Week of February 13, 2017 Archives
RealClearPolicy
Morning
Edition
Monday, February 13
Lord, Give Me Constitutionalism, But Not Yet
Greg Weiner
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Lib. of Law & Liberty
Why Trump Has Declared War on the Judiciary
Dahlia Lithwick
,
Slate
Never Go Full Ninth Circuit
Jonah Goldberg
,
National Review
Trump's Supporters Should Have Taken Him Literally
Jeet Heer
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New Republic
Trump's Executive Orders Are on Pace With Obama's
Morgan Walker
,
DS
Are Democrats Falling Into Trump’s Trap?
Frank Bruni
,
The New York Times
Soda Taxes: Regressive and Unnecessary
Thomas A. Hemphill
,
RealClearPolicy
Is Big Data Reinforcing Racial Bias?
Laurel Eckhouse
,
The Washington Post
Trump's "Phenomenal" Tax Reform
David M. Smick
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CNN
Why the GOP Is Now Talking About "Repairing" Obamacare
William Galston
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BI
The Solution for U.S. Energy Policy is Really, Really Simple
Alex Berezow
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ACSH
Yellen's Secret Weapon Against Wall Street Deregulation
David Dayen
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TAP
Tuesday, February 14
The Deplorables Shout Back
Victor Davis Hanson
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American Greatness
Trump Is Everything Republicans Have Stood For
Nancy LeTourneau
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WM
An Ever Less Deliberative Body
John O. McGinnis
,
Library of Law & Liberty
An Unintended Side Effect of Trump's Border Wall
Ana Raquel Minian
,
The Atlantic
Help the Poor Move
Kevin D. Williamson
,
National Review
Could Trump Change Medicaid for the Better?
Cossy Hough
,
The Conversation
The U.S. Tax System Needs a Border Adjustment
Scott Ruesterholz
,
Federalist
Congress Wants a Drug Test for Unemployment Benefits
Rontel Batie
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TalkPoverty
Trade Deals Are Complicated Because Trade Is Complicated
Dalibor Rohac
,
LAT
Silicon Valley's Secret Weapon
Timothy B. Lee
,
Vox
The Ill-Considered Conservative Carbon Tax
Oren Cass
,
City Journal
American Judges Are Attacking Debtor's Prison
Ryan Cooper
,
The Week
Wednesday, February 15
Time For Trump To Resign
Richard A. Epstein
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Hoover Institution
Trump's Hiring Freeze Will Help, Not Harm the FDA
Michael Hamilton
,
RCPolicy
Inside the Fall of Obama's Grassroots Army
Micah F. Sifray
,
The New Republic
A White House Where No One Is In Charge
Michael Gerson
,
Washington Post
The Truth About Deportations
Seth Barron
,
City Journal
Trump's Immigration Order Exploits Refugees
Robert Carle
,
The Federalist
Progressives Need to Support GOP's Carbon-Tax Plan
Charles Komanoff
,
Nation
The Baker-Shultz Carbon-Tax Plan Is a Bad Deal
Rupert Darwall
, Nat.
Review
Trump Kills Transparency for Oil Companies
Brad Plumer
,
Vox
GOP's Health Care Subsidies: No Cause for Controversy
Sally Pipes
,
RCHealth
Does It Matter If Trump Doesn't Like Economists?
Jay Zagorsky
,
Conversation
Even in Texas, Mass Imprisonment Is Going Out of Style
Tina Rosenberg
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NYT
Thursday, February 16
Will Trump Force Dems to Abandon Faith in Federal Gov't?
Steven Malanga
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CJ
10 Questions About America's Big Government
John J. DiIulio, Jr.
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Brookings
Want a More Honest Congress? Change Its Incentives
David Schoenbrod
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Hill
Another Judge Has a Problem With Trump
Amy Davidson
,
The New Yorker
Race and Rising Violent Crime
Robert Cherry
,
RealClearPolicy
The Problems With Trump's Health Plan
Sarah Lueck
,
CBPP
Refusing to Enforce the Law Is No Way to Defeat the ACA
Charles Cooke
,
NR
The Medical Underwriting Circle of Hell
John McDonough
&
William Seligman
,
RCH
Obamacare Repeal Could Derail GOP Agenda
Christopher Jacobs
,
Federalist
The Great Swap
Joseph E. Aldy
&
Will Marshall
,
Democracy
The GOP Is Trying Desperately to Give Up Its Majority
John Tamny
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RCM
Trump's Border Plan for Canada? No Wall
Jessica Darden
&
Stéfanie von Hlatky
,
TC
Friday, February 17
Our Faint-Hearted Nationalists
Pete Spiliakos
,
First Things
The Democrats' Immigration Problem
Thomas B. Edsall
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The New York Times
Do We Need a Prince of the Potomac?
Daniel McCarthy
,
Library of Law & Liberty
Trump's Infrastructure Plan Will Create More Flints
Michael Tiboris
,
RCPolicy
We Need Judicial Reform at the Circuit Court Level
Daniel Horowitz
,
Conserv. Rev.
Democrats Should Practice “Strategic Co-Opposition”
Anne Kim
,
Wash. Monthly
Dems: Stop Copying GOP Obstruction Tactics
Jon Huntsman
&
Joe Lieberman
,
LAT
An Alternative to Increasing Minimum Wage
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
, Nat.
Review
Congress, Trump Won't "Terminate the EPA"
Robinson Meyer
,
The Atlantic
Diane Black's Bridge to Somewhere on Health Care
John Hart
,
Opportunity Lives
The GOP's Unsolved Obamacare Dilemma
Gary Legum
,
Salon
In Defense of High-Risk Pools
Merrill Matthews
&
Mark Litow
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RealClearHealth
Saturday, February 18
Constitutional Norms Matter
Keith Whittington
,
Library of Law & Liberty
The Checks & Balances on President Trump
Ronald Brownstein
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The Atlantic
The Soul of Democratic Capitalism
Brian Anderson
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City Journal
The New Patriotism
Frida Berrigan
,
The Nation
An EPA That Knows Its Limits
Oren Cass
,
U.S. News & World Report
How We Can Stop Trump's Demagoguery
Daniel Stid
,
Washington Monthly
True Criminal Justice Rights the Wronged
Ed Chung
,
RealClearPolicy
What Flynn's Resignation Really Means
Walter Russell Mead
,
American Interest
Is Trump a Populist?
Max B. Sawicky
,
The Baffler
Small HSA Fix Could Produce Big Results
James C. Capretta
,
RealClearHealth
Trump Family Living Large on Taxpayer Dime
Matthew Rozsa
,
Salon
Trump's Watergate, or Revenge of the Swamp People?
Editorial
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IBD