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Dems Must Counter Trump Courthouse Campaign

By: Symone Sanders-Townsend， MSNBC
The former president is treating his trial like another campaign stop. Democrats need to stop ceding the spotlight.

Dems Must Counter Trump Courthouse Campaign

What James Carville Should Know About the Election

By: Douglas MacKinnon， FOX News
While some of my more conservative friends don't like it, I have always been a fan of James Carville.

What James Carville Should Know About the Election

The End of Southern Anti-Union Politics

By: Alex Hogan， Compact Magazine
The United Auto Workers' historic campaign to organize the South faces its second big test this week as more than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers near Tuscaloosa, Ala., will vote on whether to join the union.

The End of Southern Anti-Union Politics

Why Housing Should Be Regulated as a Public Utility

By: Michael Weinstein， RCP
Something is a public utility because it is essential, such as electricity, telephone, gas, and water. The government, through proper regulations, must ensure that these basic needs are virtually guaranteed.

Why Housing Should Be Regulated as a Public Utility

How the New York Times Went Woke

By: Nellie Bowles， Substack
Confirmation bias has distorted the paper's reporting.

How the New York Times Went Woke

Voters Won't Be Denied the Facts About Biden This Time

By: Kimberly Strassel， WSJ
The president's son will likely go on trial before the candidates meet on June 27.

Voters Won't Be Denied the Facts About Biden This Time

Court May Have To Resolve Biden's Executive Privilege Claim

By: Steven Richards， JTN
The limits of executive privilege in relation to a congressional subpoena has not been well defined, and may present the courts with an opportunity to break new ground.

Court May Have To Resolve Biden's Executive Privilege Claim

Ignore Maine: Abandon the National Popular Vote Compact

By: Jacob Posik， RCP
Maine used to hold a reputation as a bellwether state, partly because it once held its general elections months earlier than the rest of the country, and because national results often reflected those early outcomes reached by Maine voters.

Ignore Maine: Abandon the National Popular Vote Compact

Biden, His Campaign and the Press Retreat Into a Bubble

By: Walter Samuel， AMAC
Want to know who is currently leading the race for president? Look at the behavior of the two campaigns. One is riding high...

Biden, His Campaign and the Press Retreat Into a Bubble

Why a Late RFK Jr. Polling Boom Is Unlikely

By: Ed Kilgore， New York Magazine
Whatever you think of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his independent candidacy for president this year, he's already accomplished something that's fairly rare in recent American politics: registering support from over 10 percent of the electorate in national (and many battleground state) polls.

Why a Late RFK Jr. Polling Boom Is Unlikely

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Why Biden's Eager To Debate

By: Julian Zelizer， CNN
For the first time in decades, whether there would even be debates had been uncertain.

Why Biden's Eager To Debate

Increased Longevity Will Bring Profound Social Change

By: Martin Wolf， Financial Times
People will have to work longer and pension systems will need to be transformed

Increased Longevity Will Bring Profound Social Change

Money Misses the Mark in Maryland

By: Luke Goldstein， American Prospect
Despite spending $62 million of his own fortune on the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. David Trone lost last night to county executive Angela Alsobrooks.

Is Common Sense Realism Making a Comeback?

By: Jeff Minick， Chronicles
The real battle being fought in America today is not between the right and the left. It is a battle between common sense and nonsense.

Is Common Sense Realism Making a Comeback?

Hey, Nebraska--Don't Mess With the Electoral College

By: Jasper Hendricks， The Hill
A handful of Trump supporters are trying to get Nebraska to change the rules for how it distributes its electoral votes. If they succeed, then Biden supporters in Maine promise to cancel them out.

Hey, Nebraska--Don't Mess With the Electoral College

DoD's Consulting Bloat Suffers From Rot

By: Cale Brown， RealClearDefense
In a recent opinion piece former Deputy National Security Advisor Nadia Schadlow lamented the return of "study season," a time when the Department of Defense (DoD) and other agencies, commit millions in taxpayer dollars to produce reports that recycle old recommendations to support their latest budget.

DoD's Consulting Bloat Suffers From Rot

Cohen Tape Undercuts Prosecutors' Main Story to Jurors

By: Solomon ＆amp； Richards， JTN
This follows a pattern of weaknesses in Bragg's case, which has been consistently undercut by other witnesses. But if the tapes don't fit: they must acquit.

Cohen Tape Undercuts Prosecutors' Main Story to Jurors

What Young Voters Actually Care About

By: Christian Paz， Vox
It's not what you think.

What Young Voters Actually Care About

Biden Goes From the Basement to Denial

By: Karl Rove， Wall Street Journal
Polls show him behind Trump, and he won't come back unless he admits the problem.

Biden Goes From the Basement to Denial

Noem Shows How Not To Audition for Vice President

By: Michael Arceneaux， HuffPost
The South Dakota governor admits in her book

Noem Shows How Not To Audition for Vice President

What Biden's Debate Gambit Reveals

By: Nate Silver， Substack
The White House gets an A+ on tactics - but they're playing a mediocre hand.

What Biden's Debate Gambit Reveals

'The Elites Are Hoarding the American Dream'

By: O'Neill ＆amp； Ungar-Sargon， Spiked
Batya Ungar-Sargon on the establishment's betrayal of the working classes.

'The Elites Are Hoarding the American Dream'

'Good Leftist' Nellie Bowles Leaves the #Resistance

By: Kirsten Fleming， New York Post
Bowles is holding up a mirror to ultra-progressives who gave us fiery but mostly peaceful protests - and who're too fanatical to see they're farcical.

