Week of December 10, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, December 10
Private Sector Grass Isn't Greener for Feds
Richwine & Biggs, RCPolicy
To Save 2nd Term, Obama Must Go Over the Cliff
Noam Scheiber, TNR
Raising the Age for Medicare Is a Bad Idea
A. Carroll, Incidental Economist
The GOP's Right About Taxes: Don't Raise Rates
David Frum, Daily Beast
America's Power Depends on Immigration
Joseph Nye, Project Syndicate
The Perils of a Gay Marriage Court Ruling
Charles Lane, Washington Post
The Case for Millionaires' Tax Brackets
Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect
America Is Gun Country -- and That's OK
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Why We Need a Common Curriculum
RiShawn Biddle, New York Times
Left Must Get Serious About Entitlement Reform
H. Aaron, Democracy
France Abolished Homework. Should We?
L. Menand, New Yorker
The Writing's on the Wall for Big Labor
Rich Lowry, New York Post
Tuesday, December 11
America Is Already Overtaxed
Edward Prescott & Lee Ohanian, WSJ
Workers: Higher Productivity, Lower Wages
Brynjolfsson & McAfee, NYT
Even Good US Schools Trail Other Countries'
J. Rothenberg Gritz, Atlantic
For Recovery, Fix Up Run-Down Neighborhoods
Mallach & Vey, Brookings
Two Simple Changes That Would Save Social Security
Kevin Drum, MoJo
A Vote for Right-to-Work Is a Vote for Inequality
Harold Meyerson, WaPo
Republicans Have an Escape Hatch in Fiscal Cliff Talks
Keith Hennessey
Right-to-Work Laws Aren't What You Think
Rick Ungar, The Token Lefty
Start Charging Drivers for Using Roads
Fawn Johnson, National Journal
Let's Redraw School Districts for Diversity
M. Petrilli, Education Gadfly
You Can't Trust the Gov't to Be Honest About Debt
Alex Pollock, RCM
Here's How to Lower Health Care Costs
Paul Howard, Medical Progress
Wednesday, December 12
Obama Risks the Recovery with Tax Hikes
Liz Peek, The Fiscal Times
What the Federal Reserve Is Doing, and Why
Greg Ip, The Economist
Corporate Profits Are Up, Regular Folks Aren't
Jared Bernstein, MSNBC
Raising Medicare Age Will Actually Cost Us $5 Billion
Aaron Carroll, TIE
We're About to Be Drowned by Entitlement Debt
D. Koitz, Defining Ideas
Five Ways to End Veteran Homelessness
M. Cunningham, MetroTrends
16 Charts Illustrating America's Inequality Crisis
D. Thompson, Atlantic
Supreme Court Must Stay Sidelined to Aid Gay Rights
J. Rauch, TNR
Fiscal Hawks: Step Away from the Bargaining Table
C. Blahous, e21
The Top Eight Books for School Reformers
R. Biddle, Dropout Nation
Michigan Achieves Freedom from Unions
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
How to Fix the Debt by Paying Doctors Less
C. Flavelle, Bloomberg
Thursday, December 13
Time to Fix America's Pitiful Internet Access
Susan Crawford, Wired
Zero Interest Rates Crush Seniors, Boost Banks
D. Callahan, Policy Shop
D.C. Think Tanks Have Become Corrupt
Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times
The Safety Net Is About More Than Money
H.Moroz, Next American City
How to Reform Medicare, Without the Ryan Plan
James Capretta, e21
Obamacare's Cost Controls Just Won't Work
Peter Suderman, Reason
Tiny Apartments Are in Store for U.S. Cities
Claire Thompson, Grist
The Right to Work Dilemma
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Simply Put: The Social Security Trust Fund Is Real
K. Drum, MoJo
The Fed Moves Toward Populism
John Podhoretz, New York Post
Let's End Subsidies for Cities' Debt
Peter Schweizer, Forbes
Soak the Almost Rich
Timothy Noah, The New Republic
Friday, December 14
What We Can Do to Stop Massacres
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Obama Must Push for Gun Control
Reid Wilson, National Journal
Sober Talk About Gun Control
Mike Riggs, Reason
Five Myths About Tax Reform
Greg Ip, The Washington Post
Michigan: An Inspiration and a Warning
Vernuccio & Lehman, WSJ
Here's Why Working Class Can't Keep Up
Greg Forster, Hang Together
Today's Universities Are Already Doomed
N. Harden, American Interest
Climate Fix Is Technology, Not Austerity
Shellenberger & Nordhaus, Orion
Worry About Average, Not Marginal, Tax Rates
Garett Jones, Econlog
Technology Is Displacing Workers
Gillian Tett, Financial Times
Property Rights in Space
Rand Simberg, The New Atlantis
America's Losing Its Demographic Edge
The Economist
Sunday, December 16
Regulations vs. Working Class Students
Thomas Lindsay, RealClearPolicy
Gun Control Both Sides Can Agree On
Robert Leider, Wall Street Journal
No Lessons to Be Learned from Newtown Tragedy
Tim Carney, Examiner
History of Guns in the US Isn't What You Think
Adam Winkler, Atlantic
Just the Facts About Mass Shootings
John Fund, National Review Online
Go Back to Clinton-Era Spending, Not Taxes
V. de Rugy, Mercatus Center
Help the Jobless Move to Where Jobs Are
Charles Kenny, BusinessWeek
Conservatives Would Like These Tax Increases
Reihan Salam, Reuters
Unjust Tax Breaks Cost the Government Trillions
Larry Summers, FT
The Middle Class Needs Marriage
Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
Fracking Is the Future -- But It's Dangerous
McElroy & Lu, Harvard
Our Economic Fears Are Self-Fulfilling
Laurence Kotlikoff, VoxEU
Teles: Complexity & Opacity Are Ruining Government
RCPolicy
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