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Above, this TV screenshot from 2020 — of a wildfire near a homeless encampment in Los Angeles’ Sepulveda Basin area — illustrates the intersection of  California’s wildfire and homeless problems, which are making each other worse. By Ana Kasparian, RealClearInvestigationsMarch 19, 2025 VENICE, Calif. – Francesca Padilla was awakened by the sound of screaming people… Continue reading How Los Angeles Is Getting Scorched by Its Homeless Problem

Can a single judge unilaterally thwart the president of the United States? That’s the contentious question the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve last week in response to court orders blocking its effort to curtail birthright citizenship, and after a slew of decrees requiring the president do everything from halting major actions on DEI and… Continue reading Injunction Dysfunction or Tyrant Disruption? Trump-Era Judicial Paralysis Explained

When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? Lee Zeldin, Trump EPA Administrator: Sees “a deeply entrenched pattern of political… Continue reading A New Beltway Intrigue: Follow the Biden EPA Money

A lobbyist for the College Board delivered a sharp warning to William Slater last month. She was not happy that the Tennessee Republican lawmaker had recently introduced a bill to allow the state’s public universities to accept the Classic Learning Test, an upstart competitor to the College Board’s famed SAT, as an admissions exam. Jeremy… Continue reading The Upstart ‘Classic Learning Test’ Gets a Testy Welcome From the SAT

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Marbury v. Madison (1803) has long been recognized for its important articulation of the constitutional doctrine of judicial review. Chief Justice John Marshall’s opinion famously identified a section of the 1789 Judiciary Act to be contrary to the judicial powers prescribed by the Constitution. Accordingly, he asserted the Supreme Court’s authority to… Continue reading John Marshall and the ‘Province’ of the Judicial Branch

“What the f— are we doing here?” asked President Trump in the summer of 2017. Nearly a year into his first term, Trump’s national security adviser had just proposed sending an additional 3,000 to 5,000 troops to Afghanistan, prompting his boss’s frustration that his Cabinet still hadn’t gotten the message. Trump had repeatedly conveyed that he wanted to end the war in Afghanistan, not prolong it. Between… Continue reading Dealmaker, Peacemaker, President | RealClearWorld

America is a beautiful – and decidedly pluralistic – country. Our education system contains 12,546 locally controlled school districts. Charter schools have gained hundreds of thousands of students in recent years. Private school enrollments are up, and the classical school movement has exploded.   Whether one favors traditional public schools or not, those of us… Continue reading Civics Needs Pluralism | RealClearEducation

As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance. Your go-to source? Guess again, say experts. usaspending.gov But usaspending.gov is wrong on the biggest picture, RealClearInvestigations found.  The total… Continue reading DOGE’s Key Revelation: A Federal Budget Made Into a Maze Impervious to Reform

Above, the “Non-Violence” knotted gun on display at the U.N. and elsewhere. It could also serve as an apt symbol of the Pentagon’s impenetrably twisted bookkeeping.  By Bob Ivry and Jeremy Portnoy, RealClearInvestigationsMarch 3, 2025 To crack down on Pentagon spending, the Defense Department adopted a program in 2015 to track spending on lodging and… Continue reading Why Can’t the Pentagon’s Army of Budget Bean Counters Shoot Straight?