 2024 at 12:20
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>
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Congratulations Ed Whelan!

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 22nd 2024 at 11:06
Along with his work at NR, Ed’s contributions to the cause of originalism and preserving the Constitution have been immeasurable.
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Representative Grace Meng Congratulates Pro-Chinese Communist Party Activist for His ‘Leadership’

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn — March 22nd 2024 at 10:31
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.
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Senator Durbin and the CDC

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 22nd 2024 at 10:23
Senators Durbin and Welch, at a hearing earlier this week, made false claims about abortions late in pregnancy.
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Truth Social Merger Approved by Shareholders

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 22nd 2024 at 10:17
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
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See You in Chicago for NR Institute’s Regional Seminar on April 11

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 22nd 2024 at 09:33
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.
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Biden’s Reelection Goals Increasingly Conflict with U.S. National Priorities

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 22nd 2024 at 08:33
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.
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How Good or Bad Are Online College Courses?

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 22nd 2024 at 07:52
Online courses have had their enthusiastic advocates and gloomy nay-sayers from the beginning.
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Yeah, Michael Cohen Should Be a Great Witness in Bragg’s Trump Trial

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 21st 2024 at 19:50
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.
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Bernie Sanders’s Dream

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte — March 21st 2024 at 18:05
‘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.
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Blatant Falsehoods in CNN Trans Report

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns — March 21st 2024 at 17:59
This is indefensible journalistic malpractice.
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Why Bitcoin Will Take Over the World: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

By: Peter Robinson · Peter Robinson — March 21st 2024 at 17:39
An Uncommon Knowledge interview in which Armstrong explains the basics of how digital currencies work and responds to criticisms of cryptocurrency.

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The FTC Agrees: Government Weakens the Baby-Formula Market

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 21st 2024 at 17:31
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.
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A Beautiful Tribute

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns — March 21st 2024 at 16:34
This is going to stay with you for a long time.
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Howard Buffett and a Helping Hand

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 21st 2024 at 15:36
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.
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Any President Prior to Joe Biden Would Have Found This Intolerable 

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 21st 2024 at 15:22
The latest images of chaos at the border are terrible on the merits and politically devastating to Joe Biden.
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An Alternative to Doing Nothing about Foreign Subsidies

By: Veronique de Rugy · Veronique de Rugy — March 21st 2024 at 14:57
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.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Is the Real Loser of Tuesday’s Primaries

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar — March 21st 2024 at 14:00
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.
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Chris Christie Not Ruling Out No Labels Run in 2024

By: Audrey Fahlberg · Audrey Fahlberg — March 21st 2024 at 12:36
‘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.
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A Financial Lifeline for Trump?

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 21st 2024 at 12:31
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.
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Our Niche Is the Truth

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 21st 2024 at 12:15
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.
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Industrial Policy and Electoral Politics

By: Veronique de Rugy · Veronique de Rugy — March 21st 2024 at 11:00
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.
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Leo’s Leap

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty — March 21st 2024 at 10:47
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.
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Confessing My Unbelief

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty — March 21st 2024 at 10:25
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.
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Israel’s Critics Want an Israeli Victory without the War Part

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 21st 2024 at 10:22
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.
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Another Doubtful Educational Improvement

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 21st 2024 at 08:09
Dual enrollment is one of those much-touted improvements in American education. Sounds good, but how well does it work?
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‘The Parent Trap’

By: Charles C. W. Cooke · Charles C. W. Cooke — March 21st 2024 at 06:43
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.
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Biden’s Vehicle-Emissions Gaslighting

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 20th 2024 at 22:11
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.
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‘My Own Little Filibuster’: Joe Manchin Holds the Bipartisan Line with Judicial Nominees

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 20th 2024 at 22:05
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.
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Is It Being ‘Down on D.C.’ to Recognize Its Problems?

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler — March 20th 2024 at 16:27
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.
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More Whittaker Chambers Content

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 20th 2024 at 15:49
More thoughts on Whittaker Chambers and wheat allotments.

Whittaker Chambers in 1948
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Abortion Rights vs. Abortion Bans: Can You Spot the Difference?

