April 10, 2017 Archives

Week of April 10, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, April 10

In Defense of Think Tanks

Christopher DeMuth, RealClearPolicy

Political Polarization Killed the Filibuster

Tom Donnelly & Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic

Tighter Border Security Brings Smuggling Tunnels

Ethan Barton, Daily Caller

Trump Leans on Establishment He Vowed to Disrupt

Michael Memoli, Chicago Tribune

Without Subsidies, Obamacare Premiums to Rise 19%

Ali Meyer, Free Beacon

Rubio Says "Mexico's Not Going to Pay for the Wall"

Lauren Williams, ThinkProgress

The Radicalism of "Equal Pay Day"

Jason Richwine, National Review

Taxes — The Great Uniter?

Robert Samuelson, The Washington Post

How McConnell Won the Gorsuch Battle

Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard

The Unions That Like Trump

Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times

Get Up, Stand Up

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

Bannon Goes Down

Berny Belvedere, Arc Digital

Tuesday, April 11

Opposing Everything Is the Wrong Way to Stop Trump

John B. Judis, TNR

Do Not Resuscitate the American Health Care Act

Kerrie Rushton, RCPolicy

The Trump White House Has Already Weakened Obamacare

Sarah Kliff, Vox

Farewell, Filibuster

Robert VerBruggen, The American Conservative

The Conservative Pipeline to the Supreme Court

Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker

An Effective, Politically Viable Repeal-and-Replace Bill

Aaaron Hedlund, NR

Trump Needs to Go Back to Economic Issues

William A. Galston, Brookings

Congress, Give Americans "Right to Try" Life-Saving Care

Kyle Burgess, Hill

Electric Car Workers Accuse Tesla of Low Pay, Intimidation

David Dayen, TAP

God Talk & Americans' Belief in Inalienable Rights

James R. Rogers, LL&L

The Gig Economy’s False Promise

The Editorial Board, The New York Times

Revamping the Retirement System

Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest

Wednesday, April 12

The Department of Education Must Die - or Evolve

Rep. Francis Rooney, DC

America's Gun Problem

German Lopez, Vox

Did a Revolution Just Occur?

Myron Magnet, City Journal

Will the Far Right Save Democratic Progressives?

Talmon Joseph Smith, TAP

Subsidizing the Ivy League

Adam Andrzejewski, RealClearPolicy

Are Living Standards Truly Stagnant?

Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post

The Original Nuclear Option

Greg Weiner, Library of Law & Liberty

Trump's Surprisingly Good Tax Ideas

Jeff Spross, The Week

Carbon Tax Offers White House Missing Link on Tax Reform

Catrina Rorke, TH

The Despair of Devalued Experience

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker

GOP Health-Care Deal Offers Fake Federalism

Chip Roy & Drew White, Federalist

Health Data Sharing Increases as Privacy Security Lags

Thursday, April 13

The Constitution Can't Save Us

Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic

Progressives Hate Steve Bannon's View of History

John Daniel Davidson, TF

Border Tax Will Build a Wall Around Consumers

Matthew Kandrach, RCPolicy

Millions Could Lose Benefits Under GOP Plan B

J. Lambrew & E. Montz, TCF

David Souter Killed the Filibuster

Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Trump's Border Wall Is an Ecological Disaster

Eliza Barclay, Sarah Frostenson, Vox

America's Astonishing Antifragility

Andy Smarick, The Weekly Standard

The "First 100 Days" Concept Is Bogus

Jeff Greenfield, Politico Magazine

Pride and Subsidies

Rick Weber, Notes on Liberty

America’s Toxic Workplace Rules

Rachel Cernansky, The New York Times

What's Really Driving the Opioid Epidemic?

Alex Berezow, ACSH

What Will the Trump Economy Look Like?

Robert Kuttner, The Huffington Post

Friday, April 14

Something Is Breaking Our Politics & It's Not Social Media

Ezra Klein, Vox

What the Freedom Caucus Stands For

George F. Will, The Washington Post

Texas Doesn't Want Trump's Wall Either

Rachel Monroe, The New Republic

Civil Asset Forfeiture Harms Innocent Americans

Rep. Doug Collins, RCPolicy

March Toward Constitutional Convention Slows to a Crawl

Miles Rapoport, TAP

Liberals Should Be Grateful for Gorsuch

Pete Spiliakos, First Things

Don't "Normalize" Trump's Policy Incoherence

Nancy LeTourneau, WM

The American Dream Hinges on Family

Abby McCloskey, National Review

Don't Fear Immigration

Ray Keating, RealClearMarkets

Will Trump Reform Entitlements?

Bruce Thornton, Defining Ideas

Sessions Is Wrong to Take Science Out of Forensic Science

Erin Murphy, NYT

Check the Safety, Not Price, of Imported Drugs

Roger Bate, RealClearHealth

Saturday, April 15

Trump, the Unlikeliest Populist

Victor Davis Hanson, The New Criterion

The Republican Party Has Defeated Donald Trump

Graham Vyse, New Republic

The Liquid Constitution

Richard Reinsch, Library of Law & Liberty

Trump Is Changing What "Conservative" Means

McKay Coppins, The Atlantic

Reform Entitlements to Help People, Not Government

Jesse Hathaway, RCPolicy

I Thought I Understood the American Right

Rick Perlstein, NYT Magazine

Will Removing Bannon Get Us an Entirely New Presidency?

Berny Belvedere, Arc

Progressives Need to Offer Real Solutions to Defeat Trump

Peter Wood, RealClearEducation

Rural Americans Have Less Access to Books

Debbie Weingarten, Talk Poverty

Young Americans Aren't Moving Like They Used To

Ryan Streeter, USA Today

Is Drug Pricing at an Inflection Point?

Dr. Steve Miller, RealClearHealth