January 30, 2017 Archives

Week of January 30, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, January 30

Separating Fact From Hysteria on Trump's Refugee Order

David French, NR

Trump's Immigration Ban & Its Disatrous Consequences

Daniel Benjamin, Politico

Pipelines To Prosperity?

Mark P. Mills, Forbes

Make Government Great Again

Sean McElwee, Salon

America First Leaves Americans Behind

John McGinnis, Library of Law & Liberty

The End of Manly Labor

Rob Walker, The Boston Globe

Low-Wage Jobs Don't Increase Welfare Spending

Andrew Wilford, DC Examiner

Trump Is Already Betraying the White Working Class

Graham Vyse, New Republic

An Infrastructure Fix

William S. Lind & Glen D. Bottoms, American Conservative

It's the Poverty, Stupid, Not Trump's Imagined Carnage

Gabrielle Gurley, TAP

A High-Low Approach to Health Care

Mark Mackie & Steven Kuzmich, RCHealth

Financial Aid Keeps Rich Kids Rich, Poor Kids Poor

William Elliott, Talk Poverty

Tuesday, January 31

Trump's Immigration Insanity

Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution

The Rejection of Multicultural Democracy

Daniel Kreiss, Vox

The Method to Trump's Refugee Madness

John Hart, Opportunity Lives

The Case for Pessimism

Brian Beutler, The New Republic

4 Core Founding Principles to Rejuvenate Our Country

Paul Bartow, Federalist

America's Great Divergence

Alana Semuels, The Atlantic

America's National Debt Isn't Just a Future Problem

Daniel Horowitz, CR

Decline in Investigative Journalism Makes Congress Dumb

Keith Humphreys, WM

Bureaucracy Freeze or Bureaucracy Frozen?

Donald Devine, American Spectator

Trump’s Unfashionable Tax Idea

Thomas Nakios, The New York Times

Chilly Trade Winds

John McCormack, The Weekly Standard

GOP Plans to Roll Back Worker Rights to Pre-New Deal Levels

Justin Miller, TAP

Wednesday, February 1

A Supreme Successor to Justice Scalia

Ed Whelan, National Review

Scalia With a Smile

Mark Joseph Stern, Slate

The Judiciary Should Worry About Process, Not Outcomes

What Happens if Trump Refuses a Federal Court Order?

Dahlia Lithwick et al., Slate

Public Pension Crisis Bodes Ill for Coastal Democrats

Lewis Andrews, RCPolicy

Replacing Obamacare Needs to Be Done Incrementally

Stuart Butler, RCHealth

Calling Torture by Its Name

John Schwenkler, First Things

Are ACA Opponents Trying to Wreck the Individual Market?

Shelby Gonzales, CBPP

A Policy of Feelings, Not Facts

John Podhoretz, Commentary

Trickle-Down Tax Cuts Don't Work

Jared Bernstein & Ben Spielberg, Prospect

Can Trump's Trade Plan Fix TPP Damage?

Scott B. MacDonald, National Interest

What Trump's Budget Means for Domestic Abuse Survivors

Anusha Ravi, TP

Thursday, February 2

When Normalcy Is Revolution

Victor Davis Hanson, Washington Times

How Populism Stumbles

Ross Douthat, New York Times

Trump Struck a Blow Against Authoritarianism

David French, National Review

The Case Against the American Constitution

Ryan Cooper, The Week

Trump Defeated the Progressives' Messiah

John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist

America's New Opposition

Jedediah Purdy, New Republic

Will Trump Choose Work Over Welfare?

Robert Doar, RealClearPolicy

Trump Is Playing Politics With Veterans' Health

Suzanne Gordon, Prospect

Sally Yates & the Decline of Civic Norms

John O. McGinnis, Library of Law & Liberty

Democrats Are Increasingly a Coastal Party

Chris Cillizza, Washington Post

FERC Chair's Departure Spells Infrastructure Delays

Devin Hartman, R Street

Environmental Regulators Aren't Anti-Business

Sara Rinfret, The Conversation

Friday, February 3

A Return to Constitutionalism

Richard Reinsch & Greg Weiner, Lib. of Law & Liberty

Trump Is Violating the Constitution

David Cole, The New York Review of Books

The Flight 216 Selection

Adrian Vermeule, First Things

Gorsuch Could Rein in Regulators Like the EPA and the FCC

Timothy Lee, Vox

In Praise of Trump?

Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard

Trump's Court Pick Is for Corporations, Not People

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, TP

How Radical Is Donald Trump's Immigration Proposal?

Reihan Salam, Slate

Immigration & Crime: What Does the Research Say?

Charis Kubrin et al., TC

Trump's Immigration Order Could Destroy the Economy

James Pethokoukis, TW

Donald Trump Is No Friend to Veterans

Sarah Jones, The New Republic

Death Rates For Young, White Americans Has Increased

Alex Berezow, ACSH

School Gun Violence Is Linked to Economic Insecurity

Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard

Saturday, February 4

Congress: Reassert Trade Authority

Brandon Arnold & Clark Packard, RCPolicy

Trump Trade Policy Less Isolationist Than Critics Think

Peter Yu, Conversation

Obamacare Repeal Stuck While Paul Ryan Does Cable News

Simon Maloy, Salon

How Government Agencies Usurp Our Rights

Philip Hamburger, City Journal

The Administration's Dark View of Immigrants

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker

Sessions Will Fight for All Americans at DOJ

John Fonte, PoliZette

Mapping Federal Funding of Sanctuary Cities

Adam Andrzejewski, Forbes

Science Funding: What Is It Good For?

Nicole Poweleit, Arc

Mandatory Minimums a Crime in Themselves

Mark Holden, Salt Lake Trib

Hillbilly Energy

Rod Dreher, The American Conservative

Milo Tested Progressives—They Failed

Peter Beinart, Atlantic

Our Country Split Apart

Peter Augustine Lawler, National Affairs