By Adam Andrzejewski for RealClearPolicy While many internships in government remain unpaid or offer hourly wages, powerful federal agencies are advertising internships that pay $60,000 and more, according to a Fox News investigation. An IT student trainee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in San Francisco can make between $66,333 and $131,367 if they are willing […]
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By Philip Wegmann for RealClearWire On its face, there wasn’t anything unusual about the email that landed last week in the press office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “Background interview request from the Washington Post,” read the subject line that summarized the industry-standard process whereby information is shared with reporters under pre-negotiated terms, usually anonymity. […]
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By Jake Bevan for RealClearWire DAVENPORT, Iowa – Donald J. Trump spoke here on Monday, his first visit to the state since announcing his candidacy in the 2024 election last November. It was a homecoming of sorts for Trump, whose close second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses seven years ago propelled his unexpected run to […]
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By Jake Bevan for RealClearWire DAVENPORT, Iowa—Ron DeSantis traveled here Friday for a “Freedom Blueprint” panel hosted by a fellow Republican governor – DeSantis’ first foray into an early primary season state where a slew of Republicans are vying for the dubious honor of emerging as Donald Trump’s main 2024 competition. From the stage of […]
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By Philip Wegmann for RealClearWire The clarion call to “build the wall” is no longer enough. Each of the declared Republican candidates for president tell RealClearPolitics that Mexican drug cartels must be designated as foreign terrorist organizations. It is the newest populist orthodoxy, one that the Biden administration flatly rejects. The context for the latest […]
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By Reilly Stephens for RealClearWire The last time your phone asked you to allow this or that app access to your location data, you may have had some trepidation about how much Apple or Google know about you. You may have worried about what might come of that, or read about China’s use of the […]
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By Eric Felten for RealClearWire In January 2022, on his first day in office, Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, showed race antagonists the schoolhouse door. During the campaign, Youngkin had promised voters he would end what he called the “Inherently Divisive Policies, Programs, Training, and Curricula” centered on race. Conservative parents had been protesting ideologically […]
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By A.B. Stoddard for RealClearWire Unfortunately for Ron DeSantis, expectations of him could not be higher. For a critical mass of Republicans seeking to move past Donald Trump, the Florida governor is already the anointed savior. While Trump still holds the lead in most polling, DeSantis is almost always second choice and is the favorite […]
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By Bill King for RealClearWire I regularly talk to well-informed people who do not realize that world population growth is rapidly decelerating. Currently, the UN estimates the most likely case is that the world’s population will top out around 10 billion in 2080 and then begin a long, slow decline. Other modelers are projecting the […]
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By John Ransom for RealClearWire A new report reveals students in the nation’s largest school districts are encouraged to change their names and pronouns without parental knowledge, even though those same schools require parental approval for over-the-counter medicine. The report, released by The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI), found that “eight of the nation’s […]
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