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‘Defenders of Democracy’ Staged a Cover-up and Coup
David Harsanyi, NYP
Annals of Self-Delusion
Scott Johnson, PowerLine
The Politics of Crisis
Fred Bauer, City Journal
Disastrous Congressional Testimony
Jessica Costescu, Free Beacon
Lawmakers Call on Secret Service Director to Resign
Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC
This Is the End of the Democratic Party as We Knew It
Joel Kotkin, spiked
Who Is in Charge of America?
Malcom Kyeyune, UnHerd
Biden Conspiracy Is Nearly Three Years Old
Charles C. W. Cooke, NR
Democrats Are Owned By Rich Donors
Derek Hunter, Townhall
Kamala Harris Is the Underdog
Andrew Prokop, Vox
It Seems Biden May Have Finally Had Enough of Netanyahu
Hafiz Rashid, TNR
Do Kamala Harris and the Dems Have a Jewish Problem?
Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
It's Over! How Dem Elites Locked in Harris
Hans Nichols, Axios
Harris Is the Clear Choice of Democratic Voters
Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin
GOP Scrambles to Face New Presidential Opponent
Bradley Devlin, TAC
Best Possible Way for Harris to Launch a Run for President
Josh Barro, Very Serious
The Beginning of the End of Woketopia
Sasha Stone, Fourth Turning
The Curious Case of the Missing President
Oliver Wiseman, The Free Press
Should Biden Resign From the Presidency?
Bevan, Cannon, Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
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Podcasts

Biden's Out. Harris Is in. Everyone Else Is Screwed.
Editors, Reason
Fact Check: Stop With the False 'False Claims'
Jerry Rogers, WBAL NewsRadio
Is the Democrats' Blue Wall Cracking?
Editors, Real Clear Quick Take
No Longer Biden His Time
Eric Kohn, The Acton Institute

Research

Failure to Protect Migrant Children
Charlotte Hazard, JTN
Poll: Independent Voters Move Away From Biden
Casey Harper, The Center Square
TOP 10 Falsehoods About Trump Debunked
Staff, Off the Press
The Worst Media Coverage Following Trump Assassination Attempt
Staff, AIM

Censorship

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RCI's Benjamin Weingarten: Testimony on Censorship at Committee on Small Business
HOUSE REPORT | Garm's Harm: How The World's Biggest Brands Seek to Control Online Speech

In the News

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RCI's Benjamin Weingarten Testifies on Censorship at Committee on Small Business
Shapiro: Lack of Transparency in NewsGuard's Standards Is A Weapon Used Against One Side Of The Political Aisle

Religious Liberty Around The World

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Religious Freedom – Critical Challenge in a Critical Election Year
British politics has served up its latest surprise and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has revealed his inner masochist, calling a snap General Election to be held on July 4. The vote is four months earlie...
Chinese ‘Mayflower Church’ Celebrates One Year of Freedom
One year ago, a group of 63 exiled Chinese Christians ended their tumultuous four-year journey to find a refuge where they could practice their faith without fear of Chinese Communist Party persecutio...
Pressure Grows on MIT President To Stop Antisemitic Incidents
When unrest began to roil university campuses across the United States in the weeks after Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, many faculty and administrators thought it was only temporary ...
Alarming Religious Freedom Trends in Democracies Demand Attention
We’re not surprised by news of religious persecution in China, where Uyghurs and other religious minorities are disappearing into a vast and growing system of gulags and “reeducation&rdquo...

State and Local

FL Latest Hot Spot for Anti-Protest Legislation
Amelia Pollard, American Prospect
Las Vegas Mayor Right to Call for End to Shutdown
Robert Fellner, NPRI
Auditor Probing NM Gov's Use of Slush Fund
Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
CA City Becomes First in US to Ban New Gas Stations
Dharna Noor, Gizmodo

