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The GOP Is Right: Medicaid Needs Fundamental Reform
Democrats are pouncing on the Medicaid provisions of the Senate health-care bill, saying Republican “cuts” to the program would decimate the nation’s health-insurance safety net. These attacks are overblown. The Medicaid provisions of the bill are not perfect, but ...
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Time for a U.S.–India Rebalance
The meeting this week between President Trump and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi could be one of the most important of the Trump presidency. Certainly the time is ripe for a major transformation of U.S.–Indian relations, and both ...
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Meet Jeremy Corbyn’s Bad Lieutenant
John McDonnell, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s principal lieutenant and — Jezza is not the brightest red in the asylum — much of his brainpower too, isn’t that enthused by this democracy thing. McDonnell, who is also Labour’s “shadow” chancellor ...
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No, Obamacare Repeal Will Not Kill Tens of Thousands
Repealing Obamacare will kill 24,000 people a year! No, 36,000! No, 43,000! The tax cuts are blood money!
There is more than a little hyperbole about the overhaul of Obamacare proposed by the House and the Senate, and the rhetoric about tens of ...
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With North Korea Threatening, the U.S. Advances on Missile Defense
North Korea’s murder of Otto Warmbier is yet another reminder that the United States needs a new approach to deal with the Pyongyang problem. Unfortunately, sanctions, threats, and diplomacy have failed to steer North Korea away from making America ...
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Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Sinking Democratic Brand
A lack of self-confidence is not one of House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s problems. But Pelosi’s unabashed use of open threats and her death grip on power are a very big problem for her party.
Pelosi’s performance ...
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If Republicans Do Nothing against Obamacare, Their Voters Will Punish Them
This week’s expected Senate vote on the Republican plan to alter Obamacare has ignited a debate about who will gain or lose from it. Democrats point to the fact that the GOP bill is so far more unpopular than ...
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Baseball’s Pace of Play Needs Some Juice
Omaha, Neb. — From Little League on up, players emulate major leaguers, so Major League Baseball’s pace-of-play problem is trickling down. Four innings into a recent College World Series game here, just seven hits and three runs had consumed 96 minutes. ...
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Iraqi Christians Detained by ICE Shouldn’t Be Deported
Legend has it that Abgar V, “the Black,” ruler of the small Mesopotamian kingdom of Osroene, was incurably ill when a wanderer anointed by the miracle-worker, Jesus, appeared. The stranger’s name was Addai, or Thaddeus, numbered among the Seventy ...
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The Appalling Delusion of 100 Percent Renewables, Exposed
The idea that the U.S. economy can be run solely with renewable energy — a claim that leftist politicians, environmentalists, and climate activists have endlessly promoted — has always been a fool’s errand. And on Monday, the National Academy of ...
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They’re Wrong About Everything
Events are turning me into a radical skeptic. I no longer believe what I read, unless what I am reading is an empirically verifiable account of the past. I no longer have confidence in polls, because it has become impossible ...
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Europe’s Free-Speech Crackdown: Punish Anti-Muslims, Ignore Terrorists
A spate of terrorist attacks has hit Europe in the past month, not only in Manchester and London but also in Paris and Brussels, where incidents this week were mercifully terminated before they could do any real damage. In Britain, ...
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After the Election Fallout, Is Britain Returning to Normalcy?
Both Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke well in yesterday’s parliamentary debate on the Queen’s Speech — an occasion heavy with tradition and ceremony but dedicated in reality to the sober business of setting out ...
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On Russia, Can Congress Save Trump from Himself?
It doesn’t happen very often, but on at least one issue, Donald Trump is acting like a normal president. Unfortunately, in this rare instance, he’s actually doing something not only wrongheaded but self-destructive. Instead of letting Trump have ...
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The Senate’s Flawed Health-Care Bill
The Senate Republican health-care bill would not repeal and replace Obamacare. The federal government would remain the chief regulator of health insurance. No state would be allowed to experiment with different models for protecting people with pre-existing conditions. Federal policy ...
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So, You Want a Swiss Health-Care System?
