March 27, 2017 Archives

Week of March 27, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, March 27

Trumpism: A Politics Desperately Seeking a Theory

Lauren Weiner, LL&L

Donald Trump and the Rise of Tribal Epistemology

David Roberts, Vox

Why the GOP Health-Care Bill Failed

Daniel McCarthy, National Interest

Why Did the GOP Fail to Repeal & Replace Obamacare?

Elaine Kamarck, BI

You Could Be Committing a Crime and Not Even Know It

Tomi Ladeji, RCPolicy

Behind Neil Gorsuch's Non-Answers

Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker

On Gorsuch and "Super-Precedents"

Peter Lawler, National Review

The GOP's Existential Crisis

Corey Robin, New York Times

New Threats to Free Expression in the Wake of Middlebury

Stefan Kanfer, CJ

Can Religious Charities Take the Place of the Welfare State?

Health-Care Failure Is an Indictment of GOP Leadership

Ben Domenech, TF

A True Republican Health-Care Unraveling

Paul Starr, Prospect

Tuesday, March 28

Break Up the Liberal City

Ross Douthat, New York Times

Obamacare Is Now Part of America's Social Safety Net

Sarah Kliff, Vox

Back to the Drawing Board on Health Care

Tom Coburn, Paul Howard, City Journal

Dems Have Nothing to Lose by Filibustering Gorsuch

David Atkins, WM

Gorsuch Respects Precedent. Will He Ever Strike Roe?

Colin LeCroy, Federalist

What It Means to Defund Planned Parenthood

Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic

The Root Cause of Health Care Dysfunction

John R. Graham, RCH

The Looming Split Between Trump and Ryan

Max Ehrenfreund, WaPo

Republican Budget Woes

Peter Morici, Washington Times

Angry Voters Have a Point, But Protectionism Isn't the Answer

Rafael de Hoyos, BI

Senate to FCC: Privacy Regulation Is Not Your Job

Steven Titch, R St. Institute

Will Suburban Activism Pave Democrats' Path to the House?

Justin Miller, TAP

Wednesday, March 29

Trumpcare's Failure Sets the Stage for Single-Payer

Sarah Jones, New Republic

Is Paul Ryan to Blame for Trump's Failures?

Jonah Goldberg, LA Times

Trump's Budget Breaks His Manufacturing Promises

Brendan Duke, CAP

Did the Freedom Caucus Kill Permanent Tax Reform?

Grover Norquist, DCE

Can Trump Learn From Reagan and Tip O'Neill?

John Cassidy, New Yorker

Publius' Natural Law

Greg Weiner, Library of Law & Liberty

55,000 Housing Vouchers at Risk

Douglas Rice, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities

Gorsuch v. Schumer

Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution

"Medicare for All" Is Easy to Say, Nearly Impossible to Do

David Faris, Week

4 Ways to Revise GOP's Health-Care Playbook

Heather Higgins, The Hill

Trump Evicerates Federal Contracting Rules

Justin Miller, American Prospect

Fund the Humanities

Malloy Owen, The American Conservative

Thursday, March 30

Obamacare a Lifesaver? Evidence Is Conspicuously Missing

Ross Douthat, NYT

Can Trump Fix Government by Running It Like a Business?

Clare Foran, Atlantic

The Civic Cost of Illegal Immigration

Victor Davis Hanson, Defining Ideas

Trump's Budget Deports Conservative Principles

Janet Murguia, USA Today

The Forgotten American Entrepreneur

Rom Reddy, RealClearPolicy

The Urban-Rural Divide in America

Lillie Greiman et al., The Conversation

Health Care Will Be Back, So Fix the AHCA

James Capretta & Tom Miller, RCH

Trump Can Wound Obamacare Without Congress

Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress

Tax Reform Isn't Going to Be Any Easier

Michael Tanner, National Review

Undoing Clean Power Plan Will Be a Legal Nightmare

Abby Rabinowitz, TNR

The Next Repeal and Replace

Catrina Rorke, The American Conservative

Friday, March 31

Bring Back the Old Filibuster

George F. Will, The Washington Post

Democrats Should Work With Trump

Will Marshall, The New York Times

The Party and an Administration of "No"

Paul Pillar, The National Interest

The GOP Has Primed Our Government for Failure

Brian Beutler, New Republic

Looking for Some Health Care Heroes

Pete Spiliakos, First Things

What Do Right-Leaning Populists Actually Want?

Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic

6 Sobering Charts About America's Grim Fiscal Future

Daniel J. Mitchell, Cato

Donald Trump and the Myth of the Coal Revival

Carolyn Kormann, New Yorker

10 Problems With EPA's Clean Power Plan Analysis

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, e21

Judge Gorsuch and What Could Have Been

Thomas Geoghegan, Wash. Monthly

The Real Challenge for U.S. Industry

David Adler, City Journal

Trump's Labor Pick a Problem for Workers

Rachel West & Jeremy Slevin, TP

Saturday, April 1

Donald Trump, Centrist President

Dan Schnur, The New York Times

Prelude to a Sellout

Kevin D. Williamson, National Review

Democrats Will Lose a War of Obstruction With Republicans

Overthrowing the Rule of Organized Intelligence

John Marini, LL&L

The Republican Majority in Congress Is an Illusion

Russell Berman, Atlantic

GOP: Regroup and Approach Democrats on Health Care

James Capretta, RCH

Is the GOP Really as Divided as It Looks?

Paul Waldman, The Week

The Moral Case for Spending Restraint

Jay Cost, Weekly Standard

Critique in the Age of Trump

Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler

Obamacare Exchanges Are Racing Toward A Crisis

Jed Graham, IBD

"Buy American" at Risk With Trump's Border Wall

T. Christian Miller, ProPublica

Stagnation Is Stunting Economic Growth

Charles Hughes, Economics21