March 7, 2016 Archives

Week of March 7, 2016 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, March 7

GOP Health Plans Are Lacking

Veronique de Rugy, Creators

Is Retirement Facing Extinction?

Michelle Chen, The Nation

The Religious, Ambitious Lose Faith in America

Lewis Andrews, RCPolicy

This Tech Could Give Coal a Scrubbing

Nick Stockton, Wired

Are High Deductibles a Good Thing?

John C. Goodman, Forbes

Donald Trump's Impossible Fiscal Plan

Jared Bernstein, Washington Post

Obama's Amnesty Loophole

Sen. Mike Lee, Daily Signal

Seniors, Not CEOs, Deserve a Raise

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, TalkPoverty

Libertarians and the Welfare State - Bryan Caplan | Matt Zwolinski

Don't Lock Up Prison Reform

Inimai Chettiar, US News & World Report

Portland's Homeless Challenge

Michael J. Totten, City Journal

The Real Cause of the Flint Crisis

Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Atlantic

Tuesday, March 8

How Liberals Tried to Kill Single Payer

Adam Gaffney, New Republic

Don't Forget About IPAB

James C. Capretta, RealClearHealth

The Truth About Donald Trump's Policies

Ezra Klein, Vox

Clinton Is Unlikely to Be Indicted

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post

The End of Globalization?

Daniel Gros, Project Syndicate

We Need to Raise the Minimum Wage

Mark Thoma, Fiscal Times

Canada, America's Apathetic Opioid Enabler

Dan Spencer, RedState

A Free Market Solution to Drug Costs

Amit Munshi, InsideSources

Independent Agencies Really Aren't

Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View

A Middle Ground on Reproductive Rights?

Mattie Quinn, Governing

Does Natural Gas Crowd Out Renewables?

Daniel Cohan, The Hill

Building a Social-Democratic Majority

Matt Karp, Jacobin

Wednesday, March 9

A Message From Trump's America

Michael Cooper Jr., US News

Labor Regulators Target McDonald's

Trey Kovacs, RealClearPolicy

Bernienomics: Models and Politics

Gerald Friedman, Naked Capitalism

Two Democrats, Two Myths

Paula Dwyer, Bloomberg View

Gutting Public Unions: A Response

Daniel DiSalvo, Dissent

A Retirement Savings Plan in Every Workplace

Gary Burtless, RCM

Cut College Costs by Cutting Colleges Out

Tom Hartsfield, RCS

The Billionaires' Loophole

Alec MacGillis, New Yorker

Did a Minimum Wage Hike Hurt D.C.?

Jed Graham, IBD

Confronting the Racial Pay Gap

Sam Fulwood III, CAP

Sales Taxes in Your State

Scott Drenkard & Nicole Kaeding, Tax Foundation

The Answer on Health Insurance Mergers

David Balto, The Hill

Thursday, March 10

Republicans Deal a Blow to the IRS

Rep. Paul Ryan, Daily Signal

We Could Use a New Economic Strategy

Justin Fox, Bloomberg View

Stop Encouraging Homeownership

Ike Brannon, Cato Institute

The Folly of State-Level Tax Cuts

Alana Semuels, The Atlantic

Politics and Prescription Drug Prices

Tara Wall, RealClearPolicy

The Middle Class Still Thrives in Utah

Reeves & Rodrigue, Brookings

Weak Prison Terms Endanger the Innocent

Lamar Smith, Wash Times

Where's the Health Care Revolution?

Dwyer Gunn, Pacific Standard

Medicare's New Drug Payment Models

CRFB

Is Trade Really Killing Middle Class Jobs?

Tami Luhby, CNN Money

The Campaign Finance Reform Wish List

Eliza Newlin Carney, Prospect

Reinventing the Conservative Movement

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Week

Friday, March 11

Social Security Is Not 'Going Broke'

Paul Waldman, Washington Post

Trump's Irresponsible Position on Social Security

Chris Edwards, Cato

Sanctioned Heroin Galleries: Good Idea?

Sarah Breitenbach, Stateline

What Americans Think About Prostitution

Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason

How to Reverse Citizens United

David Cole, The Atlantic

Will Failed ACA Co-Ops Repay Taxpayers?

Leah Jessen, Daily Signal

Sanders vs. Clinton on Debt-Free College

Mark Huelsman, US News

Solar Power's Inequality Problem

Julian Spector, CityLab

TANF Doesn't Cover Rent

Ife Floyd, CBPP

Worry About Robots, Not China

James Pethokoukis, The Week

A Link Between Climate Change, Extreme Weather

Justin Worland, Time

The Rise of Middle-Age Incarceration

Mark Males, Washington Monthly

Sunday, March 13

For Once, I Am on Trump's Side

John Hinderaker, PowerLine

No One's Violating Trump's Free Speech Rights

Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress

Employment, Not Wage Growth, Is the Problem

Robert Cherry, RCPolicy

In Defense of Daylight Saving Time

Ana Swanson, Washington Post

ACA Enrollment Failure Hits the Working Class

Jed Graham, IBD

End the Opportunity Monopoly

Eric Liu, The Atlantic

Unions Are Killing the New York Subways

Nicole Gelinas, New York Post

Trade and Tribulation

Paul Krugman, New York Times

Sri Srinivasan: Four Things to Know

Damon Root, Reason

The VA Isn't Broken, Yet

Alicia Mundy, Washington Monthly

We're Measuring Inequality Wrong

Auerbach & Kotlikoff, Conversation

Balanced Budget Amendment Nigh?

Simon Davis-Cohen, In These Times