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Indictment Exposes 2nd Leg of Dems' Russia Collusion Smear

John Solomon, JTN

The Most Important Statistic of Biden's Presidency

Susan Glasser, The New Yorker

Biden's Great Unraveling

Roger Kimball, The Spectator

California Says 'No,' Rebukes Republican Subterfuge

Sasha Abramsky, The Nation

CRT Distracts From Academic Underachievement

Woodson & Rowe, Newsweek

The Meaning of Constitution Day

The 1776 Commission

There's More to 'Build Back Better' Than Its Price Tag

Jackie Calmes, LA Times

Inflation Has Turned $15 an Hour Wages Into a Setback

Noah Smith, Bloomberg

Outdated Laws Let Tech Giants Get Away With Everything

Rachel Bovard, NY Post

The Real Issue With Nicki Minaj

Peggy Drexler, CNN

The Boys Who Cried Wolf on Covid's Origins

Khaled Talaat, Tablet Magazine

Direction of Country (Reuters): Right Direction 24%, Wrong Direction 61% | More

More From Real Clear

Civics: 1776 Unites Curriculum and the American Character - Mike Sabo, RCPA

Defense: Why Nuclear Subs for Australia Make Sense - James Holmes, 1945

Markets: Global Warming Alarmism in 'Reminiscence' - Aaron Brown, RCMarkets

Life: How Stand-Up World Will Remember Norm Macdonald - InsideHook

Sports: Will Shocking NFL Upsets Continue in Week 2? - Evan Bleier

Videos

Biden: Pandemic "Does Present Us With An Opportunity" To Remake The Economy

Psaki To Newsmax: "Not Accurate" That Biden Is "Cutting" Antibody Treatment Supply To Florida

Buzzfeed

GOP Sen. Barrasso: "General Milley Needs To Testify Under Oath About What Really Happened"

Buzzfeed

Tucker Carlson: Our Leaders See Illegal Immigrants As "A Tool To Change The Country Forever"

RCP Morning Edition

Can U.S. Afford to Become a Major Social Welfare State?

Gregory Mankiw, NYT

Biden's Spending Plan Is First & Foremost a Jobs Plan

Robert Kuttner, TAP

Dems' Spending Bill Trashes the American Work Ethic

Betsy McCaughey, NY Post

Why Biden Must Relieve Milley of His Duty

Lt Col Daniel L Davis (ret), The Guardian

It's Trump's Fault Milley Was in Such a Terrible Position

Tom Nichols, The Atlantic

If Biden Mandates Vaccines, SD Will See Him in Court

Gov. Kristi Noem, USA Today

Republican Contradictions Over Biden's Vaccine Mandate

Will Saletan, Slate

A Renewed, Intensified Crisis at the Border

Byron York, Washington Examiner

A Big Win for Newsom, But a Bigger Defeat for GOP

Lincoln Mitchell, CNN

Virginia, Not California, Will Provide Lessons for 2022

Susan Crabtree, RCP

Liz Cheney Faces Big Trouble in Wyoming

Chilton Williamson Jr., Spectator World

Nicki Minaj Is Now a QAnon Hero

E.J. Dickson, Rolling Stone

Minaj Causes Establishment to Go to DEFCON 1

Jim Geraghty, National Review

The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet

Brian Chen, NY Times

Leaks Renew Concern Over Facebook's Fact-Checking Sway

Kalev Leetaru, RCP

FBI's Handling of Nassar Case Awful But Unsurprising

Moira Donegan, Guardian

Eight Reasons to Love the Constitution

Dan McLaughlin, National Review

Virginia Governor (Emerson): McAuliffe (D) 49, Youngkin (R) 45 | More Polls

Editorials

Dems' Plan to Tax the Rich Is Sound

New York Daily News

'Tax the Rich'? Sorry, AOC, But We Already Do

Washington Examiner

FBI's Stunning Mishandling of the Larry Nassar Case

Dallas Morning News

Congress Must Uncover Truth About Milley Allegations

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Essential Reading

Restoring Trust and Security in Florida Elections From Bush v. Gore to Covid-19, 2000-2020

Over those past two decades, Florida’s...

Report on the November 2020 Election in Michigan

This Committee undertook the foundational...

In the News

Norm Ornstein and Dennis Aftergut, The Atlantic

A Hinge Point for Voting Rights
Tony Woodlief, RealClearPolitics

All Agree: Better Voting Access and Security Are Needed

Multimedia

Eric Holder On GOP Voting Laws: They Are Subverting Our Democracy

Larry Elder: "We All Ought to Be Looking at Election Integrity"

Making Your Vote Count: Election Integrity in Texas and the U.S.

Virginia, Not California, Will Provide Lessons for '22

In the wake of a big statewide campaign win of any kind, political pundits rev into overdrive with broad pronouncements about the takeaways and what the result reveals about the mood of the nation. Often, the results are more prosaic — simply the political status quo for that particular state or district in that specific slice of time.Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s smackdown of the recall was Read More

Biden Administration

Lawmakers Rip Blinken Over Green Card Holders Left Behind

They can live, work, and travel freely within the country, must pay their taxes, and those age 18-25 are even required to register with the Selective Service to potentially defend the nation in times of emergency. According to recent estimates, there are nearly 14 million green-card holders within the United States, many of them eligible to apply for full citizenship.Yet, the federal government do Read More

Analysis & Commentary

Cortes: Biden's Medical Apartheid

Events this weekend showcased the intense bifurcation of America into two separate realities. As our country observed the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, former presidents gathered, sans Donald Trump, in New York for a solemn ceremony — wearing masks even though they are fully vaccinated and were outside. In Shanksville, Pa., George W. Bush leveraged the occasion to take a not-very-veiled Read More