News of the Week for November 23rd, 2025
- Abortion
- Gun Rights
- Hide the Decline
- Socialized Medicine
- War & Terror
- National News
- Economy & Taxes
- International News
- Opinion
Abortion
Court Cases & Legislation
North Dakota Supreme Court upholds abortion ban
North Dakota law requires a supermajority of four out of five justices to overturn a state law. Only three justices supported overturning the anti-abortion law.
‘Shout Your Abortion’ founder targets kids with ‘Abortion is Everything’ book
Amelia Bonow, the abortion activist most well-known for creating the “Shout Your Abortion” social media movement, has published a children’s book about abortion, years after vowing to do so.
Gun Rights
Supreme Court Keeps Some 2A Cases in Limbo
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court was scheduled to discuss four Second Amendment cases dealing with restrictions on young adults during its weekly conference. None of the cases appeared in the Court’s orders released on Monday morning, which isn’t that unusual. What is odd, though, is that they weren’t re-listed for this week’s conference either, as is usually the case.
Federal Court Overturns Idaho Judge’s Second Amendment Ruling
When someone gets slapped with a domestic violence restraining order, they temporarily lose their Second Amendment rights. The argument is that they’re a probable danger to at least one person, and since a judge signs off on the order, that’s sufficient due process.
Where Are the Virginia Gun Control Bills?
Since Monday of this week, Virginia legislators have been able to pre-file legislation for the upcoming 2026 session. In stark contrast to the last time Democrats gained a trifecta in state government, not a single gun control bill has been among the first round of bills released for public review, though we know that an onslaught of anti-gun legislation is coming.
Virginia Democrats Introduce First Gun Control Bills After Gaining Governing Trifecta
Virginia Democrats are still keeping the details of their forthcoming gun and magazine bans under wraps, but two gun-related measures have now officially been introduced in the state Senate, and a key Democrat lawmaker is hinting at another on the horizon.
NSSF Wants Court to Block Maryland Law Meant to Bypass PLCAA
The Protection of Lawful Commerce of Arms Act was created to prevent frivolous lawsuits against the firearm industry, predicated on the actions of third parties. In other words, if your gun blows up because of a manufacturing flaw, you can sue. If some twerp with a stolen gun shot you in the leg, you can sue, just not the manufacturer of the firearm used.
Second Amendment Roundup: In Wolford, Hawaii relies on the Black Codes
Improper analogue to support ban on arms on private property open to the public.
Constitutional Originalism, the Second Amendment, and the English Bill of Rights of 1689
Modern gun control proponents argue as though we live under the English Constitution, instead of the Second Amendment. Looking at the history of both Bill of Rights repudiates arguments that support gun control.
Hide the Decline
Environment &“Green Energy”
Is The Gulf Stream Really Collapsing? Debunking Another Climate Doomsday Claim
The idea that global warming could paradoxically shut down the Gulf Stream, plunging Europe into a new cold spell—a scenario popularized by the film The Day After Tomorrow—is a powerful narrative.
Socialized Medicine
Government in Healthcare
Lack of adequate health care pushing Canadians toward assisted suicide
The family of an elderly man is speaking out about the terrible hospital conditions that led their father to request euthanasia before he died of natural causes.
German Identical Twins Receive Death on Demand
In 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s highest judicial body, conjured a fundamental right to commit suicide, to assist, and be assisted therein. The ruling called suicide a “self-determined death” — i.e., death on demand — regardless of the reason, and perhaps even, age of the person who wants to die, as the court ruled that the right to suicide “is guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence.” Youth is a stage of a person’s existence.
Now Is the Moment to Deregulate Obamacare
The window Republicans have won’t reappear anytime soon.
RFK Jr. contaminates the CDC website
The HHS secretary violated yet another pledge he made to get confirmed.
CDC: Claims about vaccines not causing autism not ‘evidence-based’
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has walked back its decades-old insistence that vaccines do not cause autism, updating its website late Wednesday to promote a debunked link between the two.
U.K. Hospices Collapsing as Government Pushes Assisted-Suicide Legalization
The future that some of us predicted about assisted suicide deployed as a resource saver has come to the U.K. Even as the House of Commons has passed a legalization bill — currently being debated in the House of Lords — the country’s hospice system is collapsing.
Texas Measles Strain Continues to Spread, Officials Say
If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished soon, the United States will lose its “elimination status,” as determined by the World Health Organization.
