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Ignore the tendentious herd mentality; the press should offer the public “a little more light and a little less noise” —... Read More

Governor Wes Moore says he is "excited." Practically giddy. Excited to sign legislation that makes it harder—no, illegal—for... Read More

Pressed for evidence to support his oft-repeated claim that his great-grandfather and grandfather were run out of South Carolina in the 1920s... Read More

In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows: mediocre music veneered over with gaudy,... Read More

Bad Bunny could have bashed Trump, ICE and/or America during his Super Bowl set. But he didn't. So why is the Right still savaging him? Read More

What other stories are obscured by these walls of one-track coverage?  Read More

Defying doomcasters who predicted that AI plus tariffs mean disaster for American workers, the January employment news blew past... Read More

More good news from today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly report.  Read More

Affordability is a lot more than just prices. Beyond lowering prices, an affordability agenda needs to reckon with how the economy feels. Read More

When you limit the price of risk, lenders respond by rationing access to credit. Read More

A coalition of more than 50 leaders of conservative and free-market organizations signed onto a letter to members of Congress on Thursday,... Read More

Inflation is a silent tax—and the most painful way to finance government promises. Read More

Once firmly established in American finance, the proxy advisory industry now faces regulatory threats and AI-driven challenges. To survive,... Read More

Top AI experts at OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies warn of rising dangers of their technology, with some quitting in protest or going... Read More

The American Academy of Pediatrics is wasting time fighting small-scale discussions while large-scale accountability looms.  Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses Wes Moore's newest policy update on public safety. Jerry also speaks with Julienne... Read More

Friday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Tom Bevan discuss TrumpRx, the new government website... Read More

John O. McGinnis joins Brian Anderson to discuss his forthcoming book, Why Democracy Needs the Rich: The Hidden Benefits of Wealth in a Free... Read More

Marie Kawthar Daouda on how obsessing over race entraps and divides us. 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

America’s story is true myth. Read More

Pressed for evidence to support his oft-repeated claim that his great-grandfather and grandfather were run out of South Carolina in the 1920s... Read More

At first blush, Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln would seem to have little in common. We think of Lincoln as a man of moral clarity and a... Read More

A year in, the Democrats still have no plan for Trump’s second presidency. Read More

As the dominant economic and social force of our time, a handful of Silicon Valley-based companies shape our politics more than we’d like... Read More

Senate Democrats are drawing a preemptive red line on ICE reforms, telling Axios any sanctuary city crackdown is dead on... Read More

If insufferable Rep. Eric Swalwell is moving his lips, there’s a good chance he’s lying. The California Democrat with... Read More

Ignore the thousands of habeas claims — this issue is bound for SCOTUS. Read More

Minnesota’s top officials are fanning the flames of unrest. When are we going to call it like we see it? This is an insurrection. Read More

Trump shared in 2006 that he saw Epstein with teenaged girls once and "got the hell out of there." Read More

Late-night clowns like Jimmy Kimmel have been hoping the Epstein Files end President Trump's White House return. How will they process this? Read More

How did worldviews fare this past weekend with the Olympics Opening Ceremonies and the Super... Read More

A market-based path to AI, data centers, and reliable energy without ratepayer risk. Read More

But there’s a way to fix it. Read More

Many Americans support Donald Trump's presidency because they see him as a bulwark against a world bent on implementing socialism, wokeness,... Read More

Americans living and working abroad are unofficial ambassadors for our country. They bring a spirit of pride, ingenuity, and optimism to the... Read More

It was summer 2021, and my mother’s desk was a mess, including a torn envelope from the IRS shoved in the back of a drawer.... 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