May 22, 2017 Archives

Week of May 22, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, May 22

DHS Nominee David Clarke Is a Fascist

Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine

Nation on Verge of Nervous Breakdown

Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon

The GOP's Biggest Budget Lies

Paul Rosenberg, Salon

Obama Holdouts in Trump Admin Hid Hillary Emails

Ginni Thomas, Daily Caller

Watergate? We're Not There Yet

Editorial Board, New York Times

The Delusional Press for Power of Anti-Trumpers

Roger Kimball, AmGreatness

Will Supreme Court Take Up Cellphone Surveillance?

Matt Ford, Atlantic

Crushing on Crushers

Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal

Coal-State Dems Quietly Push Agenda in Senate

Ford Carson, RCEnergy

What James Comey Told Me About Trump

Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare

Rubio: Americans "Deserve" Comey Testimony

Ben Wolfgang, Wash Times

An Agenda for Retirement Security

Andrew G. Biggs, National Affairs

Tuesday, May 23

What Is the Impeachment Power for?

Keith Whittington, Library of Law & Liberty

Trump's Budget Is a Joke

Dylan Matthews, Vox

Will the EPA Abandon the Science of Risk?

Jeff Stier, RealClearPolicy

America's Dangerous Internet Delusion

Robert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post

The True Purpose of the University

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal

The Unfreeing of American Workers

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Economic Growth Comes Down to Labor Productivity

Peter Morici, Wash. Times

How Far Can Jeff Sessions Take His Crime War?

David Dagan, New Republic

Rebuilding American Infrastructure

Aaron M. Renn, American Affairs

How Cities Can Protect Immigrants in the Trump Era

Timothy Broderick, WM

Time to Reform the False Claims Act

Mark Pearlstein, Laura McLane, DCExaminer

Minimum Wage Is Essential for Working People

Ali Monceaux, Daniel Najarian, TP

Wednesday, May 24

Mr. President, Here's Your Trillion Dollars

Lynn Fitch & Jon Christensen, RCPolicy

Neoliberalism: Mend It, Don’t End It

Noah Smith, Bloomberg View

In Memoriam: Peter Augustine Lawler

Charles L. Copeland, Modern Age

The Myth of the Exploding Safety Net

Isaac Shapiro, CBPP

Trump's Budget Could Produce Expansive Government

Todd Scribner, TAC

What It Would Take for Trump's Wall to Become Reality

Dara Lind, Tara Golshan, Vox

Work vs. Economic Mobility

Andy Smarick, AEIdeas

Fixing Our Infrastructure? How About Schools?

Rachel M. Cohen, TAP

Regulators Can Start Rolling Back Dodd-Frank on Their Own

Nicole Gelinas, AB

The GOP Is Quietly Scheming to Gut Medicaid

Joel Dodge, Wash. Monthly

Bill Gates' Robot Tax Is a Seductive, Yet Terrible, Idea

Sethu Iyer, Federalist

Don't Like Betsy DeVos? Blame the Democrats.

Diane Ravitch, New Republic

Thursday, May 25

Against “Buy American”

Dana Frank, Jacobin

America's Fraying Social Ties

Charles Hughes, Economics 21

The Trump Administration's Budget Charade

John Cassidy, The New Yorker

Trump's Budget Gets One Thing Right

Vincent H. Smith, RealClearPolicy

CBO Renders Its Verdict on the GOP Health-Care Bill

Russell Berman, Atlantic

In Fond Memory of Peter Augustine Lawler

Yuval Levin, The Federalist

Wiping Out Net Neutrality Only Helps Big Telecom Firms

Dante Ramos, BG

The War on Tenure

Jennifer A. Frey, First Things

Nobody Likes the Border Adjustment Tax

Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox

WannaCry Underscores Need for Cyber Hygiene, Insurance

Anne Hobson, R St.

Why Are Environmental Agencies Celebrating Trump's Cuts?

Emily Atkin, TNR

The End of Teacher Tenure?

Chester E. Finn Jr., Defining Ideas

Friday, May 26

Trump's Budget Shows He Lacks a Realistic Agenda

James Capretta, RCPolicy

Trump & Price Can Kill Obamacare Without the Senate

Simon Haeder, TC

Ditching the Filibuster Won't Save the Senate

James Wallner, LL&L

To Impeach or Not to Impeach

Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times

Remove Trump or Keep Him? Pick Your Poison

Pete Spiliakos, First Things

CBO and America's AHCA Headache

Billy Wynne, RealClearHealth

Despite Trump's Budget, Welfare Spending Is Still Growing

It's Lonely Being a Pro-Life Progressive

Patrick Day, Vox

Don't Restrain the Revolution

Mark J. Perry, U.S. News & World Report

Democrats Aren't Having It With Trump's Infrastructure Plan

Bryce Covert, TP

Tax Reform Can Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs

David F. Melcher, DCExaminer

GOP Health Bill Fails the Jimmy Kimmel Test. Again.

Andy Slavitt, USAToday

Saturday, May 27

Populism's False Start

Ramesh Ponnuru & Rich Lowry, National Review

Liberalism Now More Than Ever

Kevin Mattson, Democracy

What Is the Constitution for?

Bruce Frohnen, The Imaginative Conservative

Trump's Budget Is What Class Warfare Looks Like

Greg Kaufmann, Talk Poverty

Making Sense of CBO's Health-Care Score

Hanns Kuttner, RealClearPolicy

The Republican Health-Care Debacle

Douglas W. Elmendorf, Foreign Affairs

He Built Better Than He Knew

Richard Reinsch, Library of Law & Liberty

Celebrity Warfare: Image and Politics in the Age of Trump

Stephen Marche, LAT

No More Shenanigans

Ronald W. Dworkin, The American Interest

A Trust Fund for Veterans' Care?

Linda J. Bilmes, The Conversation

Switchblade Rebels With a Cause: Reforming Knife Laws

James Varney, RCI

America’s Prisons Are Failing