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Yesterday — April 19th 2024RealClearPolitics - Homepage

A Hallucinogenic and Unrepentant Rant

By: Mark Judge， Chronicles
Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser in the infamous 2018 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has written an unrepentant and incoherent book while showing no remorse for the ordeal she caused others and the nation.

Speaker Johnson: Embrace the Bipartisan Way Forward

By: Tim Ryan， Newsweek
Combining support for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with LNG exports and permitting reform is the type of compromise that generations of legislators will admire.

When Politics and Physics Collide

By: Mark Mills， City Journal
Mandates and massive subsidies cannot summon into being a world without fossil fuels.

How BLM and Covid Are Wrecking the Theater

By: McWhorter ＆amp； Duncan， Substack
In this clip from this week's episode, John McWhorter fills in for Glenn and talks with actor Clifton Duncan. Clifton tells John how opting out of COVID vaccination, protesting what he sees as COVID protocol overreach, and speaking out about race have profoundly damaged his career in the entertainment industry. It's not just Clifton who's at risk. Theater attendance is way down, and some argue that the influence of BLM-style politics accounts for this newfound unpopularity.

Boeing's Problems Were as Bad as You Thought

By: Whizy Kim， Vox
Experts and whistleblowers testified before Congress today. The upshot?

Among the Activists Plotting To Disrupt the DNC

By: Reingold ＆amp； Lake， The Free Press
'We've got to give them a 1968 kind of welcome.'

Among the Activists Plotting To Disrupt the DNC

Iran Appears To Play Down Down Significance of Israeli Strike

By: Stack et al.， NYT
The Israeli strike on a military base near the Iranian city of Isfahan was part of a cycle of retaliation

Iran Appears To Play Down Down Significance of Israeli Strike

The Real Youth-Vote Shift To Watch

By: Elaine Godfrey， The Atlantic
Are young people turning away from the Democratic Party in 2024? Will turnout be as high as it was last time around? What about the gender gap? Today I'll do my best to address some pressing questions about how young folks will behave in November. But first, here are three stories from The Atlantic:

The Real Youth-Vote Shift To Watch

Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine?

By: Susan Glasser， The New Yorker
The Speaker's sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership-and Trump's wrath.

Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine?

Trump Campaigns From the Courtroom

By: Cannon， Jashinsky ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (Monday through Friday on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124), Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Emily Jashinsky (culture editor of The Federalist) discuss Donald Trump's strategy for campaigning while he is stuck in the courtroom and members of the Kennedy family endorsing President Biden.

Trump Campaigns From the Courtroom

Quotations From Chairman Maher

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
NPR's new CEO exemplifies the ideological capture of America's institutions.

What's Most Important to Young Voters

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
For the last decade, top Democratic politicians, most notably Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, have struggled to re-create the coalition of voters who elected Barack Obama twice.

What's Most Important to Young Voters

No Steel in Biden's Spine

By: Hugo Gurdon， Washington Examiner
President Joe Biden's move to triple tariffs to 25% on imported Chinese steel is an electoral effort to steal the clothes of former President Donald Trump.

No Steel in Biden's Spine

Obama-Biden Foreign Policy Emboldened Iran

By: Josh Hammer， American Spectator
The terrorist Iranian regime's unprecedented recent attack on Israel, which included 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles, is an unambiguous casus belli -- an act of war -- under international law.

Obama-Biden Foreign Policy Emboldened Iran

Question for a Reparations Advocate: What Is Enough?

By: Charlie Stone， The Unknowns
On the first episode of RCP's new program "The Unknowns," Charlie Stone interviews Robin Rue Simmons, the chair of the Reparations Committee in Evanston, Illinois.

Question for a Reparations Advocate: What Is Enough?

A Biden Victory in November Turns On This State

By: Cottle ＆amp； Winter， New York Times
Let's talk about why President Biden is spending three days in Pennsylvania this week - a lot of time by

A Biden Victory in November Turns On This State

Time for a Bipartisan Presidency

By: Lanny J. Davis， RealClearPolitics
Although Joe Biden is a lifelong Democrat, his political career was long defined by bipartisan compromises and reaching out to the Republican Party with legislative compromises, budget battle solutions, foreign policy consensus, and, notably, personal friendships.

Time for a Bipartisan Presidency

Universities Must Stop Tolerating Antisemitism

By: Dershowitz ＆amp； Stein， New York Post
Columbia University's president and other college administrators have stated that the chant From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free is permissible political speech.

Universities Must Stop Tolerating Antisemitism

Are Iran's Nine Lives Nearing an End?

By: Victor Davis Hanson， American Greatness
The theocracy of Iran has been the world's arch-embassy attacker over the last half century.

Are Iran's Nine Lives Nearing an End?

Johnson Betrays Border Security for More Foreign Aid

By: Christopher Bedford， Blaze
Funny how the pressure works up so often for wars abroad and so rarely for deaths at home. But in Washington that pressure is relentless a€” and one-sided.

Johnson Betrays Border Security for More Foreign Aid

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Did the U.S. Solicitor General Mislead SCOTUS?

By: Julie Kelly， Substack
Elizabeth Prelogar, Joe Biden's appointed solicitor general, attempted to downplay prison sentences associated with J6ers convicted of 1512(c)(2) during oral arguments. But did she tell the truth?

