RealClearInvestigations Week of May 4, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 4

U.S. Targets China's Stranglehold on Drone Production

Chin et al. Wall Street Journal

Cubans Struggle to Survive on Government Rations

Dánica Coto AP News

Self-Checkout Under Fire Across the Country

C. Jarrett Dieterle Reason

AI Threatens Big Law's Talent Pipeline

Russell Contreras Axios

Lina Khan’s Antitrust Effort Failed—but Her Ideas Are Spreading

Brian Albrecht CJ

Dairy Farm Family's Fortunes Run Dry

Eli Saslow & Erin Schaff New York Times

Are Disney Fans the Happiest Debtors on Earth?

Amelia Tait New Yorker

Waste of the Day: Drought Money Lacks Details

Jeremy Portnoy RCI

Tuesday, May 5

Partisan Activists Ran FBI's Domestic Terror Program

Nicholas Giordano Federalist

LA Arson Suspect Obsessed Over Luigi Mangione

Leif Le Mahieu Daily Wire

Growing Radicalization of Youth-Led Climate Group

Stu Smith City Journal

JB Pritzker Bankrolling Dems Before Expected Prez Run

Will Upton Daily Caller

U.S. Army’s ‘Big Experiment’ in Arctic Cold

Greg Jaffe & Kenny Holston New York Times

Pacific Northwest Tribe Engineering Salmon Revival

John Ryan NPR

Ritzy California Beach Town Faces Tsunami of Raw Sewage

Jim Carlton WSJ

Waste of the Day: Record Overtime in L.A.

Jeremy Portnoy RealClearInvestigations

Wednesday, May 6

FBI Probing Virologist for Smuggling Deadly Pathogens

Paul D. Thacker Substack

How the SPLC Impoverished Higher Education

Peter Wood Minding The Campus

New Climate Report Eliminates Most Extreme Scenarios

Roger Pielke Jr. Substack

I Went to Cuba When Trump Turned the Lights Out

Roger Lemoyne Walrus

Savior or Slayer? What AI Is Doing to Hollywood

Steven Zeitchik Hollywood Reporter

David Sacks: The Venture-Capital Populist

George Packer Atlantic

At Meatstock, Steak Is Medicine

Dani Blum & Juan Diego Reyes New York Times

Waste of the Day: Weapons Cost Overruns

Jeremy Portnoy RealClearInvestigations