RealClearPolitics Week of May 5, 2025 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Monday, May 5

Mic Drop: Warren Buffett Saves His Best for Last

Maxwell Meyer, The Free Press

Three Steps to Economic Growth

Scott Bessent, Wall Street Journal

Trump Slammed for Have-It-Both-Ways Nonsense

Lee Moran, HuffPost

(None Dare Call It) Treason of the Judiciary

Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics

The Catastrophe of Covid School Closures

Nazaryan & Zweig, New York Magazine

No, State Media and Democracy Don't Go 'Hand in Hand'

Matt Taibbi, Racket News

There Is a Blackout on Accurate Pollsters

Matt Towery, FOX News

Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

Peter Dreier, The New Republic

From One Fake Left-Wing Hysteria to the Next

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Stephen A. Smith: Democratic Party Needs To Be 'Purged'

Lauren Irwin, The Hill

The Persistence of Lesser-Evil Politics

John Judis, Compact Magazine

Breaking Up the Big Tech Behemoths

Sen. Josh Hawley, New York Post

The Case for Self-Driving Cars

Bryan Walsh, Vox

Palantir and the Language of Creation

Kristin de Montfort, IM--1776

Harvard Does the Right Thing--Inadvertently

Amity Shlaes, Coolidge Review

The Bloody Blues of 'Sinners'

Stephen Kearse, The Nation

The Wisdom of Youth? Not So Much

Robert Henderson, City Journal

Tuesday, May 6

Biden's Decline: The Inside Story vs. Outside Story

Byron York, Washington Examiner

J.B. Pritzker a Crucial Member of Trump Resistance

Perry Bacon, Jr., Washington Post

Hyperbole, Lies, and Delusions

Richard Porter, RealClearPolitics

Trump Admits Constitution Only Counts If It's Convenient

Rex Huppke, USA Today

Media Distorts Trump's Words - Again

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

The Patriot Option

Joe Klein, Substack

Trump Right To Block Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research

Marc Siegel, FOX News

Malarkey: Trump Says Biden Caused Downturn

Steve Greenhouse, The Guardian

Viewpoint Diversity and the Scientists

Harvey Mansfield, The Harvard Crimson

Defunding Shouldn't Stop With Harvard

Victor Joecks, Las Vegas Review-Journal

War on Universities & America's Coming Brain Drain

L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs

Early Stats Don't Support School Cellphone Bans

Christopher J. Ferguson, RCI

Trump Can Rage, But He Can't Govern

Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian

Hateful Legacy Press Is Fighting a Losing Battle

Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Our Reporters at NPR Play It Straight Down the Line

Katherine Maher, CBS News

Case for Defunding NPR & PBS About More Than Bias

David Harsanyi, DC Examiner

Nate Bargatze Gets the Last Laugh

Michael Sebastian, Esquire

Wednesday, May 7

The Rise of Anti-Politics

John Halpin, The Liberal Patriot

Trump 2.0 Fundamentally Reshaping U.S. Politics

Dan McCarthy, The American Mind

Five Takeaways From Biden's BBC Interview

Anthony Zurcher, BBC

Trump Rebuilds as Biden’s Failures Collapse Around Us

Jorge Martinez, Wash Times

Trump Can't Figure Out How To Lie About Medicaid Cuts

James Downie, MSNBC

Washington Should Take Efficiency Seriously

Nancy Brinker, RealClearPolitics

World Now Reversing Course To Reject Trumpism

Heather Parton, Salon

Crackdown on AfD an Assault on German Democracy

Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Spiked

How the Catholic Church Will Choose a New Pope

Avery Lotz, Axios

As Cardinals Enter Conclave, Anything Could Happen

Ellie Gardey Holmes, TAS

Unhinged Letter Should Strengthen Harvard’s Resistance

Ray Brescia, MSNBC

In 'Weird' Austin, a Double Shot of College Counter-Revolution

John Murawski, RCI

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

James Walsh, New York Magazine

Bari Weiss Should Stick To Policing the Woke Left

John Davidson, The Federalist

Inside DeSantis' 'Made-for-TV' Fall in Florida

Marc Caputo, Axios

The Last Spectacular Ball of the Elite's Empire

Sasha Stone, Substack

What Vibe Shift? Pulitzers Affirm Media Obsession With Woke

Andrew Stiles, WFB

Thursday, May 8

In Higher Ed, 'Elite' Is Now Up for Grabs

Jesse Arm, City Journal

The Impossible Plight of Pro-Tariff Democrats

Roge Karma, The Atlantic

Sen. Banks: Trade Warrior After Trump's Own Heart

Philip Wegmann, RealClearPolitics

Confirm Ed Martin--Tillis' Objection Is Absurd

Miranda Devine, New York Post

Culture-War Furies Behind Trump's Film-Tariff Plan

Ben Schwartz, The Nation

Restoring Gain-of-Function Ban Is a Big Step Forward

Jay Bhattacharya, Newsmax

How U.S. Lost Rare Earth Materials War to China

David Abraham, The New Republic

Biden Lied About Student Loans. Trump Is Fixing It

Ingrid Jacques, USA Today

The Courts Push Back

James Zirin, Washington Monthly

SCOTUS Fails in Its Job by Allowing Judicial Sabotage

Mike Davis, Joe Piscopo Show

JB Pritzker Is Ready To Be Memed

Lauren Egan, The Bulwark

Dems Were Fine With Fetterman. Then He Defended Israel

Salena Zito, DC Examiner

Diane Ravitch's Fraudulent Attack

James Piereson, The New Criterion

Breaking Up Google Could Be a Disaster for Open Internet

Kyle Moran, RCP

The CIA Origin of Soros Inc.

