January 29, 2018 Archives

Week of January 29, 2018 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, January 29

The Antisocial Politics of Trump

Elizabeth Bruenig, The Washington Post

The Democrats Are Flirting With Incoherence

Noah Rothman, Commentary

Does Gridlock Put Democracy at Risk?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg & Nicholas Fandos, NYT

Partisan Divide Over the Carbon Tax Is All Smoke

Alex Brill & Scott Ganz, RCPolicy

Five Reasons to Oppose Congressional Term Limits

Casey Burgat, FixGov

Look to States for Reform

Charles Hughes, Economics 21

DACA Recipients Know Better Than to Believe Trump

Why Do Immigration Hawks Hate Trump's DACA Framework?

Will Racke, TDS

Trump's $1 Trillion Plan Inspires 'Hunger Games' Angst

Lauren Gardner, Politico

Health Care Devours More & More of Gov't Budgets

Hunt Lawrence, Daniel Flynn, TAS

Apple Hiring, Bonuses Come at Hefty Cost to Taxpayers

Chris Macke, The Hill

The Perils of Protectionism

George F. Will, The Washington Post

Tuesday, January 30

Donald Trump Is Winning

Ezra Klein, Vox

The State of the Union? Uncompetitive

Robert D. Atkinson, RealClearPolicy

Trump's State of the Union Will Be an Economic Victory Lap

Russell Berman, TA

3 Reforms for Repairing Congress, the 'Broken Branch'

Adam Carrington, The Hill

Television Gave Us the State of the Union. Then It Killed It.

David Greenberg, PM

Trump's Regulatory Reform & the Manufacturing Sector

Thomas Hemphill, RCPolicy

America's Long War on Immigrants

Donna A. Patterson, New America

Keep Immigration Restrictionists at the Negotiating Table

Ross Douthat, NYT

You Can't Trust Capitalists

Meagan Day & Dustin Guestella, Jacobin

The GOP Should Compromise on Health Care

Joseph Antos & James Capretta, HA

Politics Is Failing Mass Transit

Jacob Anbinder, Democracy

When Governments Compete for Business, Do We All Win?

James R. Rogers, L&L

Wednesday, January 31

The (Tea) Party Is Over

Jonah Goldberg, The Corner

Trump Cites Achievements, Calls for Unity in State of the Union

Bill Galston, FG

The Trump Growth Machine

Richard A. Epstein, Defining Ideas

How the Swamp Drained Trump

McKay Coppins, The Atlantic

Making America Strong Again

Washington Examiner, Washington Examiner

Trump Has No Solutions for America's Big Problems

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Trump Administration Strikes a Blow Against Identity Politics

Mike Gonzalez, TDS

White-Collar Unionization Is Good for All Workers

Alex Press, The Nation

Market Excesses Herald Crisis

Desmond Lachman, American Enterprise Institute

The Hot Mess of the Free Market's Side Effects

Rob Larson, Current Affairs

Solving the Digital Puzzle

Jerry Rogers, RealClearPolicy

America Needs a New National Security Act

Brandon J. Weichert, American Greatness

Thursday, February 1

Job Numbers Distract From Deep Labor-Market Problems

Jeffrey Kucik, RCPolicy

Democrats Should Revise Their Hopes for 2018

Brandon J. Weichert, AmGreatness

Trump Does Not Deserve Credit for Black Unemployment Rate

P.R. Lockhart, Vox

Trump Should've Flouted Woodrow Wilson's SOTU Precedent

Richard Reinsch, L&L

Congress, Heal Thyself. Here's How.

Jason Grumet, Roll Call

Inventing the Political Center

Paul Gottfried, The American Thinker

Never-Trump Republicans Refuse to Wake From 3rd-Party Dream

Three Reasons the Left Wants Ever More Immigrants

Dennis Prager, Nat. Review

Trump's Path to Citizenship Leaves Out Nearly Half of Dreamers

Kevin Johnson, TC

Family Leave Paid for by Government Is a Bad Idea

Daniel Payne, Wash. Examiner

3 Key Questions About the Trump Infrastructure Plan

Jacob Leibenluft, CBPP

FCC Votes to Elevate Economic Analysis

Susan E. Dudley, Forbes

Friday, February 2

Scrap the U.S. Debt Limit Before It's Too Late

James C. Capretta, RealClearPolicy

How the Senate Went Off the Rails

Wendy J. Schiller, Washington Monthly

Liberals Still Love Nationalist Ideas — Just Not the Label

Jonah Goldberg, NR

A Bipartisan Agreement on Immigration & Border Security

No Labels, RCPolicy

Democrats Used to Embrace Immigration Restrictions

Howard Husock, CJ

The Man Who Put Andrew Jackson in Trump's Oval Office

Susan Glasser, Politico

The GOP's Latest Big Government Scheme: Paid Family Leave

Robert Tracinski, TF

Is SpaceX Wasting Taxpayer Dollars?

Sam Dunkovich, RealClearPolicy

Capitalism's Character Types

Ronald W. Dworkin, American Affairs

Wall Street's Fear Gauge

Donald MacKenzie, London Review of Books

Civility and Rebarbarization

Arthur Milikh, National Affairs

Why Conservative Magazines Are More Important Than Ever

T.A. Frank, WaPo