RealClearPolitics February 18, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Put Up or Put a Sock in It, Europe

Boris Johnson, Wall Street Journal

Marco Rubio’s Sugar-Coated MAGA

Carl Bildt, Project Syndicate

Trump Admin Is Serious About Western Civilization

Andrew Day, Am Conservative

Netanyahu Plays Trump & American Jews for Fools - Again

Thomas Friedman, NYT

Ocasio-Cortez Crashes and Burns in Munich

Sasha Stone, Substack

AOC Took Her Populism Global, Will It Take Her to Oval Office?

Kevin Frey, MS Now

Democrats, You May Already Have Lost the 2028 Election

Matthew Continetti, WSJ

Dems’ Investments in Black & Latino Voters Will Pay Off

Henry Fernandez, The Hill

Anti-Trump GOP Elites Scheming To Tank Midterms for Dems

Sean Davis, Federalist

The Year of the Independent

Adam Brandon, RealClearPolitics

Rise in Transgender Killers Shows Major Mental Health Crisis

Karol Markowicz, NYP

Understanding Public Opinion on the Trans Issue

Jerusalem Demsas, The Argument

NIH Rethinking China, DEI, and High-Risk Labs

Louderback & Jekielek, Epoch Times

Jesse Jackson Was Living Bridge Between King & Obama

David Smith, The Guardian

Obama in No Position To Lecture Us About Decency

David Harsanyi, DC Examiner

Jesse Jackson Was Never Going To Be President, But He Led

Joe Klein, Substack

Ben Sasse on Cancer Battle & 'Redeeming the Time'

Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

Behold, the Story of Fed Balance Sheet in a Single Chart

Toby Nangle, Financial Times

Was Climate Change Biggest Financial Scam in History?

Stephen Moore, FOX News

How Not To Build Infrastructure Projects

Gabrielle Gurley, American Prospect

Keeping Illegal Immigrants From Distorting Census

Ben Weingarten, The Federalist

AOC's Munich Stumble a Warning to the Left

Ross Barkan, New York Magazine

Cornyn Struggles in Bitter Texas GOP Primary

Joe Lovinger, Bloomberg

Inside the Black Box of Prescription Drug Pricing

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, RCMarkets

Trump Moves Closer to a Major War With Iran

Barak Ravid, Axios

Mikaela Shiffrin Takes Her Olympic Revenge

Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal

Jesse Jackson's Remarkable Life a Model for All of Us

Robert Borosage, The Nation

Colbert Changes Story, Fails To Make Himself a Martyr

John Nolte, Breitbart

'26 CA Gov (Emerson): Hilton (R) 17, Bianco (R) 14,Swalwell (D) 14,Porter (D) 10