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President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy. Read More

Leading up to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech intended to celebrate 250 years — a quarter-millennium... Read More

By now, the video has gone viral with Trump asking a simple question: Read More

The setting was different, but the content was pretty much the same as in his "economic" speech in Detroit, prayer breakfast in D.C. and... Read More

President Donald Trump hit it out of the park (again) with his 2026 State of the Union address, perhaps his most remarkable speech yet. Read More

A tense exchange during a remarkably racist portion of the president's State of the Union address. Read More

Democratic groups staging counter-programming events offered a snapshot of a party divided over how best to approach the midterms. Read More

President Trump announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night plans to offer Americans access to a retirement... Read More

“Bad ideas have long lives,” especially in progressive policy circles. The wealth tax is one of them. At a recent panel at the... Read More

The Left is moving from culture to economics. Read More

After the Supreme Court struck down key Trump tariffs, he’s escalating his trade war—risking higher deficits, inflation, and slower... Read More

They've never previously applied the major questions doctrine in the foreign policy arena—and for good reason. Read More

The South Korean government has not been friendly to American businesses – specifically in the technology space. While the United... Read More

U.S. tech executives seem to like to compare the race for global AI dominance to the nuclear arms race – it’s huge,... Read More

Hollywood rose up to defend Jimmy Kimmel when stars thought Trump had fired him. Will they decry potential British streaming censorship? Read More

When Olympic pride becomes controversial, the problem isn’t hockey. Read More

Blame it on American individualism or a political aversion to regulation, but the United States has become a striking outlier in its failure... Read More

Tom Bevan, Phil Wegmann, and Carl Cannon review the inaugural meeting of President Trump's "Board of Peace," concerns it could replace the... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... 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

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

How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little... Read More

Sen. Tom Cotton said the Democrats' opposition to the SAVE America Act is because "they want to make it easy to cheat in our elections." Read More

When the Americans returned President Trump to the White House in 2024, they also handed him a Republican majority in the House and... Read More

The sad, pitiful, dark world of today's Left. Read More

Team USA's hockey gold redeemed a disappointing Olympics overshadowed by politics and division. Read More

This week, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was supposed to give the UCLA Burkle Center’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial guest lecture on... Read More

A man with Tourette syndrome couldn't stop an N-word ouburst at Sunday's BAFTA awards. The bigger story is the reaction to the racial slur. Read More

Now is not the time for a timid response. Read More

Whether they sit in silence or grandstand outside, the President’s address will go on without them. Read More

Gavin Newsom, the California governor who is definitely running for president in 2028, has been denounced as racist after suggesting his lack... Read More

Newsom called Hannity a hypocrite after the television host accused the governor of racism. Read More

The details are complicated. The politics should be simple. Read More

There it was on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times : with a small assist from the United States, the island nation of Cuba has... Read More

Discover how law enforcement and tough prosecution drove the 2025 crime plunge in major U.S. cities. Read More

Everyone needs to get a grip over fears of a white-collar job-pocalypse. Read More

Ordering life from the perspective of death. 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