February 17, 2014 Archives

Week of February 17, 2014 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, February 17

The Effort to Keep Anti-Gay Bias Legal

Gabriel Arana, American Prospect

Want More STEM Grads? Stop Grade Inflation

Thomas Lindsay, RCPolicy

Why We Spend So Much on Health Care

Yevgeniy Feyman, Forbes

An Ambitious Medicare Plan

Adrianna McIntyre, Incidental Economist

How the Employer Mandate Can Wreak Havoc

John Goodman, NCPA

Overall, the Stimulus Was a Success

Bill McBride, Calculated Risk

The Surprising Truth About the 1%

James Piereson, Wall Street Journal

Why and How Suicides Happen

Cody Delistraty, Pacific Standard

The Cause of Skyrocketing Tuition

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today

Are the Tiger Parents On to Something?

Robert VerBruggen, RCPolicy

The Manhattanization of Cities

James Frank Dy Zarsadiaz, Atlantic Cities

What's Next for Volkswagon Workers

Thomas Gies, AEIdeas

When Eminent Domain Is Just Theft

A. Barton Hinkle, Reason

Focus on Net Capacity, Not Net Neutrality

Szoka & Skorup, Wired

What's Wrong With the Labor Markets

Ryan Avent, The Economist

Tuesday, February 18

A $10.10 Wage Would Help Millions

Furman & Stevenson, White House

Hike the Minimum Wage, Kill Jobs

James Sherk, Foundry

Why Tax Mortgage Debt Forgiveness?

Goodman & Seidman, Urban

The Danger of Hydrogen Cars

Naveena Sadasivam, ProPublica

Why Premiums Are Soaring in Some States

David Levine, Governing

Oregon: Our Health Policy Guinea Pig

Mark Hemingway, Weekly Standard

How HealthCare.gov Failed to Launch

Jonathan Alter, Foreign Affairs

America's Three Social Classes

Richard Reeves, RealClearMarkets

Unions' Reckless Pension Game

Richard Epstein, Defining Ideas

A Simple Fix for 'Pay It Forward'

Susan Dynarski, Hamilton Project

There's No Advantage to Single-Sex Education

Jill Filipovic, Al Jazeera

Is Hosting a Poker Game Illegal?

Damon Root, Reason

Ten Dangerous Anti-Abortion Bills

Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress

Smart Machines and the Economy

James Pethokoukis et al., AEIdeas

Wednesday, February 19

'Homosexual Jim Crow Laws'? Get Real

Ryan T. Anderson, NRO

Hobby Lobby's Dubious Religious Liberty Claim

Garrett Epps, Atlantic

$8.25 is the Best Minimum Wage Option

Peter Morici, Breitbart

The CBO's Centrist Minimum Wage Findings

Jonathan Chait, New York

We're Losing Health Jobs: What That Means

Peter Orszag, Bloomberg

How Retailers Are Fighting Obamacare

Erin Quinn, C. for Public Integrity

Stand Your Ground Is a Failure

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

Republican Policies Undercut Mobility

Sean McElwee, The New Republic

Focus on Green Cards, Not Citizenship

Ilya Shapiro, Forbes

Is the Mortgage Deduction Necessary? - Curtis DuBay | Robert VerBruggen

The Death of Civil Unions

Cyril Ghosh, The Guardian

Standards-Based Education Reform Works

Morgan Polikoff, Ed Week

The White House's Weak Defense of the Stimulus

Scott Sumner, EconLib

A Redo on Net Neutrality?

Roslyn Layton, Tech Policy Daily

Thursday, February 20

The FCC's New Assault on Freedom of the Press

Byron York, DC Examiner

Yes, Health Insurance Improves Health

Peter Ubel, Forbes

The Stimulus Tragedy

Paul Krugman, New York Times

A Better Case for Paternity Leave

Anna Sutherland, Family Studies

Gay Marriage Will Change Straight Marriage

Carina Kolodny, HuffPost

What Public Sector Unions Don't Do

Jake Rosenfeld, On Labor

Are 'Smart Gun' Laws Constitutional?

Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy

Supervised Drug Use Could Save Lives

Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Prospect

Why Google Fiber Isn't Coming to Big Cities

Brian Fung, Washington Post

Make Big Cities Bigger

Reihan Salam, National Review Online

There's Something About Cities and Suicide

Olga Khazan, The Atlantic

Cut Off Schools With Big Endowments

Richard Vedder, Bloomberg

The Shadow Lobbying Complex

Lee Fang, The Nation

Friday, February 21

Does Free College Make Kids Work Harder?

Nora Caplan-Bricker, TNR

Our Overcentralized Federal Government

Rich Tucker, RealClearPolicy

There Is No 'Employer Mandate'

Marty Lederman, Balkinization

A Three-Year Obamacare Moratorium

Larry Kudlow, RealClearMarkets

Does the GOP Have a Legitimate ACA Alternative?

Joseph Minarik, CED

Detroit's Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Wallace Turbeville, Demos

Not All 'Patent Trolls' Are Demons

Timothy Holbrook, CNN

Yes, Stand Your Ground Mattered in the Dunn Trial

Lisa Bloom, HuffPost

Wall Street's CEO Pay Creates Bad Incentives

Pat Garofalo, U.S. News

Self-Sufficiency Has Stagnated

Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy

Welfare Reform's Failure Hits a New Record

Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress

Chicago's Commuting Penalty for Blacks

Emily Badger, Atlantic Cities

How Writers Coped Without Copyright

Tom W. Bell, Reason

Colleges Should Rethink the SAT

Benjamin Landy, Century Foundation

Sunday, February 23

Yes, the EPA Has Broad Authority

Christine Todd Whitman, Politico

Bringing Men Back Into Families

Lois M. Collins & Marjorie Cortez, Atlantic

Want Fewer Guns on the Street? Try Open Carry

Adam Winkler, LAT

Don't Renege on Pension Obligations

Felix Salmon, Reuters

Rhode Island's Rocky Path Toward Pension Fixes

The Economist

Why the FCC Studies Newsrooms - Suderman & Rossman | York

Dear FCC: Let Us Have Gigabit Broadband

Andy Kessler, WSJ

Yesterday, Net Neutrality Became Obsolete

Timothy Lee, Washington Post

There Are No Poor Kids at Fancy Colleges

Matthew Yglesias, Slate

Winner-Take-All vs. the Long Tail

Robert H. Frank, New York Times

Are Republicans Serious About Mobility?

Sean McElwee, Huffington Post

Property Rights Trump Keystone XL

Timothy Carney, DC Examiner

Want to Make Banks Safer? Tax Them

Mark Buchanan, Bloomberg View