RealClearPolicy Week of February 23, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 23
‘So Proud to Be American’
Editors Free Beacon
Feeling Yucky Watching the Olympics Right Now?
Monica Torres HuffPost
I Love Alysa Liu Even More If She Is Woke
Batya Ungar-Sargon Substack
Spoiled Brats Boycotting State of the Union
Sasha Stone Free Thinking
Don’t Panic About Trump’s Election Threats
Joshua A. Douglas Washington Monthly
Dems Need a Swing-State Nominee for President
Justin Vassallo The Liberal Patriot
Tariff Ruling Met with a Yawn
MKTContext ZeroHedge
Cities Really Can Just Enforce the Law
Drew Holden Commonplace
Trans Lawmaker Pushes Porn Sites as ‘Educational’
Harold Hutchison Daily Caller
Should Embracing ‘Gender Identity’ Determine Custody?
Zachary Mettler Federalist
Project Shema Thinks the Answer to Anti-Semitism Is More DEI
Josh Appel CJ
Why Graham Platner’s Meteoric Rise Is so Unexpected
Jessica Piper Politico
AOC’s Ignorance Is No Laughing Matter
Stephen Soukup American Greatness
Interview w/ Andrew Kerr: Wes Moore's Problem with the Truth
Jerry Rogers WBAL


Tuesday, February 24
The Graveyard of Destructive Ideas
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness
Sen. Cotton: Dems Oppose SAVE Act to 'Cheat' in Elections
Olivia Rondeau Breitbart
The Talking Filibuster Is the ‘Anti-Nuclear Option’
Chip Wyatt Chronicles
Olympics: If You Can't Cheer for the U.S., Move to Canada
Sasha Stone Substack
USA Hockey’s Gold Redeemed the Otherwise Awful Olympics
Derek Hunter TH
Bari Weiss Canceled at UCLA
Jonathan Turley Res Ipsa Loquitur
BAFTA Meltdown Captures Woke Mind Virus to Perfection
Christian Toto HiT
SOTU: Dems Shouldn't Sit on Their Hands
Symone D. Sanders-Townsend MS NOW
Who Cares If Democrats Boycott Trump’s SOTU?
David Catron American Spectator
Newsom’s Racist Pandering
Andrew Stiles Free Beacon
Newsom: 'Spare Me Your Fake F**king Outrage'
Alex Galbraith Salon
How to Tax Billionaires
Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Cuba Is the First Country to Reach Net Zero
Francis Menton Manhattan Contrarian
Law Enforcement Works. Who Knew?
David Manney PJ Media
The End of Work? Not Yet—Maybe Not Ever
James Pethokoukis Faster Please!
Ben Sasse and the Political Illusion
Timothy D Padgett Breakpoint


Wednesday, February 25
SOTU: Economy, Immigration, Taxes, & AI
Tyler Durden ZeroHedge
Takeaways From Trump's Address
Sloan & Peoples AP News
SOTU 2026: Now There Are Truly Two Americas
Scott McKay American Spectator
Trump Made Dems an Offer They Couldn't Refuse. They Did
Sasha Stone Substack
Trump Delivers Mess of a 'State of the Union' Speech
S.V. Date HuffPost
Trump’s Home-run State of the Union 2026
Editorial Board NYP
Ilhan Omar to Trump: 'You Have Killed Americans'
Anna Merlan Mother Jones
Spanberger Didn’t Have the Stage to Herself
Pellish & Kashinsky Politico
Trump Announces New Retirement Plan at State of the Union
Emily Peck Axios
The Wealth Tax: Bad Ideas Have Long Lives
Cesar Conda RealClearPolicy
Class Warfare Returns
Christopher F. Rufo City Journal
Trump’s Dangerous Tariff Addiction
Robert J. Shapiro Washington Monthly
The Tariff Wears Two Hats: What SCOTUS Overlooked
John Eastman American Mind
U.S. Investors Worry South Korea Not Open for Business
Brian Darling RCPolicy
The AI Arms Race: America First or Last?
Jared Whitley RealClearPolicy
More Censorship May Be Heading Our Way
Christian Toto HiT
Do You Believe in Miracles? Apparently Not.
John D. Heubusch Substack