'Good Leftist' Nellie Bowles Leaves the #Resistance

It's On (for Now): Biden and Trump Agree to 2 Debates

By: Shepard et al.， Politico
Having spent months avoiding direct engagement on when and where to debate, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden seemed to agree on a time and place in a matter of minutes on Wednesday, setting up high-stakes showdowns in late June and mid September.

It’s On (for Now): Biden and Trump Agree to 2 Debates

Why Biden Can't Be Trusted To Take on Anti-Semitism

By: Heather Mac Donald， Spiked
The same identitarian worldview that is driving campus anti-Semitism is rife within Joe Biden's White House.

Why Biden Can't Be Trusted To Take on Anti-Semitism

Dems Really Hate Americans. Here's the Proof

By: Joseph Curl， Washington Times
Those who see ordinary people as deplorable pose the real threat to democracy

Dems Really Hate Americans. Here's the Proof

The Myth of Student Protest

By: James Robbins， The American Spectator
Student radicals turning out in droves to protest for Palestine expect that their organized demonstrations will foment revolutionary change.

The Myth of Student Protest

Today's Protests Tamer than Campus Unrest of the 1960s

By: Robert Cohen， L.A. Times
College presidents in the Vietnam era would have thanked their lucky stars to face the relatively low disruptions caused by student movements in 2024.

Today's Protests Tamer than Campus Unrest of the 1960s

Was Trump's NJ Rally a 4D Chess Move?

By: Salena Zito， Washington Examiner
Donald Trump spoke in a blue-collar town in New Jersey not just to try to win New Jersey but to send a message that he cares about blue-collar towns in general.

Was Trump's NJ Rally a 4D Chess Move?

Bidenflation Is Pushing Small Businesses to the Brink

By: Alfredo Ortiz， The Hill
On Wednesday, the country hit a sad milestone: Inflation under President Biden hit 20 percent. The dollar's value has plummeted under his watch. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also confirmed that the consumer price index is resurgent and growing faster than average wages. Combined with weak GDP growth, this data shows the U.S. economy is reentering stagflation.

Bidenflation Is Pushing Small Businesses to the Brink

We're in a Pivotal Moment in American History

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders， The Guardian
Clearly, our job is not just to re-elect Biden. It's much more than that

We're in a Pivotal Moment in American History

The Eight Dynamics That Will Shape the Election

By: David Graham， The Atlantic
Where, exactly, are we in the election cycle right now?

The Eight Dynamics That Will Shape the Election

Think Corporate Greed Is Leading Cause of Inflation? Think Again

By: Matt Egan， CNN
Some progressives have frequently blamed corporate greed for fueling the high cost of living that Americans are fed up with.

Think Corporate Greed Is Leading Cause of Inflation? Think Again

Biden's Incompetence Outstrips Voters' Fear of Trump

By: Mark Hemingway，＆nbsp；Federalist
Democrats were hoping 2024 would be all about Donald Trump. Instead the No. 1 issue in a world on fire is Joe Biden's incompetence.

Biden's Incompetence Outstrips Voters' Fear of Trump

The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

By: Shlomo Ben-Ami， Project Syndicate
There is a Jewish joke, often attributed to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. One could say the same about anti-Zionists. After all, Zionism is an old concept, which was central to Jewish liberation long before it became synonymous with Palestinian subjugation.

The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

What Will We Be Remembered For?

By: Joe Lonsdale， Substack
In the nascent days of the Roman Republic, the city was invaded by the Etruscan king Lars Porsena, on behalf of Sextus Tarquinius, the son of Rome's final (and deposed) king.

What Will We Be Remembered For?

Riot Tactics Redux

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
A veteran officer explains how police should incorporate lessons from 2020 in responding to pro-Hamas campus unrest.

Riot Tactics Redux

Protecting Social Security Will Pave the Way to the White House

By: Henry Bonilla，＆nbsp；RCP
As the field of candidates for the presidential election continues to narrow, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are the last ones standing and the campaign for the 2024 general election is well underway. Although the party conventions will officially decide the final nominees, it certainly looks as though President Biden and former President Trump will fight it out to take the reins next year. The winner will be determined in part by which of them can convince voters they'll be the president who protects Social Security.

Protecting Social Security Will Pave the Way to the White House

Trendy Nonsense About Gen Z

By: Robert Kuttner， American Prospect
It comes in two flavors, economic and psychological.

Trendy Nonsense About Gen Z

Distinguishing Climate Science From Climate Activism

By: Ulf Buntgen， Nature
I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Likewise, I am worried about activists who pretend to be scientists, as this can be a misleading form of instrumentalization.

Distinguishing Climate Science From Climate Activism

Preventing Bailouts Is Simple, But It Isn't Easy

By: Cochrane ＆amp； Seru， Wall Street Journal
The Fed could simply stop blocking run-proof banks from emerging. But that would take political will.

Preventing Bailouts Is Simple, But It Isn't Easy

Your Friends Aren't a Representative Sample of Public Opinion

By: Nate Silver， Substack
It's not just Republicans who are at risk of epistemic closure.

Your Friends Aren't a Representative Sample of Public Opinion

Trump Doesn't Need a DEI Running Mate

By: Frank Cannon， TomKlingenstein.com
A vice presidential candidate picked by race or sex would be both a moral betrayal and a political misstep.

