RealClearPolitics April 26, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

President Trump Addresses Media After WHCD Shooting

White House

How DC's Top Annual Dinner Turned Into Chaos, Crime Scene

Herb & Liptak, CNN

President Trump Was Ready To Put on a Show

Leary, et al., Wall St Journal

Man From California Detained, Will Be Charged in DC

Faris Tanyos, CBS News

Case Goes Cold on Mystery Shooting Near WH 2 Weeks Ago

Susan Crabtree, RCP

Trump Isn't Negotiating, He's Dismantling Iran

Roger Kimball, American Greatness

America's Days as a Global Superpower Are Over

David Brooks, PBS NewsHour

The Era of Free Riding Off the U.S. Is What Is Over

James Thorne, X

U.S. Stands To Benefit as Iran War Shifts Oil, Gas Flows

Smyth, et al., Financial Times

The Roots of Recession: The Real Reason Economies Shrink

Joel Kotkin, Quillette

Get Ready for Spaceflight To Become Routine

Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal

Why Colleges Are Going Out of Business

DeSoto, Rameswaram & Marcus, Vox

SPLC Was Manufacturing Extremism It Purports To Oppose

Jan Crawford, CBS News

Piker's 'Social Murder' Logic Has Left Finding Ways To Justify Evil

Andrew Kolvet, X

Something Is Happening to America's Moral Code

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic

Anti-Americanism Is a Disease

Charles Lehman, Commentary

Best GLP-1 Drug on the Market Is Even Better Than We Knew

Ed Cara, Gizmodo

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

I Was on Stage With the President. This Is What I Saw

Weijia Jiang, CBS News

Trump Stands Tall Under Fire

Faith Bottum, Wall Street Journal

At WHCD, Darkness Came Viscerally Close

David Smith, The Guardian

The Moral Monstrosity of the New York Times Podcast

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Iran, Tucker Carlson and the Political Test Ahead

Nicole Russell, USA Today

DNC Chair Says 2024 Autopsy Would Cause 'Navel-Gazing'

Clarissa-Jan Lim, MS Now

A Free Win for Governors: If They'll Take It

Marc LeBlond, RealClearEducation

Virginia Public Schools' Mental Health Misstep

Evans & Gorman, City Journal

Why Can't We Treat GLP-1's Like Medicine?

Sarah Jones, New York Magazine

Note to Readers: The Next 25 Years of RealClearPolitics

Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics

TDIH - April 26th Generic Ballot: '26: Dems +5.7 | '22: GOP +3.8 | '18: Dems +6.8