October 21, 2013 Archives

Week of October 21, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, October 21

Obamacare Should Change Your Health Plan

Josh Barro, Business Insider

Saving Obamacare Without Congress

Bagley & Frakt, Bloomberg

Why We Can't Delay the Individual Mandate

Dan McLaughlin, Federalist

In Defense of the BART Strikers

Corey Robin, Jacobin

The Perils of Cheap Marijuana

Mark Kleiman, Washington Monthly

Fracking Gave Me Gonorrhea

Peter Rugh, Vice

Medicaid and the Incentive to Work

Annie Lowrey, New York Times

Housing Policy Could Increase Schools' Diversity

Megan Gallagher, Urban

Yes, Robots Will Destroy the Middle Class

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

E-Verify Isn't Working

Alex Nowrasteh, Cato @ Liberty

The NSA's Flawed Defense of Data Collection

Bruce Schneier, Atlantic

How Unions Coerce Workers

Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy

An Alternative to Breaking Up Big Banks

Suzanne McGee, Fiscal Times

The Shutdown Europeanized the Constitution

A. Codevilla, Liberty Law

Tuesday, October 22

Public Pensions: The Politics Have Changed

Daniel DiSalvo, RCPolicy

Pension Reform in San Jose

Steve Eide & Chuck Reed, Public Sector Inc.

A Rough Few Days for Obamacare

Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic

What the ACA Will Look Like in 2016

Bradley Allen, Wall Street Journal

On Budget Reform, Don't Forget Tax Subsidies

Howard Gleckman, TaxVox

What to Expect in the Coming Budget Fight

Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Rejecting Students Because They're Too Poor

Jordan Weissmann, Atlantic

Bill de Blasio and the New Urban Populism

Thomas B. Edsall, NYT

The Marijuana That Won't Get You High

Alec Torres, NRO

There Isn't a New Housing Bubble

Bill Watkins, New Geography

Do Bishops Control Your Hospital?

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones

The Nightmare of Private Youth Prisons

Chris Kirkham, Huffington Post

Is a Life Worth Just $9.1 Million?

Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist

Don't Write Off Low-Wage Strikes

Trish Kahle, Jacobin

Wednesday, October 23

Pensions & Bankruptcy: A Tale of Three Cities

Eileen Norcross, RCPolicy

Michigan's Constitution Bars Cutting Pensions

Dean Baker, CEPR

The Real Reason for the Pension Crisis

Caleb O. Brown, The American

Winners and Losers in the BART Strike

Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle

Liberalize Immigration Law, Liberalize the U.S.

George Hawley, RCPolicy

No One Signed Up for Romneycare at First Either

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

Calm Down About 'Death Spirals'

Adrianna McIntyre, Incidental Economist

Does the ACA Mess Undermine Liberalism? - Mike Konczal | Ross Douthat

Colleges Discriminate Against Poor Kids

Robert VerBruggen, RCPolicy

Climate Change Demands Action Now

Paul Krugman, NY Review of Books

Forced Labor in America

Rachel Cernansky, The American Prospect

How Young Adults Fare Across the U.S.

Richard Florida, Wash Monthly

Recalibrating the Poverty Line

John E. Schwarz, Los Angeles Times

Thursday, October 24

Getting the Bros to Buy Insurance

Paul Waldman, American Prospect

The ACA Has Been Mugged by Reality

James C. Capretta, Weekly Standard

Saving America's Cities

Joseph Fleming, RealClearPolicy

Bankruptcy Is Coming to These Five Cities

Steven Greenhut et al., Reason

Entitlement Reform for Revenue: A Fair Trade

Kent Conrad, Wash Post

Baby Boomers Stole Trillions From Millennials

David Callahan, Demos

How 'Debt Ceilings' Increase Debt

Gary Becker & Edward Lazear, Hoover

The Rights of Polyamorists

Mona Charen, RealClearPolitics

There Is No Campus Rape Epidemic

Caroline Kitchens, US News

Obamacare's Doubtful Deficit Reduction

Kevin D. Williamson, NRO

What a Puerto Rico Default Means for America

The Economist

Five Strategies to Give the Young a Leg Up

Mark Edwards, Wash Monthly

The Case for Protecting Hate Speech

Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic

Friday, October 25

Jobs Matter More Than Debt Fix

Chad Stone, US News & World Report

'F' for the Health Exchange Website

Uwe Reinhardt, New York Times

These Four State Exchanges Are Working Fine

Sarah Kliff, Wash Post

Obama Behind on No Child Left Behind

RiShawn Biddle, Dropout Nation

Florida Bouncing Back From Housing Hell

Wendell Cox, City Journal

California Watchdog Is Sicced on Conservatives

Allysia Finley, WSJ

Leaky NSA Could Help Big Brother

Hayes Brown, ThinkProgress

Where the Middle Class Jobs Are

Joel Kotkin, New Geography

How Chicago Made It Look Easy

Aaron Renn, Urbanophile

Mayors Didn't Revive the Cities

Zachary Karabell, Reuters

Progressive Pipe Dream Politics

Molly Ball, The Atlantic

Glass Ceiling, What Glass Ceiling?

David Mark, Politix

Sunday, October 27

Medicaid Opt-Outs Are Subsidizing Blue States

Donald Taylor, Freeforall

The Case for 'Default Insurance'

Reihan Salam, Reuters

Cut Junk Food From Food Stamps

Neal Barnard, US News & World Report

Bill de Blasio, the 99 Percent Mayor

Chris Smith, New York Magazine

Don't Forget New York's Crime Drop

Heather Mac Donald, New York Post

Affirmative Action's Race Neutral Future

Glaser & Ryan, Wash Monthly

'Cost-Effective' College Plan Could Chill Innovation

Ottino & Mills, RCP

Why College Costs Keep Rising

Richard Vedder, Minding the Campus

The Kids Left Behind by High-Stakes Tests

Debbie Nathan, In These Times

Effects of the Great Neighborhood Divide

Robert Sampson, New York Times

Making Corporate Taxation Fairer

Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

We're Not Prepared for Another Hurricane Sandy

Adam Sobel, CNN

Is the Deficit Panel Already Doomed?

Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg

Faster Inflation Would Be a Good Thing

Jared Bernstein, On the Economy