More From Real Clear

RealClearPolicy Monday

A Decade of Conspiracists?
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Nine Days in July
Tevi Troy, City Journal
'We’re All Finding Out by Tweet'
Michael Shellenberger, X (formerly Twitter)
Joe Biden Is too Frail to Run but He’s Still President?
Miranda Devine, New York Post
Joe Biden Should Resign the Presidency
The Editors, National Review
Biden’s Withdrawal Could Trigger 25th Amendment Fight
Jonathan Turley, The Hill
Unholy Alliance
Ben Weingarten, The American Mind
The Refs Are Working Us
M. Anthony Mills, New Atlantis
Can Kamala Harris Beat Donald Trump?
Eli Lake, The Free Press
It’s Been Easy to Forget How Bad Kamala Harris Is
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason
Harris Candidacy and the Stock Market: ‘She’s Not Stable’
Charles Gasparino, NYP
The Secret Service in the Line of Fire
Michael J. Ard, Discourse
Inflation Reduction Act Is Being Unmasked
Ken Blackwell, RealClearPolicy
We Need More Cosmopolitan Christians
Thomas Dias, Acton Institute
Patriotism and the Paris Olympics
Dave Seminara, City Journal
Excommunicate Bibi
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect
Implications/Audiences of Netanyahu’s Address to Congress
Alex Traiman, JNS
Biden Has Failed in Israel and Gaza
Red Jahncke, RealClearPolicy
What Project 2025 Would Mean for Climate Policies
Zoya Teirstein, Mother Jones
We’re All Getting Sick of the Lectures on Climate Change
Julie Burchill, spiked

PM Update

Democrats Reap What They Sowed
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Restoration
Democrats Will Pay for the Biden Big Lie
Matthew Hennessey, WSJ
The Art of Democratic Democracide
Victor Davis Hanson, X (formerly Twitter)
Democrats Flunk Democracy
Carson Holloway, The American Mind
After Biden, the Democrats Should Welcome Defeat
Joel Kotkin, UnHerd
Biden's Final Flip-Flop
Jacob Sullum, Reason
VP Kamala Harris Had 92-Percent Staff Turnover
Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks
Kamala Harris: Politically More Extreme
Hans Bader, Liberty Unyielding
Could Republicans Sue to Keep Biden on the Ballot?
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Nancy Pelosi Did What She’s Always Done
Tim Murphy, Mother Jones
Some Advice for the Democrats
Claire Berlinski, The Cosmopolitan Globalist
The Kamala Gamble
Michael Baharaeen, Persuasion
The Winners and Losers of Biden’s Decision
Oliver Wiseman, The Free Press
Is the Democrats' Blue Wall Cracking?
MSNBC Claiming Team Trump Is Panicking Following Biden's Exit From the Race
Trump Says 'I'm Not Supposed to Be Here Tonight,' Crowd Chants: 'Yes You Are'
JD Vance: "America Is Not Just an Idea... It Is a Nation"

RealClearPolicy Charts

Five Facts on How to Win a Presidential Election

With this week’s GOP primary debate, the race for the White House is well underway. But beyond the campaign rallies and political ads lies a complex system that governs how the U.S. elects its...

‘Defenders of Democracy’ Staged a Cover-up and Coup

David Harsanyi, NYP

Like Biden, Kamala will be a useful proxy for those who propped up her candidacy and perhaps her presidency. Read More

Annals of Self-Delusion

Scott Johnson, PowerLine

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz led the pack of Democratic governors who met with President Biden in the White House on July 3. I documented... Read More

The Politics of Crisis

Fred Bauer, City Journal

Joe Biden’s presidency was undone by the same forces it unleashed. Read More

Disastrous Congressional Testimony

Jessica Costescu, Free Beacon

Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle repeatedly refused to answer the House Oversight and Accountability Committee's basic questions... Read More

Lawmakers Call on Secret Service Director to Resign

Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC

Both parties called on Kimberly Cheatle to resign during a bruising hearing about security lapses that led to the Trump rally shooting. Read More

This Is the End of the Democratic Party as We Knew It

Joel Kotkin, spiked

Joe Biden’s withdrawal will open the floodgates to unrestrained California-style progressivism. Read More

Who Is in Charge of America?

