Week of December 17, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, December 17
Ending Random Mass Shootings Like Newtown
David Kopel, WSJ
Obama's Dragging His Feet on Gun Control
Dana Milbank, Wash. Post
We Can't Do Much to Prevent Another Massacre
M. McArdle, Daily Beast
The Good and the Bad of the Emerging Fiscal Deal
Jonathan Cohn, TNR
The Hard Truth About Entitlement Funding
J. Surowiecki, New Yorker
Progressives Have Made a Big Rhetorical Error on Entitlements
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Boehner's Way Too Ready to Cave to Obama
Alison Fraser, Foundry
What 'Friday Night Lights' Tells Us About College
Kevin Carey, NAF
Everyone Is Wrong About Tax Reform
Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg
The GOP Shouldn't Try to Be Moderate
William Voegeli, Claremont
The Real Gun Crisis Is Routine Urban Violence
Susie Cagle, Grist
The Twelve Best Charts of 2012
Quartz
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Tuesday, December 18
Beware of the Payroll Tax Cut Expiring
Blake Ellis, CNN Money
Temperatures Aren't Going Up That Much
Matt Ridley, WS Journal
We've Nationalized the Home Mortgage Market
J. Eisinger, ProPublica
How to Restructure Social Security
Gorry & Slavov, RealClearMarkets
Supervision Beats Incarceration for Criminals
Mark Kleiman, NT Times
What Should Be Done About Truant Students?
A. Liberman, MetroTrends
Gun Buy-Back Program Would Be Economic Win-Win
Matt Miller, WaPo
Extending the Estate Tax Cut Is a Serious Mistake
R. Greenstein, HuffPo
U.S. Is Poorly Equipped to Handle Mental Illness
Aaron Carroll, CNN
Congress Wants to Change Its Inflation Metric
H. Gleckman, TaxVox
3 Ways Obamacare Will Lower Employer Coverage
Casey Mulligan
We're Too Trusting of Eyewitness Testimonies
Skye Nickalls, Slate
Wednesday, December 19
We're Facing a Moral Cliff
Peter Cove, RealClearPolicy
Money's Better When It's Earned
Arthur Brooks, Wall Street Journal
The Social Security Fix That Will Bring Compromise
Henry Aaron, RCM
Armed Civilians Don't Stop Mass Shooters
Mark Follman, Mother Jones
Looks Like the Fiscal Cliff Is Going to Aid the Rich
D. Gross, Daily Beast
Video Games Just Don't Cause Violence
Aaron Carroll, Incidental Econ.
Inequality Can't Be Fixed If It's Not Understood
Nick Gillespie, Reuters
Is Education Still the Great Equalizer?
Rohde, Cooke & Ojha, Atlantic
Taxpayers Will Lose Big on the GM Bailout
Rick Newman, US News
Battle of the Welfare States: U.S. vs. Britain
C. Mulligan, Economix
How to Raise $2 Trillion Without Hiking Taxes
J. Pethokoukis, AEI
Let's Ban Guns Altogether
Jeff McMahan, New York Times
Thursday, December 20
Pity John Boehner, as the GOP Implodes
John Podhoretz, New York Post
Plan B Dies, and Over the Fiscal Cliff We Go
Noam Scheiber, New Republic
The GOP Is Right: No Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal
Avik Roy, Forbes
Now We Know for Sure: The Auto Bailout Failed
David Harsanyi, Reason
Congress Is Abandoning the 5th Amendment
Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
The Cultural Divide Betwen Americans Is Growing
Don Peck, Reuters
Three Factors Lead to Mass Killings
Charles Krauthammer, Wash. Post
The Financial Scandal of the Century
Christopher Matthews, Time
Medicare Spending Isn't Out of Control
Uwe Reinhardt, Economix
Immigration Is an Economic Issue
Tate Watkins, RealClearPolicy
Sound Money vs. Stable Money
Kenneth Gould, The American
Obama Plans a Carbon Tax Comeback
William O'Keefe, WSJ
Friday, December 21
The Problem Is Guns, Not the Mentally Ill
Robert Kuttner, TAP
NRA Fights Anti-Gun Hysteria with Pro-Gun Hysteria
J. Sullum, Reason
Energy Independence Is a Fool's Goal
Michael Levi, New York Times
The Multi-Decade Debt Bill Is Coming Due
Christopher DeMuth, TWS
The Reason So Many Women Are Working Part-Time
M. Sanes, CEPR
Now We Know: Bankers Didn't Ruin Finance
R. Rajan, Project Syndicate
Single Mothers in the U.S. Face Grim Conditions
Greg Kaufmann, Nation
The TSA's Goal Isn't Safety, It's Self-Preservation
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The Plight of 100 Million in US: Chronic Pain
R. Dworkin, Policy Review
The Head Start Program Just Doesn't Work
Andrew Coulson, Cato
Which U.S. Cities Have Kids?
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
The 15 Worst Economic Ideas of 2012
Joseph Bivens, EPI
Saturday, December 22
Heartlanders: Raise Taxes on Big Cities
David Callahan, Policy Shop
Sunday, December 23
Don't Listen to Deficit Hawks
Paul Krugman, New York Times
The Case for Cutting Defense Spending
Barney Frank, Democracy
Americans Lag Everyone in Vacation Days
Steven Mazie, Big Think
Expect Bigger and Better Financial Reform in 2013
S. Johnson, Slate
Two Reasons We Should Be Glad Plan B Failed
J. Green, Businessweek
Don't Cut Off the U.S. Natural Gas Boom
Robert Samuelson, Wash. Post
What the Tea Party Is Up to in Kansas
Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia
Defining the Health Care Problem
Brownlee, Colucci, & Walsh, Atlantic
Evidence Can't Solve Gun Control Debate
A. Liberman, MetroTrends
Homeschooling Goes Mainstream in America
The Economist
We Can't Keep Panicking Over Tragedies
Gene Healy, Cato
We Need Free Trade in Health Care
Dean Baker, CEPR
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