Thursday, February 26
Trump's SOTU 'Stand Up' Moment Exposed Democrats
Tyler Durden ZeroHedge
Is There a Trump Great Game?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness
CNN Flash Poll Devastates Dems
C. Douglas Golden The Western Journal
Ilhan Omar Guest, Aliya Rahman, Arrested at SOTU
Chad De Guzman Time
Who Is Aliya Rahman?
Emily Crane New York Post
Reporters Comfort Those Traumatized by Patriotism
J. Turley Res Ipsa Loquitur
The 960 Governor
John D. Heubusch Substack
The Forgotten Populist Issue
John Ehrett Commonplace
Democrats: Not Anti-Semitic Enough?
John Hinderaker Power Line
Pathetic: Maryland Dems Surrendered on Gerrymandering
Perry Bacon TNR
Hillary Clinton to Testify to on Epstein
Clarissa-Jan Lim MS NOW
Why the Woke Think the Way They Do
Gene Edward Veith Acton Institute
Is College Making People Stupider?
Rob Jenkins Minding The Campus
The False Equivalence of Multicultural Day
Josh Blackman Civitas
Almost No One Needs College Algebra Anymore
Samantha Powers Wash Monthly
Trump Announced Deal on Data Centers. What’s in It?
Miller & Long Politico


Friday, February 27
Hockey Vibe Shift: Patriotic Optimism Is Back, Baby!
Batya Ungar-Sargon Substack
De Niro Skewers Trump Speech at State of the Swamp
Brian Karem Salon
To Whom Do They Bow?
Michael Smith Unlicensed Punditry
Five Quick Things: John Thune Is Blowing It
Scott McKay American Spectator
Libertarians Should Be Wary About Releasing Epstein Files
Robby Soave Reason
Secret Orders Targeting Patel, Wiles Should Alarm Us All
J. Turley Res Ipsa Loquitur
Legal Conservatism for the 21st Century
John Ehrett The American Mind
No, the President Did Not Lose Tariff Power
Benjamin M. Osborne Chronicles
A Brothel in Nevada Just Made Labor History
Jack Mirkinson The Nation
If You’re Anti-Israel, Are You Antisemitic?
Abrams & Cohen Algemeiner
The Golden State Is Turning Grey
Joel Kotkin City Journal
Defusing the Social Security Time Bomb
Thomas Savidge The Daily Economy
Saturday, February 28
Trump Urges Iranians to 'Take Over Your Government'
Video AP News
Trump and Israel Start the Iran War
Matthew Petti Reason
Trump: 'Major Combat Operations' Underway Against Iran
Oliver JJ Lane Breitbart
Israel Targets Khamenei in Bid to Bring Down Iran's Regime
Barak Ravid Axios
Trump Didn't Even Try to Make a Case for War with Iran
Anthony L. Fisher MS NOW
Why Are We About to Go War?
John Daniel Davidson FDRLST
The War to End the Iranian Regime Has Begun
Noah Rothman National Review
Major Combat Operations
Scott Johnson Power Line
Congress Reacts to Iran Attack
Staff The Daily Signal
‘Acts of War Unauthorized by Congress’
Ewing et al. Politico
What Would the World Look Like Without Trump?
Martin Gurri City Journal
No Populism Without Cultural Populism
Ruy Teixeira The Liberal Patriot
Abolish ICE? Absolutely — and DHS too
Mike Lofgren Salon
Dems Will Go After Firms That Courted Trump
Nicholas Wu Semafor
The Truth Behind Democrats’ Virginia Gerrymander
Ben Cline Blaze Media
Why You Need to (re)Read 1984 -- ASAP
Alex Berenson Unreported Truths
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