October 17, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

Sunday, October 18
France Reels After Largest Riots in Years
Porter & Le Stradic, New York Times
The Truth About the Anarchy in France
Gavin Mortimer, Spectator World
DSA Has a Plan To Push Hakeem Jeffries to the Left
Maya Davis, Wall Street Journal
Mamdani Gets Lesson From DSA About Leftist Loyalties
Michael Goodwin, NY Post
I Joined the DSA After They Accepted My 12 Proposals
Larry David, AIR MAIL
GOP Finally Won US' Most Hispanic County. Can They Keep It?
Daniel Allott, USAT
Iowa's Hinson on Top Voter Concerns, Pushback vs. Trump
Bret Baier, FOX News
Can Paxton Outrun Scandals To Win in Ruby-Red Texas?
J. Oliver Conroy, Guardian
Michigan Dems Urged To 'Leave It Blank' To Stop El-Sayed
Nolan Finley, Detroit News
The Real Reason MAGA Fears Rep. Omar
Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Deport Rep. Omar? Feds Are Closing In
Kelly Sadler, Washington Times
A Carton of Milk Lasts Longer Than Trump's Press Secretary
Lorraine Ali, LA Times
Why Democrat Activists Pretend To Be 'Journalists'
Hans Mahncke, The Federalist
Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Has Broken My Brain
Monica Hesse, Washington Post
Did Nathan Fielder Get Too Close to Elizabeth Holmes?
Kat Rosenfield, The Free Press
The Radicalization of Tucker Carlson
Matt Johnson, Quillette
Musk Takes Flight While the Left Takes Offense
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
TDIH - Oct 18th 2nd Term Job Approval: Trump 38.9 | Obama 42.0 | Bush 38.2
Saturday, October 17
The Rise and Fall of Katie Zacharia
Lumetta & Crabtree, RealClearPolitics
Zacharia Fired After Just 5 Days: 'Did Anyone Vet Her?'
Holmes, Treene & Liptak, CNN
Sherrod Brown's Troubling Pledge on Judges
Jonathan Turley, FOX News
One Democrat Who Knows What a Blue Wave Feels Like
Kevin Robillard, HuffPost
Welcome to The Poll Vault
Sean Trende, Substack
Have Leftist Professors Poisoned the Electorate?
John Ellis, Wall Street Journal
Rubio Misunderstands What Makes the West Great
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
What the Godfather of Foreign Policy Realism Would Say
Francis Sempa, RCDefense
Zelensky Needs To Learn the Fine Art of Shutting Up
Marc Thiessen, FOX News
The Importance of Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize
Stephen Zunes, The Nation
DOJ Sues CA Over Non-Citizen Voters
Bevan, Cannon & Porter, RCP on SiriusXM
America's Net Zero Near Miss
Rupert Darwall, The American Mind
Why We Remain Fascinated by Elizabeth Holmes
David Smith, The Guardian
What Do You Do With Tom Cruise? Not This
Caitlin Flanagan, The Free Press
Data Collected by Jack Smith Appears To Go Beyond Scope
Catherine Herridge, X
Secret Service Deputy Director Out Amid Drone Controversy
Susan Crabtree, RCP
With Roadster Debut, Musk Shows 'Flying Cars Are Real'
Landon Mion, FOX Business
Friday, October 16
Why Trump Is Going In When the Money Is Coming Out
Gangitano, et al., Politico
Midterms Look Good for Dems, But That's Not a Guarantee
Hayes Brown, MS Now
Talarico Strikes Out on Easy Mode at CNN Town Hall
Nicole Russell, USA Today
A Minnesota Sleeper? Tafoya, Flanagan in 'Close' Senate Race
Zeleny & Wright, CNN
Poll: Majority Wants Less Red Tape To Cut Energy Costs
Jonathan Draeger, RCP
Alaska Considers Economic Suicide
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Trump's Diesel Deal Is Shameful
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Russia, Russia, Russia Nonsense Is So Tiring
J.B. Shurk, American Thinker
France's Students Won't Back Down
Diana Cordoba, The Nation
Thinking About Race and IQ
Peder Zane, RealClearPolitics
A Novel That Looks Deep Into a Crisis on Campus
Rumaan Alam, The New Republic
How Big Money Is Pulling the Democrats Left
Michael Baharaeen, UnHerd
The Primary Electorate Is Its Own Harshest Critic
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
'Nonissue' of Noncitizens Voting Is Becoming Bigger Issue
M.D. Kittle, The Federalist
Rep. Huizenga Faces Toughest Re-Election Race Yet
Jarod Facundo, Am. Prospect
Ticket-Splitting in Iowa and Kansas
Bevan, Cannon, Kimball & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Zuckerberg vs. the Pint of Guinness
Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
Thursday, October 15
How Debanking Took Hold Inside the Biggest Banks
Rupa Subramanya, The Free Press
It's Better Than Under Biden, But Inflation Still Vexes U.S.
