RealClearPolitics January 4, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Inside the Operation To Capture Maduro

Ali, Banco, Holland & Stewart, Reuters

U.S. Military Delivered Speed, Surprise, Violence of Action

Erik Prince, War Room

Raid Relied on Months of Preparation, Surprise

Nakashima, et al., Washington Post

Trump's Venezuela Gamble and America's Shifting Strategy

Philip Wegmann, RCP

Hegseth: U.S. Action in Venezuela 'Exact Opposite' of Iraq

Tony Dokoupil, CBS News

Trump Makes It All About the Oil

S.V. Date, HuffPost

U.S. in Prime Position To Unlock Venezuela's Vast Oil Reserves

Eaton, et al., WSJ

The Somali Fraud Scandal Is a Turning Point

Roger Kimball, The Spectator

Rep. Emmer Was Asked About Somalis a Decade Ago

Hailey Gomez, The Daily Caller

Ex-Biden Staffers Going To Work for Mamdani

David Dayen, American Prospect

Fittingly, Mamdani's Inauguration Lacked Food, Bathrooms

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

California's Starless Governor Race Could Get Very Weird

Ed Kilgore, NY Magazine

Hamas' Quest To Destroy Israel Hinders Peace Plan

Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics

Norman Podhoretz: The Undeceived

James Piereson, City Journal

The AI Boom Is Not a Bubble

Robin Harding, Financial Times

How CBS Stonewalled on Biden Laptop, Seized My Files

Catherine Herridge, X

The Funniest Political Moments of 2025

Shane Harris, AMAC

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

Monroe Doctrine Is Back. Or Is It the 'Donroe Doctrine'?

Kathryn Palmer, USA Today

Experts Comparing Libya, Iraq to Venezuela Are a Clown Show

Marco Rubio, MTP

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Joe Klein, Substack

Trump Doctrine, Venezuela and the Reassertion of King Dollar

James Thorne, X

Venezuela's Massive 303 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves

David Goldman, CNN

Somalis Gonna Somali

Alex Berenson, Substack

Blue States Choose Higher Power Prices

Orr & Pyle, RealClearEnergy

America Needs Economic Warriors

Navin Girishankar, Foreign Affairs

Five Craziest Things About the Epstein Case, Part 2

Michael Tracey, Racket News

What Presidential Rankings Get Wrong

Steven Hayward, Coolidge Review