February 12, 2018 Archives

Week of February 12, 2018 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, February 12

Republicans Begin a Spending Spree

Brian Riedl, National Review

The G.O.P. Is Flirting With Fiscal Disaster

Steven Rattner, The New York Times

The Grassley Letter Is More Important Than the Nunes Memo

Julian Sanchez, PM

The Liberal Grift Is On

Ryan Cooper, The Week

Trump Keeps Killing His Own Momentum. It's a Tragedy.

Marc A. Thiessen, WaPo

Is President Trump Irrelevant?

Elaine C. Kamarck, FixGov

The Giant Insurer Bailout in the Senate 'Budget' 'Deal'

Christopher Jacobs, TF

The Congressional Review Act: A Damage Assessment

Thomas O. McGarity, TAP

Coming Senate Shenanigans on DACA?

Rachel Bovard, American Greatness

Shoved Aside Again, DACA Activists Keep Fighting

Julianne Hing, The Nation

Blame the Feds for U.S. Infrastructure Problems

Michael Sargent, Newsday

It Doesn’t Take 10 Years to Get Approval For 'a Simple Road’

Scott Slesinger, TH

Tuesday, February 13

The End of the Two-Party System

David Brooks, The New York Times

The Populist Realignment That Never Came

Jeet Heer, The New Republic

They Couldn't Even Defund NPR

Margaret Menge, The American Conservative

A White House Budget Fit for the King of Debt

John Cassidy, The New Yorker

Against the Filibuster

Jeff Bell & Emmett McGroarty, The Weekly Standard

How John Kelly Hijacked the Presidency

Damon Linker, The Week

Don't Withdraw From NAFTA, Modernize It

Rep. Ron Estes, RealClearPolicy

Trump's Infrastructure Plan: The Good, the Bad, & the Biblical

William Galston, FG

Assessing the Trump Infrastructure Plan

Aaron M. Renn, City Journal

America's Strangely Timed Fiscal Stimulus

The Economist

Fiscal Do's and Don'ts

The Editors, National Review

Something Awful Is About to Happen to Dreamers

Donald E. Graham, Wash. Post

Wednesday, February 14

Mick Mulvaney, Defender of the Constitution

Matthew Spalding, RealClearPolicy

The Great Senate Immigration Debate That Wasn't

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

What Is the Purpose of the Senate?

James Wallner, Law & Liberty

5 Facts You Need to Know About the Diversity Visa Lottery

No Labels, RCPolicy

DACA or DACA-Plus? Who Is a Dreamer, Anyway?

Mark Krikorian, National Review

The GOP's Class War Budget

Sarah Jones, The New Republic

Budget Leaves Us No Leg to Stand On When Bubbles Burst

Desmond Lachman, TH

Reagan's 'Party of Ideas' Is Down to Just One: Tax Cuts

Mike Lofgren, NYTimes

Family-Breakdown Denialists

Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal

The Answer Is Class-Based Populism, Not Racist Nationalism

David Atkins, WM

Infrastructure Plan Gains Support From Small Businesses

Tom Naratil, USAT

Trump's Infrastructure Plan? Spend Less on Infrastructure

David Dayen, Nation

Thursday, February 15

DACA Deal Must Put Pragmatism Over Principle

Jeffrey H. Dorfman, RealClearPolicy

America's Unique Gun Violence Problem

German Lopez, Vox

Merit-Based Immigration Won't Dishonor the American Story

Peter Van Buren, TAC

The SEC Is Falling Down on the Job

Paul Alexander, RealClearPolicy

Background Checks Won't Solve Gun Violence

John R. Lott Jr., The New York Times

Six Big Losers in Our 'Booming' Economy

Paul Buchheit, AlterNet

Put Driverless Cars Back in the Slow Lane

Ross Marchand, RealClearPolicy

Meet the Deficit Doves

Patricia Murphy, Roll Call

The Myth of America's 'Crumbling' Infrastructure

Jonah Goldberg, National Review

The Real Lessons From Clinton's Welfare Reform

Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic

Foreign Trade Is Not Bad For America — Restricting It Is

Gary Wolfram, IBD

The Deficit Hawks Have It Wrong

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

Friday, February 16

Congress: Where Politics Goes to Die

Philip A. Wallach, The American Interest

The Case for 'Retreatism' in the Trump Era

Jeet Heer, The New Republic

In Case of Revolution, Spend Out

Michael E. Hartmann, RealClearPolicy

The Demise of the Conservative Intellectual

Kevin Mattson, Democracy

New Gun Policies Won't Stop Mass Shootings, But People Can

David French, NR

Trump's Victim-Blaming Response to Florida Shooting

Amy Davidson Sorkin, NYer

HQ2 Hopefuls Offer to Let Amazon Play Taxman

Andrew Wilford, RealClearPolicy

Trump Kills Compromise on Immigration

Editorial Board, The New York Times

Trump Is Already Lowering Drug Costs for Millions

David Williams, RealClearHealth

Focus Group Democracy Is Undemocratic

Liza Featherstone, The Baffler

NYT Struggles Over Whether Any Conservatives Are Fit to Print

David Marcus, TF

When Government Drew the Color Line

Jason DeParle, New York Review of Books