IN THE June 7, 2010, ISSUE Defending Arizona By Kris W. Kobach Few laws have ever been so grossly mischaracterized by so many leaders on the left.
Politics & Policy The Immigration Impasse By Ramesh Ponnuru Stepping up enforcement while deferring the question of amnesty is not a perfect solution to the dilemmas created by current immigration policy.
Politics & Policy Look Before You Leap By John J. Miller Avoiding the stain of racial profiling is one thing. Controlling illegal immigration is another.
Politics & Policy A Population Portrait By Jason Richwine Legalization would add to our citizenry millions of people, most of them poor and less-educated, whose prospects for advancement are decidedly low.
Politics & Policy Back in the Game By Jay Nordlinger Ehrlich was kind of a tragic story: red-corpuscle Reaganite in a McGovernite state.
Politics & Policy Disclosed Partisanship By Bradley A. Smith Elena Kagan’s partisan loyalties are clear.
Politics & Policy Spare Not the Stick By Duncan Currie If America ditched sanctions tomorrow without first obtaining serious concessions, it would be rewarding the increasingly vulnerable Cuban regime.
Politics & Policy Defending Arizona By Kris W. Kobach Few laws have ever been so grossly mischaracterized by so many leaders on the left.
Politics & Policy The Blankest Slate By Ed Whelan My point is to highlight the curious chasm between that rhetoric and the reality of the Kagan pick.
Politics & Policy Poisoned Chalice By John O'Sullivan Cameronism is a foolish political strategy that was always likely to fail.
Books, Arts & Manners A Bridge to Nowhere By Fred Siegel A review of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick.
Books, Arts & Manners The Light of Reason By George Weigel A review of The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power by Melanie Phillips.
Books, Arts & Manners A Boswell For Rush By Jay Nordlinger A review of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One by Zev Chafets.
Books, Arts & Manners A Flawed Cassandra By Kay S. Hymowitz A review of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama by James T. Patterson.
Film & TV Meanwhile, Back in Sherwood . . . By Ross Douthat If you’re going to tamper with a classic story, you’d better have an idea that justifies the reinvention.
City Desk Springtime In The Square By Richard Brookhiser When warm weather comes to the country and stays, leaves and insects burst out, as if they had been spring-loaded. In the city, it’s people.
The Week The Week By NR Staff It took much too long, but Arlen Specter has now been rejected by two parties.
The Bent Pin The Ego and the I.D. By Florence King Our identity-card crisis has triggered a mechanism of classic psychoanalysis called “projection.”
Books, Arts & Manners The Image By Sarah Ruden In shops, on streets, in random places, A light within me lights these faces.
Happy Warrior Goose-Step Dancing By Mark Steyn I was never exactly “transported” by the music of Elvis Costello. But my glass of champagne is rimmed with aloes.