RealClearPolitics Week of December 29, 2025 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, December 29

Trump's Most Explosive Feuds of 2025

Callum Sutherland, Time

The Left's Top 25 Lies Of 2025

M.D. Kittle, The Federalist

Americans Are Waking Up. A Grand Reckoning Awaits Us

Robert Reich, The Guardian

Turbocharged Growth…for American Citizens

Steve Cortes, Substack

Duty? Insanity? Former Members of Congress Want To Return

Anna Liss-Roy, WaPo

New Data Reveals Horrific Truth About Illegal-Immigrant Crime

John Lott, NY Post

The Danish Immigration Lesson

Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative

For Young Transgender Runner, Racing Wasn’t the Hardest Thing

Casey Parks, WP

The Trans Blob Is Still Waging War on Women

Jo Bartosch, Spiked

Samuel Alito Keeps Getting His Way. Why Is He So Unhappy?

Joan Biskupic, CNN

ObamaCare Is a Money Pit for Taxpayers

Bai & Plummer, Wall Street Journal

Lou Cannon: Good Friend, Tough Competitor, National Treasure

George Skelton, LAT

Tuesday, December 30

From Climate to DEI, Common Sense Prevailed in 2025

Liz Peek, FOX News

Democrat Governors Have Been a Bright Spot This Year

Heather Parton, Salon

How State Policies Turned Tiny Blaze Into LA Catastrophe

Shawn Regan, City Journal

Trump Eyes Outlandish Lawsuit Against the Fed's Powell

Steve Benen, MS Now

5 Years Too Late, Georgia Admits Illegal Voting Problem

Hans Mahncke, Federalist

The Political Backlash to AI Is Overstated

Eric Levitz, Vox

U.S. Takes Aim at European Censorship-Industrial Complex

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Repairing Marriages Is Better Than Replacing Them

Bethany Mandel, DC Examiner

'Wellness' Culture Is Empty Without Service to Others

Jemima Kelly, Financial Times

A Slightly Better You in the New Year

Roland Fryer, Wall Street Journal

As Youth Sports Professionalize, Kids Are Burning Out Fast

Ken Belson, NY Times

Sunday, January 4

Monroe Doctrine Is Back. Or Is It the 'Donroe Doctrine'?

Kathryn Palmer, USA Today

Experts Comparing Libya, Iraq to Venezuela Are a Clown Show

Marco Rubio, MTP

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Joe Klein, Substack

Trump Doctrine, Venezuela and the Reassertion of King Dollar

James Thorne, X

Venezuela's Massive 303 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves

David Goldman, CNN

Somalis Gonna Somali

Alex Berenson, Substack

Blue States Choose Higher Power Prices

Orr & Pyle, RealClearEnergy

America Needs Economic Warriors

Navin Girishankar, Foreign Affairs

Five Craziest Things About the Epstein Case, Part 2

Michael Tracey, Racket News

What Presidential Rankings Get Wrong

Steven Hayward, Coolidge Review