RealClearPolitics Week of March 30, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, March 30

How Democrats Can Use Their Coming Majority

Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal

Dems Only Offer More Taxes, Bigger Government

Michael McKenna, Washington Times

Trump Held Hostage By His Lost War in Iran

Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian

The Victory Option

Kurt Schlichter, Townhall

You May Already Have Won - or Lost - the Iran War

Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal

Speaker Johnson Rips Senate Republicans

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

Senate GOP Needs New Leadership

David Catron, The American Spectator

MAGA’s Latest Cruelty Targets Immigrant Kids’ Education

Svante Myrick, The Hill

Dems Oppose ICE Itself, Not Abuses or Overreach

Guy Benson, Washington Examiner

Why People Have Strong Reactions to Lindy West’s Memoir

Wessinger & King, Vox

Progressives Embracing Polyamory & Making It Political

Ingrid Jacques, USA Today

Tuesday, March 31

The War in Historical Context

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

How Geopolitics Overran Globalization

Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs

Americans Don't Want Troops in Iran. Will Trump Care?

Nicole Russell, USA Today

Are We Preparing To Leave Iran?

Bevan, Walworth, & Wegmann, RCP on SiriusXM

GOP Would Rather Cede Power to Dems Than Its Voters

Shawn Fleetwood, Federalist

Voters Have Another Reason To Doubt GOP Governance

Hayes Brown, MS NOW

Democrats Took Aim at ICE and Hit the TSA

Byron York, Washington Examiner

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Gambit is Doomed to Fail

Elie Honig, NY Magazine

Sorry, Media: Michigan Man Was a Hezbollah Terrorist

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Substack

Olympics Finally Picks Biology Over Ideology

Riley Gaines, FOX News

NASA’s Trail Back to the Moon

Denise Chow, Jay Blackman and Al Roker, NBC News

Trump Job Approval: Economist 39% | Rasmussen Rpts 44% | Daily Mail 46%

Wednesday, April 1

America Faces Tough Choices in Iran

William Galston, Wall Street Journal

Is It Time To Leave NATO?

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM

Without the United States, NATO Is Left Naked

Roland Oliphant, The Telegraph

Democrats Set To Raid New Yorkers Pockets

Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Is California Really Going To Elect a GOP Governor?

Mark Z. Barabak, LA Times

The Kings of Hypocrisy

Joe Concha, Washington Examiner

The Supreme Court Faces Its Greatest Trump-Era Test

Jordan Rubin, MS Now

Gorman Killing Exposes Cruelty of Dems’ Anti-ICE Extremism

Matt Lamb, AMAC

Democrats Will Regret Buddying Up to Hasan Piker

Michael Cohen, MS Now

Time for the Senate To Fight Like Trump & Pass SAVE Act

Mike Garcia, Red State

Section 230: To Repeal or Not To Repeal?

Nadine Farid Johnson, The Hill

The Federalist Scored a Huge Win for Free Speech

Margot Cleveland, The Federalist

White House: President Trump Addresses Nation on Iran Military Operation

Thursday, April 2

Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi

Caralle & Colton, FOX News

Beginning of the End of the War in Iran?

Joshua Keating, Vox

Trump: Strategic Objectives 'Nearing Completion' in Iran

Jonathan Draeger, RCP

Florida Conservatives' Powerful Lessons for America

Paul du Quenoy, Chronicles

Ending Birthright Citizenship Changes Meaning of U.S.

Moira Donegan, The Guardian

Whatever the Ruling on Citizenship, ABA Is Likely the Loser

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Abundant Happiness

Terrence Keeley, RealClearPolitics

Artemis Mission a Rare, Truly Unifying International Event

Christopher Riley, Guardian

Violence Gets a Pass, Faith Gets You Fired in NBA

Shane Harris, AMAC

A House of Labor Divided

Harold Meyerson, American Prospect

Congress Should Pass Credit Card Competition Act

Randi Thompson, RealClearPolitics

Friday, April 3

Bondi Was Trump's 2nd Choice, and She Never Quite Fit

M.D. Kittle, The Federalist

Bondi's Portrait Already Taken Down at DOJ

Dilanian & Leonnig, MS Now

Rogan, Theo Von Slam Trump: He Ran Against 'Stupid' Wars

Ryan Mancini, The Hill

There's Good Reason To Fight On in Iran

Elliot Kaufman, Wall Street Journal

Eagle Pass Is Not Ellis Island

Adam Ellwanger, Chronicles

Reminder That Independent Judiciary Is a Good Thing

Bill Scher, Washington Monthly

Report: ActBlue Likely Lied to Congress on Foreign Donors

Brianna Lyman, Federalist

Could Independent Candidates Make a Difference in 2026?

Greg Orman, RCP

'I Would Rather My Child Be in School'

Audrey Kingo, New York Magazine

Who's Afraid of Harry Potter?

Emma Camp, Wall Street Journal

A Storied Russian Muckraker on Oil, Iran, Ukraine, More

Matt Taibbi, Racket News