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — March 20th 2024 at 15:17
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.
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Blame the Phones

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 20th 2024 at 15:00
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.
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The Loneliness Epidemic Extends to Middle-Aged Americans

By: Frank Filocomo · Frank Filocomo — March 20th 2024 at 12:57
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.
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Don’t Tolerate the Rewriting of Covid History

By: Judson Berger · Judson Berger — March 20th 2024 at 11:23
We won’t stand for it either.

A teacher works with students at the Sokolowski School in Chelsea, Mass., September 15, 2021.
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If We Call Ukraine Aid a ‘Loan,’ Can the GOP Support It?

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 20th 2024 at 10:00
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.
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Progressives Are Leading Joe Biden Astray, Again

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 20th 2024 at 08:47
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.
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The Debt: Another Gray Rhino

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — March 20th 2024 at 07:50
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.
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Trump and Democracy

By: Jason Lee Steorts · Jason Lee Steorts — March 19th 2024 at 08:44
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.
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Higher-Ed-Reform Efforts in Arizona

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 20th 2024 at 07:34
In quite a few non-blue states, we find higher-education-reform efforts moving forward.
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Republicans Are Right to ‘Fixate on Messy Afghanistan Withdrawal’

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 19th 2024 at 23:29
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.
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The Bar Exam Begins to Fail Its Own Test

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 19th 2024 at 18:20
If the bar exam went away entirely, hardly anybody would miss it.

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Freedom vs. Tyranny, Cont.

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 19th 2024 at 16:02
Notes on NATO, Ukraine, Russia, etc.

Imposing martial law, Polish tanks enter the town of Zbąszyń on December 13, 1981.
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Cooke: Let’s Face It, Bloodbathgate Is Pure Tribalism 

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte — March 19th 2024 at 15:13
‘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.
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The Real Mother Cabrini

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns — March 19th 2024 at 14:52
A review of the film Cabrini.
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Will France Be Next to Ban Puberty Blockers?

By: Madeleine Kearns · Madeleine Kearns — March 19th 2024 at 14:50
Transgender ideology has hit the iceberg of reality.
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Independent and Third-Party Candidates Continue to Spook the Biden Coalition

By: Audrey Fahlberg · Audrey Fahlberg — March 19th 2024 at 13:50
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.
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The Supreme Court Reins In the No Fly List

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 19th 2024 at 13:28
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
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Econception: Talking Chicken with Daniel Hannan

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 19th 2024 at 12:42
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.
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Mike Pence Is the Man He Claimed to Be

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar — March 19th 2024 at 12:41
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.
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The New Lobotomies

By: Abigail Anthony · Abigail Anthony — March 19th 2024 at 11:55
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.
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New Guttmacher Data Purportedly Show Increasing Abortion Rates in 2023

By: Michael J. New · Michael J. New — March 19th 2024 at 11:35
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.
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NBC Cites a TikTok-Funded ‘Expert’

By: Jimmy Quinn · Jimmy Quinn — March 19th 2024 at 11:17
NBC has just published an article pushing TikTok’s talking points.

TikTok app is seen on a smartphone
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January 6 Martyrology Is a Foolish Campaign Tactic

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 19th 2024 at 09:50
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.
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Trump Says He Cannot Post Bond, Asks NY Appeals Court to Stay Enforcement of $454M Civil Fraud Judgment

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 18th 2024 at 19:08
The former president’s cash crunch intensifies.

Former president Donald Trump speaks on stage during a campaign rally in Richmond, Va., March 2, 2024.
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The Judith Butlerian Jihad: On the Origins of Our Gender Neuroses

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — March 18th 2024 at 18:35
Butler was one of the leading luminaries to suggest the collapse of sex into gender, thus separating sex itself from human anatomy.

Judith Butler receives the Golden Medal at Circulo de las Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain, October 27, 2022.
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No, You Haven’t Gone Crazy

By: Mark Antonio Wright · Mark Antonio Wright — March 18th 2024 at 17:29
Always with the truth. Always as Happy Warriors. Please join us — and thank you, all.

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

By: Jack Butler — March 18th 2024 at 16:58
A new report suggests that demand for the services of consulting firms may be waning.