Trump Doesn't Need a DEI Running Mate

Nellie Bowles Knows Why So Many Progressives Lost It

By: Bari Weiss， The Free Press
Nellie Bowles wasn't always the TGIF queen you know and love at The Free Press. In fact, Nellie was, for a very long time, deeply embedded in the progressive left. Before Bari and Nellie met-and fell in love, blah blah blah-in 2019, Nellie was nothing short of a media darling. She had the right ideas, she wrote the right stories, and

Nellie Bowles Knows Why So Many Progressives Lost It

Trump in Trouble But Biden Campaign Is Dead in the Water

By: Byron York， DC＆nbsp；Examiner
A new New York Times poll shows President Joe Biden trailing former President Donald Trump in the same states by nearly the same margin as a November poll.

Trump in Trouble But Biden Campaign Is Dead in the Water

It's Conservatives That Should Be Protesting

By: Oren Cass， Financial Times
Universities depend on taxpayer money to survive, and they are wasting those funds

It's Conservatives That Should Be Protesting

America Never Recovered From Shocks of 2020

By: Will Bunch， Philadelphia Inquirer
The backlash to 2020's protests, lockdowns features militarized cops, less press freedom. Voters must choose this or Trump's fascism

Trump's Sleazy Accusers

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
The Trump trial in Manhattan is expected to come to a climax of sorts this week with the appearance of star prosecution witness Michael Cohen.

Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis

By: Madeleine Rowley， The Free Press
Federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs-and their top executives.

Migrants, Real and Imagined, Grip Wisconsin Voters

By: Chris McGreal， The Observer
Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an 'invasion' regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems

NC's Early Voting Locations Illegally Favor Democrats

By: Heather Honey， The Federalist
Data reveals noncompliance with a North Carolina statutory requirement for neutrality in early voting venues.

What Mothers Really Need This Mother's Day

By: Erka Ahern， DC Examiner
A society built around the mother and child is something we can all get behind this Mother's Day.

What Mothers Really Need This Mother's Day

Our Elections Have Integrity. These Politicians Do Not

By: Jackie Calmes， L.A. Times
Of all Trump's shattered norms, the refusal to commit to accept election results is the most corrosive to American democracy.

Criminals Walk Free as Democrats 'Get Trump'

By: Tim Rosenberger， City Journal
Criminals walk free and victims await justice as Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg sets his sights on the former president.

Israel's Other War

By: Joshua Keating， Vox
Israel and Hezbollah are trying to keep their fighting contained. But the conflict keeps escalating.

Centrist Swing Voters Will Be Key Factor in 2024 Race

By: Mark Penn， New York Times
President Biden appears behind in all the swing states and his campaign appears all-too-focused on firming up his political base

Biden Has a Hispanic Voter Problem

By: Valeria Gurr， The Hill
Recent polls have been worrying for Democrats, with one takeaway becoming clear: President Biden has a Hispanic voter problem.

Biden Has a Hispanic Voter Problem

The Spanish Contribution to American Independence

By: David Head， RealClearPolicy
May 8th is Galvez Day in Pensacola, Florida. A celebration of Bernardo de Galvez, commander of the Spanish force that defeated Britain at the 1781 Siege of Pensacola, it recalls the Span

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Brain Became the Diet of Worms

By: Jeet Heer， The Nation
Can a presidential candidate afford to lose gray matter to parasites?

DEI Dominates the University of Kentucky

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
The state legislature must tame racialist ideology at its flagship campus.

What Hamas Wants in Postwar Gaza

By: Matthew Levitt， Foreign Affairs
The power to fight without the burden of governing.

The Gantz Megillah

By: Gadi Taub， Tablet Magazine
How America is using ex-IDF Chief Benny Gantz as its Trojan horse to impose U.S. demands-and ensure Israel's defeat in Gaza

The Gantz Megillah

War Phonies

By: Citizen Soldier， RealClearDefense
Barton Swaim, a sometimes-erudite opinion writer for the Wall Street Journal, posed this question to writer Mark Helprin in a column that appeared over the weekend. Swaim, whose soft, earnest face first graced the stage of opinion theater following a stint as speechwriter for silly South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, enumerated all the "criminals, ideologues, and irredentists" who could possibly threaten the United States.

War Phonies

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Bowed But Not Broken

By: Margaret Carlson， Washington Monthly
Her latest attempt to knock off a House Speaker ran into the calm determination of Mike Johnson. How long can she stay muzzled?

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Bowed But Not Broken

Confused Ivy Leagues Should Look to the Sunshine State

By: Paul du Quenoy， Chronicles
America's vaunted Ivy League has proven totally incapable of dealing with pro-Hamas protestors. They should learn from the balanced approach to free speech taken by Florida's thriving universities.

Confused Ivy Leagues Should Look to the Sunshine State

Left-Wing Voter Turnout Op Targets Vulnerable Patients

By: Gabe Kaminsky， DC＆nbsp；Examiner
A left-wing group called Vot-ER that is linked to the Biden White House is poised to play a key role registering voters ahead of the 2024 election.

Left-Wing Voter Turnout Op Targets Vulnerable Patients

Is the Corporate DEI Panic Finally Over?

By: Taylor Rogers， Financial Times
Since the Supreme Court overturned the use of affirmative action in college admissions last summer, it seems like corporate America has been consumed by panic over diversity and inclusion.

Is the Corporate DEI Panic Finally Over?

Student Journalists Are Needed Now More Than Ever

By: Amber Chen， The Nation
While the mainstream media repeatedly mischaracterizes pro-Palestine protests on campus, police and university administrations are attempting to repress the student press.

