Week of September 9, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, September 9
Obama Launches Final Push for Syria Strike - Peter Wallsten, Wash PostPublic Against Syria Strike Resolution - Steinhauser & Helton, CNN
Obama Is Bombing on Syria - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
How Obama Can Win Enough Votes on Syria - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Why Obama Is Floundering - Thomas Lifson, The American Thinker
Republicans and the Wonk Gap - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Democracy in Colorado Springs - Charles Cooke, National Review
U.S. Resolve Is on the Line - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Great Syrian Train Wreck - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Obama Really Is a Left Wing Radical - Norman Podhoretz, Wall St. Journal
Our New Isolationism - Bill Keller, New York Times
Drafting Reagan for Every War - James Antle, The Daily Caller
U.S. Troops Are the Ones Who Are "War Weary" - Richard Benedetto, RCP
America's Ceased Adoring Silicon Valley Hotshots - Noreen Malone, TNR
Tokyo Olympics Adds to Japan's Debt Headache - Gwynn Guilford, Quartz
The President and the Pipeline - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
Rep. Wolf: Questions Remain About Benghazi - Ginni Thomas, Daily Caller
Obama Approval: USAT/Pew 43% | FOX News 40% | RCP Average 42.9%
Tuesday, September 10
Senate Delays Syria Vote as Support Wanes - Susan Davis, USA TodayCan the Syria Debacle Get Any Worse? Yes, It Can - James Taranto, WSJ
The President's War for Peace - Jon Favreau, The Daily Beast
Obama's Syria Policy Is Doomed - George Will, Washington Post
The Truth About Obama's Second Term Agenda - Brian Beutler, Salon
Our President Is a Laughing Stock - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
New York City: For Richer, for Poorer - Frank Bruni, New York Times
Spitzer, Stringer Are Tied Heading Into Primary - Scott Conroy, RCP
Obama's Weak Economy Explains Rising Inequality - John Taylor, WSJ
Susan Rice's Remarkable Rebound - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
President Obama Needs to Admit Mistakes - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
The Increasingly Crazy Syria Debate - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Obama Caves to Putin, Assad - Ben Shapiro, Breitbart
Have Families Become a Partisan Issue? - Joel Kotkin, New Geography
One Classroom, Two Genders - Jennifer Boylan, New York Times
Sense Must Prevail in the War on NYPD - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
The Legacy of Danny Lewin, First Man to Die on 9/11 - Todd Leopold, CNN
Latest Polls: Syria Strike | Obama Approval | NYC Mayor, Comptroller
Wednesday, September 11
Making Sense of Syria - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalAmateur Hour in the White House - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Dazed and Confused - William Dobson, Slate
President Talked War, But Lucked Into Peace - Jonathan Chait, NY Mag
Obama's Debacle Inflicts Historic Damage - Peter Wehner, Commentary
De Blasio Tops NYC Mayoral Race; Spitzer Loses - Scott Conroy, RCP
A Victory for Progressive Politics in New York - John Nichols, The Nation
Colorado's Gun Rights Victory - Charles Cooke, National Review
Obamacare for the Win - Jamelle Bouie, The Daily Beast
President's War Against School Choice - Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg
Threatening to Threaten in Syria - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
All Humanitarianism, Not a Hint of Strategy - Stanley Kurtz, NRO
Obama Got Played by Putin and Assad - Julia Ioffe, The New Republic
One Year Later, Benghazi's Lingering Issues - Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News
How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy - Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker
Homeland Confusion - Thomas Kean & Lee Hamilton, New York Times
Remembering the Shock of 9/11 - Vincent Carroll, Denver Post
Latest Polls: Syria Strike, Obama Approval / Sen '14: SD, WV, SC, LA, NC
Thursday, September 12
A Plea for Caution From Russia - Vladimir Putin, New York TimesThe Obama Doctrine Has Officially Collapsed - James Carafano, FOX News
Obama Seeks to Affirm an International Norm - Fareed Zakaria, Wash Post
What Was the President Thinking? - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
Stunning and Inexplicable Presidential Incompetence - Joe Klein, Time
The Threat of Military Action Worked - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
The Laurel and Hardy Presidency - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
What Colorado's Recall Means for Dems - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Republican Lawmakers Drop Pretense of Sanity - Jonathan Bernstein, WP
