April 17, 2017 Archives

Week of April 17, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, April 17

Protect Data Privacy at the Border

Dan King, RealClearPolicy

Trump's Chaos Is Causing Lasting Damage

Brian Beutler, The New Republic

McCain Hopes Trump Is Sucked In by DC Establishment

Ben Wolfgang, WT

Trump, Sessions Reversing Obama-Era Police Reform

Paul Rosenberg, Salon

Bill Would Force Pro-Life Clinics to Advertise Abortions

Jay Hobbs, The Federalist

Is Rationality Dawning on Trump?

Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post

Who's the Denier Now?

Oren Cass, National Review

Trump's Tilt Toward Convention

Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic

The GOP Health-Care Meltdown

Tevi Troy, Commentary

Charles Murray's "Provocative" Talk

Wendy Williams & Stephen Ceci, NYTimes

Crime, the Gallows, and Trump

Karl Spence, American Greatness

Trumping State Regulators and Juries

Thomas McGarity, American Prospect

Tuesday, April 18

Time for Trump to Triangulate

Fred Bauer, National Review

The War on Regulation

Rena Steinzor, The American Prospect

American Lethargy

Robert VerBruggen, The American Conservative

Why Don’t All Jobs Matter?

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Liberty, Licentiousness, & the Pursuit of Happiness

James R. Rogers, LL&L

Appalachia Needs Big Government

Laura Reston & Sarah Jones, New Republic

Where Justice Gorsuch Can Make a Difference

Francis Menton, MC

Liberals: Make the Case for Gov't Programs That Work

Nancy LeTourneau, WM

Carbon Taxes Are About Climate Change, Not Budgets

Steven Greenhut, R St.

Republicans’ Real vs. Fake Health Policies

Ezra Klein, Vox

Don't Meddle With Medicare's Prescription Drug Benefit

Joel White, RCHealth

End of Filibuster Means More Diverse Courts

Anne Joseph O'Connell, BI

Wednesday, April 19

The Democratic Party Must Finally Abandon Centrism

John Nichols, Nation

What's Happening to the Democratic Party?

John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist

The Robot Scabs Are Coming to Take Your Jobs

Don Howard, CNN

Is There a Constitutional Right to Carry a Gun?

Frank Miniter, TAC

Stop Taxing Corporations and Seize Their Stock

Jeff Spross, The Week

No One Has Done More to Help the Poor Than Walmart

John Tierney, CJ

Most Americans Regard Paying Taxes as a Civic Duty

William Galston, BI

A Chance to Improve the FCC

Ryan Radia, RealClearPolicy

Slashing the NIH Budget Is Indefensible

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post

Hotel Chains & Government Work Together to Thwart Airbnb

Tony Mecia, TWS

The Link Between Opioids and Unemployment

Olga Khazan, The Atlantic

Re-Electing Trump Depends on Tax Reforms

Peter Morici, Washington Times

Thursday, April 20

Progressive Fundamentalist Nihilism

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Trump Isn't Moving to the Middle

Michael A. Cohen, The Boston Globe

The "Buy American" Order: Cynical or Ignorant?

Kevin D. Williamson, NR

Trump's True Ideology Has Been Revealed

Matt O'Brien, The Washington Post

How Not to Regulate the Railroad Industry

Michael J. Rush, RealClearPolicy

How to Get Congress to Do What You Want

Jacob Gardenswartz, Vox

We Few, We Miserable Few

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

What Paul Ryan's Tax Cut Means for Middle-Class Families

Max Ehrenfreund, WB

Why Are Republicans Making Tax Reform So Hard?

Steve Forbes et al., NYT

The Conservative Agenda for Gorsuch's First Week

Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker

Address Medicaid Spending Before Reforming Healthcare

Chris Pope, The Hill

GOP's Overtime Reform: Fraud Masquerading as Flexibility

Justin Miller, TAP

Friday, April 21

There's No Such Thing As Hate Speech

John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist

Of Course Trump Can't Drain the Swamp. No One Can.

Paul Waldman, The Week

"Hire American, Buy American" Is Economic Redistribution

Ben Shapiro, NR

100 Days of Corruption

Eliza Newlin Carney, The American Prospect

Ryan-Brady Tax Plan Would Spur Manufacturing

Thomas Duesterberg, RCPolicy

The Age of Mass Incarceration May Actually Be Abating

Charles Lane, WaPo

Rumors of the American Dream's Demise Are Exaggerated

Charles Hughes, e21

Redefine Accountability to Treat Teachers Like Professionals

Originalism & the Future of Religious Freedom

Kurt Lash, Lib. of Law & Liberty

How to Stop Drug Price Gouging

Tim Wu, New York Times

Don't Abolish Head Start. Fix It.

Max Eden, The American Conservative

Pursue Pell-Funded Dual Enrollment Programs Cautiously

Clare McCann, NAF

Saturday, April 22

Georgia's Warning for Republicans: Reform, or Else

John Hart, RealClearPolicy

A Country Is a Country

Michael S. Kochin, The Point

The Trump Administration Might Squander Its First Year

James Capretta, NR

Do the Culture Wars Really Represent America?

Emma Green, The Atlantic

Why I Mourn the Death of the American Mall

Casey Chalk, Amer. Conservative

The Intellectual's Bargain

Terry Teachout, The New York Review of Books

The Task of The Public Intellectual

Peter Berkowitz, Defining Ideas

The United States of Work

Miya Tokumitsu, The New Republic

A Hero of Conservative Philanthropy

Michael E. Hartmann, Capital Research

Paul Ryan, Uberwonk

Emmett Rensin, The Baffler

Whining About Article III

Mark Pulliam, Library of Law & Liberty

Ivanka and Jared Are Spectacularly Unqualified

Jane Eisner, Forward