Dan McLaughlin

An actual fake polls scandal shows the need for continued skeptical appraisal, not simply ignoring all polling data.

There are no good answers to how and why we cut off Ukraine’s defense shield without warning, but we can identify the universe of suspects and motives.

Only a few of the big races look seriously out of reach, but Republicans are in a perilous position.

An American lake battle 250 years ago bought the Patriots essential time the British couldn’t afford to lose.

The justice’s book defends the practical use of originalism as well as Burkean philosophy and religious liberty.

Alito tells National Review what a justice needs and reads, and what worries him the most about the future.

The author of Dobbs sits down with National Review.

We should get the facts and the law straight before holding a moral panic — but we should still demand a more moral society.

We need imagination just as much as we age, and we need to give it more and better things to chew upon.

Defending classical liberalism begins with defining it and its enemies.

A state court has ordered an Orthodox Jew to demand that a rabbinical court reverse a religious ruling. That goes too far.

The races aren’t as uniform as the Senate’s, but the overall picture for the GOP is bad. Very bad.

Mid-September polling is not the last word, but if Trump’s approval rating is below 40 on Election Day, it’s grisly news for the GOP.

An online fracas over Texas college football fans underscores the hollowness of this cause.

Ryan Reynolds misunderstands why the 1980s were not just fondly recalled, but experienced as a good time when they were happening.

Italy is as picturesque as advertised, but getting to everything worth seeing is an adventure.

The Battle of Long Island required a stroke of providence to stave off disaster for the American cause less than two months after independence was declared.

There’s no guarantee that Trump’s latest birthright citizenship orders will stand up in court, but they reflect a more serious effort to work within existing law while pushing its borders.

Our strategic, political, and moral dilemma in the Iran war derives from never deciding why we’re at war in the first place.

The Court faces tough questions as a result of an overreaching Trump order colliding with an overreaching district judge.

The latest arguments for Court-packing are nothing but a lawless mask for power that would destroy the rule of law.

One needs more than a close case and divided dissenters to overturn 128 years of precedent.

It is neither a business nor a sports league; if it was either, it would celebrate and protect a hugely popular generational talent.

The vice president’s theory that the Nixon coalition was stronger and more durable doesn’t survive contact with reality.

Once again, the Court deals in reality on sex differences instead of ideology.

The history and usefulness of an independent central bank is no substitute for a constitutional power to separate it from the political branches.

The Court has given the president full control of one of the three branches of constitutional government — and created a separate fourth branch in the Fed.

250 years ago today, resourceful men and the humble palmetto tree saved the South.

Trump’s immigration policies may play hardball, but in two cases, the Court found that the plain meaning of the law written by Congress is on his side.

The Court took care in three cases to ask where the power to file lawsuits came from.