RealClearPolitics Week of August 10, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, August 10

Difficult for Democrats To Escape 'Crazy' Woke Ideas

Michael Baharaeen, UnHerd

'A Burrito Shouldn't Cost $20'

Margaret Mitchell, The Spectator

Senate Blows Off Trump's Demands, Then Skips Town

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

Walls, Evidence Building Around Fauci

Miranda Devine, New York Post

Why I Quit the Tenure Track

Tyler Harper, The Atlantic

What Academia Can Learn From Arday Fiasco

John McWhorter, City Journal

Give Your Kid Real Work

Liz Wolfe, The Free Press

Nancy Guthrie and the Truth About True Crime

Zane, Varney & Bauerlein, RCI Podcast

Plan To Block Paramount Merger Is Going To Flop

Steve Marshall, Washington Post

New York Is Having a Summer for the Ages

Ruchir Sharma, Financial Times

Why D.C. Sleeps in August

Tevi Troy, Wall Street Journal

'28 Dems (RasRpts): Harris 37, Newsom 14, Buttigieg 10, AOC/Kelly 9,Shapiro 6

Tuesday, August 11

Democrats Blaming Each Other Over Fraud in Minnesota

John McCormick, WSJ

WI Dems on Verge of a Comeback...But There's a Catch

Kevin Robillard, HuffPost

Why the Left Wants To Change the Rules

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Trump Looks for Court's Breaking Point on Birthright Citizenship

Ian Millhiser, Vox

Cliche Alert: Return of the 'Beer Test'

Matt Taibbi, Racket News

Homebuyers Deserve the Facts on Crime and Schools

Daniel McCarthy, Chronicles

What Happened to the American University?

Daniel Bessner, The Nation

What Do Young People Really Want? The Suburbs

Russ Greene, The Free Press

National Academy of Sciences Pulls Key Climate Chapter

Paris Apodaca, Daily Caller

What Would Happen If U.S. Cut Off Aid to Israel?

Eric Levitz, Vox

Mega Dinghy Is Another National Humiliation for UK

Hugo Timms, Spiked

TDIH - August 11 2nd Term Job Approval: Trump 39.2 | Obama 41.1 | Bush 36.8

Wednesday, August 12

Why Hong Lost: Voters Care About Police and Thanksgiving

Emily Jashinsky, UnHerd

What Hong's Loss Means for Progressives

Benjy Sarlin, Vox

Democrats Learning Wrong Lessons From Third World

John Davidson, The Federalist

MN Primaries: Good for Left, Tough for My Pillow Guy

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

The Worst News Any Parent Can Receive

Rep. Mike Lawler, New York Post

Class Gap on the Left Threatens Any Winning Coalition

Dustin Guastella, The Guardian

Why Does Europe Struggle With Free Speech?

Derek Lux, RealClearBooks

Europe: A New Dark Age or Renaissance?

Tokarev & Harizanov, European Conservative

Trump Is Trapped in His YOLO War in Iran

Alex Shephard, The New Republic

Trump Already Won. Ending War Is Iran's Problem Now

James Carafano, 1945

A Chatbot's False Confession

Amanda Knox, The Free Press

Maine (FOX News): Jackson (D) 48, Collins (R) 46 | RCP Senate Map | Gov

Thursday, August 13

Vance Reads the Room With Well-Timed Burrito Joke

Douglas MacKinnon, USA Today

Lessons for the Left From Hong's Loss in Wisconsin

Ben Davis, The Guardian

New York Is Not, and Should Not Be, 'Habibi City'

Liel Leibovitz, The Free Press

San Franciscans Think Their City Is Turning a Corner

Arm & Rufo, City Journal

Iran Assassination Threat Appears To Weigh on Trump's Mind

Rohde, et al., MS Now

Sen. Chris Murphy Almost Gets It

Frank Filocomo, RealClearBooks

How Occupy Wall Street Explains Politics Today

Yotam Marom, The Nation

Slam the USMCA Back Door

Nick Phillips, Commonplace

Europe's Carbon Mechanism Is Tariff by Another Name

Andy Puzder, Financial Times

How To Broker Peace Between Russia, Ukraine

Waldman & Charap, Foreign Affairs

Ohio Boy Tortured to Death by Mother, Trans Lovers

Thomas Stevenson, Post Millennial

Friday, August 14

Is the Left Evolving?

David Weigel, Semafor

Democrats' Woke Joke Was Never Funny

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

Hong's Loss in Wisconsin Is a Win for Progressives

Jason Howard, Salon

The Next American Right

Waters & Slade, RealClearHistory

How Money Actually Works in Elections

Booth & Thomsen, Vox

This High School Wouldn't Fix Antisemitism Problem

Rupa Subramanya, Free Press

Clacton Has Strengthened Farage

Ross Clark, The Spectator

Inside Russia's Giant Push To Upend Moldova

Schwirtz, Goldman & Krolik, NY Times

Courts Should Stop Discriminatory Virginia Policy

Carver & Solhjem, Washington Post

Not Another Eulogy for Magazines

Claire Willett, Eclaircissements

Nikola Tesla Invented the 20th Century. Edison Got Credit

Krzysztof Szczawinski, X

Michigan (FOX): Rogers (R) 51, El-Sayed (D) 47 | Benson (D) 52, James (R) 47

Sunday, August 16

Bessent Makes the Economic Case for Deportations

Dmitri Bolt, Townhall

Democrats' Pick in Wisconsin Shows a Shift in Priorities

Kevin Robillard, HuffPost

How We Got Fewer and Worse Schools

Howard Husock, Wall Street Journal

A Time Capsule of Free-Range Childhood

Kat Rosenfield, The Free Press

Michigan Thinks Freshmen Can't Handle Getting Grades

Ingrid Jacques, USA Today

The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

Tyler Harper, The Atlantic

Eric Zemmour and 'The Suicide of France'

Daniel Mahoney, New York Post

'Talladega Nights' Predicted America's Sunbelt Shift

Alex Galbraith, Salon

The Trouble With Taming Odysseus

James Rogers, Law & Liberty

Reinventing the Sabbath

Stonestreet & Padgett, Breakpoint