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Teaching Kids Scarcity in an Age of Abundance

Students head back to classrooms this month. Many arrive already convinced their future is hopeless.

Ukraine's Long Shot

The country may have hoped that deeper drone attacks would cause Russians to protest the war, but mass demonstrations don't look likely.

Ceuta Tests Spain's Border, Exposes Britain's

The arrival of approximately 80,000 Moroccans at Ceuta highlights challenges in Europe's immigration policy and the contrasting approaches of Spain and the U.S. government.

The Prestige Industrial Complex

On this week's episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with the Substacker who writes under the pseudonym "Yuri Bezmenov" (he'll tell us why) about his reporting on the network of awards, fellowship, teaching gigs and other lucrative and prestigious incentives that reward people who espouse progressive ideas.

Did Trump's Harvard Loss Conceal a Strategic Victory?

It's hard to tell in the middle of a president's term how much he's changing the country. Donald Trump's second presidency has seemed transformative on many fronts - trade, immigration and culture - but he has mostly pursued his objectives through unilateral executive actions rather than legislation. Genuinely transformative presidencies notch achievements that last; Democrats can reverse much of

What Tasks Was Rep. Swalwell Performing for China?

OANN's Jack Posobiec speculated about this new report from "Just The Nes about Rep. Eric Swalwell's relationship with an alleged Chinese spy, Monday on Bannon's "War Room."

Hey, Your AI Is Showing

It's obvious to anyone with an internet connection that AI-generated content is all over the place. Still, case-by-case determinations are often difficult to make. For every piece of unapologetic copy-and-paste chatbot content, there's a student essay with a style that's suspicious but not quite dispositive, an avatar that's polished but not implausible, or a LinkedIn post that's useless and annoy

Warsh Is Wise To Ditch the Dots

The first major component of Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's reform agenda to be implemented is the elimination of "forward guidance" by the Federal Open Market Committee and Fed officials as to future policy positions. The FOMC's postmeeting statements have seen a 49% reduction in word count from one year ago, its minutes have slimmed down by 24%, and the number of speeches made by Fed gov

What Trump's Obsession With Small-Dollar Fraud Reveals

Who gets cracked down on, and who gets off easy?

Milwaukee's Latest Election Mess a Bit of History Repeating

Milwaukee has a way of coming up with just enough votes the Democrat machine needs to win swing state Wisconsin. Call it a 'lair for drama.'

Boys Will Be Boys--But in the WNBA?

Illinois Spent Big. Who Was Watching the Bills?

Energy Needs Pro­jec­ted To Boom. Bat­tery Stor­age Must Grow, Too

Democrat Court-Packing Scheme Would Destroy Nation

Europe's Existential Crisis

Pregnant in Public

On Usha Vance and right-coding motherhood.

Housing Bill Trump Shrugged Off Is Half the Answer

The new law attacks barriers to housing construction. The president still has enormous power to determine who can afford to own.

Why Texas May Soon Have More People Than California

Texas is now slated to pass California in population, driven both by both immigration and domestic migration.

Fake News: The Long History

Head Start Has Never Worked

The Trump administration should have stood its ground in its earlier effort to zero out the failed Great Society program.

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U.S. Universities Are Sliding Into Decline

U.S. colleges are losing their edge as cuts, high costs, fewer international students, and departing scholars weaken American universities.

Dem Governors Get an F for Blocking Education Freedom

Hey, governors, leave them kids alone!

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The Cost of Keeping China Out

How Washington's fear of Chinese investment hurts American competitiveness.

What Our Spies Cut Out of the China File

The story is not that China declined to fire every weapon it built. It is that China built them, still holds them, and can deploy them in the next election.

Wait...How Much Oil Is Actually Leaving the Persian Gulf?

Iran and Trump's Midterm Malaise

USS Lincoln: Performance For the Ages

Democrats' Woke Era Was Crazy, But It's Also Fixable

It wasn't the ideas that were the problem. It was the execution.

El-Sayed and the Ongoing Conflict Within Democratic Party

The Michigan Senate race will likely be decided by voters who dislike both President Donald Trump and socialist candidate Abdul el Sayed.

Simple Reason Gas Prices Could Cost GOP in November

The combination of a midterm election and high gas prices could be difficult for Republicans to overcome - but there's good reason to believe it could actually be worse this year for the GOP.

Republicans Are Repeating Democrats' Biggest Mistake

Democrats' Extremism Will Surely Backfire

Instead of mocking or maligning President Donald Trump, Democrats are trying to win by mimicking him.

What Happens When Millennials Take Over?

Welcome to Type A-

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Red States Will Pay as GOP Ditches Federalism

The Republican Party once treated state government authority as sacred. Now it regards that authority as an inconvenience.

Neoliberalism's Successors Are Cracking Up

With Trump, the Buck Always Stops Somewhere Else

Former President Harry Truman famously kept a The Buck Stops Here sign on his White House desk. But the current president, Donald Trump, often veers from that motto of taking responsibility.

Woke 2.0 Trades Identity Politics for Israel Bashing

What the Mecca Defense Pact Means

The agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan may herald a new Middle East.

The Trouble With Taming Odysseus

Christopher Nolan wants to tell a fundamentally different story than Homer told.

Reinventing the Sabbath

'Talladega Nights' Predicted America's Sunbelt Shift

Twenty years ago, Will Ferrell's stock car manchild presaged an overheated era of US culture

Eric Zemmour and 'The Suicide of France'

The Gaul of it!

The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

Michigan Thinks Freshmen Can't Handle Getting Grades

Two elite universities already tried protecting freshmen from hard truths - and walked it back. University of Michigan hasn't gotten the memo.

A Time Capsule of Free-Range Childhood

The kids have guns and cigarettes, and sure as hell want to see a dead body. 'Stand by Me' would horrify helicopter parents, but it's worth rewatching, writes Kat Rosenfield.

How We Got Fewer and Worse Schools

Democrats' Pick in Wisconsin Shows a Shift in Priorities

The safe pick looks a lot different than it did in 2018.

Bessent Makes the Economic Case for Deportations

Scott Bessent links mass deportations to rising wages, lower rents, and economic improvement in the US.

Something Wonderfully British About the Farage Situation

Nigel Farage and the Great Westminster Vanishing Act

Fidel Castro's Centenary and Cuba's Kleptocratic Legacy

As Fidel Castro's centenary approaches, Cuba's elite thrive in luxury while the majority suffer from extreme poverty and failing infrastructure that the regime neglects.

Let Us Not Forget Multilateral Institutions

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Finnish President Alexander Stubb recently laid out a road map for middle-power action in The Economist, having recognized the importance of actively taking on the world as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be. Their joint commentary is a summer sequel to Carney's viral speech at Davos in January and Stubb's December Foreign Affairs article

The 10 Best College Football Towns in America

Iowa's Energy Grid Isn't a Riverboat Casino

Just Say It: Plastic Surgery Is Bad for Us

Women online are reversing their plastic surgery-but all of them caveat their posts with 'I don't want to judge!' Freya India asks: Why not?

Ozempic Is Not Just a Weight-Loss Story Anymore

The Unmaking of Jason Arday

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When Astronomy Morphs Into Astrology

Greatest Risk to Hollywood Isn't the Merger--It's the Delay

With a federal antitrust trial now set for March, uncertainty could stall projects and shrink production jobs for months.

Hasan Piker Should Not Be Silenced

Hasan Piker should not be silenced. The radical leftist influencer has burst onto the political scene as a self-styled Marxist kingmaker and viewpoint enforcer.

Why Don't Lefties Do Better Among Working-Class?