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The Democrats' refusal to stand for American citizens proves without a doubt that they intend to burn the country to the ground... Read More

Critics of Trump’s second-term foreign policy—the usual Left and some on the neo-isolationist Right—claim it is recklessly herky jerky... Read More

"The share who believed Trump has had the right priorities stood at 44% prior to the speech and 54% immediately following its conclusion." Read More

The Democratic congresswoman’s guest, Aliya Rahman, was arrested by Capitol Police for demonstrating during President Trump’s speech to... Read More

Aliya Rahman, a software engineer with a lengthy background in coding, has advocated in the past for police-worn body cameras and also has... Read More

This week, most Americans found a moment of rare unity in our pride over the performance of our athletes in the Winter Olympics. After years... Read More

The Perils of Governing by Applause. Read More

Why consumer protection is a winner for the New Right. Read More

I have been meaning to write about this story for a couple of days: “Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost... Read More

Maryland could easily have added one Democratic House district, but the state Senate president—a Democrat—wouldn’t let it... Read More

The former first lady and secretary of state’s deposition today marks an extraordinary moment in the saga. Her husband’s comes... Read More

Academics today are in thrall to sophisticated philosophies that make learning impossible.Read More... Read More

Recently, I overheard my granddaughter reciting this old rhyme: Girls go to collegeTo get more knowledgeBoys go to JupiterTo get more... Read More

Parents have an affirmative obligation to reinforce patriotic values and counter the narratives that are taught in school. Read More

Half of students fail college algebra. Reformers say outdated college math requirements are gatekeeping graduation. Read More

Even Republican lawmakers said they want more details about how the administration plans to rein in energy costs. Read More

Blame it on American individualism or a political aversion to regulation, but the United States has become a striking outlier in its failure... Read More

Tom Bevan, Phil Wegmann, and Carl Cannon review the inaugural meeting of President Trump's "Board of Peace," concerns it could replace the... 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

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

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

...longest. speech. ever. Read More

President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy. Read More

Leading up to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, a speech intended to celebrate 250 years — a quarter-millennium... Read More

By now, the video has gone viral with Trump asking a simple question: Read More

The setting was different, but the content was pretty much the same as in his "economic" speech in Detroit, prayer breakfast in D.C. and... Read More

President Donald Trump hit it out of the park (again) with his 2026 State of the Union address, perhaps his most remarkable speech yet. Read More

A tense exchange during a remarkably racist portion of the president's State of the Union address. Read More

Democratic groups staging counter-programming events offered a snapshot of a party divided over how best to approach the midterms. Read More

President Trump announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night plans to offer Americans access to a retirement... Read More

“Bad ideas have long lives,” especially in progressive policy circles. The wealth tax is one of them. At a recent panel at the... Read More

The Left is moving from culture to economics. Read More

After the Supreme Court struck down key Trump tariffs, he’s escalating his trade war—risking higher deficits, inflation, and slower... Read More

They've never previously applied the major questions doctrine in the foreign policy arena—and for good reason. Read More

The South Korean government has not been friendly to American businesses – specifically in the technology space. While the United... Read More

U.S. tech executives seem to like to compare the race for global AI dominance to the nuclear arms race – it’s huge,... Read More

Hollywood rose up to defend Jimmy Kimmel when stars thought Trump had fired him. Will they decry potential British streaming censorship? Read More

When Olympic pride becomes controversial, the problem isn’t hockey. 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