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The Left ‘Lost’ on DEI
John Tillman, RealClearPolicy
The Swamp Strikes Back
Staff, Unleash Prosperity
Trump’s Redistricting Push in Indiana Stumbles
Adam Wren, Politico
Redistricting: GOP Should Stop Whining, Start Negotiating
Josh Barro, Very Serious
Virginia Failed the Basic Test of Our Democracy
Charles Lane, Free Press via AEI
Blowing the Lid Off of the Left’s Charlottesville Narrative
Tyler O'Neil, Daily Caller
SPLC Indictment Lends Support to Hate Groups
Austin Sarat, Salon
Democrats Defend SPLC Amid KKK Funding Scandal
Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal
Inside the House Dem Push to Impeach Trump on Day 1
Andrew Solender, Axios
Clarence Thomas’s Birthday Gift to America
Yuval Levin, AEIdeas
European Exceptionalism
Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty
Skip Western Europe this Summer
Roger Simon, American Refugees
GOP Criticizes Trump's Floated Bailout for Spirit Airlines
Callum Sutherland, Time
Science Inadvertently Exposes the Paris/Net-Zero Fraud
Ben Zycher, AEIdeas
Why Humans Aren’t Clever Chimps
Ronald W. Dworkin, Civitas
The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules So Why Should I?
Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack
Pope Leo: Between Gospel Witness & Humanitarian Illusions
Daniel J. Mahoney, CJ
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Podcasts

How the West Was Lost
Melanie Phillips, Substack
This Is Going to SCOTUS
Bevan, Walworth, & Cannon, RCP on SiriusXM
What's More Important: Getting the Facts Right, or the Tone?
Jerry Rogers, WBAL
Can New York Survive Mamdani’s Tax Plan?
Editors, Reason

Research

Examining State Economic Growth and Competition
Staff, Rich States, Poor States
Taxpayers Are Fleeing Urban Counties
Staff, OpenTheBooks
To Get to a Flat Tax, Tax the Tax Exempt
Staff, Unleash Prosperity
Taking Stock of Gov't Health Program Costs
Brian Blase, Paragon Health Institute

Religious Liberty Around The World

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Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary
The following is an excerpt from “Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary” by Jan Jekielek, published March 17, 2026, by Skyho...
WH Should Adopt Congressional Plan To End Persecution in Nigeria
On Feb. 23, the House of Representatives’ powerful Appropriations and Foreign Affairs committees released their new report, “Ending the Persecution of Christians in Nigeria.” Appropr...
What’s Next for Jimmy Lai?
In deteriorating health and 78 years old, Jimmy Lai is not likely to survive the 20-year prison sentence that Hong Kong’s kangaroo court handed him on Jan. 9. The Chinese Communist Party has ens...
Jimmy Lai and the Price of Telling the Truth
Dozens of those lined up outside the Hong Kong court where Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years on Monday had been there all night, keeping vigil. They’d camped out so as to be in position to put...

State and Local

FL Latest Hot Spot for Anti-Protest Legislation
Amelia Pollard, American Prospect
Las Vegas Mayor Right to Call for End to Shutdown
Robert Fellner, NPRI
Auditor Probing NM Gov's Use of Slush Fund
Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
CA City Becomes First in US to Ban New Gas Stations
Dharna Noor, Gizmodo

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RealClearPolicy Thursday

The Left ‘Lost’ on DEI
John Tillman, RealClearPolicy
The American Founding as the Best Regime
Harry V. Jaffa, The American Mind
No, FDR Did Not Pull America Out of the Great Depression
John Stossel, Reason
Hayek’s Dilemma: How Much State Can Liberty Survive?
N. Wenzel, Daily Econ
Taxing Ownership
John O. McGinnis, Law & Liberty
The Working Families Party Goes National
Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect
Are There Any Job Cuts Tech CEOs Won’t Pin on AI?
Drew Holden, Commonplace
U.S. Expands AI-Powered Surveillance via Your Apps
Anne Toomey McKenna, Salon
The Climate Litigation Swindle
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
Charlottesville Narrative Backfires on the Left
Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack
Workplace Raids Are Coming—and They’re Essential
Brian Lonergan, Chronicles
The Long Road Ahead for Virginia
James H. McGee, American Spectator
How Iran Committed Suicide
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

PM Update

President Trump Just Extended the Iran Ceasefire
Dmitri Bolt, Townhall
CIA Hid 2020 Election Threats to Help Biden
Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge
The True Lori Chavez-DeRemer Scandal: Her Empty Record
Sohrab Ahmari, UnHerd
The COVID Reckoning Doesn't Go Far Enough
Zach Weissmueller, Reason
Do Surtaxes on High Earners Work?
Jack Salmon, The Unseen and The Unsaid
States Can Reduce Fraud in Snap by Sharing Data
T.J. Wilson, AFPI
SCOTUS Norms Are Weakening in Not-Good Ways
Rip SPLC After Indictment: 'A Hate Group Pretending to Be an Anti-Hate Group'
‘The Trans Mafia Won’t Back Down’
The China Threat

RealClearPolicy Charts

Five Facts on How to Win a Presidential Election

With this week’s GOP primary debate, the race for the White House is well underway. But beyond the campaign rallies and political ads lies a complex system that governs how the U.S. elects its...

