Week of July 29, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, July 29
Are Spread Out Cities Killing the Dream? - Paul Krugman, New York TimesObama Searches for Someone to Blame - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Motown Down: Detroit Needs More Federal Aid - John Cassidy, New Yorker
Obamacare's Rate-Setting Won't Work - Howard Dean, Wall Street Journal
Sen. Lee Takes Point Against Obamacare - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Republicans Will Pay Price for Obstructionism - Juan Williams, The Hill
Obamanomics Is Why Economy Is Flatlining - Bruce McQuain, Hot Air
Gangplank to More Global Warming - Anthony Ingraffea, New York Times
Ohio Gov. Kasich Rebounds With Voters - Salena Zito, Pitt Tribune-Review
Time to Mess With Texas - Eric Lewis, The New Yorker
Why Is Obama Praising Ho Chi Minh? - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
A Soldier's Son Salutes U.S. Valor in Korea - Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics
The Second Amendment Is Poorly Worded - Garrett Epps, Salon
How to Get Obama Out of His Bubble - Stephen Carter, Bloomberg
Clintons "Livid" at Comparisons to Weiner - Fred Dicker, New York Post
The Clinton EPA Building? Why Not Nixon? - Carl Cannon, OC Register
There's No Housing Recovery for the Poor - Joel Kotkin, New Geography
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Tuesday, July 30
Patient Zero in High-Tax, Sluggish America - Laffer & Drinkwater, IBDThe Destructive Rise of No-Govt Conservatives - Jon Favreau, Daily Beast
Memo to Obama: It's Your Economy - Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
GOP's Obamacare Obsession Is Political Suicide - Jules Witcover, Balt Sun
Obamacare Is Crashing Employment - Reps. Roe & Walberg, DC Examiner
Blaming Huma Abedin - Sally Quinn, Washington Post
The Latest Action in the "War on Women" - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
Why the GOP Can't Win With Women - Katrina vanden Heuvel, Wash Post
Dems Have Party Problems, Too - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Poised for a Wave in 2014? - Charlie Cook, National Journal
Media Gears Up for Hillary 2016 - John Hinderaker, PowerLine
Conservatives Bashed Me for Speaking Out - Anthea Butler, The Guardian
Trayvon Martin Was Not Emmett Till - Glenn Garvin, Miami Herald
Lessons From a Front-Row Seat in Detroit - Bill Nojay, Wall Street Journal
Detroit, a Love Song - Frank Bruni, New York Times
The Texas Liberal Detector - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Six Decades Later, a Second Rescue Attempt - Jane Perlez, New York Times
Wednesday, July 31
What If Obama Can't Lead? - Ron Fournier, National JournalRepublicans' Shutdown Showdown - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Conservatives Want Scalps, Not Hollow Victories - Tim Carney, Examiner
Critics Wrong About Obamacare's Rate-Setting - Peter Orszag, Bloomberg
A President Oblivious to Reality - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
The President Needs to Sell Obamacare - Stan Greenberg, New Republic
Relax, We're Not Detroit - Daniel Gross, The Daily Beast
5 Ways Liberalism Destroyed Detroit - John Hawkins, Townhall
Obama Seeks Business Tax Cuts, New Spending - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
A Papal Surprise: Humility - John Corvino, New York Times
Sexual Reorientation Therapy Not Unethical - Nicholas Cummings, USAT
Mitch Daniels's Gift to Academic Freedom - Benno Schmidt, WSJ
Eliot Spitzer's Balancing Act - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
For Weiner, Quitting Is the Way to Roll - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Bradley Manning's Enablers - Ralph Peters, New York Post
Helen Thomas's Legacy and the New Media - Paula Cruickshank, RCP
Black Holes at China's Shadow Banks - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
More on RCP: The Most and Least Economically Mobile Areas of U.S.
