February 29, 2016 Archives

Week of February 29, 2016 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, February 29

SCOTUS' New Abortion Dilemma

Nina Martin, ProPublica

Trade Deficits Can Be a Good Sign

Vance Ginn & Kiara Pillay, RCPolicy

Seattle's Unconstitutional Minimum-Wage Law

Shapiro & Weber, Cato

What Americans Don't Know About Abortion

Sarah Kliff, Vox

The Good News About Black Men

Brad Wilcox & Nicholas Wolfinger, NR

Will This Bill End the War Over Encryption?

Max J. Rosenthal, MoJo

Against the Earned Income Tax Credit

John Tamny, RealClearMarkets

What Researchers Get Wrong About Addiction

Satel & Lilienfeld, Forbes

Don't Politicize the Opioid Epidemic

Martin Longman, Washington Monthly

Trump and the Constitution

Ilya Somin, Washington Post

SCOTUS Takes on Guns and Domestic Violence

Noah Feldman, BV

Cash Is the Currency of Freedom

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today

Tuesday, March 1

Here's How to Save the Republican Party

Reihan Salam, Slate

Crypto Wars: Apple's Missed Opportunities

Patrick Eddington, RCPolicy

Good News in the Fight for 15

Michelle Chen, The Nation

Who Fired Melissa Click? Free Markets

Thomas K. Lindsay, RCPolicy

The Socialist Case for Reparations

Brian Jones, Jacobin

Retirement Looking Worse for Americans

Suzanne Woolley, Bloomberg

Does Rubio's Plan Have an Individual Mandate? - Cannon | Capretta

You Don't Want Donald Trump's Libel Laws

Peter Jukes, Daily Beast

Hillary and Welfare Reform: It Matters

Marchevsky & Theoharis, Nation

Gun Co.'s Aren't Liable for Sandy Hook

Kloster & Weinberg, Daily Signal

Why America Abandoned Nuclear Power

Brad Plumer, Vox

Who's Afraid of Negative Interest Rates?

David Ranson, RCM

Wednesday, March 2

America Can't Be Great Again

Michael Lind, Politico

Commonsense Ideas for Economic Growth

Larry Summers, Capital Ideas

Creating the Congress America Deserves

Mark Strand, RealClearPolicy

Abortion: When Conservatives Love Overregulation

Jacob Sullum, Reason

The Abortion Industry Endangers Women

David French, NR

Payday Lenders Get a New Ally

Zach Carter, Huffington Post

A Weak Argument in the Apple Case

Orin Kerr, Washington Post

Childless Adults: The Only Group Taxed Into Poverty

Marr & DaSilva, CBPP

NYC Abandons Broken Windows

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

To Boost Main Street, Reduce Park Avenue's Taxes

John Tamny, RCM

Does a Carbon Tax Work? - Eduardo Porter | Oren Cass

The 'Blurred Lines' of Trump's Health Plan

Tom Miller, Economics21

'Energy Apartheid' Could Develop Soon

Umair Irfan, Scientific American

Thursday, March 3

I Read Trump's Health Care Plan

Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review

California's Occupational Licensing Problem

Jason Wiens, RCPolicy

The Emerging Center-Right Policy Agenda

Matt Bruenig, Demos

Fact-Checking the GOP Debate

Eugene Kiely et al., FactCheck.org

Voter ID Is Not Working

Brentin Mock, CityLab

Are Drug Makers Getting a Pass on Opioids?

Caitlyn Owens, Morning Consult

Paul Ryan Speaks on the Safety Net - Philip Wegmann | Shapiro et al.

An Honest Debate About Encryption

Cameron Kerry, Lawfare

Why the Critics of Bernienomics Are Wrong

Robert Reich, Huff Post

Stay-at-Work Programs for the Ill and Disabled

Angela Rachidi, AEI

The Retirement Revolution That Failed

David Dayen, Fiscal Times

Friday, March 4

A Goldilocks Job Market

Jared Bernstein, On the Economy

Is White Nationalism on the Rise? - Jenkins & Petrohilos | VerBruggen

The Senate's Duty on a Supreme Court Nominee

Joe Biden, NYT

Five Myths About Heroin

Maia Szalavitz, Washington Post

Sanders' Health Care Plan Is on the Right Track

Ed Dolan, Economonitor

How Textbooks Affect Student Achievement

Thomas J. Kane, Brookings

The Gig Economy's Imaginary Benefits

Rebecca Smith, Quartz

A Visual History of the Gender Gap

Max Galka, Metrocosm

Reducing Violence: What Works?

Francie Diep, Pacific Standard

Clinton Has a Really Progressive Tax Plan

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

The Good Economy

Bo Cutter et al., RealClearMarkets

Trump vs. Romney on Health Care

Danny Vinik, Politico

Sunday, March 6

Candidates' Numbers Must Add Up

Marc Goldwein, RealClearPolicy

Blame HUD for America's Lead Epidemic

Emily Benfer, New York Times

High-Skill Immigration: The Evidence

George J. Borjas, LaborEcon

Work Incentives and the Safety Net

Isaac Shapiro et al., CBPP

We're at Risk of Another Recession

Pincin & Brenberg, RealClearPolicy

What Recession?

Jeffrey Bartash, MarketWatch

Make America Free Again

Sheldon Richman, Reason

Should All College Be Debt-Free? - Olivia Alperstein | Neal McCluskey

Apple and the Government's Spy Tax

John Gray, Conservative Review

Fact-Checking the Democratic Debate

Eugene Kiely et al., FactCheck.org

Thoughtless Bureaucrats and Driverless Cars

Ian Adams, City Journal

The Rise of American Authoritarianism

Amanda Taub, Vox

Ryan Cooper, The Week