You come to RealClear to stay informed. Nowhere else do you see opposing sides represented as honestly and fairly. Unique among news organizations, RealClear is the Unum that brings together the Pluribus of America’s public life.
Every day, the RealClearFoundation (RCF), a nonprofit working in partnership with RealClearPolitics, is working to enhance your news experience—and live up to the role of the free press and its relationship to a free people.
With the end of the year approaching, we are asking RealClear’s discerning readers to donate in support of our mission and the work that flows from it.
Since RealClear’s inception, its primary approach has been aggregation: linking to the best of competing perspectives from all corners of the web and building a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Readers, presented with rival authorities and institutions, are given the opportunity to compare and contrast—and come to their own conclusions. This is what it means to respect people’s intelligence and capacity for judgment. RealClear’s method—transparency, reasoned argument, and deliberation—reinforces democracy at its best.
Along the way, we found that bringing greater balance to the public discourse has required investment in original investigative reporting and analysis. This is where support from donors comes in.
RealClearInvestigations (RCI), the Foundation’s signature effort, has been breaking news ahead of legacy outlets and covering important civic issues honestly and evenhandedly since 2017. Its recent contributions to the national conversation include the following:
- Vince Bielski has covered the migrant crisis at the southern border—showing how it has coincided with a surge in the smuggling of deadly fentanyl produced mostly by Mexican drug cartels with ingredients imported from China, and how the Biden administration’s approach of sending billions of dollars in aid to Central America to address “root causes” resembles approaches that have been tried before, to little effect.
- Through RCI’s culture beat, reporters such as Richard Bernstein and John Murawski have shown how the “woke” cultural revolution has been transforming institutions of public life, including:
- Medical research, in which “systemic racism” has been embraced as an explanation for health disparities.
- Seminary formation, as when a divinity student at Princeton Theological Seminary fought back against requirements to participate in so-called antiracist training sessions, in which participants were separated on the basis of race and trainers suggested that being white was something he should repent.
- Programs in mathematics for gifted students, which in California are being challenged as undermining equity and social justice.
- Traditional color-blind standards of merit, which are now being rejected by schools, governments, and corporations.
- Unions, whose leadership’s embrace of “woke” politics has led to tensions with more traditional blue-collar rank-and-file members.
- Technical education programs that have uplifted disadvantaged kids, which are being called racist because the curricula differ from what many white teens in suburbia receive.
- Corporate America, which has increasingly embraced the “woke” mindset.
- RCI’s election coverage by reporters such as Mark Hemingway has encompassed the unprecedented Covid-inspired changes in the electoral process last year—and the role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in funding them; “lawfare” programs at Harvard Law School with close ties to partisan activists; and America’s outlier status internationally when it comes to photo ID requirements.
- Indictments that have followed Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Russia-Collusion probe have vindicated RCI’s past reporting by Eric Felten, Aaron Maté, and Paul Sperry on malfeasance by the intelligence community—and we have documented the fateful wrong turn legacy news organizations took in advancing false narratives about Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
- Amid rising crime and urban unrest, RCI has reported on the assaulting of journalists by Antifa and the mixed record of putting police departments under the supervision of the federal judiciary.
Our mission is to make a salutary difference in America’s public discourse. None of our original content is restricted by paywalls. We even let other news outlets republish our investigations and other articles for free.
In a media landscape that is ever more polarized, RealClear strives for balance, independence, honesty, and nonpartisanship. If you think that these principles should inform America’s civic life, please join in our mission by making a tax-deductible donation before the end of the year.
On behalf of everyone at RealClear, I wish you and yours a happy holiday season.