GOP Wanted Crackdown on Israel Critics. Columbia Obliged

By: Michelle Goldberg， NYT
Columbia's exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has no intention of going down like the former heads of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, both driven from their jobs following disastrous appearances before a congressional committee investigating campus antisemitism.

GOP Wanted Crackdown on Israel Critics. Columbia Obliged

Now or Never Time for Israel?

By: Hugh Hewitt， FOX News
If Israel allows itself to be cowed now, will it ever regain the optimism and sense of security it enjoyed on 10/6?

NPR Scandal Should Kill Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting

By: Charles Lipson，＆nbsp；RCP
"I don't want any yes-men around me," said Sam Goldwyn, the Hollywood producer famed for his movies and malapropisms. "I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job." The brass at National Public Radio must have heard Sam, but they add a slight amendment. We want only "yes-men" (they/them) and will boot anyone who dares to dissent.

NPR Scandal Should Kill Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting

Calif. Dems Tout Ties to Criminal Leniency Group

By: Susan Crabtree， RealClearPolitics
The mayors of California's three biggest cities have rankled some progressive activists in recent months by joining a wave of fellow Democrats renouncing once popular initiatives to defund the police, reduce sentencing, and undertake other criminal justice reforms amid deep concerns over public safety.

Calif. Dems Tout Ties to Criminal Leniency Group

Jack Miller: The Patriotic Philanthropist

By: Hans Zeiger， Philanthropy Daily
Jack Miller's commitment to reform in American civic education sets a sterling example for donors of how to effect transformative change and uphold philanthropic values.

Jack Miller: The Patriotic Philanthropist

Chasing Trump: Alvin Bragg's Justice Gone Wrong

By: American Greatness
This clip from the American Greatness documentary "Chasing Trump" looks at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg:

Chasing Trump: Alvin Bragg's Justice Gone Wrong

This Year's Dem Convention Won't Be Replay of 1968

By: Ed Kilgore， New York Magazine
When the Democratic National Committee chose Chicago as the site of the party's 2024 national convention a year ago, no one knew incumbent presidential nominee Joe Biden would become the target of major antiwar demonstrations.

This Year's Dem Convention Won't Be Replay of 1968

Politics of Steel Are Center Stage in Pennsylvania

By: Salena Zito， Washington Examiner
On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan's Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of steelworkers at his Butler Works plant and let them know just what he thought of the pending vote.

Politics of Steel Are Center Stage in Pennsylvania

Kennedy Family Endorses Biden in a Rejection of RFK Jr.

By: Joey Garrison， USA Today
Several Kennedys have already made their support for President Biden known while making clear they oppose their relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid.

Kennedy Family Endorses Biden in a Rejection of RFK Jr.

Thursday Proved Difficulty of Picking Jurors To Assess Trump

By: Jeremy Stahl， Slate
Here's what the process has looked like in the court room.

Thursday Proved Difficulty of Picking Jurors To Assess Trump

If GOP Loses House Majority, It's Speaker Johnson's Fault

By: John Davidson， Federalist
And actually, we'd be better off with a Democrat-controlled Congress (and an actual GOP opposition) than whatever this is.

If GOP Loses House Majority, It's Speaker Johnson's Fault

Mike Johnson, Coalition Speaker

By: Kristol ＆amp； Egger， The Bulwark
Plus: If the Democrats are fer it, we're agin it.

Mike Johnson, Coalition Speaker

No Wonder So Many Americans Don't Trust the Media

By: Ingrid Jacques， USA Today
NPR is in the hot seat after now former editor Uri Berliner wrote a damning piece, detailing what's happening at a place he loves and respects.

No Wonder So Many Americans Don't Trust the Media

GOP Bill Cracks Down on Foreign Dark Money 'Loophole'

By: Andrew Miller， FOX News
A new bill aims to crack down on foreign billionaires using dark money networks to fund ballot measures in the United States using a workaround that critics say violates federal law.

GOP Bill Cracks Down on Foreign Dark Money 'Loophole'

Fight for PA: Voters Fear Trump Won't Be Allowed To Win

By: James Billot， UnHerd
John has PTSD. The 78-year-old is a Vietnam war veteran, but that's not the source of his trauma - at least according to his t-shirt. PTSD, in fact, stands for "Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats", which is why John has made the 560-mile pilgrimage from his home in Wilmington, North Carolina to Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. He is here, along with thousands of others, to support "the best president of our lifetime", who is holding his final rally before travelling to New York to face trial over an alleged hush money scheme. "It's a bogus trial like the rest of them," John says. "But at least he's...

Fight for PA: Voters Fear Trump Won't Be Allowed To Win

Supreme Court Takes Up J6 Charges

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RCP＆nbsp；on SiriusXM
Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (Monday through Friday on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124), Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth discuss Speaker Mike Johnson's attempt to pass foreign aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, the Biden Administration's evolving strategy on Iran, new polls that show President Biden's job approval rating flagging even as he moves up in the head-to-head contest against Donald Trump, and the Supreme Court hearing arguments about the charges against the Jan. 6 defendants.

