Week of December 30, 2013 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, December 30
2013, the Year of the Zombies - Dave Barry, Washington Post MagazineD.C.'s Most Irrational Arguments in 2013 - Timothy Carney, DC Examiner
White House Looks to Spread Good News - Brown & Allen, Politico
Ow! An Ode to Obamacare - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Republicans to Blame for Disgust With Congress - Juan Williams, The Hill
It's an Election Year! Predictions for 2014 - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
The "Racism" Wrecking Ball - John Fund, National Review
A&E Lets Phil Robertson Off the Hook - Michael Musto, The Daily Beast
Obamacare Lies and the Press "Fact-Checkers" - Avik Roy, Forbes
2013: Not as Bad as You Think - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
NYT Whitewashes Benghazi - Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
Report Casts Doubt on al Qaeda Involvement - Mark Morgenstein, CNN
Yes, Al Qaeda Is Linked to Benghazi - Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Glamour and the Art of Persuasion - Virginia Postrel, Reason
The Dream of a Middle-Class New York - Benjamin Wallace-Wells, NY Mag
NYC: The Old Regime and the New - Aaron Renn, City Journal
Not Everything We Love Lasts - Carl Cannon, Orange County Register
Sunday Panels: FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press | Face the Nation
Tuesday, December 31
The Year Washington Fled Reality - Sen. Tom Coburn, Wall Street JournalJobless Benefits, the Cruelest Cut of All - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Think 2013 Was Bad for Obamacare? Just Wait - Lanhee Chen, Bloomberg
Obamacare Is Looking a Lot Better - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
A New Year and Old Problems - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Hillary's Unlucky Year - Richard Cohen, New York Daily News
Betrayal That Whitewash Won't Cover - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
Why We'll Never Stop Arguing About Benghazi - Blake Hounshell, Politico
Surveillance State: Obama's Defining Fight - Daniel Klaidman, Daily Beast
Global Warming Researcher Gets Stuck in Ice - Deb Saunders, SF Chronicle
2013: The Year in Whiteness - Joan Walsh, Salon
2013: A Dismal Year in Politics - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
For 2014, Tweet Less, Read More - Frank Bruni, New York Times
The Good News About 2014 (Maybe) - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
A Closer Look at "Inequality" - Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
One More Last Chance - Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy
10 Roadblocks to Mideast Peace - Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
Thursday, January 2
Can Democrats Overcome Obamacare in 2014? - Rebecca Kaplan, CBS NewsThe Obamacare We Deserve - Michael Moore, New York Times
The Year the Liberal Narrative Collided With Reality - Bill Frezza, Forbes
Republicans vs. the Unemployed - Rep. Louise Slaughter, Huffington Post
Myths to Ditch in 2014 - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
America in 2013, as Told in Charts - Steven Rattner, New York Times
Boehner Had the Best Year in Washington - Tim Alberta, National Journal
The Risks of Political Ignorance - George Will, Washington Post
America's Unhinged Foreign Policy - John Mearsheimer, National Interest
Feminism in 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Cathy Young, RCP
Conservatives' Duck Dynasty Problem - Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
Romney Grandchild Latest Victim of Racist Media - Charles Hurt, WT
Democratic Left Will Be More Vocal in 2014 - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Change Is Obamacare's Only Certainty - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
Anxious Youth, Then and Now - Jon Grinspan, New York Times
The Gifts of Jahi - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Belief in God Doesn't Undermine Evolution - Eli Federman, USA Today
Friday, January 3
Let's Wait to Judge Obamacare - Jonathan Gruber, CNNStop the Insurers' Bailout - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The Health Care Law Is Here to Stay - Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
Another Problem Obamacare Won't Solve - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
Why This Could Be Obama's Best Year - Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast
2014: A Republican Year - Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard
Democrats in 2014: The Party of John Edwards - Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
New York's Divider in Chief - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
The Truth About Bill de Blasio and the Clintons - Joan Walsh, Salon
Industry, Not Environmentalists, Killed Bulbs - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
When a President and Divided Congress Made Magic - John Harwood, NYT
Please, Congress, Do Much Less - Barton Hinkle, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Five Reasons We Are Witnessing the End of Men - Hanna Rosin, Time
Entrepreneurs Remind Us College Is Overrated - Gary Shapiro, Forbes
The Perils of Legalized Marijuana - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
2014: Good Year for a Great War? - Graham Allison, The National Interest
Politicians Throw Science Under the Bus - Alex Berezow, USA Today
Saturday, January 4
Degrees of Value: Making College Pay Off - Glenn Reynolds, Wall St. JournalWhy Obama Could Triumph in 2014 - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Political Palliatives Won't Cure Obamacare's Ills - James Taranto, WSJ
Let's Celebrate Medicaid's Success - Ezra Klein, Bloomberg
Down the NYT's Benghazi Rabbit Hole - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
2014: Finally, the Liberal Moment? - George Packer, The New Yorker
Democrats' Years of Failure on Poverty - Newt Gingrich, CNN
Is Republican Momentum a Mirage? - Beth Reinhard, National Journal
Politics, by the Numbers - George Will, Washington Post
The GOP's "Duck Dynasty" Problem - Brian Beutler, Salon
A Banner Year for Libertarian Conservatism - Jack Hunter, Daily Caller
Hope and Change in the Vatican - Jon Favreau, The Daily Beast
Enough Pot Happy Talk - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
Ruth Marcus, David Brooks, and Reefer Madness - David Weigel, Slate
Indoctrinating Religious Warriors - Charles Blow, New York Times
Don't Extend Unemployment Benefits - David Freddoso, DC Examiner
Fighting to Kick the Habit - Mike Tyson, New York Times
Sunday, January 5
Democrats Seize on Income Inequality in 2014 - Burgess Everett, PoliticoClass Warfare Flourishes Under Obama - Salena Zito, Pitt Tribune-Review
50 Years Later, War on Poverty a Mixed Bag - Annie Lowrey, NY Times
Obama & de Blasio: False Prophets of Equality - Michael Goodwin, NY Post
The al-Qaeda Switchboard - Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker
Militants Fill Middle East Power Vacuum - Hubbard, Worth & Gordon, NYT
NY Times Unwittingly Destroys Obama - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Obama Looks to Relaunch Bogged Down 2nd Term - Amie Parnes, The Hill
2014 All About Obamacare - Again - John Farmer, New Jersey Star-Ledger
De Blasio's Long Odds - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Obama's 2nd Term Is All About Climate Change - Jonathan Chait, NY Mag
The Unalarmed Climate Scientist - Ethan Epstein, Weekly Standard
Ben Bernanke, Crisis Manager - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Why Edward Snowden Shouldn't Get Clemency - Fred Kaplan, Slate
A Ruling for Polygamy -- and Freedom - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Ariel Sharon: A Man of His Times - Alan Dershowitz, New York Daily News
Andrew Jacobs, the Prince of Parsimony - Carl M. Cannon, OC Register