January 9, 2017 Archives

Week of January 9, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, January 9

The Center Has Fallen; White Nationalism Is Filling the Vacuum

Ned Resnikoff, TP

Libertarian Judicial Activism Isn't What the Courts Need

Mark Pulliam, AG

Coming to Mr. Trump's Aid in the Matter of Judicial Selection

Roger Pilon, Cato

Trump's Strategy to Remodel SCOTUS

Shane Goldmacher, Josh Gerstein, Politico

Trump Must Establish an Export-Centric Energy Strategy

Mark Mills, DCExaminer

Why Rural America Voted for Trump

Robert Leonard, The New York Times

Will Trump Save GOP From the Repeal-and-Delay Disaster?

Reihan Salam, Slate

Medicare for All Should Replace Obamacare

Marcia Angell, USA Today

The Market Trumps the Music Lobby

Jerry Rogers, RealClearPolicy

Red States Mull Higher Taxes

Reid Wilson, The Hill

Bill Clinton: The John the Baptist of Post-Truth Politics

Pete Spiliakos, FT

A Look at Surprise Medical Bills

Christopher Garmon & Benjamin Chartock, RCH

Tuesday, January 10

Learning to Love Trumpism

Lexington, The Economist

The Folly of Trumponomics

Simon Johnson, The American Prospect

Toward a National Productivity Strategy

Robert Atkinson, National Review

Want More Productivity? Avoid "National" Strategies

John Tamny, RCM

Trump Will Break His Most Crowd-Pleasing Promises

Paul Waldman, Week

Preserve the Filibuster - Then Overcome It

Phil Gramm & Michael Solon, WSJ

GOP Thinks Capitol Hill's Rules Are for Suckers

Brian Beutler, The New Republic

Filibusters Will Not Prevent Trump from Filling Scalia's Seat

John McGinnis, LL&L

No One Likes the GOP's "Repeal & Delay" Plan

Zoe Carpenter, The Nation

A Little Optimism on the Future of Retirement

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

A Strategy From the Antebellum South for Challenging Trump

SNAP Rolls Fell by 9 Percent Since 2012

Dottie Rosenbaum, CBPP

Wednesday, January 11

Breaking Out of Bubbles

Ben Domenech, The Federalist

The Coming Assault on Regulation

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker

Child-Care & Paid-Leave Policies for Working Parents

Aparna Mathur et al., NR

U.S. Poverty Policy Is Outdated & Ineffective

Joel Berg, Washington Monthly

GOP Takes a Hack at Health-Care Gordian Knot

Walter Russell Mead, TAI

Trumponomics Will Bring Back the 1980s

Bill Powell, Newsweek

Stabilizing Social Security Without Raising Taxes

Charles Blahous, e21

GOP Blocks CBO From Reviewing Cost of Repeal

Matthew Sheffield, Salon

Modernize Taxes by Slashing Carbon Emissions

Mark Mackie, John Campbell, Hill

Medicare Cannot Be Used As a Health-Care Piggy Bank

Rich Galen, RCH

Understanding the Republicans' Corporate Tax Reform

William Gale, RCM

Repealing Obamacare Could Hurt the Economy

Vann R. Newkirk II, Atlantic

Thursday, January 12

Reclaiming Our Constitutional Heritage

Ted McAllister, Imaginative Conservative

Obama Saved the Economy, But Not the Middle Class

Jim Tankersley, Vox

Health Care Is a Commodity, Not a Right

Ben Shapiro, National Review

Those Factory Jobs Aren't Coming Back

Conor Lynch, Salon

Obama Displays a Narrow View of Civic Life

Timothy P. Carney, DC Examiner

Will Trump Avoid a Constitutional Crisis?

Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker

Top-Down Frustration in a Bottom-Up World

David Smick, American Conservative

Trump Should Embrace the Energy Future

Kerry Emanuel & Joseph Majkut, RCPolicy

How to Worry About Climate Change

Oren Cass, National Affairs

Obama's Extraordinary, Aimless Presidency

Damon Linker, The Week

Global Trade & the Ethical Supply Chain In High-Tech Markets

Portia Mills, RCM

Senate Confirmation Bias

Philip Terzian, The Weekly Standard

Friday, January 13

What Happens to the Democratic Party After Obama?

Ronald Brownstein, Atlantic

Farewell Obama, Farewell Lawlessness

John O. McGinnis, Library of Law & Liberty

Tillerson Disagrees With Trump on Nearly Everything

Rebecca Leber, MoJo

Taxing Imports Should Not Be Part of Tax Reform

David Williams, RealClearPolicy

State Flexibility a Trojan Horse for Weakening Medicaid

Thomas Huelskoetter, RCH

The GOP Must Be Practical When Replacing Obamacare

James Capretta, NR

An Obamacare Compromise Both Parties Can Love

James Pethokoukis, Week

Don’t Legislate in the Dark; Do a Real Budget

Joel Friedman, CBPP

Infrastructure Dangers Ahead

Yuval Levin, The Weekly Standard

Will Trump Spar With GOP Over Infrastructure?

Henry Grabar, Slate

The GOP's Secret Weapon? Regular Order

John Hart, Opportunity Lives

3 Opportunities for Ben Carson as Next HUD Secretary

Amy Liu, Brookings

Saturday, January 14

Does Congress Want to Govern?

Lee Drutman & Kevin R. Kosar, RealClearPolicy

Trump Didn't Kill Conservatism

Micah Meadowcroft, Wall Street Journal

Obama's Optimism is Now the Stuff of Fiction

Justin Charity, The Ringer

Rex Tillerson is a Secretary for Our Times

Mario Mancuso, The Hill

Your Political Correctness Is Showing, Conservatives

Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler

The Dangerous Rise of the New Civics

Peter Wood, Minding the Campus

The Americanism of FDR & Donald Trump

Peter Rieth, The Imaginative Conservative

The Patriotic Response to Populism

Editorial Board, Bloomberg

Jonathan Chait and the Failure of Grown Up Liberalism

Timothy Shenk, TNR

Republicans Still Need To Win Hearts And Minds On Obamacare

John Hart, Forbes

How Do American Presidents Settle on Science Policy?

Kelly Sims Gallagher, TC

Rejuvenating the Rust-Belt

Shua-Kym McLean, Economics 21