The Left ‘Lost’ on DEI

John Tillman, RealClearPolicy

Let's start with the good news. Between January 2023 and May 2025, Fortune 100 companies reduced their use of the term "DEI" by ninety-eight... Read More

The Swamp Strikes Back

Staff, Unleash Prosperity

We couldn’t help noticing that it was the suburbs of Washington that provided the votes to pass the horrific new redistricting map in... Read More

Trump’s Redistricting Push in Indiana Stumbles

Adam Wren, Politico

His campaign to oust state Republicans who blocked his redistricting push is running into messaging challenges. Read More

Redistricting: GOP Should Stop Whining, Start Negotiating

Josh Barro, Very Serious

Gerrymandered maps are rationally approved by majorities at the state level. Only a new set of federal rules can rein in gerrymandering. Read More

Virginia Failed the Basic Test of Our Democracy

Charles Lane, Free Press via AEI

The escalating cycle of retaliatory, "ends justify the means" politics by both parties fundamentally degrades American democracy by... Read More

Blowing the Lid Off of the Left’s Charlottesville Narrative

Tyler O'Neil, Daily Caller

The latest revelation about the SPLC bankrolling a "Unite the Right" leader blows the lid off the Left's Charlottesville narrative. Read More

SPLC Indictment Lends Support to Hate Groups

Austin Sarat, Salon

For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has fought hate. Now the Justice Department wants it to stop. Read More

Democrats Defend SPLC Amid KKK Funding Scandal

Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal

Democrats Chuck Schumer and Doug Jones are beclowning themselves by defending the SPLC as if it were a noble civil rights group. Read More

Inside the House Dem Push to Impeach Trump on Day 1

Andrew Solender, Axios

A cohort of resistance-minded House Democrats is pushing their colleagues to begin building the case against President... Read More

Clarence Thomas’s Birthday Gift to America

Yuval Levin, AEIdeas

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has a pretty good claim on the title of the greatest living American.  Read More

European Exceptionalism

Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty

For both good and ill, the modern world has been shaped by the European continent like no other. Read More

Skip Western Europe this Summer

Roger Simon, American Refugees

Try Eastern Europe or South America Instead. Read More

GOP Criticizes Trump's Floated Bailout for Spirit Airlines

Callum Sutherland, Time

One GOP Senator condemned the potential bailout as an “absolutely terrible idea,” while another said Americans "shouldn't be on the hook... Read More

Science Inadvertently Exposes the Paris/Net-Zero Fraud

Ben Zycher, AEIdeas

In a recent paper published in Science, Annika Stechemesser et. al. report that 63 out of 1500 climate policies... Read More

Why Humans Aren’t Clever Chimps

Ronald W. Dworkin, Civitas

Why has primatology pushed the human-chimp connection? Read More

The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules So Why Should I?

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack

Hasan Piker's praise of stealing and murder once again shows that wokeness and its telltale moral inversions are a smokescreen for the wealth... Read More

Pope Leo: Between Gospel Witness & Humanitarian Illusions

Daniel J. Mahoney, CJ

The pontiff is right to warn against hatred and rash recourse to war—but his tendency toward a kind of functional pacifism marks a... Read More

Podcasts

How the West Was Lost

Melanie Phillips, Substack

My discussion with Casey Babb about the surrender to Islamisation. Read More

This Is Going to SCOTUS

Bevan, Walworth, & Cannon, RCP on SiriusXM

Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon discuss the redistricting referendum today in Virginia and what Trump's pick for Fed Chair... Read More

What's More Important: Getting the Facts Right, or the Tone?

Jerry Rogers, WBAL

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses the concept of tone in diplomacy. Is tone more important, or is it the context of... Read More

Can New York Survive Mamdani’s Tax Plan?

Editors, Reason

The editors discuss the growing push on the left to 'tax the rich,' highlighted by Zohran Mamdani's Tax Day message.... Read More

Research

Examining State Economic Growth and Competition

Staff, Rich States, Poor States

A comprehensive resource that ranks the economic competitiveness of states using fifteen equally weighted policy variables Read More

Taxpayers Are Fleeing Urban Counties

Staff, OpenTheBooks

Following Tax Day, Open the Books is releasing a set of deep dives into data released by the Internal Revenue Service, synthesized with... Read More

To Get to a Flat Tax, Tax the Tax Exempt

Staff, Unleash Prosperity

Unleash Prosperity is a non-profit, so this is an admission against our own interests, but non-profit tax status is one of the largest and... Read More

Taking Stock of Gov't Health Program Costs

Brian Blase, Paragon Health Institute

On Tax Day, Americans should consider not just how much they pay in federal income taxes, but where that money is going. Read More

