RealClearPolitics Week of May 5, 2025 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, May 5

What Harvard Should Have Done

Bill Ackman, CNBC

Democrats Could Learn From Mexico's Sheinbaum

Kate Aronoff, The New Republic

Harris' Bizarre Ramble Not a Good Sign for Democrats

Jenny Holland, Spiked

How Does Trump Really Feel About Big Tech?

Rana Foroohar, Financial Times

Trump Launches New Wave of Judicial Nominations

Mike Davis, FOX News

Woke Cancel Culture Ravaged Our Nation Psychologically

Stephen A. Smith, CNN

I Used To Value PBS and NPR. Not Anymore

Sasha Stone, Substack

Dear Democrats, Republicans Are Eating Your Lunch

Rachel Canter, RCEducation

Catholic Church Needs a Second John Paul II

Mary O'Grady, Wall Street Journal

Which Generations Will Decide New York's Mayoral Race?

Ross Barkan, NY Magazine

Would Work Requirements Cut Medicaid Costs?

Chris Pope, RealClearPolicy

Tuesday, May 6

Will Democrats Keep Defending Sanctuary Cities?

Nicole Narea, Vox

Venezuelan Officials 'Facilitated' Tren de Aragua in U.S.

Miranda Devine, NY Post

Spectacle of Trump's Alcatraz Proposal Is the Point

Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC

The Fed's Actions Are Upside Down

60 Minutes Lionizes Russia Hoax Mastermind

Monica Showalter, American Thinker

How Democrats Can Tie Up Time in Washington

Todd Phillips, American Prospect

Is Harvard Complying With the Tax Code?

Ira Stoll, Wall Street Journal

Trump Gets One Thing Right: Capitalism Is Changing

Avram Alpert, The Guardian

Chinese Influence Is Leaving California Exposed

Joel Kotkin, UnHerd

Buy Now, Pay Later a Sign of the Times

Quinn Sental, Salon

ProPublica Wins Pulitzer for Dishonest Pro-Life Smear

Shawn Fleetwood, Federalist

Wednesday, May 7

Dem Darling Pritzker's Record Will Repel Blue-Collar Voters

David Mastio, KC Star

Don't Just Be Against Trump. It's Time for a Bold Populism

Robert Reich, Guardian

Dems Forgot Their Job Isn't Telling People What To Do

Jesse Watters, FOX News

Newsom Wants Trump To Subsidize Hollywood

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

The High Cost of California's Green Energy Policies

Joel Kotkin, Los Angeles Times

Houthis Wave White Flag, Iran Now Firmly in Crosshairs

Michael Goodwin, NY Post

Trump Favors Diplomacy on Iran

Tulsi Gabbard, Megyn Kelly Show

Israel Is Starving Gaza

Ahmed Moor, The Guardian

The Gaza Famine Myth

Michael Ames, The Free Press

Learning From Trump

Kent Lenci, RealClearPolitics

Tracing the Roots of Today's Anti-Feminist Backlash

Laura Mills, Los Angeles Times

It's Progressives Who Are Afraid of Smart Women, Not Trump

Nicole Russell, USAT

Thursday, May 8

Pope Leo XIV Elected, First Ever From U.S.

Rotondi & Migliaccio, Bloomberg

'Defund the Police' Resulted in More Killings

Johnson & Kennedy, New York Post

It's Trump's Economy Now

William Galston, RealClearPolitics

Can Democrats Escape the Progressive Trap?

John McGinnis, City Journal

Private Equity and Hospitals: Have They Gone Too Far?

Eric Salzman, Racket News

DC Swamp Trying To Cover Up J6 Fedsurection by Denying Ed Martin

Dismissing Top-Ranking Military Leaders Makes No Sense

Jeff McCausland, MSNBC

Military Leaders Must Have Courage

S.L. Nelson, RealClearDefense

The Quiet Canadian

Gabrielle Gurley, American Prospect

Wikipedia Bans Editors for Israel-Palestine Misconduct

Aaron Bandler, Jewish Journal

Trump Effect: How Academic Life Has Improved

Max Abrahms, FOX News

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Friday, May 9

Welcome to the New Age of Geoeconomics

Gillian Tett, Financial Times

UK Deal Is a Good Start

Charles Gasparino, New York Post

Pope Leo, Global American

Harold Meyerson, American Prospect

Advice to Pope Leo XIV: Ignore the Woke Noise

Brendan O'Neill, Spiked

I Think We're in Real Trouble

James Carville, Sir Harry Investigative Journalism Summit

Are Media Pollsters Incompetent or Deceitful?

Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal

'Abundance Agenda' Could Sink the Democratic Party

Aaron Regunberg, The Nation

Inside China's Massive Tariff-Dodging Scheme

Tim Odell, The Federalist

How the Digital Age Changed Us

Anita Jain, Washington Monthly

The New York Times Gets Ever More Orwellian

Alex Berenson, Substack

Is There More to the Fetterman Story?

Christopher Nicholas, RealClearPennsylvania

Sunday, May 11

Now I Know What My Mother Was Saying

Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic

Mother's Day Is for Thankfulness and Joy—Even in Sorrow

David Deavel, AMAC

Courts Must Continue To Stand Up to Trump

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Meet the Press

Newark ICE Protest: So Much for Dems Respecting Law

Matt Margolis, PJ Media

Virginia Republicans Are Reeling

Max Burns, MSNBC

Dems' Efforts To Retool Message Have Become Cartoonish

Julian Epstein, NY Post

If Newsom Wants To Be President, He's Got Work To Do

Mark Barabak, LA Times

Will Newsom Listen to CA's Call for Public Safety?

Tony Strickland, Sacramento Bee

Defunding the NEH Threatens More Than Just the Humanities

Gene Jarrett, The Hill

Defunding PBS Is Not an Attack on the Constitution

John Miltimore, DC Examiner