David French: If slavery and Jim Crow are America’s original sin, abortion is America’s second great sin. It’s a regime of mass death, empowered by a Supreme Court elite and sustained by a culture of exploitation and indulgence.
Publication: National Review
The Democratic Party Is Turning from Trump to Fighting Each Other
Among Democrats these days, it’s a Hobbesian war of all against all. No, that’s not quite right. It’s more of a Seinfeldian war of imagined slights and peevish insults, a slap-fight of grievance and innuendo, a “you-started-it-no-you-started it” toddlers’ rodeo. It’s Mad Max beyond Blunderdome.
Men Literally Died for American Flag, You Idiots
They risked everything for it, not for some idea or abstraction but for the piece of fabric itself.
The Desire for Fake News Lives in All of Us
Before we can tackle the problem, we must admit that it is a problem of demand, rather than supply.
NYT’s Black-Film Roundtable Ignores Black American Excellence
The real history of black filmmaking counters the media’s current racial-grievance agenda.
How Can Presidential Candidates Be So Silly?
George Will: Many Democrats striving to replace Donald Trump are, while execrating him, paying him the sincerest form of flattery: imitation.
The Buttigieg Illusion
Buttigieg would seem perfect on paper to reach out beyond the woke white element of the party. This isn’t how he’s running, though.
Bernie’s Student Loan Debt Plan Is Unworkable
This is bad fiscal policy, bad education policy, and poisonous politics. If that is a foretaste of 2020, it is going to be an ugly scene.
The Most Educated and Politically Engaged Americans Know the Least About Opponents
David French: It turns out that the people who care the most about politics have the least understanding of their political opponents.
The Media’s Double Standard on Culture-War Controversies
We know why black Democrats who object to Buttigieg’s gay marriage aren’t called bigots. It would be political suicide.
Kamala’s Dreadful Record as San Francisco DA
Her tenure as San Francisco’s chief prosecutor reveals much about her character and judgment.
Kamala Runs for Queen
The California senator’s new immigration plan is a statement of her intent to govern through egregiously unconstitutional executive action.
Why Clinton Got Impeached
The anti-Clinton case then was stronger than the anti-Trump case is now.
Professor Accused of Creating Hostile Learning Environment for Assigning Too Many Male Authors
Instead of fixating on the gender of the authors on a syllabus, shouldn’t we focus on the quality of the work it offers students?
The Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship
The Trump administration’s Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama. Trump confronted Russia in Syria, upped defense spending, increased sanctions, and kept the price of oil down through massive new U.S. energy production.
Alabama and Georgia Abortion Laws Target Roe v. Wade — and Rightfully So
We are witnessing the beginnings of an anti-abortion legislative revolution in Red America. Two generations of pro-life activism, persuasion, and argument have yielded pro-life supermajorities in state houses across much of the South and Midwest, and they recognize the fact that we have reached a moment of legal possibility we may never attain again — perhaps not for generations.
China’s Brilliant, Insidious Strategy
Slowly but steadily they build up their economic, military, and technological superiority at our expense.
Liberals Begin to Revolt Against Stupid Homelessness Policies
The idea that vagrancy should be legalized was shot down by a resounding 83 percent of Denver voters.
Sweden Is Capitalist
It thought better of its experiment with socialism.
Democratic Presidential Candidates Embrace Radicalism
Most of the field seems to think that Twitter likes and retweets will count as primary votes, and that there’s an appetite for left-wing radicalism.
Media Cast Newly Skeptical Eye on Democratic Candidates
Beto O’Rourke spent most of 2018 enjoying the kind of glowing press coverage reserved for the musical Hamilton, Steve Jobs’s unveiling of Apple products, and LeBron James in years he wins the championship. But as a presidential candidate, O’Rourke is suddenly melting like ice cream in the Texas sun.
The Problem with the Mueller Report
We, the editors of the National Review, have never been fans of special-counsel investigations. Despite its distressing portrayal of Trump, nothing about the Mueller probe changes our view.
Progressive Unity May Be Over in the Wake of the Mueller Report
To escape punishment, all of these players in the Russian collusion delusion may now begin to turn on one another.
The Movie “Unplanned” Helps Pro-Lifers Tell the Truth About Abortion
Seeing the truth about abortion will change people’s minds on the procedure and society’s view of this heinous human-rights abuse.