RealClearPolitics Week of July 14, 2025 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, July 14

Why Are Schools Failing? Unions Put Teachers Over Kids

Nicole Russell, USA Today

New Democratic Group Tells Party To Drop Purity Tests

Michael Baharaeen, UnHerd

One Year After Butler: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sasha Stone, Substack

Will Paxton Survive Yet Another Scandal?

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

Not Everyone Can Become an American

John Davidson, The Federalist

Mark Cuban Reveals a Cold Truth on Why Dems Are Flailing

Lee Moran, HuffPost

Stop Paying for Failure: Time for Real Accountability

Scott Walker, RealClearPolitics

How the Rightwing Sports Bro Conquered America

Aaron Timms, The Guardian

Remembering Sol Stern

Brian Anderson, City Journal

AI Data Centers Meet Community Resistance in PA

Ethan Dodd, RealClearPennsylvania

We Should Be in a Golden Age for Sleep

Allie Volpe, Vox

Tuesday, July 15

How Democrats Lost Core Parts of Their Coalition in '24

Michael Baharaeen, Substack

Biden's Fraudulent Pardons

Kelly Sadler, Washington Times

Will the U.S. Ever Do Right by Mahmoud Khalil?

Elie Mystal, The Nation

Trump Has a Good Shot at Being One of Best Presidents Ever

Ken Langone, CNBC

CIA Reveals More Connections to Lee Harvey Oswald

Tom Jackman, Washington Post

Did Schiff Commit Mortgage Fraud?

Katie Pavlich, Townhall

Mamdani Is a Symbol of Radicalization

Eric Adams, PBD Podcast

What Pennsylvania Can Learn From Louisiana

Elizabeth Stelle, RealClearEnergy

Opting Kids Out of the Leftist Cult

Bethany Mandel, New York Post

Giving Students Tools To Be Economic Decathletes

Leigh Knight, Washington Monthly

John MacArthur, Who Explained the Bible to Millions

Daniel Silliman, Christianity Today

Wednesday, July 16

Biden Aide Pleads Fifth at House Oversight Deposition

Ashleigh Fields, The Hill

Trump: Comey, Obama, Biden Made Up Epstein Files

Nelson & Nava, New York Post

Trump Rolls Out New Conspiracy Theory on Epstein

Steve Benen, MSNBC

How Progressives Are Getting Trapped in Their Own Lies

Nicole Russell, USA Today

Reclaiming the Public Realm

Robert Kuttner, American Prospect

State Department Firings Are Poetry in Motion

Phillip Linderman, Am. Conservative

CIA Has Been Caught Lying About Lee Harvey Oswald

Nia Prater, New York Magazine

Are Teen Summer Jobs Obsolete?

Helen Andrews, Commonplace

Close Bad Schools and Expand Good Ones

Chad Aldeman, Fordham Institute

Why It's Taking LA So Long To Rebuild

Umair Irfan, Vox

California's Predictable State of Decay

Edward Ring, American Greatness

Trump Job Approval: CNN 44% | Big Data 48% | RCP Average: 45.5

Thursday, July 17

ICE Is Making an Example of California

Melissa Grant, The New Republic

Missouri Sen. Schmitt Takes the Left to Court

Mark Judge, Chronicles

A Three-Way Battle for the Democratic Party

Andrew Prokop, Vox

Trump Has Not Fired Powell--Yet

Larry Kudlow, New York Sun

Medical School Has Gotten Too Political

Satel & Huddle, Substack

Emil Bove Belongs on the Bench

Todd Blanche, FOX News

America's New Fiscal Trap

Eric Spitz, RealClearPolitics

The Rescission Package Is a Chance To Get Serious

John Hart, The Hill

Harvard Is Anti-Science

Frank Tipler, Washington Examiner

The Promise and Peril of Recognizing Palestine

Lynch & Telhami, Foreign Affairs

There Is No 'Genocide' in Gaza

Alan Dershowitz, New York Post

Trump Job Approval: Reuters, Big Data, YouGov, Quinnipiac, Rasmussen, CNN

Friday, July 18

Americans Will Finally Learn About Creation of the Russia Hoax

Tulsi Gabbard, X

Wall Street Begs Trump: Please Don't Break the Fed

Catherine Baab, Quartz

Federal Workers Being Held Accountable for 1st Time

Mark Hemingway, Federalist

Trump's Cuts Just Made Susan Collins' Job Much Harder

Hayes Brown, MSNBC

The Empty Outrage Over Medicaid Cuts

Bautista Vivanco, RealClearPolitics

What Epstein Case & Jerome Powell Have in Common

Olivier Knox, U.S. News & WR

The Epstein Files Are a Gift to the Democrats

Sasha Stone, Substack

The Hidden War Over Ukraine's Lost Children

Simon Shuster, Time Magazine

Iran Is Out To Assassinate Trump

Taleblu & Ghasseminejad, Wall Street Journal

Butler Exposed Secret Service's Lack of Accountability

Sen. Rand Paul, Breitbart

End of Late Show a Concerning Nail in Coffin for Comedy

Jesse Hassenger, Guardian

Some Of NPR CEO Katherine Maher's Most Deranged Tweets

Sen. Eric Schmitt, X

Latest Polls: Trump Job Approval: 45.8 | Generic: D+2.5 | Trump, Obama, Bush

Sunday, July 20

Should Democrats Vote To Fund Government?

Rep. Brendan Boyle, The Bulwark

A Crash Course in Article II

Byron York, Washington Examiner

Logic Behind Trump's Deportations Doesn't Add Up

Nicole Narea, Vox

Will the 2028 Dem Nominee Be 'None of the Above'?

Douglas MacKinnon, The Hill

Democrats Are Making 2028 Moves

Wolf & Dovere, CNN

Censors Losing the Battle

Luis Cornelio, Media Research Center

America's Energy Mother Lode Is More Vital Than Ever

Chris Talgo, Townhall

Space Is the New Factory Floor

Ariel Ekblaw, Financial Times

The Stock Market Bargain Right Under Your Nose

Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal