Week of October 14, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, October 14
Lobbyists Could Win the Shutdown Fight
Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
The Crazy Plan We Need to Avoid Default
Matthew O'Brien, Atlantic
MOOCs: A Threat to Serious Education?
Thomas K. Lindsay, RCPolicy
Why College Costs Will Plunge
Barton Hinkle, Richmond Times-Dispatch
A Better Alternative to Obamacare's ACOs
James Capretta, e21
Shutdown Spells Trouble for AIDS Research
Kyle Bella, Century
The Rich Do Care About the Poor
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RealClearMarkets
Civilians Should Review Police Departments
Kim Hendrickson, American
Diverse Public Schools Don't Unite People
Neal McCluskey, NRO
The Genetics of Global Warming
Michael White, Pacific Standard
The Problem With Genetically Modified Crops
Nathanael Johnson, Grist
Is Nondiscrimination Unconstitutional?
Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary
Tuesday, October 15
The Republicans' Policy Schism
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Conservatives Should Love 'Alt-Labor'
Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy
A New Climate Change Law Has Done Little
Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica
Is Our Fossil Fuel Euphoria Unfounded?
Michael Klare, The Nation
Five Market-Based Climate Change Solutions
Shank & Lichtash, US News
The False Promise of Universal Coverage
Greg Scandlen, The Federalist
Is There a Plot Against Pensions?
Liz Farmer, Governing
How Poverty Breeds More Poverty
Claude Fischer, Boston Review
The Political Implications of Slow Growth
David Callahan, Demos
Is Medical Overtreatment Still a Problem?
H. Gilbert Welch, LA Times
The Mid-Wage Jobs of the Future
Joshua Wright, New Geography
Obama's BRAIN Initiative Is Great
John McGinnis, American Interest
Middle Class Families Won't Fix Failing Schools
M.B. Cucchiara, Atlantic
Wednesday, October 16
Will We Default the Next Time Around?
James Surowiecki, New Yorker
Policymaking Lessons of the Budget Wars
Edward Morrissey, Fiscal Times
Iffy Chemicals Flow Through Free Trade Zones
Roger Bate, RCPolicy
How to Prevent Rape on Campus
Amanda Hess, Slate
The Assault on Campus Due Process
K.C. Johnson, Minding the Campus
2014 Will Be a Big Year for Pension Reform
Stephen Eide, Public Sector
The War on Pensions Goes Federal
Cole Stangler, In These Times
Americans Have Stopped Moving
Timothy Noah, Washington Monthly
New York is the Next Silicon Valley
Nancy Cook, National Journal
Rahm Emanuel Neglects Chicago's Poor
Aaron Renn, City Journal
Does Tech Destroy More Jobs Than It Creates?
Rick Wartzman, Prospect
Why People Pirate Movies
Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy
Why the Gov't Thinks It Can Access Your E-mails
Jane Chong, TNR
Thursday, October 17
Democrats Have Lost on Taxes, and That's Okay
Ezra Klein, Wash Post
Assessing the Exchanges
Yuval Levin, National Review Online
Repeal the Debt Limit
Scott Lilly, Center for American Progress
In Praise of Debt Ceilings
Hans-Werner Sinn, Project Syndicate
Study Skews Data on Sexual Violence
Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy
The Way We Talk About Rape Is Broken
Roxane Gay, Salon
Boomers Aren't Returning to Big Cities
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
Congress Approaches CEO Pay the Wrong Way
Michael Dorff, LA Times
The Truth About the White Working Class
Henry Olsen, The American
Does Oregon Have the Right Idea for a Gas Tax Alternative?
Economist
The Dubious Case for Professional Licensing
Uwe Reinhardt, NYT
It's Time to Scrap the Filibuster
Paul Starr, The American Prospect
What the Michigan Race Case Is About
Cass R. Sunstein, Bloomberg View
Friday, October 18
Smoking a Joint and Then Driving Is Harmless
Jacob Sullum, Reason
Entitlements Rob Young People and They Know It
James Freeman, WSJ
Four Misconceptions About Obamacare
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View
The ACA Could Reduce Criminal Recidivism
Kamala Mallik-Kane, Urban
Sequestration: The Shutdown That Didn't End
David Dayen, TNR
Do Public Schools Outperform Private Ones?
Julia Ryan, The Atlantic
Single-Sex Schools Can Benefit Young Black Men
Freeden Oeur, CNN
Financial Aid Programs Deserve an 'F'
Jared Meyer, e21
The Government Can't Make a Good Website
Andrew Romano, Daily Beast
Being Anxious About Exchanges
Adrianna McIntyre, Incidental Economist
Why the South Is Different
Zach Beauchamp, ThinkProgress
Arizona's and Kansas's Unfair New Voting Systems
Mijin Cha, Demos
Fed's Shady Dealings With Too Big to Fail
Jake Bernstein, Pacific Standard
Rebuilding After Disasters Is a Legal Struggle
Gerald Frug, Atlantic Cities
Sunday, October 20
The Rise of the 'Men's Rights Movement'
R. Tod Kelly, The Daily Beast
Does College Pay Off for Cashiers?
Bryan Caplan, EconLog
Making Higher Ed Benefit the Middle Class
Cowan & Kessler, NYT
How Washington Handcuffs Tax Reformers
Hodge & Entin, WSJ
Why Not Raise the Social Security Tax?
Dean Baker, CEPR
The Entitlement Hang-Up
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Using Data to Build a Better L.A.
Weare & Musso, Los Angeles Times
An Educational 'El Dorado' in Arkansas
Winograd & Hais, New Geography
Modified Rice Could Save Millions of Lives
Coghlan & Potrykus, Slate
Obamacare's Coming Legal Fight
Thomas P. Miller, The American
The Military's Sexual Assault Problem
The Economist
A Burgeoning Fight Over Late-Term Abortions
Beth Reinhard, Atlantic
The New Welfare State
Bruce Bialosky, Townhall
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