July 27, 2015 Archives

Week of July 27, 2015 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, July 27

What Liberals Get Right About Poverty

Adam Ozimek, Forbes

John Oliver's Paltry Three Ounces of Meth

Robert VerBruggen, RCPolicy

Prisons Aren't Full of Nonviolent Drug Offenders

John Pfaff, Wash Post

A Fraud-Riddled Disability Program

Bronstein & Griffin, CNN

Obamacare's Moment of Truth

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

The Anthropology of Marriage

Ryan T. Anderson, Daily Signal

Who's Right on Health Cost Projections?

Louise Sheiner, WSJ

Uber vs. Laws

Danny Vinik, Politico

Obama Is Soft on Guns

Thomas Geoghegan, Politico Magazine

Don't Bring Back Ex-Im

The Editors, National Review

The Scariest Lesson of No Child Left Behind

Libby Nelson, Vox

States That Cut Taxes Do So At Their Peril

William Gale, RCM

Tuesday, July 28

A Campus Rape Expert's Flawed Research

Linda M. LeFauve, Reason

ACA Experiment Failed to Show Savings

Jay Hancock, KHN

Another ACA Argument Starts to Crumble

Jonathan Cohn, Huff Post

Ann Coulter's Immigration Challenge

Mickey Kaus, Kausfiles

$15: Why Just for Fast Food Workers?

Josh Barro, NYT

'Happy Birthday' Copyright Smoking Gun?

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

When Cities Make Environmental Policy

Aaron M. Renn, City Journal

Medicaid: Its Value and How to Improve It

Pollack et al., Prospect

When Spousal Rape First Became a Crime

Lily Rothman, Time

Should Therapists Report Child Porn Users?

Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic

Bill Cosby's Accusers Speak Out

Malone & Demme, New York

A Conversation With Bernie Sanders

Ezra Klein, Vox

Teacher Pensions Cost $1K per Pupil

Robert Costrell, Teacher Pensions

Wednesday, July 29

The Mythical Decline of Teen Sex

Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal

How Medicare Can Live to 100

Loren Adler, RealClearPolicy

Medicare, Medicaid: 50 Years of Failure

Robert Moffit, Daily Signal

How Rich People Raise Rich Kids

Joe Pinsker, CityLab

Is It Time to Rethink Campus Police?

Kyle Jaeger, ATTN:

Arthur Brooks's Conservative Heart

N. Gregory Mankiw, NYT

In Defense of Our Productivity-Pay Gap Chart

Lawrence Mishel, EPI

U.S. Attorneys' Bad Drug War Arguments

Jacob Sullum, Reason

How Raising Children Contributes to Poverty

Matt Bruenig, Demos

Test Your Money-in-Politics IQ

Beckelemail & Levinthal, Public Integrity

When the Mentally Ill Have Children

Marc Fitch, The Federalist

Sentencing Reform's Last Opponent

Mark Obbie, Slate

GOP Candidates Must Offer ACA Alternative

Lanhee Chen, RCP

Thursday, July 30

A University's Guide to PC Speech

Jonathan Chait, New York

Health Cost Growth: Thanks Obamacare!

Peter Suderman, Reason

Relax About Health Cost Growth

Drew Altman, WSJ

Time's Running Out to Fix Social Security

Charles Blahous, e21

20 States Where Spousal Rape Is Lesser Rape

Cynthia Godsoe, TPM

Stop Downplaying Immigrant Crime

David Frum, The Atlantic

Conservatives and Transgenderism - Jennifer Gruenke | Gregory Brown

Let Inmates Receive Pell Grants

Robert Hiltonsmith, Demos

Middle-Class Incomes: Stagnant?

Martin Feldstein, Project Syndicate

The Perils of Open Borders

Ryan Cooper, The Week

Most Medicaid Funds Don't Help Recipients

John Graham, InsideSources

A Rainforest Goes Up in Flames

Subhankar Banerjee, The Nation

The Recovery Keeps Getting Worse

Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets

Friday, July 31

AP History: Revisions Aren't Enough

Stanley Kurtz, National Review

New History Standards Gloss Over Racism

Jake Flanagin, Quartz

What Causes Income Inequality?

Francis Menton, City Journal

Austerity Was Worse Than We Thought

Max Ehrenfreund, Wash Post

Why Aren't Millennial Dads More Involved?

Claire Cain Miller, NYT

The Profit-Sharing Economy

Laura Tyson, Project Syndicate

How to Hack Critical Infrastructure

Patrick Tucker, Defense One

Weak Argument for TV's Compulsory Licenses

Brent Skorup, Tech Lib

Obamacare's Struggling Co-ops

Sarah Kliff, Vox

Takeaways From Samuel DuBose's Killing

Matthew Feeney, Forbes

Uber's Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Ryan Streeter, The Hill

Why Can't Washington Build a Website?

Nick Sinai & Matt Lira, Politico

Sunday, August 2

Is a Third Obama Term Really Impossible?

James V. DeLong, RCPolicy

Ban College Level Remediation

Education Realist

Black Flight to the Suburbs

William H. Frey, Brookings Institution

Phony Constitutional Amendments

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion

John McWhorter, Daily Beast

Ta-Nehisi Coates's Brilliant Inspiration

Amy Kittelstrom, Salon

Is Puerto Rico Too Big to Fail?

Alice Ollstein, ThinkProgress

Making Environmentalism Divisive

Salena Zito, Pittsburgh T-R

An FBI Database Could Catch Rapists

T. Christian Miller, ProPublica

The Moral Imperative for Bioethics

Steven Pinker, Boston Globe

Life Without Planned Parenthood

Kelsey Harkness, Daily Signal

Defund Planned Parenthood, Increase Abortions

Ruth Marcus, Wash Post

Nothing Academic About Campus Rape

Debra Saunders, SF Chron

President Obama's Racial Renaissance

Michael Eric Dyson, NYT