McKinsey & Company logo at Viva Tech in Paris, France, in 2019
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Why Sector-Neutral Tax Reform Is Better Than Industrial Policy

By: Dominic Pino · Dominic Pino — March 18th 2024 at 16:45
Contrasting ‘supply-side orthodoxy’ with industrial policy.

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at news conference announcing the passage of the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., November 16, 2017
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Of Course You Can ‘Believe in Democracy without Being Pro-Biden’

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 18th 2024 at 14:20
Can you reject the notion that Democrats have cornered the issue of American democracy? Yes you can.

President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 8, 2024.
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Now It Can Be Told: The Covid School-Closers Were Wrong, and They Harmed Kids

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 18th 2024 at 13:58
Red-state governors who pushed to reopen schools should not expect to receive the apologies they are owed.

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

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 18th 2024 at 12:32
May the Kent State Golden Flashes make new and better memories next year.
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TikTok: A Generational Conflict in Microcosm

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 18th 2024 at 11:56
On the latest episode of Issues with Noah Rothman, Commentary magazine columnist and NR contributor Christine Rosen and NR’s Jack Butler take the long view…
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Former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan Withdraws from Consideration for 2024 No Labels Ticket

By: Audrey Fahlberg · Audrey Fahlberg — March 18th 2024 at 11:53
Another ‘no’ to No Labels.

Former Georgia lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan leaves the Lewis R. Slaton Courthouse after testifying before a grand jury by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is probing whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally sought to overturn the state's 2020 election results, in Atlanta, Ga., August 14, 2023.
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MS-13 Members Jailed in Foreign Countries Are People, Too!

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 18th 2024 at 11:42
The media distorted Trump’s comments about illegal immigrants at a recent Ohio rally.

Suspected members of the MS-13 gang are presented to the news media after being detained in possession of weapons and ammunition, in Nuevo Cuscatlan, El Salvador, July 29, 2022.
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UNC Returns to Kangaroo Courts

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 18th 2024 at 08:45
At almost every step in the case of Professor Christopher Wretman, UNC violated its own policies.
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Curses and Blessings

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 18th 2024 at 07:52
Reader mail on smartphones, John Williams, and the Bill of Rights.

The Bill of Rights
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A New Study Shows That Teen Pregnancy Increases the Risk of Premature Death

By: Michael J. New · Michael J. New — March 17th 2024 at 22:51
New research from Canada shows that policy efforts to reduce teen-pregnancy rates have had important long-term health benefits.

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Trump’s Rorschach ‘Bloodbath’ Comments

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 17th 2024 at 21:52
If there is to be a bloodbath, it will be the national self-harm of electing either Trump or Biden for another four years.
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Biden Is Right to Fear Trump

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 17th 2024 at 21:36
If the 2020 election was a referendum on Trump, 2024 looks to be a referendum on what Biden has done since then. A 38 percent approval rating says most of what needs telling.

Left: President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 5, 2023. Right: Former president Donald Trump speaks outside a polling station in Palm Beach, Fla., November 8, 2022.
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The Progressive Lament: Sadly, It Looks Like We Will Have to Beat Trump in an Election

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 17th 2024 at 21:22
Many progressives coming to grips, however ruefully, with the fact that lawfare might not work against Trump.
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The Media Keep Helping Trump by Lying about Him

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar — March 17th 2024 at 15:27
‘Bloodbathgate’ is self-defeating and offensive: January 6 was real enough, and false alarms diminish its importance.

Former president Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, March 16, 2024.
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Politico Promotes a Suicide

By: Wesley J. Smith · Wesley J. Smith — March 17th 2024 at 15:19
Throughout the story, Hal Malchow’s planned suicide is depicted as empowering.

Hal Malchow in Washington, D.C., in 2010.
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‘The Antithesis of Patriotism’

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 17th 2024 at 14:00
About January 6, truth and lies.

A scene from the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021
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Marx and Musk: Starship Free Enterprise

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — March 17th 2024 at 07:10
Marx would probably have found Musk’s Martian ambitions bewilderingly romantic.

