July 20, 2015 Archives

Week of July 20, 2015 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, July 20

Dodd-Frank's Sad Anniversary

Veronique de Rugy, National Review

Dodd-Frank's Important Reforms

Wallace Turbeville, Demos

The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Era

Disler & Kerr, RCPolicy

These Nine Cities Are Running Out of Water

Thomas Frohlich, Time

Clinton's Capital Gains Tax Reform

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Congress Is Botching International Tax Reform

Patrick Holland, e21

A Lower Minimum Wage for Teens?

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Freedom of Information: A Better Approach

Meg Lentz, POGO

Latino Segregation Is a Growing Worry

Anne Kim, Wash Monthly

HUD's War on Suburban America

Michael Barone, DC Examiner

The Only Way to Fix Campaign Finance

Lawrence Lessig, NYT

A Primer on Jailhouse Suicides

Radley Balko, Washington Post

Tuesday, July 21

Legal Marijuana and Youth: New Evidence

Murray & Walters, RCPolicy

Five Ways D.A.R.E. Tried to Fool You

Thor Benson, ATTN:

Your Butt-Dials Can Be Recorded

Sam Baker, National Journal

The Success of 'Swipe Fee' Reform

Richard J. Durbin, Roll Call

$15 Minimum Wage Is a Horrible Idea

Catherine Rampell, Wash Post

ACA Premium Hikes: Jury's Still Out

Miskell & Cusano, Commonwealth

Time to Rethink Our Labor Laws

John C. Goodman, Forbes

Police Dishonesty, Overturned Convictions

Nancy West, TCR

Sin Taxes' Impressive History of Failure

J.D. Tuccille, Reason

Stop Freaking Out About the 'Gig Economy'

James Pethokoukis, Week

The Most Segregated Schools in the Nation

Matt Collette, Slate

Europe Isn't Better for Working Moms

Mackenzie Dawson, NY Post

Dodd-Frank: All Gain for K Street

Timothy P. Carney, DC Examiner

Wednesday, July 22

Sandra Bland's Arrest and the Law

Richard Winton, LA Times

The Dysfunctional Federal Workforce

Booth & Kosar, RCPolicy

Desegregation and Social Engineering

Simon Waxman, Boston Review

Immigration and Black Progress

Robert Cherry, City Journal

How Planned Parenthood Spends Public Money

Sarah Kliff, Vox

Does Prison Make People Criminals?

Allison Schrager, Quartz

The High Cost of Letting Criminals Go

Jason L. Riley, WSJ

The Undocumented Population Levels Off

Passel & Cohn, Pew

Don't Dismiss the Rise of the Robots

James Pethokoukis, AEI

American Teens Are Having Less Sex

Danielle Paquette, Wash Post

After the Coal Plant Closes

Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg View

Still Needed: Stronger Welfare Reform

Michael Tanner, NR

The Volcker Rule Takes Effect

Daniel Roberts, Fortune

Thursday, July 23

The IRS's ACA Money Grab

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, MarketWatch

Socialism, American-Style

Gar Alperovitz & Thomas M. Hanna, NYT

Mass Transit Doesn't Cause Gentrification

Richard Florida, CityLab

Don't Call Them 'Baby Parts'

Jen Gunter, The New Republic

What the Word 'Baby' Means

Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy

Were the PP Videos Illegal?

Stephanie Schwartz, National Memo

Does Bounty-Hunting Need Regulation?

Katie Bo Williams, Atlantic

Sandra Bland and Cops' 'Lawful Orders'

Orin Kerr, Wash Post

Statutory Rape: When a Lie Can Ruin a Life

Robin L. Barton, TCR

Straight Talk about Immigrant Crime

Steven A. Camarota, CIS

Health Insurers Are Devouring Each Other

Max Nisen, Quartz

America's Growing Gun Business

Adam Weinstein, The Trace

Opportunity Gap Isn't Going Away

Richard V. Reeves, WSJ

Friday, July 24

What the 'Cadillac Tax' Accomplishes

David Wessel, WSJ

No Wonder Insurers Want to Merge

Megan McArdle, Bloomberg

The End of Suburban White Flight

William H. Frey, Brookings

Reimagining the Welfare State

Jennifer Mittelstadt, Jacobin

The Louisiana Shooting and Guns - Matt Vespa | Ian Millhiser

The Minimum Wage Muddle

David Brooks, New York Times

GMOs Are Safe. Let's Label Them.

Simon Waxman, Boston Review

Race and the 'Success Sequence' - Rich Lowry | Jordan Weissman

The Cities Leading a Manufacturing Revival

Kotkin & Shires, Forbes

California's Uber Hunt

Tim Cavanaugh, City Journal

Why Uber Is a Political Rorschach Test

Annie Lowrey, New York

Strong Sentencing Makes Us All Safer

William Otis, InsideSources

Sunday, July 26

American Capitalism Isn't Broken After All

Clive Crook, Bloomberg

Should America Have E-Voting?

Such & Spakovsky, RCPolicy

Nail Salons: What the NYT Got Wrong

Richard Bernstein, NYRB

Highway Bills: Increasingly Irresponsible

Ben Ritz, BPC

A Ruling for Illegal Immigrant Parents

Stephen Dinan, Wash Times

The Theater Shooter's Mental Health History

Ray Henry et al., AP

Is Fetal Tissue Essential to Science?

Jessica Firger, Newsweek

Brain Implants Could End the Death Penalty

Zoltan Istvan, Vice

The ADA, 25 Years Later

Room for Debate, New York Times

The Tilt of the Tax Code - Bernstein | Edwards | Bernstein

Hillary's Capital-Gains Tax Confusion

Stephen Moore, Creators

The Case for Expanding Social Security

Robert Kuttner, Prospect