Religious Liberty Around The World

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Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary
The following is an excerpt from “Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary” by Jan Jekielek, published March 17, 2026, by Skyho...
WH Should Adopt Congressional Plan To End Persecution in Nigeria
On Feb. 23, the House of Representatives’ powerful Appropriations and Foreign Affairs committees released their new report, “Ending the Persecution of Christians in Nigeria.” Appropr...
What’s Next for Jimmy Lai?
In deteriorating health and 78 years old, Jimmy Lai is not likely to survive the 20-year prison sentence that Hong Kong’s kangaroo court handed him on Jan. 9. The Chinese Communist Party has ens...
Jimmy Lai and the Price of Telling the Truth
Dozens of those lined up outside the Hong Kong court where Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years on Monday had been there all night, keeping vigil. They’d camped out so as to be in position to put...

State and Local

FL Latest Hot Spot for Anti-Protest Legislation

Amelia Pollard, American Prospect

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

Las Vegas Mayor Right to Call for End to Shutdown

Robert Fellner, NPRI

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

Auditor Probing NM Gov's Use of Slush Fund

Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

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

CA City Becomes First in US to Ban New Gas Stations

Dharna Noor, Gizmodo

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

More From Real Clear

RealClearPolicy Thursday

The Left ‘Lost’ on DEI

John Tillman, RealClearPolicy

Let's start with the good news. Between January 2023 and May 2025, Fortune 100 companies reduced their use of the term "DEI" by ninety-eight... Read More

The American Founding as the Best Regime

Harry V. Jaffa, The American Mind

By grounding the regime in human equality, America has given hope to all, and, by consequence, enterprise and industry to all. Read More

No, FDR Did Not Pull America Out of the Great Depression

John Stossel, Reason

One of the most persistent political myths today is that FDR pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression. In reality, he made investing in... Read More

Hayek’s Dilemma: How Much State Can Liberty Survive?

N. Wenzel, Daily Econ

Even among “sincere friends of freedom,” disagreement over government’s role runs deep. Can a state be big enough to defend liberty... Read More

Taxing Ownership

John O. McGinnis, Law & Liberty

In an AI age, wealth taxes are not merely bad tax policy. They are downright dangerous. Read More

The Working Families Party Goes National

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

The WFP has unveiled a national platform and is building party organizations in nearly two dozen states. Read More

Are There Any Job Cuts Tech CEOs Won’t Pin on AI?

Drew Holden, Commonplace

Executives say artificial intelligence is causing massive layoffs. The reality is more complicated. Read More

U.S. Expands AI-Powered Surveillance via Your Apps

Anne Toomey McKenna, Salon

The U.S. government is using AI to speed analysis of government and commercial data about you. Read More

The Climate Litigation Swindle

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

A flood of lawsuits utilizing junk science seeks to bankrupt energy companies and undermine the basis of American power. Read More

Charlottesville Narrative Backfires on the Left

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted for fraud and is accused of having funded organizers, supervised racist posts, and... Read More

Workplace Raids Are Coming—and They’re Essential

Brian Lonergan, Chronicles

As the Trump administration enters its second year, border encounters have plummeted to historic lows, criminal illegal aliens are being... Read More

The Long Road Ahead for Virginia

James H. McGee, American Spectator

When Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Hakeem Jefferies, and Kamala Harris come together to express their elation, then we can rest assured that... Read More

How Iran Committed Suicide

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

How does the supposedly most fearsome regime in the violent Middle East now find itself on the verge of an utter economic and military... Read More

PM Update

President Trump Just Extended the Iran Ceasefire

Dmitri Bolt, Townhall

President Trump extends Iran ceasefire amid fractured regime and ongoing US blockade. Read More

CIA Hid 2020 Election Threats to Help Biden

Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge

Senior officials knew election systems had meaningful vulnerabilities... Read More

The True Lori Chavez-DeRemer Scandal: Her Empty Record

Sohrab Ahmari, UnHerd

Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is leaving the administration under a cloud of misconduct allegations. These... Read More

The COVID Reckoning Doesn't Go Far Enough

Zach Weissmueller, Reason

Real medical freedom will require something greater than replacing the public health establishment: ending the FDA's monopoly. Read More

Do Surtaxes on High Earners Work?

Jack Salmon, The Unseen and The Unsaid

Revisiting Tax Changes in New York and Massachusetts. Read More

States Can Reduce Fraud in Snap by Sharing Data

T.J. Wilson, AFPI

The SNAP program has suffered from a lack of national oversight for decades. Read More

SCOTUS Norms Are Weakening in Not-Good Ways
Rip SPLC After Indictment: 'A Hate Group Pretending to Be an Anti-Hate Group'
‘The Trans Mafia Won’t Back Down’
The China Threat

RealClearPolicy Charts

Five Facts on How to Win a Presidential Election

With this week’s GOP primary debate, the race for the White House is well underway. But beyond the campaign rallies and political ads lies a complex system that governs how the U.S. elects its...

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