National Review

NR PLUS Film & TV

Beast Offers Solid Late-Summer Thrills

By Matthew Lickona 2:13 PM

The Idris Elba man-vs.-lion caper is good enough, gripping enough, and engaging enough entertainment for the dog days.

Politics & Policy

Walmart Expands Employee Coverage to Cover Certain Kinds of Abortions

By Nate Hochman 2:05 PM

The department-store chain has taken a side, and it’s not the pro-life one.

The Editors

Episode 461: Red Wave or Red Mirage?

1:50 PM

Rich, Phil, Maddy, and Jack discuss midterm-election polling, Brian Stelter’s ousting from CNN, and the tragedy of the transgender situation in the U.S.

U.S.

Don’t Overthrow the U.S. Constitution

By Dan McLaughlin 1:02 PM

Our Constitution gives us, as Ben Franklin, said, ‘a republic — if you can keep it.’ I’d prefer to keep it.

Politics & Policy

Americans Want Reform of Government, but Parties Are Not Listening

By Veronique de Rugy 1:01 PM

More government interventions in the current system, with the same incentives and dysfunctions, will only result in bad outcomes.

World

U.S. Left over $7 Billion Worth of Weapons in Afghanistan: State Department

By Jimmy Quinn 12:40 PM

The McCaul report, citing the $7.12 billion Pentagon-provided figure, gave a brief accounting of the equipment said to have been left in Afghanistan.

Politics & Policy

Why Former CIA Directors Shouldn’t Sound Like Partisan Pundits

By Jim Geraghty 11:52 AM

The CIA, NSA and FBI can’t function unless they are perceived as above partisan politics – institutions that are pro-America, not pro-Left or pro-Right.

Law & the Courts

Judge Blocks Workplace Provisions of DeSantis’s Stop WOKE Act

By Caroline Downey 11:38 AM

The law bars employers from mandating DEI trainings that incorporate elements of critical race theory.

Law & the Courts

Man Accused of Stabbing Salman Rushdie Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder and Assault

By Caroline Downey 8:51 AM

If convicted of attempted murder, Matar could face up to 25 years in prison.

U.S.

An American Military, Etc.

By Jay Nordlinger 7:57 AM

Reader mail on a variety of issues, including the U.S. armed forces.

Education

Student Mismatch: One of the Numerous Problems Caused by the Diversity Mania

By George Leef 7:23 AM

It’s had bad consequences for everyone except the people who now have jobs as ‘diversity’ administrators — jobs that need not exist.

World

Another Setback for John Kerry

By Andrew Stuttaford 6:57 AM

Having failed to get China and now India on board with his agenda, our climate Metternich does not seem to be proving as effective as he might have hoped.

NR PLUS Education

The Oakland Phonics Fee-Ass-Co

By Luther Ray Abel 6:30 AM

One California school district admits that scrapping phonics was a bad idea. We can only imagine how it came to this . . .

NR PLUS Capital Matters

Singapore Is Not a Free-Market Paradise

By Jacob Hjortsberg 6:30 AM

There are three main elements of the Singaporean system that allow it to operate, and they demonstrate that the country is far from a free-market paradise.

Impromptus

Salzburg Journal

By Jay Nordlinger 6:30 AM

Photos, points, and aperçus from Mozart’s hometown.