And more from this week...

Intercontinental ballistic missiles are massively expensive, environmentally hazardous, and dubiously successful as a deterrent-even Donald Trump recognizes the madness of modernizing strategic nuclear weapons.

The real cause of America's vibecession.

The Democrats appear bent on not learning a thing from their 2024 disaster. Instead of learning from their autopsy, they are ignoring it.

Lou Cannon, a Washington Post reporter who became the preeminent biographer of Ronald Reagan, chronicling the former actor's election as California governor, his long pursuit of the presidency and his two terms in the White House, died Dec. 19 at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, California. He was 92.

Big Pharma can develop new drugs without gouging Americans.

A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say.

Democrats' fear-mongering about the Trump economy is looking more and more like sour grapes.

What we realized is that when you kill Charlie, now Charlie is gone. That's what happens when you kill someone in this life. We didn't go from one Charlie to a million Charlies. We went from one Charlie to zero Charlies. That's what happens. That's why assassinations happen-that's why people do them, because they work.

Friday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth discussed the DNC deciding not to publish their long-anticipated 2024 campaign "autopsy," and the conviction of a Wisconsin judge for obstructing an ICE arrest.

With all the signs of a Democratic comeback arising from 2025's off-year elections, there's understandably some excitement among Democrats about a possible "wave" election next year that would dislodge the GOP trifecta that allowed Donald Trump to enact a legislative agenda this year without any minority-party input or support. The obvious benchmark for an anti-Trump wave is the 2018 midterms, which gave Democrats net gains of 41 U.S. House seats and a 17-seat majority in that chamber.

Some in the opposing party see a political advantage in trying to convince voters that Trump is somehow a repeat of Biden.