RealClearPolitics Week of January 1, 2024 Archives

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Monday, January 1

What Is Victory for Joe Biden in New Hampshire?

Elena Schneider, Politico

Trump Gaining Ground Among Latino, Young Voters

Coral Murphy Marcos, Guardian

The Best Way To Defeat Trump's Would-Be Dictatorship

Jeet Heer, The Nation

Trump Aims To Flip 'Extremism' Label on Dems in 2024

John Solomon, Just the News

GOP 2024 Hopefuls Enter Final Stretch Before Iowa

Mabinty Quarshie, DC Examiner

10 Key Questions for the World in 2024

Tom Nagorski, The Messenger

Milei Brings His Chainsaw to Argentina’s Regulatory State

Katarina Hall, Reason

How the United Arab Emirates Is Plotting Its Rise

Quilliam & Vakil, Foreign Affairs

China's Military Purge Deepens

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios

The Monroe Doctrine Still Boosts U.S. Interests

Casey Wheatland, The Federalist

American Achilles in the War on Terror

John Waters, RealClearDefense

Haley Needs To Be Able To Handle Democratic Gotchas

Timothy Carney, DC Examiner

The 10 Senate Seats Most Likely To Flip in 2024

Simone Pathe, CNN

The Pitfalls of Benevolence

Roger Kimball, American Greatness

The Difference Between Leisure & Laziness

Rebecca Rashid & Ian Bogost, The Atlantic

Why Flying Sucks--and What To Do About It

Ganesh Sitaraman, The Free Press

Lamar Jackson, Ravens in League of Their Own

Peter King, ProFootballTalk

Tuesday, January 2

The Voters Who Decide Elections Don't Like What They See

Thomas, et al., WSJ

Political Winners and Losers of 2023

Niall Stanage, The Hill

Black, Hispanic, Young Voters Abandoning Biden

Page, Kuchar & Kochi, USA Today

How Biden Hopes To Make 2024 Less About Biden

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN

Like It or Not, 2024 Is the Year of Trump

Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics

Is Christie Spoiling Haley's Shot in New Hampshire?

Karissa Waddick, USA Today

Was This the Year of Peak Woke?

Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times

2024: All Eyes on SCOTUS

Julie Kelly, Substack

Trump's Courtroom and Campaign Trail Collision

Stephen Collinson, CNN

Could Biden's Ego Doom the Democrats?

Douglas MacKinnon, The Messenger

Fetterman Plays Against Type

Salena Zito, Wall Street Journal

Three New Year's Resolutions for Americans

Abigail Shrier, Substack

24 Things We Think Will Happen in 2024

Walsh, et al., Vox

Across U.S., the Social Fabric Looks Increasingly Threadbare

Brian Eha, City Journal

Unity Can Win in 2024. Americans Are in This Together

Johnson & Gilman, USA Today

Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Rob Henderson, The Free Press

Charter Schools Perform Better Than District Counterparts

Adam Coleman, NY Post

USA Today/Suffolk: Trump 62, Haley 13, DeSantis 10, Ramaswamy 6, Christie 4

Wednesday, January 3

Claudine Gay’s Resignation Is Just the Start

Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Is Gay’s Failed Presidency a Referendum on DEI?

Shirley Leung, Boston Globe

Harvard Will Reap the Damage Caused by Claudine Gay

Peter Wood, Spectator World

Why Nothing Will Change at Harvard

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

Barring Trump From Ballot Is Not Undemocratic

Andrew Koppelman, The New Republic

The FBI-Tainted Whitmer 'Kidnap Plot' You've Heard Little About

Julie Kelly, RCI

Biden To Focus Bid On 'Fight for Democracy,' Racial Justice

David Smith, Guardian

A Constitutional Crisis Is Biden's Reelection Strategy

Holman Jenkins, WSJ

Trump Towers Over GOP Rivals in Iowa

Hannah Knowles, Washington Post

Joe Biden's Silent Insurrection of the Border

Aaron Flanigan, AMAC

Young Voters Want To Teach Dems Lesson By Electing Trump?

Robin Abcarian, LAT

The Coming Democratic Coup Against Joe Biden

Peter Navarro, Washington Times

Civil War Returns To Center of Presidential Race

Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune

Haley's 'Slavery' Controversy Is Utter Nonsense

Phil Boas, Arizona Republic

The Federal Debt Is Even Worse Than It Looks

Andrew Liang, Boston Globe

Jeffrey Epstein's List Is Coming Out: Who Will Be Named?

David Jackson, USA Today

Can Democracy Survive 2024?

Alec Russell, Financial Times

Thursday, January 4

Disastrous Polls Prove Democrats Need a Backup Plan

Schoen & Stein, FOX News

Biden's Poll Numbers Better Than Foes, Fans Recognize

John Nichols, The Nation

Biden's Fallen, and He Can't Get Up, Part 2

Byron York, Washington Examiner

The Art of Covering Politicians Who Lie

Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics

SCOTUS Will Have To Shut Down Democrat Ballot Bans

Jonathan Turley, NY Post

Top 10 Trends for 2024

Ruchir Sharma, Financial Times

DEI Is Racist Because Reverse Racism Is Racism

Bill Ackman, X/Twitter

How We Squeezed Harvard To Push Claudine Gay Out

Christopher Rufo, WSJ

Gay's Resignation a Win for Right-Wing Chaos Agents

Kali Holloway, The Daily Beast

The Real Problem Remains

Ilya Shapiro, City Journal

What Would You Do With $43 Million To Fight Racism?

Loury & McWhorter, Substack

Why the Right Is Eating the Left's Lunch

Joel Kotkin, Spiked

Trump's Primary Strategy Is Also His Courtroom Defense

Heather Parton, Salon

Wisconsin Democrats Are Scared of Trump

Matt Batzel, WisPolitics

In Ukraine, Hardship and Hope

Cathy Young, The Bulwark

Endgame in Ukraine, Biden's Policy a Total Disaster

Jeffrey Sachs, Judging Freedom

A National Award: An Idea We Should Steal From the Brits

Scott Klug, RCP

Friday, January 5

Biden's Border Crisis Brings Crime and No Punishment

Simon Hankinson, FOX News

On Immigration, Republicans Deal in Bad Faith and Silliness

Paul Waldman, MSNBC

The Reason Biden's Support Among Hispanics Is Tanking

Mike Gonzalez, NY Post

Can Joe Biden Pull Off a Harry Truman?

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine

How Trump's Union Support Could Prove Vital in 2024

Rich Baris, People's Pundit

Biden Makes Saving Democracy Center of His Campaign

John Cassidy, New Yorker

Biden's Valley Forge Theater and the Unraveling of Jan 6

Julie Kelly, Substack

The Persecution of Harvard's Claudine Gay

Charles Blow, New York Times

The Left's Hypocrisy Over Harvard Laid Bare

Douglas Murray, New York Post

DeSantis, Haley, and Politically Obtuse Plutocrats

Paul Krugman, New York Times

Gov. Napoleon DeSantis in Waterloo (Iowa)

Charles Hurt, Washington Times

2023 Was the Year of the Do-Nothing House Republicans

Jackie Calmes, L.A. Times

Social Media Case Reinvigorates Debate Over Internet Fairness

K.S. Bruce, RCP

The Liberal Jew Mugged by a Post-Oct. 7 World

Matthew Kaminski, Politico

Blinken Rejects Calls To Add Nigeria to Blacklist

Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics

ESPN Has an Aaron Rodgers Problem

Ja'han Jones, MSNBC

AMAC Has Become a Conservative Powerhouse

Mark Hemingway, The Federalist

S.C. GOP (Emerson): Trump 54, Haley 25, DeSantis 7, Christie 5, Ramaswamy 3

Saturday, January 6

GOP Tees Up a 2016 Repeat

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

Fired-Up Biden Shows Gloves Are Off

David Smith, The Guardian

January 6: How the Press Lost the Story and Lost Their Way

Sasha Stone, Substack

The Plan To Get NH Liberals To Vote for Haley

Ben Jacobs, New York Magazine

Can Haley or DeSantis Beat Trump? Doesn't Look Like It

Scott Jennings, USA Today

DeSantis Leaves It All on the Field in Iowa

James Antle, Washington Examiner

We Must Make Sure Jan. 6 Never Happens Again

Rep. Ruben Gallego, MSNBC

Democrats Are Starting To Lose January 6

Julie Kelly, X/Twitter

The Culture War Came for Claudine Gay--and Isn't Done Yet

Fabiola Cineas, Vox

Claudine Gay and the Mafia of Mediocrity

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, UnHerd

The New Right Activism

Christopher Rufo, IM--1776

GOP Doesn't Want To Win Immigration Policy Fight

David Dayen, American Prospect

We're Spending More on the Border, and It's Getting Worse

Byron York, DC Examiner

California's Urban Doom Loop

Sasha Abramsky, The Nation

Kids With Conservative Parents Are Happier

Amber Duke, The Spectator

The World in 2024

Richard Haass, Project Syndicate

Report Highlights Green Failure in Europe, Warns America

Rick Whitbeck, RCEnergy

Sunday, January 7

Biden Is Weak, But 4 Factors Could Topple Trump in '24

Joe Concha, The Messenger

Latinos Back Trump Over Biden--Immigration Isn't the Reason

Phil Boas, USA Today

How Mass Immigration Hurts Black Americans

Roger House, The Daily Beast

Chicago's Mayor Struggles With His Sanctuary City

Mary Williams Walsh, Substack

Defending the Sacred Cause of American Democracy

President Joe Biden

Joe Biden Is No George Washington. Valley Forge Proved It

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Obama, Worried About Trump, Advises Biden Campaign

Tyler Pager, Washington Post

Trump and His MAGA Allies Turn Their Fire on Haley

Isenstadt & McGraw, Politico

Is DeSantis Going To Drop Out of the Race on Jan. 15?

Douglas MacKinnon, The Hill

Lloyd Austin Owes Americans an Explanation

Tom Nichols, The Atlantic

Time for Military To Provide Some DEI/CRT Answers

Greg Salsbury, RealClearDefense

The U.S. Military's Personnel Crisis

Juan Quiroz, Foreign Affairs

Mark Cuban Is Out of His Depth on DEI

Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner

Some Academics Reluctant To Call Gay a Plagiarist

Emma Green, The New Yorker

Redefining Plagiarism: Harvard & Gay Deserve an F

Carol Swain, Washington Times

In Hollywood Awards Season, What Role Will Gaza War Play?

Brooks Barnes, NYT

How Gaza Schoolchildren Are Educated for Jihad

Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics

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