July 25, 2016 Archives

Week of July 25, 2016 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, July 25

DNC Reveals Another Party In Crisis

John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist

Trump's Right on Crime

Sean Kennedy & Parker Abt, RealClearPolicy

Hillary's Web of Promises

Oren Cass, City Journal

There's Nothing Un-American About Trump

Greg Grandin, The Nation

Democrats Are a Far More Progressive Party

Sahil Kapur, Bloomberg

Trump Is Right About Globalization

Stephen S. Roach, MarketWatch

Cruz's Dissent Unravels Trump's GOP

Noah Rothman, Commentary

Pokemon's Big Carbon Footprint

Mark P. Mills, Forbes

Rotting-flesh Reaganism

R.R. Reno, First Things

Zero Tolerance Laws Harm Black Students

F. Chris Curran, Conversation

Federal Minimum Wage Hasn't Been Raised in 7 Years

Rachel West, TP

Corporations Profit From Small-business Contracts

Josh Harkinson, MJ

Tuesday, July 26

Trump Will Trample the Constitution

Shikha Dalmia, The Week

Now Comes the Hard Part for the DNC

Robert Kuttner, American Prospect

Trump Is (Mostly) Right on Crime

Sean Kennedy & Parker Abt, WS

A Reason for Optimism?

Robert VerBruggen, The American Conservative

Paul Krugman's Bubble

Aaron Renn, City Journal

Are Voter ID Laws Racist?

Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution

The Root of Human Progress

David Clemens, National Review Online

College Students Aren't Working That Hard

Lindsey Burke et al., RCPolicy

A Social Safety Net for the Gig Economy?

Greg Nelson et al., Medium

Veterans Can't Keep Waiting for Reform

Eddie S. Ray, RealClearDefense

An Unprecedented Medicaid Work Requirement

Jesse Cross-Call, CBPP

Who Will Pay For PBGC's Huge Losses?

Alex Pollock, RealClearMarkets

Wednesday, July 27

Time for Democrats to Embrace Tax Reform

Pete Sepp, The Inquirer

Trump & the Media Are Wrong

James D. Agresti & Rebecca Guerra, JFD

Why Candidates Ignore Party Platforms

Jennifer Victor, The Conversation

The Myth of Rational Legislation

Greg Weiner, Library of Law & Liberty

The Fed's Independence Is Being Undermined

Charles I. Plosser, Hoover

Let States Regulate Drones

Jason Snead & John-Michael Seibler, RCPolicy

FDA Can't Distinguish Between Eggplants & Tobacco

Jared Meyer, NR

Every Dollar Counts

James S. Liebman & Michael Mbikiwa, RealClearEd

I Was Homeless in Rural America

Zachariah Oquenda, TalkPoverty

The Paradox of Productivity

Rob Tracinski, RealClearFuture

The VA's Luxury Art Obsession

Adam Andrzejewski, Forbes

Subsidized Insurance Increases Vulnerability

Josiah Neeley, R Street

Thursday, July 28

The Independent's Case for Clinton

Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg

Is It No Longer "the Economy, Stupid"?

James Pethokoukis, The Week

The Party of Michael Bloomberg

Reihan Salam, Slate

The Most Critical Infrastructure Project

Paul Aucoin, RealClearPolicy

Welcome to the New Party of Lincoln

Jeet Heer, The New Republic

Don't Wait for Washington to Fix Health Care

Paul Howard, RCPolicy

What Tim Kaine Tells Us About the Democrats

Ben Domenech, Federalist

Wait a Minute, Putin Isn't Rooting for Trump

Mark P. Mills, USA Today

Harm-Reduction Fantasies

Seth Barron, City Journal

GOP Foolishly Accommodates Trump on Trade

James C. Capretta, NR

Pass the Home Energy Audit Measure

The Editors, Boston Globe

Transit of the Future Needs Smarter Routes

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Friday, July 29

Revolt Against Wall Street

Milton Ezrati, The American Conservative

Wanted: An Honest Debate About Trade

Bill Brock, RealClearPolicy

Wall Street Not Welcome at the Conventions

Joshua Green, Bloomberg

Women Already Have Equal Pay

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Economics 21

Lies Politicians Tell Us

Allan H. Meltzer, Hoover Institution

The VA's Artwork Spending Spree

Adam Andrzejewski, RealClearPolicy

The Welfare State's War of All Against All

John O. McGinnis, LL&L

Black Lives and the Police

Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books

Why America Needs a Competitiveness Audit

Michael Mandel, PPI

How Rousseau Predicted Trump

Pankaj Mishra, The New Yorker

Checks and Balances Are Critical to Public Health

Jeff Stier, Forbes

Between Individualism and Collectivism

Peter Augustine Lawler, NRO

Sunday, July 31

Bailing Out "Too Big to Fail" Banks Again?

Thor Benson, Salon

Clinton's Detailed Plan for the Economy

Jim Tankersley, WonkBlog

What Reagan Said About Trade Applies Today

Owen Morgan, DailySignal

Clinton Talks Up Vocational Education

The American Interest

FEMA Takes Step in Right Direction

Matt A. Mayer, AEIdeas

Upstate Power Play

Robert Bryce, City Journal

Infrastructure Investment Gridlock

Gabrielle Gurley, Prospect

Is Education the Magic Solution to Our Problems?

Gillum Ferguson, OL

Why Detroit Is an Education-funding Vacuum

Erin Einhorn, The Atlantic

What Does the Constitution Mean by "Officers"?

Mike Rappaport, LL&L

Student Loans Need Real Privatization

Preston Cooper, e21

GOP Plan Would Disrupt Employer-based Coverage

Edwin Park, CBPP