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IN THE August 24, 2015, ISSUE

David behind the Wheel

Las Vegas — ‘Vegas is a totally normal place to live,” the cabbie says as we take in the view of the giant black pyramid with the klieg light shooting ...

No Video, Please; We’re Killing Something

By Mary Eberstadt

Ajit Pai’s Fight for Internet Freedom

By Tim Heffernan

Articles

Politics & Policy

When Donald Trump’s presidential bid started attracting serious attention, it was perhaps unsurprising that Ted Cruz was the only other Republican candidate to offer kind words about his new rival. ...

Politics & Policy

What Is a Single Mother?

By Nicholas H. Wolfinger

In 2013, families headed by single mothers were more than five times as likely to be poor as two-parent families. This ratio has been remarkably stable over time: Thirty years ...

Politics & Policy

Born in the U.S.A.

By Reihan Salam

One of the most important questions America will face over the coming decades is how to successfully integrate the children of immigrants. As of 2013, there were 17.4 million children ...

Politics & Policy

Ajit Pai’s Fight for Internet Freedom

By Tim Heffernan

On February 26, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission made its biggest announcement in years: The so-called open Internet and the related concept of net neutrality were to be enshrined in ...

Politics & Policy

The Kimono Kerfuffle

By Andrew Stuttaford

The work of re-educators is never done. Too much is at stake — power, jobs, research grants, the thrill of the chase, the drama of victimhood — for the process ...

Politics & Policy

Stick It to ’Em

By Jay Nordlinger

Bumper stickers were a backdrop of my growing up, for I come from a lefty town, and the Left seems to love a bumper sticker. As I think back on ...

Politics & Policy

My Tomboy Heaven

By Sarah Ruden

The transgender trend has reached down to children. I wonder what people would have thought of my gender identity as a child. My experience says, yes, gender identity is complicated, ...

Features

Politics & Policy

David behind the Wheel

By Kevin D. Williamson

Las Vegas — ‘Vegas is a totally normal place to live,” the cabbie says as we take in the view of the giant black pyramid with the klieg light shooting ...

Politics & Policy

No Video, Please; We’re Killing Something

By Mary Eberstadt

At the same time that scientific advances force us to gaze upon the animal kingdom with more respect, the proliferation of big and little cameras — of eyes everywhere — ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

What Can-Do Conservatism Can’t Do

By William Voegeli

The founding of this magazine, 60 years ago, marked the emergence of a distinctly American conservatism. William Buckley and National Review posed two questions, fundamental and connected, that conservatives have ...

Politics & Policy

Out of the Dark Wood

By Ian Tuttle

I confess that I approached this book warily. “How Dante Can Save Your Life” is the sort of title that reminds one of the abundance of volumes about the power ...

Politics & Policy

China’s Fatal Attraction

By Arthur Herman

Brutal autocracies have a peculiar fascination for certain liberals, especially if they write for the New York Times. Walter Duranty once spun paeans of praise for Stalin’s Soviet Union, even ...

Politics & Policy

Origin Stories

By Nicholas Frankovich

Mystique and Aura still perform their occasional magic for the New York Yankees but are slowing down. “Those are dancers in a nightclub,” Curt Schilling scoffed, before taking the ball ...

City Desk

In the Belly of a Friendly Beast

By Richard Brookhiser

We are entitled as citizens to help with our medical bills when we turn 65. The help is not open-ended: Only certain doctors will give it, and they may not ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Letters

By NR Staff

Sanders: Not a Nazi, Just a National Socialist In “Adventures in National Socialism” (July 6), Kevin D. Williamson conflates Senator Bernie Sanders’s “democratic socialism” with National Socialism, the system of Adolf ...

Politics & Policy

The Week

By NR Staff

&dash; Planned Parenthood is clearly worried that this story has legs ($22/lb.). &dash; Telling a pollster you support Donald Trump, for some large percentage of those who do, is a way ...

The Long View

National Security Agency Radio-Frequency Monitoring

By Rob Long

LOCATION: Manchester, New Hampshire FREQUENCY: 287.90 GHz Begin Extract: Static. Female Voice: “Why is she standing there frozen?” Male Voice: “Mrs. Clinton? Can you hear us?” Female Voice: “Oh my God. A voter asked her a ...

Athwart

Cecil-Justice Warriors

By James Lileks

The Aussie voice on the other end of the phone explained that it was calling from a Melbourne talk-radio station, and could I say a few words about Cecil the ...

Politics & Policy

Poetry

By William W. Runyeon

VASE OF ROSES The sunrise burned so bright behind and within the mists of daybreak as to overspill a radiance across the long curve of horizon, broken by the dark line of trees above the ...

Happy Warrior

Socialism for Dummies

By Jonah Goldberg

When I first heard that Debbie Wasserman Schultz couldn’t explain to Chris Matthews the difference between what Democrats believe and what socialists believe, I chalked it up to her incompetence. ...

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