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The $6 Trillion Decision

By: David Dayen， American Prospect
The stakes of the election can be laid out in 13-figure sums.

The $6 Trillion Decision

As a Palestinian-American, I Can't Vote for Biden Any More

By: Ahmed Moor， Guardian
The president's moral failure in Gaza has taken on historic proportions, like Lyndon Johnson's in Vietnam before him

Mike Johnson's Gambit Could Blow the GOP's Chances

By: Heather Parton， Salon
Right-wing backlash in the House threatens Speaker Johnson's job - but blowback in the Senate could risk GOP seats

Ukraine's Border Is Now Johnson's 'Hill To Die On'

By: Jordan Boyd， The Federalist
The battle this 'wartime speaker' is ready to fight isn't at home for his voters but nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean away.

Biden's Inflation Matters to Swing-State Voters

By: Steve Cortes， Newsweek
It seems the so-called experts on the economy cannot understand or even accept the financial despondency of the American people.

Trump Begins the High-Wire Act

By: James Antle， The American Conservative
The former president's fight extends beyond the courtroom.

Privileged Youth in West Celebrate Terror Thugs for Kicks

By: Elica Le Bon， NY Post
Since Oct. 7, myself and others in the Iranian community have been unsettled by an anxious awareness of how radicalized Westerners are inching dangerously close to support for the Islamic Republic.

Will Doing 'the Right Thing' Cost Speaker Johnson?

By: Stephen Collinson， CNN
It took less than six months for Speaker Mike Johnson to reach his existential moment. The Louisiana Republican has arrived at fateful but familiar crossroads where he must either choose to honor a conventional vision of US national interests or side with the wrecking ball antics of his party's far-right bloc.

Will Doing 'the Right Thing' Cost Speaker Johnson?

Democrats Lie About Biden Corruption, Put Trump on Trial

By: Miranda Devine， NY Post
The Get Trump Democrats are beside themselves with glee about the former president being stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial.

Democrats Lie About Biden Corruption, Put Trump on Trial

What Was Won in No Labels' Crusade

By: Holly Page， RealClearPolitics
Earlier this month, No Labels' effort to offer a third choice for president in 2024 came to an end. It was an audacious idea from the beginning. We knew defenders of broken Washington would rage against us; their economic model demands it. But we did it anyway because we knew that a vast majority of voters wanted it, and giving voice to those voters is the only way to bring common sense back to our politics, something that is so desperately needed.

What Was Won in No Labels' Crusade

Will Johnson's Border Betrayal Produce a Democrat House?

By: Sean Davis， X
When Mike Johnson was elected speaker, there were 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats: a nine-seat majority that allowed Republicans to lose the votes of four members but maintain a majority.

Will Johnson's Border Betrayal Produce a Democrat House?

How Trump Used New York Bodega Visit To Return to Form

By: David Siders， Politico
There was Donald Trump, the former president, back in his element and enjoying himself in a crowd, posing for photographs, overstating his standing in the polls and suggesting that he is serious - truly - about winning an impossibly Democratic state.

How Trump Used New York Bodega Visit To Return to Form

The Uncomfortable Facts About Cop Shootings

By: Varney ＆amp； Degnan， RCInvestigations
When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was quickly grafted onto a narrative that began in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. - namely, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who do not believe black lives matter. "Killing of Dexter Reed raises questions about Chicago police reform. ‘The message is, go in guns blazing,'" blared a headline in the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Uncomfortable Facts About Cop Shootings

Sen. Hawley's Labor Revolution

By: Sohrab Ahmari， Compact Magazine
Hawley's pathbreaking alliance with the Teamsters is good news for workers, an exemplar to a GOP with an increasingly downscale voter base, and a win for the nation.

Sen. Hawley's Labor Revolution

A Quick End to Republicans' Mayorkas Impeachment Stunt

By: Li Zhou， Vox
Senate Democrats put a quick end to Republicans' political stunt.

A Quick End to Republicans' Mayorkas Impeachment Stunt

The Great Bet on Rate Cuts Is Off

By: Katie Martin， Financial Times
We are trapped in old ways of thinking about inflation

The Great Bet on Rate Cuts Is Off

The Problem With Calling on Justice Sotomayor To Resign

By: Raul Reyes， CNN
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor approaches the 15th anniversary of her historic appointment to the Supreme Court, some liberal pundits and lawmakers want her to consider stepping down. They think that Sotomayor's health, and the possibility that Democrats might lose the presidency and the Senate in November, put the future of the court's liberal wing at risk.

The Problem With Calling on Justice Sotomayor To Resign

DC Republicans Prepare To Sell Out Their Voters

By: Jude Russo， American Conservative
If you're going to make an end-run around your own party, shouldn't you at least give us a reason?

DC Republicans Prepare To Sell Out Their Voters

Are Democrats Stuck With Biden?

By: Holman Jenkins， Wall Street Journal
Don't call it collusion but his campaign owes the Iranians a big thank-you note.

