Week of October 14, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, October 14
Republicans Will Pay for This - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New YorkerObamacare's Serious Complications - Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
The Rest of the Story on Obamacare - Bill Keller, New York Times
Obamacare May Start a New Generational War - Hahn & Passell, LA Times
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Doctor? - Michael Fitzgerald, BG Magazine
Throw the &#$@%* Bums Out - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Obama Can't Waste This Moment - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Who Created the Gerrymandered Media? - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Where Even the Middle Class Can't Afford to Live - Emily Badger, Atlantic
Slow Economic Growth the New Norm? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
A Fresh Chance to Rein in Racial Preferences - Richard Kahlenberg, WSJ
Bay of Bengal, in Peril From Climate Change - Sunil Amrith, NY Times
IPCC Discredits the Doomsday Climate Scenarios - Marlo Lewis, FOX News
Why Democrats Love Ted Cruz (Whom They Despise) - Mark Salter, RCP
The Reverse-Dixiecrat Solution - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Don't Bury the Elephant - Robert Merry, The National Interest
Memorials to Our Fallen Should Never Be Closed - William Forstchen, CNN
New Jersey Senate (Monmouth): Booker (D) 52, Lonegan (R) 42
Tuesday, October 15
Republicans Need to Dump The Tea Party - David Frum, CNNThe Presidency Is No Place for Amateurs - Edward Klein, FOX News
Dems Up Ante on GOP's Poor Hand - Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
Leon Panetta's Problem With Obama - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Goldwater-Rockefeller Redux - Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
U.S. Would Be Better Off if Boehner & Cruz Drown - Roger Simon, Politico
Roger Simon and Media Bias - Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online
Obamacare Needs a Drop-Dead Date - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
Stop Abusing America's Public Workers - Jesse Jackson, Chicago Sun-Times
Michigan Rebuts Redistricting/Polarization Claims - Sean Trende, RCP
An Affirmative Action Case Liberals Deserve to Lose - Emily Bazelon, Slate
Nobels and National Greatness - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
On the Perils of Paul Krugman - Niall Ferguson, Project Syndicate
GOP: A Party With No New Ideas - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Answering Paul Krugman - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Newsweek: Poster Child of Journalism's Failure - Michael Wolff, Guardian
The New York Times: America Sucks - Dennis Prager, Townhall
2013 Polls: VA: McAuliffe +7 | NJ: Christie +24 | NJ Sen: Booker +14
Wednesday, October 16
Policy and the Republican Civil War - Ross Douthat, New York TimesRepublicans Are at a Dead End - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
No Need for Lectures From a Debt-Addled President - Charles Hurt, WT
The Ship of State Turns Into the Ship of Fools - Maureen Dowd, NY Times
Jacksonian America Is Aroused and Angry - William Galston, WSJ
Are Democrats More Extreme Than Republicans? - Alex Castellanos, CNN
Five Thoughts on the Obamacare Disaster - Ezra Klein, Washington Post
Is This as Good as Obamacare Gets? - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
The World Sees an America in Decline - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
Dress Rehearsals for the Next Terror Incident - Michelle Malkin, NY Post
How Obama Admin's Plan Put U.S. at Risk - Anita Kumar, McClatchy
To Control Climate Crisis, Control the Population - Alan Weisman, CNN
True Crisis: The Fibs Underlying Global Warming - Larry Bell, Forbes
Longing to Be a Victim - John Stossel, FOX Business
Still Torn Over JFK's Assasination - George Packer, The New Yorker
The Truth About Nature & Gender Roles - Christina Hoff Sommers, AEI
Why You Should Have a Messy Desk - Herbert Lui, Medium
Obama Job Approval: YouGov 42% | Gallup 43% | RCP Average 43.3%
Thursday, October 17
Finally! The GOP Fever Is Broken - Jamelle Bouie, The Daily BeastObama Wins! Big Whoop. Can He Lead? - Ron Fournier, National Journal
Bill Passes, But Will Stalemate Return? - Simendinger & Huey-Burns, RCP
Obama's Prize Is a Lame Duck Presidency - Tim Stanley, The Telegraph
For GOP, the Damage Is Undeniable - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
Dems Kidding Themselves on Who Is Winning - Peter Beinart, Daily Beast
Obamacare Disaster Much Worse Than Bad Policy - Conrad Black, NRO
