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In May 2021, two members of the Family Values, a white supremacist prison gang, allegedly killed a member of the rival Southwest Honkeys... Read More
Iran secured access to secret U.N. atomic agency reports almost two decades ago and circulated the documents among top officials who... Read More
Joe Biden and Democrats weren't kidding about their pledge to transform public institutions into gender dysphoria contagion zones. Read More
New data on Asian-Americans in New York City undercut a common assumption. Read More
A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal... Read More
An article published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has ignited new debate over the origin of... Read More
Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China's Uyghur detention system. Read More
You might not recognize the name Wendy Froud (née Midener), but in the practical effects world, she’s a legend. Her work even earned her... Read More
How will the abortion pill be regulated in a post-Roe country? Four big questions about the looming legal battles. Read More
How obscure retiree Jay Stone played a crucial, if little-known, role in making Wisconsin a hotbed of conspiracy theories that Democrats... Read More
The shooting has spotlighted a politically active Presbyterian congregation that is spread across the U.S. and closely associated with... Read More
The chairman of Fairfax County, Va., refused to boost security at the homes of Supreme Court justices during pro-abortion protests last week.... Read More
Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. Read More
Records from an FBI probe show how business interests run the Orange County city home to Disneyland and the Angels. Read More
A whistleblower says a plan to build a grain elevator on an old plantation would disrupt important historical sites, including possibly... Read More
A George Soros-linked dark money behemoth employs a peculiar partner in its bid to sink voter ID expansion in Michigan—a group of... Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a reckoning to restaurants as workers quit in droves. Some hoped to change the industry for the better. Did... Read More
The new wave fueled by the BA.2.12.1 subvariant might not be as big or bad as the last one, but there are still plenty of ways it can go... Read More
The pandemic has supercharged the decline in the nation’s public school system in ways that experts say will not easily be reversed. Read More
State and local officials across Nevada signed agreements with Northshore Clinical Labs, a COVID testing laboratory run by men with local... Read More
A House panel alleges that industry players heavily prepared a draft that became the basis for an executive order the Trump White House... Read More
When it came to who lost jobs, education mattered much more than gender, a broad new analysis found. Read More
A report sheds new light on Emergent executives’ own worries about deficiencies in the company’s quality control systems at its troubled... Read More
More than two years after it first spilled into humans, the virus continues to change its structure and chemistry in ways that confound... Read More
By Vince Bielski, RealClearInvestigationsMay 19, 2022 Mayor Eric Adams: Accelerated learning is not racist and must not be dismantled. AP... Read More
By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigationsMay 17, 2022 Detail, Read More
By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigationsApril 5, 2022 Just a few years ago, concepts such as “white supremacy,” “systemic racism,”... Read More
"Justice demands this result." That’s what Ketanji Brown Jackson said in 2011 after the U.S. Sentencing Commission knocked as much as three... Read More
The two years after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer have seen a raft of policy changes, but many residents say that... Read More
A non-profit public interest law firm says that activism in the workplace has caused an explosion in free speech litigation across the... Read More
"The project's goal is to increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and empowering... Read More
Investigation: SBC Executive Committee staff saw advocates’ cries for help as a distraction from evangelism and a legal liability,... Read More
Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital... Read More
The volatile, charismatic founder created a $60 billion empire by calling people “poor.” It all came crashing down in a couple days. Read More
16 years ago, Dennis DeGray was paralyzed in an accident. Now, implants in his brain allow him some semblance of control. Read More
Akihiko Kondo and thousands of others are in devoted fictional relationships, served by a vast industry aimed at satisfying the desires of a... Read More
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has quietly built up a massive "dragnet surveillance system" that allows it to snoop without... Read More
A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form. Read More
Jared Birchall is the right-hand man who does everything from lining up Twitter deal financing to digging up dirt on adversaries. Read More
The Chinese company has become a fast-fashion juggernaut by appealing to budget-conscious Gen Zers. But its ultralow prices are hiding... Read More