Byron York, DC Examiner
How Trump Lost Control
Kate Andrews, Washington Post
El-Sayed Struggling To 'Set the Record Straight'
Josh Hammer, New York Post
The Jewish Case for Electing El-Sayed in Michigan
Simon Lazarus, The New Republic
Don't Count GOP Out of Midterms Yet
Jonathan Draeger, RealClearPolitics
Same Old, Same Old European Runaround
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Trump Tries Ukraine Midterm Extortion
S.V. Date, HuffPost
Rep. Omar and America
James Freeman, Wall Street Journal
What Role Should the Supreme Court Play in Politics?
John Witt, The Nation
One Could Say That Cornell Is Infantilizing Female Students
Heather Mac Donald, X
I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
Derek Thompson, Substack
AI Pessimism Risks Handing China the Lead
Paul Sracic, RealClearPolitics
America Needs More Capital
Larry Fink, Wall Street Journal
We Know How To Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver
German Lopez, New York Times
Ossoff, Collins Get Nasty in GA
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
James Lindsay's Fever Dream
Michael Anton, The American Mind
Wednesday, October 14
GOP Has Seen This Midterm Before - 20 Years Ago
Merrill Matthews, USA Today
3 Weeks Out, GOP Plays Defense
Bevan, Cannon, Kraushaar & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Talarico Has Democrats Dreaming Big in Texas
Zeleny & Svitek, CNN
Minnesota Fed Up w/Fraud, May Derail Dems' Midterm Dreams
Isaac Schorr, NYPost
Why Trump's Midterm Rally Blitz Probably Won't Work
Bill Scher, Washington Monthly
Dems' Not-So-Secret Midterm Campaigns for White House
Susan Page, USA Today
5 Years Later, the Truth About Garland's School Board Memo
Erika Sanzi, The Hill
Raid on Omar's House Is Dangerous Political Theater
Moira Donegan, The Guardian
Livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s Execution Is a Bad Idea
Jason Riley, WSJ
Trump’s New Press Secretary Is Unbearable
Poppy Coburn, The Telegraph
From the Ruins of Gaza, Palestinians Carry On
Mohammed Mhawish, MS Now
Why the Young Right’s Sympathy for Israel Is Dwindling
Paul Gottfried, Chronicles
Inside Kimberly Guilfoyle's Final Days as Ambassador to Greece
Mattioli, et al., WSJ
Greta Thunberg Is the Personification of Empty Activism
Joanna Williams, Telegraph
MAGA’s Talarico Conspiracy Theory Has No 'Off' Switch
Jeremiah Johnson, Substack
A Mental-Health Requirement for Lawmakers?
Raw Egg Nationalist, American Greatness
Shane Gillis and Why the Left Still Can't Take a Joke
Sasha Stone, Substack
Latest Polls: TX (Marist): Talarico 47, Paxton 45 | ME (Suffolk): Jackson +2
Tuesday, October 13
Why It's So Hard To Fight Mass Migration
Alicia Nieves, UnHerd
Dems Getting Cover From GOP Spending Surge
David Dayen, American Prospect
The High Cost of El-Sayed
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Sherrod Brown Betting on Data Center Backlash in Ohio
Vitali & Boudreaux, MS Now
Inside Musk's Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
Theodore Schleifer, NY Times
We're Not at War With Russia, Oil Deal Puts U.S. First
Mollie Hemingway, FOX News
Europe Looks for Options as Ukraine Costs Mount
Tamar Jacoby, Washington Monthly
Smackdown: Bessent Gives Warren Economic Lesson
Monica Showalter, Am. Thinker
Rep. Jeffries: The Next House Speaker?
