Beto O’Rourke Is More of a Slacker than a Saint

Jim Geraghty

Before I go any further, this is it — your last chance to register for the National Review Institute Ideas Summit, like a spring concert festival for conservatives, libertarians, populists, Republicans, Trump fans, Trump critics from the Right. And what a lineup: Pompeo, DeVos, Pai, Hassett, Rollins, Rubio, Crenshaw, Bruce, Buckley, Carlson, Carolla, Continetti, Leo, Yoo — and that’s beyond the whole NR gang.

Extra-big Morning Jolt today, just too much to cover: a ... Read More

Top Stories

Emergency-Declaration Rebuke Splits Senate GOP

John McCormack

On Thursday afternoon, twelve Republican senators — nearly a fifth of the GOP caucus — joined Senate Democrats to pass a resolution terminating the national emergency declared by President Trump last month in an effort to unilaterally appropriate funds for construction of his long-promised border wall. The 59–41 vote was a rare bipartisan rebuke of Trump, who will now issue the first veto of his presidency in order to preserve the emergency declaration.

Cheating to Get Your Kids into College Turns Them into Monsters

Katherine Timpf

These parents are warping their children to believe that they are simply entitled to whatever they want.

Armed Man Chased, Fired On New Zealand Mosque Shooter

Jack Crowe

The unnamed man went home to retrieve his gun when the shooting broke out before returning to the Linwood mosque to engage the shooter.

China’s Insidious Institutes

Rachelle Peterson

The Chinese government uses Confucius Institutes on American college campuses to enforce control and suppress dissent.

Jacob Wohl’s Lying Hurts Real Victims

Katherine Timpf

The right-wing Twitter troll's actions should be condemned.

Can Biden Win Over a Democratic Party Tilting Hard to the Left?

Jonathan S. Tobin

Joe Biden’s appeal to Trump voters would help him in a general election, but it could also prevent him from getting there.

Gavin Newsom’s Death-Penalty Overreach

The Editors

The reprieve power that Newsom wields is intended as a final check against injustice, not to nullify laws that the governor happens not to like.

AOC Mocks ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ After New Zealand Mosque Shooting, Says It’s an ‘NRA...

Jack Crowe

AOC suggested the phrase “thoughts and prayers” was devised by the NRA to distract from the issue of gun violence.

What NR is Reading

Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico

Msgr. James T. Murphy

"Very few Americans, including those of Mexican ancestry, know anything about the brutal modern persecution of the Church in Mexico. This is a most welcome and thorough account...of this very cruel oppression of the Church. It's a stirring wake-up call."

LEARN MORE

Photo Essays