Trusting RFK Jr. Ends ‘in Tears’
The CDC recently revised its language on vaccines and autism to suggest a possible link between them. During now-HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing, he was asked by Senator Bill Cassidy to promise that he wouldn’t change this wording, and it now seems the senator made a mistake in trusting Kennedy’s word.
RFK Jr. says he’s following ‘gold standard’ science. Here’s what to know
The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say they want the government to follow “gold standard” science.
War & Terror
Bodies Keep Turning Up in Syria, Haunting New Leaders
In the months after the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians have continued to discover large-scale burial sites, sometimes by chance. ‘Everyone who’s missing now…they’re buried in the ground somewhere.’
Report: Trump Tells CIA to Plan Covert Ops Inside Venezuela
President Trump has given the CIA authorization to plan for covert operations inside Venezuela, the New York Times reports based on “multiple” unidentified “people briefed on the matter.”
When Does the ‘Tough on China’ Part of This Administration Start?
Okay, if you don’t like the coverage of lunatic high-profile journalists and House votes on the Epstein files, today we turn to the biggest issues. These include the rising power and confidence of Xi Jinping’s China, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the consequences of our current methods of enforcing U.S. immigration laws. And a birthday worth remembering.
U.S. Ran a War Game on Ousting Maduro. Venezuela Fell Into Chaos.
An official U.S. government exercise during President Trump’s first term forecast turmoil and potential violence in a post-Maduro Venezuela
Why the Cold War Still Matters, with John Lewis Gaddis
Peter Robinson sits down at Yale University with the “dean of Cold War historians,” John Lewis Gaddis, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of The Long Telegram author George F. Kennan and one of America’s most influential thinkers on grand strategy.
US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal, sources say
The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the matter said.
How to Speed Up Nuclear Proliferation
Whatever one might think of the final (or not) terms of the proposed Russo-Ukrainian peace deal, the manner in which it was first presented to Kyiv — sign within a few days, or else — delivers another message to America’s allies in Europe and elsewhere that the U.S. is not, when the going gets tough, as dependable as they had once assumed. The current confusion over what is or is not on the table is unlikely to be much of a confidence-booster either.
Trump’s Inevitable Ukraine Fiasco
All hell broke loose last night when Marco Rubio, left to be the face of the Trump administration’s shameful policy of squeezing Ukraine on behalf of Vladimir Putin’s regime, was overcome by a fleeting fit of honesty: The secretary of state admitted to a bipartisan group of senators that the administration’s vaunted “28-point plan” was essentially a Russian wish list.
National
ICE agent arrested for pulling gun on Southern California teen, lawyer says
A 45-year-old Riverside County man, who reportedly works as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is accused of illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week.
Heritage Trustee Robert George Resigns From Board
“My hope for Heritage is that it will be unbending and unflinching in its fidelity to its founding vision, upholding the moral principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the civic principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.”
Professor George chooses
Robert George is the highly regarded McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals & Institutions at Princeton. Following up on “A fight for the soul of the right,” I want to add that Professor Geroge has just announced his resignation from the board of the Heritage Foundation.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Repents of Her Creator
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants you to know that she’s sorry — sorry for all those god-awful things she said and did back when she was, well, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Speaking to Dana Bash on CNN this weekend, she hit her knees and assumed the supplicant pose: “I would like to say, humbly, I am sorry for taking part in the toxic politics; it’s very bad for our country, and it’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I’m only responsible for myself, and my own words and actions, and I’m going — I am committed, and I’ve been working on this a lot lately — to put down the knives in politics, I really just want to see people be kind to one another.”
Shocking footage shows masked ICE agents smash windows and assault US citizen they already accosted
Willy Aceituno repeatedly told ICE agents that he was a US citizen, and to check his wallet for his ID, but they continued to arrest him in a Charlotte parking lot
Rev. Jesse Jackson remains hospitalized after receiving care to stabilize his blood pressure, sources say
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson remains hospitalized and has been receiving care to manage his blood pressure, sources close to Jackson’s family told CNN on Sunday.
Nearly 20 Percent of Senate Democrats Are Thinking of Running for President in 2028
Last week I noted that if progressives want to replace Chuck Schumer as leader of the Democrats in the Senate, they’ll need to get the caucus to unite behind an alternative, and one of the complications is that . . . if not quite every Democratic senator is thinking of running for president, it sometimes feels that way.
