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The drama of the British departure from the European Union is finally coming to a climax. Theresa May has never been a compelling or even... Read More

The Men Who Want to Push Britain Off a Cliff

Jenni Russell, New York Times

How Environmentalism Is to Blame for California Wildfires

Krystina Skurk, Federalist

The saddest part about these fires in California is that they are self inflicted. Californians should not allow such mismanagement to... Read More

Kerry: People Will Die Because of Trump's Paris Decision

Aida Edemariam, Guardian

When Scientific Consensus Is Corrected by a Skeptic

Abe Greenwald, Commentary

Bloomberg Eyes 2020, But Would Dems Warm to Him?

Adele Malpass, RCP

Deval Patrick's Presidential Prospects

Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker

Macron--Not the Nationalists--Is Stuck in 1930s

Scott McConnell, Am. Conservative

Trump's Foreign Policy Strategy: Burn the Bridges

Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail

Three Changes That Advance Trump's Mideast Peace Plan

Yossi Beilin, Al-Monitor

Changes over the last few months in Israel, the United States and the Palestinian Authority make it all the more realistic for the Trump... Read More

A Saudi Murder Becomes a Gift to Iran

Vali Nasr, New York Times

What Went Through My Mind the Day I Was Shot

Rep. Steve Scalise, FOX News

It's strange though; gunfire and baseball don't fit together, and it's also strange that there's a kind of numbness around my waist. A kind... Read More

Restoring Acosta's Press Pass Won't Restore Trust in the Press

Washington Times

Thanks, Judge Kelly, for Protecting the Press From Trump

Chicago Tribune

A federal judge ruled that the White House was wrong to ban CNN's Jim Acosta from press briefings.. President Donald Trump either doesn't... Read More

Britain's Priority Is to Avoid a No-Deal Brexit

Financial Times

May's Plan Dead in the Water--and Chaos in Britain Has Only Begun

New York Post

More From Real Clear

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Videos

Stacey Abrams Refuses To Concede: "Democracy Failed In Georgia"

Buzzfeed

Sen. Kamala Harris vs. ICE Nominee: Are You Aware Certain Communities See Parallels Between ICE & KKK?

Buzzfeed

Laura Ingraham On Handling Of Florida Recounts: "People Are Going To Have To Go To Jail," Must Be Repercussions

Buzzfeed

CNN's Acosta Returns To White House: "This Was A Test And I Think We Passed The Test"

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Dear GOP: Elections Have Consequences

Jessica Tarlov, The Hill

Did you know Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was an aspiring comedian? I didn’t until I read his opinion piece on... Read More

Bipartisanship Is Overrated

Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard

In two phone chats after Democrats won the House in the midterm election, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and likely House speaker... Read More

Pelosi Should, and Will, Be Dems' Speaker of the House

Robert Creamer, HuffPost

She's the leader the party needs. Read More

Democrats Are Trying to Steal an Election in Florida

Marc Thiessen, Washington Post

Gov. Rick Scott (R) leads Sen. Bill Nelson (D) by 12,562 votes in the Florida Senate race. A margin of victory that large has never be... Read More

DeSantis Has Two Years to Fix Florida Voting

A.B. Stoddard, RealClearPolitics

President Trump has made his 2020 Florida playbook clear: If a close race happens with a tight margin there, he will paralyze the nation with... Read More

Florida Recount Fight a Preview of 2020 Lawlessness

Ned Ryun, American Greatness

If you think what’s taking place in Florida right now with the recounts is just about 2018 results, you’d be sadly mistaken. Yes,... Read More

Adam Schiff: Mueller's New Wingman on Capitol Hill

Susan Glasser, The New Yorker

President Trump is back to threatening the special counsel’s “witch hunt,” but he hasn’t reckoned with Adam Schiff... Read More

Democrats Doubling Down on Mueller

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

With the midterms over, Washington returns to its regular programming: Russia. Trump critics should consider the risk of betting their... Read More

Zuckerberg Refuses Responsibility for Latest Scandal

Maya Kosoff, Vanity Fair

On a press call with reporters, the Facebook C.E.O. denied knowledge of the Republican oppo-research firm his company hired to handle its... Read More

The Perils to Democracy Posed by Big Tech

Kalev Leetaru, RealClearPolitics

Silicon Valley has changed. The same companies that once held free speech so sacred they refused to ban terrorists and stood idly by as their... Read More

Sheryl Sandberg and the Emptiness of Leaning In

Molly Roberts, Washington Post

Sheryl Sandberg leaned way, way in — to shut the rest of the country out. Read More

Trump Raises the Stakes With CNN

Patrick Buchanan, The American Conservative

Last week, the White House revoked the press pass of CNN's chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, and denied him access to the building. Read More

Will Republicans Keep Dancing With Autocracy?

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

When a national leader urges that votes be ignored or that an election result he doesn't like might best be set aside, we label him an... Read More

The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party

Roger Kimball, Spectator

I am of two minds about where our country’s new flirtation with socialism is heading Read More

U.S.'s Overt Payback for China's Covert Espionage

David Ignatius, Washington Post

While the bombastic U.S.-China "trade war" has been getting the headlines, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have been waging a... Read More

Theresa May Is Running Out of Road

Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian

For all her doggedness, she’s not a miracle worker. The impossible demands of Brexiters will ultimately seal her fate Read More

Avenatti Falls Hard

Adriana Cohen, Boston Herald

Karma's working mighty fast these days. Read More

PM Update

Anyone But Nancy Pelosi for Speaker

Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review

Yes, the Campaign vs. Pelosi Is Sexist--and a Terrible Idea

Amanda Marcotte, Salon

A Taste of Kavanaugh Karma for Michael Avenatti

Dov Fischer, The American Spectator

The NRA Doesn't Seem So Invincible Anymore

Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg

Why 2018 Wasn't a Wave Election

Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics

With Trump as President, Blue Texas Could Actually Happen

Thomas Edsall, NYT

AZ's Sinema Already Broke Her Vow to Spurn Schumer

Laurie Roberts, AZ Republic

E-Cig Regs Should Keep Zealots at Bay

Pitts & Goldberg, RealClearHealth

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet

Bill McKibben, The New Yorker

Scientists Retract Key Finding in Study on Ocean Temps

Elizabeth Harrington, WFB

Wilson, the Great War, and Women's Right to Vote

Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics

Why 2018 Wasn't a Wave Election

There's been an ongoing discussion about whether the 2018 midterms can be properly considered a "wave" election. While I think they certainly can be considered a wave, that doesn't get to the question of whether they ought to be considered as such. At its core, this debate is pretty silly. Whether 2018 qualifies as a wave doesn't change the fact that Democrats will control the House in the next Congress, and will do so by a healthy margin at that. Nor does it change the fact that Republicans will have a l Read More

Trump Administration

Trump Backs 1st Major Rewrite of Sentencing Laws in Decades

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his support for the first major rewrite of the nation’s criminal justice sentencing laws in a generation, but it remains to be seen whether the proposal can pass Congress.Trump said the bill “will make our communities safer and give former inmates a second chance at life after they have served their time.” Trum Read More

Political Landscape

House Republicans Elect McCarthy as Leader With Eye to 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy easily won an internal party election to take over the shrunken House GOP caucus, handing the seven-term Californian a familiar role of building the party back to a majority as well as protecting President Donald Trump’s agenda.With Speaker Paul Ryan retiring and the House majority gone, the race for minority leader was McCarthy’s Read More