RealClearInvestigations Week of July 7, 2025 Archives

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Monday, July 7

Meteorologists Say National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

Molly Taft Wired

How Trump's Tariffs Swell Home Construction Costs

Alex Ford & Jiachuan Wu NBC

The Truth About Trade-Offs Is Getting Harder to Ignore

Allison Schrager City Journal

In L.A. More Legitimate Stores Sell Stolen Goods

Matthew Ormseth LAT

Olive Oil Crisis Is Attracting Thieves Across Europe

Lauren Markham Bloomberg

Minor Sport Athletes Pay Price for Major Sport Paydays

Jesse Dougherty WP

Knives, Bullets and Thieves: The Quest for Food in Gaza

Anas Baba NPR

Waste of the Day: Hawaii’s Police Corruption Scandal

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Tuesday, July 8

How Public Health Discredited Itself

John Tierney Atlantic

ICE Agents Wearing Masks Amp Up Intimidation During Raids

Jenny Jarvie LAT

Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Her Claims

Michael Schaffer Politico

The Millionaires Supporting Socialist Mamdani for NYC Mayor

Kevin T. Dugan WSJ

How DEI Bureaucrats Control University Hiring

John D. Sailer City Journal

U.S. to Breed Flies to Counter Flesh-Eating Maggots

John Hanna Associated Press

She Wanted to Save World from A.I. Then Killings Started.

Christopher Beam NYT

Waste of the Day: Puerto Rico, Guam, Others in Debt

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Wednesday, July 9

Under Trump, CIA Is Still Covering Up Its Russiagate Fraud

Aaron Maté Substack

State Dept Cable: Hamas Places Bounties on U.S. Aid Workers

Adam Kredo WFB

Europe’s Crackdown on Speech Goes Far and Wide

Dangoor et al. Wall Street Journal

Marco Rubio impostor Using AI to Call Officials

John Hudson & Hannah Natanson WP

In UK Gig Workers Were Recruited for Terror

Christian Edwards CNN

Largest Teachers Union Resolves to Call Trump ‘Fascist’

Virginia Kruta Daily Wire

Waste of the Day: Federal Purchasing Data is “Unusable”

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Why Biden Wanted Disastrous Early Debate

Jack Blanchard & Dasha Burns Politico

Thursday, July 10

After Cutting Police, Overtime Costs Strain LA's Budget

Ana Kasparian RCI

FBI Starts Criminal Investigations of Brennan & Comey

Brooke Singman Fox News

Biden's Doc Invokes Fifth Before Congress

Josh Christenson & Kendall White NYP

Flooding at the River Inn: Dark-of-Night Escape

Meredith Honig & John Branch NYT

TX: Focus on First Responders’ Mental Health Grows

Ben Finley & Nadia Lathan AP

A Syrian Death Factory Gives Up its Secrets

Jared Malsin Wall Street Journal

Is Technology Really Ruining Teens’ Lives?

Molly Fischer New Yorker

Waste of the Day: Throwback Thursday - Grant Funds Office

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Friday, July 11

Intel: Attacks on Iran's Nukes Were Great Success

David E. Sanger New York Times

Analysts Behind Russiagate Assessment Still at CIA

Margot Cleveland Federalist

Trump Megabill Will Supersize Mass-Deportation

Ed Kilgore Intelligencer

Nearly Half of America’s Murderers Get Away With It

German Lopez New York Times

How Conservatives Beat Back GOP Sell-Off of Public Lands

Karin Brulliard WP

Inside Firm Charged with Scamming Writers for Millions

Brent Crane BusinessWeek

Why Grok Fell in Love with Hitler

Dylon Jones Politico

Waste of the Day: Fed Gets “Palace of Versailles” Renovation

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Saturday, July 12

How L.A. Became Epicenter of Homeless Crisis

Mitchell Landsberg & Gale Holland LAT

The New Gold Rush for MAGA Lobbyists

Ben Terris New York

When Women Are Radicalized

Claire Lehmann Dispatch

Why Won't Socialism Die?

Tyler Cowen Free Press

How a Single Overdose Unraveled an Empire of Heroin

Benjamin Weiser NYT

Are Podcasts Ruining Our Lives?

Liel Leibovitz Tablet