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A recent article in the New York Times is headlined “How Many People Has Trump Deported So Far?”  Read More

NYT and other media are engaged in an exercise to show descriptions by Administration Officials have been wrong and thereby mislead readers... Read More

DOJ targets now include victim Renée Good's widow, Gov. Tim Walz, and Mayor Jacob Frey—but not shooter Jonathan Ross. Read More

Celebrities have the right to their own opinions, but not their own facts. Bruce Springsteen is twisting the truth about Renee Good. Hard. Read More

The state is a microcosm for the civic and legal battles defining Trump’s second term. Read More

The videos coming out of Minneapolis, of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers apprehending illegal immigrants in the streets while... Read More

Trump discusses the Insurrection Act amid chaos in Minneapolis and ongoing national security concerns. Read More

The first step in defeating Trump and MAGA is giving Schumer and Jeffries the boot. Read More

If the next three years look anything like this past one, I will have gotten more for my vote than I ever would have dreamed or expected. Read More

Former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta spoke with popular podcaster Jennifer Welch, discussing the plans for radical changes after a Democratic... Read More

Washington is desperate to keep Russia and China out of the Arctic. Read More

As Donald Trump threatens to seize the Danish territory of Greenland, Europe’s long-deferred reckoning with American power is arriving. Read More

The question for framing next generation energy policies distills to knowing whether there are any truly new means for meeting... Read More

Here in the U.S., the second Trump administration has largely pulled the plug on the suite of crazy energy policies marching under the banner... Read More

The Trump administration awards government contracts on the basis of race and sex. It needs to stop. Read More

As we begin the new year, many of us take stock of our financial situation. Public pension systems should as well. Retired police,... Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he provides his thoughts on the United States' involvement in Venezuela and the capture of... Read More

Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth consider the massive role Secretary of State Marco Rubio is playing in the administration, and... Read More

In the first episode of our new “Who We Are” series, Rafael Mangual and Heather Mac Donald discuss the work of the Manhattan Institute... Read More

In this special edition of the City Journal podcast, Daniel Di Martino, Josh Appel, and Rafael Mangual reflect on the magic of the holiday... 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

“From a small spark, kindled in America, a flame has arisen, not to be extinguished.” So opens Ken Burns’s 6-part, 12-hour... Read More

For more than two decades, my research has pointed to a basic but often misunderstood reality of American public life: The culture war is not... Read More

One year after Donald Trump began his second term with an inaugural address assertion that he was “saved by God to make America great... Read More

The neofascist tech oligarch was cast out of Trump’s inner circle, but his money and influence are still omnipresent. Read More

Today marks one year since Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term as president. Read More

What a difference a year makes: From taming inflation to boosting wages, Trump’s first year has brought sound economic policy — and... Read More

The American people are speaking loud and clear: They want affordability, and they want it now. Thankfully, on Jan. 13, Republicans in... Read More

Why it matters: In recent weeks, Trump has shown he's no longer content just dominating the U.S. and the news cycle — he... Read More

How moral absolutism turns mobs into heroes and victims into villains. Read More

Those of you taking a holiday from the depressing grind of current events over the three-day weekend may not have seen this latest escalation... Read More

Damn the polls. Full speed ahead. Read More

Scammers and state governments routinely pilfer from federal health-care programs. Read More

On February 11, 2026, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida, RealClear will be celebrating its 25th anniversary year – just as... Read More

The killing of Renee Good and shooting in Portland has sparked over 1,000 anti-ICE protests across the U.S. this weekend. Read More

How activist leaders brainwash their followers by turning moral certainty into mortal risk. Read More

The footage shows the moments before the shooting. Read More

Jonathan Ross in his own words. Read More

Leftist agitators and the corporate media wasted no time capitalizing on the death of a woman who was fatally shot by an ICE officer after... Read More

In Minneapolis and Venezuela, the Trump administration villainizes America's neighbors — and its own citizens Read More

A critical look at law enforcement and political rhetoric surrounding tragic events. Read More

Imagine someone is walking through a museum filled with fragile antiquities. And they happen to be indiscriminately swinging a sledgehammer.... Read More

Medicaid fraud has been endemic at the state and federal levels for decades. Focusing on a single official or state misses a deeper lesson. Read More

The misspelled sign, “Learing (sic) Center,” hit a nerve with hard-working American families and taxpayers. It connected with... Read More

New business formation and rising investments in technology and equipment may point to future hiring and income growth. Read More

Washington Post admits Trump's January 6th speech was constitutionally protected by First Amendment, saying Jack Smith 'would have blown a... Read More