Supreme Court Takes Up J6 Charges

Equality Under the Law and Conflicts of Interest in New York

By: Matt Whitaker，＆nbsp；RCP
One of America's foundational principles is "equal justice under the law," or the principle that no matter who you are or what you stand for, you are entitled to a fair chance to make your case in a court of law. That's why the Lady Justice statue outside the Supreme Court wears a blindfold and holds a scale - the blindfold to symbolize her impartiality and immunity from outside influences, and the scale to signify her objective weighing of the evidence in front of her.

Equality Under the Law and Conflicts of Interest in New York

Are Democrats Stuck With Biden?

By: Holman Jenkins， Wall Street Journal
Don't call it collusion but his campaign owes the Iranians a big thank-you note.

Are Democrats Stuck With Biden?

DC Republicans Prepare To Sell Out Their Voters

By: Jude Russo， American Conservative
If you're going to make an end-run around your own party, shouldn't you at least give us a reason?

DC Republicans Prepare To Sell Out Their Voters

The Problem With Calling on Justice Sotomayor To Resign

By: Raul Reyes， CNN
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor approaches the 15th anniversary of her historic appointment to the Supreme Court, some liberal pundits and lawmakers want her to consider stepping down. They think that Sotomayor's health, and the possibility that Democrats might lose the presidency and the Senate in November, put the future of the court's liberal wing at risk.

The Problem With Calling on Justice Sotomayor To Resign

The Great Bet on Rate Cuts Is Off

By: Katie Martin， Financial Times
We are trapped in old ways of thinking about inflation

The Great Bet on Rate Cuts Is Off

A Quick End to Republicans' Mayorkas Impeachment Stunt

By: Li Zhou， Vox
Senate Democrats put a quick end to Republicans' political stunt.

A Quick End to Republicans' Mayorkas Impeachment Stunt

Sen. Hawley's Labor Revolution

By: Sohrab Ahmari， Compact Magazine
Hawley's pathbreaking alliance with the Teamsters is good news for workers, an exemplar to a GOP with an increasingly downscale voter base, and a win for the nation.

Sen. Hawley's Labor Revolution

The Uncomfortable Facts About Cop Shootings

By: Varney ＆amp； Degnan， RCInvestigations
When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was quickly grafted onto a narrative that began in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. - namely, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who do not believe black lives matter. "Killing of Dexter Reed raises questions about Chicago police reform. ‘The message is, go in guns blazing,'" blared a headline in the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Uncomfortable Facts About Cop Shootings

How Trump Used New York Bodega Visit To Return to Form

By: David Siders， Politico
There was Donald Trump, the former president, back in his element and enjoying himself in a crowd, posing for photographs, overstating his standing in the polls and suggesting that he is serious - truly - about winning an impossibly Democratic state.

How Trump Used New York Bodega Visit To Return to Form

Will Johnson's Border Betrayal Produce a Democrat House?

By: Sean Davis， X
When Mike Johnson was elected speaker, there were 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats: a nine-seat majority that allowed Republicans to lose the votes of four members but maintain a majority.

Will Johnson's Border Betrayal Produce a Democrat House?

What Was Won in No Labels' Crusade

By: Holly Page， RealClearPolitics
Earlier this month, No Labels' effort to offer a third choice for president in 2024 came to an end. It was an audacious idea from the beginning. We knew defenders of broken Washington would rage against us; their economic model demands it. But we did it anyway because we knew that a vast majority of voters wanted it, and giving voice to those voters is the only way to bring common sense back to our politics, something that is so desperately needed.

What Was Won in No Labels' Crusade

Democrats Lie About Biden Corruption, Put Trump on Trial

By: Miranda Devine， NY Post
The Get Trump Democrats are beside themselves with glee about the former president being stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial.

Democrats Lie About Biden Corruption, Put Trump on Trial

Will Doing 'the Right Thing' Cost Speaker Johnson?

By: Stephen Collinson， CNN
It took less than six months for Speaker Mike Johnson to reach his existential moment. The Louisiana Republican has arrived at fateful but familiar crossroads where he must either choose to honor a conventional vision of US national interests or side with the wrecking ball antics of his party's far-right bloc.

Will Doing 'the Right Thing' Cost Speaker Johnson?

Privileged Youth in West Celebrate Terror Thugs for Kicks

By: Elica Le Bon， NY Post
Since Oct. 7, myself and others in the Iranian community have been unsettled by an anxious awareness of how radicalized Westerners are inching dangerously close to support for the Islamic Republic.

Trump Begins the High-Wire Act

By: James Antle， The American Conservative
The former president's fight extends beyond the courtroom.

Biden's Inflation Matters to Swing-State Voters

By: Steve Cortes， Newsweek
It seems the so-called experts on the economy cannot understand or even accept the financial despondency of the American people.

Ukraine's Border Is Now Johnson's 'Hill To Die On'

By: Jordan Boyd， The Federalist
The battle this 'wartime speaker' is ready to fight isn't at home for his voters but nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean away.

