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RealClearPolitics Week of July 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, July 20
If Britain Has a New Prime Minister, It’s a Day Ending in Y
Gerard Baker, WSJ
Who Is Andy Burnham, UK's Surprising New Prime Minister?
Eliot Wilson, USA Today
Nigel Farage's Great Gamble 
Fraser Myers, The American Conservative
House Dems Finally Shifting on Israel
Norman Solomon, The Guardian
Socialists Want To Remake America in Their Image
Jonathan Turley, FOX News
Trump, Fierce Critic of 'Forever Wars,' Stumbling Into One w/Iran
Nabih Bulos, LAT
Europe Condemns Iran, Complains When Trump Acts
Gordon Sondland, FOX News
No Reason To Trust Blanche on ICE Killings - or Anything Else
Svante Myrick, The Hill
Judging by His Political Enemies, Blanche Is Right Man for AG
Julie Kelly, Substack
The Odyssey - An Epic Disappointment
Nerdrotic, YouTube
Florida (UNF): Senate: Moody (R) 50, Vindman (D) 40 | Gov: Donalds (R) +5
Tuesday, July 21
Democrats Shouldn't Worry About Socialism
Zeeshan Aleem, MS NOW


Big Government Inevitably Invites Corruption
Marian Tupy, Wall Street Journal
A Bitter Democrat Primary in Michigan
Andrew Prokop, Vox
Mamdani's Working-Class Costume is Falling Apart
Isaac Schorr, New York Post
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Run for President
Bhaskar Sunkara, The Guardian
AOC Tries and Fails To Replicate Obama’s Appeal
Michael Baharaeen, UnHerd
Trump’s Data Center Boosterism Is a Gift to Democrats
Paul Waldman, MS NOW
My Visit to the Data Center
Stephen Moore, Washington Times
GOP's 2026 Message: Democrats are Worse
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
The 2nd Amendment Opinion That Scrambled the Partisan Script
John Lott, RCP
MAHA Voters Feel Betrayed
Donald Slaughter, The Hill
What Now After SCOTUS's Birthright Citizenship Decision?
Adam Johnston, AMAC
Maine Senate (UNH): Jackson (D) 49, Collins (R) 46 | Governor: Pingree (D) +14
Wednesday, July 22
Dems Know Kamala Can't Win in 2028, But Won't Say It
Daniel Allott, USA Today


Three Keys to a Democratic Victory in Maine
Emma Janssen, The New Republic
In Booming Detroit, Skepticism of Socialist Snake Oil
David Marcus, FOX News
Trump Gutted Election Interference Agency
Barrón-López & Rohde, MS Now
NJ Dems Ignored Warnings of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls
M.D. Kittle, The Federalist
Zohran Mamdani, World Policeman
Mary Julia Koch, Wall Street Journal
Can Andy Burnham Save Britain?
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
Investigate the Islamist March Through U.S. Civic Institutions
Aaron Shuster, Tablet
IRS Chief Says $99M in Payments to Dead People Stopped
Jonathan Draeger, RCP
Why Paramount Should Be Worried
David Dayen, The American Prospect
Congress Is Getting Older
Lauren Boyer, RealClearPolitics
'28 NH GOP: Vance 36, Rubio 26, Paul 8, Haley 8, DeSantis 6, Gabbard 4 | Dems
Thursday, July 23
Don't Sleep on AOC's Chances in 2028
Dace Potas, USA Today


The ‘Bernie Bros’ Could Spoil Democrats’ Midterms
Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal
Is Graham Platner’s Replacement the Real Deal?
Benjamin Hart, New York Magazine
Michigan Could End the Democrat Party As We Know It
Benedict Smith, The Telegraph
Trump is Undermining Elections in U.S.
Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
American Bar Association’s Dance With the DEI Devil
Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
MAGA Wants Its History Simple
Alex Galbraith, Salon
Hasan Piker Leaning Into 9/11 and N. Korea Support
David Strom, Hot Air
I Worked for the Start-Up Hacked by Rogue AI
Florent Daudens, The Independent
Congress Must Fix College Sports Before It’s Too Late
Sen. Ted Cruz, USA Today
The World Cup That Restored My Faith in America
Will Leitch, Washington Post
Friday, July 24
It’s the Year of the DSA in Democratic Politics
Byron York, Washington Examiner


How Israel Lost the Dems
Caitlin Dewey, Vox
Socialism for the Elites
Joel Kotkin, Spiked
NJ Shows Democrats Need a Better Voter-Fraud Strategy
Ed Kilgore, NY Magazine
The Media's Absurd Characterization of Normal People
Elon Musk, The Economist
Graham Platner and the Undoing of the Operative Class
Maria Comella, Vanity Fair
Sally Quinn and the Establishment Blues
Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator
El-Sayed's Slippery Argument About Israel's Right to Exist 
Bill Scher, Wash Monthly
Pence Think Tank Releases Report Tracking Independence
Carolina Lumetta, RCP
The Real Epidemic Is (Again) the Legacy Media
Alex Berenson, Substack
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Do-Over
Michael Calderone, New York Magazine
Sunday, July 26
Which Way Should the Democrats Go Now?
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
The Castroist Playbook Comes to America
Scott McKay, American Spectator
Trump Revives Old Tropes as He Pushes New 'Red Scare'
Robert Tait, The Guardian
Why Young Republicans Like Nixon
Daniel McCarthy, Spectator
Here Comes the Inevitable Backlash to DSA’s Rise
Ross Barkan, The Nation
Criminal Referral of Jack Smith Is 100% Justified
Mike Davis, FOX News
The Last Gasp of Trump's Foreign Policy
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
How NATO Is Quietly Reinventing Itself for Trump
Mark Webber, Time Magazine
Trump Right To Recognize Collapse of Trust in US Elections
Travis Lynch, Am Thinker
The Shrinking World of Joe Biden
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post
Jim Crow, Title IX and the Facts of Life
James Taranto, Wall Street Journal


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