Escape From Mamdani’s New York: Rambling Jon Voight Tells Trump That NYC Mayor-Elect’s Victory Should Be “Terminated”
Jon Voight doesn’t just want to help Donald Trump to Make Hollywood Great Again, the Enemy of the State star now wants the former Apprentice host to save an apparently in-peril New York City. Specifically, Voight is asking POTUS to stop the newly-elected Zohran Mamdani from taking over as mayor — apparently by any means necessary.
Is Bondi Saying Her DOJ’s Prior ‘Exhaustive’ Epstein Review Was a Sham?
The Justice Department is in the business of investigating crime, not the business of conducting political opposition research.
Let our people go! Zohran Mamdani victory spurs Staten Island pols to renew bid to pull out of NYC
Leaders of New York City’s “Forgotten Borough” — and most conservative enclave — are re-introducing stalled legislation for Staten Island to secede from what they fear will become the People’s Republic of Mamdani.
Elementary students given ‘tickets’ by cops for saying ‘6-7’
Police in Indiana are issuing “tickets” to elementary school students caught saying “6-7,” the nonsensical, viral slang term kids seemingly can’t stop saying.
Student accuses U. New Mexico of race-based admissions in new lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court has been “clear that Title VI and the Constitution do not allow the use of racial preferences … or the use of a stand-in for racial preferences,” attorney Reilly Stephens told The College Fix regarding a new discrimination lawsuit against the University of New Mexico.
Texts reveal Trump’s right-hand man promised protection for Epstein: ‘Don’t have to worry’
Steve Bannon, MAGA influencer and former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, promised to shield Jeffrey Epstein from prosecution just months before his death in prison, newly unearthed text messages suggested Monday.
Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump.
DOJ admits full grand jury never reviewed final Comey indictment, further imperiling case
The Justice Department on Wednesday admitted that the operative indictment against former FBI Director James Comey was never presented to the full grand jury — a procedural error defense attorneys say should bar the prosecution.
American Enterprise Institute Admits Mistake in Listing TikTok as Gala Sponsor, Refunds Seat Purchases
The American Enterprise Institute admitted Tuesday to making a mistake in listing TikTok as a sponsor at its annual gala held in Washington, D.C., last night.
Lindsey Halligan’s Botched Grand Jury Presentation Against Comey
Some errors may require dismissal of the charges. Some are being exaggerated.
DOJ Admonished Comey Prosecutor Not to Admit Existence of Declination Memo Against Bringing Charges
Under intense questioning by the presiding judge, one of the experienced prosecutors recruited by the Trump Justice Department to handle the case against former FBI Director James Comey admitted that the prosecutors previously responsible for the investigation had drafted a memo explaining why charges should not be brought.
Lindsey Halligan Confirms: Most Grand Jurors Never Saw Final Comey Indictment
How much does it matter?
DOJ Admonished Comey Prosecutor Not to Admit Existence of Declination Memo Against Bringing Charges
Under intense questioning by the presiding judge, one of the experienced prosecutors recruited by the Trump Justice Department to handle the case against former FBI Director James Comey admitted that the prosecutors previously responsible for the investigation had drafted a memo explaining why charges should not be brought.
Apparently Windows 11 becoming ‘agentic AI’ means letting the bots rummage through some of your files
A few days ago we reported that the president of Windows and devices at Microsoft said “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.” We weren’t sure exactly what that meant, though, apart from Windows having some kind of AI functionality baked in that can run autonomously. Well, ponder no more because a new support document explains, and it looks like the changes are already rolling out to Insiders.
Anti-Zionist groups announce protest outside Manhattan synagogue
Anti-Zionist groups announce a protest for tomorrow at New York City’s Park East Synagogue.
Comey Case Update
Lots of news in the Comey case the last couple of days. Here’s where it stands after yesterday’s dust settled.
Tucker Carlson Goes Full Truther
Once a level-headed critic of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the former Fox commentator now caters to the anti-American, conspiracist audience in his new video series, The 9/11 Files.
The COVID political backlash disappeared
Turns out the pandemic didn’t break the Democratic Party
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault
A former congressional staffer is accused of staging a fake and self-targeted political attack involving mutilation and derogatory writing on her body.
In Nevada, economic concerns threaten to wipe away Trump and the GOP’s Latino voter gains
As inflation and tariffs affect business owners and Las Vegas tourism dwindles, a Las Vegas culinary union leader argues that a ”Trump slump” is alienating Hispanic voters.
