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How to Balance Skills-Based and Family-Based Immigration
Right now, roughly two-thirds of the green cards issued every year are given to the family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPRs). For years, there’s been a growing consensus...
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DHS Condemns Schumer-Rounds-Collins Immigration Bill
Update: Fred Bauer tweets that, per Susan Collins, the date discussed below will be changed back to January 1. The agency's statement asserts: The Schumer-Rounds-Collins proposal destroys the ability...
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The Latest Senate Immigration ‘Compromise’ Makes Graham-Durbin Look Hawkish
Vox has a useful run-down of the latest so-called compromise in the Senate that deserves to fail. Among the provisions: Tells ICE not to focus on unauthorized immigrants living in the US without...
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New DACA Proposal Doesn’t Promote Key GOP Interests
To follow up on Robert VerBruggen’s points about how the Schumer-Rounds-King amendment might end up incentivizing future illegal immigration: The provisions of this bill suggest that, in addition to...
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A Close Race in Pennsylvania’s 18th
How close is the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, to be held March 13? A poll conducted in early January by Gravis Marketing showed Republican Rick Saccone with a 12 point lead over...
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‘Have Democrats Overplayed Their Trump Hand?’
In Politico today, I wrote about the shift in polling toward Republicans in recent weeks: It turns out that, with apologies to Nancy Pelosi, Republicans really did have to pass the tax bill so people...
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How Many 'Red Flags' Can One School Shooter Accumulate?
Let’s begin with the appropriate caveats; police work is hard and police officers, detectives, and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have difficult jobs. Cops have limited resources,...
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Senate Immigration Bills Go Down in Flames
From The Hill: The Senate rejected legislation based on President Trump's framework for an immigration deal in a 39-60 vote on Thursday, leaving an uncertain path forward for Congress with nearly a...
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Pro-LGBT Academics Should Thank Mark Regnerus
One year ago in NR, Maggie Gallagher described how sociologist Mark Regnerus had been unable to replicate a study popular with LGBT activists. Published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, the...
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There Were Three School Shootings This Year, Not 18. That's Still Too Many.
Any number of school shootings is too many. And, at this time when we are so rightly hurting at yesterday’s brutality in Parkland, Fla., a sensationalist report has gone viral, claiming that there have...
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The Truth about 'White Supremacy'
National Review's latest digital magazine is out today for subscribers, featuring Kevin D. Williamson on the intellectual emptiness of "white supremacy." Also inside you'll find Robert VerBruggen on...
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‘Frankly, the United States Is under Attack’
This morning, I read this: “The British government has named and shamed Russia as the culprit in a massive ransomware attack last year that targeted Ukraine and then spread across Europe, costing...
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National Review Summer Internship
National Review is accepting applications for its summer internship. The intern will work in our New York office, receive a modest stipend, participate in every part of the editorial process, and have...
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Poetry
Before the Fall Heart-faced Tyto alba to hunt takes flight To wind, to wing, in barest light Through shadows draped with care across the sky Comes with the dark her hidden cry Wise the hands which...
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What’s Up in Dubuque
Is social conservatism dead? Of course, it exists in the abstract, or in individual belief. But I mean as a political force. Is there any life in it? Yesterday, I had a couple of items in my Impromptus...
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Oscar, Willie, Goody, and Other Greats
A couple of weeks ago, Oscar Gamble died. He was a baseball player, for the Cleveland Indians and other teams. He happened to be the first ballplayer I ever saw, live and in the flesh. I wrote about...
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We Need an Accurate National Conversation About Guns
From the last Morning Jolt of the week: We Need an Accurate National Conversation About Guns Thank you, Washington Post, for stepping up to the plate and correcting a widely-cited and shared piece of...
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Friday links
Geronimo died on February 17 in 1909 - some history, quotes, a brief biography, and why we yell his name when we jump out of planes. Bird Feeders Are Changing the Course of Evolution. The strange tale...
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Time to Fix the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Trump administration’s proposed budget contains an interesting line item that isn’t mentioned in the summary text. It calls for reductions in spending at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Jamie Weinstein Show
My latest podcast, with Ta-Nehisi Coates, is now up. I encourage you to take a listen. Though Coates and I have significant differences in our worldviews, the conversation is respectful, and I think...
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Is an Assault-Weapon Ban the Solution?
Louis Klarevas of the University of Massachusetts at Boston contends that an assault-weapon ban would result in "drastic reductions in what I call gun massacres,” meaning incidents in which six or more...
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The Editors: Another Horror
Check out the latest episode of The Editors, in which Rich, Reihan, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and Dan McLaughlin discuss the shooting in Florida, Congress's immigration debate, and more. You can...
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National Review Summer Internship
National Review is accepting applications for its summer internship. The intern will work in our New York office, receive a modest stipend, participate in every part of the editorial process, and have...
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Houston, We Have Conference
Dallas, too. On Tuesday, March 6 (Big D), and Wednesday, March 7 (Houston), the NR gang will be in Texas as part of National Review Institute’s cross-country “Remembering William F. Buckley Jr.”...
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Scott Pruitt's Flying First-Class Was Avoidable, But Not a Scandal
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to fly first- or business-class is hardly a scandal. According to a Politico report, it turns out the decision was his security team’s -- not his -- and was...
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A Specific, and Unheeded Warning to the FBI
On the heels of yesterday’s discussion of just how many “red flags” surrounded the Lakeland shooter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a stunning statement that confirms that sometimes,...
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Coverage of the Florida Tragedy is Driven by Anger, Not by Race
I’ve largely stayed out of the latest frenzy of commentary about the shooting in Florida, because as I’ve written many times before, I hate the post tragedy argle-bargle (how much I hate it is on full...
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The Russian Indictments
A couple of points: 1) The indictments are clearly an exemplary act, since the Russians are never going to go to trial. I'll defer to our lawyers on the legal wisdom of that, but as an American, I'm...
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Robert Mueller’s Alarming, Reassuring Indictment
Earlier today Robert Mueller’s office announced the indictment of a Russian “Internet Research Agency” and a number of Russian nationals for various crimes related to their efforts to influence the...
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People Who Need ‘People’
I open my new Jaywalking with a little meditation on the people. I mean, “the people” as a phrase, in the mouths of politicians. I even play a little music -- the opening of Frederic Rzewski’s...
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