Hewitt, Rameswaram & Zengerle, Vox
Investigators Calling Rep. Omar Probe 'World War Eleven'
Drew Berkemeyer, Daily Wire
Livestreaming Hasan Execution Is High-Tech Barbarism
Sasha Abramsky, The Nation
McRaven Misfires on Public Execution
John Waters, RealClearDefense
Islam Is Not Compatible With Western Civilization
Steve Cortes, Charlie Kirk Show
Israel's War on Gaza Has Changed the World
Steve Bloomfield, The Guardian
What Might Have Saved Gaza?
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Guilfoyle's Days in Greece May Be Numbered
Steve Benen, MS Now
Censorship, Speech Police Becoming Focal Point in UK
Sharyl Attkisson, Full Measure
Senate: 46D,46R,8TU: Dem +3, Odds | House: 226D,189R,20TU: Dem +21, Odds
Monday, October 12
GOP Scrambles To Stop Steep Midterm Losses
Cancryn, et al., CNN
The Blue Wave Looks Real Until You Look a Little Closer
Howard Kurtz, FOX News
Dems Offering a Scant Agenda. Do They Need More?
Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
Abdul El-Sayed's Unanswered Questions
Audrey Fahlberg, The Free Press
Why El-Sayed Is Struggling w/Black Voters in Michigan
Charles Blow, The Guardian
With 'Sick' Dems Like Talarico, How Are They Ahead?
Miranda Devine, NY Post
How the GOP Weaponized Trans Issues Against Democrats
Kevin Rector, LA Times
Maine Democrats Worry Susan Collins Is 'Teflon'
Grace Panetta, Salon
Will Diesel Diplomacy Decide the Midterms?
David Rundell, UnHerd
Trump's Diesel Deal Is a Catastrophic Miscalculation
Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Vance Is Trying To Connect With Voters. Is It Working?
Akayla Gardner, MS Now
What I Saw and Heard in Vance Country
Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative
Kimberly Guilfoyle's Grifting Scandal Keeps Getting Worse
Inae Oh, Mother Jones
Elon and the Vampires
Sasha Stone, Substack
Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble
William McRaven, The Atlantic
World Wars Don't Start All at Once
Francis Sempa, RealClearDefense
Why We'll Keep Arguing Over the Meaning of Columbus Day
Jason Schlosberg, LAT
Latest Polls: Sen: MN, NC, ME, SC, MI, AK, TX | Gov: NM, ME, IA, MN, OH, TX, FL
Sunday, October 11
The Death of the Nobel Peace Prize
Elisha Wiesel, The Free Press
Why You Should Believe the Polls This Time
Bill Scher, Washington Monthly
Insulated Democrats Are Struggling in Debates
Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner
Jackson and Collins Take the Floor in Maine
Gabrielle Gurley, American Prospect
Garland, Wray and the Arrogant Mr. Smith
Jonathan Turley, The Hill
America's Experiment: Blending Liberty, Virtue From the First
Peter Berkowitz, RCP
America Should Spy on Foreign Companies To Help Ours
David Cohen, Foreign Affairs
Janet Yellen: Free Traitor?
Oren Cass, Commonplace
To Reform Higher Education, Fund Competitors
Jeff Yass, Wall Street Journal
A Health Reform Both Parties Can Get Behind
Dean & Bucshon, Salon
The Pen and the Gun: The Moral Inversion of Accountability
Joe Abraham, RCP
Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era
Satya Nadella, X
France's Riots Stem From a Deep Rot
Sean Durns, The National Interest
Not Exactly a New Dawn in Britain
Dan Hitchens, Washington Post
Why New York Times Is Being Sued Over Anti-Israel Bias
Maya Sulkin, The Free Press
Americans Hate Politics. They Still Believe in America
Robert Alexander, RCP
Mike Ditka: Da Farewell to Da Coach
Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
Saturday, October 10
Mamdani Cares About Illegals, Not Victims of Their Crimes
Kirsten Fleming, NYPost
What Darializa Avila Chevalier Saw at the NYC ICE Shooting
Matt Stieb, NY Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Obscenity
Bret Stephens, New York Times
This Is What Trump Panic Looks Like
Alex Shephard, The New Republic
Ignore the Haters, Look at Facts of Trump's Record
Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute
Why Won't El-Sayed Answer a No-Brainer?