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Lobstermen surveillance, semiquincentennial squabbling, and socking it to the Scotch Tape People.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Resignation from Congress
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) announced Friday evening that she is resigning from her seat in the House of Representatives, effective at the beginning of next year.
Trump Splits With Republicans and Embraces ‘Communist’ Mamdani
The ‘communist’ decisively charmed the ‘fascist.’ When New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump met for the first time at the White House, all previous invectives were forgotten. They laughed. They bonded over a shared affection for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When cameras were rolling, they practically bear-hugged in the Oval Office. And in a tremendous display of ideological flexibility, Trump, at one point, motioned to Mamdani and said of the democratic socialist, “Some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have.”
Cal State Schools Require Students To Take DEI Classes To Graduate. Options Include ‘Queer Crip Lit’ and ‘Decolonize Your Diet.’
The requirements come as other schools scale back their DEI missions amid a Trump administration crackdown
Firing Teacher for Mentioning Racial Epithets in “Cultural Diversity” Class May Violate Connecticut Constitution
From a decision earlier this month in Byrd v. Middletown Bd. of Ed., by Connecticut trial court Judge Sheila Ozalis; Byrd was a teacher who “was teaching a lesson on ‘recognizing racial epithets’ as a part of the Cultural Diversity Curriculum at Beman Middle School”
Halligan’s ‘Correction’ of the Record Sparks More Intrigue About Comey Indictment
Why did the DOJ create a second indictment document that makes it look like no charge was rejected?
No, Ken Burns, the United States Is Not an Iroquois Nation
The Founders didn’t model us on the Six Nations, and George Washington didn’t tomahawk a Frenchman.
UPI’s Radio Wire: How America’s broadcast stations were first informed of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
This is an effort to provide an electronic facsimile of the United Press International radio news wire during the first half hour following the shooting of the President in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 and to help others understand the challenges faced by those who had to transmit the news, using now-ancient technology, to radio and television stations across much of the country. It is reproduced from a file that was printed on the national UPI radio wire Teletype machine in the UPI bureau in Denver, Colorado.
He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post — now FIRE has his back
Police arrest first, justify later
Economy & Taxes
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns of ‘perfect storm’ behind ground beef possibly soaring to $10 a pound
Top Trump officials were out in front on Sunday, defending President Trump’s efforts to fight rising food prices following a report that ground beef is headed to $10 a pound.
Scott Bessent blames immigrants for high beef prices with bizarre diseased cow claim
Many top economists blame the sharp rise in beef prices on President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs, which have increased the cost of beef imported from Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and Uruguay
Democrats seek to halt Trump’s reported plan to sell off student loan portfolio
The Democrats argue it is illegal to strip borrowers of certain protections and the Trump administration in the sale of the portfolio could go after income-driven repayment programs, death and disability discharges and relief for those defrauded by their schools.
Trump promises $2,000 tariff checks by mid-2026
Putting a timetable on the checks is a significant step forward versus just suggesting the idea, which Trump has done multiple times this year. But the dividends would require legislation, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last weekend, and it’s not clear if Congress has the appetite.
The next recession is coming — and this time, you’re the collateral
It’s not a matter of if the next recession comes, but when. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently warned that “sections of the economy” are already showing signs of strain — and that if the Federal Reserve doesn’t cut rates soon, the pain could spread fast. His warning landed like an echo of what many already feel: Something in the system is starting to buckle.
Teacher killed and 25 girls abducted in gunbattle at Nigerian school
Armed men have killed a teacher and abducted at least 25 students in an attack on a girls’ secondary school in north-western Nigeria, police say.
Project activity in the South so far in 2025 has been so disastrous that totals are on track to mark the worst SB&D 100 in its 31-year history by a significant margin.
SB&D is reporting that economic development project activity in the American South, the world’s third largest economy, is at the lowest mid-year point of any year since the SB&D 100 ranking was established in 1994.
Middle-class shoppers are pulling back, sending alarms through the retail industry: ‘There are signs of real distress on the way’
Home Depot just became the latest major retailer to warn that the slowdown in consumer spending is spreading. The home improvement cut its full-year outlook on Tuesday, reporting weakening sales growth for Q3. Comparable sales — a key measure that strips out new store openings — rose by just 0.2% with US comps up by 0.1% — falling short of Wall Street’s expectations and underscoring a subtle yet important shift: more financially stable shoppers are starting to pull back. “An expected increase in demand in the third quarter did not materialize. We believe that consumer uncertainty and continued pressure in housing are disproportionately impacting home improvement demand,” said Ted Decker, chair, president, and CEO of Home Depot.