Are Democrats Stuck With Biden?

Equality Under the Law and Conflicts of Interest in New York

By: Matt Whitaker，＆nbsp；RCP
One of America's foundational principles is "equal justice under the law," or the principle that no matter who you are or what you stand for, you are entitled to a fair chance to make your case in a court of law. That's why the Lady Justice statue outside the Supreme Court wears a blindfold and holds a scale - the blindfold to symbolize her impartiality and immunity from outside influences, and the scale to signify her objective weighing of the evidence in front of her.

Equality Under the Law and Conflicts of Interest in New York

Supreme Court Takes Up J6 Charges

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RCP＆nbsp；on SiriusXM
Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (Monday through Friday on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124), Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth discuss Speaker Mike Johnson's attempt to pass foreign aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, the Biden Administration's evolving strategy on Iran, new polls that show President Biden's job approval rating flagging even as he moves up in the head-to-head contest against Donald Trump, and the Supreme Court hearing arguments about the charges against the Jan. 6 defendants.

Supreme Court Takes Up J6 Charges

Fight for PA: Voters Fear Trump Won't Be Allowed To Win

By: James Billot， UnHerd
John has PTSD. The 78-year-old is a Vietnam war veteran, but that's not the source of his trauma - at least according to his t-shirt. PTSD, in fact, stands for "Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats", which is why John has made the 560-mile pilgrimage from his home in Wilmington, North Carolina to Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. He is here, along with thousands of others, to support "the best president of our lifetime", who is holding his final rally before travelling to New York to face trial over an alleged hush money scheme. "It's a bogus trial like the rest of them," John says. "But at least he's...

Fight for PA: Voters Fear Trump Won't Be Allowed To Win

GOP Bill Cracks Down on Foreign Dark Money 'Loophole'

By: Andrew Miller， FOX News
A new bill aims to crack down on foreign billionaires using dark money networks to fund ballot measures in the United States using a workaround that critics say violates federal law.

GOP Bill Cracks Down on Foreign Dark Money 'Loophole'

No Wonder So Many Americans Don't Trust the Media

By: Ingrid Jacques， USA Today
NPR is in the hot seat after now former editor Uri Berliner wrote a damning piece, detailing what's happening at a place he loves and respects.

No Wonder So Many Americans Don't Trust the Media

Mike Johnson, Coalition Speaker

By: Kristol ＆amp； Egger， The Bulwark
Plus: If the Democrats are fer it, we're agin it.

Mike Johnson, Coalition Speaker

If GOP Loses House Majority, It's Speaker Johnson's Fault

By: John Davidson， Federalist
And actually, we'd be better off with a Democrat-controlled Congress (and an actual GOP opposition) than whatever this is.

If GOP Loses House Majority, It's Speaker Johnson's Fault

Thursday Proved Difficulty of Picking Jurors To Assess Trump

By: Jeremy Stahl， Slate
Here's what the process has looked like in the court room.

Thursday Proved Difficulty of Picking Jurors To Assess Trump

Kennedy Family Endorses Biden in a Rejection of RFK Jr.

By: Joey Garrison， USA Today
Several Kennedys have already made their support for President Biden known while making clear they oppose their relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid.

Kennedy Family Endorses Biden in a Rejection of RFK Jr.

Politics of Steel Are Center Stage in Pennsylvania

By: Salena Zito， Washington Examiner
On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan's Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of steelworkers at his Butler Works plant and let them know just what he thought of the pending vote.

Politics of Steel Are Center Stage in Pennsylvania

This Year's Dem Convention Won't Be Replay of 1968

By: Ed Kilgore， New York Magazine
When the Democratic National Committee chose Chicago as the site of the party's 2024 national convention a year ago, no one knew incumbent presidential nominee Joe Biden would become the target of major antiwar demonstrations.

This Year's Dem Convention Won't Be Replay of 1968

Chasing Trump: Alvin Bragg's Justice Gone Wrong

By: American Greatness
This clip from the American Greatness documentary "Chasing Trump" looks at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg:

Chasing Trump: Alvin Bragg's Justice Gone Wrong

Jack Miller: The Patriotic Philanthropist

By: Hans Zeiger， Philanthropy Daily
Jack Miller's commitment to reform in American civic education sets a sterling example for donors of how to effect transformative change and uphold philanthropic values.

Jack Miller: The Patriotic Philanthropist

Calif. Dems Tout Ties to Criminal Leniency Group

By: Susan Crabtree， RealClearPolitics
The mayors of California's three biggest cities have rankled some progressive activists in recent months by joining a wave of fellow Democrats renouncing once popular initiatives to defund the police, reduce sentencing, and undertake other criminal justice reforms amid deep concerns over public safety.

Calif. Dems Tout Ties to Criminal Leniency Group

NPR Scandal Should Kill Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting

By: Charles Lipson，＆nbsp；RCP
"I don't want any yes-men around me," said Sam Goldwyn, the Hollywood producer famed for his movies and malapropisms. "I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job." The brass at National Public Radio must have heard Sam, but they add a slight amendment. We want only "yes-men" (they/them) and will boot anyone who dares to dissent.

