RealClearPolitics September 10, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

'Pretend I'm on the Ballot' Is Trump's Midterm Strategy

Audrey Fahlberg, Free Press

Democratic Chicken--or the Hard Left Egg?

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Why the Democratic Brand Remains Unpopular

Ben Rhodes, New York Times

Why So Many Incumbents Lost Primaries This Year

Kashinsky & Pellish, Politico

Are Midterm Results Already Baked in the Cake?

Byron York, Washington Examiner

Trump Offers $5,000 Voter Bribe If GOP Wins Midterms

Arthur Delaney, HuffPost

Fetterman Appears at RNC Convention in Surprise Video

Caitlin Yilek, CBS News

Charlie Kirk's Unlikely Path to Building Turning Point USA

Andrew Kolvet, FOX News

Big Tech Fooled America Once. 2nd Time's Not Going So Well

Oren Cass, NY Times

Pumpkin Spice and the AI Apocalypse

Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics

The Demise of Germany's Fake Conservatives

Phillip Linderman, American Conservative

AfD Helped Politically by Russia-Ukraine War Backlash

Branko Marcetic, The Nation

How This Nigerian Chief Made Millions From Medicaid

Rufo & Rowley, City Journal

Mothers for Sale: The Wild West of Commercial Surrogacy

Helen Lewis, The Atlantic

GOP Has Work To Do in Dallas

Bevan, Cannon, Lumetta & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

NH Could Be the GOP's Sleeper Senate Win

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

The Kindergarten Drop-Off That Saved Howard Lutnick

Salena Zito, DC Examiner

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

My Friend Charlie--and the Line Between Good and Evil

Blake Neff, The Spectator

We're Still Living in the Shadow of the War on Terror

Jerusalem Demsas, Substack

Gitmo Parole Board Greenlights Release of 3 'Forever Prisoners'

Paul Sperry, RCI

Smithsonian Is a Better Institution Because of Lonnie Bunch

Robyn Autry, MS Now

An Award for Scholars Who Tell the Truth

Fryer & Ackman, Wall Street Journal

Democrats Need To Figure Out How To Keep Fetterman

Sam Kahn, UnHerd

Down the Road, Conservatives Debate GOP Future

Carolina Lumetta, RealClearPolitics

Can U.S. Avoid Financial Crises? Clock Is Ticking

Red Jahncke, Issues & Insights

AI Race Could Sink U.S.-China Detente

Ian Bremmer, Project Syndicate

Beware the AI Information Wars and Psyops

Dillon Loomis, X

When Abortion Pills Become the Weapons of Abusers

Madeleine Kearns, Free Press