Mike Johnson's Gambit Could Blow the GOP's Chances

By: Heather Parton， Salon
Right-wing backlash in the House threatens Speaker Johnson's job - but blowback in the Senate could risk GOP seats

As a Palestinian-American, I Can't Vote for Biden Any More

By: Ahmed Moor， Guardian
The president's moral failure in Gaza has taken on historic proportions, like Lyndon Johnson's in Vietnam before him

The $6 Trillion Decision

By: David Dayen， American Prospect
The stakes of the election can be laid out in 13-figure sums.

The $6 Trillion Decision

Moment of Truth on Ukraine and Israel

By: President Joe Biden， Wall Street Journal
Both countries urgently need U.S. aid to defend themselves against brazen adversaries that seek their annihilation.

Moment of Truth on Ukraine and Israel

Is Biden Losing Pennsylvania?

By: Kyle Sammin， UnHerd
Joe Biden only lived in northeastern Pennsylvania for about seven of his 81 years, but the city of Scranton looms large in his autobiography. The city, the state's fourth-largest in the days of the President's youth, was the home of Biden's mother's family for generations, since they immigrated from Ireland in the 19th century. Pennsylvania - and Ireland - make up only about half of the President's family tree but, in his telling, he's Scranton Joe the Irish Democrat through and through.

Is Biden Losing Pennsylvania?

Lawmakers Can Help Restaurants Feed Economy

By: Michelle Korsmo， RealClearPolitics
The restaurant industry is the nation's second-largest private employer - two out of three adults in this country have worked in it at some point in their lives. This includes many members of Congress, their families, and their constituents. There is a unifying power of America's restaurants that calls for rare bipartisan action to enact policies that fuel our ability to serve and strengthen the nation's economy.

Lawmakers Can Help Restaurants Feed Economy

Dems Probing Court 'Ethics' Face Charges of Hypocrisy

By: Gabe Kaminsky， DC＆nbsp；Examiner
Senate Democrats investigating Leonard Leo and other conservative activists over their ties to Supreme Court justices pocketed donations from a wealthy businessman bankrolling organizations behind the high court "ethics" campaign - including ProPublica.

Dems Probing Court 'Ethics' Face Charges of Hypocrisy

Same Sorry Tale--Newsrooms Being Devoured by Leftists

By: Jenny Holland， Spiked
A veteran editor has been suspended for speaking out against its identitarian bias.

Same Sorry Tale--Newsrooms Being Devoured by Leftists

The Real Story Behind NPR's Current Problems

By: Alicia Montgomery， Slate
NPR, the great bastion of old-school audio journalism, is a mess. But as someone who loves NPR, built my career there, and once aspired to stay forever, I say with sadness that it has been for a long time.

The Real Story Behind NPR's Current Problems

A Mayor's Stand: The Real Impact of Direct-Flight Parole on Cities

By: Steve Bovo，＆nbsp；RCP
The Biden administration's direct-flight parole-and-release program was created to mitigate the challenges of illegal border crossings by facilitating an alternative entry of ineligible individuals directly into the U.S. However, this initiative has effectively led to an open border policy, unleashing numerous challenges and hardships on communities throughout Florida.

A Mayor's Stand: The Real Impact of Direct-Flight Parole on Cities

Mayorkas Impeachment Farce Will Die a Worthy Death

By: Frank Bowman， MSNBC
If the GOP House majority wishes the Senate to respect its actions, it must respect the most basic principles governing its own constitutional role.

Mayorkas Impeachment Farce Will Die a Worthy Death

Biden Needs More Than Nostalgia

By: John Hendrickson， The Atlantic
Interstate 81, southbound, you can't miss it: Exit 185 PRESIDENT BIDEN EXPRESSWAY. The three-quarter-mile road leads into downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, birthplace of Joe Biden. Keep going straight and you'll eventually end up-where else?-on Biden Street. That these namesake roads exist while the president is still alive, let alone still in office, feels odd. But this exact strangeness-forced nostalgia, preemptive memorialization-is the essence of Biden's 2024 reelection campaign.

Biden Needs More Than Nostalgia

The Neocon Foreign Policy Establishment Is Killing the Country

By: Russ Vought， X
I can understand those who are baffled that conservatives are entertaining removing Mike Johnson from being speaker in an election year with a small majority.

The Neocon Foreign Policy Establishment Is Killing the Country

Long Struggle for Ukraine Funding Coming to Fruition

By: Jackie Alemany， Morning Joe
Washington Post Congressional investigations reporter Jacqueline Alemany on Wednesday's 'Morning Joe' discussed Speaker Mike Johnson and Ukraine spending.

Long Struggle for Ukraine Funding Coming to Fruition

Pro-Hamas Protests Foreshadow a Summer of Upheaval

By: Tim Craig， Washington Post
The traffic-snarling pro-Palestinian demonstrations in U.S. cities on Monday could foreshadow a potentially volatile summer of protests, creating a challenge for President Biden and sparking debate over whether some activists' tactics threaten to undermine public support for their movement.

Pro-Hamas Protests Foreshadow a Summer of Upheaval

Trump Fights Left's Lawfare for Constitutional Rights of All

By: Newt Gingrich， WT
As Americans paid their taxes Monday, a historic event began in New York.

Trump Fights Left's Lawfare for Constitutional Rights of All

Where Is the Leftist Critique of Hamas?

