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How Columbia's Campus Was Torn Apart Over Gaza

By: Andrew Marantz， The New Yorker
The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?

Alvin Bragg and Dems' ‘Election Interference'

By: Kimberley Strassel， Wall Street Journal
His theory in New York state's Trump case is crazier than you think.

Alvin Bragg and Dems’ ‘Election Interference’

Biden Courts Pro-Hamas Voters in Michigan

By: Tim Murtaugh， Washington Times
It's instructive to watch the way people react to the pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses. You can learn a lot, especially about members of the media and President Biden.

Biden Courts Pro-Hamas Voters in Michigan

The Cass Review Won't Fade Away

By: Jesse Singal， The Dispatch
How youth gender medicine broke almost every liberal institution it touched.

The Tricky Judgments on When To Loosen

By: Martin Wolf， Financial Times
An ECB interest rate cut soon would make sense but the Fed faces a more difficult call in the US

The Tricky Judgments on When To Loosen

Behind the Mask: Why the New Protestors Cover Their Faces

By: David Weigel， Semafor
The pandemic, social media, and legal changes have encouraged left-wing activists to cover up.

Katherine Maher's Color Revolution

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change-foreign and domestic.

Katherine Maher's Color Revolution

Republicans' Hollow Threats Against Dem Corruption

By: Nate Hochman， Am.＆nbsp；Spectator
Erick Erickson made a splash within right-wing circles on the Right's alleged departure from limited-government, free-market principles.

Republicans' Hollow Threats Against Dem Corruption

Kicking the Can Down Ukraine's Crumbling Road

By: George Beebe， Responsible Statecraft
Without a strategy to end the war, the new US aid package will only take us right back to where we started a few months from now

Kicking the Can Down Ukraine's Crumbling Road

Kennedy Now Threatens Biden and Trump

By: Ed Kilgore， New York Magazine
For a while there, the independent ticket of ex-Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan seemed to be taking crucial votes away from Democrat Joe Biden, at least as indicated by comparing three-way and five-way (with Cornel West and Jill Stein) polls to head-to-head matchups of the incumbent and Donald Trump.

Kennedy Now Threatens Biden and Trump

A Democrat's Case for Saving Speaker Johnson

By: Russell Berman， The Atlantic
If Speaker Mike Johnson keeps his job, it'll be Democrats who save him. Like his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, the Louisiana conservative is facing an attempted ouster after he defied Republican hard-liners by relying on Democratic support to pass a funding bill-$61 billion for Ukraine, in this case-they hated.

A Democrat's Case for Saving Speaker Johnson

Biden Blesses Abortion With Sign of the Cross

By: Paul Bedard， Washington Examiner
President Joe Biden has enraged Catholic Church regulars with his latest show of approval for abortion, a Vatican red line.

40 Policies That Will Define the 2024 Election

By: John Halpin， Substack
Results of a comprehensive new poll of 4,038 registered voters from The Liberal Patriot and Blueprint conducted by YouGov.

40 Policies That Will Define the 2024 Election

An Ugly Win

By: Adeline Von Drehle， RealClearPolitics
Winning ugly. A catchy way to describe an imperfect victory, but a victory eked out nonetheless. In sports, it's considered okay to win ugly, and sometimes even seen as a growth exercise. And while political races can be the fiercest competition of all, winning ugly carries a different weight in Washington.

An Ugly Win

Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI, Vetting Scrutiny

By: Susan Crabtree， RealClearPolitics
An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring and whether an ongoing push to increase the numbers of women in the service and boost overall workforce staff played a role in her selection.

Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI, Vetting Scrutiny

Judge Points Out Biden DOJ's Hypocrisy, Double Standard

By: Miranda Devine， NY Post
Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, is sitting in jail for defying a subpoena from Nancy Pelosi's star chamber, the January 6 Committee.

Judge Points Out Biden DOJ's Hypocrisy, Double Standard

Trump Heavily Outspent in Swing States

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124, M-F at 6:00 pm EDT) Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss new data revealing how the Biden campaign is outspending Trump in critical swing states and the politics behind President Biden's trip today to Florida to speak about abortion.