NPR Scandal Should Kill Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting

Now or Never Time for Israel?

By: Hugh Hewitt， FOX News
If Israel allows itself to be cowed now, will it ever regain the optimism and sense of security it enjoyed on 10/6?

GOP Wanted Crackdown on Israel Critics. Columbia Obliged

By: Michelle Goldberg， NYT
Columbia's exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has no intention of going down like the former heads of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, both driven from their jobs following disastrous appearances before a congressional committee investigating campus antisemitism.

GOP Wanted Crackdown on Israel Critics. Columbia Obliged

Did the U.S. Solicitor General Mislead SCOTUS?

By: Julie Kelly， Substack
Elizabeth Prelogar, Joe Biden's appointed solicitor general, attempted to downplay prison sentences associated with J6ers convicted of 1512(c)(2) during oral arguments. But did she tell the truth?

Johnson Betrays Border Security for More Foreign Aid

By: Christopher Bedford， Blaze
Funny how the pressure works up so often for wars abroad and so rarely for deaths at home. But in Washington that pressure is relentless a€” and one-sided.

Johnson Betrays Border Security for More Foreign Aid

Are Iran's Nine Lives Nearing an End?

By: Victor Davis Hanson， American Greatness
The theocracy of Iran has been the world's arch-embassy attacker over the last half century.

Are Iran's Nine Lives Nearing an End?

Universities Must Stop Tolerating Antisemitism

By: Dershowitz ＆amp； Stein， New York Post
Columbia University's president and other college administrators have stated that the chant From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free is permissible political speech.

Universities Must Stop Tolerating Antisemitism

Time for a Bipartisan Presidency

By: Lanny J. Davis， RealClearPolitics
Although Joe Biden is a lifelong Democrat, his political career was long defined by bipartisan compromises and reaching out to the Republican Party with legislative compromises, budget battle solutions, foreign policy consensus, and, notably, personal friendships.

Time for a Bipartisan Presidency

A Biden Victory in November Turns On This State

By: Cottle ＆amp； Winter， New York Times
Let's talk about why President Biden is spending three days in Pennsylvania this week - a lot of time by

A Biden Victory in November Turns On This State

Question for a Reparations Advocate: What Is Enough?

By: Charlie Stone， The Unknowns
On the first episode of RCP's new program "The Unknowns," Charlie Stone interviews Robin Rue Simmons, the chair of the Reparations Committee in Evanston, Illinois.

Question for a Reparations Advocate: What Is Enough?

Obama-Biden Foreign Policy Emboldened Iran

By: Josh Hammer， American Spectator
The terrorist Iranian regime's unprecedented recent attack on Israel, which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, is an unambiguous casus belli -- an act of war -- under international law.

Obama-Biden Foreign Policy Emboldened Iran

No Steel in Biden's Spine

By: Hugo Gurdon， Washington Examiner
President Joe Biden's move to triple tariffs to 25% on imported Chinese steel is an electoral effort to steal the clothes of former President Donald Trump.

No Steel in Biden's Spine

What's Most Important to Young Voters

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
For the last decade, top Democratic politicians, most notably Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, have struggled to re-create the coalition of voters who elected Barack Obama twice.

What's Most Important to Young Voters

Quotations From Chairman Maher

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
NPR's new CEO exemplifies the ideological capture of America's institutions.

Trump Campaigns From the Courtroom

By: Cannon， Jashinsky ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (Monday through Friday on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124), Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Emily Jashinsky (culture editor of The Federalist) discuss Donald Trump's strategy for campaigning while he is stuck in the courtroom and members of the Kennedy family endorsing President Biden.

Trump Campaigns From the Courtroom

Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine?

By: Susan Glasser， The New Yorker
The Speaker's sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership-and Trump's wrath.

Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine?

The Real Youth-Vote Shift To Watch

By: Elaine Godfrey， The Atlantic
Are young people turning away from the Democratic Party in 2024? Will turnout be as high as it was last time around? What about the gender gap? Today I'll do my best to address some pressing questions about how young folks will behave in November. But first, here are three stories from The Atlantic:

The Real Youth-Vote Shift To Watch

Iran Appears To Play Down Down Significance of Israeli Strike

By: Stack et al.， NYT
The Israeli strike on a military base near the Iranian city of Isfahan was part of a cycle of retaliation

Iran Appears To Play Down Down Significance of Israeli Strike

Among the Activists Plotting To Disrupt the DNC

By: Reingold ＆amp； Lake， The Free Press
'We've got to give them a 1968 kind of welcome.'

Among the Activists Plotting To Disrupt the DNC

Boeing's Problems Were as Bad as You Thought

By: Whizy Kim， Vox
Experts and whistleblowers testified before Congress today. The upshot?

