July 31, 2017 Archives

Week of July 31, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, July 31

Founding Home Depot Taught Me Trump Economics

Bernie Marcus, IJR

Regulatory Reform: A Beacon of Light for Bipartisanship

Ryan Young, RCPolicy

Trump Has Done Nothing About the Opioid Epidemic

Jalal Baig, Salon

Voters Love Lesbians

Frank Bruni, New York Times

Killing the Gods of the City

David Danford, American Greatness

Republicans Never Really Hated Obamacare

Jim Newell, Slate

Donald Trump Can't Close the Deal

Kevin D. Williamson, National Review

In Defense of the Bad, White Working Class

Shannon Burns, Meanjin Quarterly

Truth: Obamacare Fines Nailed Working Class in 2017

Jed Graham, IBD

Recovering America's Vital Center

John Wilsey, Public Discourse

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Demagogic Bullying

Mark Pulliam, City Journal

Trump Delivers in Rust Belt

Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest

Tuesday, August 1

Maybe Health Care Was Impossible

Robert VerBruggen, National Review

Democrats Push for a New Era of Antitrust Enforcement

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

The GOP Isn't Going to Compromise on Health Care (Yet)

Reihan Salam, Slate

Bernie Sanders's Campaign Isn't Over

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker

Environmentalists Should Embrace Free Markets

Daniel Cochrane, RCPolicy

Bridges and Roads Matter for Your Health Too

Korydon Smith, Conversation

Forget Russia. I'd Fire Sessions Over Civil Forfeiture

Glenn Reynolds, USAToday

If Sessions Were Fired, Who Would Act as Attorney General?

John E. Bies, LF

To Get Ahead, Some Americans Will Have to Move to Cities

Peter Morici, MW

Experts, Not Politicians, Can Save Health Care

Craig H. Kliger, RealClearHealth

Leveraging the Working Capacity of Stay-at-Home Moms

Laura Vanderkam, CJ

What Do We Know About the Gig Economy?

Gabriel Thompson, Capital & Main

Wednesday, August 2

The Liberal Elite Wants to Manage Our Lives

Mark Levin, Daily Signal

Finally, a Real Plan to Fix Obamacare

Editorial Board, The Washington Post

Energy and Infrastructure Offer Common Ground

Guy Caruso, RealClearPolicy

Why the Green Jobs Promise Is Still Unfulfilled

Joan Fitzgerald, Prospect

Presidential Chaos

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

How to Stop the Worst Drug Crisis in American History

German Lopez, Vox

How the GOP Can Win on Health Care

Ed Dolan, The American Conservative

Can the GOP Stop Trump From Sabotaging Obamacare?

Russell Berman, Atlantic

Dems Try to Court Pro-Lifers. Will the Left Let Them?

Alexandra DeSanctis, NR

When Should a Child Be Taken From His Parents?

Larissa MacFarquhar, NYer

The Innovation Destroyers

Richard W. Rahn, The Washington Times

Millennials Will Soon Be the Largest Voting Bloc in U.S.

William A. Galston, FG

Thursday, August 3

Trump & the Fate of the Administrative State

M. Anthony Mills, RealClearPolicy

Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears

David A. Graham, TA

Silicon Valley's Foolish Amnesty Push

Jeremy Carl, National Review

GOP Bypasses Trump to Shore Up Health Law

Robert Pear & Thomas Kaplan, NYT

The Reinvention of Ted Cruz

John Hart, Forbes

Spare Americans a Do-Over on Health Care

Andy Slavitt, USA Today

Intellectual Property Makes America Great

Colin Hanna, RealClearPolicy

New Yuppies in an Age of Inequality

J.C. Pan, The New Republic

No, School-Choice Supporters Aren't Racist

Larry Sand, City Journal

The Working Class Does Not Like Government Contractors

Joshua Alvarez, WM

The Christian Right Is Taking Liberals' Advice

Noami Schaefer Riley, Acculturated

Want to Really Help Workers? Protect Their Speech

Shaun Richman, TAP

Friday, August 4

The Republicans' Budget Mess

James C. Capretta, RealClearPolicy

Why Republicans Should Defend Obamacare

Brian Beutler, The New Republic

The Health-Care Problems of 2009 Haven't Been Fixed

Jason Fodeman, DCE

Trump Knows How to Push Our Buttons

Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times

In Defense of Meritocracy

Max Bloom, National Review

The Schism Between Reagan & the Modern GOP

Robert P. Saldin, Wash. Monthly

Innovation's Unintended Consequences

Brian McNicoll, RealClearPolicy

What the Stock Market Surge Is Hiding

Jeff Spross, The Week

Challenging Race-Based Admissions

KC Johnson, City Journal

Asians' Thorny Relationship With Affirmative Action

Alia Wong, The Atlantic

Senatorial Scrums Make Members Into Rubber Stamps

James Wallner, LL&L

The Dems' New Trade Platform Sounds a Lot Like Trump

Zeeshan Aleem, Vox

Saturday, August 5

Between Chaos and Competence

Seth Barron, City Journal

Populism for Plutocrats

Matt Karp, Jacobin

Capitalism and the Quest for Community

Brian Jones, Public Discourse

The Wrong Way to Fight Inequality

Rachel M. Cohen, The New Republic

The Great Conservative Rethink Isn't Going Away

Michael Brendan Dougherty, NR

Will Fewer Immigrants Mean More Jobs?

Binyamin Appelbaum, NYTimes

Time For Millennials to Claim Their Inheritance

Ben Domenech, Federalist

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic

Alexander Hamilton's Case for Manufacturing Greatness

Carson Holloway, LL&L

Mass Incarceration Is a Local Affair

John Pfaff, Democracy

America's Imminent Productivity Boom

James Pethokoukis, The Week

What Does Choice Mean in Health Care?

Norman Daniels, The Conversation