Trump’s ‘$2,000 Check’ Is a Disastrous Idea
This is a horrible idea, and Congress should flatly refuse to acquiesce. All else aside, Washington D.C. needs to get out of this habit. Absent truly extraordinary circumstances, the federal government should not be sending checks out to the citizenry as if it were some ersatz Publishers Clearing House. As of today, the Treasury is 38.2 trillion dollars in debt. If, by some miracle, it has found a pool of money that has not been allocated to anything specific, it ought to use that money to cut the deficit or pay down the debt. If it does not have such a pool, it ought not to be handing it out. Doing so is bad for our system of limited government, destructive of the independence of the citizenry, and irresponsible toward future generations.
The Season of American Irrationality
Americans were already angry about the persistently high and rising cost of basic goods and services when they sent Donald Trump back to the White House. They’re still angry over the price of consumer products today, and for good reasons. Consumer costs have continued to grow during Trump’s second term in office despite his promise to provide Americans with relief.
What Is Wrong with Economics Education?
When professors mischaracterize government intervention, everyone loses.
Harvard Admits That Grades Have Lost Their Meaning
The Ivy’s academic standards are in crisis.
Is the Jeffrey Epstein Document Hunt Descending into a Moral Panic?
The Washington Post’s Jason Willick is engaged in an experiment on social media. Its initial results suggest that Willick’s thesis is sound
Trump’s Crusade for Lower Interest Rates Is Costing Him
Politico reported this morning that President Trump is once again fantasizing about firing the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, over the central bank’s reluctance to slash interest rates. “Frankly, I would love to get the guy currently in there out right now, but people are holding me back,” Trump lamented to reporters on Tuesday. He repeated the sentiment during an event yesterday: “I’ll be honest, I’d love to fire his ass.”
Manufacturing and Blue-Collar Employment Are Down
The recent wave of protectionist experimentation has been underway for years now. The first Trump term brought a surge of tariffs, many of which the Biden administration chose to keep. Then the Biden White House layered on its own tariffs. Add “liberation day” and the on-again, off-again tariff drama since, and the result is simple: the United States now has far more tariffs on far more imports, and it’s suffering from a damaging level of uncertainty.
US Consumer Sentiment Falls to One of Lowest Levels on Record
US consumer sentiment fell in November to one of the lowest levels on record as Americans’ views of their personal finances soured.
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it’s a “great idea.”
Why Fascist Economies Can’t Work
When it comes to economic organization (not necessarily political organization), we might be tempted to ask why it is that Fascist economies don’t work. It seems like they might, after all, once you understand that they still enable what might be called a “deferred free enterprise” system, allowing for the profit motive after the government gets its own. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay (featuring a post by Logan Lancing) dives into the problem with Fascist (Stakeholder) economic models on a variety of levels, using both economic theory and historical and contemporary examples to make his point. Join him to understand why we should not readily embrace such a model for ourselves.
International
National Palace Breached in Mexico City Riot
“Thousands of protesters swarmed Mexico City Saturday, attacking police officers and attempting to breach a security barrier around the National Palace.”
Women gladiators in ancient Rome fought topless and had stage names like Amazon
Historical records, pictures and statues reveal female fighters slugged it out in arenas just like men – but with less body armour and even went bare-chested
Freedom Manifesto
Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado shares her preview of a new constitution for Venezuela.
“They’ve banned our free speech documentary”
I watched the Spiked documentary Think Before You Post — on the perilous condition of free speech in Great Britain — as soon as it was posted (video below).
Number of children abducted in Nigerian school attack raised to more than 300
A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, the Christian Association of Nigeria said Saturday, updating an earlier tally of 215 schoolchildren.
Opinion
Conservatives Shouldn’t Be Late to the Fight over the GOP’s Post-Trump Identity
Elections are clarifying things. Before Election Day, the actors on the American national stage might have had some vague sense that the president’s unrivaled political potency was waning, but they had no concrete evidence of it. Before November 4, Donald Trump was still a colossus. He remained the architect of a tectonic political realignment, and he was still the unchallenged avatar of the only movement in America capable of cobbling together a majority coalition. After November 4, the president’s stature has appreciably diminished. Those who seem to appreciate it most are those on the right who are scratching out for themselves a political identity that will help them navigate the post-Trump environment.