If you’re wondering what in Hell is actually going on with U.S. health-care policy, the short version is this: Policymakers in both parties are trying to replicate Swiss policies in a country that isn’t Swiss.
The Affordable ...
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The CFPB Supervision Problem
On June 12, 2017, the Treasury Department issued a 149-page report proposing reforms to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, many of which were in the Financial CHOICE Act that House Republicans had passed a week earlier. Most of the proposed revisions to the 2010 ...
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The Media Miss the Mark on Afghanistan
The press is missing something lately. The media myopia for the on-again-off-again Russia matters of late has drawn important attention away from one actual, ongoing threat: a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and the possibility of a renewed terrorist safe haven ...
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Senator Feinstein Thinks It’s Acceptable for Violent Mobs to Control Speech
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said that it was okay for universities to cancel controversial speakers over threats of violence — and people got mad at her for trying to silence “conservative” ...
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Laurence Tribe’s Impeachment Hysteria
In a way, you can’t blame conservatives for thinking the fix is in on impeachment. A broad swathe of the liberal intelligentsia has been hell-bent on removing Donald Trump from office since before Day One of his presidency. The ...
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What If Donald Trump Doesn’t Sink the Republican Party?
What if Republican voters who don’t particularly like President Donald Trump are also able to compartmentalize their votes? What if they dislike Democrats more than they do the president? What if, rather than being punished for Trump’s unpopularity, ...
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After Another Special-Election Loss, Chances for a Democratic Comeback Look Grim
The victory of Republican Karen Handel in the special election in Georgia’s sixth congressional district on Tuesday has discouraged Democrats and encouraged Republicans. Democrat Jon Ossoff won 48.1 percent in the special election’s first round April 18, and Democrats had ...
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A Democratic Blind Spot on Culture
How much do Democrats really want to defeat Donald Trump?
It’s worth asking in the wake of the latest Democratic failure to notch an electoral victory for the resistance, this time in the Georgia special election.
There’s no ...
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Syria in 2017 Is Nothing Like Iraq in 2003
Each day now brings another worrying development in Syria. A Navy jet downs a Syrian plane — the first air-to-air combat the U.S. has been involved in since 1999 — and Russia declares that coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates will be ...
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The Democrats’ Resistance Temptation
In retrospect, it’s clear that Democrats invested too heavily in the special election in Georgia’s sixth district. Despite an attractive centrist candidate, enough money to launch a small war, and the millstone of President Donald Trump’s White ...
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Finding the Way Back on Immigration Isn’t Going to Be Easy for Democrats
Can the Democrats find a sane stance on immigration? I’m not so sure. In an article at The Atlantic, Peter Beinart eloquently shows how Democrats have drifted farther from a mainstream point of view on this issue. In the ...
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Why the Liberal Elite Will Never Check Its Privilege
Karen Kipple’s “greatest wish in the world” is that her eight-year-old daughter Ruby will “have a good life.” At the same time, in “accordance with [her] politics and principles,” she aspires to “a life spent making a difference and ...
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It’s Not the 1960s: Group Violence in America Is Hard to Pull Off
San Bernardino. Orlando. Alexandria. It may feel like America is descending into chaos, but those who seek to shed innocent blood in the name of an ideology in 2017 actually face a tough, hardened society, well versed in the methods of ...
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The Murky European Future
The second decade of the 21st century has been a difficult one for the European Union. The ongoing repercussions of the financial crisis of 2008 plagued the Continent for years, threatening to sink first the national economies of the countries on ...
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Donald Trump earned respect from the Washington establishment for appointing three of the nation’s most accomplished generals to direct his national-security policy: James Mattis (secretary of defense), H. R. McMaster (national-security adviser), and John Kelly (secretary of homeland security).
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Let Us Plunge toward Our Fast-Unfolding Future
In 1859, when Manhattan still had many farms, near the Battery on the island’s southern tip the Great American Tea Company was launched. It grew, and outgrew its name, becoming in 1870 the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, which in 1912 begat ...
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About That Russian ‘Interference’
So Sean Spicer says he’s not sure whether President Trump believes there was concerted Russian “interference” in the 2016 presidential election. I’m not sure whether I believe there was, either.