By Steve Miller, RealClearInvestigationsMay 25, 2022 Publicly, big solar developers and many climate change activists are sounding the alarm... Read More
Robby Mook, testifying as a witness in defense of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, told jurors that he discussed the matter... Read More
Above, a largely overlooked moment in the campaign film Read More
Above, 2020 George Floyd unrest in Washington, D.C., which treated the mass lawlessness with kid gloves. Now more leniency lies ahead in a... Read More
After a RealClearInvestigations' public records request, equity marching orders for all Cabinet-level agencies and more are now posted --... Read More
The agency's leaders are testifying before a House committee looking into its response to a formula recall that exacerbated shortages. Read More
Democratic consultants may have misled the Department of Justice about foreign lobbying work for a company that counted Hunter Biden on its... Read More
FBI agents probing since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between Donald Trump and a Russian bank believed that the allegations had... Read More
Above: Syria's Al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra. Obama/Biden officials now back in power coordinated with the jihadist franchise in an effort to... Read More
As cracks begin to show in the state media narrative about the invasion of Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill has been unwavering in support,... Read More
Authorities on the island of Jersey are in an awkward standoff with one of their best known customers. Read More
China’s use of state-directed funds, cheap loans and incentives surpasses other major economies. Read More
As Cuba careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years, the staple is one of the most potent symbols of the country’s precarious... Read More
Jeyasre Kathiravel’s murder exposed the epidemic of abuse facing garment workers. But will a groundbreaking new agreement improve their lot? Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It was about 6 a.m. when Venique Moïse flung open the door of her house and saw dozens of people running —... Read More
In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it... Read More
Biological age won’t help you live forever, but a “credit score for your body” can prolong your lifespan, some scientists say. Read More
Hypnosis is emerging as a powerful medical treatment for pain, anxiety, PTSD and a range of other conditions. Can it shake off its reputation... Read More
Overdoses claimed some 107,000 lives last year in the U.S. Public health advocates, researchers and activists want to help people find out... Read More
Teenagers and young adults are turning to Snapchat, TikTok and other social media apps to find Percocet, Xanax and other pills. The vast... Read More
At least five college athletes have died by suicide in recent months, sparking calls for more support from the NCAA. Read More
A trove of documents published as part of a legal settlement offers an unvarnished look inside the financial relationships between... Read More
Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to... Read More
Why has the union campaign spread so much further at the coffee chain than at the e-commerce giant? Read More
Part One of a Two-Part Series (Part Two Here) The national racial reckoning over reparations and critical race theory is taking over the... Read More
First of Two ArticlesPart 2: In Scotland, They'll Take the Woke Road By Richard Bernstein, RealClearInvestigationsDecember 28, 2021 PARIS —... Read More
Second of Two ArticlesEarlier: France, Where Wokism Is a Oui Bit Different By Richard Bernstein, RealClearInvestigationsDecember 29, 2021... Read More
As the wealthiest county in America found out, difficult political problems can't just be swept under a rug, or into a parking lot Read More
An unprecedented leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected for surveillance by the customers of the israeli company NSO Group shows how... Read More
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RCI Original Investigations
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- Week of 5/1 - To Spy on Page, FBI Pursued Rumor Press Called 'BS'
- Week of 4/24 - Paneling Paradise to Tap Into Solar - a Lot
- Week of 4/17 - How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorists in Syria
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Technology, Media & Democracy: RealClear Media Fellow Kalev Leetaru
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Investigative Book Excerpts
- "Slanted" by Sharyl Attkisson
- "San Fransicko" by Michael Shellenberger
- "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" by Abigail Shrier
- "Ball of Collusion" by Andrew C. McCarthy
- "Resistance (at All Costs)" by Kimberley Strassel
- "The Plot Against the President" by Lee Smith
- "Catch and Kill" by Ronan Farrow
- "Justice on Trial" by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino
- "The Russia Hoax" by Gregg Jarrett
- "The Threat" by Andrew G. McCabe
- "Secret Empires" by Peter Schweizer
- "Russian Roulette" by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- “Shattered’’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
