Week of August 12, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, August 12
Ignoring the Realities of NYC Crime
Heather Mac Donald, New York Post
Why Didn't the NYPD Fix Stop-and-Frisk Earlier?
Justin Peters, Slate
Border Security Doesn't Cause Illegal Immigration
Mark Krikorian, NRO
In Defense of the 30-Year Mortgage
Mike Konczal, Washington Post
Texas Fights the DOJ on Voting Rights
Adam Serwer, MSNBC
Congress Shouldn't Set Immigrants' Wages
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RCM
We Need Industry to Save the Middle Class
Mark Thoma, Fiscal Times
Why Banks Are Forging Mortgage Documents
David Dayen, Salon
Maryland's $25K/Foot Subway Line
Jacob Anbinder, Century Foundation
Occupy Wall Street Gets Its Own Bank Card
Alissa Quart, The Nation
Foreign-Oil Dependence Compromises Security
G. Shultz, Defining Ideas
On FISA, the Chief Justice Has Too Much Power
Garrett Epps, The Atlantic
Silicon Valley's Close Ties to the Surveillance State
Joel Kotkin, New Geo
Tuesday, August 13
What the Latest Obamacare Delay Means
Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Why Holder Can Act Now on Prison Reform
J. McDermott, Financial Times
Keep Prisoners Near Their Families
Piper Kerman, New York Times
Grounding a Harmful Airline Merger
The Editors, Bloomberg View
So Many Job Openings, So Little Hiring
Peter Orszag, Washington Monthly
You Don't Need Uncle Sam To Purchase A House
Hester Peirce, RCM
'Pay It Forward' Student Loan Plan Gains Traction
Monica Potts, Prospect
How Oil Companies Rip Off Landowners
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
Former EPA Officials Cash In
Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner
End the Post Office Monopoly
Doug Bandow, Cato @ Liberty
When Welfare Pays More Than Work
Michael Tanner, Hartford Courant
Do Charter Schools Worsen Segregation?
Patrick R. Gibbons, redefinED
Payday Loans Can Be a Good Thing
William Isaac, American Banker
Debt Isn't the Biggest Threat to College Access
Rachel Black, New America
Wednesday, August 14
An Immigration Plan That Could Pass
Condoleezza Rice et al., Politico
The Battle Against Higher Ed Oversight
Thomas K. Lindsay, RCPolicy
How Much of an Effect Can Holder's Reforms Have? Sullum | Humphreys
Why Cops Should Wear Cameras
Steve Chapman, RealClearPolitics
American Criminal Justice Is a Disgrace
Clive Crook, Bloomberg View
How to Revive Airline Competition
Matthew Yglesias, Slate
Wall Street Loves Many Things, But It Hates Bailouts
John Tamny, RCM
Hyperloop, an Alternative to High-Speed Rail
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
Hyperloop, Overhyped
Randal O'Toole, The Antiplanner
The Hidden Cause of the Student Loan Crisis
Brianna Ehley, Fiscal Times
Students Need Options Besides College
David Callahan, Demos
How Colleges Should Handle Rape Cases
KC Johnson, Minding the Campus
Are Americans Still Tough on Crime?
Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy
Complexity Didn't Cause the Financial Crisis
Jay Richards, American
Thursday, August 15
A Little-Known Obamacare Alternative
Andrew Stiles, National Review
Obamacare's Part-Time Work Incentives
Peter Suderman, Reason
The Problems With Mandatory Minimums
Paul H. Robinson, Bloomberg
How to Improve Stop-and-Frisk
Michael Todd, Pacific Standard
Why Our Prison System Is Insane, in Charts
Paul Waldman, Prospect
Obama Should Pardon Drug Offenders
Jacob Sullum, Forbes
The Immigration Solution to Low Wages
Mickey Kaus, The Daily Caller
Climate Policy's Twin Challenges
Durwood Zaelke & Paul Bledsoe, LA Times
Can the Hyperloop Kill Cali's 'Bullet Train'?
Tom Gray, City Journal
Stop Snarking at For-Profit College Students
Tressie Cottom, Slate
Detroit's New Pension Dilemma
Stephen Eide, Public Sector Inc.
Smokeless Tobacco: Gateway Drug?
Brad Rodu, R Street
Friday, August 16
Congress Fails on NSA Oversight
Julian Sanchez, Politico
Thousands of Privacy Breaches? So What?
David Francis, Fiscal Times
Hyperloop Is Going Nowhere
René Lavanchy, The Guardian
Salvage Detroit Piece by Piece
Richard J. Riordan & Tim Rutten, Bloomberg
Building Trust Between Police, Minorities
Joseph D. McNamara, Reuters
Getting Past 'Tough on Crime'
David Cole, New York Review of Books
Ending the California Prison Hunger Strike
Tom Hayden, LA Times
Key Facts About the Airline-Merger Lawsuit
Marc Scribner, Open Market
'Cadillac' Health Plans Are a Myth
Adam Gaffney, Salon
Obamacare's 'Abortion Complication'
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Food Stamp Trafficking Is Not Rampant
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
Meritocracy Isn't Fair
Matthew Yglesias, Slate
Fracking Hurts Real Estate
Roger Drouin, Grist
What Free Higher Ed Looks Like
Jay Schalin, See Thru Edu
Sunday, August 18
The NSA Non-Story
Benjamin Wittes, The New Republic
Obama Has Abused the NSA
Jim Sensenbrenner, LA Times
Don't Let the Government Read Your E-mail
Neil M. Richards, CNN
How Illiteracy Could Doom Obamacare
David Francis, The Fiscal Times
Stop-and-Frisk Is Not Racial Profiling
Michael Bloomberg, Washington Post
End the Drug War, Fix Law Enforcement
Sheldon Richman, Reason
Why We Need Common Core
Jeb Bush, National Review Online
Does Government Stifle Innovation? Robert Shiller | Jared Bernstein
A Better Tax Break for Charitable Donations
Jeffrey Dorfman, RCM
Targeting the Wealthy Kills Jobs
TJ Rodgers, Wall Street Journal
Regulate E-Cigarettes
The Editors, Bloomberg View
'Unpaid Interns' or 'Volunteers'?
David Callahan, Demos
National Parks Fail to Attract Young Visitors
The Economist
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