RCP - Commentary

More than any political cycle in memory, the 2026 primary campaign season has been marked by frequent, and often hysterical, condemnations of the influence of the so-called "Israel lobby." After the conspiratorial anti-Trump gadfly Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his Republican congressional primary in northern Kentucky in May, he quipped about the Trump-endorsed former Navy SEA...

There's a theme in Democratic commentary this summer: Voters don't care about the party's internal fights, they care about the affordability crisis. So Democrats should stop navel-gazing around internal governance and get back to kitchen-table issues. It's a reasonable instinct much of the time. Most DNC personnel disputes really are inside baseball. But that framing should not ...

The liberal media melted down last week as the Department of Homeland Security's top attorney, James Percival, criticized "the worst of the worst" activist judges who are blocking President Trump from securing our borders and our homeland. The American people should be outraged - not by the rebuke of a top federal official, but by the judges who are overstepping their authority ...

Taylor Swift is enemy No.1 to cash-grabbing Democrats in Rhode Island. They've named their new statewide vacation home property tax after her. But from the East Coast to the West Coast, "tax the rich" is the battle cry of radical-left Democrats. They claim that by attacking the rich, including celebs like Swift, they're saving democracy. Don't be fooled. Their new forms of taxat...

Paul Krugman remains one of the left's most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump's ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends that Trump's policies have made crime worse than it otherwise would have been. But if Trump's policies truly reflect "cruelty," how sh...