January 16, 2017 Archives

Week of January 16, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, January 16

Republicans Won't Repeal Obamacare

Henry J. Aaron, RealClearHealth

What Will President Trump Mean for Cities?

Aaron M. Renn, City Journal

For Once, Trump Makes the Right Cabinet Pick

Suzanne Gordon, American Prospect

Helping Work Reduce Poverty

Ron Haskins, National Affairs

Liberals Are Drunk on a Poison Called Intersectionality

Damon Linker, The Week

Can Federal Separation of Powers Be Righted?

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

Dems Can't Win Until They Recognize Obama's Bad Policies

Matt Stoller, WaPo

John Lewis Sinks to Donald Trump's Level

Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News

Trump's Carrier-Style Dealmaking Won't Work

Joshua Jansa, The Conversation

An Urgent State Department Makeover

Robert Charles, Washington Times

Silicon Valley Takes a Right Turn

Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times

Unexpected Dangers Lurk for Drivers as Cars Go High-Tech

Angelo Young, Salon

Tuesday, January 17

Democrats Must Become the Party of Freedom

Barry C. Lynn, Washington Monthly

The Confused Jurisprudence of the Establishment Clause

Mark David Hall, LL&L

Trump's Divided State of America

Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico

Confirm DeVos & Give More Parents the Power of Choice

David McIntosh, RCEd

Trump's Team Is Shaping Up to Be Dangerously Incoherent

We Could Live Without Government-Defined Health Insurance

Hadley Arkes, TF

Tax Cuts Undermine Trump's Obamacare Replacement Pledge

Ron Pollack, Vox

Politicians Cannot Bring Back Old-Fashioned Factory Jobs

Why Trump Can’t Make It 1981 Again

Ruchir Sharma, The New York Times

Don't Abandon Free Trade in 2017, Reboot It

Jeffrey Kucik, RealClearMarkets

Ecommerce Jobs Show Fast-Rising Real Wages, Productivity

Michael Mandel, PPI

Geography a Stumbling Block to Democratic Legislative Power

Amer. Interest

Wednesday, January 18

A Revolution In Administrative Law

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

Democrats Are Unprepared for the Trump Era

Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic

Disrespecting Elites Is the Point of Trumpian Populism

Nicholas Grossman, Arc

Betsy DeVos Is Not a Mainstream School Reformer

Graham Vyse, New Republic

Humility in the Age of Trump

John Hart, Opportunity Lives

What Pruitt's EPA Would Mean for People of Color

Baussan & Alexander-Kearns, TP

Think of Rural Americans As You Reform Obamacare

Betsy Huber, DCExaminer

On Health Care, We'll Have What Congress Is Having

Jeffrey Frank, New Yorker

Don't Repeal the Durbin Amendment

Greg Ferrara, RealClearPolicy

Marijuana Legalization Shows Dems How to Win At Policy Again

Paul Ryan Says Obamacare Is in a Death Spiral. It's Not.

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

Can We Reform Taxes & Achieve Trump’s Trade Goals?

Robert VerBruggen, TAC

Thursday, January 19

The Democrats in Opposition

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

The Myth of the Stagnating Middle Class

Ben Shapiro, National Review

Democrats Should Pick Unwinnable Fights Against Trump

Paul Blest, The Week

Vox Populi, Vox Impetu

Greg Weiner, Library of Law & Liberty

ACA Repeal Will Harm Rural America

Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen & Mahshid Abir, TC

7 Obama Executive Orders Trump Could Reverse on Day One

Chris Pandolfo, CR

7 Big Questions About the Trump Administration

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Time to Expand Early Childhood Education

Mike McGavick & Mark Shriver, RCPolicy

Donald Trump Is Just an Old Whig

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., American Spectator

Medicaid Funding Caps Would Lead to Cuts, Less Innovation

Judith Solomon, CBPP

The Coming Corporate Tax Reform

Milton Ezrati, City Journal

Vaccinate Vaccines From Partisanship

Greg Dworkin, RealClearHealth

Friday, January 20

Obama's Legacy: Planting Seeds for Progressives to Cultivate

Henry Olsen, EPPC

Trump's Econ Team Made a Promise That Might Haunt Them

Timothy B. Lee, Vox

The Department of Energy Has a Fake Name. Time to Fix It.

Mark P. Mills, Fox News

Rick Perry Studies His Job Description

Editorial Board, New York Times

Trump's HHS Pick Will Be More Powerful Than You Think

Jim Newell, Slate

Yes, Republicans Have a Plan for Health Reform

Grace Marie Turner, TAC

The 115th Congress & the Opioid Epidemic

Kelly J. Clark, RealClearHealth

Trump Could Spell the Death of Think Tanks

Josh Rogin, Washington Post

Trump's EPA May Clash With California on Climate Change

Evan Halper, Governing

Billionaire Places No Limits on Anti-Trump Spending

McCormick & Allison, Bloomberg

Four Federal Departments Trump Could Shut Down First

John Stossel, Reason

Law Profs Not "Above the Fray" in Sessions Opposition

Jesse Merriam, Am Greatness

Saturday, January 21

Donald Trump's New Republican Deal

Paul Hoffmeister, RealClearPolicy

Patriotism Trumps Nationalism In Inaugural Speech

John Hart, Forbes

Inaugural Speech Sharp Break with Past, GOP

Marc Fisher, Washington Post

Trump's Nationalist Anthem

Rich Lowry, National Review

Dems Paved the Way for Trump Cabinet Confirmations

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

Truth in the Age of Trump

Eliot Cohen, The American Interest

The Jacksonian Revolt

Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs

Breadwinners, Breadlosers: Trump's "Inner-City" Problem

Stuart Whatley, The Baffler

Rule by the Lowest Common Denominator

Firmin DeBrabander, The Conversation

Back to the Nixon Future?

John J. Pitney Jr., Library of Law & Liberty

Why Republicans Could Regret Overturning Roe v. Wade

Eyal Press, The New Yorker

Gingrich Wants to Fire Federal Employees Who Voted Clinton

Sophia Tesfaye, Salon