August 21, 2017 Archives

Week of August 21, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, August 21

The Seeds of the Alt-Right

George Michael, The Conversation

Trump's White Supremacist Economic Agenda

Bryce Covert, The New Republic

Trump Critics Give White Supremacists Notoriety

Bruce Heiden, AmGreatness

The Week When President Trump Resigned

Frank Bruni, The New York Times

What You Need to Know About Antifa

Michael Qazvini, The Daily Wire

Julius Krein on Why He Finally Dumped Trump

Isaac Chotiner, Slate

Steve Bannon's Legacy

John Hart, Forbes

Steve Bannon & Trump's Missing Brains

W. James Antle III, Wash. Examiner

GOP Would Rather Focus on Tax Cuts for the Rich

Addy Baird, ThinkProgress

The Golden Age of Natural Gas

Jamie Horgan & Agnia Grigas, American Interest

Back to the Progressive Future: Reverse Clinton's Mistakes

Paul Rosenberg, Salon

Trump Deserves Blame on Health Care

James C. Capretta, RealClearHealth

Tuesday, August 22

A GOP Reform Agenda: What Might Have Been

James C. Capretta, Nat. Review

Taking Bannon's Economic Nationalism Seriously

Robert Kuttner, Prospect

Treasury Should Not Bail Out Fannie & Freddie

Alex J. Pollock, Economics 21

An Old Immigration Proposal Returns to the Mainstream

Priscilla Alvarez, TA

Income Diversity Is Key to Improving Education

Robert Cherry, RealClearPolicy

Trump's Best Hope to Reform Health Care

Elizabeth Mann & Molly E. Reynolds, FG

Don't Throw Reagan's Tax Reform Principles Under the Bus

David Nelson, DCE

What Will Trump Do to American Workers?

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

Is Obamacare Fueling the Opioid Overdose Death Rate?

Jeffrey Singer, RCH

An Accidental Solution to the Opioid Crisis?

Stephanie Lake & M-J Milloy, TC

Provocateur Journalism

Mark Pulliam, City Journal

Trump's Right About One Thing on Trade

Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post

Wednesday, August 23

Trump Breaks a Taboo - and Pays the Price

Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic

First Amendment in Peril?

Aaron M. Renn, City Journal

Bannon's "Economic Nationalism" Is Total Nonsense

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Trump's Economic Boost May Be Short Lived

Samuel Rines, National Interest

Who Owns the Internet?

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker

Clarence Thomas's Conservative Identity Politics

Jesse Merriam, TAC

The CEOs Won't Save Us

David Dayen, The New Republic

The Simultaneous Exercise of 2 Rights Is Constitutional

John O. McGinnis, LL&L

Big Tech, the Alt-Right, & the Future of the Internet

Matthew Sheffield, Salon

Trump's Flawed Protectionism

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

What Are Apple & Qualcomm Really Fighting About?

MIke Freeman, SDUT

Let Consumers Sue Companies

Richard Cordray, The New York Times

Thursday, August 24

Can We Remember Well?

Greg Weiner, Library of Law & Liberty

On Monuments and Minimum Wages

Justin Miller, The American Prospect

Stock-Market Populism

Theodore Kupfer, National Review

Mr. Trump Sides With Wall Street

The Editorial Board, The New York Times

Secure the Grid Now

James Cunningham, RealClearPolicy

Bannon Lost the Battle for the Soul of Trumpism

Ryan Lizza, New Yorker

An Obamacare Grand Bargain that Will Satisfy the GOP

Christopher Jacobs, TF

How Donald Trump Poisons Free Speech

Sarah Jones, The New Republic

Immigration Twilight Zone

Seth Barron, City Journal

Paul Ryan Doesn't Want to Fight With Trump

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

A Law & Order Approach to Opioids Won't Work

Dylan Moore, RealClearHealth

Make the Rio Grande Grand Again

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, The Conversation

Friday, August 25

Donald Trump's Identity Politics

Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times

The Disgraceful Way Trump Walks in Obama's Footsteps

George F. Will, WaPo

Democrats: Don't Rely on Polls to Craft Your Agenda

Nancy LeTourneau, WM

Trump Gives Republicans Whiplash

Sarah Westwood, The Washington Examiner

Digital Rights Don't Stop at the Border

Alan McQuinn, RealClearPolicy

Why Libertarians Go Alt-Right

Jason Willick, The American Interest

The Socialism America Needs Now

John B. Judis, The New Republic

Paul Ryan's Conservatism Can Help the Poor

Alexandra DeSanctis, Nat. Review

The U.S. Is Still Forcibly Sterilizing Prisoners

Lea Hunter, Talk Poverty

Show Me the Taxpayers' Money

Steven Malanga, City Journal

Trump's Fed Chair Dilemma

Jeff Spross, The Week

As TANF Ages, Its Performance as a Safety Net Worsens

Ife Floyd, CBPP

Saturday, August 26

Trump Makes Progressives Love Federalism

Cristian Farias, New York Magazine

The Destructive Power of Progressive Overreach

Berny Belvedere, Arc Digital

Tech Workers: Friends or Foes?

Siddharth Patel, Jacobin

Reforming Regulatory Analysis

James Broughel, RealClearPolicy

What Lilla Gets Right & Wrong About Identity Politics

Nancy LeTourneau, WM

A Liberal Calls Out His Party for Its Identity Politics

Peter Berkowitz, RCP

Trump's Trade Agenda Divides the Nation's Cities

Ronald Brownstein, Atlantic

The Sex Bureaucrats Are Dug In

R. Shep Melnick, Library of Law & Liberty

Trump's NAFTA Threat May Hit a Constitutional Hurdle

Property Rights Benefit the Poor

Chuck DeVore, Forbes

Toomey Changes His Tune on Patents

Gene Quinn, IPWatchdog

15 Ways Government Wastes Your Tax Dollars

Dustin Siggins, The Stream