Week of July 22, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, July 22
Statism Is Turning America Into Detroit - Daniel Hannan, Daily TelegraphWashington Must Step In to Help Detroit - John Nichols, The Nation
Rhetoric, Race and Reality in America - Lehrer & Hicks, Los Angeles Times
We Are Trayvon - Benjamin Todd Jealous, Huffington Post
What Do the Microscopic Rallies for Trayvon Mean? - Roger Simon, PJM
My Letter to Sybrina Fulton, a Mother - Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC
Obama, Dems Can't Give Up the Race Card - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Who's Afraid of Valerie Jarrett? - Sady Doyle, In These Times
America and Its Immigrants - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
No Wonder Obamacare Was Delayed - Andrew Puzder, Wall Street Journal
Anarchists of the House - Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
We'll See Bipartisan Votes to Derail Obamacare - Rep. John Boehner, CBS
New York Is Not Detroit. But... - Bill Keller, New York Times
DeMint Back at War With GOP Establishment - Palmer & Raju, Politico
Why Is Liberal Media Bashing Heritage Action? - Conn Carroll, Examiner
Helen Thomas: The Trail She Blazed - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The Moral Corruption of Today's Civil-Rights Leaders - Shelby Steele, WSJ
Tuesday, July 23
Obama to Refocus Attention on Economy - Shear & Weisman, NY TimesOnly Winner In Obama's Economy Is Wall St. - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
What Detroit's Demise Says About America - Ron Fournier, National Jrnl
How Detroit Really Is Like America - Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
Facing Facts About Race - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Obama and the Unfinished Business of Race - Eugene Robinson, Wash Post
Didn't Hadiya Look Like Obama's Daughters? - Crystal Wright, Wash Times
Republican Party Loses Its Grip - Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
The Rigged Game of Immigration Reform - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Keep an Eye on Older Voters in 2014 - Charlie Cook, National Journal
Marco Rubio's Iowa Slide - Robert Costa, National Review
Little 2016 Buzz Surrounding Paul Ryan's Iowa Visit - Scott Conroy, RCP
Kerry's Mideast Fool's Errand Ignores Reality - Jeff Goldberg, Bloomberg
The End of the Chinese Economic Miracle - George Friedman, Stratfor
The Arrogance of a Well-Fed Society - Alex Berezow, RealClearScience
The NYPD: Guilty of Saving 7,383 Lives - Ray Kelly, Wall Street Journal
Digital Privacy, a Non-Partisan Issue - Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Wednesday, July 24
Progressive Agenda Stalled, WH Turns to Economy - Byron York,ExaminerRepublicans' Losing Economic Argument - Carter Eskew, Washington Post
Obama's Enthusiasm for Detroit Withers - Major Garrett, National Journal
The Jaw-Dropping Spectacle of Obamacare - Jeffrey Anderson, Weekly Std
White House to Democrats: We've Got This - Brown & Bresnahan, Politico
Congress Bogs Down, But Is That a Bad Thing? - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Will IRS Scandal Implicate White House? - James Taranto, Wall St. Journal
NC GOP Pushes Extreme Voter Suppression Laws - Ari Berman, The Nation
Racial Grievance Industry Wearing Very Thin - Noemie Emery, Examiner
Egypt's Three Revolutions - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
White House Concedes: Assad Won't Go - Walter Russell Mead, Am. Interest
College Debt Is Ruining Lives - Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post
The Monetization of Prestige - George Packer, The New Yorker
Detroit: Model City for Big Government - John Stossel, FOX Business
Wait, Larry Summers Is Now the Favorite for Fed? - Noam Scheiber, TNR
A Microcosm of Establishment Hypocrisy - Ben Domenech, The Transom
We Should Have a National Park on the Moon - Jeffrey Kluger, Time
2016 GOP (Marist): Christie 15, Ryan 13, Rubio 12, Bush 10, Paul 9
Thursday, July 25
The President Goes Big - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostPresident Obama Doubles Down on Moving Left - Doug Schoen, Forbes
Obama Says Washington to Blame - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
A Nation of Part-Timers? - Robert Samuelson, Investor's Business Daily
How Much Has Fed Aid Boosted Corporate Profits? - Herbert Lash, Reuters
Detroit Looms Over Obama's Economic Agenda - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
A Resonant and Powerful Speech - Jared Bernstein, Huffington Post
Obama's Knox Speech Was a Train Wreck - Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph
