Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, where he has covered national politics for 15 years.
Ponnuru is the author of a book about the sanctity of life in American politics and a monograph about Japanese industrial policy. He has published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. He has been a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and a media fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He received a history degree from Princeton University.
Articles By Ramesh Ponnuru
Congress’s Trade Policy Is Increasingly Delusional
In a speech two weeks ago, Senator John McCain delivered a blistering assessment of President Barack Obama’s trade policy.
Romney Is About to Make Bush’s Health-Care Blunder
Mitt Romney, so long bedeviled by the politics of health care, may be about to make another serious mistake.
Don’t Let Washington Ban Cellphones in Your Car
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood slapped down Reuters for reporting a few weeks ago that he wants “a federal law to ban talking on a cell phone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country.”
China’s Population Crash Could Upend U.S. Policy
It isn’t quite true that demography is destiny. But if Nicholas Eberstadt is right, our destiny is going to be shaped by demography in ways we may not expect.
Obama, Republicans Ransack Reagan’s Record, Come Up Empty
President Barack Obama hasn’t had much luck in getting living Republicans to endorse his proposed “Buffett rule,” which would ensure that the highest earners pay a minimum federal tax rate of 30 percent.
Romney Should Ignore ’Gender Gap’ Mythology
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is obsessed with the women’s vote.
Obama’s Fantasy Budget Suggests Tax Hike Surprise
“A thunderclap of a speech,” the editors of the New York Times called it.
Democrats Resort to Magical Thinking on Obamacare
In the span of one week, Democrats went from dismissing the possibility that the Supreme Court would strike down the 2010 law mandating individuals to buy health insurance to consoling themselves that any such action would have a silver lining.
Supreme Court Case Won’t End Republican Obamacare Attacks
The Supreme Court is much on Mitch McConnell’s mind these days. The Senate minority leader, a Kentucky Republican, just finished reading Jean Edward Smith’s biography of the great Chief Justice John Marshall.
Romney Will Bore, and Win, as Mr. Establishment
It is a question that must have occurred to many candidates over the years: How can I be losing to this guy?
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