How BLM and Covid Are Wrecking the Theater

By: McWhorter ＆amp； Duncan， Substack
In this clip from this week's episode, John McWhorter fills in for Glenn and talks with actor Clifton Duncan. Clifton tells John how opting out of COVID vaccination, protesting what he sees as COVID protocol overreach, and speaking out about race have profoundly damaged his career in the entertainment industry. It's not just Clifton who's at risk. Theater attendance is way down, and some argue that the influence of BLM-style politics accounts for this newfound unpopularity.

When Politics and Physics Collide

By: Mark Mills， City Journal
Mandates and massive subsidies cannot summon into being a world without fossil fuels.

Speaker Johnson: Embrace the Bipartisan Way Forward

By: Tim Ryan， Newsweek
Combining support for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with LNG exports and permitting reform is the type of compromise that generations of legislators will admire.

A Hallucinogenic and Unrepentant Rant

By: Mark Judge， Chronicles
Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser in the infamous 2018 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has written an unrepentant and incoherent book while showing no remorse for the ordeal she caused others and the nation.

Ukraine Needs One More Year To Win

By: Eric Schmidt， The Hill
Avdiivka's Ukrainian garrison had beaten back repeated Russian assaults, only for its dwindling munitions stockpiles ultimately to force a surrender. Russian artillery was firing at a rate ten times that of Ukrainian defenders, who were forced to ration shells as Western supplies dried up.

Ukraine Needs One More Year To Win

A Beleaguered Gentleman: Speaker Mike Johnson

By: Philip Wegmann， RealClearPolitics
The sky is cloudless and blue on a warm April afternoon as a cheerful Mike Johnson, seated on a beige couch next to an unlit fireplace in an office still new to him, contemplates his demise, taking solace in Providence and repeating the words of John Quincy Adams - an illustration of his circumstances almost as much as a reluctant acceptance of fate

A Beleaguered Gentleman: Speaker Mike Johnson

Right Now, Democrats Are Calling the Shots in the House

By: Christian Whiton， Substack
House GOP set to borrow and spend $61 billion for Captain Undershirt and prolong Ukraine crusade

Right Now, Democrats Are Calling the Shots in the House

Even With Trial Burden, Trump Outcampaigns Biden

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
Many Democrats see the trial of former President Donald Trump, prosecuted by the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan, as a valuable political tool. While Trump is tied down in a courtroom, required to be in court every day trial is in session, President Joe Biden can be out

Even With Trial Burden, Trump Outcampaigns Biden

What the Trump Jurors Think of the Former President

By: Jeremy Stahl， Slate
Here's what we learned about the latest jurors to be added, and their views of the former president, after their responses to the 42-part questionnaire and about an hour of voir dire. (We wrote about the first half of the jury here.) We will be filling out the rest of the alternates as what is expected to be the final day of jury selection continues on Friday.

What the Trump Jurors Think of the Former President

What Bugs Them About Bobby Kennedy Jr.

By: David Talbot， Substack
An Open (Sort Of) Discussion with Kennedy's Press Critics

Larry Sanger Speaks Out

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger discusses Katherine Maher and the corruption of the Internet.

Larry Sanger Speaks Out

Why PA Is a Must-Win State for Biden

By: Cannon，＆nbsp；Trende ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Friday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and RCP senior elections analyst Sean Trende discuss how important Pennsylvania is to Joe Biden's re-election campaign and the announcement that the RNC and the Trump campaign are deploying up to 100,000 poll watchers across the country in November.

Why PA Is a Must-Win State for Biden

Trump Moves to the Middle on Abortion. Biden Should, Too

By: Kristen Day， Newsweek
A pro-life movement that continues to embrace Donald Trump and ignore Joe Biden is a movement without a future in the U.S.

Trump Moves to the Middle on Abortion. Biden Should, Too

Prosecutor: Gascon Dropped Vote Case Over Politics

By: Margot Cleveland， The Federalist
For political reasons, DA George Gascon dismissed the criminal charges against Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, says the lead prosecutor on the case.

Our Green New Deal for Public Housing

By: Sen. Sanders ＆amp； Rep. Ocasio-Cortez， MSNBC
This legislation addresses four crises facing the country.

What the Cass Review Means for Trans Kids

By: Natasha Zapata， The Nation
A new review of gender-affirming healthcare in England could change the way gender-questioning children and young everywhere people receive care.

The Trans Reckoning Is Here

By: Nina Power， Compact Magazine
If we are past the height of the fad, and the Cass report with its sober, reasonable tone prevails, there will need to be a reckoning at multiple levels of society.

Accountability Coming for Trump at Last?

By: Eisen， Kovacs-Goodman ＆amp； Barrilleaux， MSNBC
The judge kept the former president on a tight leash when jurors were in the courtroom.

Accountability Coming for Trump at Last?