By: Hillel Schenker， The Nation
What is the view of most of the organizations and activists in the Palestinian solidarity movement about Hamas? The answer remains unclear-and rarely talked about.

NPR's Queen of the Karens

By: Conn Carroll， Washington Examiner
Katherine Maher has the perfect resume to run NPR. And her tweets show she is the perfect person for the job.

NPR's Queen of the Karens

Salman Rushdie Strikes Back

By: George Packer， The Atlantic
Salman Rushdie tells us that he wrote Knife, his account of his near-murder at the hands of a 24-year-old Shia Muslim man from New Jersey, for two reasons: because he had to deal with "the elephant-in-the-room" before he could return to writing about anything else, and to understand what the attack was about.

Salman Rushdie Strikes Back

Newsom Shows Why Liberals Can't Be Trusted w/the Economy

By: Nicole Russell， USAT
It was only a matter of time before California's economy reacted to failed tax hikes, hefty regulations and liberal policies.

Newsom Shows Why Liberals Can't Be Trusted w/the Economy

The Senate Should Dismiss Mayorkas Impeachment

By: Rep. Dan Goldman， MSNBC
Republicans' articles of impeachment fail to allege an impeachable offense and denigrate the Constitution.

The Senate Should Dismiss Mayorkas Impeachment

Why Covid Lockdowns Were a Disaster for Public Health

By: Martin Kulldorff， Spiked
Martin Kulldorff on why lockdowns were a disaster for public health.

Why Covid Lockdowns Were a Disaster for Public Health

Media Try To Make a Martyr out of Man Who Shot First at Police

By: John Kass
In most news stories about the Chicago Police shooting of Dexter Reed there are certain established ingredients: The weeping mother fainting, the suspicious white leftist lawyers wondering aloud if Dexter Reed's death was caused by over-eager racist cops, suspicious black activists who see police as the embodiment of white rage even if they're not ... Read More

Media Try To Make a Martyr out of Man Who Shot First at Police

Disconcerting Crime Wave in L.A.'s Venice, Caught on Camera

By: Robin Abcarian， LAT
Thanks to cameras, a Southern California restaurateur helped police identify the suspect in the brutal assault of two women near the Venice canals.

Disconcerting Crime Wave in L.A.'s Venice, Caught on Camera

Can Biden Attract Independent Voters?

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss President Biden's efforts to attract independent voters while maintaining support from the Democratic base. They also talk about President Biden's executive order directing nonpolitical federal agencies to promote voter registration, and the suspension of an NPR editor over his criticism of the network's editorial process and biases.

Can Biden Attract Independent Voters?

Biden Has To Win Back His 2020 Voters

By: William Galston， Wall Street Journal
He has lost support in key voting blocs that helped him secure the White House last time.

Biden Has To Win Back His 2020 Voters

Impeachment 'Whistleblower' in Loop of Biden-Ukraine Affairs

By: Paul Sperry， RCI
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsApril 17, 2024The 'whistleblower' who sparked Donald Trump's first impeachment was deeply involved in the political maneuverings behind Biden-

Impeachment 'Whistleblower' in Loop of Biden-Ukraine Affairs

Senate Can Stop Expansion of Govt Surveillance

By: Goodlatte ＆amp； Udall， RealClearPolitics
When the U.S. House passed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), which reauthorizes the FISA Section 702 surveillance authority, it overlooked something big - an amendment that would drive the greatest expansion of government surveillance authority in recent history. The Senate has time to correct this and restore balance between the needs of national security and the safeguarding of Americans' civil liberties.

Senate Can Stop Expansion of Govt Surveillance

How To Be Pro-Palestinian, Pro-Israeli and Pro-Iranian

By: Thomas Friedman， NY Times
Support leadership change in Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Without that, there's zero chance for resolution.

How To Be Pro-Palestinian, Pro-Israeli and Pro-Iranian

Inside the "Disinformation" Industry Censoring Journalism

By: Freddie Sayers， UnHerd
This was part of an email sent to UnHerd at the start of January from an organisation called the Global Disinformation Index. It was their justification, handed down after a series of requests, for placing UnHerd on a so-called "dynamic exclusion list" of publications that supposedly promote "disinformation" and should therefore be boycotted by all advertisers.

Inside the "Disinformation" Industry Censoring Journalism

Inside the MAGAverse on the Eve of Trump's Trial

By: Michelle Cottle， New York Times
Rallying the faithful in the political battleground of eastern Pennsylvania, the former president made everyone else the bad guy.

Inside the MAGAverse on the Eve of Trump's Trial

Speaker Johnson Is Already Running a Coalition Government

By: Hayes Brown， MSNBC
The sooner the speaker admits he needs to choose between the GOP's MAGA wing and working with Democrats, the better.

Hit the Mullahs and Hit'em Hard, Israel

By: Michael Goodwin， New York Post
Joe Biden's timid advice for restraint notwithstanding, there's zero doubt that Israel will retaliate against Iran.

We're All Paying a Deadly Price for Obama's Foreign Policy

By: David Harsanyi，＆nbsp；Federalist
Joe Biden, feckless and weak, has surrounded himself with Barack Obama acolytes. Iranian dupes and Israel antagonists, all.

