February 3, 2025 Archives

RealClearPolitics Week of February 3, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 3
Trump's Swift Moves Bring Risk & Turmoil to U.S. and World
Stephen Collinson, CNN
USAID Will Now Be Aligned With Our National Interest
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Can Democrats Come Back to Life?
Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
DNC Elections Show Dems' Heads Still in Sand About 2024
Shane Harris, AMAC
Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly
Roge Karma, The Atlantic
Trump Is Taking on the Shadow Regulatory State
Jennifer Butler, Washington Examiner
Trump's New Tariffs Signal Dark Days for America
Heather Parton, Salon
Mexico Caves to Trump, Will Send Troops to Border
Matt Margolis, PJ Media
Trump Should Keep His Eyes on (Nobel) Prize in the Mideast
Dan Perry, Newsweek
How Western Governments Are Funding Persecution of Jews
Brendan O'Neill, Spiked
Corporate America Rebranding DEI, Not Abandoning It
Yoshino & Glasgow, LA Times
Progressives Hate Common Sense Priorities
Peter Rosenberger, The American Spectator
Tuesday, February 4
Abandoned by Dems: Can Cities Regain Control?
Heather Mac Donald, New York Post


GOP Reaps Rewards of Party Switchers
Nate Moore, Substack
Memo Warned USAID Created 'Vulnerabilities'
Richards & Solomon, Just the News
Democrats Need To Embrace Energy Realism
Will Marshall, The Hill
Vance Visits East Palestine, Promises Transparency
Salena Zito, Washington Examiner
J.D. Vance's Misguided Holy War
Michael Warren, The Dispatch
America Is an Outlier in Allowing Anchor Babies
Mike Davis, The Federalist
The Real Stakes of the War for Your Attention
Illing & Hayes, Vox
Democratic States Are Wards of Washington
Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal
Restraint-Oriented Middle East Policy Serves America's Interests
Alex Little, RCP
EU Imposes Its ESG Agenda on American Companies
Michael Toth, Civitas Outlook
Wednesday, February 5
Is Trump's Trade War With Mexico and Canada Over?
Eric Levitz, Vox


A Laughable Lesson for Dems on Virtue Signaling
Jonathan Turley, FOX News
New DNC Chair Is Ready to Build a Bigger, Bolder Party
John Nichols, The Nation
DOGE Is the Best Hope for Fixing Our Flawed Bureaucratic System
Bill Ackman, X
We Did This to Ourselves
Kristol, et al., The Bulwark
The Owner of the LA Times Takes the Red Pill
Peter Savodnik, The Free Press
Army's Special Treatment of Capt. Rebecca Lobach
Chase Spears, RealClearDefense
Trump's America Inspires Only Fear
Harold Meyerson, American Prospect
Collectivism in the C-Suite
Stephen Soukup, National Review
Trump's Hollywood Ambassadors Spotlight Tinseltown Troubles
Ethan Watson, RCP
WWA Peddling 'Alarmist' Non-Peer Reviewed Fire Studies
Jamie Joseph, FOX News
Thursday, February 6
Bondi Prioritizes Border Crackdown on Day One
Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner


Federal Funding Must Flow
Gabrielle Gurley, American Prospect
Trump's Superpower: Finding 80-20 Issues, Getting on the 80
Scott Jennings, CNN
Trump Lays the Groundwork To Claim a Pyrrhic Victory
Brian Karem, Salon
Biden Was a Puppet in Charge of Nothing
Stephen Miller, X
New DNC Chair Must Embrace Genuine Populism
Norman Solomon, The Hill
'Innovative' Gaza Approach Has Some on the Right Confused
Philip Wegmann, RCP
Trump Makes Appointment That Has Big Tech Panicked
Rachel Bovard, FOX News
Parenting in the Age of Trump
Elie Mystal, The Nation
Gender Ideology Has Impacted Society in Disastrous Ways
J.K. Rowling, X
Censorship Spurs Journal of the Academy of Public Health
Paul Thacker, Substack
Friday, February 7
$8 Million Politico Payout Is Tip of the Iceberg
Ben Weingarten, New York Post


This Is So Much Worse Than Last Time
Alex Shephard, The New Republic
Parents Move Right, Pundits Panic, Trump Delivers
Erika Sanzi, RealClearEducation
The Democrats' Voter Registration Blues
Michael Baharaeen, Substack
There Should Be No Negotiations With Corrupt Journalists
Balaji Srinivasan, X
What Trump and Musk Are Really Doing by Gutting USAID
Michael Cohen, MSNBC
There Is Nothing Green About the 'Green' Agenda
Steve Milloy, RealClearEnergy
Hyperbolic Hyperbole
Zachary Karabell, Substack
Moderation as Pursuit of Justice
Daniel Mahoney, Modern Age
The Education Department and the KKK
Philip Hamburger, Wall Street Journal
A 2024 Election Postmortem
Jonathan Draeger, RealClearPolitics
Sunday, February 9
What Presidents Say Before the Super Bowl
David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Inside Trump's Hectic Daily Schedule
Miranda Devine, New York Post
Ignore Trump's Bluster. Musk Is Taking Over Government
John Naughton, Guardian
The Battle Over Transparency Begins
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
Trump Said He'd Deconstruct Administrative State
Jonathan Capehart, PBS NewHour
Donald Trump Isn't Staging a Coup—He's Stopping One
David Deavel, AMAC
Cuts to USAID 'Devastating to National Security'
Sen. Andy Kim, Meet the Press
We Welcome DOGE at DOD
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Sunday Morning Futures
J.D. Vance Aced His First Test. The Next One Will Be Tougher
Rachel Bade, Politico
Katherine Long: WSJ's Woke Leftist, Deep State Asset
Charles Cornish-Dale, Spectator
Beyond the Headlines: Global Struggle for Prisoner Release
Andrea J. Prasow, RCP
How the Kansas City Chiefs Became Super Bowl's Villains
Kavitha Davidson, MSNBC


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