Week of September 17, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, September 17
How Political Consulting Dominated U.S. Politics
Jill Lepore, New Yorker
Americans Are Ready to Cut the Defense Budget
Scott Rasmussen, Reason
Are Voters Ready to Make the Tough Fiscal Choices?
Isabel Sawhill, RCM
Obama Placed the Short Term Over the Long Run
Ed Glaeser, Bloomberg
Why Half of Households Pay No Income Taxes
N. Cook, National Journal
The Chicago School Reforms Are a Mistake
Joe Nocera, New York Times
Who Are the '47 Percent' Romney Wrote Off?
Derek Thompson, Atlantic
Blacks Are Remigrating from Northern Cities
D. DiSalvo, City Journal
There Won't Be a Global Recovery Without Pain
Michael Spence, CFR
Unions Are Winning in the Chicago Strike
Rick Hess, Education Week
How Paul Ryan Convinced D.C. He's a Genius
Alec MacGillis, TNR
Doctors Spurn Obamacare's Medicare Plans
Sally Pipes, Forbes
Tuesday, September 18
The 53 Percent Are the Real Moochers
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
The Emerging Truth About Obamacare: It's Unworkable
S. Gottlieb, RCM
The EPA's Dumb Minimum Gas Purchase Rule
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Climate Change Is a National Security Issue
D. Gartenstein-Ross, Atlantic
Obama Should Boost, Not Weaken, Work Requirements
R. Rector, NR
Seniors Would Lose Their Doctors in Ryan's Plan
P. Orszag, Bloomberg
Treasury Needs to Hold Onto Its GM Shares
Micheline Maynard, Forbes
No Evidence That Competition Will Save Medicare
M. Sanger-Katz, NJ
Learning from Britain's Fiscal Mistakes
Lawrence Summers, Wash. Post
The Climate Change Fix That Actually Worked
Mijin Cha, Policy Shop
Gifted Students Deserve More Opportunities
Chester Finn, NY Times
The 47 Percent, In One Graphic
Jacob Goldstein, Planet Money
Wednesday, September 19
10 Huge Issues the Campaigns Are Ignoring
Z. Beauchamp, Think Progress
Face It: 2013's Going to Be a Horrible Year
Matthew Philips, BusinessWeek
Obama's Immigration Ploy: Help or Hindrance?
L. Medrano, Fiscal Times
Winners & Losers in the Chicago Teachers Strike
Rick Hess, Straight Up
Bernanke Errs on the Side of Loose Money
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Americans' Incomes Have Actually Improved
Gary Burtless, RCMarkets
What the Heck Is Quantitative Easing?
Mike Konczal, American Prospect
Obamacare Penalty Tax Will Hit 6 Million
W. McBride, Tax Foundation
Time for the Government to Sell GM
Ed Whitacre, Wall Street Journal
10 Urban Freeways That Need to Go
Congress for the New Urbanism
Banks Are the Real Tax Moochers
Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica
The Decline of Credit Cards
Felix Salmon, Reuters
Thursday, September 20
U.S. Politics Is a Battle for the Suburbs
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
The Real Moochers Are the Financial Elite
S. Johnson, Project Syndicate
How Obama Could Do Real Redistribution
Timothy Noah, New Republic
Would Pres. Romney Be Able to Stop Obamacare?
T. Jost, Health Affairs
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers' Strike
Paul Kersey, Public Sector, Inc.
Why Environmentalism Lost Its Momentum
Christopher Sellers, NYT
The Georgia Teacher Who Made Millions Online
A. Rotherham, Time
Beware: Rising House Prices Don't Mean Recovery
Jason Gold, PPI
The Farm Labor Shortage Is a Complete Myth
John Carney, CNBC
The Fiscal Cliff, in Graphics
J. Goldstein & L. Thuy Vo, Planet Money
New York State Leads in Inequality
Catherine Rampell, Economix
Robert Rubin's Sad Legacy
William Cohan, BusinessWeek
Friday, September 21
How to End the Culture of Dependency
Matthew Spalding, CNN
Obama's Attempt to End Prison Rape
D. Kaiser and L. Stannow, NYRB
Obama Is the Biggest Spender in World History
Peter Ferrara, Forbes
We Need a Strategic Grain Reserve
Frederick Kaufman, Los Angeles Times
Locavores Miss the Point
Pierre Desrochers & Hiroko Shimizu, The American
Blame Social, Not Economic, Factors for Inequality
Political Calculations
In Support of Medicare Premium Support
C. Chambers, Medical Progress
Casualties in the Education Reform Wars
Melissa Harris-Perry, Nation
Look for Calorie Counts on McDonald's Menus
Sally Smyth, BPC
The Post Office's Terrible Strategy
Tobin Harshaw, Bloomberg
In Defense of Lower Taxes
William McBride, Tax Foundation
The Gray Tsunami: Aging
Jeff Wheelwright, Discover
Sunday, September 23
Romney Would Have Done Better Than Obama
Luigi Zingales, Bloomberg
Gutting Welfare Reform and Wasting Money
R. Rector, National Review
Why Poor Folks' Life Expectancies Are Falling
K. Geier, Wash. Monthly
Five Myths About the 47 Percent
William Gale & Donald Marron, WaPo
Don't Expect Much from the Housing Market
Karen Dynan, Brookings
Forget Tax Cuts or Stimulus, We Need Budget Reform
Economics21
Why This Recovery Has Been So Weak
John Taylor, Economics One
'Science' Can't End Our Political Debates
Ari Schulman, WS Journal
A Sane Health Care System
Hapogian & Goodman, National Affairs
For the Debt, Let's Avoid the Tough Choices
Robert Frank, NYT
Why Kids Should Grade Teachers
Amanda Ripley, The Atlantic
Low-Income Folks Need Assets, Too
Ray Boshara, Democracy
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