Thursday, August 1
The Ruins of Detroit - George Will, Washington PostGOP's War on the Poor - Reps. Chris Van Hollen & Barbara Lee, Politico
Talk of Inequality Does Nothing for the Poor - Clive Crook, Bloomberg
Obama's Policies = No Growth - Emmett Tyrrell, The American Spectator
Republicans: Blinded by Self-Righteousness - Charles Blow, NY Times
Obama's Creeping Authoritarianism - Daniel Henninger, Wall St. Journal
Why Paul & Christie Went to War - Burns & Haberman, Politico
A Look at the 2016 GOP Field - Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review
Why the Next GOP Nominee Is Screwed - Nate Cohn, The New Republic
GOP Sees "Dream" Senate Challenger in Cotton - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Dems See VRA as Wedge Issue to Protect Sen Majority - Beth Reinhard, NJ
Obamacare Is Its Own Worst Enemy - Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner
How the GOP Could Derail Obamacare - Sarah Kliff, Washington Post
Does McConnell Want to Defund Obamacare? - Matt Bevin, Daily Caller
Therapy & the Art of Political Cleansing - Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times
Obamaphones: Scandalously Easy to Get - Jillian Kay Melchior, Natl Review
Sorry for Comparing Fox News to KKK - Matt DeRienzo, New Haven Register
Friday, August 2
GOP: The Party of (Nutty) Ideas - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostThe Soft Underbelly of Obamacare - Capretta & Levin, The Weekly Standard
Why Young People Will Bite on Obamacare - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
New Links Emerge in the IRS Scandal - Kim Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Vladimir Putin's Latest Insult to Obama - Michael Crowley, Time
Obama's "No-Cards" Foreign Policy - Benny Avni, New York Post
Gingrich: GOP Establishment Hysterical, in Fear - Tal Kopan, Politico
The Fractured GOP - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Why Republicans Miss the Realists - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Four Questions the NSA Must Answer - William Saletan, Slate
The War on Single Mothers - Amanda Marcotte, The Daily Beast
For Jesse Jackson, It's Always Selma Again - James Taranto, Wall St. Jrnl
Sex, Money, Gravitas and Janet Yellen - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obama Inadvertently Buries Larry Summers - Larry Kudlow, IBD
Does MSNBC Lean Too Far Forward? - Brian Steinberg, Variety
Luke Russert: Golden Boy of This Town - Noreen Malone, The New Republic
"Those Towns" Tour Puts D.C. in Its Place - Chuck Raasch, RealClearPolitics
Obama Approval: Quinnipiac 46, Reuters 40, Gallup 44 | RCP Avg: 45.3
Saturday, August 3
How Detroit Can Rise Again - Allysia Finley & Kevyn Orr, Wall St. JournalIs the GOP Self-Destructing? - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
A Slo-Mo IRS Cover-Up - John Fund, National Review
Larry Summers: The Right Leader for the Fed - Steven Rattner, NY Times
GOP Needs a Debate on National Security - Newt Gingrich, Ingraham Show
Marriage and Minorities - Charles Blow, New York Times
Why So Many CIA Agents in Benghazi? - Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Crowded S.C. Primary Poses Challenge for Graham - Scott Conroy, RCP
Republican Party Is the New Confederacy - David Love, The Guardian
MSNBC's Sharpton Hates Cops, Whites & Jews - Michelle Malkin, FOX News
New Labor Movement Emerges in Wisconsin - James Cersonsky, Salon
Obama's Reporters at the NY Times - Matthew Continetti, DC Free Beacon
Hollywood Bets on Hillary Clinton Payoff - Caitlin McDevitt, Politico
The Hypocrisy of Matt Damon's "Elysium" - John Nolte, Big Hollywood
Pope Francis the Merciful - James Martin, Washington Post
Yes, Money Can Make You Happy - Cass Sunstein, The New Republic
Childless Cities: Where Are the Families? - Kotkin & Modarres, City Journal
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Sunday, August 4
For Obamacare to Work, Everyone Must Be In - Robert Frank, NY TimesObamaCare Cliff: Work More, Get Less - Dan Mangan, CNBC
July's Jobs Bummer: Want Fries With That? - Nin-Hai Tseng, Fortune
Can One Man Save Detroit? - George Will, Washington Post
'Tough Nerd' Snyder Makes Motor City Gamble - James Hohmann, Politico
16 Reasons Hillary Will Win in '16 - Myra Adams, The Daily Beast
The Hillary Fascination - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Scott Walker Is No FDR - James Roosevelt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kentucky Senate Race Off to Wild Start - Kate Nocera, BuzzFeed
How Doomed Are Democrats in the Senate? - David Weigel, Slate
Hollywood's Pact with Hitler, and Now China - Kyle Smith, New York Post
Big Brother's War on Consumption - Hoffer, Shughart & Thomas, USA Today
America's Baby Bust May Be Over - Beth Braverman, The Fiscal Times
Return of the Jesus Wars - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Aslan's Jesus Is a Failed Mohammed - Stephen Prothero, Washington Post
$4,000 Deal Gone Sour Behind the Doping Scandal - Steve Eder, NY Times
Good Luck to Boston's New Media Mogul - Howie Carr, Boston Herald
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