RealClearPolitics Week of January 19, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Editorials

Monday, January 19

Khamenei's Gamble

Jerusalem Post

Kids Need To Go to School, Schools Need To Give Them a Reason

Chicago Tribune

Teacher Unions Warm Themselves Beside Partisan Cash Bonfire

New York Post

Trump, Greenland and the Limits of Coercive Diplomacy

The Guardian

Tuesday, January 20

The Judgment on Trudeau

TIPP Insights

Crypto's Future Will Be Sabotaged by Feeble Oversight

Bloomberg

Bad Start for Virginia's Newly Sworn-In Spanberger

Washington Times

A Case for Hotels Taxing Themselves. And Why We Worry

Chicago Tribune

Wednesday, January 21

Churches Should Be Removed From Current Immigration Crisis

Chicago Tribune

How Gavin Newsom's Troll Act Bombed at Davos

New York Post

How the United Nations Alienates Half of America

Washington Post

Abigail Spanberger's 48-Hour Honeymoon

Washington Free Beacon

Thursday, January 22

Mr. Trump and the Davos Divide

Wall Street Journal

Trump's Greenland Offramp

Washington Post

Democrats Apparently Hate Western Civilization

Issues & Insights

Number of Americans Who Feel Politically Homeless Is Rising

Chicago Tribune

Friday, January 23

How About Greenland as a Small Token of Appreciation?

Washington Times

EPA Shouldn't Try To Hide the Benefits of Clean Air

Bloomberg

More IL Parents Reject Public Schools, and Springfield Is Silent

Chicago Tribune

What Fetterman Said--and What People Heard

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Saturday, January 24

Bloody Winter Day Highlights Johnson's Bad ShotSpotter Decision

Chicago Tribune

A Serious Military Budget, at Last

Wall Street Journal

Europe Has To Solve Its Defense Problem Now

Bloomberg

Filling Downtown Is More Than Empty Gesture

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Sunday, January 25

Davos Shows That Europe Still Doesn’t Get It

Washington Examiner

Syria’s Crisis: Islamic State Fighters Are Not the Only Concern

The Guardian

Woke Colleges Still Wasting Young American Minds

New York Post

The Meaning of Sanctuary

Washington Post