I Tried To Cover a Protest. Antifascists Had a Problem

Ben Kawaller, Racket News

3 Pillars of the American Idea

Robert Curry, RealClearHistory

Friday, May 9

Leo XIV’s Road From Chicago to Rome

Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

New Pope's Name Choice Was No Accident

Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian

Challenges Facing Leo XIV: China, Finances, Culture Clash

Dan McLaughlin, NY Post

John Fetterman Under Attack

Bevan, Cannon & Wegmann, RCP on SiriusXM

The Democrats' Fork in the Road

Ruy Teixeira, Substack

Bernie Sanders: Ride Private Jets? I Do It for the People

Byron York, DC Examiner

The Resistance Is Gonna Be Woke

Yascha Mounk, Substack

Mutually Assured Law Enforcement Destruction

Josh Hammer, Newsweek

Trump's First Round of Judicial Picks Are Terrifying

Elie Mystal, The Nation

The Crisis of Radical District Judges

Newt Gingrich, Washington Times

DOGE May Leave Behind Nothing But Stupidity and Chaos

Ed Kilgore, New York Mag

Trump Is Making Government Accountable Again

Harned & Vernuccio, The Hill

It's All Trump's Economy Now

Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times

A New Strategy to Fight Inflation

John Cochrane, Wall Street Journal

Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable?

Victor Davis Hanson, Amer. Greatness

Can Hakeem Jeffries Break Through?

Michelle Goldberg, New York Times

NPR Has a Right To Exist - But Not With My Tax Dollars

Ingrid Jacques, USA Today

Saturday, May 10

Sins of Omission in Polling

Salena Zito, Washington Examiner

The Democrats' Great Debates

Robert Kuttner, American Prospect

There's No 'Sanctuary' for This Illinois Family

M.D. Kittle, The Federalist

Until Dems Are Trusted on Economy, They Won't Win

Jim Messina, Financial Times

America Inc.'s Balance Sheet

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

Pope Leo Is Notable for Reasons You Might Not Expect

Katherine Kelaidis, Vox

A Made in America Pope, Who Believes in Godliness of Work

Larry Kudlow, NY Sun

Harris 2028? Hard Pass

Liza Featherstone, The New Republic

Court Overreaches Blocking Trump From Limiting Perkins Coie

Kenin Spivak, RCP

Woke Schools Could Lose Talent to Red States

Neeraja Deshpande, City Journal

Why New York Is Getting Phones Out of Classrooms

Gov. Kathy Hochul, FOX News

Industrial Comeback Depends on 45X Tax Credit

Thomas Hochman, RealClearPolicy

Surgeon General Warning

Hayes Brown, MSNBC

Casey Means Is Pharma's Worst Nightmare

Robert Malone, Substack

Men Shouldn't Play in Women's Sports, It's Not Controversial

Charles Barkley, Outkick

A Tribute to Mothers

Dennis Gerber, RealClearReligion

I Don't Need Ozempic. But I Want It

Suzy Weiss, The Free Press

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Sunday, May 11

John Kass

580 Days Without My Son. I'm Still Waiting To Bring Him Home

Biden Tells Us (Yet Again) He Could Have Beaten Trump

Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian

No One Person Can Pull Dems Out of the Ditch

Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Path Forward for Dems: Come Up With a Real Agenda

Dan Turrentine, FOX News

Outrage Over Trump Targeting Law Firms Is Shakespearean

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

How Souter’s ‘Stealth Liberalism’ Reshaped Supreme Court

Ed Kilgore, NY Magazine

Chris LaCivita's Homecoming

Salena Zito, Washington Examiner

Gulf States Will Dictate US Foreign Policy

Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

Douglas Murray Defends Israel and Admonishes the West

Peter Berkowitz, RCP

To My Son: I'm Absent Not Out of Apathy, But Conviction

Mahmoud Khalil, Guardian

National Security, Presidential Power and the Law

Francis Sempa, RealClearDefense

How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap

Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic

Forgotten Americans No More

Sen. Eric Schmitt, The American Mind

The Dems' Dilemma With Young People

Bill Maher, Real Time

Trump's Bullying of Harvard Won't Foster Diversity of Thought

Kenan Malik, Observer

Harvard Is Becoming Increasingly Antisemitic

Yedida Stern, Jerusalem Post