RealClearPolitics Saturday
Trump Job Approval: Ipsos 44% | Rasmussen 50% | YouGov 46% | RCP Avg 45%
Sunday, July 21
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Lawmakers from both parties on Wednesday will finally have the opportunity to question Robert Mueller about his Russia investigation. Read More
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Dear Bill de Blasio, Everyone knows you're a terrible mayor — maybe the worst in the past 100 years. But can't you at least pretend... Read More
Jamie Dimon and other big-earning CEOs are bankrolling the Republican assault on America. They must work to stop it Read More
It was comically bad. Mitt Romney was running for president against Barack Obama. President Obama was presiding over an economy still hobbled... Read More
Wednesday night at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, a sea of white faces in red hats bellowed Read More
US Senator Rand Paul reportedly spoke with Iran's foreign minister this week with the president's permission, and some experts believe the... Read More
It seems that the one thing the left and the right can agree on is that our nation no longer enjoys a binding cult of ideological unity,... Read More
Like it or not, demography is destiny and the destiny of the United States is diversity. Read More
The squad is destroying the Democratic Party as we have known it. Read More
Last week, the President wasn't just attacking four congresswomen of color; he was reanimating ideas whose prevalence wreaked havoc in the... Read More
Don't exaggerate the significance of raucous chants. Read More
Like nearly everyone else to ever leave his homeland, I would like to go back to where I came from. I would like to have continued to live in... Read More
One is an ungrateful refugee from a war-torn African nation who consistently demeans the country that saved her and her family. Another is a... Read More
The tragedy of today’s Republican Party lies partly in how far it has tumbled from its heights. Read More
Three significant anniversaries passed this week. Only two have truly been noted. First, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the moon... Read More
The American flag is bleached white. But some of the boot prints could remain undisturbed for tens of thousands of years. Read More
President Trump has made it our national policy to return to the moon in the next five years – and this time, we will stay. Read More
All politicians, from Donald Trump to Elizabeth Warren, portray themselves as fighting for the middle class and working families. Read More
If the Democratic presidential candidates who will be swarming all over Detroit the next two weeks are asking “What do black... Read More
It can't be left to black Americans alone to resist the president's racism. Citizens of all colours need to resist, and embrace activism Read More
Just when you think our political culture can’t sink any lower, the race card gets tossed onto the table, as those who know how to play... Read More
The senator from Massachusetts is on the verge of turning her campaign into something much larger. Read More
For months Republicans have been falsely claiming that Democrats believe in open borders That's starting to have the ring of truth. Read More
The former VP has tied himself closely to the president he served. His primary opponents are trying to complicate that. Read More
The circus is coming to town and the carnival barkers are working up a sweat trying to spark interest. So far, ticket sales are slow. Robert... Read More
A political rise fueled by laughter is about to get serious Read More
There will be furious embarrassment in the British government this evening over Iran's seizure of two British oil tankers today. One of those... Read More
The decision by the Trump administration to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement was a huge strategic mistake. Read More
Hawley may run one day as a Liz Warren of the Right: a policy wonk, economic populist. But like Warren, he risks an uneven foreign policy Read More
The right can foster national solidarity or impose its social values on an increasingly diverse and secular country, but it can't do both. Read More
There was no child separation for the little family that washed up last month. The Salvadoran father and his young daughter drowned together,... Read More
Female waxers are being branded 'transphobic' because they refused to wax a trans-woman's bollocks. Read More
Locals say Epstein was flying in underage girls long after his conviction for sex crimes—and authorities did nothing to stop him. It... Read More
Responding to news that journalist Andy Ngo had been beaten by antifa protestors in Portland last month, a woman named Charlotte Clymer... Read More
Since she was elected to the House of Representatives, the Somali-born congresswoman has not shied away from voicing her support for BDS or... Read More
Donald Trump's victory in 2016 has emboldened all sorts of improbable candidates to think they have a chance to win in 2020. This is not... Read More
Until Congress steps in with a substantial immigration overhaul, the administration is left with few other options Read More
Men like the late Supreme Court justice are all too increasingly rare. Read More
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The election of 2020 will be one of the most defining elections in American history. Read More
The primary effect of the President's rant was to shine a spotlight on Trump himself, and to remind so many Americans why they disapprove of... Read More
Or will Trump define it for them? Read More
With the U.S. economy producing another strong jobs report for June, Democratic presidential hopefuls face a difficult task: how to avoid... Read More
David Axelrod says Joe Biden is likely to face criticism by two of his most aggressive attackers and several feisty progressives who are... Read More
No one doubts that the biggest achievement of the July 20, 1969, lunar landing was simply getting there. It was a monumental triumph of will... Read More
Getting Tough on Trade Is Just the First Step Read More
The latest escalation between the United States and Iran is of a pattern with many of the Islamic Republic's confrontations with regional and... Read More
Nowhere is the collapse of the Democratic Party as a coherent political organization more evident than in the astounding metamorphosis of... Read More
Russians and others won't stay out of 2020. But they'll be able to amplify US-created disinformation and have more time to disrupt 2020... Read More
Under President Trump, America has maintained the lowest unemployment rate in nearly 50 years, there are more jobs opportunities than there... Read More
The curious journey of the unproven rumor that Omar married her brother to get him citizenship—from an obscure Somali diaspora forum to... Read More
The grand question of our time may very well be the simple one of whether the United States deserves not only to be defended but preserved. Read More
President Trump has presided over undeniably successful deregulation efforts across the executive branch. At his re-election campaign... Read More
America's urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births. Read More
One of the figures at the heart of the Epstein imbroglio is Virginia Roberts Giuffre, whom I have never met, writes Alan Dershowitz Read More
President Trump generated an uproar this week with his widely condemned comments regarding four Democratic lawmakers of color, coupled with a... Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has selected lawyer Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his new labor secretary.Trump tweeted news of the planned nomination on Thursday evening, less than a week after his previous secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned amid renewed criticism of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffr Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats approved legislation Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, to $15 an hour, transforming an issue that once splintered the party into a benchmark for the 2020 election.Even though the bill has little chance of passing the Republican-led Senate, or being signed into law by President Donald Trump, the outcome pushes the phased-i Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — No votes have been cast in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, but the winnowing has begun.A distinct top tier of candidates is breaking away from the pack in early polling and fundraising, building distance between themselves and the rest of the bloated field. Although the first nominating contest in Iowa is still more than six months away, tighter qualifying stand Read More
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