RealClearPolitics February 17, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Revival: Young Men, Highly Educated Lead Return to Religion

Kotkin & Mahlobo, RCI

Why Democrats Haven't Been Able To Moderate

Alicia Nieves, Compact Magazine

Trump's Washington Has Become Unrecognizable

Brian Karem, Salon

What WSJ Gets Wrong About the Talking Filibuster

Rachel Bovard, The Federalist

What Would It Take for Democrats To Take the Senate?

Bill Scher, Washington Monthly

When You're Over the Target and Fighting, They Come After You

Ken Paxton, FNS

Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson Dead at 84

Kevin Robillard, HuffPost

How Relaxed Covid-Era Rules Fueled Minnesota Scam

Kristin Robbins, RCP

Is This Time Going To Be Different on Jobs?

Mohamed El-Erian, Financial Times

Self-Milking Cow Machines

Cass & Kishi, Commonplace

Was DEI Policy Responsible for E. Coli Exposure in DC?

Andrea Widburg, Am. Thinker

The End of Purple States and Competitive Districts

Mark Rush, RealClearPolitics

Can the U.S. Win the War on GPS Jamming?

Lisa Fletcher, Full Measure

Why Markets Should Care About Jimmy Lai's Sentence

Andy Browne, Semafor

Deportation NATO Is an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Rupert Lowe, Restore Britain

Pa. Town Struggles To Conquer the Curse of Coal

John Luciew, PennLive

Blackwater Draw: The Making of Billy the Kid

Palladium Pictures

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

Virtually Everyone Supports Voter Photo ID--So Why the Filibuster?

Why Democrats Aren't Stressing the Partial DHS Shutdown

Hayes Brown, MS Now

Effort To Destroy My Dad Wasn't Politics, It Was Criminal

Eric Trump, The Telegraph

Jesse Jackson Gave Peace a Chance

John Nichols, The Nation

The Complicated Legacy of Jesse Jackson

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

Data Is Clear, I Was (Happily) Wrong About Economy

Tim Swarens, USA Today

Trump Gives Democrats an Opening on Affordability

Heather Parton, Salon

CA Governor Race Has Become a Nightmare for Democrats

David Catron, AMAC

How Crime Flourishes on Turo

David Isenberg, American Prospect

China's 'Takeover' of the University of Illinois

Steve Cortes, RCP on SiriusXM

Robert Duvall Always Struck the Balance

Brian Phillips, The Ringer

Trump Job Approval: M. Consult 43% | Ipsos 38% | YouGov 43% | Ras Rpts 47%