We're All Paying a Deadly Price for Obama's Foreign Policy

UN Resolution on the Balkans Would Be a Mistake

By: Marko Djuric， RealClearWorld
A draft U.N. resolution, proposed by Germany, Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and supported by a group of countries including the U.S., France and Turkiye, that declares July 11 the Internatio

Israel Must End the Gaza War

By: Dennis Ross， Project Syndicate
Dennis Ross thinks the only strategic objective that matters is close - or close enough - to being met.

The Sinister Censorship of NatCon Brussels

By: Tim Black， Spiked
The technocratic elites are the true menace to liberty.

The Fight To Curtail TikTok's U.S. Influence

By: Ben Domenech， The Spectator
One hundred and twenty minutes. That's how much time more than 40 percent of American children spent on TikTok every day last year

The Fight To Curtail TikTok's U.S. Influence

N.Y. Gives Trump the Anne Boleyn Treatment

By: Richard Porter， RealClearPolitics
Jury selection is underway in the case of The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, which alleges that the defendant lied to his own check register, and lied to the general ledger of his own company, when the invoice given to him by his lawyer was paid and recorded by someone else, and that the misstatement he made to himself in his own records was done "with the intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof."

N.Y. Gives Trump the Anne Boleyn Treatment

Kansas City Blues

By: Jordan Duecker， City Journal
Mismanagement by local and state government has contributed to the city's spiraling crime problem.

Kansas City Blues

RFK Jr. Isn't a Spoiler

By: Teddy Macker， Tablet Magazine
Outside Union Station in Los Angeles on the Saturday before Easter a small group of people display signs protesting Robert Kennedy Jr. The presidential hopeful is at the train station holding a campaign event celebrating "the life and legacy" of civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez.

RFK Jr. Isn't a Spoiler

It Took One Day for Trump To Get in Trouble at Trial

By: Jeremy Stahl， Slate
On Monday, People of New York v. Trump got underway in lower Manhattan. The substance of the day so far has been relatively routine-a final set of arguments over preliminary evidentiary motions and the start of jury selection.

It Took One Day for Trump To Get in Trouble at Trial

'Don't': Biden's Failed Foreign Policy Legacy

By: Guy Benson， Townhall
President Biden's foreign policy and leadership legacies were cemented in American voters' minds back in the summer of 2021, just months into his term.

'Don't': Biden's Failed Foreign Policy Legacy

Welcome to Pricing Hell

By: Christopher Beam， The Atlantic
On February 15, Ron Ruggless was sitting in his home office in Dallas, listening to a Wendy's earnings call-something he does every quarter as an editor and reporter for Nation's Restaurant News.

Welcome to Pricing Hell

Weaponizing the Government Against the People

By: Sen. Marco Rubio， The Federalist
Left-wing elites want to protect the 'deep state' because it shields them from accountability as they pursue their own agendas.

Weaponizing the Government Against the People

When Is Racial Stereotyping Acceptable?

By: Loury ＆amp； McWhorter， Substack
In this clip from Glenn and John's most recent subscriber-only Q&A session, they discuss when it's acceptable to apply statistical information and lived experience about racial disparities in violent behavior to real-life situations.

When Is Racial Stereotyping Acceptable?

Israel Beat Iran--for Now

By: Zack Beauchamp， Vox
Iran's Saturday attack on Israel was a military failure. But things could still get a lot worse.

Israel Beat Iran--for Now

Scottie Scheffler Is Golf's Most Pleasant Destroyer

By: Elizabeth Nelson， The Ringer
Don't let the aw-shucks exterior fool you. With his second Masters win, Scheffler is proving he's a generational force capable of much more than he lets on.

Scottie Scheffler Is Golf's Most Pleasant Destroyer

Alvin Bragg's Witch Trial

By: Adam Mill， Chronicles
Bragg's indictment repeatedly alleges Donald Trump made a false business entry to, commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof. But Bragg does not specify what the original crime was.

Alvin Bragg's Witch Trial

How Team Trump Will Approach Jury Selection in New York

By: Katie Phang， MSNBC
The deception practically leaps off the pages of the documents at the core of the Trump hush money trial.

How Team Trump Will Approach Jury Selection in New York

Rural Voters Are Not Out of Reach for Democrats

By: Etelson ＆amp； Flaccavento， The Nation
... is dismissing them as out of reach for Democrats.

Rural Voters Are Not Out of Reach for Democrats

'Bidenbucks' Make 'Zuckbucks' Look Like Chump Change

By: M.D. Kittle， The Federalist
Election integrity watchdogs say private funds in elections pale in comparison to what Biden has wrought through the power of his pen.

'Bidenbucks' Make 'Zuckbucks' Look Like Chump Change

Day One of Trump's 'Hush Money' Trial

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon talk about the first day of Donald Trump's New York criminal trial and the Biden administration's response to the Iranian attack in Israel over the weekend.

Day One of Trump's 'Hush Money' Trial

America's Broken Pendulum

By: Bruce Abramson， RealClearPolitics
The American constitutional structure was designed to promote moderation, compromise, and incremental change. Throughout most of our history, it has worked as intended. The pendulum of public policy has swung from left to right to left to right, but rarely too far in either direction.