Trump Heavily Outspent in Swing States

Leaving CNN Was How I Found My Voice

By: Brooke Baldwin， Vanity Fair
The former anchor exited the network after 13 years not because of Trump coverage or pandemic chaos, but because of something far more ordinary-and insidious.

Leaving CNN Was How I Found My Voice

Bragg's Case a Legal Embarrassment & Historic Mistake

By: Jed Shugerman， NY Times
It's not the crime; it's the cover-up. But it's still a highly flawed case.

Bragg's Case a Legal Embarrassment & Historic Mistake

Dems Right To Toss Sham Impeachment Against Mayorkas

By: Will Saletan， The Bulwark
House Republicans undermined real action on border security and made a mockery of the impeachment process.

Dems Right To Toss Sham Impeachment Against Mayorkas

How McConnell, Schumer Beat Conservatives on Ukraine

By: Everett ＆amp； Haberkorn，Politico
Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden might have been in lockstep on aiding Ukraine, but some things the Senate minority leader had to shoulder alone.

How McConnell, Schumer Beat Conservatives on Ukraine

Biden Lawsuit Against Sheetz Gas Will Enrage PA Voters

By: Salena Zito， DC＆nbsp；Examiner
The Biden EEOC is filing a federal lawsuit to stop Sheetz gasoline company, a Pennsylvania mainstay, from using criminal background checks. How weird.

Biden Lawsuit Against Sheetz Gas Will Enrage PA Voters

Trump's Trial Is About Politics, Not Justice

By: Jonathan Emord， Washington Times
Less than seven months from Election Day, Americans are continuing to lose trust in President Biden and the Democratic Party's ability to lead on issues that matter, such as border security, crime, and the economy.

Trump’s Trial Is About Politics, Not Justice

Republicans Not Protecting Elections, Don't Want Democracy

By: LZ Granderson， LAT
The latest efforts to exclude Black votes echo the earliest days of our republic.

Republicans Not Protecting Elections, Don't Want Democracy

Australia Pushing for Global Internet Censorship

By: Michael Shellenberger， Substack
American-born Julie Inman Grant is a key architect of the multigovernmental Global Online Safety Regulators Network to censor the speech that politicians and government bureaucrats fear

Australia Pushing for Global Internet Censorship

Trump's Trial Painting a Damning Portrait of Him

By: Harry Litman， Los Angeles Times
The scheme at the heart of the charges against Donald Trump in New York is well-known: To keep allegations of an affair with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels from becoming public, Trump is accused of agreeing to pay her $130,000, camouflaged as payments to Michael Cohen for legal services.

Trump's Trial Painting a Damning Portrait of Him

What's Happening at Columbia Is a Disgrace

By: Jonathan Greenblatt， CNN
On Sunday, I went to Columbia University just uptown from my office to see for myself what is happening there.

What’s Happening at Columbia Is a Disgrace

Biden Says There Are Very Fine People on Both Sides

By: David Harsanyi， The Federalist
Joe Biden can't get himself to unequivocally call out the Brownshirts roaming our elite universities.

Biden Says There Are Very Fine People on Both Sides

Protesting Against Slaughter Isn't Antisemitism

By: Robert Reich， The Guardian
Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracks

Protesting Against Slaughter Isn't Antisemitism

Inside the Week That Shook Columbia University

By: Fandos ＆amp； Otterman， NY Times
In a Washington war room, Columbia's president, Nemat Shafik, decided to call police officers to arrest protesting students. The backlash now threatens her leadership.

Inside the Week That Shook Columbia University

MAGA 2.0

By: Robert Kuttner， American Prospect
Can J.D. Vance keep it alive after Trump?

Biden Turned Whitewater, WI, Into a Border Town

By: Steve Cortes， American Greatness
Although the Badger State is 2000 miles away from Mexico, the fallout of Biden's open border bleeds into the American heartland, literally so in many cases.

Biden Turned Whitewater, WI, Into a Border Town

This Is No 1960's Love-in During Anti-Israel Rallies

By: Michael Goodwin， New York Post
Amid the disruptions at elite universities across the nation, it is tempting to compare the student protests over Gaza to uprisings during the Vietnam War.

This Is No 1960’s Love-in During Anti-Israel Rallies

MIT President Moves Passover Event Amid New Unrest

By: Susan Crabtree，＆nbsp；RCP
For Jews in the United States and around the world, Monday evening, the beginning of Passover, was supposed to be a time for exchanging blessings of peace, comfort, and hope.