Student Journalists Are Needed Now More Than Ever

The Post-Covid Truancy Epidemic

By: William Galston， Wall Street Journal
While urgent events clamor for our attention, it's often the quieter trends that do more to shape our future. Consider school absence.

The Post-Covid Truancy Epidemic

A Deep Dive Into the Opioid Crisis

By: Matt Bivens， Racket News
Yes, we in the medical profession got millions of Americans addicted to heroin and fentanyl. But that was all just a big misunderstanding. Why get into it?

A Deep Dive Into the Opioid Crisis

The Tangled Web of Journalistic Self-Deception

By: Holman Jenkins， Wall Street Journal
In an act of editorial cowardice, the Economist devotes a leading editorial plus an entire special section to the problem of disinformation yet never mentions the Steele dossier and Hunter Biden laptop lie.

The Tangled Web of Journalistic Self-Deception

Ozempic: Magic Pill or Devil's Bargain?

By: Weiss ＆amp； Hari， The Free Press
Johann Hari is half the man he was due to the weight-loss drug. He reveals how it changed the world-and how he once got fat-shamed by the Dalai Lama.

Biden's Economic Elitism Devastating Americans

By: J.T. Young， The Hill
Despite administration and establishment media drumbeats, Americans aren't buying Biden's economic elitism.

Biden's Economic Elitism Devastating Americans

Biden's Approval Rating Is in the Danger Zone

By: Tom Bevan， RCP on SiriusXM
RCP co-founder Tom Bevan looks at the latest job approval ratings for President Biden on Tuesday's edition of the RealClearPolitics radio show with Andrew Walworth and Carl Cannon.

Biden's Approval Rating Is in the Danger Zone

The WHO's Plan for Public-Health Tyranny

By: Molly Kingsley， Spiked
Unelected officials want the power to drag us back into lockdown.

The WHO's Plan for Public-Health Tyranny

Ideology, Not Race, Widens Fractures in America

By: William Voegeli， The American Mind
Ideology, not race, is widening the fractures in American life.

Ideology, Not Race, Widens Fractures in America

Trump's Plan To Take Out Cartel Leaders

By: Asawin Suebsaeng， Rolling Stone
Trump has told allies about his plans to covertly send Special Forces to Mexico to assassinate drug kingpins, sources say.

Trump's Plan To Take Out Cartel Leaders

East Asia's Coming Population Collapse

By: Nicholas Eberstadt， Foreign Affairs
And how it will reshape world politics.

East Asia's Coming Population Collapse

US's Greatest Strategic Failure? Embracing Communist China

By: Fanell ＆amp； Thayer， RCP
From the war in Ukraine to the horrific terror attack on Oct. 7 and the subsequent conflict in the Middle East to the roiling waters of the South China Sea, the world today is in crisis. The causes are not found in Moscow or Tehran alone, but primarily in Washington and Beijing. They are the consequence of two fundamental and interrelated grand strategic mistakes made by the U.S. First, the failure to understand the threat from the People's Republic of China.

US’s Greatest Strategic Failure? Embracing Communist China

Argentina Has Already Experienced Results of Socialism

By: Javier Milei， Milken Institute
President of Argentina Javier Milei speaks about his economic reform platform and the value of liberty in human flourishing at the Milken Institute Global Conference.

Argentina Has Already Experienced Results of Socialism

Campus Protests Signal End of an Era for Dems

By: David Wallace-Wells， New York Times
Each college had a choice; in most places, they chose to escalate.

Campus Protests Signal End of an Era for Dems

Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather'

By: Philip Wegmann， RCP
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has cut short a disastrous book tour after receiving withering criticism for her story of shooting an ill-behaved puppy and unverified claims of meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, RealClearPolitics is first to report. The book, released Tuesday, is titled "No Going Back."

Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather'

Trump 'Veepstakes': How Low Will Republicans Stoop?

By: Margaret Sullivan， Guardian
The 'veepstakes' see prominent Republicans discarding any last shreds of integrity to impress Trump. It's a grim omen

Trump 'Veepstakes': How Low Will Republicans Stoop?

TikTok Sues the U.S. Government. So Now What?

By: Aron Solomon， The Hill
On Tuesday, TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a high-stakes lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The suit was filed against the U.S. government, challenging a new law that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok's American operations or face a nationwide ban on the popular social media app.

TikTok Sues the U.S. Government. So Now What?

Censorship in the New Regime Is Corporate

By: Sohrab Ahmari， TomKlingenstein.com
The concentrated power of Big Tech and establishment media rivals the information-control capacities of the worst 20th-century dictatorships.

Censorship in the New Regime Is Corporate

Putin Won't March on Europe If We Stop Funding Ukraine

By: Rebekah Koffler， Newsweek
If Washington elites are hell bent on continuing to fund another war, impoverishing Americans as inflation is raging, they should pick a more clever excuse.

Putin Won't March on Europe If We Stop Funding Ukraine

Who Will Be Dumb Enough To Become Trump's VP?

By: Rex Huppke， USA Today
Who will be Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate? It's frankly remarkable that anyone would want the job.

Who Will Be Dumb Enough To Become Trump’s VP?

Democrats Use Legal System To Target the Right

By: Glenn Reynolds， New York Post
Laws that hamper Democrats are ignored.A Laws that might be used to hurt Republicans are enforced to a€” and often well past - the limits of the law.

Democrats Use Legal System To Target the Right

Will Renewed U.S. Support for Ukraine Be Enough?