Workers take a break while removing rocks and debris from the surrounding area as SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop a Super Heavy rocket is prepared for a third launch on an uncrewed test flight from the company's Boca Chica launchpad near Brownsville, Texas, March 13, 2024.
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Trump’s Manhattan Trial Postponed until Mid-April

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 16th 2024 at 15:47
A New York judge granted a three-week delay but is so far keeping a tight leash on scheduling lest the ‘hush money’ prosecution brought by DA Alvin Bragg be derailed.

Former president Donald Trump speaks at a Manhattan courthouse in New York City, October 3, 2023.
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Can You Help Us Get to $70,000?

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 16th 2024 at 14:16
If you appreciate the commitment, passion, and care that we bring to our work at NR, please consider chipping in to our webathon.
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Fani Disqualification ‘Loss’ Is a Big Win for Trump and Georgia Co-Defendants

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 15th 2024 at 17:05
The Fulton County DA’s continuing participation in the case brings discredit to it, increases the likelihood of more delay, and could lead to acquittals.

Left: Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in a Fox News town hall in Greenville, S.C., February 20, 2024. Right: Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis attends a hearing on the Georgia election interference case in Atlanta, Ga., March 1, 2024.
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‘Double Taps’ and Other Evils

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 15th 2024 at 15:46
Notes on the Russian brutalization of Ukraine.

A residential area hit by a Russian missile strike, Odesa, Ukraine, March 15, 2024
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MBD: Biden’s Israel Stance Might Cost Him the White House

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte — March 15th 2024 at 15:29
‘Schumer is utterly fooling himself.’

President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Milwaukee, Wis., March 13, 2024.
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Anthony Hopkins Is Masterly as Sir Nicholas Winton in One Life

By: Giancarlo Sopo · Giancarlo Sopo — March 15th 2024 at 15:13
The film should humble us all.

Anthony Hopkins in <I>One Life</i>
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Kearns: Let’s Wait on the Facts on Nex Benedict

By: Sarah Schutte · Sarah Schutte — March 15th 2024 at 15:05
‘This is a classic example of something where nobody’s really paused to wait for the facts, and they’ve just gone straight full steam ahead with their narrative.’

People attend a vigil in memory of Nex Benedict in Owasso, Okla., February 25, 2024.
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Williams Scores

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 15th 2024 at 14:11
On a podcast devoted to John Williams and his music.

John Williams conducts a concert celebrating the 225th anniversary of “The President's Own,” the U.S. Marine Band, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2023.
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Anti-Israel Sentiment Festers in Montgomery County Public Schools

By: Haley Strack · Haley Strack — March 15th 2024 at 14:08
Parents Defending Education has discovered new details about the response of Maryland’s largest school district to Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel.

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Texas A&M Decides to Leave Qatar

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 15th 2024 at 13:28
The fad of big American universities thinking they should have foreign campuses appears to have peaked.
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$70,000: A Goal for All True Americans

By: Mark Antonio Wright · Mark Antonio Wright — March 15th 2024 at 12:21
NR won’t be intimidated into staying silent when reporting on crucial subjects. But we couldn’t do it without our readers and supporters.

A Trump supporter holds an American flag at a rally in Madison, Ala., February 2016.
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Kamala Harris’s Ghastly First

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler — March 15th 2024 at 11:22
In becoming the first vice president to visit an abortion clinic, Harris reaffirmed the Biden administration’s commitment to abortion radicalism.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a visit to the St. Paul Health Center, a clinic that performs abortions, in St. Paul, Minn., March 14, 2024.
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Supreme Court: Blocking People on Facebook Can Violate the First Amendment

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 15th 2024 at 11:12
This is a bad result, and it is disappointing that it attracted no dissent across the Court’s ideological lines.

People stand in front of a logo at Facebook's headquarters in London, England, December 4, 2017.
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Big Issues about Small Humans: A Note on IVF Ethics

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 15th 2024 at 10:45
Whatever we think of creating embryos and freezing them, it is better than killing them.

A medical technician injects sperm directly into an egg during an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure at the Laboratory of Reproductive Biology CECOS of Tenon Hospital, Paris, France, September 19, 2019.
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Demands for Ukraine to Negotiate with Russia Are Calls for Ukraine to Surrender

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 15th 2024 at 10:43
The Russian regime is openly saying that its plan for Ukraine entails death and suffering on a scale unseen on the European continent since 1945.

