December 5, 2016 Archives

Week of December 5, 2016 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, December 5

The Victory of "No"

Michael Grunwald, Politico

Electors, Americans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears

James Stoner, LL&L

The Workers Versus Trump

Dave Kamper, Jacobin

The Perils of Empathy

Paul Bloom, The Wall Street Journal

How Trump Can Make Government Work Again

David Paschane, Gov't Executive

6 Reasons Why HUD Deserves a Qualified Leader

Michela Zonta & Sarah Edelman, TP

A Great Deal for the Many

Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Trump's Carrier Pigeons

Steven Greenhouse, The American Prospect

What the Carrier Intervention Portends

Jonah Goldberg, National Review

Lame-Duck Policy Fights That Will Affect Millions

Jeff Stein, Vox

Which Way Forward on Ed Reform?

Max Eden, City Journal

Infrastructure Can Bring the Country Together

Ray LaHood & Ed Rendell, The Hill

Tuesday, December 6

Populists Are the New Elite

Jerry Haar, National Interest

Can Nationalism Create a New Fusionism on the Right?

Rachel Lu, The Federalist

The 115th Must Be a Reform Congress

Mark Strand, RealClearPolicy

Democrats Need To Pick a Leader. Now.

Jeet Heer, The New Republic

Trump’s Threat to the Constitution

Evan McMullin, The New York Times

Trump Is Turning the GOP Into a Postmodernist Party

Paul Waldman, Prospect

Democrats Might Be Thankful for the Roberts Court

Jason Willick, Amer. Interest

What If Trump Is Super Popular in 4 Years?

Jeff Spross, The Week

Laying a New Foundation at HUD

Howard Husock, City Journal

Jeff Sessions' Coming War on Legal Marijuana

James Higdon, Politico

How Not to Sell Your Policies to the Public

Patrick Brennan, National Review

Republicans Want to Grease Tracks for Trump

Alexander Bolton, The Hill

Wednesday, December 7

America’s Immigration Quagmire

Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution

Fighting for the Poor Under Trump

Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker

Obama's Last Stand

The Wall Street Journal

Will the High Court Limit Gerrymandering?

Garrett Epps, The Atlantic

Republicans: Look to States for Policy Innovation

Adam Brandon, RealClearPolicy

Medicare Isn’t Going “Bankrupt”

Paul Van de Water, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities

To "Save" 800 Jobs, Trump Destroys Exponentially More

John Tamny, RCM

Trump's Worst Enablers Are Establishment Republicans

Jamelle Bouie, Slate

Fracking-Contaminated Groundwater: A Failed Myth

Timothy Benson, RCEnergy

Democrats Spoiling for a Medicare Fight They May Not Get

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Rising Bond Yields Signal Improving Economic Environment

Peter Ireland, e21

Bill Targeting Opioid Crisis Headed to White House

Ryan Grim, Jason Cherkis, HP

Thursday, December 8

The Year Populism Went Mainstream

William A. Galston, Wall Street Journal

Trump Should Follow Nixon’s Lead

Samuel Hammond, RealClearPolicy

What Democrats Can Learn From Clinton’s Tragedy

Will Marshall, Daily Beast

The Constitutionalism of Crony Capitalism

Greg Weiner, Lib. of Law & Liberty

Don't Blame Obamacare

Aravind Chandrasekaran & Daniel Martin, TC

A Populist-Conservative Melting Pot

Robert VerBruggen, Amer. Conservative

Will the Tea Party Save Obamacare?

Heather Digby Parton, Slate

Richard Spencer Is a Threat Republicans Must Purge

Thomas McArdle, The Hill

We Have a Capital Surplus, Not a Trade Deficit

Kevin Williamson, NR

Obama Leaves Trump a Mixed Legacy on Whistle-Blowers

Eyal Press, NYer

Build Soon, Build Smart

Jay Weiser, City Journal

Leading Opioid-Addiction Treatment Drug Is a Problem

Andrew Yarrow, RCH

Friday, December 9

Time to Talk About the Class Divide Among Women

Cara Matteson, TalkPoverty

Infrastructure Investment? Start Small

Jonathan Coppage, National Review

What’s Really to Blame for the Productivity Slowdown?

Robert Samuelson, WP

Dems Learned Nothing From Their Attack on Filibuster

David Harsanyi, TF

Democrats Must Fight the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions

Sherrilyn Ifill, TNR

10 Regulatory Process Reforms for President-Elect Trump

Susan Dudley, Forbes

Watch Out for Even More Tax Breaks

Jared Bernstein & Ben Spielberg, TAP

How the Fed Should Reset Monetary Policy

Mickey D. Levy, Economics 21

Building a Prison-to-School Pipeline

Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker

Amazon Shows the Futility of Minimum Wage Increases

The American Interest

Help Wanted in Puerto Rico

Oren Cass, City Journal

Protecting Consumers, Employers From High Drug Prices

Mark Merritt, RCH

Saturday, December 10

Liberalism's Blind Spots

Adam Fisher, Jacobin

Preserving Limited Government in Difficult Times

Pete Spiliakos, First Things

The Power of Populism

Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs

The Collapse of the Left

Michael Barone, Washington Examiner

Mark Danner, New York Review of Books

Will Trump Face Fiscal Reality?

James C. Capretta, RealClearPolicy

California Looks to Lead Trump Resistance

Editorial Board, NYT

Where's That Big Beautiful Door?

F.H. Buckley & Frank Buckley, USA Today

Another Buffett Rule

Alex Cuadros, The Baffler

Identity Politics Are Un-American

Kay Hymowitz, National Review

Reining In the FDA

Merrill Matthews, Investor's Business Daily

Howard Rosenthal & Sanford Gordon, Defining Ideas