By: Ian Bremmer， Project Syndicate
Ian Bremmer explains how an additional $61 billion in aid and arms will, and will not, change the course of the war.

Will Renewed U.S. Support for Ukraine Be Enough?

Political Violence in America

By: Brooke Rollins， The American Mind
The leftist tumult, often sliding into intimidation and violence, overtaking American college campuses is neither temporary nor topical. That is, it won't end when the war in Gaza ends, nor is it even particularly about that war. What we are seeing in 2024 is the latest, dreary iteration of left-wing violence that seems predictably to strike during election years.

Political Violence in America

Judge Merchan Is Out of Good Options

By: David Graham， The Atlantic
In April, when Judge Juan Merchan first heard arguments about whether Donald Trump was violating a gag order in his criminal case in Manhattan, he sharply and skeptically questioned the former president's attorneys, accusing one of "losing all credibility."

Judge Merchan Is Out of Good Options

New Data Should Have Team Biden Sweating

By: Guy Benson， Townhall
A recent analysis published by the left-leaning Brookings Institution -- which highlights Pew data -- demonstrates significant erosion within Joe Biden's 2020 victory coalition, across multiple key demographics.

New Data Should Have Team Biden Sweating

Lawmakers Urge U.S. Action To Halt China's Organ Trade

By: Susan Crabtree， RCP
A group of leading China critics in Congress is urging the State Department to step up its efforts to curb Beijing's gruesome $1 billion forced organ harvesting trade, which targets ethnic and religious minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners.

Lawmakers Urge U.S. Action To Halt China’s Organ Trade

The Collapse of the News Is Taking Its Soul Down With It

By: Jack Shafer， Politico
A general view of the Kansas City bureau of the Associated Press. In the foreground is the East desk. Next is the Coast desk, then the State desks and in the background the Local desk, on April 22, 1940. | AP Corporate Archives

The Collapse of the News Is Taking Its Soul Down With It

Gaza War Protests Don't Yet Rival Anti-Vietnam War Movement

By: Ed Kilgore， NY Mag
For many a baby-boomer, the sights and sounds of student protests against U.S. complicity in Israel's war in Gaza brought back vivid memories of the anti-Vietnam War movement of their youth and of the conservative backlash that ultimately placed its legacy in question.

Gaza War Protests Don’t Yet Rival Anti-Vietnam War Movement

U.S. Research $ Should Support U.S. Values, Not Antisemitism

By: Brittany Madni，＆nbsp；RCP
College campuses across America - and in particular across the Ivy League - have erupted with antisemitic, pro-Hamas encampments and riots. These anti-American activities are not the peaceful protests on college campuses of the past. They are federally funded demonstrations of support for terrorism. and the Biden administration is encouraging them.

U.S. Research $ Should Support U.S. Values, Not Antisemitism

Jim Jordan Has To Step Up Immediately

By: Mike Davis， War Room
"Article III Project" founder Mike Davis calls for Rep. Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary and "Weaponization Of Government" Committees to take action to investigate people bringing criminal cases against Donald Trump

Jim Jordan Has To Step Up Immediately

Judge Finds Trump Violated Gag Order Again, Threatens Jail

By: Sara Boboltz， HuffPost
The former president was held in contempt of court for a 10th time on Monday.

Judge Finds Trump Violated Gag Order Again, Threatens Jail

MIT Becomes First Elite University To Ban Diversity Statements

By: John Sailer， UnHerd
In what's likely to be a watershed moment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ended the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring, making it the first elite private university to backtrack on the practice

MIT Becomes First Elite University To Ban Diversity Statements

Brainwashing Activists Starts Long Before College

By: Karol Markowicz， New York Post
What we're seeing on our campuses is the culmination of many years of leftist activists pushing kids to the forefront to spread their propaganda.

Brainwashing Activists Starts Long Before College

How To Talk to Your Neighbor About Election Integrity

By: Elle Purnell， The Federalist
You don't have to be a legal expert to understand these fundamental things about what makes elections free and secure.

How To Talk to Your Neighbor About Election Integrity

The Insanity at the Heart of the Trump Trial

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
Perhaps the weirdest thing about former President Donald Trump's trial in New York is that we do not know precisely what crime Trump is charged with committing.

Trump's Speech to Libertarians Reflects New Desperation

By: Zeeshan Aleem， MSNBC
Trump's upcoming speech to libertarians shows he's looking for votes wherever he can find them - just as the party is turning MAGA-friendly.

Trump's Speech to Libertarians Reflects New Desperation

Fareed Zakaria and Our Tumultuous World

By: Anita Jain， Washington Monthly
The ubiquitous columnist and television broadcaster's new book on revolution through the ages may be familiar, but it's still spot on.

Fareed Zakaria and Our Tumultuous World

The Student Movement Is Writing a New Chapter of History

By: Dylan Saba， The Nation
The protesters are building on decades of struggle for Palestine and pulling us all into a radically new future. Suddenly, history is speaking with gusto.

The Student Movement Is Writing a New Chapter of History

America as Seen From Budapest

By: David Goldman， The American Conservative
Janos Zoltan Csak surveys America in all its glorious contradiction-and renders trenchant warnings for our future.

America as Seen From Budapest

Confidence in Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low

By: Megan Brenan， Gallup
Americans continue to lack confidence in key leaders' ability to do the right thing for the economy.

Confidence in Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low

Biden's Quiet Comeback May Be Over

By: Douglas Schoen， The Hill
Immediately following President Biden's State of the Union address in March, the incumbent president saw a surge in the polls which seemed poised to revive his campaign and reenergize the Democratic Party.