Ukrainian servicemen of the 79th Brigade take part in training in Donetsk Region, Ukraine, March 4, 2024.
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Trump and Georgia Defendants: Be Careful What You Wish For

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 15th 2024 at 08:57
I wouldn’t be so anxious to have new prosecutors take over this case.

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis speaks at a press conference next to prosecutor Nathan Wade after a Grand Jury brought back indictments against former president Donald Trump in Atlanta, Ga., August 14, 2023.
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Irony in Beijing, Etc.

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 15th 2024 at 08:33
The Chinese government says, ‘Social media for me, not for thee.’

U.S. ambassador to China R. Nicholas Burns speaks at the U.S. embassy in Beijing on July 8, 2023.
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Net Zero: Emergency!

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford — March 15th 2024 at 08:00
A new green initiative in the U.K. will do nothing for the climate, but it risks harming patients.

NHS ambulances parked along a street in London, February 18, 2023
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Bragg Seeks 30-Day Delay in Trump Trial

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 14th 2024 at 17:24
A discovery document dump on the eve of trial raises, once again, the issue of due process.

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during a news conference at his office in New York City, February 22, 2024.
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Girlhood, According to a Grown Man

By: Abigail Anthony · Abigail Anthony — March 14th 2024 at 13:54
What Dylan Mulvaney portrays as ‘girlhood’ is a Barbie-esque lifestyle characterized by a vapid pursuit of conventional attractiveness and sexual pleasure without any responsibilities.

Dylan Mulvaney appears in the <i>Days of Girlhood</i> music video
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What the TikTok Fight Tells Us about a Second Trump Term

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 14th 2024 at 13:18
Why is it that nearly all House Republicans have ignored the former president on the TikTok bill?
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What’s Schumer Thinking?

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 14th 2024 at 12:58
Is he trying to appease the activists on his party’s left? It’s hard to see how his attempt to interfere in Israeli politics will help.
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If TikTok Is Shut Down, Blame China

By: Charles C. W. Cooke · Charles C. W. Cooke — March 14th 2024 at 12:32
The U.S. government is on the verge of forcing a change. But not the one TikTok keeps claiming.

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No Bump Ahead

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 14th 2024 at 09:04
Biden hasn’t gotten a polling bump from his much-hyped State of the Union Address.
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The Spending Is the Point

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 14th 2024 at 09:00
Shrewd outside observers of the Left’s most desired policy reforms can’t help but notice that its wildly inflated price tags rarely correlate with outcomes.

Work continues on the California High-Speed Rail, Hanford Viaduct, Hanford, Calif., January 29, 2024.
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Trump Not at the Wheel

By: Rich Lowry · Rich Lowry — March 14th 2024 at 08:47
The January 6 steering-wheel story allegedly involving Trump was bunk. 
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Good News: Colleges Do a U-Turn on Standardized Tests

By: George Leef · George Leef — March 14th 2024 at 07:54
Some schools have reinstated their standardized-test requirement, and Graham Hillard writes about it in today’s Martin Center article.
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A Movie in Russia

By: Jay Nordlinger · Jay Nordlinger — March 14th 2024 at 07:47
On a podcast with Michael Lockshin, the director of the film ‘The Master and Margarita.’

The writer Mikhail Bulgakov in 1928
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A New Study Shows That the U.S. Maternal-Mortality Rate Is Overestimated

By: Michael J. New · Michael J. New — March 14th 2024 at 06:53
Supporters of legal abortion often try to blame pro-life policies for increases in the maternal-mortality rate. Their analyses consistently fail to persuade.

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A Biden-Favored EV Manufacturer Runs Out of Juice

By: Luther Ray Abel · Luther Ray Abel — March 13th 2024 at 22:20
The darkest irony of this saga is that Biden failed to save the original Fisker as well as this latest iteration.

A Fisker Ocean displayed during an event outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, November 22, 2022.
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Tomboys Are Women, Duh

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — March 13th 2024 at 19:39
True femininity has as many instantiations as there are women on earth.