Paul Krugman & the Bogus Wonk Gap Thesis - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Hillary Clinton Just Won't Go Away - Beth Reinhard, National Journal
Mike Pence, the 2016 Dark Horse to Watch? - Matt Lewis, The Daily Caller
Political Thunder Out of New York - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Future Looks Rocky for New York City - Fred Siegel, The American
The Public's Foreign-Policy Reawakening - Robert Merry, National Interest
Why Obama's Speech Was So Muddy - Noam Scheiber, The New Republic
9/11: America's Unfinished Business - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Friday, September 13
An Anchorless World - Roger Cohen, New York TimesThe Fruits of Epic Incompetence - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Putin Gets His Revenge on Obama - Pecquet & Herb, The Hill
Obama's the One Who Has Played Putin - Andrew Sullivan, The Dish
Olympus Has Fallen - Richard Fernandez, PJ Media
The House GOP Is About to Crack Up - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
Poll Finds GOP Gaining Favor on Key Issues - Neil King, Wall Street Journal
The Rise of the New New Left - Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
Bloomberg's Influence Takes a Big Hit - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
This Is a Rich Man's Recovery - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Good Times Rolling Again for Wall Streeters - William Cohan, Bloomberg
The Weird, Desperate World of Washington Post TV - Laura Bennett, TNR
Why the Media Will Never Be Fair to Conservatives - Erick Erickson, RS
Tina Brown: Digital Media's Latest Victim - Michael Wolff, The Guardian
The Damage of Obama's Wing-it Diplomacy - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Is Decisiveness Overrated? White House Thinks So - Steve Dennis, Roll Call
Exceptional America: A Primer for Putin - Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Obama Approval: Gallup 45% | Ras 46% | Ipsos 39% | RCP Avg 43.5%
Saturday, September 14
Why Democrats Have Reason to Fear - Charlie Cook, National JournalBack to Boehner: Budget Crisis Looms - Gail Collins, New York Times
Rules for Russians - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
Can Obama Be Neo-Machiavellian? - David Ignatius, Washington Post
White House Amateurs on the World Stage - Mark Steyn, National Review
Obamacare D-Day Becomes a Soft Launch - Jennifer Haberkorn, Politico
Republicans and the New Politics of Extremism - Mann & Ornstein, Salon
Ted Cruz: How the Legend Grows - Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard
21 Journalists Have Moved to Obama Admin - Elspeth Reeve, The Atlantic
Benghazi's Unanswered Questions - Emmett Tyrrell, American Spectator
The Occupy Wall Street Legacy - Charles Blow, New York Times
Vladimir Putin Takes Exception - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
The Duty to Protect, Still Urgent - Michael Ignatieff, New York Times
What Conservative Foreign Policy Looks Like - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
The Case Against Larry Summers - Michael Hirsh, National Journal
New York: When the President Came to Town - Tevi Troy, City Journal
How to Make School Better for Boys - Christina Hoff Sommers, The Atlantic
Latest Polls: Obama Job Approval | Senate 2014 | Governor 2014 | Syria
Sunday, September 15
If History Is Any Measure, the Clock Is Ticking - Broad & Sanger, NY TimesPoker-Face Putin Holds All the Cards - Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph
A Win-Win-Win on Syria - Fred Kaplan, Slate
Barack Obama, the 98-Pound Weakling - Margaret Wente, Globe & Mail
Main St. Wants Action on Jobs, Not Blunders on Syria - Salena Zito, PTR
Too Big to Fail Is Alive and Well - Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Our Global Banks - Still Too Mighty to Control - Liam Halligan, Telegraph
2016 Offers Pride & Peril for Hillary Clinton - Dan Balz, Washington Post
To Win, GOP Must Battle Special Interests - Timothy Carney, DC Examiner
Biden and Clinton: Friends With Awkward Twist - Amy Chozick, NY Times
de Blasio an Obama-like Train-Wreck for NYC - Bob McManus, NY Post
How Detroit Went Broke - Bomey & Gallagher, Detroit Free Press
Pennsylvania Is Coal Country - Rep. Tim Murphy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Don't Blame Climate Change for Extremes - Bjorn Lomborg, Wash Post
Constitution a Document Worth Celebrating - Wilfred McClay, Oklahoman
When Complexity Is Free - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Bay of Pigs' Unfinished Battle - George Will, Washington Post
Latest Polls: Obama Job Approval | Senate 2014 | Governor 2014 | Syria