Malcom Kyeyune, UnHerd

On Sunday, the impossible finally came to pass. Joe Biden, after swearing that only the Lord Almighty himself could compel him to step down... Read More

Biden Conspiracy Is Nearly Three Years Old

Charles C. W. Cooke, NR

This can’t be swept under the carpet. Read More

Democrats Are Owned By Rich Donors

Derek Hunter, Townhall

If you’ve ever seen the classic “King Kong,” at the end when Kong is lying dead at the base of the Empire State Building,... Read More

Kamala Harris Is the Underdog

Andrew Prokop, Vox

Democrats have high hopes, but she’s starting off down in polls and faces challenges ahead. Read More

It Seems Biden May Have Finally Had Enough of Netanyahu

Hafiz Rashid, TNR

Just one day after Biden announced he’s withdrawing from the 2024 race, his team may have an ominous message for Israeli Prime Minister... Read More

Do Kamala Harris and the Dems Have a Jewish Problem?

Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS

Fealty to a toxic woke ideology is linked to their worries about offending antisemitic voters. Read More

It's Over! How Dem Elites Locked in Harris

Hans Nichols, Axios

The Democratic establishment, with breathtaking speed, pushed a struggling President Biden out of his bid for reelection. Now... Read More

Harris Is the Clear Choice of Democratic Voters

Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin

Kamala Harris is very likely to be the Democratic nominee for president. Just how likely? Read More

GOP Scrambles to Face New Presidential Opponent

Bradley Devlin, TAC

The Democrats aren’t the only ones caught flat-footed by Biden dropping from the race. Read More

Best Possible Way for Harris to Launch a Run for President

Josh Barro, Very Serious

She exists in the context of all in which she lives and what came before her. Read More

The Beginning of the End of Woketopia

Sasha Stone, Fourth Turning

When Hollywood decides it's running the country it's all over but the shouting. Read More

The Curious Case of the Missing President

Oliver Wiseman, The Free Press

We haven’t seen Joe Biden for days. No wonder conspiracy theories are flying. Read More

Should Biden Resign From the Presidency?

Bevan, Cannon, Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM

Monday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth discuss the first day of the Kamala Harris... Read More

Podcasts

Biden's Out. Harris Is in. Everyone Else Is Screwed.

Editors, Reason

On this week's Reason Roundtable, we assess the state of the 2024 presidential race after Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection. Read More

Fact Check: Stop With the False 'False Claims'

Jerry Rogers, WBAL NewsRadio

Join host Jerry Rogers as he scrutinizes the role of media in shaping political narratives, particularly around former President Donald... Read More

Is the Democrats' Blue Wall Cracking?

Editors, Real Clear Quick Take

#RealClearQuickTake #RCPQuickTake #Election2024 #Trump #Biden #Harris Read More

No Longer Biden His Time

Eric Kohn, The Acton Institute

This week, Eric is joined by Dylan and Peter Balos from Acton’s Emerging Leaders class to discuss President Joe Biden’s decision not to... Read More

Research

Failure to Protect Migrant Children

Charlotte Hazard, JTN

Officials have told Congress the government can’t vouch for the whereabouts of 85,000 migrant children let into the country under Biden,... Read More

Poll: Independent Voters Move Away From Biden

Casey Harper, The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump holds a lead over President Joe Biden just a few months away from election day. Read More

TOP 10 Falsehoods About Trump Debunked

Staff, Off the Press

Following the first presidential debate, pundits across mainstream media claimed Donald Trump’s responses were blatant lies ....  Read More

The Worst Media Coverage Following Trump Assassination Attempt

Staff, AIM

Reporting following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has been broadly criticized. Some of them were the consequence... Read More

Censorship

Sponsored Curation Powered By:

Essential Reading

RCI's Benjamin Weingarten: Testimony on Censorship at Committee on Small Business
HOUSE REPORT | Garm's Harm: How The World's Biggest Brands Seek to Control Online Speech

In the News

Multimedia

RCI's Benjamin Weingarten On The Fed-Led Proxy Effort to Abridge Free Speech and a Free Press
RCI's Benjamin Weingarten Testifies on Censorship at Committee on Small Business
Shapiro: Lack of Transparency in NewsGuard's Standards Is A Weapon Used Against One Side Of The Political Aisle