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Darline Graham Is No Lindsey. Voters Are Noticing
Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
Inside the Republican Fight To Hold Alaska
Mary Olohan, The Daily Wire
Iran's Theory of Victory
Bajoghli & Nasr, Foreign Affairs
How To Prepare for Regime Change in Iran
Frank Schell, The American Spectator
Attacks on the Press Show Trump's Desperation
Margaret Sullivan, The Guardian
Republicans Should Stop Talking to Corporate Press
Christopher Jacobs, Federalist
Will Public Execution Make Fort Hood Killer a Martyr?
Melinda Henneberger, Substack
Tennessee’s Executioners Had One Job
Matthew Hennessey, Wall Street Journal
Botched Execution a Reminder of Horror of Death Penalty
Moira Donegan, Guardian
Amid Protests, Pessimism About France’s Future
Gillen Tener Martin, Wash Monthly
Rubio Highlights Urgency To Embrace Western Virtues
Mike Watson, Free Beacon
Friday, October 9
Rogers, El-Sayed Swing Hard and Fast in First MI Debate
Erin Cox, Washington Post
In GOP Midterm Calculation, Avoiding the Unthinkable
Byron York, DC Examiner
Democrats Have a 'Once in a Generation' Opportunity
Kevin Robillard, HuffPost
Are Democrats Really Interested in Lowering Our Bills?
Nicole Russell, USA Today
Trump's Vote-Buying Checks Are in the Mail
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Vance Heralds New Fraud Crackdowns
Carolina Lumetta, RealClearPolitics
No More Free Defense for Ungrateful Allies
Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal
Why Trump and Iran May Now Be Waiting Out the Midterms
Stephen Collinson, CNN
Rubio's Epic Speech in Athens
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
The Belated Execution of Major Hasan
Don Brown, American Thinker
Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood, News Business
Ben Schwartz, The Nation
Wikipedia: Oct. 7 Terrorists Came From 'Blockaded' Gaza
Aaron Bandler, JNS.org
Colleges Studied Their Problems. Can They Fix Them?
Piereson & Riley, DC Examiner
A Guide to Which College Majors Pay Off--or Don't
Momin & Lieber, New York Times
Locked Out, But Not Checked Out
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
How Washington State Is Protecting Midterm Elections
Nick Brown, The Guardian
Front Line in Election Integrity Is Clean Voter Rolls
Beth Brelje, Restoration News
Thursday, October 8
We Choose the Unapologetic Pursuit of National Power
Marco Rubio, Athens
Trump Is Making Biden-Like Mistakes
Joe Klein, Substack
Much Less Crime Since U.S. Border Mess Fixed
Christopher Tremoglie, DC Examiner
The Political Economy of Diesel
Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
The Chilling Implications of Jack Smith's Goons
Ben Weingarten, The Federalist
Washington Needs the Tax-Reform Spirit of '86
Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal
A Gen Z Blue-Collar Jobs Boom
Skyler Adleta, Commonplace
College Women Know the Cornell Story Is a Farce
Heather Mac Donald, New York Post
Why Weren't the Cornell Allegations Taken Seriously?
Melinda Henneberger, RCP
The Logical End Point of the Sexual Revolution?
Larissa Phillips, The Free Press
States Must Do More To Secure Elections
Kristina Celeste, The American Mind
Is This the Oddest Democrat in Congress?
Emma Janssen, The New Republic
Trump Casts Long Shadow Over Campaigns in California
Susan Crabtree, RCP
Steve Witkoff Keeps the Light On
Salena Zito, Washington Examiner
How Can So Many People Celebrate a Massacre?
Jonathan Alter, Washington Monthly
October 7 Attack, 3 Years Later
Bevan, Porter & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
John Cleese Is Not a Terrorist
Andrew Doyle, Washington Post
CNN: Iowa: Hinson (R) 45, Turek (D) 43 | Ohio: Brown (D) 49, Husted (R) 43

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