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RealClearPolitics Week of April 21, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 21
Which Way Will the Catholic Church Turn After Pope Francis?
Ed Kilgore, NY Mag
Pope Francis’ Legacy of Question Marks
Francis Maier, Wall Street Journal
The Next Pope: Who Are Frontrunners to Succeed Francis?
Jesus Mesa, Newsweek
Strip Tax Exemptions From All Woke Nonprofits
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Federalist
The Republicans Who Have Betrayed Rule of Law
Svante Myrick, The Hill
Van Hollen Voted Against Laken Riley Act
Christopher Tremoglie, Washington Examiner
Hegseth's Pentagon Signals MAGA Distress
Heather Parton, Salon
Entire Pentagon Is Working Against Pete Hegseth
Karoline Leavitt, FOX News
The Curious Case of MAGA Finance Bros
Nate Moore, Substack
3 People Dems Are Auditioning To Be Next George Floyd
David Marcus, FOX News
Tuesday, April 22
What Voters Really Want
Ruy Teixeira, Commonplace


If We Can't Make the Things We Need, Then We Are Subservient
Palmer Luckey, X
Tariffs Without Industrial Policy Won't Work
Rana Foroohar, Financial Times
EPA Mega-Grant Has Stacey Abrams' Fingerprints All Over It
Paul Sperry, RCI
Dems' Crises Begin To Play Out in Senate Recruitment
Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN
Impeaching Judges Will Give Congress Subpoena Power
Mike Cernovich, The First
Pope Francis, the First Global South Pontiff
Dean Dettloff, The Nation
The Legacy of Pope Francis
Robert Barron, FOX News
Save the Earthlings From Earth Day
Ken Braun, RealClearEnergy
We've Unlocked a Holy Grail in Clean Energy Storage
Umair Irfan, Vox
Harvard, a Once-Great University, at the Crossroads
Stephen Presser, Chronicles
Wednesday, April 23
Newsom on Democrats: ‘I Don’t Know What the Party Is'
Amie Parnes, The Hill


GOP Is Now the Party of Workers
Steve Cortes, Substack
Tim Walz Looks Into the Void
Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic
Bernie Sanders: The Socialist Who Scammed America
John Mac Ghlionn, TAS
What Is America's Pro-Natalism Movement Really About?
Moira Donegan, Guardian
We Need To Give Our Kids Real Food Again
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., FOX News
How Does Butchering State Department 'Make America Great'?
Max Burns, The Hill
What America Owes Elon Musk After DOGE
David Marcus, FOX News
What Donald Trump Learned From George W. Bush
Ross Barkan, New York Magazine
NYT Goes Full 'Trump Is Hitler' Then Gaslights Us Over It
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
Remembering a Pope for the People
Rev. Al Sharpton, Newsweek
The World’s Spiritual Director
Raymond De Souza, First Things
Thursday, April 24
To Win, Democrats Must Confront Biden, Harris Failure
Michael Baharaeen, UnHerd


Why Almost a Third of Americans Are 'Housing-Poor'
Miranda Devine, New York Post
Musk's Retreat Should Relieve No One
Paul Waldman, MSNBC
Democrats and MS-13, a Springtime Love Affair
Derek Hunter, The Hill
Democrats Want New Blood. But at Whose Expense?
Lauren Egan, The Bulwark
GOP's Gradual Mail Ballot Adoption in PA
Athan Koutsiouroumbas, RealClearPennsylvania
The Intertwined History of the Americas
Steinmetz-Jenkins & Gandin, The Nation
Lessons From Early America's Tariff Wars
John Pinheiro, Law & Liberty
Fastest Way To Derail Trump, U.S. Is To Start a War With Iran
Tucker Carlson, TCN
Will the Next Pope Be Liberal or Conservative? Neither
Christian Paz, Vox
The High Stakes in Choosing the Next Pope
George Weigel, Wall Street Journal
Trump Approval: FOX News 44% | YouGov 44% | Ras Rpts 49% | RCP Avg: 46.1
Friday, April 25
Biggest Step Yet Toward Restoring Meritocracy
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal


Runaway Tren
Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect
FBI Arrests Milwaukee Judge Over Obstructing ICE
Birle & Deese, DC Examiner
Inside Trump's First 100 Days
Eric Cortellessa, Time
Trump Speaks Truth to Power
Ellwanger & Waters, RealClearDefense
Reclaiming the Democratic Party for Working Families
Raynor & Stern, The Nation
Definitive History on the Disaster of Covid School Closings
Alex Berenson, Substack
Greenpeace Pays the Piper
James Meigs, Commentary
Catholic Church Must Now Confront an Uncomfortable Truth
Katherine Kelaidis, Vox
Pope Francis Was No Friend of the Poor
Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
Bad Dojo: Inside Tiger Schulmann's Karate Empire
David Herbert, Esquire
Sunday, April 27
Dems' War on Trump: From Strategic to Desperate
Elizabeth Stauffer, DC Examiner
Trump's Governing Philosophy Is Absolute Power
Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian
No One Is Above the Law. Except When Democrats Say So
David Deavel, AMAC
What Dems Lack Right Now Is a Vision for Future
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Meet the Press
Media Want President AOC, But Reality Says Otherwise
Joe Concha, DC Examiner
Trump's Depredations Call for a Civic Uprising
Ronald Brand, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
New York Times Run Cover for Dems on Act Blue
Logan Washburn, The Federalist
Trump Is Waging an Ideological War on K-12 Education
Altschuler & Wippman, The Hill
Trump Targets Public School Disorder
Bethany Mandel, DC Examiner
MAGA Glam Isn't About Beauty. It's About Politics
Sean Collins, Vox
Shameful: Media Attacks Republican Women as Ugly
Scott Pinsker, PJ Media
Dana Perino's Book on Mentoring Is a Must Read
Salena Zito, Washington Examiner


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