Dan McLaughlin

A conservative American foreign policy is not one based on illusions or reflexive hostility to the use of power.

Sean Davis invented a false history of my writings in order to smear me.

Over-the-top rhetoric from Justice Jackson cannot overcome the Court’s precedents against individual lawsuits to enforce spending programs.

As a progressive judge, when Kagan thinks you’re wrong and Sotomayor thinks you’ve gone overboard, you should rethink your choices.

The ‘restrainer’ right and the progressives sound an awful lot alike on Israel and Iran — but they are on the margins.

The Court declined to blind itself to sex differences, to how medical practice works, or to the uncertain science in this area.

Justice Kavanaugh and the majority deliver a blow against judicial environmentalist meddling in the economy.

A major milestone for pro-lifers looms if the Senate passes the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Scott Adams turned the comics pages into a witty diatribe against Corporate America.

The Trump administration may regret making the birthright citizenship case its test of nationwide injunctions.

Forcing priests to divulge confessions, while exempting all manner of secular confessors, is rank religious discrimination.

The pope has eleven distinct jobs, and the cardinals may not be focused on the jobs that get the most press.

The D.C. Bar election shouldn’t be about weaponizing it as an arm of politics.

Stripping a legislator of the power to vote over her opinions is outrageous.

Why is a Republican fighting against religious school choice at the Supreme Court?

American institutions aren’t coming apart only because of a single cause or in a single way.

America was born as a maritime nation and grew to become a hegemon. Our grand strategy can’t and shouldn’t aim at isolation.

Justice Alito warns judges not to flyspeck executive decisions too closely.

Imports do not raise many of the issues that we associate with immigration.

We should never have reached the point where presidents can threaten law firms over whom they hire and represent.

Can Congress give a private industry group an unlimited power to tax?

History repeats itself in Ukraine, but we shouldn’t reenact it blindly.

What we know about the negotiations suggests that there was never a deal on the table that would have left Ukraine secure from Russian conquest.

Bringing back Karl Rove’s hero won’t usher in a new economic golden age.

A decision allowing schools to hide social gender transitioning of middle schoolers from parents is shot through with fallacies.

America is both a people and an idea. Its people can be loyal to their nation and also care about their old homelands.

The worst Democrats to hold the presidency have been very bad indeed.

Senate Republicans are likely to be more on defense than offense in 2026, but the field will be small unless and until the environment deteriorates.

Even the blue team’s best presidents are a mixed bag.

The DOGE case pushes the judicial power too far, and tempts a dangerous response.