RealClearPolitics July 15, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

The Frenzied Sprint Among Maine Dems To Replace Platner

Patrick Svitek, CNN

Maine Socialists Try Again - With Predictable Results

Andrea Peyser, New York Post

3 Things Dems Have To Do if They Actually Want To Win

Thomas Edsall, NY Times

Do Michigan Democrats Want Populism or Pragmatism?

David Drucker, The Dispatch

Suing Joe Biden Helped Fuel Ken Paxton's Rise

Eleanor Klibanoff, Texas Tribune

Shootings Put ICE Back in the News

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

China & the New Era of Critical Minerals Diplomacy

Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times

America Can Break China’s Choke Hold on Critical Minerals

Peter Navarro, WSJ

Inside the Effort To Get Trump To Drop Strait of Hormuz Fee

Cancryn, et al, CNN

The West Is a Superior Civilization (Too Bad if That Offends You)

CA In-Home Workers Accuse Unions of Shakedowns

Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics

Trump Brazenly Escalating Attacks on the Press

Margaret Sullivan, The Guardian

Dem State Attorneys Sue To Keep CNN as Partisan as Possible

Tim Graham, RCP

Inside Elite University's Effort To Bring Conservatives to Campus

Vince Bielski, RCI

Lindsey Graham’s Defense of Kavanaugh Told Us Everything

Elie Mystal, The Nation

Barrett & Kagan's Safety Plea Exposes Left's War on SCOTUS

John Yoo, FOX News

The Dehumanization of Charlie Kirk

Sasha Stone, Substack

Harvard-Harris '28: Harris 37, Newsom 24, Buttigieg 10, AOC 9, Shapiro 9 | GOP

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

On the Road With Speaker Johnson and His 1,477 Unread Texts

Olivia Beavers, WSJ

MOU Set a Trap. Iran Fell Into It

Kenneth Timmerman, American Greatness

Budget Consequences of Graham's Sudden Departure

Robert Kuttner, Am. Prospect

Justice Barrett Reveals Insane Threats Against SCOTUS

Robby Soave, The Hill

As Maine Goes, So Goes the Senate? Not Necessarily

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

'Green' California Port Fee Raises Costs for All of America

Iulia Lupse, New York Post

Are Newsom's Hopes Fading for Dem Nomination in 2028?

Joel Kotkin, UnHerd

Why the Left Hates the Medicine That Made Me a Mom

Madeleine Kearns, Free Press

Med Students Undermining Medical Research--and Public Health

Jay Greene, RCP

Effective Way To Help Drug Addicts--You May Not Like It

Satel & Farabee, LA Times

What I Found After Leaving D.C.

Emily Davis, The Daily Wire

Harvard-Harris '28: Vance 42, Rubio 22, Trump Jr. 18, RFK Jr. 6, Haley 6 | Dem