February 27, 2017 Archives

Week of February 27, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, February 27

Down With the Administrative State

Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online

Will Democrats' Town Hall Revolt Actually Work?

Paul Waldman, The Week

Big Government Sneakily Gets Bigger

George F. Will, The Washington Post

Is Neil Gorsuch an Originalist? Impossible

Richard Lempert, Brookings Institution

Two Kinds of Originalism

Steven F. Hayward, National Affairs

Perez Must Ally With Grassroots Activists to Succeed

John Nichols, Nation

Trumpism at CPAC

David A. Cowan, The American Conservative

Contradictory Claims About Trump's Deportation Plan

Priscilla Alvarez, Atlantic

New EPA Head Emphasizes Federalism, Rule of Law

Rachel del Guidice, DS

Will Trump Crack Down on State Cannabis Sales?

Mark Kleiman, Wash. Monthly

Congress, Make Class-Action Lawsuits Great Again

The Washington Examiner

Federal Grants to States and Localities at Risk

Iris J. Lav, CBPP

Tuesday, February 28

The GOP's Radical Assault on Regulations Has Begun

Peter Shane, WM

Regulatory Reform Can Make America Great Again

Mark Meuser, RealClearPolicy

What Is a Populist?

Uri Friedman, The Atlantic

Remembering Trump's Anti-Elitist Brand

Peter Augustine Lawler, National Review

The Crisis of Conservative Convictions

Brian Beutler, The New Republic

What We Hope to Hear in Trump's Address to Congress

Alex Berezow, ACSH

Should the President Get to Pick Supreme Court Justices?

Joel Cohen et al., Slate

Reclaiming the Federal Judiciary

Mark Pulliam, Library of Law & Liberty

Don't Throw Children Under the School Bus

Joan Alker, RealClearHealth

Zeroing In on Government Fraud

Steven Malanga, City Journal

Trumpcare vs. Obamacare

Atul Gawande, The New Yorker

The Impact of Regional Prices on Inequality

Vincent Geloso, Notes on Liberty

Wednesday, March 1

A Powerful Check on the Regulatory State

Tim Doyle, RealClearPolicy

Trump Has Boxed GOP In With Impossible Promises

S.V. Date, Huffington Post

Trump Tried to Win One for the Gipper

Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest

Why American Democracy Will Hold

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

Yes, Deconstruct the Administrative State

Rich Lowry, National Review

What Trump Has Done From His First 100 Days Agenda

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

A New Federalism?

Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative

Trump's Budget Threatens Democrats & Republicans

Ronald Brownstein, Atlantic

The Affordable Housing Crisis

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

"America First" Really Means "Americans Last"

Catherine Rampell, Wash. Post

Trump's Target Rich Environment for Budget Savings

Adam Andrzejewski, Forbes

Democratic Last Resorts: The Recall Option

Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker

Thursday, March 2

Trumpism Is Here to Stay

Anne Kim, Washington Monthly

Vanity in the Service of the Public Interest

Myron Magnet, City Journal

Will Trump Start to See the Value in Virtue?

David French, National Review

Trump Offers More Hopeful Tone, Few Policy Specifics

William Galston, BI

Trump's Speech Was What People Needed to Hear

Ben Domenech, Federalist

Farmers Think Clean Water Rule Goes Too Far

Reagan Waskom & David Cooper, TC

Farmers to Democrats: We're Not Irrelevant

Jerry Rogers, RealClearPolicy

Wind Power Is an Attack on Rural America

Robert Bryce, Los Angeles Times

Trump Will Hurt My Border Town

Veronica Escobar, The New York Times

The Problem With Trump's Plan to Boost Wall Street

Renae Merle, WonkBlog

The Trump Admin Is Not Attacking Transgender Students

Nat Malkus, RCEd

Medicaid Work Requirement Would Block Poor Families

Hannah Katch, CBPP

Friday, March 3

Congress in Search of Itself

John Marini, Library of Law & Liberty

Outsourcing the Constitution

Linda Greenhouse, New York Times

Overcoming the Skills Shortage

Alan Daley, RealClearPolicy

How to Save Coal Country

Dwyer Gunn, New Republic

America Has a Trump Card: Manufacturing

David Farr & Jay Timmons, RCM

Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has a Problem: Democracy

Charles Lane, WaPo

The FTC Should Stop Chinese From Spying on Consumers

Mytheos Holt, Hill

What Is Protectionism & Could It Benefit America?

Alexander Tziamalis, TC

Silicon Valley Elites' Vision of the Future

Gregory Ferenstein, City Journal

The Cloak-and-Dagger Repeal of Obamacare

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

The Right Way to Repeal Obamacare

Sen. Ted Cruz, Politico

Trump's Powerful Surveillance Infrastructure

Rachel Levinson-Waldman, TAP

Saturday, March 4

Build Regulatory Reform on What Works

Jerry Ellig & Rosemarie Fike, RCPolicy

We've Let Fear Trump Our Values

Amy Chen & Eugenia Kim, Roosevelt Forward

Conservatism: What Is It Good For?

Tom Hagen, American Greatness

As Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable

Alana Semuels, Atlantic

Transparency Has Its Day in Court

Logan Beirne, RealClearPolicy

Does Intellectual Humility Matter for Democracy?

Michael Lynch, BQO

Against Populism, the Center Must Hold

Tony Blair, The New York Times

New Soda Taxes Putting Americans Out of Work

Kelly Riddell, Wash. Times

Pipeline Made w/ Foreign Steel Despite Trump Promise?

Taylor Link, Salon

You Will Be Made to Understand: Trump & the Journalists

William Voegeli, CRB

Foxconn's Broken Pledges Cast Doubt on Trump

Todd Frankel, Wash Post

Intelligentsia Elegy

E.M. Oblomov, City Journal