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Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati. The original altercation apparently... Read More

Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of... Read More

A growing movement seeks to brand non-indigenous residents as "settlers" and relegate them to second-class citizenship. Read More

eterrence is the key to border security, and Congress gave DHS four main tools to deter would-be migrants from entering illegally:... Read More

If the U.S. is to endure as one indivisible nation under God, we must raise our expectations for citizenship. Read More

From Duranty to Gaza, enough of the lies.... Read More

Six months after Trump bragged about a “historic” realignment, voters from across the political spectrum have soured on the president. Read More

To win against Trump and MAGA, the party must rebrand with an authentic narrative and ideas. Read More

It hasn’t worked and it won’t work. Read More

A new trove of documents has been unearthed inside FBI headquarters. It sounds as though they may contain new information about the... Read More

Jan. 6 has become a date of hallowed pagan sacredness to the ruling class—a supposed talisman marking chaos, a shorthand for... Read More

A few years ago, if Sydney Sweeney had appeared in an American Eagle ad talking about her “good jeans/genes,” the uproar would... Read More

Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi for promoting hip-hugging jeans. Stephen Colbert's firing crushed free speech. Here's why both narratives failed. Read More

The newly released American Eagle commercials with Sydney Sweeney are not the kind of thing a major U.S. brand would have even dreamed of... Read More

The MAGA influencer is claiming another scalp in top FDA official Vinay Prasad. ‘People here are terrified of her,’ says one White House... Read More

The agency's moves are dooming Kennedy's quest to make people healthier—and his fans are very unhappy. Read More

Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They... Read More

This is the Trump economy now. Read More

It's time to ask what level of spending Americans truly want with the money we actually have. Read More

President Trump has so many candid things to say about recent events, pulling off the biggest trade deal in history, making peace, and maybe... Read More

Friday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify,... Read More

Jesse Arm, Charles Fain Lehman, Tal Fortgang, and John Ketcham unpack the Trump administration’s executive order on homelessness,... Read More

Newsweek columnist Peter Roff joins Gerry Rogers to expose the real reason behind America’s skyrocketing health care costs: the... Read More

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) contains the most substantial conservative reforms to federal health care programs of any legislation in... Read More

This was quick work from the Trump administration. Read More

Polling reveals what politicians already knew: disclosing nonprofit donors is a recipe for chilling speech. Read More

Faith and religious practice are the foundational bedrock of culture upon which the morals, values, and principles of political governance of... 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

American Eagle’s new ad campaign faces backlash over slogan some say reflects eugenicist ideas of beauty. Read More

Woke TikTokers have mistaken her American Eagle jeans ad for Nazi propaganda. Read More

President Trump has extracted more than $1.2 billion in settlements from 13 of the most powerful players in academia, law, media... Read More

The administration has set a precedent for reforming universities as a whole. Read More

President Donald Trump isn’t going to bulldoze China on trade like he did Europe. Read More

Several companies, including Oracle and Microsoft, are expected to sign pledges to work on the Trump administration initiative, according to... Read More

Trump lets Big Tech run wild—as long as its chatbots accept his lies. Read More

The Russian collusion hoax hurt the country, hobbled a presidency and revealed Legacy Media's corruption. Here's how Hollywood made it worse. Read More

A stunning new poll finds that a plurality of voters believe President Donald Trump was "involved" in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Read More

While another survey finds the party's brand at historic lows, only a few Democratic politicians should be worried yet. Read More

The Democratic Party faces a conundrum. Read More

By rights, Republicans should be ascendant. The Democrats are in disarray.  Read More

The White House and a close circle of lawyers plan for Trump to hit the ground running if there's a Supreme Court vacancy, sources tell TIME. Read More

Indiana is among several states restricting the purchase of sugary foods with nutrition assistance funds. Read More

An interview with the social psychologist Adam Mastroianni about American aloneness and why the secret to great conversations is ...... Read More

Nothing can be more obvious that “jurisdiction meant, owing complete allegiance to the U.S. and to no other foreign jurisdiction.” Read More

One of candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s most memorable assertions during his campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. President was that... Read More

It’s been a long time coming. But today the EPA, through its Administrator Lee Zeldin, finally began the formal process of rescinding... Read More

In the chaos of the initial weeks of the COVID-19 financial strain, most people struggled just to keep their heads above water. But for... Read More

Below is my column in the Hill on the “wanderlust” of former CIA Director John Brennan and how it might be coming to an end with new... Read More

A political movement rooted in ancient Jew-hatred is now a generational identity. Read More

The liberal media and others spin attempts to call out the Democratic mayoral nominee’s hatred for Israel as hatred for Muslims. Read More

Below is my column on Fox.com on the debate that Democratic New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a socialist, a Democratic Socialist,... Read More

We hope our conservative friends in the House are paying attention. In addition to preventing a $4 trillion tax hike, both bills contain... Read More

As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America's 250th, Gallup... Read More

That’s what almost every news outlet is saying about the Senate tax plan. ABC News worries that the plan will “crush... Read More

As Americans prepare to celebrate the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should also toast the 250th anniversary of a... Read More

If the well-examined life is worth living, then C.S. Lewis’s must have been extraordinarily worth living, because few lives have been quite... Read More

Andrea Widburg called it “the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen.” She wasn’t wrong. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s... Read More

America has suffered the consequences of false compassion for illegal immigrants for too long. Read More

Small business owners across America are telling similar stories. Caught in the crossfire of a global trade war, tariffs are crushing their... Read More

Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, will be a long-sought... Read More

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the... Read More

Supreme Court makes it clear: ‘Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch.’ Read More

The American eschatological impulse to war is to achieve a definite victorious outcome, even when the costly extra effort is not... Read More