October 1, 2012 Archives

Week of October 1, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, October 1

Health Care Cost Crisis Faces the Next President

Reihan Salam, Reuters

Racial Preferences Still Affect College Admissions

Sander & Taylor, WaPo

Obamacare vs. the Personalized Medicine Revolution

J. Goodman, HCB

Simpson & Bowles Aren't Sold on Obama or Romney

D. McManus, LAT

Why Is Romney Silent on Corporate Welfare?

J. Surowiecki, New Yorker

It is Time to Embrace Electric Automobiles

Bill Destler, Huffington Post

Fiscal Cliff Will Mean Unprecedented Tax Hikes

H. Gleckman, Tax Vox

The Forgotten: Mobile Home Owners

Bradley & McCarthy, Democracy

Another Lawsuit Threatens Obamacare

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

How School Choice Is Like Notre Dame Football

Mike McShane

Obama Let Bankers Get Away Scot-Free

Alex Klein, Daily Beast

Friday's Jobs Report Will Outweigh the Debate

Robert Reich

Tuesday, October 2

There is No 'Conservative Case for Obamacare'

N. Owcharenko, RCPolicy

Romney's Pitch to the Non-Wealthy

Ross Douthat, New York Times

High Inequality Is an Economic Concern

J. Rauch, National Journal

Opinion Is Shifting on Climate Change

Chris Mooney, Mother Jones

Sorry, Seniors: Social Security Adds to the Deficit

Andrew Biggs, RCM

States' Spending Would Be Decimated under Romney

E. Pollack, EPI

Will Medicare & Medicaid Cuts Bankrupt Physicians?

J. Rickert, HA

U.S. Heading Down Path to Economic Catastrophe

Jeff Cox, CNBC

How to Pay for the Spending Obama Wants

W. Galston, Brookings

Study: Top 1% Get Richer in GOP Congresses

A. Seitz-Wald, Salon

The Gender Gap Isn't About Social Issues

M.D., Economist

Real Debate Questions for the Candidates

Economics21

Wednesday, October 3

Romney Changes His Policies on the Fly

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

Romney's Four Most Misleading Debate Claims

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

Romney Takes the Medicare Fight to Obama

Michael Warren, TWS

One Debater Was Honest About Health Care

Avik Roy, Forbes

Understanding Kids, Gangs, and Guns

Sudhir Venkatesh, NY Times

Millionaires Deserve Unemployment Benefits Too

Neil Shah, WSJ

QE3 Is Saving Obama's Campaign

Harold James, Project Syndicate

Raising Medicare the Age Raises Costs

P. Van de Water, CBPP

How Fracking Helps the Environment

S. Sexton, Freakonomics

We Need New Thinking About Inequality

Noah Millman, TAC

Should TV Stations Ban False Political Ads?

Scott Finn, NPR

Keep Veterans's Off the Chopping Block

Ron Astor, CNN

Thursday, October 4

Informed Independents Don't Like Obamacare

Higgins & Heath, WSJ

Missing the Point of Romney's Tax Plan

J. Cochrane, Grumpy Economist

America Doesn't Get Health and Health care

Yuval Levin, New Atlantis

'Small Businesses' Aren't What You Think

Jordan Weissmann, Atlantic

Monetary Stimulus Just Won't Help

Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate

Affirmative Actions' Days Are Numbered

Thomas Espenshade, NYT

The Case Against Parasitical Baby Boomers

Jim Tankersley, NJ

Jamie Dimon: Genius or Monster?

Cohan & McLean, Vanity Fair

Romney's $5 Trillion Confidence Game

Len Burman, Forbes

The Poor Can Save, Too

Friedman, Shi, & Wartell, Democracy

Do Economists Favor Obama or Romney?

The Economist

How Romney's New Tax Idea Might Work

CRFB

Friday, October 5

Obama Is Saving the Economy, If Not His Job

Greg Ip, Washington Post

Early-Childhood Programs: Doomed to Fail

N. McCluskey, Boston Review

The GOP Must Embrace the Education Dept.

Hess & Kelly, National Affairs

Jobs Report Ruins Romney's Talking Points

Gadi Dechter, ThinkProgress

What If Washington State Legalizes Pot?

Mark Kleiman, Wash. Monthly

Reading Between the Lines of Romney's Tax Plan

Clint Stretch, CG&G

College Is Still Definitely Worth It

Greenstone & Looney, Brookings

Will Shale Gas Save Obama?

Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal

The McJobs Report

Philip Klein, The Washington Examiner

Obama's Broken Deficit Promise

Tim Kane, Balance

The Environmentalist's Dilemma

Michael Levi, CFR

Baby Boomers vs. the Rest of Us

The Economist

Sunday, October 7

Sorry, Right-Wingers: The Recovery Is Real

Paul Krugman, NYT

The Lessons of Canada's Balanced Budgets

David Frum, Daily Beast

Obama & Romney: Two Dueling Bostonians

W.R. Mead, American Interest

Romney: Cold-Hearted Conservative, or Moderate?

John Dickerson, Slate

Let's Help Poor Folks Build Up Savings

Annibale & Henderson, Democracy

Too Much Testosterone on the Campaign Trail

J. Wheary, Policy Shop

What Romney Should Say About Internet Regulation

L. Crovitz, WSJ

Policy Uncertainty Is Hurting Us

Baker, Bloom, & Davis, Policy Review

Hispanic Outreach Means More than Tokenism

Glenn Llopis, HBR

Romney's Wrong on Too-Big-to-Fail

Mike Konczal, Next New Deal

Romney's 47% Response

Arthur Brooks, Wall Street Journal

America Goes Part-Time

Moira Herbst, The Guardian