November 6, 2017 Archives

Week of November 6, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, November 6

Class Realignment Broke the Democrats

Matthew Continetti, Wash. Free Beacon

Big Data & Big Money Have Subverted Our Democracy

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Globe

Silicon Valley Can't Destroy Democracy Without Our Help

Emily Parker, NYT

Republicans Are Wrong About the Individual Mandate

James Capretta, RCPolicy

Has the GOP Abandoned the Ownership Society?

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

Republicans Are Right to Limit the Mortgage Deduction

Philip Klein, Examiner

Quantifying Incarceration

Adam Tooze, Jacobin

The Estate Tax Harms the Wealthy. Repeal It Anyway

Brad Polumbo, RCPolicy

The GOP Tax Plan's Horrifying Provisions

Rebecca Vallas & Jeremy Slevin, TP

Aren't Republicans Supposed to Care About the Deficit?

Michael Tanner, NR

Why Would the GOP Scrap the Adoption Tax Credit?

John McCormack, TWS

Why Judicial Deference?

James R. Rogers, Library of Law & Liberty

Tuesday, November 7

The One Thing the Democratic Party Doesn't Need

Paul Waldman, Prospect

Jeff Flake's Indictment of American Politics

James Wallner, Lib. of Law & Liberty

Is Tom Cotton the Future of Trumpism?

Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker

Why Gun Control Loses

Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review

How the Rich Rig Regulations

Mark Kleiman, Washington Monthly

Leave Children's Health Insurance to the States

Drew White, RealClearPolicy

The Tax Plan of a Broken Party

Damon Linker, The Week

Trump Can't Tweet Tax Reform to Victory

Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard

Politicians Are Ignoring the Labor Market's Biggest Challenge

Lolade Fadulu, TA

Don't Let a Trade Violation Block Tax Reform

Clark Packard & Ian Adams, DCE

The Republican Tax Plan’s Original Sin

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

New Fed Chair Needs a Policy Rule

Peter Ireland, Economics 21

Wednesday, November 8

The Upper Middle Class Got Totally Suckered by the GOP

Ryan Cooper, Week

The Conservative Inequality Paradox

Steven Teles & Brink Lindsey, National Review

The 'Roaring' Economy Is Still Failing Part-Time Workers

Danielle Paquette, WB

We Need Corporate Tax Reform

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

Why Congress Has Done Nothing on Guns

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

Extend the First Amendment to Twitter & Google Now

Peter Van Buren, TAC

The Biggest Trojan Horse in the GOP Tax Plan

David Dayen, New Republic

Let Native Americans Manage National Monuments

Ruben Pacheco, RCPolicy

NAFTA, the Cross-Border Disaster

David Bacon, The American Prospect

Trump Should Not Keep the Federal Reserve Status Quo

Willis L. Krumholz, TF

Why Is America Wasting So Much Energy?

Terry Sobolewski & Ralph Cavanagh, NYT

How Trump's FCC Can Help Rural America

Nicholas L. Waddy, Amer. Greatness

Thursday, November 9

'Trumpism Without Trump' Fails

Andrew Egger, The Weekly Standard

The GOP's Suburban Collapse

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect

Government Action Is Not the Answer to Mass Shootings

Ben Shapiro, NR

Tax Reform Should Expand R&D Tax Credit

Joe Kennedy, RealClearPolicy

Republicans Should Not Embrace New 46 Percent Tax Rate

Brian Riedl, e21

Congress Wasn't Always This Awful

Lee Drutman, Washington Monthly

GOP Tax Plan Fails to Deliver School Choice

Nat Malkus & Preston Cooper, RCPolicy

While Trump's Away, Congress Legislates?

John T. Bennett, Roll Call

The Clash of Social Visions

David Brooks, The New York Times

GOP's Child Tax Credit Change Would Hurt 3M Children

Jacob Leibenluft, CBPP

Intellectual Property Rights Under Assault Abroad

Dan Schneider, Examiner

Removing Barriers to Opportunity for People With Records

Rebecca Vallas, TP

Friday, November 10

The Free-Speech Hypocrisy of the Corporate Left

David French, National Review

America's Crisis of Courage

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic

What the GOP Should Learn From 1986 Tax Reform

James C. Capretta, RCPolicy

Wither the Democrats?

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

The Senate Tax Plan Fixes Some House Mistakes

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

Revisiting 'Autocracy,' A Year After Trump's Election

Masha Gessen, NewYorker

Clarence Thomas: The Founders' Grandson

Myron Magnet, City Journal

Trump Presidency: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Elaine C. Kamarck, FixGov

Some Conservatives Have Always Been Against Capitalism

George Hawley, TAC

Poverty Is Invisible Among College Students

Sara Goldrick-Rab, Talk Poverty

Psychoactive Drugs in Light of Libertarian Principles

Jonathan Caulkins, LL&L

Republican Apostate

Dave Denison, The Baffler