If by “interference” we mean monkeying around with the ...
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Can Conservatives Be a Loyal Opposition?
What hope is left for conservatives who oppose Donald Trump? If Michael Gerson is a reliable barometer of what the Never Trump crowd is thinking these days, it’s clear from his latest Washington Post column that he has as ...
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In Praise of Gerrymandering
For two centuries, the gerrymander was an ordinary part of U.S. politics. And, then, the unthinkable happened: Republicans got really, really good at it.
The gerrymander, named for Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry (he also served as James Madison’s ...
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The Architecture of Regime Change
The problem with the election of President Donald J. Trump was not just that he presented a roadblock to an ongoing progressive revolution. Instead, unlike recent Republican presidential nominees, he was indifferent to the cultural and political restraints on conservative ...
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Douglas Murray’s new book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. It is reprinted here with permission.
There is no single cause of the present sickness of Europe. The ...
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Bob Dylan, America’s Greatest Plagiarist
Bob Dylan is at it again: plagiarism.
Such is the latest charge levied against the septuagenarian singer-songwriter. His long-awaited, late-delivered acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature he was awarded last year — a disquisition on the nature of art ...
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The Double Murder of Otto Warmbier
We may never know what brutal torture and malign neglect American student Otto Warmbier suffered at the hands of North Korea’s dictatorship before losing his life this week at the age of 22.
But it wasn’t the first time ...
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Live Results from Georgia and South Carolina
Courtesy of our friends over at Decision Desk HQ, here are the live results from the special elections in both GA-6 and SC-5. (To update the charts, please refresh the page.)
For a preview of the race in Georgia’s ...
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The Sickening Attack on Otto Warmbier Is Symbolic of the Left’s Hate Problem
Yesterday, as news of Otto Warmbier’s sad and tragic death spread across the Web, a number of people on Twitter recalled and reposted a series of leftist hot takes on Warmbier’s initial arrest and imprisonment. Let’s just ...
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What Conservatives and Libertarians Should Learn from Grenfell
The fire that consumed Grenfell Tower last Wednesday was an unimaginable sort of horror. Parents threw children out of windows to onlookers below; entire households perished; there are reports that no one from the top three floors survived. The death ...
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Don’t Look to Georgia’s Sixth for 2018 Clues
Marietta, Ga. — Exactly two months ago, politicos around the country counted down the final hours until polls closed in Georgia’s sixth district, anticipating the results of a special congressional election widely perceived as a referendum on the fledgling presidency ...
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No, Hillary, Voter-ID Laws Don’t ‘Suppress’ Turnout
Hillary Clinton just doesn’t know how to lose gracefully. She does, however, have a knack for coming up with ever more inventive excuses for her loss to Donald Trump.
Just last month, she chalked it up to “voter suppression” ...
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If a Trump Supporter Had Shot Democratic Congressmen …
What would have happened if a Trump supporter had shot Democratic congressmen?
The answer is obvious.
The New York Times, the rest of the left-wing media, and the Democratic party would have made the shootings the dominant issue in American ...
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Berlin Considers Banning Ads That Show ‘Beautiful but Dumb’ Women
Berlin is considering banning advertisements that show “beautiful but dumb” women, according to reports from local news sources.
According to The Local, a publication that reports Germany’s news in English, Berlin voted to ban “sexist” billboards in 2016, and officials ...
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America’s War against ISIS Is Evolving into an Invasion of Syria
There was always going to be a reckoning. When President Obama began the American war against ISIS in 2014 — a belated and necessary step to stop ISIS’s blitzkrieg across Iraq — there was a lingering question: Then what? If and when ...
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A Bad Argument for Legalizing Marijuana
Bihar is one of the poorest states in India: About one-third of the population is illiterate, the worst figure in the country, and the average worker makes a bit over $500 a year. It is the most densely populated state in ...
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At six in the morning, a man is startled awake by an insistent pounding on his front door. He opens it to find armed government agents. One group of them begins to ransack the man’s home. Two others take ...
