RealClearPolitics May 8, 2026 Archives

RealClearPolitics Morning Edition

After Slamming Biden, GOP Preaching Gas Price Patience

Jack Fitzpatrick, MS Now

Trump's Foreign Policy Reset From Bush, Obama

Carafano & Arha, The National Interest

China Trying To Limit U.S. Leverage in Growing Energy War

Javier Blas, Bloomberg

Industrial Revolution Brewing. I Saw It in Pittsburgh

David Ignatius, Washington Post

The Slide From 'Minnesota Nice' to Assaulting Journalists

Matt Cookson, RCP

Trump's Revenge in Indiana Could Come With a Cost

Paul Waldman, MS Now

Indiana Primary Results Ominous Sign for Massie

Tim Murtaugh, Washington Times

Progressives' Big Dilemma in California Governor's Race

Ed Kilgore, NY Magazine

The Case for Spencer Pratt

Adeline Dimond, Pirate Wires

A Covid-Era Bombshell Coming?

Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM

Hospitals the Biggest Culprit for High Health Care Spending

Zack Cooper, NY Times

Medicine Without Merit

Forrest Bohler, Compact Magazine

Rahm Emanuel and the Real Crony Capitalists

Andrea Widburg, American Thinker

Trump Doesn't Care If He Wrecks Global Economy

Alex Shephard, The New Republic

Farage Racks Up UK Election Wins, Voters Punish Starmer

MacAskill & Piper, Reuters

Senate's Rush To Regulate AI Chatbots Is Bad for Everybody

John Coleman, RCP

It's Time for the Government To Regulate AI

David Rivkin, RealClearPolitics

RealClearPolitics Afternoon Edition

Dems Dealt Midterm Blow as Court Tosses Virginia Map

Zoe Tillman, Bloomberg

'Affordability Hoax' Could Doom Trump

Amanda Marcotte, Salon

Real-Time Results of the Red-Blue Divide

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

I Haven't Changed. Here's What Has

Sen. John Fetterman, Washington Post

Tragedy That Dems Can't Let Infinity Immigration Go

Sohrab Ahmari, Megyn Kelly Show

Journey Through Trump's Bizarre Statue Garden of Heroes

Matt Ford, New Republic

Biden DOJ in Cahoots With SPLC as It Funded Extremists

Brianna Lyman, Federalist

Signs of Optimism: Did Trump Actually Help Venezuela?

Rameswaram & Ryan, Vox

Tucker Carlson's Fantasy Islam

Dominic Green, Washington Examiner

So What If Dems Are Divided on Mideast? Embrace It

Bill Scher, Washington Monthly

Sen. Blackburn to Secret Service: 'Root Out the Rot'

Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics