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RealClearPolitics Week of February 9, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 9
Why Is Senate GOP Dithering on SAVE Act?
David Catron, The American Spectator
Voter ID Will Disenfranchise Americans, Suppress Votes
Sen. Adam Schiff, This Week
Don't Let Dems Make Deportation Complicated
Eddie Scarry, The Federalist
Trump Hates Minnesotans Because We Love Each Other
Keith Ellison, The Nation
Dems Stir Up Racial Division (Again) To Seize Political Power
Miranda Devine, NYP
Nixon-Reagan-Trump: GOP Has Always Been Racist
LZ Granderson, LA Times
Affordability & Epstein Are Dems’ Bread & Circuses
Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics
Bad Bunny Proves Latino Culture Is American Culture
Sara Pequeño, USA Today
Bad Bunny's Polarizing Halftime Show Felt Like Slap at U.S.
Jorge Bonilla, FOX News
Dems Need More Than 1 Blue Wave To Solve Woes
Justin Vassallo, The Liberal Patriot
Texas Isn't Turning Blue, But Republicans Are On Notice
Nicole Russell, USA Today
Trump's Attacks on Journalists Just Tired Political Theater
Robin Abcarian, LA Times
Why Is There So Much Lying in Politics Today?
J. Budziszewski, RealClearPolitics
Houston, We Have a Problem
Francis Fukuyama, Persuasion
America Reclaims Its Dominance in Space
Arthur Herman, Wall Street Journal
Dateline Moscow: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Marvin Kalb, Washington Monthly
Jeff Bezos Ruined The Washington Post. He Should Sell It
Howard Kurtz, FOX News
Tuesday, February 10
Plunge in America's Murder Rate Is Excellent News
Hart & Asher, New York Magazine


Caring for Mom Is an Education in Scams and Fraud
Nancy Rommelmann, RCI
To Democrats, the SAVE Act Is Political Kryptonite
Elizabeth Stauffer, DC Examiner
How Weak Is GOP in '26? Likely Less Than You Think
Schoen & Cooperman, The Hill
'Melania' Breaks Record for Critic-Audience Discrepancy
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
Bad Bunny Showed What the Joy of Unity Looks Like
Melanie McFarland, Salon
NFL's All-Spanish Half-Time Show Was a Mistake
Karol Markowicz, FOX News
Takaichi on Top in Japan
Taniguchi Tomohiko, Project Syndicate
A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain
Daniel McCarthy, Chronicles
Europe's Legacy Political Parties Are Dying
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Violence Is Politics by Other Means
Kenin Spivak, RealClearPolitics
Want To Lose Weight? Exercise Probably Won't Help
Jordan Metzl, Washington Post
The Screening Machine
Mo Perry, Tablet Magazine
Solving the Next Labor Shortage
Scott Mayer, RealClearPolitics
Fight Higher Ed Indoctrination Without Censorship
Piereson & Riley, DC Examiner
The Left Has a Hyperpolitics Problem
Daniel Schlozman, The New Republic
Sam Darnold's Quiet Super Bowl Revenge
Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, February 11
The Democrats Are Not Built For This
Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic


The Israeli Lesson Democrats Ignore at Their Peril
Gil Mandelzis, RealClearPolitics
Progressive Win in NJ Hinged on Anti-ICE Organizing
Whitney Curry Wimbish, TAP
Why Democrats' Sanctuary City Economies Are Crashing
Neil Munro, Breitbart
America Won’t Be Easily Forgiven - Even After Trump Is Gone
Alaric DeArment, TNR
Democrats Still Searching for an Argument Against Voter ID
James Freeman, WSJ
Why Is Everyone Leaving Congress?
Bevan, Cannon, & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Dem Primary Battle Lines in Texas and Illinois Sharpen
Henry Olsen, Substack
Texas Senate Race Could Be a Match for the Ages
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Pritzker Silent After Sanctuary Policies Killed My Daughter
Joe Abraham, FOX News
AI and the Coming Jobless Economy
Robert Reich, Substack
Trump Reversed Manufacturing Decline Under Biden
Peter Navarro, Washington Times
Epstein Files Might Bring Down a Government - But Not the US
Joshua Keating, Vox
The Starmer Palace Coup Is a National Disgrace
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
How a Tiny, Icy Town Became Test of New World Order
Blanchfield & McHugh, Politico
China's College Takeover
Steve Cortes
The Tragic Story That United a Divided America
Sasha Stone, Substack
MN Sen (Emerson): Flanagan (D) 47, Tafoya (R) 41 | Craig (D) 47, Tafoya (R) 40
Thursday, February 12
Collective Civic Values Outweigh America's Divisions
Hans Zeiger, The Hill