Religious Liberty Around The World

Curation Powered By:
Religious Freedom – Critical Challenge in a Critical Election Year
British politics has served up its latest surprise and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has revealed his inner masochist, calling a snap General Election to be held on July 4. The vote is four months earlie...
Chinese ‘Mayflower Church’ Celebrates One Year of Freedom
One year ago, a group of 63 exiled Chinese Christians ended their tumultuous four-year journey to find a refuge where they could practice their faith without fear of Chinese Communist Party persecutio...
Pressure Grows on MIT President To Stop Antisemitic Incidents
When unrest began to roil university campuses across the United States in the weeks after Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, many faculty and administrators thought it was only temporary ...
Alarming Religious Freedom Trends in Democracies Demand Attention
We’re not surprised by news of religious persecution in China, where Uyghurs and other religious minorities are disappearing into a vast and growing system of gulags and “reeducation&rdquo...

State and Local

FL Latest Hot Spot for Anti-Protest Legislation

Amelia Pollard, American Prospect

Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvin’s knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a week’s worth of rallies... Read More

Las Vegas Mayor Right to Call for End to Shutdown

Robert Fellner, NPRI

In a statement issued last week, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman once again called for an end to Governor Sisolak’s indefinite... Read More

Auditor Probing NM Gov's Use of Slush Fund

Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

While New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the closing of certain grocery stores over COVID-19 concerns, she spent $16,248 in... Read More

CA City Becomes First in US to Ban New Gas Stations

Dharna Noor, Gizmodo

Officials from Petaluma, California have decided their city has enough places to fill up gas-powered cars. Last week, the local city council... Read More

More From Real Clear

RealClearPolicy Monday

A Decade of Conspiracists?

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Who has most peddled conspiracy allegations the last nine years—all of them false and nearly all of them influencing national elections and... Read More

Nine Days in July

Tevi Troy, City Journal

What historic times are these. Read More

'We’re All Finding Out by Tweet'

Michael Shellenberger, X (formerly Twitter)

Joe Biden has just announced he’s not running for re-election and will support Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy... Read More

Joe Biden Is too Frail to Run but He’s Still President?

Miranda Devine, New York Post

We’re still stuck with Joe Biden as president for six months. He might have passed the political torch to VP Kamala Harris but he still has... Read More

Joe Biden Should Resign the Presidency

The Editors, National Review

Dropping out of the race was the first step, but given his rapid mental decline, he should take the logical next step. Read More

Biden’s Withdrawal Could Trigger 25th Amendment Fight

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw as the Democratic Party’s nominee solved an immediate problem for his party.... Read More

Unholy Alliance

Ben Weingarten, The American Mind

Thanks to progressives in the Obama and Biden administrations, America is trending in a direction favorable to our Islamic supremacist foes. Read More

The Refs Are Working Us

M. Anthony Mills, New Atlantis

Fact-checking used to be how journalists policed themselves. Now it’s how they police everyone else. Read More

Can Kamala Harris Beat Donald Trump?

Eli Lake, The Free Press

She needs to gain voters’ trust, unify the party, and prove she can compete in Pennsylvania. After all that, she still has a steep hill to... Read More

It’s Been Easy to Forget How Bad Kamala Harris Is

Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason

Harris the horrible campaigner and Harris the cop can be easy to forget if you're only considering what Harris has done lately. Read More

Harris Candidacy and the Stock Market: ‘She’s Not Stable’

Charles Gasparino, NYP

Brace yourself for more market turbulence as investors try to predict a Democratic ticket and its chances of beating Trump. Read More

The Secret Service in the Line of Fire

Michael J. Ard, Discourse

After its stunning security failure on July 13, investigators must press for overdue and major reforms Read More

Inflation Reduction Act Is Being Unmasked

Ken Blackwell, RealClearPolicy

My, how things have changed in the past few weeks. By the time the Republican National Convention convened, the Democrats had hoped to be... Read More

