December 19, 2016 Archives

Week of December 19, 2016 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, December 19

The Electoral College Is an Excellent System

George F. Will, Washington Post

Trump's Trade Policies Miss the Mark

Susan Helper & Todd Tucker, RCPolicy

Democrats Descend Into Madness

Noah Rothman, Commentary

Will Donald Trump Cave on Social Security?

Editorial Board, New York Times

The Liberal Ideological Complex

Jeff Bergner, The Weekly Standard

Ben Carson, the GOP, and Subsidized Housing

Rachel M. Cohen, Prospect

A Conservative Defense of Transgender Rights

Josh Gelernter, National Review

Will the Minimum Wage Debate Ever Be Settled?

Bourree Lam, The Atlantic

Is Economic Growth Environmentally Sustainable?

Ronald Bailey, Reason

Tech Moguls Will Bend to Trump

Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast

Disregard for the Non-Rich, Not Trade, Is the Enemy

Ryan Avent, Economist

Congress Handed Drug Companies a Dangerous Victory

Adam Gaffney, TNR

Tuesday, December 20

Liberals Can Use the Tea Party Playbook to Stop Trump

Dave Gilson, Mother Jones

The Rust Belt Is Right to Blame Obama

Clark S. Judge, The Wall Street Journal

The Art of the Infrastructure Deal

Gabrielle Gurley, The American Prospect

The Right Way to Spend on Infrastructure

Stephen Moore, The Washington Times

Can Scott Pruitt Undo EPA's Clean Air & Water Protections?

Robert Percival, TC

One Way Not to Be Like Trump

Peter Wehner, The New York Times

Trump And Trade: A Plus For Workers?

Robert Kuttner, The Huffington Post

Place-Based Economic Policies as a Response to Populism

Localism Means Security

William S. Lind, The American Conservative

Plastic Pipe Is Key to Water Infrastructure

Richard Doyle, RealClearPolicy

Obama Quietly Reshaped America’s War on Drugs

German Lopez, Vox

Toward Digital Health Biographies

Robert F. Graboyes & Darcy Nikol Bryan, RCH

Wednesday, December 21

GOP at Its Peak, Conservatism at Rock Bottom

Michael Gerson, WaPo

Google & Facebook Are the New Railroad Monopolies

Jeff Spross, The Week

Moderation in Defense of Liberty

Peter Augustine Lawler, National Review

Procedural Integrity Makes the American System Work

Washington Examiner

Trump Is Not a European-Style Populist

Mabel Berezin, The Conversation

Donald Trump Is Pragmatic, Not Ideological

Peter Morici, The Washington Times

Will Big Business Fight Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda?

Brian Barth, TAP

Trump Should Roll Back Outdated EPA Regulations

Richard Epstein, Def. Ideas

Colorado Wants to Keep ACA Marketplace After Repeal

Sarah Kliff, Vox

Trump’s Infrastructure Mistake

Alan S. Blinder & Alan B. Krueger, WSJ

The Obama Legacy on Immigration

Angela Maria Kelley & Cristina Moreno, TP

Anti-Vaping Policies Are Bad for Public Health

Sally Satel & David Sweanor, RCH

Thursday, December 22

Prospects for Constitutionalism

Mark Pulliam, Library of Law & Liberty

How States Can Reduce Income Inequality

Elizabeth McNichol, RealClearPolicy

The End of the World As We Know It

Gerard Robinson, U.S. News & World Report

We Finally Have Health Care & Congress Wants to Destroy It

Ron Pollack, TP

Trump’s Repeal/Appeal Dilemma

Joel Zinberg, City Journal

The Strange Case of the American Death Penalty

Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker

Trump Should Roll Back Obama's Overtime Rules

CJ Szafir & Libby Sobic, Forbes

Obama Preempts Trump, Bans Drilling in Arctic & Atlantic

Brad Plumer, Vox

The Tragic Fall of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Ronald L. Rubin, NR

Public Infrastructure as Stealth Privatization

Donald Cohen, American Prospect

A New Hope for America’s Addiction Crisis

Jacob Levenson, RealClearHealth

The GOP Is Ready for Tax Reform, But Tax Reform Is Hard

David Dayen, TN

Friday, December 23

Reforming the Regulatory State Under Trump

Philip Wallach & Ted Gayer, RCPolicy

GOP Tax Plan Distresses Koch Brothers

Charles Lane, Washington Post

GOP Should Provide Health Insurance for All

James C. Capretta, RCHealth

Trump Can Repeal and Replace DACA

Logan Albright & Ike Brannon, TWS

What If You Had to Prove You're American or Be Deported?

Eyder Peralta, NPR

Is Trump's Foreign Policy the New Mainstream?

The National Interest

DHS Canceling Muslim Registry to Hinder "Extreme Vetting"

Stephen Dinan, WT

Curb Global Warming w. Nuclear Power

Sheldon Whitehouse, Lamar Alexander, NYT

The Art of the Arctic Deal

Mark P. Mills, Forbes

Kasich Bans Cleveland Voters From Raising Minimum Wage

Sophia Tesfaye, Salon

HB2 Repeal Fails After NC Republicans Add Poison Pill

Mark Joseph Stern, Slate

GOP Is Closing the Empathy Gap

John Hart, Opportunity Lives