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It happened under Trump — and under Obama: The U.S. is using bad law to crack down on investigative journalism. Read More

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, which raises the question of when. Read More

SCOTUS hears a case questioning the validity of that collaboration today. Read More

James Hankins writes about Harvard and DEI with the only way to change the university’s leadership, especially its corporation. Read More

University faculty should take the principles of free speech and neutrality seriously and debate the best way to achieve them, without... Read More

The claim that a new federal law mandates that every new motor vehicle includes technology that could disable the vehicle might sound... Read More

"By fueling an overall increase in demand, central banks can generate a sustained increase in the general level of prices — inflation.... Read More

When the Alabama Supreme Court found on February 16 that frozen embryos are protected by the state’s wrongful-death law in the same way... Read More

Unlike their predecessors of a century ago, New York’s progressives seem dedicated to destroying urban life. Read More

America's largest racial minority could swing the vote for Trump. Read More

A personal plea from a young Democrat for the party to learn from past mistakes in appealing to normal voters—and promise to do better in... Read More

My first night as a dad is seared in my memory.  Read More

Last week, a bipartisan group of House Members introduced a bill to force ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the... Read More

What is a president to do when, after insisting on trillions of dollars of excessive, wasteful spending, the resulting record-setting... Read More

Tim Schwab’s book on Gates is an education, and an opportunity to examine certain questions. Read More

In the four years since the COVID-19 pandemic, a plethora of schools across the country — including all eight Ivy league schools... Read More

While the new proposal does not appear to directly allow federal work-study money to be used in partisan political activities, critics have... Read More

The surge in international students in America is a direct result of state-sponsored funding from unfriendly regimes. Read More

U.S. lawmakers are trying to regulate TikTok over long-standing alleged national security concerns, but it's unlikely the app is... Read More

Google’s disastrous launch of its Gemini AI program has been viewed as yet another skirmish in the long-running culture wars. Certainly,... Read More

It’s easy to forget that the institution of slavery has constituted a social norm in human history. From the grand perspective of time, its... Read More

This suggest a notable split among Latino voters, despite the broader preference for Biden over Trump in the survey Read More

Senior lawyers at the Interior Department were caught off guard by President Biden‘s abrupt halt of new oil and natural... Read More

House Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressing him about the funding of the IOM Travel Loan Program. Read More

YouGov poll highlights strong opposition on numerous transgender issues. Read More

The unanimous ruling left plenty of landmines for Congress to navigate. Read More

Listen to the inaugural edition of the new RealClearPolitics show on SiriusXM (Monday through Friday at 6:00 p.m. EST on P.O.T.U.S.... Read More

Adam Savit serves as the Director for the China Policy Initiative at America First Policy Instituite (AFPI). He previously served as China... Read More

Robert Henderson joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. Read More

It's that most-wonderful time of the year! CPAC 2024 is upon us! Jerry is late, so Andrew has to handle some of the interview duties. He's... Read More

Cheney and her Jan. 6 committee falsely claimed they had 'no evidence' the Trump White House had asked for 10,000 National Guard troops. Read More

A new Biden administration rule could lay the groundwork for the final dismantling of institutional care in America—and disrupt the... Read More

he latest AllSides Google News bias analysis found 63% of articles that appeared on the news aggregator over a 2-week period... Read More

What seemed obvious at the time might have caused greater harm in the long run. Read More

Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvin’s knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a week’s worth of rallies... Read More

In a statement issued last week, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman once again called for an end to Governor Sisolak’s indefinite... Read More

While New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the closing of certain grocery stores over COVID-19 concerns, she spent $16,248 in... Read More

Officials from Petaluma, California have decided their city has enough places to fill up gas-powered cars. Last week, the local city council... Read More

A friend sent me a link that, upon opening it, I initially thought I had been directed to The Babylon Bee. I rubbed my eyes and pored over... Read More

How racial radicalism has undermined the Democrats' appeal. Read More

If the U.S. has any prospects of thwarting the invasion at our southern border, our leaders first need to admit it is happening. Read More

The former progressive darling has decided to become the world’s most antagonistic Israel stan. It’s a very bad look. Read More

The San Francisco 49’ers may have lost the Super Bowl, but star running back Christian McCaffrey still had plenty of prize money to... Read More

Heading into the 2024 elections, foreign policy is at the forefront of many Americans' minds as conflicts rage in Europe and the Middle... Read More

This article was adapted from remarks given at the Yale Political Union, a philosophical debating society, in favor of the resolution... Read More

Artificial intelligence is forging a world less free, and filled by individuals less equipped for freedom—or simply less equipped, period. Read More

The war in Ukraine and the ongoing unrest in the Middle East are having economic and geopolitical consequences that could impact global... Read More

Back in 2021, then-32-year-old Lina Khan’s rise to chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was heralded in the press as a new... Read More

Voters who skipped the midterms are different. Read More

The trend is real in polls, and in at least some election results. Read More