February 25, 2013 Archives

Week of February 25, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, February 25

Low-Tax, Energy-Rich Red States Lead the Way

Joel Kotkin, WSJ

The New York Times Gets One Wrong on Health Care

Jon Entine, AEI

Why Universal Pre-K Won't Lead to Big Gains

David Deming, NY Times

The Simple Way to Avoid an Immigration Amnesty

P. Skerry, Brookings

5 Lessons From 100 Years of the Income Tax

Pizzigati & Anderson, TAP

Overtaxing Marijuana May Boost the Black Market

C. Matthews, Time

Our Problem Isn't the Debt. It's Republicans

Mark Thoma, Fiscal Times

Sequestration Is Going to Hammer Nonprofits

E. de Leon, MetroTrends

Obama Has the Power to Act on the Climate

Eugene Robinson, WaPo

UK Shows How Privatized Health Care Works

D. Catron, Spectator

Public Transportation Is About Justice

Amy Dean, Boston Review

More Cops Means Less Gun Violence

Steve Chapman, Reason

Tuesday, February 26

Obama and the Sequester Scare

Phil Gramm, Wall Street Journal

If He Doesn't Act, Obama Faces Endless Fiscal Cliffs

Robert Kuttner, TAP

The Economy Can't Risk Another Tax Hike

Liz Peek, The Fiscal Times

Obama Can Just Cut Power Plant Emissions

Becker & Gerstenzang, NYT

How a One-Room WV Library Got a $20K Router

N. Anderson, Ars Tech.

Red Tape Keeps Low-Income Students Out of College

S. Carr, Atlantic

How Serious Are State, Local Pension Problems?

D. DiSalvo, City Journal

The Upside to Republicans Rejecting Exchanges

Richard Kirsch, NND

Harlem Charter Schools Can't Be Stopped Now

Bob McManus, NY Post

Jobs Crisis Is About More Than Unemployment

Mathur & Hanson, RCM

The False Alarm of Population Decline

Dean Baker, The Guardian

Enough Keynes. Time for Tax Reform

Wayne Brough, RealClearPolicy

Austerity's Track Record Isn't Good

Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Wednesday, February 27

The Overhyped, Overblown, & Politicized Sequester

Chokshi & Cook, NJ

Obama Can't Have It Both Ways on Medicare Cuts

P. Suderman, Reason

Why It Pays to Be Reckless on Wall Street

C. Arnade, Scientific American

Call Obama's Bluff By Giving Him Power to Make Cuts

Karl Rove, WSJ

Dear GOP: Please Stop the Planned Crises

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

We Must Cut Health Spending Now

Y. Feyman, Medical Progress Today

Arne Duncan's Dishonesty About Charters

David Harsanyi, Denver Post

Lessons from the History of the Sequester

Bipartisan Policy Center

It's Time for Medical Malpractice Reform

Peter Orszag, Bloomberg

I Just Solved the Sequester

Jared Bernstein, On the Economy

Obesity: It's the Sugar, Folks

Mark Bittman, New York Times

Is the Penny Worth Keeping in Circulation?

The Economist

Thursday, February 28

The Sky Isn't Falling

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

The Feds Are Meddling in Your Music

Melissa Daniels, The Freeman

The Top 10 Causes of Death in the U.S.

Alex Berezow, RealClearScience

Despite ACA, Health Care Is Still Broken

Howard & Feyman, City Journal

Governors Are a Special Interest

Tad DeHaven, Downsizing Government

10 Quotes of Officials Who Missed the Crash

Alex Pollock, The American

We Need Government in the Mortgage Business

David Min, L.A. Times

10 Questions About Quantitative Easing

N. Roubini, Project Syndicate

Will Bernanke Be Vindicated?

Bohan and Hollander, National Journal

John Roberts Is Out to End Affirmative Action

Jeffrey Toobin, CNN

Obama's Anti-Empirical Education Approach

Dalmia & Snell, Reason

What to Do About Those Hospital Bills

Uwe Reinhardt, Economix

Friday, March 1

Sequester, We Hardly Knew Ye

Howard Gleckman, TaxVox

The Coming Weather Satellite Crisis

Tim De Chant, NOVA Next

Why Did Democrats Give Jack Lew a Pass?

Alec MacGillis, New Republic

Can the Cleveland Clinic Save U.S. Health Care?

P. Klein, D.C. Examiner

Robots Are Gaining Power, But Workers Needn't Worry

R.A., Economist

Tax Cuts and Wars Mean Another Decade of Debt

Kathy Ruffing, CBPP

Arkansas' Medicaid Deal Makes Everyone Better Off

L. Gorman, NCPA

Here's an Entitlement Worth Ending

Arthur Kellermann, Health Affairs

Capitalists for Preschool

John Pepper & James Zimmerman, NY Times

Government-Funded Bad Drinking Advice

Michelle Minton, RCPolicy

World's Not Ending, but Sequester's Still Scary

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

Let the Invisible Foot Create Growth

Reihan Salam, Reuters

Sunday, March 3

Some States Don't Realize Prohibition Is Over

Heather Long, Guardian

Conservatives Need to Focus More on the Vulnerable

Arthur Brooks, WSJ

We Can Make the 'Insourcing' Trend Real

Anne Kim, Washington Monthly

We Need to Answer the Helium Shortage

M. Chan and J. Lancaster, CNN

Two Ways to Drastically Lower Smoking Rates

Richard Daynard, NYT

Why We Don't Have an Offshore Wind Turbine

Tim McDonnell, Grist

The FBI Needs a New, Better Headquarters

Tim Weiner, Bloomberg

Should NYU Expand to Abu Dhabi?

Anya Kamenetz, The Daily Beast

Coal Isn't Going Away Any Time Soon

Christopher Helman, Forbes

Blame JFK for the Sequester

Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

It's Not Bernanke's Fault

James Pethokoukis, National Review

Thank God for Automatic Stabilizers

Mike Konczal, Prospect

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