MIT President Moves Passover Event Amid New Unrest

House Foreign Aid Bills Put a Target on Johnson's Back

By: Chris Lehmann， The Nation
After a vote in favor of sending $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan passed, far right Republicans are threatening a motion to vacate the speaker of the house.

House Foreign Aid Bills Put a Target on Johnson's Back

The Education Factory

By: Erik Baker， The Nation
By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

The Education Factory

Red Flags on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Children

By: Ingrid Jacques， USA Today
While the Cass Review found that children deserve better care related to their gender dysphoria, the report cautions against use of puberty blockers.

Red Flags on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Children

What Would Lincoln Do?

By: James Piereson， Washington Free Beacon
This brief but informative volume by Allen C. Guelzo offers up

What Would Lincoln Do?

How Catholics Can Save American Education

By: Jeremy Tate， RealClearEducation
I was a teacher and then worked in test prep before starting the Classic Learning Test. Before and especially since then, I've reviewed a lot of high school curricula, particularly from Catholic and/or classical high schools, which tend to get some flak for their focus on things like Latin, rhetoric, and philosophy.

How Catholics Can Save American Education

Is College Still Worth It?

By: Dugan ＆amp； Galloway， New York Magazine
The job of being Scott Galloway is, more often than not, to get people to follow his advice. On his podcasts (including New York's own Pivot), in his advisory role to corporate America, and as a marketing professor at NYU Stern School of Business, the Galloway Industrial Complex centers on his front-row seat into how companies are dealing with society's biggest social and economic problems.

Is College Still Worth It?

The Scary Consequences of Political Prosecutions

By: Alex Berenson， Substack
New York v Trump is a joke - 34 felonies for what comes down to misclassifying spending in a payment ledger - but the elite media is keeping a straight face.

The Scary Consequences of Political Prosecutions

DOJ Hounds Elderly Concentration Camp Survivor

By: Tommy Valentine， The Hill
Sores covered nearly every inch of Eva Edl's emaciated young body. People gagged when they came near her; bed bugs, fleas and lice were devouring her "festering body."

DOJ Hounds Elderly Concentration Camp Survivor

The Politics of Earth Day

By: Bevan，＆nbsp；Cannon ＆amp； Walworth， RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show (SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124, M-F at 6:00 pm), Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon discuss Earth Day and how President Biden's energy policies are impacting the coming election. They also chat about new polling data from the weekend and react to pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses across the U.S.

The Politics of Earth Day

Persuasion Doesn't Matter Anymore, It's All About Ballots

By: Ned Ryun， FOX News
American Greatness CEO Ned Ryun on Monday predicted the media will give the Biden campaign cover and there will be no presidential debates. In an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham, Ryun said, "We are in the era, Laura, in which I think persuasion and votes do not carry the weight they used to. It's all about ballots. So I don't think they really care and I don't think corporate media is going to make Biden toe the line on this and they will give him cover when he decides to duct debates."

Persuasion Doesn't Matter Anymore, It's All About Ballots

Academic Dishonesty at UCLA

By: Rufo ＆amp； Rosiak， City Journal
A prominent administrator at the university's medical school appears to have plagiarized.

Academic Dishonesty at UCLA

Trump's Trial Is Enough To Win the Election for Biden

By: Doug Gordon， Newsweek
Of course, a criminal trial does not help Trump. And anyone who tries to sell you otherwise should have their head examined. It is simply an absurd and asinine argument.

Trump's Trial Is Enough To Win the Election for Biden

Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom

By: Bari Weiss， The Free Press
This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators told Jewish students to go back to Poland. A Jewish woman at Yale was assaulted with a Palestinian flag. And an Orthodox rabbi at Columbia told students to go home for their safety. Demonstrators on these campuses shouted: Say it loud and say it clear, we don't want no Zionists here. In one chant at Columbia, the protesters were

Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom

The Cult of 'My Truth'

By: Frank Furedi， Spiked
NPR is only the latest institution to fall to woke relativism.