Ukraine Won. Trump Lost

By: David Frum， The Atlantic

Ukraine Won. Trump Lost

Led by Biden, Dems' New 'Squad' Wants Israel Gone

By: al-Aqidi ＆amp； Fraser， New York Post
Minnesota's Democrat Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith recently joined 17 other senators in their party's leftward lurch by urging the Biden administration to take decisive action to...

Led by Biden, Dems' New 'Squad' Wants Israel Gone

What's Next After the Ukraine Mistake?

By: Bradley Devlin， The American Conservative
Democrats could save Speaker Mike Johnson, but they once again find themselves in a can't-lose situation.

What's Next After the Ukraine Mistake?

Israel and Iran Have Opened a Pandora's Box

By: Simon Tisdall， The Guardian
Skirmishes between the pair have until now been muted, but the tit-for-tat attack on Isfahan shows how the Gaza conflict is fuelling global tensions

At Columbia...That's All, Folx!

By: Roger Kimball， The Spectator
Harvard, UPenn, MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth, Williams: there is an epidemic of distaff leadership in the elite precincts of higher education

Trump's Bodega Visit Should Scare the Heck Out of Dems

By: Michael Daly， Daily Beast
Adam Gray/ReutersA cheery young Hispanic working single mom who should terrify the Democrats had just picked up her 1-year-old son from his babysitter on Tuesday evening when she encountered a crowd at Broadway and W. 139th St. in Harlem.None other than Donald Trump was just beyond a line of police barricades outside the Sanaa Convenient store.I was amazed to see him, 31-year-old Sabrina Vargas later told The Daily Beast. Just to see what everyone jokes about-his hair, the color. It was kind

What I Would Tell Congress if I Were a University President

By: Francine Prose， Guardian
The president of Columbia University testified about her administration's handling of campus unrest. Here's what I would have said

Biden Running a Sham-Paign While Trump Is On Trial

By: Michael Goodwin， NY Post
The New York Times headline hinted at the injustice of Donald Trump by declaring: Trump on Trial vs. Biden on the Trail: An Unusual 2024 Stretch Begins.

Biden Running a Sham-Paign While Trump Is On Trial

Biden's Title IX Rewrite Obliterates Female Spaces

By: Jordan Boyd， The Federalist
The rules also undo Trump-era due process safeguards for those accused of sexual misconduct and encroach on parents' rights.

Washington D.C.'s 'America Last' Crew

By: Shawn Fleetwood， The Federalist
You don't have to be a Putin stooge to see that dumping endless U.S. funds into Kyiv without proper oversight is a terrible idea.

Why Is America Vastly Expanding Its Surveillance Complex?

By: Caitlin Vogus， Guardian
A little-known amendment to the reauthorized version of Fisa would enlarge the government's surveillance powers to a drastic, draconian degree

Next GOP President Should Defund Public Broadcasting

By: Mike Gonzalez， NY Post
Many of us have long known that there was a serious problem with a taxpayer-funded programming system that ignored half the country.

Johnson Draws Praise for Defying His Party & Doing His Job

By: Annie Karni， NY Times
In the Republican Party of 2024, styled in the image of former President Donald J. Trump, a norm-preserving, consensus-driven act - even a basic one - can be a career-ending offense.

Does GOP Care About Democracy as Much as Dems? No

By: E.J. Dionne， Wash Post
Polls show both Democrats and Republicans are concerned about the state of democracy - but for very different reasons.

A Planetary Crisis Awaits the Next President

By: Stephen Markley， New York Times
In the 12 years it took me to write The Deluge, my novel of the climate crisis, I watched as

Postcards From the Edge of Cannibalism

By: Salena Zito， Washington Examiner
In Pennsylvania, Biden tried to present a postcard picture of his presidency, but he failed to deliver.

Postcards From the Edge of Cannibalism

Biden Should Be Honest With Ukraine

By: Robert Clarke， RealClearDefense
The United States has overpromised support to Ukraine. President Biden and the White House have vowed that the flow of American money and arms to aid in the war effort will continue "for as long as it takes." As Americans continue to sour on further support, and Biden's $60 billion aid package is stalled in the U.S. House, that promise appears more and more impossible. Even House Speaker Mike Johnson's new attempt to move a $43 billion proposal faces harsh backlash from his fellow Republicans that threatens his continued speakership.

Biden Should Be Honest With Ukraine

The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

By: Frank Miele， RealClearPolitics
"Death to America!" We are used to that chant. Maybe too used to it.

The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

Low Interest in the Election a Vulnerability for Trump

By: Steve Kornacki， Meet the Press
NBC's election analyst Steve Kornacki looks at good news for President Biden in their most recent poll on "Meet The Press."

Low Interest in the Election a Vulnerability for Trump

The New Litmus Test for GOP Candidates

By: Jamison Carrier， The American Conservative
The U.S. needs political leaders who will get serious about fentanyl.

The House Ukraine Package Is a Defeat for Populists

By: Fred Bauer， UnHerd
With a price tag of almost $100 billion, a package of military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and other American allies has just passed the United States House of Representatives. The triumph of this bill exemplifies how a politics of burn-it-all-down outrage actually blocks populist policies.