Biden's Quiet Comeback May Be Over

New Polls Show Kennedy a Growing Threat to Both Parties

By: Adam Garrie， Substack
A new CNN/SSRS poll shows that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses a serious threat to "dual incumbents" President Biden and former president Trump.

New Polls Show Kennedy a Growing Threat to Both Parties

From Idealism to Irresponsibility

By: Roger Kimball， American Greatness
One of the most conspicuous, and conspicuously jejune, features of America's cultural revolution has been the union of hedonism with a species of radical (or radical-chic) politics.

From Idealism to Irresponsibility

Venture Capital's Space for Sheep

By: Trae Stephens， Pirate Wires
vcs should invest in companies that create hype cycles, rather than those that simply follow them

Venture Capital's Space for Sheep

Protesters Should Learn What Genocide Is

By: Elisha Wiesel， USA Today
Universities are obliged to allow free speech. They are also obliged to make sure that students can attend classes free of harassment.

Protesters Should Learn What Genocide Is

It's the Democrats' Turn To Scare America

By: Sasha Stone， Substack
No one should be surprised it ended up here.

It's the Democrats' Turn To Scare America

How Student Encampments Can Strengthen U.S.

By: Jan-Werner Muller， The Guardian
Instead of defending the right to protest, many centrists are delegitimizing students, despite the value of what they're doing

How Student Encampments Can Strengthen U.S.

Close Presidential Race Careens Toward Uncertain End

By: Bowman， et al.，＆nbsp；NBC News
Here's where the race for president stands six months from Election Day - in the polls, on the balance sheet, in key battlegrounds and more.Volume Muted Icon

Close Presidential Race Careens Toward Uncertain End

'Equity' Grading Is Latest Educational Fad Destined To Fail

By: Steven Greenhut， Reason
Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?

'Equity' Grading Is Latest Educational Fad Destined To Fail

The Trump Trial, Columbia Anarchy--and Hope for New York

By: Gerard Baker， WSJ
The view from Ninth Avenue is of a city that has gone crazy. But statewide there are signs of sanity.

The Trump Trial, Columbia Anarchy--and Hope for New York

Biden Has a Problem With Centrist Voters

By: Naomi Lim， Washington Examiner
Biden won the 2020 Democratic nomination as a self-described centrist, but has since adopted more liberal policies that could cost him in 2024.

Biden Has a Problem With Centrist Voters

Is Trump on Track To Blow the Election?

By: Keith Naughton， The Hill
Democrats are in a bit of a panic over Donald Trump's polling numbers against President Biden - the former president has led Biden in the RealClearPolitics ballot test for months and is consistently outpolling Biden in the battleground states.

Is Trump on Track To Blow the Election?

Pitch-Perfect Choice To Lead Voice of America

By: Carl Cannon， RealClearPolitics
Today is the 30th annual World Press Freedom Day, and it comes at a precipitous time.

Pitch-Perfect Choice To Lead Voice of America

American Aid Alone Won't Save Ukraine

By: Jack Watling， Foreign Affairs
To survive, Kyiv must build new brigades-and force Moscow to negotiate.

American Aid Alone Won't Save Ukraine

Our Overreach vs. Russia Is Alienating the World

By: Brahma Chellaney， Project Syndicate
Since Russia launched its full-scale war on Ukraine more than two years ago, the West has desperately sought ways to punish Russia without harming...

Our Overreach vs. Russia Is Alienating the World

'Remember Us': How To Fight Media Bombholing

By: Mark Judge， Chronicles
A couple years ago the journalist Matt Taibbi came up with a telling new term for the way the media works in our time: bombholing. Bombholing is the practice of publishing wild and unsubstantiated stories in the press, then sending those same stories down the memory hole when they turn out to be false. Then the media hits viewers with a new "bombshell," which makes people forget the old "bombshell." Viewers are led "from mania to mania."

'Remember Us': How To Fight Media Bombholing

Columbia Protesters Backed Themselves Into a Corner

By: Michael Powell， The Atlantic
Yesterday afternoon, Columbia University's campus felt like it would in the hours before a heat wave breaks.

Columbia Protesters Backed Themselves Into a Corner

Normal Students Get Screwed

By: Ani Wilcenski， Tablet Magazine
Elite universities went to war against fraternities and fun while indulging Hamas-admiring collectives, and the students have noticed

Normal Students Get Screwed

Biden Is 2024's Chaos Candidate

By: Matthew Continetti， Washington Free Beacon
The electorate views the instability that Trump brought differently than the disorder that Biden unleashed. Once there was a single

Biden Is 2024's Chaos Candidate

Will the Enthusiasm Gap Matter in 2024?

By: Nate Moore， Substack
Just 39 percent of voters are enthusiastic about the impending rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The lack of excitement is no surprise: both men are deeply unpopular. What is surprising, however, is the large partisan enthusiasm gap. According to fresh

Will the Enthusiasm Gap Matter in 2024?

There Are Two Sets of Rules for Speech

By: Abigail Shrier， The Free Press
Frat parties with offensive themes are swiftly punished. But publicly contemplate murdering Zionists? That's a different story.

There Are Two Sets of Rules for Speech

What College Presidents Need To Learn

By: Harold Meyerson， American Prospect
And what Joe Biden had better learn

What College Presidents Need To Learn

This Regime Is Built on a Lie

By: Scott Yenor， TomKlingenstein.com
The belief that the present social order is systemically racist requires a whole-of-society, top-to-bottom revolution.