The Cult of 'My Truth'

Biden's Energy Policies Fueling Trump Campaign in PA

By: Jamie Smyth， Financial Times
A pause on new liquefied natural gas projects has angered the shale gas industry in a critical election swing state

Biden's Energy Policies Fueling Trump Campaign in PA

What Trump Fears Most

By: David Axelrod， The Atlantic
Donald Trump's biographers all seem to agree that he didn't get a lot of love from his father. But what Fred Trump did impart to his son was an indelible lesson: There are two kinds of people in the world-killers and losers-and like his father, Donald had to be a killer.

What Trump Fears Most

Supreme Court Takes on Homelessness. What Could Go Wrong?

By: Garrett Epps， WM
Today, the justices hear arguments on a Grants Pass, Oregon, municipal ordinance that slaps heavy fines and, if unpaid, criminal penalties on the homeless.

Supreme Court Takes on Homelessness. What Could Go Wrong?

Did Trump Just Get Lucky With His NYC Juror Pool?

By: Josh Hammer， Newsweek
Get your daily dose of politics, law, and culture with Josh Hammer Premium by subscribing to Newsweek today.

Did Trump Just Get Lucky With His NYC Juror Pool?

The Cornel West Paradox: How Woke Is Too Woke?

By: Emily Jashinsky， UnHerd
Melina Abdullah first came across my radar in the spring of 2016, as Donald Trump closed in on the Republican nomination for president. Back then, Abdullah was a garden-variety faculty-lounge radical who spent too much time on Facebook. Now, she's vying for the vice presidency on a third-party ticket with Cornel West.

The Cornel West Paradox: How Woke Is Too Woke?

War By Affirmative Action?

By: Victor Davis Hanson， American Greatness
In the American Left's vision of contemporary war, the West brings too many advantages in science, technology, and wealth.

War By Affirmative Action?

The Coming Arab Backlash

By: Mark Lynch， Foreign Affairs
Middle Eastern regimes-and America-ignore public anger at their peril

The Coming Arab Backlash

Why SCOTUS Will Toss 350 J6 Convictions

By: David Catron， The American Spectator
Such a ruling against the DOJ will provide a glimmer of hope that our justice system will survive the assaults of the anti-democratic left.

Why SCOTUS Will Toss 350 J6 Convictions

Biden & the Dems' 'Weekend at Bernie's Campaign'

By: Miranda Devine， New York Post
Isn't it a pity we can't charge the Democratic Party with the same offenses? After all, the barbaric treatment of Uncle Paolo in Brazil is a metaphor for how Democrats are using Biden.

Biden & the Dems' 'Weekend at Bernie's Campaign'

The Jewish Vote Could Play a Huge Role in 2024

By: Smith ＆amp； Barnett， NBC News
Jewish voters could play a major role in the big battleground state this fall. Before that, there's a key primary approaching Tuesday in Pittsburgh.

The Jewish Vote Could Play a Huge Role in 2024

Criminal Trial Could Be Cure for 'Trump Amnesia'

By: Doyle McManus， Los Angeles Times
Before Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York got underway, pundits predicted that the proceedings could be a media bonanza for the former president. During this year's Republican primaries, they noted, Trump's popularity rose every time he was indicted.

Criminal Trial Could Be Cure for 'Trump Amnesia'

Protests Turn Violent at Yale

By: Gabriel Diamond， Wall Street Journal
Administrators sit on their hands as a Jewish student is poked in the eye with a flagpole and hospitalized.

Protests Turn Violent at Yale

Inside the Columbia Protests That Led to 100 Arrests

By: Alexander Sammon， Slate
The pressure at the school has been building for months, and it isn't over yet.

Inside the Columbia Protests That Led to 100 Arrests

Why 2024 Is a Lose-Lose Election

By: Dennis Powell， The Hill
Presidential elections can be put into three categories: stay the course, turn the page and transformation. In 2004, President George W. Bush was prosecuting the War on Terror and Americans choose to stay the course. In 2008, voters wanted a change in course and enough voters saw then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as transformational to elect him.

Why 2024 Is a Lose-Lose Election

Abandon the Fantasy That We Can 'Make Russia Normal'

By: Timothy Snyder， FPA
During an event this week at the Foreign Policy Association, Yale history professor and author of "On Tyranny" Timothy Snyder discussed what a "defeated Russia" would look like after the war in Ukraine. You can watch the full lecture below this segment of transcript.

