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Trump Gives Democrats an Opening on Affordability
The president falsely claimed he “fixed” the affordability crisis. He and the GOP will pay in the November midterms
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The Complicated Legacy of Jesse Jackson
Tuesday, February 17th on RealClearPolitics: 00:00 Jesse Jackson Passes at 84 12:17 New Survey Reports Increase in Antisemitism 18:39 Rubio’s Big Speech 28:2…
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Data Is Clear, I Was (Happily) Wrong About Economy
Real incomes are growing. Americans are adding wealth. Inflation continues to moderate. Unemployment remains relatively low. Where’s Trump’s credit?
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Jesse Jackson Gave Peace a Chance
The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.
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Effort To Destroy My Dad Wasn’t Politics, It Was Criminal
The executive vice president of The Trump Organization, Eric Trump, strongly disagreed with The Telegraph’s Tim Stanley that the “attacks” on his family were ordinary politics.
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Why Democrats Aren’t Stressing the Partial DHS Shutdown
While time is usually on the status quo’s side, Senate Democrats’ unity gives them room to dig in on their demands to rein in ICE and Border Patrol.
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Zircuit Finance Launches Institutional-Grade Onchain Yield Platform Targeting 8–11% APR
George Town, Cayman Islands, February 17th, 2026, Chainwire Zircuit, a security-first digital asset company backed by YZiLabs, Dragonfly, and Pantera, today announced the launch of Zircuit Finance. Incubated by a team from Quantstamp, Zircuit Finance is a secure platform for institutional-grade strategies, a stablecoin vault designed to generate yield on USDC and USDT, with a […]
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“The Fallacy Fallacy”
An excerpt from Maarten Boudry (Persuasion): My doubts [about the value of focusing on logical fallacies] began when I was still in academia, teaching critical thinking to philosophy students and science majors alike. Fallacies are a favorite chapter in such courses. In some ways, they are ideal teaching material: they come in tidy lists and […]
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Does Light Consist of “Object[s]”?
In HAC v. ER, decided in August by the Michigan Court of Appeals (Judges Sima Patel, Michael Riordan, and Brock Swartzle), petitioner had tried to get personal protection orders against his neighbors; the trial court rejected petitioner’s claims, and the court of appeals affirmed. Under the relevant Michigan law, such orders are generally issued when […]
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Tom Homan Defends Masked ICE Agents by Claiming Threats Are Up ‘Over 8,000 Percent’
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down over the weekend, with lawmakers demanding reforms to the way it has operated under the Trump administration. In particular, Democrats want more accountability for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including an end to ICE officers wearing masks. So far, Republicans have resisted that request. On Sunday, White […]
