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Democrats ‘are very serene with what is going on.’ Read More

Since February 14, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been largely shut down after funding lapsed because Democr Read More

Military deterrence in the twenty-first century will require a new synthesis of public and private interests. Read More

“We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait,” the leaders said in a... Read More

Our European Allies Were Absolutely Not Going to Help Us in Iran... Until They Were Read More

Vance jokes that no one plans to send Marco Rubio to count votes in Michigan. Read More

Their pristine—and presently useless—“principles" are of no help to Trump's project to restore and advance American power. Read More

Conservatives have a leadership problem they can't solve by firing leaders. A framework from twenty years of political trench warfare... Read More

This report uses the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) to examine welfare use (means-tested... Read More

A Canadian study casts further doubt on a key plank of the harm-reduction agenda. Read More

Visible disorder and its implications Read More

The ‘¡No pasarán!’ strategy is a political dead end Read More

Airport security is far too important to leave vulnerable to political spats. Read More

What comes after Ozempic Chic? Read More

Over the weekend, one of recent memory's worst human beings dropped dead, and we can't summon up much regret over his passing. Paul R.... Read More

With the horror of the revelations of his sexual predations, an already tarnished icon collapses. Read More

RealClearPolicy and RealClearHealth editor Jerry Rogers interviews Jeremy Portnoy, an investigative journalist with OpenTheBooks.com who... Read More

Two very special guests joined Jerry Rogers. Jeremy Portnoy, an investigative journalist with OpenTheBooks.com. His work has been cited by... Read More

Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon speak with White House reporter Phil Wegmann about... Read More

Brendan O'Neill and I discuss why America and Israel have to win this war. Read More

Explaining the reluctance of America's European allies to help in the war on Iran, even as they acknowledge the threat from Iran. 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

"LNG from Qatar could in principle be offline for months and, in the worst case, for years." Read More

Recent reports suggest the president may have only a thin buffer to rely on if a prolonged conflict starts to weaken growth and spur... Read More

Anti-Trump voices on the left, and some anti-war voices on the right, are already calling the Iran War a “quagmire”— after less than... Read More

Great joining Leland Vittert on NewsNation to discuss the latest in MAGA politics and polling. Read More

The RINO revival is not a movement—it’s a retreat, carefully choreographed for polite applause. Read More

This link is broken, but the democratic experiment endures. Read More

Former Senate staffer Rachel Bovard says the Senate is at least talking, and that’s a March Madness miracle in and of itself. Read More

They’re not even interested. Read More

Word is that things are a little rough down in Cuba right now. In my post of February 23 , I reported that Cuba had become the first nation... Read More

An investigation into the labor icon unveiled stories of sexual abuse of minors. Read More

Fiscal discipline is politically costly, but inaction will be disastrous. How can we restore sanity to federal budgeting? Read More

The bill will go to you, the taxpayer—but not before it wrecks Mayor Mamdani’s budget. Read More

The startling transformation underway in the economy, the culture, and public policy. Read More

When President Trump welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to the White House next week, the two leaders will discuss how to... Read More

A new British study shows how badly the mRNA shots failed on teens and especially kids. It is long past time for public health bureaucrats to... Read More

The right is summoning its armies via their stomachs. When we dismiss food politics, risk missing what’s being stirred when a group coheres... Read More

A graduate student’s firsthand account of how anti-racism shapes college writing instruction—and what it means for the classroom. Read More

Is it possible to recruit more conservatives for our universities? 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