Abandon the Fantasy That We Can 'Make Russia Normal'

The House Ukraine Package Is a Defeat for Populists

By: Fred Bauer， UnHerd
With a price tag of almost $100 billion, a package of military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and other American allies has just passed the United States House of Representatives. The triumph of this bill exemplifies how a politics of burn-it-all-down outrage actually blocks populist policies.

The House Ukraine Package Is a Defeat for Populists

Low Interest in the Election a Vulnerability for Trump

By: Steve Kornacki， Meet the Press
NBC's election analyst Steve Kornacki looks at good news for President Biden in their most recent poll on "Meet The Press."

Low Interest in the Election a Vulnerability for Trump

The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

By: Frank Miele， RealClearPolitics
"Death to America!" We are used to that chant. Maybe too used to it.

The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

Biden Should Be Honest With Ukraine

By: Robert Clarke， RealClearDefense
The United States has overpromised support to Ukraine. President Biden and the White House have vowed that the flow of American money and arms to aid in the war effort will continue "for as long as it takes." As Americans continue to sour on further support, and Biden's $60 billion aid package is stalled in the U.S. House, that promise appears more and more impossible. Even House Speaker Mike Johnson's new attempt to move a $43 billion proposal faces harsh backlash from his fellow Republicans that threatens his continued speakership.

Biden Should Be Honest With Ukraine

Johnson Draws Praise for Defying His Party & Doing His Job

By: Annie Karni， NY Times
In the Republican Party of 2024, styled in the image of former President Donald J. Trump, a norm-preserving, consensus-driven act - even a basic one - can be a career-ending offense.

Next GOP President Should Defund Public Broadcasting

By: Mike Gonzalez， NY Post
Many of us have long known that there was a serious problem with a taxpayer-funded programming system that ignored half the country.

Why Is America Vastly Expanding Its Surveillance Complex?

By: Caitlin Vogus， Guardian
A little-known amendment to the reauthorized version of Fisa would enlarge the government's surveillance powers to a drastic, draconian degree

Washington D.C.'s 'America Last' Crew

By: Shawn Fleetwood， The Federalist
You don't have to be a Putin stooge to see that dumping endless U.S. funds into Kyiv without proper oversight is a terrible idea.

Biden's Title IX Rewrite Obliterates Female Spaces

By: Jordan Boyd， The Federalist
The rules also undo Trump-era due process safeguards for those accused of sexual misconduct and encroach on parents' rights.

Biden Running a Sham-Paign While Trump Is On Trial

By: Michael Goodwin， NY Post
The New York Times headline hinted at the injustice of Donald Trump by declaring: Trump on Trial vs. Biden on the Trail: An Unusual 2024 Stretch Begins.

Biden Running a Sham-Paign While Trump Is On Trial

What I Would Tell Congress if I Were a University President

By: Francine Prose， Guardian
The president of Columbia University testified about her administration's handling of campus unrest. Here's what I would have said

Trump's Bodega Visit Should Scare the Heck Out of Dems

By: Michael Daly， Daily Beast
Adam Gray/ReutersA cheery young Hispanic working single mom who should terrify the Democrats had just picked up her 1-year-old son from his babysitter on Tuesday evening when she encountered a crowd at Broadway and W. 139th St. in Harlem.None other than Donald Trump was just beyond a line of police barricades outside the Sanaa Convenient store.I was amazed to see him, 31-year-old Sabrina Vargas later told The Daily Beast. Just to see what everyone jokes about-his hair, the color. It was kind

At Columbia...That's All, Folx!

By: Roger Kimball， The Spectator
Harvard, UPenn, MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth, Williams: there is an epidemic of distaff leadership in the elite precincts of higher education

Israel and Iran Have Opened a Pandora's Box

By: Simon Tisdall， The Guardian
Skirmishes between the pair have until now been muted, but the tit-for-tat attack on Isfahan shows how the Gaza conflict is fuelling global tensions

What's Next After the Ukraine Mistake?

By: Bradley Devlin， The American Conservative
Democrats could save Speaker Mike Johnson, but they once again find themselves in a can't-lose situation.

What's Next After the Ukraine Mistake?

