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Donald Trump isn’t a king – he’s an obsession. If you observe the modern Left, you’d think Trump is an all-powerful... Read More

Imagine being an Iranian right now, especially an Iranian woman, as hundreds of thousands of American women gather to exercise their freedom... Read More

Organizers said the protests could be the largest day of demonstrations in American history. Read More

What does it say about a so-called movement that appears to attract mainly middle-aged white people? Read More

Freddy Gray, Madeline Summerville, Ellis Henican, and Kenin Spivak join RCP's David Desrosiers to discuss how the war with Iran is going... Read More

Senators Van Hollen and Kim deliver coordinated Democratic critiques of Trump’s policies, emphasizing unity and lawlessness. Read More

In one fell swoop, Thune ceded the moral high ground to Democrats who now can blame Republican intransigence for their shutdowns. Read More

John Thune’s leadership is turning a Republican majority into a graveyard for President Trump’s agenda. Read More

As Chicago and other blue cities move toward reparations for African Americans, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal... Read More

Nick Fuentes and his followers seem to be competing to see who can be most inflammatory and offensive. Read More

An insider's perspective on Megyn Kelly's personality and controversies in media and politics. Read More

My name is Amanda Stulman, and I speak today on behalf of the Intersectionality Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation. Thank you,... Read More

This ruling reveals abortion’s deepest claim: autonomy above all else. Read More

In a skeptical age, it is sometimes necessary to re-articulate foundational principles of ordered liberty. Read More

March is Fraud Prevention Month, a time to recognize both how far financial crime has evolved and how urgent it is to equip the institutions... Read More

President Donald Trump has an important decision over the next few months as he decides the fate of the United States-Mexico-Canada... Read More

A new bill would prohibit the money grabs that billionaire team owners unleash to pit states and cities against each other in bidding wars... Read More

Republicans hope the Make America Healthy Again movement becomes a permanent fixture of a big GOP tent. But the party can’t count on... Read More

Join us for another episode of The Jerry Rogers Podcast! In this week's episode, we delve into the recent chaos at BWI airport and explore... Read More

Friday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss the Senate leaving town without concluding the... Read More

Comedian Adam Carolla discusses how soft journalism destroys media credibility, why California is losing residents, and the importance of... Read More

Professor Robert P. George and Rafael Mangual explore the enduring foundations of American constitutionalism and what they reveal about human... 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

March 20, 2026, marked a turning point in the 2026 Iran war, when Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the joint... Read More

Though not without cost, the U.S.-Israeli offensive has already made the world safer. Claims of a “quagmire” are an attempt to politicize... Read More

Casualties and damage across Israel remain miraculously low, but that hasn’t stopped online conspiracists from insisting the Islamic... Read More

They have a bad track record. Read More

Vice President JD Vance is preparing to take on the most important assignment of his career: steering U.S. efforts to end a... Read More

Brandon Shah should still be alive, a husband to his wife, a father to his child, and a mentor to his students. Read More

Congress will soon scrutinize Fairfax County’s sanctuary policies at an April House Judiciary hearing titled “Fairfax... Read More

‘These shifts were largely due to lower levels of net international migration, which declined nationwide.’ Read More

The University of Southern California (USC) is under fire after canceling the California gubernatorial debate with less than 24 hours’... Read More

States with lower taxes are attracting talent and capital, and states with higher taxes are losing them. Read More

The volume and pace of federal litigation on these policies indicate there is no softening of the collective mind on transgenderism within... Read More

The Supreme Court’s oral argument this week in Watson v. Republican National Committee was not a picayune dispute over... Read More

Once the center of conservative gravity, CPAC can't get a single Trump family member to show up. Read More

After two months of unyielding negotiations, both parties gave up early Friday on reaching a grand accord to reform and fund the Department... Read More

Another energy crisis, another Jones Act waiver, and—predictably—another round of demands to repeal it. Every emergency should... Read More

The absurdity of New Jersey’s ill-conceived affordable housing laws is now playing out in full public view atop the highlands of Morris... Read More

Federal policy addressing homelessness has faced significant disruption over the past year. Actions by the U.S. Department of Housing and... Read More

American working families are caught in a bind that no job training program alone can solve. A parent cannot show up productively at work... 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