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

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

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

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

Revisiting Tax Changes in New York and Massachusetts. Read More

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

Pseudo-Heroes It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to... Read More

I’m an American and Catholic woman. My patriotism and my faith show me that if we refuse to sacrifice for what was bestowed to us as a... Read More

The woke left harbor a fierce, unrelenting hatred for Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay. Read More

The Trump Administration is comprehensively expanding our historical understanding of the nuanced history of slavery and freedom. Read More

A Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling clears the way for civil suits against both the purveyors and backers of ideologically motivated... Read More

Democrats can't muster the votes to impeach and remove Trump, or even to stop an illegal war. The 25th Amendment would be even more difficult. Read More

Accountability is good. Read More

When I consider our new Mayor Mamdani and his legions of committed followers, the thought I can’t get away from is “How is it possible to... Read More

The Senate is about to try to use one of Congress’ most powerful tools—the budget reconciliation process—to fund... Read More

Our sad, sudden surrender to sports betting was a long time in the making. Read More

Justice Alito is the least heralded conservative on the Supreme Court; Hemingway corrects that by revealing the formidable man beneath the... Read More

The path Senate Majority Leader John Thune has chosen includes elements of both the nuclear option and talking filibuster. Read More

The ousting of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the latest sign yet of a president whose second term has not gone as planned —... 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

James Robbins joins Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon to discuss the new U.S. strategy to blockade Iran after negotiations failed... Read More

Against the backdrop of Operation Epic Fury and President Trump’s frustration with military support from NATO allies, Secretary General... Read More

Jerry had a very special guest on the Jerry Rogers Show. William Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law... Read More

Finally, the federal government is shrinking. Read More

“The story of America in the twenty-first century is the story of chosen scarcities,” argue Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in Abundance,... Read More

OpenAI needs to build on the successes of open markets and turn away from regulation, taxation, and cartelization. Read More

In a recent class, I asked my students a simple question: What do you think about the Artemis II mission? 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

America faces a crisis of social wealth. High schools can’t fix all our loneliness, but they help us rediscover what’s been lost. Read More

For years, conventional wisdom held that the suburban shopping mall was dying. Seph Laws’s book Abandoned Malls, published in 2020,... Read More

Jennifer Doleac’s Science of Second Chances takes a more responsible approach to debates on the issue. Read More

Despite the public feud between them, reconciliation is possible. Both heads of state should meet and mend fences—quickly. Read More

Virginia just became the 18th state to adopt the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Read More

New economic data exposes what’s really driving higher prices and fewer choices. Read More

There’s a lot of rubbish being written about the war with Iran. Partly that’s because of the partisan warfare masquerading as... Read More

Senate Democrats haven’t turned on the Jewish state because the Netanyahu government is reckless. It’s because they fear a party... Read More

Here in New York, our new Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on a platform of “taxing the rich.” But that leaves a question to... Read More

As the Supreme Court deliberates on the case that will determine the law regarding birthright citizenship, it should keep these... Read More

Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. would be a huge blow to filmmakers and film lovers alike. Read More

Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close. Read More

If you’re a regular reader, you know how important fiduciary responsibility and the fight against political, ESG-investing is to... Read More

Senate Republicans who fear their three-seat majority could be in danger in this year’s midterm election would welcome the retirement... Read More

President Donald Trump ousts Pam Bondi as attorney general. Read More

The State of Texas has become as synonymous with crippling public school debt as it is with oil wells and tumbleweeds. Its public schools... Read More

Maryland parents want more educational freedom. Read More

Gov. Tim Walz has been a fan of Wallethub’s work, including its recent raking of Minnesota as the second-best state to raise a family.... Read More

A bill designed to address consumer costs will turn out to be a death sentence for credit card access. Written as an emergency action,... Read More

They would push more businesses out and further erode the state’s tax base. Read More

Health Policy Solutions Americans Can Trust. Read More

I am old enough to remember when your family members could accompany you to the airport and share a meal with you before your flight or wait... Read More

U.S. employment growth is at a near standstill. In February 2026, total nonfarm payrolls grew by just 0.1 percent year over year to 158.5... Read More

"If requiring identification is truly racist, why do we only hear the outrage when it regards elections?" asks Project 21 Ambassador Curtis... Read More

America finds itself in a tremendously dangerous era.  Read More

Middle East fighting creates an opportunity for Ukraine—the world’s drone superpower—but Kyiv and America’s allies must seize the... Read More