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RealClearPolitics Week of September 7, 2026 Archives

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Monday, September 7
Workers Deserve a Level Playing Field
Reps. Dingell, Horsford, Norcross & Pocan, TAP
It's Labor Day, Not Union Day. U.S. Workers Deserve a Choice
Mark Mix, FOX News
Far-Left Dems Had Huge Summer. Now They Have Big Demands
Sarah Ferris, CNN
Election Pits Trump's Record vs Blue Wave of Weirdo Dems
Miranda Devine, NY Post
Does Trump Really Want To Win the Midterms?
Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics
AfD’s Surge a Humiliation for Germany’s Establishment
Daniel Johnson, The Telegraph
Why the AfD Wins
Christopher Caldwell, First Things
Trump’s Plot to Reshape Midterms Starts to Unravel
Annabella Rosciglione, Daily Beast
Election Integrity Hysteria Betrays Weakness
Kenin Spivak, RealClearPolitics
America Still Needs an Endgame in Iran
Erfan Fard, FOX News
Why Is No One Stopping Trump's Illegal, Costly War in Iran?
Erwin Chemerinsky, LAT
For Gaza to Recover, Hamas Must Be Expelled
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, New York Times
The World Isn't Ending, But Liberal Progressivism Is
Waleed Aly, The Guardian
Today's Leftists Are Possessed by the Jacobin Spirit
Victor Davis Hanson, NY Post
Lindsay Clancy Was Failed By Warped Ideas of Motherhood
Moira Donegan, Guardian
Lindsay Clancy and the Inversion of Feminism
Geoffrey Cain, Spectator
What I've Learned About Grief
Erika Kirk, New York Times
RCP Senate Map: 47R, 46D, 7TU: TX, MI, OH, IA, AK, ME, NH | RCP Governor Map
Tuesday, September 8
Congress Needs Less Party Discipline, Not More
Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post


Is Court Packing Constitutional? Don't Be So Sure
James Piereson, Wall Street Journal
Canada Strikes Back
Gabrielle Gurley, American Prospect
Surge in Investment, Manufacturing Reshapes U.S. Economy
Larry Kudlow, TIPP
Warsh's Best Move Is To Do Nothing
James Galbraith, Project Syndicate
What Young Americans Really Think About Marxism
Penn & Stein, Wall Street Journal
Let's Look at Trump's Record That Most of the Press Won't Print
Conrad Black, X
An Uncomfortable Truth for New Hampshire Democrats
Susan Del Percio, MS Now
How the AfD Made History in Germany
Constantin Eckner, The Spectator
Germany's Merz Is Now on Borrowed Time
Jorg Lau, The Guardian
The First 100 Days of a Reform UK Government
Nigel Farage, Substack
Why Success Academy Is Suing New York
Eva Moskowitz, Washington Post
Traditional Schools Losing Their Grip on K-12 Education
Ray Domanico, City Journal
Is It Right To Hold Kids Back in Kindergarten?
Frannie Block, The Free Press
1,800 Tradespeople Powering PA Data Innovation Campus
Salena Zito, DC Examiner
Meta's Reckoning
John Herrman, New York Magazine
'The Flight 93 Election,' Ten Years Later
Ryan Williams, The American Mind
MN (TIPP): Flanagan (D) 44, Tafoya (R) 42 | Klobuchar (D) 50, Demuth (R) 40
Wednesday, September 9
What Mohamed Atta Was Trying To Tell Us
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tablet Magazine


Lower Manhattan Revival Proof 9/11 Terrorists Failed
Michael Bloomberg, USA Today
Zohran Mamdani's 9/11 Stunt
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
GOP's Midterm Strategy Will Test Trump’s Political Power
Andrews, et al, WSJ
Trump-a-Palooza Couldn't Come at Worse Time for GOP
Ayman Mohyeldin, MS Now
As Texas Senate Race Tightens, Talarico's Mask Is Slipping
Nicole Russell, USAT
Senator El-Sayed Would Be Good for Michigan and America
Robert Reich, Substack
Sen. Tafoya? Minnesota Polling Shows a Dead Heat
Steve Cortes, TIPP Insights
Dems Keep Looking for the Next Obama. They Shouldn't
Ian Prasad Philbrick, Slate
GOP Should Make Clear Who Stands for Women
Heather Higgins, RealClearPolitics
Cattle Ranchers Have a Beef With Trump
Dayen & Groz, The American Prospect
Don't Buy Democrats' 'Farm Revolt' Narrative
David Catron, AMAC
Data Center Backlash Mostly About Billionaires
Gene Marks, USA Today
Devolution Revolution: Americans Returning Power to the People
Joel Kotkin, RCI
Mass Polygraphs at Pentagon Show Hegseth’s Weakness
Margaret Sullivan, Guardian
Safety Culture Is Harming Children's Development
Stella O'Malley, UnHerd
The Female Insanity Defense
Jack Ludkey, MAMA Magazine
Thursday, September 10
'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
Friday, September 11
The Worst Day
Guy Benson, Washington Examiner


