October 19, 2015 Archives

Week of October 19, 2015 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, October 19

Stop Citing Sweden as a Socialist Success

Rich Lowry, National Review

The Government Should Stay in Debt

Michael Hiltzik, LA Times

Jeb's Health Plan Empowers the States

John Daniel Davidson, RCPolicy

Is Winter Coming for Obamacare?

Seth Chandler, ACA Death Spiral

Obamacare Is Beating Its Goal

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

How Not to Fix Fannie and Freddie

Antonio Weiss, Bloomberg View

Assault Weapons: Constitutional Right?

Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress

13 Words Could Mean Freedom for Many

Caroline Grueskin, Marshall

Don't Rush Criminal Justice Reform

Ed Meese & Ron Hosko, The Hill

Obama's Effort to 'Nudge' America

Danny Vinik, Politico

The Sanders-Clinton College Cost-Shifting Plan

Washington Examiner

Drug Offenders: Lessons From California

Brian Blake, Weekly Standard

After 'Choke Point': The Choking Continues

Sant & Williams, A. Banker

Tuesday, October 20

Medicaid Expansion: What Media Missed

Drew Gonshorowski, D. Signal

The Lessons of 'Back to the Future Part II'

Jared Pincin, RealClearPolicy

Tax the Areas Where Sea Levels Will Rise

Glenn Reynolds, USA Today

Welfare Doesn't Corrupt the Poor

Eduardo Porter, New York Times

A Widening Gender Pay Gap?

Robert VerBruggen, RealClearPolicy

The U.S. Will Not Default on Its Debt

Caroline Baum, MarketWatch

Cadillac Tax: Why Not Just Delay It?

Nicholas Bagley, Incidental Economist

Is Police Misconduct a Secret in Your State?

Robert Lewis et al., WNYC

Tax Rates and Innovation - Daron Acemoglu | Jared Bernstein

Nuclear Power Going Dark in New England

Derrick Freeman, RCEnergy

The Self-Defeating Corporate Income Tax

Jay S. Fishman, Bloomberg

Costly Quest to Fix Broken Schools

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post

Wednesday, October 21

Why You Can't Afford to Retire

Anne Kim, Washington Monthly

Where Paul Ryan Stands on Policy

Philip Wegmann, Daily Signal

Immigration Economics: An Important Debate

Dylan Matthews, Vox

A Big Problem With Drone Registration

Faine Greenwood, Slate

The Hole in Jeb Bush's Health Plan

Jed Graham, Investor's Business Daily

Welcome to CR Hell

Darren Samuelsohn, Politico

The History of Gun-Carrying Laws - David Kopel | Priya Satia

Patent-ly Ridiculous

Ike Brannon, Weekly Standard

The Growth Effects of Sports Franchises

Dennis Coates, Mercatus

When Police Departments Sell Guns

Blake Ellis & Melanie Hicken, CNN

School Diversity Doesn't Hurt White Kids

Tanvi Misra, CityLab

Thursday, October 22

Make College Free for All

Bernie Sanders, Washington Post

Replacing the FDA

Robert F. Graboyes, RealClearPolicy

The Suburb That Tried To Kill the Car

T.R. Goldman, Politico Magazine

Refuting the Family Structure Denialists

W. Bradford Wilcox, NR

How to Protect Social Security

Teresa Ghilarducci, The Atlantic

The Myth of Criminal-Justice Racism

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

Uber: A Platform for Discrimination?

Benjamin Sachs, On Labor

Prosperity Is Good for Marriage

Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View

Make the Smoking Age 21

Nicholas Freudenberg, The Hill

Campus Sexual Assault and a Modern 'Crucible'

Cathy Young, RCP

Disadvantage Hurts Boys More

Claire Cain Miller, New York Times

The Role of the Self-Employed

Pew Research Center

Friday, October 23

Tenn. Has the Most Regressive Tax System

Alana Semuels, The Atlantic

Social Security Punishes Working Women

Max Ehrenfreund, Wash Post

Fix the Filibuster, Don't Destroy It

Cost & Barnett, Weekly Standard

Capitalism, Climate: Must We Choose?

Jonathan Chait, New York

The Left Isn't Talking About Rural Poverty

Lauren Gurley, In These Times

Gig Economy: A Closer Look

Emily Hong, Pacific Standard

The Right-to-Farm Debate

Baylen Linnekin, Reason

The Impact of Paid Parental Leave

Esme E. Deprez, Bloomberg

Pharmacy Bro Meets the Free Market

Alex Zielinski, ThinkProgress

The 'Patent Troll' Smokescreen

Joe Nocera, New York Times

Does Marriage Make People Richer?

Philip Cohen, Family Inequality

Why ACA Exchanges Are Floundering

Chris Conover, Forbes

Sunday, October 25

The Civil Rights Commission's Reign of Error

John Fund, NR

Sticking It to Small Businesses

Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast

Justice Reform: What Obama Misses

Harvey Silvergate, WGBH

A Guide to the Top Budget Gimmicks

Danny Vinik, Politico

Paid Leave's Non-Effect on the Economy

Robert VerBruggen, RCPolicy

Prison Sentences Down, Racial Disparities Up

Dara Lind, Vox

The Necessity of Labor Unions

Bob Bryan, Business Insider

The Debt Ceiling Is Coming!

Jim Newell, Slate

Hillary Clinton and Gun Buybacks

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Gun Loopholes for Domestic Abusers

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post

Gig Economy Can Be Good for Women

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Wired

Uniting Behind the 'Cadillac Tax'

Greg Mankiw & Larry Summers, NYT