Week of August 5, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, August 5
6 Months Later, Obama Policy Goals Gathering Dust - Justin Sink, The HillCrumbling American Dreams - Robert Putnam, New York Times
It's Time to Tame the Megabanks - James Pethokoukis, National Affairs
The Unbearable Likeability of the Pope - Heather Horn, Esquire
The Winds Have Shifted Against the President - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Republicans Against Reality - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Colorado Recalls Make History - Ross Kaminsky, The American Spectator
Tea Party Challenger Puts Heat on McConnell - Howard Fineman, Huff Post
The Name of Obama's Game Is Blame - Carl Cannon, Orange County Register
The Monsterization of Trayvon Martin - Patricia Williams, The Nation
Trayvon Martin Was No Emmett Till - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Naming a New Fed Chair: Crisis Colors Decision - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Religion Challenges Left and Right - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
If Benghazi's No Scandal, Why a Cover-Up? - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness - Emily Esfahani Smith, The Atlantic
Donald Rumsfeld's Golden Rule - Nicholas Hahn, RealClearReligion
Tell the Baseball Druggies: Strike One, You're Out - Fay Vincent, WSJ
Sunday Roundtables: FOX News Sunday | This Week | Meet the Press
Tuesday, August 6
Graham's Choice Leads to End of an Era - David Remnick, The New YorkerHow the Deal With Bezos Came to Be - Don Graham, Washington Post
Why Bezos Bought the Washington Post - Henry Blodget, Business Insider
Political Cost of Obamacare Rising for Dems - Michael Barone, Examiner
GOP's Guerilla War Against Obamacare - Bill Hammond, NY Daily News
Obama's Scandals: Nixonian to the Core - Victor Davis Hanson, Natl Review
Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near - Davey & Walsh, NY Times
The Indebted States of America - Steven Malanga, City Journal
Why Chris Christie Is Wrong - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Congress Denied Access to Basic Info on NSA - Glenn Greenwald, Guardian
Ft. Hood Was Terrorism, Not 'Workplace Violence' - S. Huntley, Chicago ST
New al-Qaeda Menace Result of Years of Bad Policy - Eugene Robinson, WP
The IRS Attack on Political Speech - Bradley Smith, Wall Street Journal
Old Professors Never Quit - Mark Bauerlein, Bloomberg
Wall Street After Fab: Business as Usual - John Cassidy, The New Yorker
Busybody Politics - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Psychotic A-Rod Lying Only When He Speaks - Scott Miller, CBS Sports
More on RCP: Obama's Memorable Moments on "The Tonight Show"
Wednesday, August 7
President Gives Congress an Obamacare Waiver - Michael Cannon, NROWhy Don't Republicans Want to Win? - Pramila Jayapal, Politico
Republicans, Democrats & Racial Polarization - Ross Douthat, NY Times
The Post Sale: An Indefinable Sense of Loss - Lou Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Jeff Bezos and the Great Beyondists - Matt Welch, Reason
A Setback for Minority Education Under Obama - Paul Peterson, WSJ
The Republican Party's Dead-End Street - Juan Williams, The Hill
Excuse Me? GOP Is to Blame for Obamacare? - Jonah Goldberg, USA Today
The Three Campaigns of Mitch McConnell - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
The Rising Guard of Democratic Women - Patricia Murphy, The Daily Beast
Republicans' 2014 Prospects: Good & Getting Better - Ed Rogers, Wash Post
Mideast Peace Talks: Daring to Fail - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
3 Forgotten Facts About Fort Hood Massacre - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
The Day Our Earth Stood Still - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
The Post: A Once-Great Newspaper - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Reince Is Right About the Hillary Movies - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Why Are Dems Attacking the NYPD? - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
2016 GOP (Rasmussen): Christie 21, Rubio 18, Bush 16, Paul 15, Ryan 13
Thursday, August 8
A Guide to Obama's Inside-Out Economics - Caroline Baum, BloombergWhy the Decline of Newspapers Is Good for Everyone Else - Neil Irwin, WP
Tea Party Wants a Government Shutdown - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Republicans, Stick to Your Principles - Craig Shirley & Newt Gingrich, CNN
Ted Cruz: Obama's Beliefs Are Profoundly Dangerous - Alex Altman, Time
In New Hampshire, Paul Has Edge Over Christie - Patrick Hynes, Politico
Don't Forget About Paul Ryan for 2016 - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Everybody Wants To Primary Lindsey Graham - Jason Linkins, Huff Post
What Wendy Davis Doesn't Know About Gosnell - Jon Tobin, Commentary
Wendy Davis's Catch 22 - Abby Rappaport, The American Prospect
The One Who Would Reinvent Detroit - George Will, Washington Post
Snyder Has Disenfranchised Detroiters - John Nichols, The Nation
A Thick 2nd Coat of Benghazi Whitewash - Ken Allard, Washington Times
Obama Chose Weakest Course of Action With Putin - Leon Aron, Politico
With Media's Help, Obama Sidesteps Afghan War - Richard Benedetto, RCP
Why We Won't Call Them the Redskins Anymore - David Plotz, Slate
Call Ft. Hood What It Was: Terrorism - Shawn Manning, Washington Post
Obama Job Approval: FOX News 42% | Gallup 45% | RCP Average 44.2%
Friday, August 9
Newspapers Should Be More Like Amazon - Genachowski & Waldman, TNRVoters Aren't Buying Obama's Economic Talk - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
The Phony Economic Fear Factor - Paul Krugman, New York Times
D.C. Fixes Obamacare -- for D.C. - Sen. David Vitter, Washington Examiner
States Are Diverging on Social Issues - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
Why Putin Is Glad Obama Isn't Coming - Michael Bohm, The Moscow Times
Obama's Foreign Policy: Liberalism Not Realism - Kori Schake, Hoover Inst.