This Regime Is Built on a Lie

Washington Uniparty Wins, Americans Lose

By: Josh Hammer， TomKlingenstein.com
The sham opposition of the institutional GOP leaves patriotic Americans desperate for real leadership from class traitors in Washington.

Washington Uniparty Wins, Americans Lose

Left-Wing Activists Met With WH on Registering Voters

By: Gabe Kaminsky， DC＆nbsp；Examiner
New documents obtained by the Washington Examiner shed light on the White House's work with left-wing groups on voter registration.

Left-Wing Activists Met With WH on Registering Voters

The Greatest Health Challenge of the 21st Century

By: Ross Pomeroy， RealClearScience
Since the dawn of the 20th century, humanity has experienced a rise in life expectancy unparalleled over our species' 300,000-year history. In 1900, a newborn could expect to live, on average, 32 years. By 2021, he or she had 71 years ahead of them.

The Greatest Health Challenge of the 21st Century

Deceptive Climate Regulations Won't Stand in Court

By: Chris Horner， Wall Street Journal
If the major-questions doctrine doesn't kill them, the ‘rule against pretext' will.

Deceptive Climate Regulations Won't Stand in Court

Avoiding Victimhood: A Lesson From Our Jewish Peers

By: Lexi Boccuzzi，＆nbsp；RCP
More than six months have passed since the deadly attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Yet it seems like every day I wake up to new reports of antisemitic conduct, particularly among America's most elite young adults, Ivy League students. The latest has been a series of violent protests at Columbia and Yale where Jewish students were harassed and even attacked. At Penn, I have been reporting on the ground while protesters chanted "Israelis are pigs," and "Al-Qassam make us proud, take another soldier down." Our famous Ben Franklin statue was even vandalized with the KKK slur "Zios get fuckt." How did the...

Avoiding Victimhood: A Lesson From Our Jewish Peers

Could It Be 2016 All Over Again?

By: Ruy Teixeira， Substack
Revisiting the immigration-health care nexus.

Could It Be 2016 All Over Again?

How To Tell Good Industrial Policy From Bad

By: Gillian Tett， Financial Times
Experience shows that encouraging exports rather than slapping tariffs on imports works best

How To Tell Good Industrial Policy From Bad

The Many Faces of Campus Activism

By: David Dayen， American Prospect
The linkages between anti-war protesters and 317,000 students who waited a decade for restitution for their fraudulent college loans

The Many Faces of Campus Activism

DEI Conquers Stanford

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
The university now has at least 177 bureaucrats dedicated to left-wing racialism.

DEI Conquers Stanford

What Democrats Gain by Saving Speaker Johnson

By: Hayes Brown， MSNBC
The MAGA firebrand's attempt to remove the speaker has run into opposition from House Democrats playing the long game.

What Democrats Gain by Saving Speaker Johnson

How Bad Is Biden Doing? He's Given Up on Bidenomics

By: Ingrid Jacques， USA Today
President Biden skated past glaring stumbles and negative headlines because much of the media was laser focused on Donald Trump's trial in New York.

How Bad Is Biden Doing? He's Given Up on Bidenomics

A Bystander to '60s Protests, Biden Now Becomes a Target

By: Peter Baker， NY Times
When students took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in April 1968, a young Joe Biden was studying law 250

A Bystander to '60s Protests, Biden Now Becomes a Target

Campus Goes Crazy, Democrats Hardest Hit

By: Derek Hunter， The Hill
Some people are their own worst enemy - unable to get out of their own way, derailing their own good opportunities, large or small. You know the type - late to the interview for the dream job, says something stupid when meeting someone they're attracted to, or just generally doing or saying the wrong thing at the wrong moment.

Campus Goes Crazy, Democrats Hardest Hit

Biden Atop the Greasy Pole

By: Hugo Gurdon， Washington Examiner
The Democratic Party is changing under President Joe Biden, but not at his direction.

Biden Atop the Greasy Pole

Why Trump's New Campaign Strategy Is So Scary

By: Jim Newell， Slate
This is a completely different strategy than we're used to.

Why Trump's New Campaign Strategy Is So Scary

How To Get More Young People To Vote

By: Jane Eisner， Boston Globe
Twenty years ago, I published "Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy." The book grew out of a personal passion: Once my oldest child was able to cast a ballot, I became fascinated with the potential of our youngest voters to shape politics. Yet American youths face unique obstacles at the ballot box.

How To Get More Young People To Vote

Dems Use Taxpayer Dollars To Target Young Voters

By: Shawn Fleetwood， The Federalist
Democrat officials in AZ and NV are using taxpayer dollars to register and turn out Dem-favorable young voters ahead of the 2024 election.

Dems Use Taxpayer Dollars To Target Young Voters

GOP Senators a Bigger Threat to Constitution Than Trump

By: John Nichols， The Nation
Donald Trump may talk about wanting to act as "a dictator" if he wins a second term. But what Trump really wants is to be a king.

GOP Senators a Bigger Threat to Constitution Than Trump

Ukraine Funding Helps Prolong Bloody Stalemate

By: Sen. Ron Johnson， RCP on SiriusXM
RCP reporter Philip Wegmann interviewed Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, about why he opposed the latest round of U.S. funding for the Ukraine War, on Tuesday's edition of the RealClearPolitics radio show (Monday through Friday on SiriusX's POTUS Channel 124).

Ukraine Funding Helps Prolong Bloody Stalemate

Biden's Title IX Rewrite Puts Women and Girls at Risk

By: Shane Harris， AMAC
The Biden ED finalized its overhaul of Title IX, the landmark 1972 law establishing important protections against sex-based discrimination.