What the Aftermath of 9/11 Taught Me
Hillary Clinton, The Atlantic
My Brother Ran Into the Twin Towers. He Never Came Out
Frank Siller, USA Today
The Heroic Passengers of Flight 93
Sen. David McCormick, FOX News
Republicans' Midterm Promise: More Populism, More Cash
David Weigel, Semafor
Is Fetterman Done as a Democrat?
Alexander Bolton, The Hill
Chaos Wrought by Building a Nation of Illegal Aliens
Daniel McCarthy, Chronicles
Right-Wing Attacks on El-Sayed Keep Faltering
John Nichols, The Nation
These Charts Show That America Is on the Rise
Daniel Di Martino, City Journal
A.I. Is No Longer Just a 'Next Word Predictor'
Steven Adler, New York Times
Was the Anthropic Resignation Astroturfed?
Bevan, et al., RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Lone Juror's Holdout in Clancy Trial Is an Act of Courage
Miranda Devine, NY Post
It's Not Just the Left That Wants New Democrat Leaders
Ed Kilgore, NY Magazine
CDC Undercounts Defensive Gun Uses
John Lott, RealClearPolitics
Progressives Building Power, One Person at a Time
Whitney Wimbish, Am. Prospect
Why DHS Is Targeting Left's Vote-Mining Machine
Hayden Ludwig, Restoration News
What My Small Town Taught Me About Tribalism
Lura Forcum, RealClearPolitics
Saturday, September 12
September 11 Showed Us Evil. September 12 Showed Us America
Saul Anuzis, RCP
The World 9/11 Didn't Make
Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
The Fantasy-Fed Denialism of Bush's Freedom Agenda
Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine
Is Democrats' Image Problem Getting Worse?
Ruy Teixeira, USA Today
Stubborn Inflation and the Midterm Elections
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Supreme Court Hands Republicans a Decisive Midterm Loss
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Vance's Big Night in Dallas
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Restoring Truth and Sanity to the Smithsonian
Roger Kimball, The Spectator
Fetterman's GOP Convention Video Was a Trap for Dems
Kaivan Shroff, MS Now
Gayle King's Woke Mind Is Societal Poison
Kirsten Fleming, New York Post
Lindsay Clancy Should Not Be Tried Twice
David Markus, SDFLA Blog
What the Clancy Trial's Chatty Jurors Get Wrong
Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
No, the Law Should Not Protect AI-Generated Child Porn
Lauren Daugherty, RCP
The Heavy Yoke of 9/11
Brian Kennedy, The American Mind
25 Years After 9/11, What Have We Learned?
Christian Caryl, Washington Monthly
What the Rational Domestic Response to 9/11 Would Have Been
Ben Weingarten, X
9/11 Changed World, and It Also Spawned Digital Media Era
David Friend, Vanity Fair
Senate: Polls, Map, Odds | Govs: Polls, Map, Odds | House: Generic, vs '22,'18'14
Sunday, September 13
Trump-a-Palooza Is Over. Now Comes the Hard Part
Carolina Lumetta, RCP
How Much More Embarrassment Can the GOP Take?
Rex Huppke, USA Today
RFK Jr. Wows GOP Like Jeane Kirkpatrick Did in 1984
Francis Sempa, Am Spectator
We Must Pace the Frontier
Dario Amodei, Anthropic
My Response to Dario Amodei: Nobody Is Stopping You
David Sacks, X
Safety Standards 'Not at a Place' To Push AI Much Further
Sam Altman, Fortune
The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
Behind Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views on Iran
Swan, et al., NY Times
Containment That Causes Iran To Capitulate or Crumble
John Teichert, RCP
Inside the Walz Admin's Fraud Response
Ryan Faircloth, Minnesota Star-Tribune
Son of Somali Dictator Living in Ohio, Linked to Medicare Firm
Andy Tillett, NY Post
Vance Previews Republicans' Nasty Midterm Smears
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Higher Ed Must Overcome Comforting Delusions
Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
Texas Should Shut Down the Education Cartel
Joe Lonsdale, Substack
The Tower Stones of 9/11
Jonathan Alter, Washington Monthly
A Pennsylvania Field Whispers the Names of the Fallen
Salena Zito, DC Examiner
Does Ben Shelton Have a Mother?
Roger Simon, Substack
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