Virginia Redistricting and Raw Political Power
James Antle, Washington Examiner
GOP Advances SAVE Act, a Solution in Search of a Problem
Steve Benen, MS Now
Will Push for Voter ID Kill the Filibuster?
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Media Needs To Stop Gaslighting on Trans Killers
Bethany Mandel, New York Post
The Beginning of the End for Big Corporate Medicine
Emma Freer, Substack
Get Married Young
Brad Wilcox, Compact Magazine
FBI Probing Possible Election Crimes in Fulton County
M.D. Kittle, The Federalist
The Money Line Dividing the Democratic Party
Kevin Robillard, HuffPost
Republicans, Democrats in Revolt--for Very Different Reasons
John Tillman, RCP
Bari Weiss Is Not Reforming CBS News
John Nolte, Breitbart
After Affirmative Action
Kolodner & Villeneuve, Washington Monthly
Hands-On Training or a Free Ride on Campus?
Oren Cass, Commonplace
Our Super Bowl Satyricon
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Risk of Nuclear War Rising. We Need a Peace Movement
David Cortright, Guardian
What's Next for Jimmy Lai?
Nina Shea, RealClearPolitics
What I Suffered Being 'Transgender'
Soren Aldaco, Wall Street Journal
Friday, February 13
The Ravenous Media Diet of President Trump
Philip Wegmann, RealClearPolitics


Debunking Al Gore Has Made the World a Better Place
Miranda Devine, New York Post
Perhaps Golden Age Is Here. Just Not the One Trump Thinks
Heather Parton, Salon
Boasberg Wants Illegal Venezuelans Back in U.S., on Our Dime
Julie Kelly, Substack
Instead of Pandering, Dems Should Try Changing Minds
Perry Bacon, New Republic
Do Democrats Know How To Win?
Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
Texas Dem Fantasizes About Race Revolution as GOP Grovels
B.L. Hahn, Federalist
Divisions Mamdani Commands Are About To Be Tested
D.D. Guttenplan, The Nation
The Losses Are Piling Up for Teachers Unions
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls Humanities
Tyler Harper, Atlantic
DEI Activism Could Be Pushing Donors Away
Piereson & Riley, City Journal
The Singularity Is Going Viral
John Herrman, New York Magazine
SpaceX Merger: If You Want More Compute, Leave Earth
Ryan Hassan, Pirate Wires
Inside Polymarket's Free Grocery Store
James Billot, UnHerd
Midwest Deserves Better Than Today's Anti-ICE Democrats
Rick Heidner, RCP
DHS Winding Down in MN? Local Leaders Still Mad
Katie Herchenroeder, Mother Jones
Transgender Persecution Complex Getting People Killed
Zachary Faria, DC Examiner
Saturday, February 14
We Cannot Have Elections With No Voter ID Any Longer
President Trump, Truth Social
DHS Enters a Shutdown--Sort Of
Schnell & Fitzpatrick, MS Now
Missing the Story Between the Lines
Salena Zito, Washington Examiner
The Left Getting Meaner Is All Part of the Plan
Luke Winkie, Slate
Breaking the Code of Silence on Gender Medicine
James Meigs, Wall Street Journal
Trumponomics Is Working
Roger Kimball, The Spectator
The Real Greenspan Lesson for Warsh on Inflation
Jason Furman, Financial Times
Samizdat Prize a Defense of Free-Speech Courage
David DesRosiers, RealClearPolitics
Are Democrats Finally Getting Tough on Crime?
Stephen Eide, UnHerd
Mamdani Gets First Test, Results Have Been Mixed
Ross Barkan, New York Magazine
The Battle for the New Media Megaphone
Maria Giannopoulos, RealClearPolitics
Watching a True Crime Story in Real Time
Melanie McFarland, Salon
High-Potency Marijuana Is Lobotomizing Americans
Saagar Enjeti, Charlie Kirk Show
Canada and the Constitutional Problem Beneath the Bridge
Tate Kaufman, RCP
What the Latest Viral AI Apocalypse Warning Gets Wrong
James Pethokoukis, Vox
Libbing Out With Alan Dershowitz at the 'Sammies'
Cockburn, The Spectator
Small Businesses Compete--Why Can't Credit Card Companies?
Adam Temple, RCP
Sunday, February 15
Revitalizing the US-Europe Alliance
Sec. of State Marco Rubio, Munich Security Conference
Marco Rubio’s Valentine’s Day Message To Europe
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
Dems' Munich Meltdown Exposes Left's Intellectual Void
David Marcus, FOX News
Lech Walesa, the Cold War’s Last Man Standing
Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal
The Week the Cuban Crisis Got Real
Ruaridh Nicoll, The Guardian
Britain Can Always Get Worse
Theodore Dalrymple, The American Conservative
Pirro’s Failure To Indict Democrats Is a Big Deal
Ankush Khardori, Politico
How Deep Is the Deep State?
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
The Unintended Hilarity of Bondi's Finger-Wagging Testimony
Lorraine Ali, LAT
Is Kristi Noem Cooked?
Bevan, Cannon & Wegmann, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Rank-and-File Dems to Leaders: It’s Time To Take Gloves Off
Emily Cooke, TNR
Trump Righting Our Economic Ship After SS Biden Disaster
E.J. Antoni, NY Post
Kids of Aging Farmers Don’t Want To Be in Family Business
Patrick Thomas, WSJ
Primary Season Is Here. Why These Races Matter in 2026
Tumulty, et al, Wash Post
Virginia Democrats Try an Unconstitutional Gerrymander
Miyares & Cantor, WSJ
The Results of Mamdani's First Test Have Been Mixed
Ross Barkan, New York Mag
Mamdani's Deficit Math Just a Cheap Magic Trick
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
TDIH - Feb 15th Generic Ballot: '26: Dems +5.2 | '22: GOP +3.2 | '18: Dems +6.9


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