The House Ukraine Package Is a Defeat for Populists

Abandon the Fantasy That We Can 'Make Russia Normal'

By: Timothy Snyder， FPA
During an event this week at the Foreign Policy Association, Yale history professor and author of "On Tyranny" Timothy Snyder discussed what a "defeated Russia" would look like after the war in Ukraine. You can watch the full lecture below this segment of transcript.

Abandon the Fantasy That We Can 'Make Russia Normal'

The Death of the GOP Is Not a Tragedy To Be Celebrated

By: Robert Reich， The Guardian
Richard Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would kill it - Donald Trump has finished the job

Why 2024 Is a Lose-Lose Election

By: Dennis Powell， The Hill
Presidential elections can be put into three categories: stay the course, turn the page and transformation. In 2004, President George W. Bush was prosecuting the War on Terror and Americans choose to stay the course. In 2008, voters wanted a change in course and enough voters saw then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as transformational to elect him.

Why 2024 Is a Lose-Lose Election

Inside the Columbia Protests That Led to 100 Arrests

By: Alexander Sammon， Slate
The pressure at the school has been building for months, and it isn't over yet.

Inside the Columbia Protests That Led to 100 Arrests

Protests Turn Violent at Yale

By: Gabriel Diamond， Wall Street Journal
Administrators sit on their hands as a Jewish student is poked in the eye with a flagpole and hospitalized.

Protests Turn Violent at Yale

Criminal Trial Could Be Cure for 'Trump Amnesia'

By: Doyle McManus， Los Angeles Times
Before Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York got underway, pundits predicted that the proceedings could be a media bonanza for the former president. During this year's Republican primaries, they noted, Trump's popularity rose every time he was indicted.

Criminal Trial Could Be Cure for 'Trump Amnesia'

The Jewish Vote Could Play a Huge Role in 2024

By: Smith ＆amp； Barnett， NBC News
Jewish voters could play a major role in the big battleground state this fall. Before that, there's a key primary approaching Tuesday in Pittsburgh.

The Jewish Vote Could Play a Huge Role in 2024

Biden & the Dems' 'Weekend at Bernie's Campaign'

By: Miranda Devine， New York Post
Isn't it a pity we can't charge the Democratic Party with the same offenses? After all, the barbaric treatment of Uncle Paolo in Brazil is a metaphor for how Democrats are using Biden.

Biden & the Dems' 'Weekend at Bernie's Campaign'

Why SCOTUS Will Toss 350 J6 Convictions

By: David Catron， The American Spectator
Such a ruling against the DOJ will provide a glimmer of hope that our justice system will survive the assaults of the anti-democratic left.

Why SCOTUS Will Toss 350 J6 Convictions

Inside Todd Blanche's Plan To Keep Trump Out of Jail

By: Andrew Rice， NY Magazine
Twelve jurors seated. He just needs one.

Inside Todd Blanche's Plan To Keep Trump Out of Jail

The Coming Arab Backlash

By: Mark Lynch， Foreign Affairs
Middle Eastern regimes-and America-ignore public anger at their peril

The Coming Arab Backlash

War By Affirmative Action?

By: Victor Davis Hanson， American Greatness
In the American Left's vision of contemporary war, the West brings too many advantages in science, technology, and wealth.

War By Affirmative Action?

The Cornel West Paradox: How Woke Is Too Woke?

By: Emily Jashinsky， UnHerd
Melina Abdullah first came across my radar in the spring of 2016, as Donald Trump closed in on the Republican nomination for president. Back then, Abdullah was a garden-variety faculty-lounge radical who spent too much time on Facebook. Now, she's vying for the vice presidency on a third-party ticket with Cornel West.

The Cornel West Paradox: How Woke Is Too Woke?

Did Trump Just Get Lucky With His NYC Juror Pool?

By: Josh Hammer， Newsweek
Get your daily dose of politics, law, and culture with Josh Hammer Premium by subscribing to Newsweek today.

Did Trump Just Get Lucky With His NYC Juror Pool?

Supreme Court Takes on Homelessness. What Could Go Wrong?

By: Garrett Epps， WM
Today, the justices hear arguments on a Grants Pass, Oregon, municipal ordinance that slaps heavy fines and, if unpaid, criminal penalties on the homeless.

Supreme Court Takes on Homelessness. What Could Go Wrong?

The Politics of Pessimism

By: Frank Bruni， The Atlantic
Why so many American leaders are advancing a new kind of nihilism

Yale, Don't Suppress Freedom of Expression

By: Foneku ＆amp； Suh-Toma， Yale Daily News
Over the course of the year, University policies served as excuses for passivity. The message was clear: Yale University must protect freedom of speech above all else. But in this past week, we saw how the University wholly, hypocritically and shamefully dishonored the spirit of free expression.

