RealClearInvestigations Week of February 23, 2026 Archives

CIA Yanks Docs ‘Compromised’ by Leftism

Mollie Hemingway & Jordan Boyd Federalist

Most in Deportation Proceedings Had No Criminal Convictions

Will Craft Guardian

Dark Family Secrets of Gunman Killed at Mar-a-Lago

Ashford et al. Daily Mail

School Photography Company Caught in Epstein Files Frenzy

Hanna Krueger WSJ

Ex-Cabbie Driving Russia’s Shadow War

Michael Schwirtz & Adam Goldman NYT

The College Student Who Built His Own DOGE & Cashed In

Paul Hudes Politico

New York: The Progressive War on Cheap Eats

Jarrett Dieterle City Journal

Waste of the Day: Thousands of Earmarks in Illinois State Budget

RCI

US Funded Defense Projects Riddled with Chinese Researchers

Philip Lenczycki DC

Despite Sanctions Crypto Still Flows to Iran

David Yaffe-Bellany & Michael Forsythe NYT

Kristi Noem Seems to Have Invented Tale of Cannibal Migrant

Nick Turse Intercept

Citizen Sleuths Help Unravel Tangle of Epstein Documents

David Bauder AP

Law Fails to Help Women Convicted of Killing Abusers

Pamela Colloff ProPublica

Private Credit Markets Singing AI Blues

Silas Brown Bloomberg

South Korea's Love Affair with AI

Catherine Kim Politico

Waste of the Day: $8 Water Filter Costs the Government $156

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

DOJ Hiding Epstein Files Related to Trump

Stephen Fowler NPR

Progressive Swiss Billionaire Spent $57M Last US Election Cycle

James Lynch NR

How Epstein Charmed Top Microsoft Executives

Erin Griffith & Karen Weise NYT

Secretive U.S. Campaign Helped Mexico Kill Drug Lord

Ryan Devereaux Intercept

She’s Raised $20M in Response to ICE Push in Minnesota

Lex McMenamin Guardian

Inside the Gaza Tunnels Israel Wants to Destroy

Richard Engel NBC News

How the Revolutionary Left Embraced Radical Islam

Benjamin R. Young Compact

Waste of the Day: Utah University Trustees Don’t Know Their Job

RCI

The Top General Preparing War Plan for Iran

Bertrand et al. CNN

Charlie Kirk Haunting Trump Administration’s Iran Debate

Ian Ward Politico

Violent Militias Stand Between US and Venezuela’s Mineral Riches

Ian Lovett WSJ

Chinese Spies Almost Derailed Alysa Liu's Skating Career

Ben Ashford Daily Mail

Anti-Gun Forces See Way Around Second Amendment

Staff Shooting News Weekly

How COVID Quietly Rewires the Brain

Jason Gale Bloomberg

Literary World Besieged by Scammers

Dan Barry New York Times

Waste of the Day: Throwback Thursday - USDA Advertised Caviar

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Lessons From F-16 Pilot’s Narrow Escape

Michael Gordon & Andrew Dowell WSJ

When Home Births Go Wrong, Hospitals Can Add Complications

Aria Bendix NBC

AIs Favor Nuclear Strikes in War Game Simulations

Chris Stokel-Walker New Scientist

He Betrayed His Friends by Giving False Testimony

Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker

California Forever Project: A New City of Dreams?

Jordan McGillis City Journal

Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had To Die

Rebecca Heilweil Wired

Washington's Secret Obsession with Astrology

Sally Quinn Vanity Fair

Waste of the Day: Improper Payments Totaled $186 Billion in 2025

RCI

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran

Staff The New York Times

Hypothetical Nuke Attack Escalated DOD's Clash with Anthropic

Duncan et al. WP

Inside the Fight Over the Epstein Files

Sarah Fitzpatrick Atlantic

How Many Woody Allen Movies Did Jeffrey Epstein Help Cast?

E.J. Dickson The Cut

Solar Power’s Newest Friends: MAGA Influencers

Brugger et al. Politico

The Golden State Is Turning Grey

Joel Kotkin City Journal

Cheers: The Revival of the Small-Town Tavern

Joshua David Stein Wall Street Journal

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran

Staff The New York Times

Why US and Israel Struck When They Did

Lieber et al. Wall Street Journal

Poland: The Migrants in the Ancient Forest

Elizabeth Flock New Yorker

Why Are So Many Teen Girls Still Tearing Their A.C.L.s?

Craig Welch NYT