March 4, 2013 Archives

Week of March 4, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, March 4

Jerry Brown: The Once & Future Gov

Harold Meyerson, American Prospect

A State Takeover Won't Fix Detroit

Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times

Why Liberals Should Support Self-Defense

Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

Here Are the Options Governors Face with Medicaid

Charles Blahous, e21

No One Is Sure Why Gun Deaths Are Down

Marc Fisher, Washington Post

Rich Have High Taxes, But Even Higher Incomes

D. Callahan, Policy Shop

How to Avoid Demographic Disaster

David DesRosiers, Washington Times

When Mail Carriers Save Lives

Marvit and Bacasa, Washington Monthly

The Debt Doomsayers Are Wrong Again

Daniel Altman, Foreign Policy

The Family Case for a Minimum Wage Hike

Nancy Folbre, Economix

Larger Spending Cuts, Please

Michael Boskin, Wall Street Journal

A Federal Spending Pop Quiz

Henry Aaron, RealClearMarkets

Tuesday, March 5

Government Should Wash Its Hands of Amtrak

Robert Samuelson, WaPo

Want to Lower Inequality? Increase Immigration

Enrico Moretti, Forbes

Risk for Obama in Liberals' $10.10 Minimum Wage

J. Lawler, RCPolicy

Health Care For the Poor, Or Poor Health Care?

Joseph Antos, RCM

Learning From Germany's Turnaround

Daniel Gros, Project Syndicate

Rethink America's Corn System

Jonathan Foley, Scientific American

School Breakfasts Reduce Child Hunger

Greg Kaufmann, The Nation

Our Economic Future Is in Indie Capitalism

Bruce Nussbaum, Wired

Don't Treat Obama Like He Is Omnipotent

Ryan Lizza, New Yorker

The Sequester Might Be Just What We Need

John Carney, CNBC

Fixing Inequality's Diploma Gap

Peter Orszag, Bloomberg

Chicago's Lull in Murders Won't Last

Justin Peters, Slate

Wednesday, March 6

The War on Entitlements

Thomas Edsall, New York Times

GOP's Budget Leads to Political Disaster

Boak & Pianin, Fiscal Times

We've Done a Poor Job Supporting Scientists

Norman Ornstein, Roll Call

Conservatives Should Want Alternatives to Prisons

Reddy & Levin, TAC

Urban Farming Will Revolutionize Cities

Roman Gaus, The Atlantic Cities

Will Los Angeles Join Detroit As a Fiscal Zombie?

Steven Malanga, RCM

A New Plan to Let Seniors Retire When They Want

H. Meyerson, WaPo

Republicans for Waste in Health Care

Phillip Longman, Wash. Monthly

Sequester Debate Muddies Public and Private Sector Differences

e21

Michelle Rhee Is Wrong About Teachers

Robin West, Boston Review

Why Republicans Don't Want to Soak the Rich

Lee Harris, American

Crying Wolf Over the Sequester

Joseph Lawler, RealClearPolicy

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Thursday, March 7

What Undocumented Workers Really Want

F. Johnson, National Journal

Does Affirmative Action Hurt Minorities?

Matthew Chingos, Brookings

Would Clear Prices Fix Health Care?

M. Gaynor, Compassionate Economics

Ways for Paul Ryan to Achieve a Balanced Budget

J. Sahadi, CNN Money

The Scandal of Lead Poisoning

Helen Epstein, New York Review of Books

Obamacare Opponents Have Struck Out

Joseph Lawler, RealClearPolicy

The Correlation Between Guns & Homicide

Alex Berezow, RCScience

Krugman's Wrong About the Deficit

J. Scarborough & J. Sachs, WaPo

About Oklahoma's Universal Pre-K

S. Banchero, Wall Street Journal

We're Wasting Resources Imprisoning People

Clay & Phillips, HBR

Obamacare Exchanges Will Shrink After 2018

Jed Graham, IBD

Student Debt: A Bubble More Like a Balloon

Diana Carew, PPI

Friday, March 8

How Much Value Has the Internet Created?

The Economist

Transfers to Old Folks Are Ruining America

Holzer & Sawhill, WaPo

Why Obama Can't Lower Your Tuition

Timothy Noah, The New Republic

The Health Care Market Is Too Concentrated

Diane Archer, Health Affairs

Lobbyists Are Trying to Undo Obama's Laws

H.S. Edwards, Wash. Monthly

Exposing Obama's No Child Left Behind Gambit

R. Biddle, Dropout Nation

Too Big to Fail Becomes Too Big to Jail

William Quirk, American Scholar

Too Many Women Are Trapped at Minimum Wage Jobs

B. Stucki, TAP

Signs of Life from the Economy- Don't Sabotage It

Len Burman, Forbes

Some Environmentalists Are Embracing Nuclear

R. Bryce, City Journal

Don't Be Fooled by the Jobs Numbers

Dean Baker, The Guardian

The Robot Will See You Now

Jonathan Cohn, The Atlantic

Sunday, March 10

Green Cars' Dirty Little Secret

Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street Journal

Medicare's Low Prices Are Part of the Problem

David Goldhill, WaPo

Guns Neither Increase Nor Decrease Crime

Tom Hartsfield, RCScience

Why Americans Don't Save & What We Can Do About It

Pacific Standard

Charters Are Beating NYC's Catholic Schools

S. Kennedy, New Geography

Southern States Tax the Poor Too Much

Katherine Newman, NY Times

The Reinvention of the Public Library

Sarah Williams Goldhagen, TNR

3 Reasons We Don't Need an Internet Sales Tax

J. Melugin, Examiner

Why Push Austerity If It Doesn't Work?

Henry Farrell, Wash. Monthly

What a 'Balanced Approach' Means

Noelle Clemente, RealClearPolicy

How Did Detroit Get So Bad?

Daniel Little, Understanding Society

Obamacare Won't Allow 98% of Plans

Chris Conover, Forbes

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