Yale, Don't Suppress Freedom of Expression

Trump's Trial Challenge: Being Stripped of Control

By: Maggie Haberman， New York Times
NEW YORK - Sir, can you please have a seat. Donald Trump had stood up to leave the Manhattan criminal courtroom as Justice Juan M. Merchan was wrapping up a scheduling discussion Tuesday. But the judge had not yet adjourned the court or left the bench. Trump, the 45th president of the United States and the owner of his own company, is used to setting his own pace. Still, when Merchan admonished him to sit back down, the former president did so without saying a word. Sign up for The Morning new

Trump's Trial Challenge: Being Stripped of Control

Five Ways Dems Are Trying To Turn America Into Venezuela

By: Aaron Flanigan， AMAC
Here are five ways the American left's current rhetoric & policies are eerily reminiscent of Venezuela's collapse into communist oppression.

Five Ways Dems Are Trying To Turn America Into Venezuela

The Orgy of Bigotry at Columbia Heaps Shame on America

By: Brendan O'Neill， Spiked
The orgy of bigotry at Columbia University heaps shame on America.

The Orgy of Bigotry at Columbia Heaps Shame on America

Why Are Voters Worried About Biden's Age?

By: John Judis， The Liberal Patriot
It's all about appearances.

Why Are Voters Worried About Biden's Age?

Opposition to Trump Rooted in Contempt for Regular Voters

By: Louis Markos， Federalist
In Trump, his supporters hear a spirited defense of the hard-working despised and a fearless denouncing of the fashionable despisers.

Opposition to Trump Rooted in Contempt for Regular Voters

Speaker Johnson Establishes Himself as a Titan of Congress

By: William Doyle， The Hill
A miracle just happened in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Johnson Establishes Himself as a Titan of Congress

Why Is Trump Barred From Discussing Cohen & Daniels?

By: Byron York， DC Examiner
Breaking news, live coverage of US politics, foreign affairs, economics, and more from the Washington Examiner. Objective news, conservative opinion.

Why Is Trump Barred From Discussing Cohen & Daniels?

The Surrender Republicans

By: Steve Cortes， Substack
The Democrats have a new speaker! His name is Mike Johnson.

The Surrender Republicans

Pennsylvania Will Be Rubber Match of 2024 Election

By: Carl M. Cannon， RCP on SiriusXM
RCP Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon and senior elections analyst Sean Trende discuss President Biden's effort to win Pennsylvania for a second time with Andrew Walworth on Friday's edition of the RealClearPolitics radio show (SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124, M-F at 6:00 pm):

Pennsylvania Will Be Rubber Match of 2024 Election

Russia Is 'Kidnapping' Ukrainian Kids

By: Heather Nauert， New York Post
The official number of children confirmed kidnapped from Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's regime is 20,000, but Moscow has bragged that their forces have trafficked over 700,000 Ukrainian children.

Russia Is 'Kidnapping' Ukrainian Kids

Obamas, Media Feed Children's Climate Anxiety

By: Madeline Schultz， DC Examiner
This type of children's content on climate change may seem ridiculous, but it's widespread.

Who's Behind the Anti-Israel Protests

By: Steven Stalinsky， Wall Street Journal
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and others are grooming activists in the U.S. and across the West.

Who's Behind the Anti-Israel Protests

What Trump Fears Most

By: David Axelrod， The Atlantic
Donald Trump's biographers all seem to agree that he didn't get a lot of love from his father. But what Fred Trump did impart to his son was an indelible lesson: There are two kinds of people in the world-killers and losers-and like his father, Donald had to be a killer.

What Trump Fears Most

Biden's Energy Policies Fueling Trump Campaign in PA

By: Jamie Smyth， Financial Times
A pause on new liquefied natural gas projects has angered the shale gas industry in a critical election swing state

Biden's Energy Policies Fueling Trump Campaign in PA

The Cult of 'My Truth'

By: Frank Furedi， Spiked
NPR is only the latest institution to fall to woke relativism.

The Cult of 'My Truth'

Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom

By: Bari Weiss， The Free Press
This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators told Jewish students to go back to Poland. A Jewish woman at Yale was assaulted with a Palestinian flag. And an Orthodox rabbi at Columbia told students to go home for their safety. Demonstrators on these campuses shouted: Say it loud and say it clear, we don't want no Zionists here. In one chant at Columbia, the protesters were

Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom

Trump's Trial Is Enough To Win the Election for Biden

By: Doug Gordon， Newsweek
Of course, a criminal trial does not help Trump. And anyone who tries to sell you otherwise should have their head examined. It is simply an absurd and asinine argument.

Trump's Trial Is Enough To Win the Election for Biden

Academic Dishonesty at UCLA

By: Rufo ＆amp； Rosiak， City Journal
A prominent administrator at the university's medical school appears to have plagiarized.