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How William F. Buckley Became the Gatekeeper of the Conservative Movement
Editor’s Note: The following is Part One of an excerpt from Alvin S. Felzenberg’s new book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. It is reprinted here with permission.
In the 1950s, ...
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Elizabeth Banks: Wrong on Spielberg, Wrong on Diversity
Is Steven Spielberg under some kind of moral or political obligation to make movies about women? The question arose last week when the actress and director Elizabeth Banks inexplicably blasted Spielberg while accepting one of those hooray-for-women honors (the Women ...
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The Supreme Court’s Religious-Freedom Message: There Are No Second-Class Citizens
While there are many threats to religious liberty, few are more consequential over the long term than the state’s ever-expanding role in private life. If the government is able to vacuum up tax dollars, create programs large and small ...
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In Mississippi, a Bill to Protect Religious Liberty Gets the Green Light
In a victory for religious citizens in Mississippi — and in a promising sign for all religious Americans — the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Thursday in favor of a bill that protects religious-liberty and conscience rights in the realm ...
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Republicans Used to Put Ordinary Workers First—and They Should Again
The foreign eye can discern peculiarities of national character that often go unnoticed by natives. A few years back, a writer in the British magazine The Economist noted Americans’ deep appreciation for the nobility of work and said that “in ...
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The Quiet Rise of the American Upper-Middle Class
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Richard V. Reeves’s Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It. It ...
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Learning Hospitality with the Sisters of St. Bridget
Darien, Conn. — There are six sisters of the Order of the Most Holy Savior in the United States, and not one of them was born in the United States. Also known as the Sisters of St. Bridget, or the Bridgettines, ...
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The shocking speed of entrenchment, &c.;
In recent weeks, I’ve been thinking, “How quickly things get cemented. How hard they are to reverse — even when they were just put in place.”
During the 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter promised the National Education Association that he would establish ...
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Civil Asset Forfeiture: Where Due Process Goes to Die
Clarence Thomas is famously taciturn on the bench. But his few words carry a great deal of weight.
Though the matter has not yet come before the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas is very much at the center of a federal ...
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The Antithesis of Obstruction
The “collusion” narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won’t take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth: Collusion’s successor, the “obstruction” narrative, is a perversion.
The Left ...
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Urban Warfare, Then and Now
In 1968, more than 500,000 Americans and 800,000 South Vietnamese troops were fighting 400,000 Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese (NVA) soldiers. In early February, the enemy launched a surprise attack against dozens of cities and bases throughout the 400-mile length of South Vietnam. ...
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Why me? It’s a question we likely ask in the face of suffering and unexpected challenges. In God’s Wild Flowers: Saints with Disabilities, Pia Matthews, a university lecturer in theology, philosophy, and bioethics in England, writes about the ...
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The Republican Health-Care Mistake
Republicans in the House and Senate have made a grievous political miscalculation: They have staked themselves to doing something about Obamacare, yet they can barely feign interest in the details of health-care policy, and don’t have a clear endgame ...
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American Weakness and Incompetence Are Vladimir Putin’s Greatest Assets
This morning, the Washington Post published a lengthy account of the Obama White House’s internal response to Russian efforts to influence the 2016 elections. It’s worth reading for the drama alone — including details of secrecy measures not seen since ...
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The President Shouldn’t Set Congress’s Legislative Agenda
‘The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny,” James Madison wrote in Federalist ...
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Should Nancy Pelosi Step Down?
Democrats have been doing plenty of self-reflection since they lost the special election in Georgia’s sixth district on Tuesday. As a result, several House Democrats have intensely and publicly criticized Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Several congressmen have gone ...
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In the Almost-Great Baby Driver, Hollywood Goes Asperger’s
Lots of movies are manipulative, but Edgar Wright’s action-comedy Baby Driver defines the era by pampering its teenage audience.
Yet its most impressive moment invokes an obscure but cinematic icon: The hero nicknamed Baby (Ansel Elgort), an orphaned hipster ...
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Thirty Years of Federal Coercion, on the Drinking Age and More
Thirty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in South Dakota v. Dole. The case involved South Dakota’s attempt to maintain a drinking age of 19 — at least for beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol — despite ...
