RealClearPolitics Week of August 3, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 3

No One Failed Harder During Covid Than Our Media

Becket Adams, The Hill

Fauci vs. the Republican Witch Hunt

James Zirin, Washington Monthly

Let Spain's Overrun Border Be an Election Reminder

Brianna Lyman, The Federalist

MI Senate Primary Becomes Democrats' Latest Proxy War

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN

What Darline Graham Isn't Saying

James Antle, Washington Examiner

Pre-Trump GOP Is Coming for Vance

Mike Zapler, Axios

GOP Transformed 3 Times in 20 Years, Each Time Got Stronger

Ashley Etienne, MTP

Florida's DOGE Is Delivering

Noah Wall, The American Mind

What We're Learning About Screens in School

Kavanagh & Danielson, Washington Post

Struggling Colleges Raiding Their Endowments To Pay the Bills

Douglas Belkin, WSJ

Islam's Rising in U.S.?

Zane, Varney & Shuster, RealClearInvestigations Podcast

Latest Polls: Senate: MI, SC, TX, NC | Gov: MI, FL, TX | Generic | Trump Approval

Tuesday, August 4

Med Schools Are Over Their Politics Fever

Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal

Progressives Set To Sweep Dem Primaries in MI and WI

Kevin Robillard, HuffPost

San Fran and LA: Two Cities Headed in Opposite Directions

Alex Bastian, The Hill

The Hidden Cost of Mamdani's Plan for Groceries

Eric Levitz, Vox

Fauci Drank His Own Kool-Aid, Florida Did Not Follow

Gov. Ron DeSantis, FOX News

GOP Should Temper Expectations on Jack Smith Hearing

Steve Benen, MS Now

Courage Answered When Evil Came to an Idaho In-N-Out

Nicole Russell, USA Today

The Quiet Redesign of the Bachelor's Degree

Bruno Manno, Washington Monthly

Fewer Young Americans Own Homes Than We Thought

Jon Hovance, Chronicles

I Helped Bring in Bank Stress Tests. Time To Drop Them

Sheila Bair, Financial Times

How To Lose $35 Billion

Joe Nocera, The Free Press

Texas (TSU): Talarico (D) 47, Paxton (R) 45 | Gov: Abbott (R) 49, Hinojosa (D) 43

Wednesday, August 5

Not a Blowout, But El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Dems

Perry Bacon, New Republic

Win for El-Sayed a Loss for Democrats?

Ingrid Jacques, USA Today

Darline Graham Runs From Lindsey's Foreign Policy Legacy

Ed Kilgore, NY Magazine

Dana Bash Exposes the Failures of U.S. Journalism

Louis Conte, Substack

Wray's FBI Raided My House Over a Peaceful Protest

Paul Vaughn, Wall Street Journal

Healthcare, AI and a 'Human in the Loop'

Dylan Scott, Vox

Next Wave of GLP-1s Will Cure Much More Than Obesity

Jack Hough, Barron's

In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal

David Ellison, New York Times

Ted Lasso Is Back: His Superpower Is Still Optimism

Monica Hesse, Washington Post

Beatles Album 'Revolver' Still Leaves the Rest Behind

Brad Schaeffer, The Daily Wire

Marquette: Trump Job Approval: 42% | Generic Ballot: Dems +6

Thursday, August 6

Senate Holds Fauci in Contempt; Obtains His Phone

Matt Taibbi, Racket News

On Michigan, Keep Big Picture in Mind

Byron York, Washington Examiner

Now Comes the Hard Part for El-Sayed

David Freedlander, New York Magazine

Is Schumer on the Ropes Amid Democrat Divisions?

Shane Harris, AMAC

Paxton Is Suddenly Campaigning Like a Democrat

Paul Waldman, MS Now

Neocons Losing the Great Burrito Debate

Sohrab Ahmari, UnHerd

False Unanimity at the National Academies

Steven Koonin, Wall Street Journal

This Is the Real AI Divide

Len Khodorkovsky, Washington Post

What the Situation in Iran Actually Looks Like

Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal

Bringing Back Old-Time Imperialism in Latin America

Caleb Brennan, Am. Prospect

Smart, Affordable Energy Built Iowa. Voters Must Protect It

William Murray, RCEnergy

Iowa (Emerson): Hinson (R) 48, Turek (D) 45 | Gov: Sand (D) 48, Lahn (R) 43

Friday, August 7

Gov. Walz Has Hit the Wall

Jim Schultz, Wall Street Journal

Trump's Imaginary Red Scare

DeSoto, King & Isserman, Vox

How the Cult of Fauci Worked

Sasha Stone, Substack

El-Sayed Type Candidates Are the Future for Democrats

Ron Fournier, MS Now

Iran Is the One Running Out of Time

Fred Fleitz, American Greatness

Trump's Kindergarten Diplomacy in Iran

Moustafa Bayoumi, The Guardian

Farewell, Professor Arday--Cambridge Grift Ends

Brendan O'Neill, New York Post

Dorothy Day: Saint Radical

Maureen Tkacik, American Prospect

Before the Fed, J.P. Morgan Was Our Central Bank

Robert Bruner, Coolidge Review

Warsh Is Being Misread

Mohamed El-Erian, Financial Times

Silicon Valley Has Embraced a Strange New Faith

Geoff Shullenberger, Washington Post

Sunday, August 9

'Swing' and Amiss for Michigan Democrats

Michael Goodwin, New York Post

America's Third Red Scare

Pietro Shakarian, The Nation

GOP Blind to Canaries in Florida and Texas Coal Mines?

Douglas MacKinnon, The Hill

Democrats Have a Working-Class Voter Problem

Nicholas Jacobs, Salon

Betting Against Trump? The Record Is Not on Your Side

Jim Hanson, Am. Greatness

Iran War Turning Into Trump's Own Groundhog Day

Robert Tait, The Guardian

Avoiding the 'Guns of August' 2026

Francis Sempa, RealClearDefense

How Europe Conquered Hungary

Thomas Fazi, UnHerd

Burnham Confirms Fears of UK's Accelerating Decline

Conrad Black, Brussels Signal

Sometimes, Learning Begins With Being Bored

Jaclyn Decherd, RealClearEducation