America's Broken Pendulum

Kidneys Don't See Color

By: Heather Mac Donald， City Journal
Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney-but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity.

Kidneys Don't See Color

Democracy Dies in Primaries

By: Nick Troiano， RealClearPolitics
Hillary Clinton recently told voters unhappy with the two 2024 presidential candidates this year: "Get over yourself." With that comment, she not only dismissed the tens of millions of voters who had no say in choosing Biden and Trump, but also the two-thirds of voters overall who are frustrated with a rematch they do not want.

Democracy Dies in Primaries

Salman Rushdie: Now the Censors Are Progressives

By: Tomiwa Owolade， UnHerd
His Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi was murdered in Tokyo. His Italian translator Ettore Capriolo was stabbed in Milan. His Norwegian translator William Nygaard was shot in Oslo. Salman Rushdie had been dreading this day for over 30 years: between 1989 and 1998, he moved houses 30 times to avoid it.

Salman Rushdie: Now the Censors Are Progressives

NPR Suspends Editor as It Grapples With His Criticism

By: David Folkenflik， NPR
NPR has suspended Senior Editor Uri Berliner after he wrote an essay accusing the public radio network of becoming too progressive in its news coverage and losing the public's trust.

NPR Suspends Editor as It Grapples With His Criticism

Protecting Biden Administration Regulations

By: Shaw ＆amp； Shane， Washington Monthly
As agencies race to put new regulations into final form, careful drafting can help insulate progressive rules against a skeptical judiciary.

Protecting Biden Administration Regulations

Biden Needs To Worry About Voters in the Center, Not the Left

By: Molly Ball， WSJ
President falls behind with independents; ‘they don't see the White House for what it's actually doing'

Biden Needs To Worry About Voters in the Center, Not the Left

The Lawfare Grifters Are Red-Pilling Americans by the Day

By: Sasha Stone， Substack
Six years ago, I stood a few feet away from Joe Biden at a fundraiser and was certain he was the only person who could save this country from Donald Trump in 2020.

The Lawfare Grifters Are Red-Pilling Americans by the Day

A Striking Contrast on Trump Trial Day

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
Monday has been Trump Trial Day in the media, especially for those outlets openly cheering the prosecution of the former president on felony charges relating to recordkeeping for an NDA he made with a former porn actress.

A Striking Contrast on Trump Trial Day

Trump's Hush Money Trial Becomes the Main Event

By: Andrew Prokop， Vox
The trial on the least important topic may be the most important to the 2024 election.

Trump's Hush Money Trial Becomes the Main Event

Gold Is Back--and It Has a Message for Us

By: Rana Foroohar， Financial Times
The precious metal's surge may herald a whole new world

Gold Is Back--and It Has a Message for Us

The Future Under Democrats Looks Miserable

By: Michael Lind， Tablet Magazine
In The Emerging Democratic Majority (2002), John Judis and Ruy Texeira argued that college-educated professionals and nonwhites, along with a minimum number of working-class whites, could form the basis for Democratic hegemony in national politics.

The Future Under Democrats Looks Miserable

Trump Owns the Working Class Vote

By: David Catron， The American Spectator
The good news is that working class voters still outnumber highly educated voters by a large margin. That's bad news for Biden.

Salman Rushdie Parties Again

By: Simon van Zuylen-Wood， New York Magazine
A defiant celebration of Knife caps a physical (and reputational) comeback.

Slouching Towards Tax Day

By: Brian Domitrovic， Law ＆amp； Liberty
Brian DHow did taxes become something we

Bragg's Case an Embarrassment for NY Legal System

By: Jonathan Turley， New York Post
After an absurd $450 million decision against Trump courtesy of AG Letitia James, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to Stormy D...

How Woke Leftists Became Cheerleaders for Iran

By: Brendan O'Neill， Spiked
We can now see the anti-Israel bigotry behind their phoney pacifism.

Why You Should Take Trump's Hush Money Trial Seriously

By: Kristy Greenberg， MSNBC
The deception practically leaps off the pages of the documents at the core of the Trump hush money trial.

We Israelis Don't Need Any More Forever Wars

By: Dahlia Scheindlin， The Guardian
An all-out conflict may be someone's idea of 'national security'. As an Israeli citizen, it isn't mine, says political analyst Dahlia Scheindlin

The Real War in the Middle East Comes Into Focus

By: Matti Friedman， The Free Press
Like a flash going off in a dark room, Iran's attack on Israel has finally given the world something valuable: a glimpse into Tehran's true intentions.

The Real War in the Middle East Comes Into Focus

Where the Good News Ends for Biden & Democrats

By: Miranda Devine， New York Post
As Donald Trump fronts up to a Manhattan court this week for his latest lawfare flogging from Democrats, Biden boosters are doing their best to trumpet a poll turnaround for the president.

Where the Good News Ends for Biden & Democrats

Democrats, Support Speaker Johnson

By: Rep. Tom Suozzi， Wall Street Journal
We need to put partisan interests aside to defend Ukraine and defeat Putin.

Democrats, Support Speaker Johnson

Gaming the 2024 Campaign

By: Victor Davis Hanson， American Greatness
Will Biden's feebleness still earn him sympathy? Or will it devolve to the point that the public concludes that Joe Biden would not be able to keep any job in America-except the U.S. Presidency?