Why Politics Has Become an Apocalyptic Mess - Howard Fineman, Huff Post
The Psychology of Barack Obama - Robert Merry, The National Interest
Facebook Eases Privacy Rules for Teenagers - Vindu Goel, New York Times
Your Life, Under Constant Surveillance - Bruce Schneier, CNN
Understanding Working Class Whites - Henry Olsen, The American
To Prevent Rape, College Girls Shouldn't Get Wasted - Emily Yoffe, Slate
Binge Drinking Isn't Cause of Sexual Assault - Katie McDonough, Salon
Terry McAuliffe: The Best Used Car Salesman - C.J. Ciaramella, Federalist
Learning the Lessons of a Decade of War - Dustin Walker, RealClearDefense
The Pro-Discrimination Left - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
New Jersey Governor (Quinnipiac): Christie (R) 62% - Buono (D) 33%
Friday, October 18
Republicans' Hollow Defeat - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostWhat If Obamacare Implodes? - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
The Electoral Aftermath of the Shutdown - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
GOP Puts Us on the Road to Nowhere - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obamacare Is a Bigger Disaster Than You Think - Philip Klein, Examiner
Radical GOP Out to Destroy Government - Norm Ornstein, Natl Journal
Why We'll Keep Fighting Obamacare - Jim DeMint, Wall Street Journal
Obamacare Rollout: It's Not All Bad News - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Democrats' Victory Will Be Short-Lived - Michael Graham, Boston Herald
How to Win in Virginia as a Liberal Democrat - Ron Brownstein, Natl Jrnl
The Art of the Possible - Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online
GOP Unity Only Way Obamacare Is Repealed - Ben Domenech, Federalist
Republicans' Uncertainty Strategy - Kirsten Powers, The Daily Beast
We Need a Realistic Path to Government Reform - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
Yes, Politics Was Once Friendly - Chris Matthews, Boston Globe
Redskins and Reason - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Schweitzer Mulling 2016 Presidential Bid - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
VA Gov (NBC/Marist): McAuliffe (D) 46, Cuccinellli (R) 38, Sarvis (L) 9
Saturday, October 19
Druckenmiller Rages Against Generational Theft - James Freeman, WSJThe President's Brilliant Pivot - Charles Blow, New York Times
Obama's Hard-Line Fiscal Strategy - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
To Win Again GOP Must Be United, Hopeful - James Baker, Financial Times
Obama DHS Pick Underpins Immigration Push - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
A Ted Cruz on Every Corner - Gail Collins, New York Times
Potemkin Parliament - Mark Steyn, National Review Online
Remembering Tom Foley & Civility in Washington - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
Deal Doesn't Solve Massive Debt Problem - Senator Rand Paul, Wash Times
Dear Ted Cruz, Stop Talking - Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
Texans Stick With Cruz Despite Defeat - Manny Fernandez, New York Times
Tell Me Again How the GOP Lost? - Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Forging a Pacific Future - Secretary of State John Kerry, Los Angeles Times
SCOTUS at a Loss Over Racial Discrimination - Linda Chavez, NY Post
Facebook's New Rules - Joe Nocera, New York Times
The Los Angeles Times Endorses Censorship - Scott Armstrong, FOX News
A Blind, Autistic, Musical Genius - Adam Ockelford, Huffington Post
Sunday, October 20
D.C. Starting to Look a Lot Like Beirut - Thomas Friedman, New York TimesWhat James Madison Wanted - George Will, Washington Post
Like Prohibition, Obamacare Unlikely to Last - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh TR
Americans in Need Will Save Obamacare - Garance Franke-Ruta, Atlantic
A Law Doomed From the Start - Kimberly Morgan, Foreign Affairs
Tea Party Is Playing With Live Ammo - Timothy Carney, DC Examiner
President Sir Lecturealot - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
There's No Spinning It, Republicans Lost Big - Timothy Noah, MSNBC
The Frog Pot Hypothesis - Robert Tracinski, The Daily Debate
Shutdown Theater: No Walk in the Park - Carl Cannon, OC Register
The Quackish Cult of Alternative Medicine - Jerome Groopman, TNR
Age of Climate Alarmism Is Coming to an End - Jim Lakely, DC Examiner
Baby Boom and Doom - Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
When Is a Baby Not a Baby? - Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist
A Radical Teaching Method Could Unleash Geniuses - Joshua Davis, Wired
Dallas, 1963: It Was No City of Hate - Bill Murchison, American Spectator
I'm the Accidental Owner of a Banksy - Cara Tabachnick, NY Magazine