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“The bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country,” Harry Enten, the chief data analyst for CNN,... Read More

Stop being naïve Republicans! This parliamentary procedure is already doomed. Read More

His goal here isn’t necessarily victory on the merits. It may be delay, uncertainty, and public doubt—especially in close races. Read More

Voters see stall tactics, soft spending, and procedural excuses. Republicans need wins, not alibis. Read More

Democrat Wes Moore's presidential ambitions imploded over the past 10 weeks, but you'd have to be a pretty close student of the Maryland... Read More

Democratic candidates have notched a series of wins in recent special elections — but a new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic... Read More

Beneath the spectacle, the right-wing influencer has created a heap of human wreckage. Read More

Race baiting charlatans have forgotten the lesson of the Civil Rights era: equal opportunity requires common norms, not separate systems. Read More

Today is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the 40-day period in the church calendar known as Lent.  Read More

The administration is right to argue that enforcing immigration laws gets criminal aliens out of communities. It is exceedingly unwise for... Read More

Children should not receive free public education unless they are lawfully present in the U.S., a new Heritage Foundation report contends. Read More

America’s enduring freedom depends on citizens who are formed by faith, reason, and our shared human tradition. Read More

A few hundred thousand bureaucrats crossing the Potomac never to hold a government do-nothing job again is a good start. Read More

CBO data show that government transfers now account for a historically large share of income among low-income households. Does today’s... Read More

The Hudson Tunnel Project between New York and New Jersey is officially a political nightmare en route to the midterms. Read More

The California high-speed rail debacle has become Exhibit A for why it is increasingly difficult for policymakers anywhere in America to... Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses why Governor Wes Moore was disinvited from the Governor's Summit and Dinner by... Read More

On Friday's RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Phil Wegmann discuss Wegmann's latest exposé about the... Read More

Leor Sapir and Rafael Mangual dive into one of the most polarizing issues of our time: gender ideology. They explore how gender discourse... Read More

Fear-driven regulation—not AI—is the real risk to prosperity. Read More

Energy affordability has become a top concern for  .... Read More

Voting by the non-citizen mayor of Coldwater, Kan., highlights a problem created by Congress. Read More

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) appliance efficiency standards program has been in place for decades, subjecting nearly every major... Read More

Download I am Brian Blase, founder and president of Paragon Health Institute. From 2017 through 2019, I served as a Special Assistant to the... Read More

Introduction In August, AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies representing the industry’s top players, announced... 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

Seeking the elites’ benediction in their war against America. Read More

America should build things again, and we the people should own what we build. Read More

For much of his presidency, Joseph R. Biden insisted and was ridiculed for claiming that he “need[e]d Congress to act” to... Read More

72% of the world’s population now lives under autocratic rule, the highest share since 1978... Read More

Across the West, working people are pushing back against the End Times environmentalism of the ruling class. Read More

Employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been busy lately, working to fulfill their mandate to remove undocumented... Read More

It is time to restore education’s core mission: knowledge first, civics always, activism never. Read More

President Trump has flooded my home state of Minnesota with investigators and law enforcement agents to address massive social services and... Read More

On the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, when some manipulate memory, a scholar calls for a new look at the past. Read More

Keisha N. Blain: He was not the preferred candidate of the Democratic political establishment — Black or white — but his focus on voter... Read More

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent appearance of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in... Read More

AOC effectively admitted that leftists' years-long assault on "whiteness" really amounts to a Marxism-inspired attack on Christianity. Read More

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's national star is on the rise, but his relationships with fellow Democrats in his backyard are fraying. Read More

The fight against Jew-hatred needs to be harder and smarter. Read More

The late, great journalist Mark Shields often propounded the idea that politics should be about looking for converts rather than punishing... Read More

Why modern progressivism can’t succeed unless Americans stop prospering. Read More

And Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have never looked so out of touch. Read More

The White House and Senate Democrats reached a deal Thursday to separate the fight over ICE funding from the threat of a broader... Read More

The deeper significance of California's billionaire tax is in how it redefines what it means to own property in the United States. Read More

For many decades now a federal policy called the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has raised gas prices and transferred billions of dollars from... Read More

Conservatives have long stood for a simple but powerful idea: prosperity is achieved through freedom, competition, and growth. That principle... Read More

We like the Trump Accounts because they are designed to create a nation of owners and it democratize stock ownership allowing today’s... Read More

Family farmers are among the great guardians of the sovereignty of the United States. By putting American grown and... Read More

Only in America, with the army of lawyers looking for opportunities to make money, could an industry crop up to promote litigation. There is... Read More

Changes in supply and demand—plus the toll of a million deaths—have disrupted the fentanyl market, writes Sally Satel about the dramatic... Read More

What’s the best thing to do if you’re in a life-threatening emergency? Read More

On the contrary, notwithstanding various ongoing problems in the real economy, the US is a gathering economic success story. Read More

All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological... Read More