Biden's Title IX Rewrite Puts Women and Girls at Risk

The Lie of the Century: The Origin of COVID-19

By: Jeff Smith， RealClearWorld
Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, what do we know about the origin of the SARSCOV2 virus?We were presented at the outset with two competing theories

The Lie of the Century: The Origin of COVID-19

Women of Trump's GOP Try To Show Who Is Most Macho

By: Robin Abcarian， LA Times
To be as tough as the guys, Republicans Kristi Noem shot her dog, Joni Ernst castrated hogs, Sarah Palin advocated shooting wolves from the air.

Women of Trump's GOP Try To Show Who Is Most Macho

Why Does America Have Religious Liberty?

By: Glenn Moots， American Reformer
Can Political Theorists Be Trusted?

Why Does America Have Religious Liberty?

Death to Facts at a Top Journalism School

By: Mark Glennon， Wirepoints
It's beyond belief that a supposedly reputable journalism school could have Thrasher or any proponent of advocacy journalism among its faculty.

Death to Facts at a Top Journalism School

Plaintiffs' Lawyers Flagrant Abuse of Public Nuisance Law

By: Luther Strange， The Hill
There's a quiet revolution taking place in the law, powered by a sleepy old common law theory called public nuisance, and it is on the cusp of causing a breakdown of the American tort system.

Plaintiffs' Lawyers Flagrant Abuse of Public Nuisance Law

The Lagash Lounge

By: John Hamilton， RealClearPolitics
In 2023, an Italo-American archaeological team announced their discovery of a 5,000-year-old tavern in Lagash, an ancient city-state capital in southern Iraq. A cuneiform tablet found among the ruins carried a recipe for beer, which the team believed to be the bar's most popular beverage, even exceeding water. Photos of the site showed piles of broken pottery "mugs" strewn about. The Lagash Lounge must have held a heck of a party the night it closed down.

The Lagash Lounge

Is Trump Nostalgia Enough?

By: Sean Trende， RealClearPolitics
As a general rule, whenever people ask me about my thoughts on poll "x" or poll "y" my response is the same: Throw it in the poll average. Remember, not only are error margins real, but they're intrinsic to sampling.

Is Trump Nostalgia Enough?

Judge Holds Trump in Contempt, Warns of Jail Time

By: Boboltz ＆amp； Vlachou， HuffPost
Judge Juan Merchan warned the former president could face jail time if he continues to violate the directive.

Judge Holds Trump in Contempt, Warns of Jail Time

Poll: Election-Shifting Percentage Admits to Illegal Voting

By: Justin Haskins， Federalist
One in five mail-in voters admitted to violating election laws in 2020, which should have disqualified their ballots.

Poll: Election-Shifting Percentage Admits to Illegal Voting

Five Ways Campus Turmoil Hurts Democrats and America

By: Charles Lipson，＆nbsp；RCP
Higher education is sinking lower and lower. That's bad news for our country, which has benefited enormously from having the world's best system of higher education. And it's bad news for Democrats, who face a tight election.

Five Ways Campus Turmoil Hurts Democrats and America

One Way To Bring College Costs Back in Line With Reality

By: LZ Granderson， LA Times
Why do universities charge future teachers the same rate as future engineers?

One Way To Bring College Costs Back in Line With Reality

The Grit and Resilience of Student Protesters

By: Soraya Chemaly， The Nation
Gen Z is exhibiting the competence, control, and commitment that it has been castigated, as a generation, for lacking.

The Grit and Resilience of Student Protesters

The Growing RFK Jr. Coalition

By: James Billot， UnHerd
The Camelot myth haunts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He was brought up to believe that he would be the one to pick up the mantle left by Arthur, John F. Kennedy.

The Growing RFK Jr. Coalition

The Failed Promise of Egg Freezing

By: Anna North， Vox
The costly procedure was supposed to give women a new kind of freedom. Is that what it really offers?

Why So Many People Are Moving to Texas

By: Nicole Russell， USA Today
Not fully in the South and not entirely in the West, Texas is its own thing and people seem friendly, approachable and helpful.

Biden's New Title IX Regs Eviscerate Definition of Sex

By: Morrisey ＆amp； Gains， FOX News
Biden's dangerous new Title IX regulations destroy the definition of sex and wreck the opportunities girls and women receive by participating in athletic competition.

Can We Fix a Culture Hostile To Raising Children?

By: Casey Chalk， The Federalist
'Family Unfriendly' documents all the ways our laws and culture are discouraging family formation - but the problem may be much deeper.

Cops Storming Protests Should Scare You About What's Next

By: Will Bunch， Philly Inq
A violent coast-to-coast, riot-cop crackdown on campus protests threatens the right for all dissent on the eve of the presidential election.

Education Apocalypse Now?

By: Glenn Reynolds， Substack
The Ivy League Hits An Iceberg.

Campus Leaders Must Show Courage, Stand Up to Hatred

By: Robert Kraft， NY Post
Signs at Columbia University read Go Back to Poland, calling for the Jewish community to return to the horrific death camps of the Holocaust.

The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education

By: George Packer， Atlantic
Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.

The Strange Death of the Family

By: Joel Kotkin， Spiked
The world is sleepwalking towards a depopulation crisis.

Biden's Dilemma: NC Voters Are Sour on Economy

By: Ned Barnett， The News ＆amp； Observer
All indicators are up, except the one that matters most to Biden's reelection
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