July 17, 2017 Archives

Week of July 17, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, July 17

One Sentence That Explains Washington Dysfunction

Matthew Continetti, NR

What's Broken & What's Still Working in U.S. Politics

James Fallows, Atlantic

How to Fix Congress in 10 Easy Steps

Irwin M. Stelzer, The Weekly Standard

Anti-Administrative State or Just Pro-Market Power?

Justin Miller, Prospect

Social Security Slouches Towards Insolvency

Charles Hughes, Economics 21

The End of Mitch McConnell, Master Strategist

Jeff Spross, The Week

The Basic Error in CBO’s Health-Care Projections

Marc Short & Brian Blase, WP

Senators Should Take an Oath to Do No Harm

Samantha Cerra, Talk Poverty

Is Advertising Free Speech?

Steve Sherman, The American Conservative

How Trump Broke the Office of Government Ethics

Ryan Lizza, New Yorker

Quality Will Trump Quantity in the Net-Neutrality Debate

Mike Godwin, R St.

Tariffs Could Let Trump Crush Solar Industry

Jeremy Deaton, ThinkProgress

Tuesday, July 18

The Senate Health Bill Is Dead. Is Trumpcare, Too?

Jim Newell, Slate

The End of the Grand Bargain

Max Bloom, National Review

Republicans Are Turning on Each Other Rather than Trump

Molly Ball, Atlantic

Our Economy Should Produce Both Wealth & Work

Russell Muirhead, City Journal

The Upper Middle Class Isn't Hoarding the American Dream

Robert Samuelson, WP

Reform, Don't Repeal, the Endangered Species Act

Gary Mowad, RealClearPolicy

Inequality Has Undermined the Constitution

Win McCormack, The New Republic

Social Security Reform Is Urgent and Necessary

Romina Boccia, Daily Signal

A Basic Income Really Could End Poverty Forever

Dylan Matthews, Vox

Conservatives Should Lead the Way on FISA Reform

Brian Darling, DCExaminer

Previewing the House GOP Budget Plan

Isaac Shapiro, CBPP

Defending Private Financing for Public Works

Mary Peters & Samara Barend, NYT

Wednesday, July 19

The Simple Reason the Senate Health-Care Bill Died

Dylan Scott, Vox

The Single-Payer Siren

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

Why So Many Democrats Are Embracing Single-Payer

Clare Foran, The Atlantic

Who's the Bellwether in the Trump–GOP Split?

Pete Spiliakos, National Review

This Congress Will Be the Most Unproductive in 164 years

David Faris, Week

The EPA Is Everywhere

Ted Hadzi-Antich & Ryan D. Walters, RealClearPolicy

Democrats Should Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee

Bryce Covert, TNR

Judicially Supervised Plunder

Mark Pulliam, Library of Law & Liberty

How Hospitals Got Richer Off Obamacare

Dan Diamond, Politico

Taking Action on Title IX

KC Johnson, City Journal

Trump's Tariff Threat on Foreign Steel Is a Bad Idea

William Hauk, TC

Trump's Promise to Fix the Trade Deficit Is Falling Short

Peter Morici, Fox

Thursday, July 20

Empowering the Administrative State

M. Anthony Mills, RealClearPolicy

Repeal-and-Replace Was Doomed From the Start

Kathleen Parker, Wash. Post

Just. Cut. Taxes.

Ross Douthat, The New York Times

The Coastal Elite Is Real. I'm Part of It.

Linda Tirado, Talk Poverty

The GOP's Collision With Health Care Reality

James Capretta, RealClearHealth

The Coming GOP Civil War Over the Budget Resolution

Tara Golshan, Vox

A Sensible Constraint on State Sales Tax

Skip Estes, RealClearPolicy

GOP Budget Work Heats Up, But Hurdles Remain

Molly E. Reynolds, FixGov

Net Neutrality Is Everyone's Goal

John Thune, Rapid City Journal

An Argument Against Net Neutrality

Rick Weber, Notes on Liberty

Is Rand Paul's Health-Care Stance Really Based on Principle?

Jonah Goldberg, NR

Tele-Town Halls Help Congress Screen Constituents

Charles Bethea, NYer

Friday, July 21

The Party of No Negates Itself

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

On Health Care, Don't Blame Trump

Pete Spiliakos, First Things

Democrats, Not GOP, Stand for “Freedom” in Health Care

Brian Beutler, TNR

Turn Obamacare Over to the States

Robert VerBruggen, National Review

Saving Net Neutrality Requires Bipartisanship

Harold Ford Jr., RealClearPolicy

Republicans Just Made Tax Reform More Difficult

Adam Michel, Daily Signal

House Budget Has Historic Cuts to Non-Defense Programs

Richard Kogan, CBPP

Increasing Civil Asset Forfeiture Fills the Swamp

Mary Katharine Ham, TF

The 2 Main Critiques of Basic Income Are Both Wrong

Dylan Matthews, Vox

The Mother of All Disruptions

Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal

The GOP Doesn't Understand Its Own Voters

Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic

Republicans Never Grasped the Health Care Challenge

Ryan McMaken, TAC

Saturday, July 22

The American Dream Is in Crisis

J.D. Vance, Daily Signal

Stop Arguing About Neoliberalism

Martin Longman, Washington Monthly

Can the Left Help Revive State Sovereignty?

Nick Dranias, Library of Law & Liberty

Day by Day, Tales That Define America & Earn Trust

Peter Berkowitz, RCP

The Robots Are Coming for Professionals & Managers Next

End Protectionism in the Shipping Industry

William Murray, RealClearPolicy

The GOP Used to Be Willing to Govern

David Brooks, The New York Times

Parental Leave Is Great. Just Don't Mandate It.

Michael Strain, Bloomberg View

When Community Organizers Become Professionals

Clément Petitjean, Jacobin

The American Mind: Closed After All These Years

Alexander Riley, TAC

Putting Profits Ahead of Patients

Jerome Groopman & Pamela Hartzband, NYRB

A Revamped Farmworker Visa System?

Manuel Madrid, The American Prospect