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The New Socialists: Elite, Ungrateful, and Toxic as Ever
Victor Davis Hanson, AG
America Turns 250. Not Everyone Is Celebrating
Chauncey DeVega, Salon
Grads vs. Workers: The Class Divide Returns
Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack
Fled Socialism, Voted Bernie Sanders
Germania Rodríguez Poleo, Reason
Education in Irredeemable Decline
Scott McKay, American Spectator
TPS Has Always Been a Giant Scam
John Daniel Davidson, Federalist
ABC’s ‘3% Delusion’ on Criminal Migrants
Andrew R. Arthur, CIS
A Republic That Cannot Budget
Thomas Savidge, The Daily Economy
Supreme Court Strikes Down Humphrey’s Executor
Ilya Shapiro, City Journal
Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ Goes After Tech Companies
Nicholas Wu, Semafor
Experts Split on 3 Million Obamacare Drop
Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge
Preserve American Labor Market Vitality
Steve Cortes, RealClearPolicy
France’s Push Against Air Conditioning
Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
Clearing Up Confusion on Trump’s Iran MOU
Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal
Restoring the Soul to Social Science
Daniel J. Mahoney, The American Mind
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Podcasts

The War Over Peace
Walworth, Bevan, & Cannon, RCP on SiriusXM
Has Tehran Been Deterred?
Victor Davis Hanson, X
Wes Moore Falls Short on Transparency
Jerry Rogers, WBAL NewsRadio
Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Trillionaires
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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A Pastor in a Chinese Prison, a Daughter Holding Onto Hope
As a Christian, I believe in miracles. I have already seen one; now, I am praying for one more. My father, Pastor Mingri “Ezra” Jin, has been in prison in China for almost seven months for...
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...

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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America’s Universal Aspiration at 250
Stephen Soukup, American Greatness
Four Presidents, One Bicentennial
Tevi Troy, City Journal
Tom West’s Founding
Michael Anton, The American Mind
From Cancel Culture to Communism
Sasha Stone, Free Thinking
Questions Every Democrat Must Now Be Made Answer
Editorial Board, I&I
The Decline of Liberal Jewish Democrats
Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
Dems Discover the Mob Has a Mind of Its Own
Jonathan Turley, Res Ipsa Loquitur
The Missing Word in the Centrists’ Letter
Michael Tomasky, The New Republic
Americans Want to Impeach Donald Trump
Chris Lehmann, The Nation
Europe Needs Air Conditioning
Josh Barro, Very Serious
The GOP's Immigration Advantage
Paul du Quenoy, Chronicles
Can Redistricting Save the GOP House?
David Catron, American Spectator
Tocqueville’s Nightmare
Heather Lauer, RealClearPolicy
A Bad Week for Billionaires
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

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
America at 250
America: The Story
Hemingway: Obama Democrats Are Letting Their Socialist Freak Flag Fly
Vance In Switzerland: We Laid a Successful Foundation for Final Deal with Iran

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 New Socialists: Elite, Ungrateful, and Toxic as Ever

Victor Davis Hanson, AG

Win some blue-state and blue-city races, and the cocky new socialist Jacobins believe that they have either already taken over the Democratic... Read More

America Turns 250. Not Everyone Is Celebrating

Chauncey DeVega, Salon

On this July Fourth, Americans ask: What does it mean to love a country that won't love you back? Read More

Grads vs. Workers: The Class Divide Returns

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack

From Graham Platner to Darializa Chevalier to Zohran Mamdani, it's faculty lounge and HR lady politics masquerading as a working-class agenda. Read More

Fled Socialism, Voted Bernie Sanders

Germania Rodríguez Poleo, Reason

An immigrant's journey to the radical left and back... Read More

Education in Irredeemable Decline

Scott McKay, American Spectator

I know, I know. The first half-dozen comments under this piece will provide the criticism that I shouldn't use mealy-mouthed words like... Read More

TPS Has Always Been a Giant Scam

John Daniel Davidson, Federalist

Over the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected... Read More

ABC’s ‘3% Delusion’ on Criminal Migrants

Andrew R. Arthur, CIS

The media’s at it again: Trying to whip up public hysteria over immigration enforcement. Read More

A Republic That Cannot Budget

Thomas Savidge, The Daily Economy

In 'Fiscal Democracy in America,' Kurt Couchman contends that Congress’s broken budget process requires constitutional and procedural... Read More

Supreme Court Strikes Down Humphrey’s Executor

Ilya Shapiro, City Journal

The Supreme Court has finally brought the administrative state back under elected control. Read More

Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ Goes After Tech Companies

Nicholas Wu, Semafor

The liberal counterweight to conservatives’ Project 2025 is rolling out a series of policies to set the stage for an already crowded field... Read More

Experts Split on 3 Million Obamacare Drop

Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge

...some saying that it was driven by rising premiums... others see program integrity measures taken by the Trump admin were successful in... Read More

Preserve American Labor Market Vitality

Steve Cortes, RealClearPolicy

Why would a small cadre of Republicans join in with all the Democrats on Capitol Hill to force employment contracts upon private citizen... Read More

France’s Push Against Air Conditioning

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

A remarkable feature of governments in Europe is the extent to which they operate explicitly against the interest of their citizens and... Read More

Clearing Up Confusion on Trump’s Iran MOU

Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal

President Trump may need to reply to Iran's attacks disproportionately or risk being a lame-duck president with only a phone and a pen as... Read More

Restoring the Soul to Social Science

Daniel J. Mahoney, The American Mind

It must draw from and build upon old-fashioned liberal education, especially insights derived from philosophy and theology. Read More

Podcasts

The War Over Peace

Walworth, Bevan, & Cannon, RCP on SiriusXM

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Phil Wegmann discuss the political fallout from Trump’s 14-point MOU to end the war with... Read More

Has Tehran Been Deterred?

Victor Davis Hanson, X

A new memorandum of understanding with Iran sparks debate over whether Tehran has truly been deterred. Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Sami... Read More

Wes Moore Falls Short on Transparency

Jerry Rogers, WBAL NewsRadio

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses Bill Ferguson and Johnny Olszewski's comments on ICE arrests at a Baltimore school.... Read More

Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Trillionaires

Editors, Reason

The Reason Roundtable discusses Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire and whether it's a triumph of capitalism or a warning sign... 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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A Pastor in a Chinese Prison, a Daughter Holding Onto Hope
As a Christian, I believe in miracles. I have already seen one; now, I am praying for one more. My father, Pastor Mingri “Ezra” Jin, has been in prison in China for almost seven months for...
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...

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

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RealClearPolicy Monday

America’s Universal Aspiration at 250

Stephen Soukup, American Greatness

A couple of weeks ago, at the dedication ceremony for his presidential library, Barack Obama made a speech in which he addressed the Founding... Read More

Four Presidents, One Bicentennial

Tevi Troy, City Journal

How Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan intersected with the nation’s 200th birthday in 1976. Read More

Tom West’s Founding

Michael Anton, The American Mind

Our task is to match not only the founders' courage, but their wisdom and prudence in order to revive American self-government. Read More

From Cancel Culture to Communism

Sasha Stone, Free Thinking

The Race to "Normal" Begins Now. Read More

Questions Every Democrat Must Now Be Made Answer

Editorial Board, I&I

Do you have any idea what the Democratic Socialists of America stand for? Read More

The Decline of Liberal Jewish Democrats

Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS

In Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Party, only those who bend the knee to antisemitic ideology have a place. Is this the end of an era for... Read More

Dems Discover the Mob Has a Mind of Its Own

Jonathan Turley, Res Ipsa Loquitur

Below is my column in The Hill on the Democratic establishment struggling to fend off attacks from the far left in their party. After years... Read More

The Missing Word in the Centrists’ Letter

Michael Tomasky, The New Republic

The letter organized by moderate Rep. Tom Suozzi praises capitalism—but it somehow forgets to name the biggest enemy of any decent... Read More

Americans Want to Impeach Donald Trump

Chris Lehmann, The Nation

So why aren’t Democrats doing something about it? Read More

Europe Needs Air Conditioning

Josh Barro, Very Serious

Sorry if I'm boring any Europeans with this observation. Read More

The GOP's Immigration Advantage

Paul du Quenoy, Chronicles

Last week, a federal circuit court upheld a Department of Homeland Security directive from January 2025 allowing for the “expedited... Read More

Can Redistricting Save the GOP House?

David Catron, American Spectator

Republicans may have secured their greatest advantage before a single vote is cast, reshaping congressional maps in ways that could blunt the... Read More

Tocqueville’s Nightmare

Heather Lauer, RealClearPolicy

When the French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville studied American society in the 1830s, he marveled at the seemingly endless array... Read More

A Bad Week for Billionaires

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

Losing New York to socialists, facing a wealth tax election in California—our oligarchs begin to suspect that Americans may not like them... 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

America at 250
America: The Story
Hemingway: Obama Democrats Are Letting Their Socialist Freak Flag Fly
Vance In Switzerland: We Laid a Successful Foundation for Final Deal with Iran

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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