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A Renewed MS-13 — Courtesy of Obama’s Lax Immigration Policies
The Washington Post this week published a long piece showing how the illegal immigration of young people from Central America, facilitated and even encouraged by the Obama administration, has led to the rebirth of the vicious MS-13 gang in the ...
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Obamacare Failure Is on the Democrats
Senate Republicans are planning to vote on their version of the long-awaited health-care replacement bill as early as next week; this is the latest development in the contentious process of dismantling the Affordable Care Act. The unveiling of the “Better ...
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GOP’s Special-Election Sweep Bodes Well for Trump Agenda
Sweep!
With U.S. representative-elect Karen Handel’s victory in Georgia and Ralph Norman’s in South Carolina Tuesday night, the Grand Old Party has won four of four contested special elections for the U.S. House since President Donald ...
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Trump Should Copy Reagan and End Détente — with China
President Trump seems resigned to the expectation that China will be of no help in resolving the North Korea challenge. That he (and his predecessors) ever believed otherwise is the most salient evidence of the consensus by successive U.S. ...
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A few years ago, I wrote a book called “Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.” I selected 20 dictators and their offspring. I did not aim for that round, juicy number, 20. I simply drew up ...
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Puberty Suppression and FGM
Michigan is set to become the 26th American state to join the federal government in criminalizing female genital mutilation (FGM), even as two Detroit-area doctors and one of their wives await trial for inflicting the procedure on a number of ...
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Are Things Getting Better?
I do not fear much correction when I say that my columns of the last few years have not been characterized by an overabundance of cheerfulness and optimism.
For instance, about a year ago, I endorsed a Twitter personality for ...
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Anti-Free-Speech Radicals Never Give Up
In the never-ending battle to preserve free speech, there is always good news and bad news. There are triumphs and setbacks. The struggle for liberty always encounters the will to power, and often the will to power is cloaked in ...
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The Senate’s ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017’ Finally Revealed
After weeks of secrecy and speculation, Senate Republicans have finally unveiled a 142-page iteration of their health-care bill, titled the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017.” Written by a group of 13 GOP Senators headed up by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the “...
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The Great Muslim Civil War — and Us
The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter-bomber. Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria. Russia threatens to attack coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates. What is going on?
It might appear a mindless mess, but the outlines are clear. The ...
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The Big Sick Isn’t Big Enough
In the 1970s, every suburban couple shared the same dread: that they’d be invited over to another couple’s house to watch a slideshow of vacation photos. Invariably the guests would discover that their hosts couldn’t leave anything ...
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DeVos Should Take on Education’s Reformocracy
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has had her share of early missteps, but she has also emphasized a message with the potential to win over the nation’s families and teachers — even those skeptical of her enthusiasm for school choice. ...
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The Crisis of the Economic Right and the Case for Reform Conservatism
American politics, the conventional wisdom goes, is divided along two axes: There are economic liberals and conservatives, and there are social liberals and conservatives, and a rough symmetry prevails between the two. The Democratic base is aligned on economic and ...
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University: Saying ‘Gender Plays No Part in Whom We Hire’ Is a ‘Microaggression’
According to a document on Rowan University’s official website, saying that “gender plays no part in who we hire” is a microaggression, and you should intervene and correct people if you hear them saying it.
The phrase is just ...
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What to Make of the Saudi Shake-up
On Wednesday, King Salman of Saudi Arabia pushed aside his heir-apparent, Crown Prince Mohamed bin Nayef, and moved his own son Mohamed bin Salman into that spot. He also removed Mohamed bin Nayef (known as MbN) from his powerful post ...
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The Unwritten Law That Helps Bad Cops Go Free
Yesterday afternoon, Minnesota officials finally released the full video of the traffic stop that cost Philando Castile his life. It’s a tough video to watch. I’m embedding it below, but beware, it is very raw:
If you watch ...
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Trump’s New Immigration Policy Could Save Long Island
President Trump, known for his fierce and intense stance on immigration, has recently announced the reversal of his intention to deport “DREAMers,” or children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents. The president’s focus, he says, is ...