A Revealing Hour in Harlem With Anthony Weiner - Scott Conroy, RCP
Tom Cotton Puts Mark Pryor on Defensive - Harry Enten, The Guardian
Voting Rights in Jeopardy Thanks to GOP - Donna Brazile, USA Today
Obama's War by Wordplay - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
New Climate Normal: Frigid and Sweltering - Madeline Ostrander, Nation
Why Fracking Could End the Age of Gas Price Spikes - Karl Smith, Atlantic
Bezos' Quest for Total Retail Domination - J.J. McCorvey, Fast Company
The NY Times: Start the Countdown Clock - Steven Hayward, Power Line
Thank You, Graham Family - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
A Wounded Warrior Starts a New Chapter - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
NY Times/Siena: Weiner Drops to 4th | Spitzer Leads Comptroller Race
Saturday, August 10
Taming the Tax Code Beast - George Will, Washington PostToday's America: Insular, Cruel and Uncaring - Charles Blow, NY Times
The President's Weak Defense of Obamacare - Peter Suderman, Reason
GOP Insanity on Obamacare Will Backfire - Martha Burk, Huffington Post
Why Aren't We Honest About Ft. Hood Shooter? - Mark Steyn, Nat'l Review
Obama: Putin Sometimes Acts Like "Bored Kid" - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Why Obama Gets No Respect in the World - Linda Chavez, New York Post
RNC Debate "Threat" Either a Bluff or a Blunder - Ron Klain, Wash Post
McAuliffe's Sales Pitch Starts to Sour - Barton Hinkle, Richmond TD
Hillary Terrifies the Republican Party - Sady Doyle, In These Times
Washington's Latest Special Favor - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
EPA Needs to Block Alaska's Pebble Mine - Joel Reynolds, RealClearPolitics
Anti-Sprawl Policies Threaten Our Future - Joel Kotkin, New Geography
Why We Need to March...Again - Benjamin Jealous, Huffington Post
Media's Hate Crime Double Standard - Mark Hemingway, Weekly Standard
The Nixonian Republican Party - Jonathan Bernstein, Salon
Obama Who? - Victor Davis Hanson, PJ Media
Sunday, August 11
The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard - Matthew Kaminski, WSJKansas and Al Qaeda - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Is Congress Simply No Fun Anymore? - Elahe Izadi, National Journal
The Fight to Defund Obamacare - Hans von Spakovsky, Heritage Foundation
Republicans Now the Party of Jefferson Davis - Gary May, CNN
Calling Out the Race Hustlers - Juan Williams, FOX News
"Phony Scandal" Line Not Playing Well with Voters - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Lincoln's Long Game - Andrew Delbanco, The New Republic
How Obama Wooed the Middle Class - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Madam President - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
When Failure Carries No Cost - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
3 Reforms for the War on Drugs - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In - Judith Warner, NY Times Magazine
Why Can't We Talk About IQ? - Jason Richwine, Politico
Secure E-Mail: No Such Thing Any More - Joshua Brustein, Bloomberg BW
Five Myths About Jeff Bezos - Tricia Duryee, Washington Post
How the Washington Post Was Lost - Ross Douthat, New York Times