RealClearInvestigations Week of April 6, 2026 Archives

A Downed Airman and a High-Risk Rescue in Iran

Bergengruen et al. WSJ

Israel’s War on Hezbollah Pitting Lebanon Against Itself

Sarah Dadouch Bloomberg

Common Drug Tests Lead to Thousands of Wrongful Arrests

Holly Yan CNN

Deportations Rattle Small Towns in Rural Wisconsin

Rachel Leingang Guardian

More Teens Are Getting Hooked On Gambling

Sequoia Carrillo NPR

Under LA's $300M Homeless Program, 40% Return to Street

David Zahniser LAT

RCI Seeks Applicants for $20,000 Reporting Grants

Staff RealClearFoundation

Waste of the Day: Maryland Ignored Audit Warning

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

DOJ Misled Judge About How It’s Using Voter Roll Data

David Gilbert Wired

Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account

Londoño et al. NYT

Exposing Child Sex Trafficking on Facebook and Instagram

Katie McQue Guardian

How Media Hid Radicalization of Calla Walsh

Rachel O'Donoghue HonestReporting

How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics

Antonia Hitchens New Yorker

Phone-Free Bars and Restaurants on the Rise Across U.S.

Rebecca Falconer Axios

RCI Seeks Applicants for $20,000 Reporting Grants

Staff RealClearFoundation

Waste of the Day: U.S. Fiscal Doomsday in Sight

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Gov-Funded Censor Targeted Conservative Outlet

Margot Cleveland Federalist

Troubling DHS Spending Probes from Kristi Noem’s Tenure

Sacks et al. WP

ICE Is Using Powerful Spyware

Jude Joffe-Block NPR

'Ghost Murmur': Secret Tool Helped Find Downed Airman

Steven Nelson NYP

How Trump Took U.S. to War with Iran

Jonathan Swan & Maggie Haberman NYT

Did Oil Company Boost Cancer Rates in Kenya?

Georgia Gee & Nelly Madegwa Intercept

The Legacy of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"

Roger Pielke Jr. Substack

Waste of the Day: Lawyers Cash in on Wrongful Convictions

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Gavin Newsom’s $30B Fraud Magnet

Christopher F. Rufo & Kenneth Schrupp City Journal

The Most Connected Hospice Doctor in California

Geller et al. CBS News

How Trump's Mixed Messages Sidelined Kurds

John Davison & Ryan McNeill Reuters

Patients Using Chatbots to Fight Medical Bills

Sarah Kwon NYT

Arizona: Trump Reforms Spur Big Drop in Food Stamps

Nicole Santa Cruz ProPublica

Private Spies: Christopher Steele’s Assertions

Vadim Nikitin London Review of Books

Google's AI Overviews Tells Millions of Lies Per Hour

Ryan Whitwam Ars Technica

Waste of the Day: Smokey Bear Balloon Price Tag

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Deportations

Nehamas et al. NYT

Millions Moved to Pro-Trump Counties Since 2020

Editorial Board Issues & Insights

Death Spiral Looms as L.A.'s Population Plunges

Jenny Jarvie Los Angeles Times

Health Influencers Hawking Unapproved Treatments

Dhruv Khullar New Yorker

Why the U.S. Fertility Rate Has Hit a Record Low

Anthony DeBarros Wall Street Journal

How the Mellon Foundation Funds Trans Ideology

John D. Sailer City Journal

Humans Are Losing the Fight Against Flying Fish

Jeanne Whalen Wall Street Journal

Waste of the Day: NYC Agency - “Office of Mass Re-Election”

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

The Next Phase of the Immigration Crackdown

Jia Lynn Yang New York Times

Was Pilot Rescue in Iran Connected to Failed Uranium Heist?

Francis Kapper DC

California Unions Prioritize Left-Wing Ideology Over Workers

Seneca Scott CJ

Power Company Pulls Plug on Bayou Cabins

Joe Barrett & Carl Churchill WSJ

Reality Check: Mamdani's First 100 Days

Joe Anuta & Chris Sommerfeldt Politico

An Easy Way To Help Save Social Security

Eric Boehm Reason

Al Sharpton Says Blacks Would Be 'Crazy' To Celebrate July 4th

Chuck Ross WFB

Mutually Automated Destruction: The Global A.I. Arms Race

Frenkel et al. NYT

Women Are Getting Most of the New Jobs

Andrea Hsu NPR

States Learning Wrong Lesson From ‘Mississippi Miracle’

Rachel Canter Atlantic

Bored Nuke Engineer Sparked Sports Betting Revolution

Kit Chellel BusinessWeek

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