RealClearPolitics Monday
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President Trump is expected to seize the bully pulpit during his State of the Union address to outline a path forward on expiring protections... Read More
Left-wing activists declared a lot of things to be racist over the weekend. President Trump's immigration plan to give 1.8 million illegal... Read More
His tax cuts and pure willpower can't bring back manufacturing jobs. Read More
Watch out, Amazon. Read More
What exactly were top officials in the FBI and DOJ doing during the election of 2016? The Page-Strzok text exchanges might offer a few... Read More
Comey is gone. McCabe is going. Rosenstein could be next. Read More
Imagine what the reaction would be to a rumor that Barack Obama's ambassador to the United Nations was sleeping with him. Read More
Three recent attacks in Afghanistan, waged by the Islamic State, a new player there, and the Taliban, a very old element in the interplay of... Read More
Wages lagged badly during the Obama years, even as the economy recovered. But since the Trump tax cuts, wages are again surging. It's no... Read More
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner would love to focus on his November re-election bid. He can't. First he must defeat his primary opponent, Rep.... Read More
Not all conspiracy theorists are unhinged paranoids—even when they insist there was a loosely organized if not sometimes incoherent... Read More
This time, the president's defenders are complicit in the concealment. Read More
Some are calling for another investigation while others want the Department of Justice to handle it. Read More
President Trump, the New York Times was the first to report Thursday night, tried to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III... Read More
The World Economic Forum just concluded in Davos, Switzerland. As a longtime participant in the annual gathering, I know that some years are... Read More
The most significant long-term threat to United States national security may be our political polarization. Read More
Well, that whole government shutdown thing didn't work out real well for the genius Democrats, did it? Read More
For Chuck Schumer and his Senate Democrats, the reaction since the government shutdown ended has been nothing short of brutal. Schumer and... Read More
Leonard Leo didn’t intend to stay long in Washington, D.C.When he was a brand new law school graduate, Leo received an offer to clerk... Read More
Want a sneak peek at a president’s priorities ahead of the State of the Union address? Take a look at the first lady’s box. This... Read More
The weather's been stormy at the White House. Read More
Davos, Switzerland â It's not Comey. Or Mueller. Or the Russians. Or Stormy Daniels.It's the economy, stupid.And right now, the... Read More
Many Republicans and Trump-supporting commentators have embarrassed themselves in recent weeks with their wild-eyed and absurd conspiracy... Read More
People and organizations that Americans trust for information have a consistent pattern of brazenly running cover for the Democrat Party on... Read More
America is great. It's always been great — we don’t need to “make it great again”. I actually think that it’s... Read More
Two weeks ago, Canadians responded in horror to a disturbing news story in Toronto: before a bank of cameras, a tearful 11-year-old girl said... Read More
You know the story: Figure skater Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, hired a thug to brutally kneecap the working-class Oregon... Read More
Democracies are deluded to think they can have only legal migrants. Read More
Whatever happens - obstruct! Read More
With Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he is running for Senate, Arizona is poised to have its Alabama Moment. The national media will... Read More
President Trump, the same guy who compared certain Third World countries to sewage and has bemoaned global trade deals, got... Read More
A year in, that presidency looks surprisingly normal. Trump has largely outsourced his agenda to the congressional GOP and their allies... Read More
This story suggests how the original Russia narrative may have been spread around to overly compliant journalists and other members of the... Read More
The top Democrat on the Senate's Russia investigation says he's worried about what he's just learned. Read More
As readers of his Twitter feed are well aware, President Trump firmly believes his first year in office has unleashed an economic boom fueled... Read More
Jerry Falwell Jr.'s politics are simply a right-wing version of the original progressives' habit of tailoring their arguments to wherever the... Read More
If you need an example of what The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway described as panic and fear out there in official D.C. in response to... Read More
Before having her tonsils removed, Jahi McMath, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl from Oakland, California, asked her doctor,... Read More

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Snow was piled high outside, but inside the Davos summit, relations between President Donald Trump and the assembled global elites seemed to thaw.Before Trump’s debut appearance at the World Economic Forum, critics speculated that the president would function as a protectionist bull in the free-trade-loving china shop. After all, this was a former reality tele Read More

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — For the Koch brothers and their powerful donor network, the trouble with President Donald Trump isn’t what he’s doing. It’s how he’s doing it.Huddled at a private retreat in the California desert, the conservative movement’s elite money men worried aloud this weekend that the Republican president’s undisciplined behavior is clou Read More

Intriguing tidbits from the week in election surveys and public opinion polls.Putting the Blue Wave on Hold: One month ago Democrats held a whopping 13-point margin over Republicans in the generic ballot. Read More
