RealClearInvestigations Week of February 16, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 16

Cuba: No Water or Electricity, Children Begging in Streets

Ruaridh Nicoll Guardian

Regarding Trump Grand Juries Not So Quick to Indict Ham Sandwich

Ella Lee Hill

Some Locals Opposing ICE Effort to Buy Warehouses

Jamiles Lartey Marshall Project

Vacancies May Allow Trump to Reshape NIH

Aria Bendix NBC News

Why State Sales Taxes Keep Rising

Judge Glock City Journal

18 Days, 20 Lives: New Yorkers Who Didn’t Survive the Cold

Newman et al. NYT

Kids of Aging Farmers Don’t Want Family Business.

Patrick Thomas WSJ

Waste of the Day: Principal Bought Lobster with School Funds

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Tuesday, February 17

FBI Bent Rules to Spy on 1,100 'Sensitive' Targets

J.D. Tuccille Reason

Sexual Assaults on Airplanes Are Rising

Seth MacFarlane & Laura Geller CBS News

Training Next Generation of Chinese to Eat Our Lunch

CDR Salamander Substack

Small Kansas Town Supports Its Non-Citizen Mayor

Mitch Smith NYT

RFK Jr.'s Battle Against Public Health Establishment

Paun et al. Politico

What I Learned from George Washington

George W. Bush Substack

Waste of the Day: States Spent Welfare in “Crazy Ways”

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Wednesday, February 18

Biden’s ‘Quiet Amnesty’ for Nearly 1M Illegal Immigrants

Andrew Arthur NYP

Dems Try to Stop Local Officers from Helping ICE

David A. Lieb & Brian Witte AP

Inside Online Forum Where ICE Agents Tell All

Vittoria Elliott Wired

Obama Didn’t See Trump Coming

Peter Baker New York Times

Flashback: Obama’s Fingerprints All Over Trump & Clinton Probes

Paul Sperry RCI

In AI World LA Parents Opt Kids Out of School Computers

Tyler Kingkade NBC News

The Freak World of Nick Fuentes

Ryan Thorpe & Christopher F. Rufo City Journal

Waste of the Day: Can You Hear Me Now?

Jeremy Portnoy RealClearInvestigations

Thursday, February 19

Former Prince Andrew Arrested in Britain Over Epstein Ties

Staff New York Times

Marco Rubio's Secret Squeeze on Raul Castro's Cuba

Marc Caputo Axios

Syrian Power Shift Upends ISIS Prisons

Carlotta Gall & Hussam Hammoud NYT

Controversial Biden Official Appointed FISA Court Adviser

Chuck Ross WFB

The Doctors Who Helped Epstein Keep His “Girls” Sexually Fit

E.J. Dickson The Cut

Red State Schools Struggle to Deliver Pro-American History

Joy Pullman Federalist

America Needs a Better Meritocracy

Helen Andrews Compact

Waste of the Day: Throwback Thursday - The Story of Robosquirrel

RCI

Friday, February 20

U.S. Journalist: Brits Spied on Me

Paul D. Thacker Substack

How Epstein & Maxwell Used Elite Arts School to Prey on Girls

Ava Berger NPR

States Trying to Hide Payments to College Athletes

Jeffrey Collins AP

Trump Admin's Pricey Replacement for WHO

Lena H. Sun & Jacob Bogage WP

CA.: Spielberg, Zuckerberg Eye Move Over Proposed Wealth Tax

Seema Mehta LAT

The Longevity Scam

Jordan D. Metzl Atlantic

Inside Trump's Wild Pardon System

Willem Marx Vanity Fair

Waste of the Day: Wire Fraud, Conflicts of Interest in Connecticut

RCI

Saturday, February 21

RealClearInvestigations Picks of the Week

The Editors RealClearInvestigations

U.S. Military Hardware Is Pouring into the Middle East

Roque Ruiz WSJ

Taliban Ramps Up Oppression of Afghan Women

Fariba Akbari NPR

Macabre Feud Leaves Zambia's Former Prez Unburied

Rodney Muhumuza AP

How Canada Became Poorer than Alabama

Tim Kiladze Globe & Mail

The Mellon Foundation’s Patronage Network

John D. Sailer City Journal

Air Board Rejected Reforms After AI-Generated Comments

Hayley Smith LAT

Inside the Gay Tech Mafia

Zoë Bernard WIRED