Led by Biden, Dems' New 'Squad' Wants Israel Gone

By: al-Aqidi ＆amp； Fraser， New York Post
Minnesota's Democrat Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith recently joined 17 other senators in their party's leftward lurch by urging the Biden administration to take decisive action to...

Led by Biden, Dems' New 'Squad' Wants Israel Gone

Ukraine Won. Trump Lost

By: David Frum， The Atlantic

Ukraine Won. Trump Lost

Accountability Coming for Trump at Last?

By: Eisen， Kovacs-Goodman ＆amp； Barrilleaux， MSNBC
The judge kept the former president on a tight leash when jurors were in the courtroom.

Accountability Coming for Trump at Last?

The Trans Reckoning Is Here

By: Nina Power， Compact Magazine
If we are past the height of the fad, and the Cass report with its sober, reasonable tone prevails, there will need to be a reckoning at multiple levels of society.

What the Cass Review Means for Trans Kids

By: Natasha Zapata， The Nation
A new review of gender-affirming healthcare in England could change the way gender-questioning children and young everywhere people receive care.

Our Green New Deal for Public Housing

By: Sen. Sanders ＆amp； Rep. Ocasio-Cortez， MSNBC
This legislation addresses four crises facing the country.

Prosecutor: Gascon Dropped Vote Case Over Politics

By: Margot Cleveland， The Federalist
For political reasons, DA George Gascon dismissed the criminal charges against Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, says the lead prosecutor on the case.

Trump Moves to the Middle on Abortion. Biden Should, Too

By: Kristen Day， Newsweek
A pro-life movement that continues to embrace Donald Trump and ignore Joe Biden is a movement without a future in the U.S.

Trump Moves to the Middle on Abortion. Biden Should, Too

Why PA Is a Must-Win State for Biden

By: Cannon，＆nbsp；Trende ＆amp； Walworth， RCP on SiriusXM
Friday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and RCP senior elections analyst Sean Trende discuss how important Pennsylvania is to Joe Biden's re-election campaign and the announcement that the RNC and the Trump campaign are deploying up to 100,000 poll watchers across the country in November.

Why PA Is a Must-Win State for Biden

Larry Sanger Speaks Out

By: Christopher Rufo， City Journal
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger discusses Katherine Maher and the corruption of the Internet.

Larry Sanger Speaks Out

What Bugs Them About Bobby Kennedy Jr.

By: David Talbot， Substack
An Open (Sort Of) Discussion with Kennedy's Press Critics

What the Trump Jurors Think of the Former President

By: Jeremy Stahl， Slate
Here's what we learned about the latest jurors to be added, and their views of the former president, after their responses to the 42-part questionnaire and about an hour of voir dire. (We wrote about the first half of the jury here.) We will be filling out the rest of the alternates as what is expected to be the final day of jury selection continues on Friday.

What the Trump Jurors Think of the Former President

Even With Trial Burden, Trump Outcampaigns Biden

By: Byron York， Washington Examiner
Many Democrats see the trial of former President Donald Trump, prosecuted by the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan, as a valuable political tool. While Trump is tied down in a courtroom, required to be in court every day trial is in session, President Joe Biden can be out

Even With Trial Burden, Trump Outcampaigns Biden

Right Now, Democrats Are Calling the Shots in the House

By: Christian Whiton， Substack
House GOP set to borrow and spend $61 billion for Captain Undershirt and prolong Ukraine crusade

Right Now, Democrats Are Calling the Shots in the House

A Beleaguered Gentleman: Speaker Mike Johnson

By: Philip Wegmann， RealClearPolitics
The sky is cloudless and blue on a warm April afternoon as a cheerful Mike Johnson, seated on a beige couch next to an unlit fireplace in an office still new to him, contemplates his demise, taking solace in Providence and repeating the words of John Quincy Adams - an illustration of his circumstances almost as much as a reluctant acceptance of fate

A Beleaguered Gentleman: Speaker Mike Johnson

Ukraine Needs One More Year To Win

By: Eric Schmidt， The Hill
Avdiivka's Ukrainian garrison had beaten back repeated Russian assaults, only for its dwindling munitions stockpiles ultimately to force a surrender. Russian artillery was firing at a rate ten times that of Ukrainian defenders, who were forced to ration shells as Western supplies dried up.

Ukraine Needs One More Year To Win

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

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

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