RealClearPolitics August 16, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Amid Republican Midterm Worries, Trump OK's Cash Infusion

Treene, et al., CNN

Does Leftism Thrive on Its Own Failures?

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Fauci Hearing Was Painful To Watch, But We Need Answers

David Relman, Guardian

I Arrested Laken Riley's Killer 6 Months Before Her Murder

Ethan Curreri, NY Post

Why Don't Lefties Do Better Among Working-Class?

Michael Tomasky, New Republic

Hasan Piker Should Not Be Silenced

Tim Murtaugh, Washington Times

Greatest Risk to Hollywood Isn't the Merger--It's the Delay

Robert Wolf, LA Times

When Astronomy Morphs Into Astrology

Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics

Adjuncting Until the End of Time

Maria Adelmann, The Nation

The Unmaking of Jason Arday

Roger Kimball, American Greatness

Ozempic Is Not Just a Weight-Loss Story Anymore

Bryan Walsh, Vox

Just Say It: Plastic Surgery Is Bad for Us

Freya India, The Free Press

Iowa's Energy Grid Isn't a Riverboat Casino

Cameron Sholty, RealClearEnergy

Let Us Not Forget Multilateral Institutions

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Project Syndicate

Something Wonderfully British About the Farage Situation

Robert Malone, Substack

Fidel Castro's Centenary and Cuba's Kleptocratic Legacy

John Suarez, Brussels Signal

The 10 Best College Football Towns in America

Culpepper, et al., Washington Post

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

Bessent Makes the Economic Case for Deportations

Dmitri Bolt, Townhall

Democrats' Pick in Wisconsin Shows a Shift in Priorities

Kevin Robillard, HuffPost

How We Got Fewer and Worse Schools

Howard Husock, Wall Street Journal

A Time Capsule of Free-Range Childhood

Kat Rosenfield, The Free Press

Michigan Thinks Freshmen Can't Handle Getting Grades

Ingrid Jacques, USA Today

The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

Tyler Harper, The Atlantic

Eric Zemmour and 'The Suicide of France'

Daniel Mahoney, New York Post

'Talladega Nights' Predicted America's Sunbelt Shift

Alex Galbraith, Salon

The Trouble With Taming Odysseus

James Rogers, Law & Liberty

Reinventing the Sabbath

Stonestreet & Padgett, Breakpoint