Why I Resigned from the Heritage Foundation Board
I have resigned from the board of the Heritage Foundation. I could not remain without a full retraction of the video released by Kevin Roberts, speaking for and in the name of Heritage, on October 30. Although Kevin publicly apologized for some of what he said in the video, he could not offer a full retraction of its content. So, we reached an impasse.
The Nick Fuentes Spiral
The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.
Neither American nor Conservative
The flagship paleoconservative publication got everything about Donald Trump’s Middle East policy wrong—and then melted down.
The Pike Place Proletariat: ‘Barista Socialism’ Is a Metaphor No More
Michael Barone saw the still nascent ideological schism roiling both major political parties today coming in the spring of 2023. He foresaw the isolationist nationalism that is presently vying for primacy on the right, and he forecast a socialist rebellion that would attempt to supplant both liberalism and even progressivism on the left. The latter group he offhandedly branded the vanguard of what he called “barista socialism.”
A Conservative Cure for Trumpism
Can the right find its way back to small government? Sarah Isgur thinks so.
Neither American nor Conservative
The flagship paleoconservative publication got everything about Donald Trump’s Middle East policy wrong—and then melted down.
Don’t Let Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Turn America Against People
Don’t try to solve housing shortages or worker frustrations by having fewer Americans.
National conservatism isn’t the future of the GOP
After the Republicans took a shellacking this month, President Donald Trump pointed out that the GOP tends to lose when he’s not on the ballot. But that’s not exactly right: MAGA candidates tend to lose when Trump isn’t on the ballot. That’s going to happen when a political party is transformed into a personality cult. Just ask Democrats, who lost over 1,000 seats during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Y’all Need a New Message
This is not to all of you. This is to a handful of you. You know who you are. You guys need a new message, or 2026 is not going to be good for us, particularly for your boss. Compare Stephen Miller of the Trump White House to Jared Bernstein of the Biden White House. You guys sound just like them.
The Epstein Fight Shows Trump Inching Closer to Lame Duck Status
On the menu today: The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on a resolution calling for the Department of Justice to release all files relating to Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell. I suspect that would include any documents involving Maxwell’s recent prison transfer. Meanwhile, former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers, who was Treasury Secretary back during the Bill Clinton years, pays a long-delayed price for his close friendship with Epstein. Read on.
Can the Dems Outflank Trump on Immigration?
The governor’s race in the red state of Ohio is a toss-up, according to the latest polls. The primaries aren’t until May, but the presumptive nominees for the November general election are Democrat Amy Acton and Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.
Tucker Carlson Goes Full Truther
Once a level-headed critic of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the former Fox commentator now caters to the anti-American, conspiracist audience in his new video series, The 9/11 Files.
Why isn’t the Heritage Foundation condemning Tucker Carlson?
The conservative think tank is unbothered Carlson’s friendly interview with a white nationalist.
Nixon’s Revenge
Trump’s Republican Party hearkens back to the era of the ‘me-too Republicans.’
Dick Cheney and the Fruits of Regime Change
He has largely proved right about Iraq and the broader Middle East.
Why isn’t the Heritage Foundation condemning Tucker Carlson?
The conservative think tank is unbothered Carlson’s friendly interview with a white nationalist.
We Don’t Know Where We Are in the Political Cycle
It’s premature to treat Trump as if he’s been president for the past five years.
After a Drubbing, Does the GOP Have a Plan?
The party remains tangled up in Trump
So Many Things Wrong with These Trump Taunts to Reporters
Donald Trump has been going after people in his traveling press corps again. Now, a lot of the national political press deserves cordial contempt, and sometimes the situation calls for it to be less than cordial. But there are nonetheless several things wrong with this picture.
Conservative Think Tanks Should Never Have Crawled Into Bed With Tucker Carlson in the First Place
Explaining the crackup on the American right
When Mamdani says it, it’s socialism. When Trump does it, it’s genius.
The Trump GOP: Mamdani must be stopped. Also the Trump GOP: Government wants a piece of the action.
Conservative Think Tanks Should Never Have Crawled Into Bed With Tucker Carlson in the First Place
Explaining the crackup on the American right
Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
Media Clashes on the Right Could Shape What Comes After Trump: ‘Things are a Hot Mess ‘
Conservative journalist Jonah Goldberg doesn’t see his social media activity as “some deep and profound philosophical mission.” But he’s getting “really tired of the bulls–t.”
Gordon Wood on America as a “Creedal Nation” Open to all Races and Ethnicities
Wood is the leading living historian of the American Founding. He pushes back here against those who claim America should be an ethno-nationalist polity.