Huma's New High Profile Role - Tumulty & Horowitz, Washington Post
Why We're Mad at Huma - Karol Markowicz, New York Post
Female Voters Key to Dems Holding Senate - Nancy Cohen, The Guardian
Obama's Low Job Approval Bad News for Dems in 2014 - J.T. Young, IBD
Standing Our Ground - Charles Blow, New York Times
O'Reilly & Trayvon Cry For Help, Mr. President - Juan Williams, FOX News
Kerry's Captain Ahab Quest - David Ignatius, Washington Post
If Facebook Were a Car, It Just Went From 0 to 60 - Vindu Goel, NY Times
Why "Beemageddon" Is Worse Than You Thought - Todd Woody, Quartz
Latest Polls: Obamacare | '16 GOP Race | Obama Approval | NYC Mayor
Friday, July 26
Detroit: Liberalism Can't Go on Forever - Charles Krauthammer, Wash PostGOP Obstruction as the New Normal - Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
Administration's Damaging Stonewalling on IRS - Peggy Noonan, WSJ
How Gay Marriage Became Legitimate - Richard Posner, The New Republic
DOJ to Take Action on State Voting Laws - Phil Mattingly, Bloomberg
Grievance Industry Wants to Divide the Country - Bill O'Reilly, FOX News
GOP vs. Democracy in North Carolina - Abby Rapoport, American Prospect
Holder's Fact-Free Rant on TX & Voter ID - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
The Republican Health Care Panic - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obamacare Is an Expensive Failure - Barton Hinkle, Richmond TD
How to Break the Logjam on Jobs - Tim Roemer, Politico
When Did Obama Decide His Scandals Are Phony? - N. Rothman, Mediaite
The GOP's Female Candidate Problem - Huey-Burns & Conroy, RCP
Caroline Kennedy & Politics of Ambassadorships - Lionel Beehner, USAT
Latest Underdog Takes on ESPN - Sharma & Futterman, Wall Street Journal
Why Weiner Shouldn't Leave the Race Yet - Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
The Desperate Life of Carlos Danger - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
More on RCP: Memorable Presidential Speeches on Race in America
Saturday, July 27
A New American Dream for New American Century - Z. Karabell, ReutersOn the Economy, Obama Is All Talk - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Obama Right to Mess With Texas - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
Our Cynic-in-Chief - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
More Violence Erupts in Egypt - Fahim & Worth, New York Times
Egypt's Islamists Will Rise Again - Reul Marc Gerecht, Hoover Institution
The McWeiners of the World - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
What Weiner & Clinton Have Taught Us - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Stop NSA's Bulk Collection of Data - Sens. Udall & Wyden, Washington Post
A Strange Sort of Justice at West Point - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
The Politics of Pain - William Saletan, Slate
Dems Embrace Late-Term Abortion at Their Peril - John McCormack, TWS
Latest Skirmish in Conservative War on Knowledge - Eric Alterman, CAP
An Honest History of Howard Zinn - Gabriel Schoenfeld, NY Daily News
The Shocking Death of Barnaby Jack - Brandy Zadrozny, The Daily Beast
The Science of Winning at Poker - Christopher Chabris, Wall Street Journal
Memorable Presidential Speeches on Race - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Sunday, July 28
Obamanomics Leaves the Middle Class Behind - Tim Carney, DC ExaminerWhy the Right Hates Detroit - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
The President's Defensive Offensive - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Second-Term Nightmare - Pete Du Pont, Wall Street Journal
By the Numbers: Inside the Republican Party - Eleanor Clift, Daily Beast
Americans Once Again Divided by Race - Ron Brownstein, National Journal
Obama's Bad News for Blacks - Richard Rahn, Washington Times
Eric Holder's New War Over Election Laws - Hilary Hylton, Time
The "Country Party" and the "Court Party" - Ross Douthat, New York Times
So Much for Immigration Reform - Charlie Cook, National Journal
Why Your Little Alma Mater May Go Extinct - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
An Online College Revolution Is Coming - Danielle Allen, Washington Post
The Greatest Food in Human History - Kyle Smith, New York Post
Ten Crazy Red-Light Camera Cases - Phil Berg, Popular Mechanics
Huma and Anthony: D.C. Horror Couple - Robert Merry, National Interest
Time to Hard-Delete Carlos Danger - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Just Another Night in This Town - Molly Ball, The Atlantic