Susan Crabtree

Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent. She previously served as a senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon, and spent five years as a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner.

As Pratt Gets Bad News, California Vote-Counting Fuels Conservative Distrust

News Analysis For Spencer Pratt’s supporters, the past four days of the Los Angeles mayoral primary vote-counting and ...

Viewpoints June 11, 2026
Battle Lines Drawn on Trump’s Border Crackdown

News Analysis President Trump’s decision to launch his second term by declaring a national emergency at the U.S. ...

Analysis January 23, 2025
Trump Takes His Time With Secret Service Director Choice

Commentary It just might be the most personal hiring decision President-elect Trump will ever make, but if he’s ...

Viewpoints November 21, 2024
McCarthy Fallout: GOP Fundraising Jitters

Commentary House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his predecessor Nancy Pelosi shared an essential strength in modern-day politics that ...

Viewpoints October 9, 2023
Families of Those Excluded From Iran Hostage Deal Demand Answers

Commentary Nizar Zakka knows exactly what it’s like to be left behind in a U.S. hostage deal with ...

Viewpoints August 18, 2023
Suit Against Tech Giant Shines Light on US Complicity in Chinese Torture

News Analysis The wheels of justice often turn slowly, but when it comes to U.S. corporate complicity in ...

Analysis August 16, 2023
China Commission to MLB, US Firms: Stop Subsidizing China’s Abuses

Commentary Baseball may seem as American as apple pie, but many of its most popular bats and gloves ...

Viewpoints July 19, 2023
Republicans to Blinken: Act Against China’s Organ Harvesting

Commentary Rep. Michelle Steel, a California Republican whose parents fled communist North Korea and raised her in Japan, ...

Viewpoints July 11, 2023
Union Fights Signal Danger Ahead for Bidenomics

Commentary Just a few hours before President Biden tied his political fate to the economy, embracing the term ...

Viewpoints July 4, 2023
Taiwanese Leader: Be ‘Firm and Determined’ in Deterring China

Commentary Taiwan’s top legislative leader, You Si-kun, is in Washington this week for meetings with top China critics ...

Thinking About China May 18, 2023
The Long Road to Confronting China’s War on Religion, Part II

News Analysis Falun Gong emerged in China in 1992, a time of a spiritual renewal in a land ...

Viewpoints May 10, 2023
The Long Road to Confronting China’s War on Religion, Part I

News analysis In 2016, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech calling for the “Sinicization of religion” ...

Viewpoints May 8, 2023
Religious Freedom Commission Calls Out Violations in Iran, China, Elsewhere

Commentary It’s an image of contrasts, courage, and confrontation: A faceless Iranian woman protester holds Catholic rosary beads ...

Viewpoints May 4, 2023
Families of Jailed Chinese Human Rights Leaders Press Biden for Meetings

During meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev or other top Soviet Union officials, President Reagan often pulled out ...

China Human Rights April 25, 2023
Tibetan Police Mass-Collect DNA and Lawmakers Say US Firm Is Helping

News Analysis Legendary actor and humanitarian Richard Gere recently made a splash during a visit to Capitol Hill. ...

Analysis April 21, 2023
Religious Freedom Summit Highlights Atrocities in China, Russia, Nigeria

Commentary Dmitri Bodyu, a Ukrainian American pastor, is a three-time religious refugee who last year added “Russian prisoner” ...

Viewpoints February 13, 2023
Georgia Wins Pave Way for Biden Cabinet Picks, Policies

Commentary Republicans threw everything they had at holding the line in the Georgia Senate runoffs, but it wasn’t ...

Viewpoints January 7, 2021
Iranian Official Slams Regime Over Mistreatment of Imprisoned American Resident

A senior Iranian official's pointed public criticism of the regime's mistreatment of a U.S. permanent resident imprisoned in ...

US News September 21, 2018