The Manafort-Papadopoulos Drama Is Relatively Unsurprising

Jim Geraghty

Happy Halloween! Try your best, ghosts and goblins. We live in a world with North Korean nukes, opioid addiction, Antifa, Russian hackers, a mass shooting in Las Vegas that still lacks a revealed motive, and Harvey Weinstein. Honestly, by comparison, ghosts and goblins are kind of relaxing.

Making the click-through worthwhile: why yesterday’s indictments and plea deals were less dramatic than the news media made it sound, some really ominous news out of North Korea, fallout from the allegations against Kevin Spacey, and why we need your help.

Mueller Strikes: The Thrilling, Exciting Drama That Isn’t That Thrilling or Exciting

I know everyone else in the Washington press corps is treating the first indictments and plea deals with special counsel Robert Mueller as a combination of Christmas and Watergate. But in the clear light of Tuesday morning, don’t Monday’s events feel predictable?

As everyone who bothered to look could see, Paul Manafort always had some unusual and shady ...

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The Manafort Indictment: Not Much There, and a Boon for Trump

Andrew C. McCarthy

The Paul Manafort indictment is much ado about nothing . . . except as a vehicle to squeeze Manafort, which is special counsel Robert Mueller’s objective — as we have been arguing for three...

A Guide to Understanding the Manafort Indictment

David French

A Guide to Understanding the Manafort Indictment

When the Power of the State Was Used to Bully Climate-Policy Dissenters

Todd Myers

Last year, Washington attorney general Bob Ferguson announced that he would be joining other blue-state attorneys general to investigate ExxonMobil and conservative groups that work on the issue...

Don’t Fire, Don’t Pardon

Rich Lowry

With special counsel Robert Mueller unveiling his first indictments and a plea deal in the Russia case, President Donald Trump should do what’s hardest for him — nothing. The indictment of...

At NR, Talk Isn’t Cheap

Charles C. W. Cooke

It’s that time again: Time for our annual NR “pay your way, buddy” Webathon. And this year I have a special request. We have recently spent a good amount of time building up our podcasting...

The Papadopoulos Case

Andrew C. McCarthy

As related in my earlier column on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Paul Manafort and an associate, today on balance is a good day for the Trump administration. Of course, you...

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Gordon S. Wood

'A bold, intelligent, and thoroughly engaging interpretation of the period...an immensely important book that deserves a wide readership.'
- The Providence Journal-Bulletin

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