We Need More Cosmopolitan Christians

Thomas Dias, Acton Institute

Big cities have big problems but are also big opportunities not only to spread the gospel but to learn from and take advantage of the... Read More

Patriotism and the Paris Olympics

Dave Seminara, City Journal

Much has been said about Donald Trump becoming a “unity” candidate after last week’s attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania. This... Read More

Excommunicate Bibi

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

At the Republicans’ behest, Netanyahu will speak to Congress on Wednesday. What better time to figuratively cast him out? Read More

Implications/Audiences of Netanyahu’s Address to Congress

Alex Traiman, JNS

Netanyahu understands that the entire world will be paying attention to this high-stakes address, even amid other global crises. He is likely... Read More

Biden Has Failed in Israel and Gaza

Red Jahncke, RealClearPolicy

Now that Joe Biden has stepped down as Democrat candidate for president and endorsed Kamala Harris, the question arises whether he should... Read More

What Project 2025 Would Mean for Climate Policies

Zoya Teirstein, Mother Jones

As delegates arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this week to officially nominate former president Donald... Read More

We’re All Getting Sick of the Lectures on Climate Change

Julie Burchill, spiked

Now doctors are being enlisted to scare us witless about the environment. Read More

PM Update

Democrats Reap What They Sowed

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Restoration

President Joe Biden has announced that he is withdrawing his candidacy for re-election. Other incumbents have thrown in the towel, opting not... Read More

Democrats Will Pay for the Biden Big Lie

Matthew Hennessey, WSJ

By dropping out, he removes all doubt that Americans were played for suckers. Read More

The Art of Democratic Democracide

Victor Davis Hanson, X (formerly Twitter)

Democrats are destroying democracy by engineering a veritable coup through forcing out Biden from the race—but not from the... Read More

Democrats Flunk Democracy

Carson Holloway, The American Mind

Party insiders destroy the process in order to save it. Read More

After Biden, the Democrats Should Welcome Defeat

Joel Kotkin, UnHerd

Had Joe Biden remained the Democrats’ presidential candidate, the party would have faced the prospect of a loss, even a drubbing, in... Read More

Biden's Final Flip-Flop

Jacob Sullum, Reason

The president's decision to drop out after insisting he never would continued a pattern established by a long career of politically... Read More

VP Kamala Harris Had 92-Percent Staff Turnover

Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks

Chaos reigns on the vice president’s staff. And Harris tried to hide it by claiming that her office is not subject to the Freedom of... Read More

Kamala Harris: Politically More Extreme

Hans Bader, Liberty Unyielding

Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him. That means that America... Read More

Could Republicans Sue to Keep Biden on the Ballot?

Ian Millhiser, Vox

Speaker Mike Johnson’s threat to challenge Vice President Harris’s nomination in court should be frivolous. But who knows with this... Read More

Nancy Pelosi Did What She’s Always Done

Tim Murphy, Mother Jones

The former speaker didn’t just help drive Joe Biden from the presidential race. She may have saved her legacy. Read More

Some Advice for the Democrats

Claire Berlinski, The Cosmopolitan Globalist

Trump isn't invincible. But you guys are screwups. So please, pay attention. Read More

The Kamala Gamble

Michael Baharaeen, Persuasion

Kamala Harris’ entrance shakes up the race, but she has real liabilities. Read More

The Winners and Losers of Biden’s Decision

Oliver Wiseman, The Free Press

The media. Donald Trump. The president’s recently convicted son. Who benefited from Joe dropping out? The answers may surprise you. Read More

Is the Democrats' Blue Wall Cracking?
MSNBC Claiming Team Trump Is Panicking Following Biden's Exit From the Race
Trump Says 'I'm Not Supposed to Be Here Tonight,' Crowd Chants: 'Yes You Are'
JD Vance: "America Is Not Just an Idea... It Is a Nation"

RealClearPolicy Charts

Five Facts on How to Win a Presidential Election

With this week’s GOP primary debate, the race for the White House is well underway. But beyond the campaign rallies and political ads lies a complex system that governs how the U.S. elects its...

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