RealClearInvestigations Week of August 18, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 18

The Era of AI Hacking Has Arrived

Kevin Collier NBC News

Russia Churning Out Fake Content Posing as US News

Dana Nickel Politico

Flirty Meta Bot Invited Retiree to NYC. He Never Got Home.

Jeff Horwitz Reuters

New Terminal Cancer Reality: Longer Lives, More Uncertainty

Brianna Abbott WSJ

GOP Considers U-Turn on Electric Postal Vehicles

Susan Haigh Associated Press

Chaos on New York’s Streets, Brought to You by the NYPD

Ian F. Blair Intercept

College Students Have Already Changed Forever

Ian Bogost Atlantic

Waste of the Day: Earmarks Return from the Dead

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Tuesday, August 19

Big Donor Pullback: Inside the DNC’s Money Problems

Jessica Piper Politico

Who ICE Is Deporting, by the Numbers

Christie Thompson & Anna Flagg Marshall Project

The Mainstreaming of Zohran Mamdani

Michael Powell Atlantic

How Obscure Firm Became Trump Family's Go-To Dealmaker

David Uberti WSJ

The Real Path to Industrial Renewal

Steven Malanga City Journal

School District Fights to Keep American Indian Mascot

Isabelle Khurshudyan CNN

These Dogs Can Find the Missing Dead

Sonja Wind Bloomberg

Waste of the Day: Foreign Swimming Pools Get $1.2 Million

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Wednesday, August 20

America's Counterattack on China’s Influence in Pacific Islands

Wyatt Greco RCD

As Arctic Becomes Global Hotspot, Cold Tests Troops

Sune Engel Rasmussen WSJ

Safety Top Reason Parents Leave Public Schools

Joanne Jacobs T&L

‘Blackmail’ Accusations Roil GOP Ticket in Virginia

Audrey Fahlberg National Review

The Rainforests Being Cleared to Build Your R.V.

Sui-Lee Wee The New York Times

The Confederacy Rises Again at One Texas School

Carrie McKean Free Press

New Mental Health Challenge: "AI Psychosis"

Nitasha Tiku & Sabrina Malhi WP

Waste of the Day: Hospital CEOs Stick Taxpayers with the Bill

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Thursday, August 21

Dems Face Voter Registration Crisis

Shane Goldmacher & Jonah Smith NYT

Fauci and Others Suppressed Intel about COVID Lab Leak

Emily Kopp Daily Caller

Biden’s DOJ Threw Red Flag on Autopenned Pardons

Matt Margolis PJ Media

Russia Trying to Grab Ukrainian Land While It Still Can

Barker et al New York Times

ODNI 2.: Tulsi Gabbard Launches Historic Intel Overhaul

Philip Wegmann RCP

Report: Red State Institutions Also Tilt Left

Shawn Fleetwood Federalist

North Korea's IT Army is Hacking the Global Job Market

Sam Sabin Axios

Waste of the Day: Throwback Thursday - $2M Wine Tasting

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Friday, August 22

IRS Suddenly Stopped Clinton Foundation Probe

Melissa O'Rourke Daily Caller

Waste of the Day: Illinois Subsidizes State Fair

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Flashback: Whiffing on Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers

Paul Sperry RCI

Saturday, August 23

Signs U.S. Preparing for Military Confrontation with Venezuela?

Savage et al. NYT

How Trump-Bolton Relationship Devolved into FBI Raid

Herb Scribner Axios

Monday, August 25

What Trump’s D.C. Takeover Looks Like on the Ground

Jamiles Lartey Marshall Project

Clinton Event Honored Maxwell After Epstein Sex Charges

Andrew Kaczynski CNN

Colorado, Washington, and Oregon on California's Road to Decline

Joel Kotkin CJ

Red States Fear Californians Bringing 'Leftist Ideology'

Hannah Fry Los Angeles Times

Data Show Summer Heat Really is Lasting Longer

Kasha Patel & Naema Ahmed WP

The Test That Rules Chinese Society

Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li Wall Street Journal

Waste of the Day: 33 Hours Worked Per Day in NY

Jeremy Portnoy RCI