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RealClearPolitics Week of April 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 20
Chief Justice Roberts Could Learn From Ted Williams
Jonathan Turley, FOX News
The Republican Battle Royal Over Re-Opening DHS
Hayes Brown, MS Now
How 2020 Census Defrauded the American People
Benjamin Osborne, Chronicles
Both Iran and U.S. Think They're Winning. Both Aren't Right
Stephen Collinson, CNN
The Gulf Will Not See Iran the Same Way Again
Nawaf Al-Thani, Semafor
Petroleum Rules the World: We Control Most of It
Clarice Feldman, American Thinker
Hasan Piker Is Splitting Democrats Ahead of Midterms
Juan Williams, The Hill
Swalwell That Ends Well? Democrats Try To Forget
Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal
What's College Cost? Good Luck Figuring It Out
Meredith Kolodner, Washington Monthly
Against WALL-E-Fication
Oren Cass, Commonplace
What Trump Wants To Do at Penn Station
Miranda Devine, New York Post
Tuesday, April 21
Escalation Is Looking More Likely in Iran
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times


Banking, Blockading and the Final Iranian Financial Squeeze
Larry Kudlow, NY Sun
Dems Challenge Fed Chair Pick Warsh at Senate Hearing
Sydney Carruth, MS Now
The Book of JD, King James Version
Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal
Referendum Day in Virginia
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Insider on Justice Who Is 'Emotionally Abusive' to Clerks
Victoria Churchill, Daily Mail
SCAM Act Restores Integrity to U.S. Citizenship
Sen. Eric Schmitt, The American Mind
How Amazon AI Algorithms Raise Prices You Pay
Stacy Mitchell, Washington Monthly
It's No Surprise Why Universities Lost Public Trust
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
The Extremes in America Are United by Grievances
Ryan Clancy, RealClearPolitics
A Great American Statesman: MLK and the Next 250
Heath Anderson, The Dispatch
Latest Polls: Trump Job Approval Falls to 2nd Term Low in RCP Average - 40.6%
Wednesday, April 22
GOP's Sign To Wake Up and Play Hardball
Shane Harris, AMAC


Virginia Hands Democrats Another Win in Redistricting Wars
Christian Paz, Vox
Downfall of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Emily Jashinsky, UnHerd
Why President Trump Extended Ceasefire With Iran
Collins, et al., CNN
More Schizophrenia as Iran Loses $500 Million a Day
Mark Penn, X
Iran, California and the Idiocy of Climate Policies
Joel Kotkin, New York Post
The Parallel Universe Where a Nonpartisan Alito Is Under Assault
Kate Riga, TPM
Alito: A Justice in Full
Mark Pulliam, Law & Liberty
We Hit Bottom on Polarization, Common Ground Is Emerging
Lanny Davis, MS Now
A Link Between Censoriousness and Mental Illness
Rob Henderson, Wall Street Journal
A Preventable Murder in Chicago
Thomas & Jessica Gorman, CBS News
FOX News: Trump Job Approval: 42% | Generic Ballot: Dems +5
Thursday, April 23
Hardest Part Still To Come for Democrats After Virginia Win
Paul Waldman, MS Now


SPLC's Racial Shakedown Was a Criminal Scheme
Greg Gutfeld, FOX News
Strait of Hormuz Is Hosting Gunboat Diplomacy
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian
The Strait of Hormuz Reverse Uno Card
Gary Brode, X
In Tehran, Money Is Short, Return to War Looms
Lyse Doucet, BBC News
California's Lukewarm Governor Debate Won't Shake Up Race
Susan Crabtree, RCP
Male Prisoners Are Abusing Incarcerated Women in MA
Romm & Cypher, City Journal
Meta Is a Monopoly Even If TikTok Can Compete
Ryan Cooper, American Prospect
Patriots, Unite! Globalism Is the Philosophy of Liars
J.B. Shurk, American Thinker
The U.S.-Europe Rift Is Getting Worse
Tamar Jacoby, Washington Monthly
Consequences of the 'Equity' School Calendar
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, IWFeatures
Friday, April 24
Scott Bessent: Trump's Economic Engineer
Mark Halperin, Wall Street Journal


Biggest Problem: Iran Sees No Need To Compromise
Sina Toossi, The Guardian
Signs Iran's Economy Is in Freefall
Holly Ellyatt, CNBC
ActBlue: Democrats' Dirtiest Campaign Fundraiser
Monica Showalter, American Thinker
Trump Floats Conspiracy Theory About Virginia Redistricting
Steve Benen, MS Now
Blue Wave? Or Red Save?
David Winston, Roll Call
SCOTUS Should Stop CA's Persecution of John Eastman
Ben Weingarten, Federalist
The Problem With Hasan Piker--Spoiler: It's Not About Israel
Eric Levitz, Vox
The Left Lost on DEI, But Infrastructure Remains
John Tillman, RealClearPolicy
Anti-Market Delusion at the Heart of the Housing Crisis
Milan Singh, Substack
Getting 'a Read' on Kevin Warsh's Monetary Policy Views
James Thorne, X
Sunday, April 26
I Was on Stage With the President. This Is What I Saw
Weijia Jiang, CBS News
Trump Stands Tall Under Fire
Faith Bottum, Wall Street Journal
At WHCD, Darkness Came Viscerally Close
David Smith, The Guardian
The Moral Monstrosity of the New York Times Podcast
Jonathan Turley, The Hill
Iran, Tucker Carlson and the Political Test Ahead
Nicole Russell, USA Today
DNC Chair Says 2024 Autopsy Would Cause 'Navel-Gazing'
Clarissa-Jan Lim, MS Now
A Free Win for Governors: If They'll Take It
Marc LeBlond, RealClearEducation
Virginia Public Schools' Mental Health Misstep
Evans & Gorman, City Journal
Why Can't We Treat GLP-1's Like Medicine?
Sarah Jones, New York Magazine
Note to Readers: The Next 25 Years of RealClearPolitics
Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
TDIH - April 26th Generic Ballot: '26: Dems +5.7 | '22: GOP +3.8 | '18: Dems +6.8


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