Margot Robbie attends the European premiere of <i>Barbie</i> in London, England, July 12, 2023.
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Why Arguments against the House TikTok Bill Don’t Survive Contact with Reality

By: Jeffrey Blehar · Jeffrey Blehar — March 13th 2024 at 19:00
In a legislative era characterized by quasi-nihilistic futility, the chance has now presented itself for lawmakers to actually serve their country.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D., Calif.) speaks as he is joined by fellow House members Rep. Maxwell Frost (D., Fla.), Rep. Sara Jacobs (D., Calif.), Rep. Delia Ramirez (D., Ill.) and TikTok creators during a press conference to voice their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act“  legislation on TikTok on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 12, 2024.
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A New Poll Should Give Hope to Missouri Pro-Lifers

By: Michael J. New · Michael J. New — March 13th 2024 at 17:34
A new poll finds that a proposed ballot measure to place legal abortion in Missouri’s constitution is approved by 44 to 37 percent.
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Not So Well-Meaning

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 13th 2024 at 17:32
Special counsel Robert Hur’s assessment of the president was too charitable.
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In California, It’s Still Super Tuesday

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 13th 2024 at 17:30
It shouldn’t take the state that is home to Silicon Valley more than a week to perform a simple task that we’ve been doing since the 18th century.

People vote at the San Francisco City Hall voting center during the Super Tuesday primary election in San Francisco, Calif, March 5, 2024.
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Hunter: Oh, About That Public Hearing I Wanted to Testify at . . . um, Never Mind

By: Andrew C. McCarthy · Andrew C. McCarthy — March 13th 2024 at 17:01
The president’s son balks at testifying in public alongside former business partners who’ve provided damning testimony about the family influence-peddling business.

Hunter Biden walks to the motorcade after arriving at Fort McNair after President Joe Biden spent the weekend at Camp David, in Washington, D.C., July 4, 2023.
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What Rand Paul Gets Wrong about Congressional Action on TikTok

By: Jack Butler · Jack Butler — March 13th 2024 at 16:32
His objections to the House’s TikTok bill are rooted in an overly abstract and naive libertarianism shared neither by authentic conservatives nor even by all libertarians.

Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) questions Dr. Anthony Fauci on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 11, 2022.
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Against ‘Personhood Laws’

By: Ramesh Ponnuru · Ramesh Ponnuru — March 13th 2024 at 16:24
Either they end up being entirely toothless, like the federal ‘personhood’ bill, or they hide their consequences from legislators and voters.

Pro-life activists hold signs at a rally in front of the capitol building in Sacramento, Calif., June 22, 2022.
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In Honoring Poor Things, Hollywood Shows Its Cultural Poverty

By: Kayla Bartsch · Kayla Bartsch — March 13th 2024 at 16:07
As all humanity and transcendence are stripped from the world of the film, we are meant to admire the sophistication and creativity.

Emma Stone in <i>Poor Things</i>
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Jake Sullivan Lambastes the Press for Taking Biden’s Cues on Israel’s War

By: Noah Rothman · Noah Rothman — March 13th 2024 at 13:24
Sullivan’s frustration at the media’s failure to distinguish between aggressors and victims is understandable, but the source of their confusion is his boss.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 12, 2024.
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Cabrini’s Beauty Masks Its Sparse Spirituality

By: Giancarlo Sopo · Giancarlo Sopo — March 13th 2024 at 12:55
Despite its visual splendor, seasoned cast, evocative score, and admirable themes, the film could have delved deeper into its title character’s faith.

Cristiana Dell’Anna in <i>Cabrini</i>.
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Orbán’s Support of Israel

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty · Michael Brendan Dougherty — March 13th 2024 at 12:20
We’ve seen a lot of notice in these parts about the bad associations Viktor Orbán makes.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban speaks at a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, January 16, 2024.
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A Setback for Lawfare: Why Three Felony Charges against Trump Were Dismissed

By: Dan McLaughlin · Dan McLaughlin — March 13th 2024 at 11:23
Lawfare is bad; lawfare without law is worse.

Former president Donald Trump smiles during a campaign rally in Windham, N.H., August 8, 2023.
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