Gaming the 2024 Campaign

Dexter Reed Isn't a Martyr: He Shot at Cops First

By: Rich Lowry， New York Post
The Dexter Reed case shows how it's possible to get an anti-police narrative going in almost any circumstance.

Dexter Reed Isn't a Martyr: He Shot at Cops First

Dems Descend on Chicago as Specter of '68 Convention Looms

By: Shia Kapos， Politico
Protests over Israel-Gaza war expected as party nominates President Joe Biden.

Dems Descend on Chicago as Specter of '68 Convention Looms

Trump's Best Defense in the Hush-Money Trial

By: Brad Smith， The Federalist
Commentary on the case has consisted of accusations against Bragg and Merchan, but Trump has a strong defense on the merits.

Trump's Best Defense in the Hush-Money Trial

Trump's Hush Money Trial Begins Today. Here Are the Key Players

By: Shirin Ali， Slate
A former adult film actress, a meticulous judge, Trump's former fixer, and more.

Trump's Hush Money Trial Begins Today. Here Are the Key Players

Donald Trump's New York Criminal Trial? Meh

By: Richard Hasen， Los Angeles Times
Trump may not be convicted of a felony in the New York 'election interference' case, and if he is, it probably won't shake up the presidential race.

Donald Trump's New York Criminal Trial? Meh

Joe the Faint Hearted

By: Steve Huntley， JohnKassNews.com
Virtually all the media assert that Israel is becoming ever more isolated in its war against Hamas. What goes unmentioned is a major reason for that:

Joe the Faint Hearted

Gavin Newsom Is Getting Antsy

By: Mark Leibovich， The Atlantic
"We don't need magazine profiles," California Governor Gavin Newsom told me. "We don't need any problems."

Gavin Newsom Is Getting Antsy

Empathy Was Biden's Superpower in 2020. Will It Be Again?

By: Doyle McManus， LAT
Whatever happened to the empathetic Joe Biden who won the 2020 presidential election?

Empathy Was Biden's Superpower in 2020. Will It Be Again?

Joe Biden Doesn't Feel Our Pain, He Mocks It

By: David Marcus， FOX News
Take a look at your grocery bill or whether you feel safe to leave your house. There's no spinning those realities and that isn't good for Biden. Only he doesn't care about your pain.

Joe Biden Doesn't Feel Our Pain, He Mocks It

'Civil War' Isn't Really About a Second American Civil War

By: Erik Kain， Forbes
Alex Garland's new anti-war film isn't just about the possibility of a second American civil war. It's about much more than that.

Warrantless FISA Searches of U.S. Citizens Are Wrong

By: David Deavel， AMAC
"We have two parties, and only two," the legendary journalist and conservative political activist M. Stanton Evans liked to say: "One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. I'm very proud to be a member of the stupid party. Occasionally the two parties get together to do something that's both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship."

Warrantless FISA Searches of U.S. Citizens Are Wrong

Iran Just Made a Big Mistake, Israel Shouldn't Follow.

By: Tom Friedman， New York Times
There now needs to be a large, sustained, global initiative to isolate Iran.

Iran Just Made a Big Mistake, Israel Shouldn't Follow.

Donald Trump's Abortion Conundrum

By: Arwa Mahdawi， The Guardian
Trump is walking a tricky tightrope trying to appeal to his evangelical base and moderate voters. His solution? A bunch of contradictory nonsense

Donald Trump’s Abortion Conundrum

U.S. Fatalities in 2023 Return to Pre-Pandemic Trendline

By: Bill King， RealClearPolitics
According to the current statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics, the number of fatalities in the United States last year declined to 3,078,290 from 3,269,042 in 2022. That number is very close to the pre-pandemic trendline.

U.S. Fatalities in 2023 Return to Pre-Pandemic Trendline

American Anti-War Activists Cheer for Iran's War

By: Olivia Reingold， The Free Press
At a left-wing conference in Chicago, activists believe Iran is 'part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA.'

American Anti-War Activists Cheer for Iran's War

'Death to America': Whitmer Ignores Hate in Michigan

By: Ingrid Jacques， USA Today
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has stayed silent for more than a week about the 'death to America' chants at a Dearborn pro-Palestinian protest.

The Entire O.J. Simpson Ordeal Was Seeped in Paradox

By: Charles Coleman Jr.， MSNBC
Unlike the more activist Black athletes of his era, Simpson had chosen to avoid tough questions about American racism in exchange for status, fame and endorsements.

NYT Writer Doesn't See Race When Alleged Criminal Is Black

By: Eddie Scarry， Federalist
A New York Times writer showed no interest in the race of men in New York randomly assaulting women, but she did about the race of Rockettes.

Voters Look Back at Trump's Presidency More Positively

By: Lerer ＆amp； Igielnik， NY Times
A new poll by The New York Times and Siena College finds that voters think highly of the former president's record on the economy, but memories of his divisiveness largely remain intact.

After Iran's Attack on Israel, the World Must Act

By: Simon Tisdall， The Observer
Netanyahu wanted a wider conflict, and Tehran has walked into his trap. The major powers must immediately head this off, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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