Academic Dishonesty at UCLA

Persuasion Doesn't Matter Anymore, It's All About Ballots

By: Ned Ryun， FOX News
American Greatness CEO Ned Ryun on Monday predicted the media will give the Biden campaign cover and there will be no presidential debates. In an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham, Ryun said, "We are in the era, Laura, in which I think persuasion and votes do not carry the weight they used to. It's all about ballots. So I don't think they really care and I don't think corporate media is going to make Biden toe the line on this and they will give him cover when he decides to duct debates."

Persuasion Doesn't Matter Anymore, It's All About Ballots

The Politics of Earth Day

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124, M-F at 6:00 pm), Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss Earth Day and how President Biden's energy policies are impacting the coming election. They also chat about new polling data from the weekend and react to pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses across the U.S.

The Politics of Earth Day

DOJ Hounds Elderly Concentration Camp Survivor

By: Tommy Valentine， The Hill
Sores covered nearly every inch of Eva Edl's emaciated young body. People gagged when they came near her; bed bugs, fleas and lice were devouring her "festering body."

DOJ Hounds Elderly Concentration Camp Survivor

The Scary Consequences of Political Prosecutions

By: Alex Berenson， Substack
New York v Trump is a joke - 34 felonies for what comes down to misclassifying spending in a payment ledger - but the elite media is keeping a straight face.

The Scary Consequences of Political Prosecutions

Is College Still Worth It?

By: Dugan ＆amp； Galloway， New York Magazine
The job of being Scott Galloway is, more often than not, to get people to follow his advice. On his podcasts (including New York's own Pivot), in his advisory role to corporate America, and as a marketing professor at NYU Stern School of Business, the Galloway Industrial Complex centers on his front-row seat into how companies are dealing with society's biggest social and economic problems.

Is College Still Worth It?

How Catholics Can Save American Education

By: Jeremy Tate， RealClearEducation
I was a teacher and then worked in test prep before starting the Classic Learning Test. Before and especially since then, I've reviewed a lot of high school curricula, particularly from Catholic and/or classical high schools, which tend to get some flak for their focus on things like Latin, rhetoric, and philosophy.

How Catholics Can Save American Education

What Would Lincoln Do?

By: James Piereson， Washington Free Beacon
This brief but informative volume by Allen C. Guelzo offers up

What Would Lincoln Do?

Red Flags on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Children

By: Ingrid Jacques， USA Today
While the Cass Review found that children deserve better care related to their gender dysphoria, the report cautions against use of puberty blockers.

Red Flags on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Children

The Education Factory

By: Erik Baker， The Nation
By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

The Education Factory

House Foreign Aid Bills Put a Target on Johnson's Back

By: Chris Lehmann， The Nation
After a vote in favor of sending $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan passed, far right Republicans are threatening a motion to vacate the speaker of the house.

House Foreign Aid Bills Put a Target on Johnson's Back

MIT President Moves Passover Event Amid New Unrest

By: Susan Crabtree，＆nbsp；RCP
For Jews in the United States and around the world, Monday evening, the beginning of Passover, was supposed to be a time for exchanging blessings of peace, comfort, and hope.

MIT President Moves Passover Event Amid New Unrest

A Bipartisan House?

By: Joe Klein， Substack
In my last dispatch, I described the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as looking like an overmatched pharmacist. Well, he still looks like a pharmacist-but his mildness of affect has brought forth mighty victories in recent days, not just on aid to Ukraine, but also on surveillance funding (the FISA court) and various other spending bills, including the national security appropriation (which passed thanks to pressure from my friends in the bipartisan military caucus, For Country). So I was wrong to call him overmatched.

A Bipartisan House?

Biden Should Step Aside, Only Kennedy Can Beat Trump

By: Louis Conte， Substack
And because Kennedy is the only candidate who can beat Donald Trump

Biden Should Step Aside, Only Kennedy Can Beat Trump

How Ukraine Wins

By: Kurt Volker， Center for European Policy Analysis
It took far too long, but House Speaker Mike Johnson showed true leadership in bringing Ukraine aid to a vote.

How Ukraine Wins

Groupthink Chorus Emerges at Trump Trial

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
Covering former President Donald Trump's trial on television is a difficult job.

Groupthink Chorus Emerges at Trump Trial

I Was Stabbed in the Eye at Yale

By: Sahar Tartak， The Free Press
The school has allowed anti-Israel students to run roughshod over their most basic policies. Yesterday, I paid the price for their inaction.

I Was Stabbed in the Eye at Yale

Speaker Johnson Got 'Swamped' Over Ukraine

By: Thaddeus McCotter， Chronicles
The return of GOP's minority-party mindset is very likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy come November.

Speaker Johnson Got 'Swamped' Over Ukraine

The Secret Force Defending American Principles

By: Jeremy Tate， RealClearPolitics
The commentary class was collectively shocked when new polling this week showed over 90% of Americans across the political spectrum share core principles. More specifically, the vast majority firmly believe in the importance of fundamental freedoms such as the right to vote, equal protection under the law, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

The Secret Force Defending American Principles

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