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Historians may debate the greatest presidents, but Donald Trump’s constitutional abuses and corruption cement his place at the bottom. Read More

We received two very bullish economic statistics this week. First, in January average wages rose 0.4%. Second, consumer prices rose 0.2%.... Read More

In 1984, George Orwell wrote, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else... Read More

Biased reporting and editorial agendas erode credibility. Read More

Hollywood stars are expected to embrace the Left's opinions on, well, everything, or they'll be called out by the media. It's pure bullying. Read More

The sports media is ignoring the story, but wealthy sports figures are all over the Epstein files. Read More

Last year, I wrote a column expressing concerns over the move to release the Epstein files en masse, including grand jury material. The files... Read More

Hillary Clinton's composure breaks in Munich as Czech Deputy PM calmly challenges her globalist views. Read More

U.S. athletes who use the Olympics as an avenue to thumb their noses at America deserve nothing but scorn and defeat. Read More

Spike Lee wears 'Free Palestine' attire at NBA All-Star Game featuring Israel's Deni Avdija. Read More

Los Angeles doesn’t lack urgency — it lacks functional markets. With 13,000 homes destroyed and just 16 rebuilt, the state’s insurance... Read More

On Thursday (February 12) President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin held a press briefing at the White House where they announced the... Read More

There is a shared idea behind all prize programs, and here it is: We get the world we praise. Read More

It was one of the final days of the Texas legislature’s regular session in 2023. Read More

2026 marks America’s 250th birthday. It’s also been just over 10 years since the debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s... Read More

Amid today’s bitter political discord, all should consider Washington’s example. 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

Usually, the panel section of a black-tie awards dinner is the least lively part of the evening. Honorees praise and agree with each other,... Read More

Cases that have been ‘temporarily paused’ for more than three decades, and other denials of justice Read More

Congress cleared out for their week-long recess early — running out the clock on a DHS shutdown. Read More

The list is getting long... Read More

Cleaning up decades of lawlessness is never easy. Read More

Talk of moral panics is cheap, but during an actual one, what is going on becomes difficult to name. Usually keen detectors of collective... Read More

For many, the salient point of the Epstein files is the scandal. I think it is more accurately seen as a disclosure... Read More

Last Thursday, the radical-left, Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, announced the layoffs of 300 of its 790 unionized newsroom staff,... Read More

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) suggested Friday that world leaders likely see the U.S. as a “wrecking ball”... Read More

the union who sponsored the proposal is trying to scale. the academics who wrote and influenced. Read More

Follow the money. Read More

The proper response to this war against a people is not to deflect it but to fight it better. 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