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Addicted to the Apocalypse
We are in love with the apocalypse.
Doomsday thinking justifies anything. If Armageddon lies just beyond the horizon, then all measures are worthwhile in staving it off. Armageddon simplifies the complex. It makes all decisions clear. Judeo-Christian moral qualms are ...
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In a previous era, the death of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student, at the hands of the regime in North Korea likely would have been considered an act of war. On January 2, 2016, Warmbier was detained by regime officials, allegedly ...
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Oslo — On January 9, 2009, Grace Gao woke up with a strange feeling. She sensed that someone was going on a long journey. Yet no one in the apartment was packing. Everything was normal — as normal as it ever was.
Her dad ...
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Free Speech Isn’t Always a Tool of Virtue
There’s a tension so deep in how we think about free expression, it should rightly be called a paradox.
On the one hand, regardless of ideology, artists and writers almost unanimously insist that they do what they do to ...
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In Georgia, Handel Brings It Home
Sandy Springs, Ga. — The last time Jon Ossoff failed to win a seat in the U.S. House, it was pouring all day, too. On a blustery Election Day two months ago, the young Democrat fell just short of the 50 ...
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Mother Jones Smears Liberal Talk-Show Host Dave Rubin for Daring to Interview ‘Alt-Right’ Figures
Dave Rubin, the gay, liberal host of The Rubin Report, has become the Left’s latest victim of smearing-by-association, his character having been contorted in Josh Harkinson’s recent Mother Jones article “Cashing in on the Rise of the ‘Alt-Right.’” ...
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1, 2, 3, 4 . . . What Are We Probing For?
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of an elaborate story when, suddenly, you have no idea why you are telling someone about, say, the time that you sliced up the soles of your feet while perched atop jagged ...
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The Inside Story of William F. Buckley Jr.'s Crusade against the John Birch Society
Editor’s Note: The following is Part Two of an excerpt from Alvin S. Felzenberg’s new book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. It is reprinted here with permission. Part One can ...
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The Vatican is an imposing enough place to speak, especially for a Southern Baptist, so I guess I can plead that my mind was distracted with nervousness. I waited in line with several friends and colleagues of various communions and ...
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Resisting the Divorce Momentum
Editor’s note: Michael and Diane Medved will be appearing with Jay Nordlinger in Seattle on Wednesday night, hosted by the Discovery Institute. Tickets are available here.
Don’t Divorce: Powerful Arguments for Saving and Revitalizing Your Marriage is a ...
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Yes, Hate Speech Is Free Speech
With the Left feverishly attempting to squash unwelcome speech on college campuses, with the president of the United States musing about tightening libel laws, with prominent liberals asserting that so-called hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment, free ...
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Keep Newt’s Old Seat in GOP hands
Tuesday’s special election in Georgia’s sixth congressional district will decide whether Republican Karen Handel or Democrat Jon Ossoff occupies the seat once held by former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Former House Budget Committee chairman Tom Price, M.D. ...
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Except perhaps for his faith in the power of the human will to overcome economic reality, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is an unreligious man. An article in Religion News Service last year called him “perhaps the least religious person in ...
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John Kasich’s Campaign to Save Obamacare
Ohio governor John Kasich’s public-relations campaign for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion could wipe out whatever chance remains for Congress to pass a substantial Obamacare-repeal bill.
Medicaid expansion puts working-age adults with no kids and no disabilities on a welfare ...
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Bret Stephens’s Exclusionary Politics
One of the more interesting trends of recent years has been the effort to view citizenship through a kind of debauched meritocratic lens. This approach is favored particularly by those who oppose enforcing immigration laws, who argue that somehow immigrants (...
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In a sea of graduation celebrations these weeks, Maddi Runkles stands out. Maddi Runkles isn’t the name of a school, and she isn’t a student who marched with her Christian school. She’s a young mom who had ...
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The European Union announced this week that it would begin proceedings to punish Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic for their refusal to accept refugees and migrants under a 2015 scheme the E.U. commission created. The mission’s aim was ...
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