Week of April 21, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, April 21
Bill de Blasio, Unbowed - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostIgnoring an Inequality Culprit - Maranto & Crouch, Wall Street Journal
Obama's Good News Isn't Getting Across - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
The Increasing Desperation of Democrats - John Fund, National Review
Still Hope for Democrats in November - Juan Williams, The Hill
Don't Believe the Spin, Obamacare Is Still a Loser - Scott Rasmussen
Healthcare Cost Increases Are Cause for Concern - Jonathan Cohn, TNR
Pipeline Delay Gives Boost to Obama's Base - Mason and Holland, Reuters
The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer - John Hinderaker, PowerLine
Pa. Dems Keep Gloves on in Gubernatorial Primary - Scott Conroy, RCP
Class Warfare Justified? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
The Most Important Book Ever Is All Wrong - Clive Crook, Bloomberg
Sweden Turns Japanese - Paul Krugman, New York Times
The Sisterhood Goes Psychotic - Andrea Peyser, New York Post
Poster Girls for Jihad? - Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast
Questions for Gregory as Meet the Press Struggles - Paul Farhi, Wash Post
1 Year Later, Boston Runs Down Its Demons - Toby Harnden, Sunday Times
Sunday Panels: FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press | FTN | This Week
Tuesday, April 22
Billionaire Liberal Donor Gets Way on Keystone - Rich Lowry, NY PostGreen Groups Push Earth Day Agenda - Timothy Cama, The Hill
Piketty Revives Marx for the 21st Century - Daniel Shuchman, WSJ
Economic Policy in a Post-Piketty World - Dean Baker, Huffington Post
Democrats Are the Party of Inequality - Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
As Putin Marches, We Should Be Worried - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Republicans' Limp "Emasculate Obama" Ploy - Sally Kohn, The Daily Beast
Measuring the Success of Obamacare: Don't Be Misled - Scott Atlas, RCP
How Chicago Became "Chiraq" - Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Through a Google Glass, Darkly - Matt Labash, Weekly Standard
For the Kids' Sake, Put Down That Smartphone - Patti Neighmond, NPR
Mrs. Clinton's New Memoir - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Pro-Life Democrats, Squeezed by a Partisan Issue - Jose Gonzalez, RCP
The Right's Demented Racial Math - Heather Digby Parton, Salon
For Liberals, Race and Class Eclipse Values - Dennis Prager, Townhall
No Stopping Justice Ginsburg - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Justice Thomas's Silence Is a Virtue - Seth Lipsky, The American Spectator
FOX News: Health Care Law: 56% Opposed | Generic Ballot: GOP +3
Wednesday, April 23
Another Bad Day for Affirmative Action - John Cassidy, The New YorkerAntonin Scalia's Plain Truth - John Podhoretz, New York Post
Obama Can't Be the Green Lantern - Norm Ornstein, National Journal
The President's Cynical Keystone Strategy - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
It's All About May 25 in Ukraine - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Obama's Lies Have Led to Global Mistrust - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Revolt of the Cities - Harold Meyerson, American Prospect
The High Cost of Liberalism - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Scandals Republicans Like - Thomas Edsall, New York Times
Gay-Marriage Backers, Admirably Open to Dissent - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
Pope John Paul II: A Saint, He Ain't - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
The Republican Foreign-Policy Mess - Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg
Buckley's Realist Foreign Policy - Sen. Rand Paul, National Review
Climate Change Is the Fight of Our Lives - Naomi Klein, The Guardian
The Closing of the Academic Mind - M.G. Oprea, The Federalist
Why Care About McCutcheon? - Mark Bittman, New York Times
Elizabeth Warren Is Rewriting History - Brian Walsh, US News & World Rpt
Senate 2014 (NYT/Kaiser): N. Carolina | Ark. | Kentucky | Louisiana
Thursday, April 24
Dems, Get Angry or You'll Lose Congress - Dean Obeidallah, Daily BeastSotomayor's Demeaning Views on Race - Mike Gonzalez, New York Post
Did Palin Blow It for Repubicans in Alaska? - Forrest Nabors, Politico
Barack Obama, the Adolescent President - George Will, Washington Post
Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power, Wealth - Adam O'Neal, RCP
Moldova, the Next Ukraine - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Is America's "Rebalance" to Asia Dead? - Dustin Walker, National Interest
What Piketty Tells Us About the Liberal Press - David Harsanyi, Federalist
On Tour With the Rock Star Thomas Piketty - Boris Kachka, NY Magazine
Piketty's Tax Hikes Won't Help Middle Class - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The Key for Democrats in 2014 - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Other Stealthy Obamacare Menace - Chen & Capretta, Wall St. Journal
Will Republicans Back Early Education? - Sen. Patty Murray, Politico
Why People Dislike NBC's David Gregory - Michelle Malkin, New York Post
Opposing Gay Marriage Isn't Like Racism - Jonathan Rauch, Daily Beast
Legislative Bullying - Katherine Kersten, First Things
When Cheap Fashion Kills, How Do We Go Forward? - Bob Bland, RCP
Colorado (Quin): 2014: Udall (D)+1 | 2016: Clinton v Christie, Paul, Bush
Friday, April 25
Getting It Right on Affirmative Action - Charles Krauthammer, Wash PostThe Sotomayor Style - David Fontana, The New Republic
Tom Steyer's Glass House - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Al Gore Is Not Giving Up - Darren Samuelsohn, Politico
Obama's Foreign Failures Proving Critics Right - Michael Crowley, Time
The Right's Piketty Panic - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Wonky Elite's False Prophet - James Poulos, The Daily Beast
Christie's Chances & the 2016 Nomination - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Bundy Exposes Delusional Conservatives - Brian Beutler, The New Republic
Reid Has Become a McCarthy for Our Time - Victor Davis Hanson, IBD
Toppling the Tea Party - David Moberg, In These Times
Obama's Dirty Watchdogs - Michelle Malkin, New York Post
Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground - Chris Hayes, MSNBC
Chris Hayes Wants to Kill About 5.7 Billion People - Tim Cavanaugh, NRO
Israel's Sustainable Success - Roger Cohen, New York Times
Toss Out Abusive College Administrators - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Was No Hero - Charles Lane, Washington Post
Election 2014 Polls: Senate: CO, NC | Governor: FL, CA | 2016: CO, WI
Saturday, April 26
Obama Is Trolling the GOP on Health Care - Jonathan Cohn, New RepublicAnti-Business Obama Strikes Again - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Dly
Bundy and the Risk of Cozying Up to Extremists - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Sotomayor Proves Herself Not So Wise - Linda Chavez, New York Post
Economic Inequality Is a Malady - Joe Conason, National Memo
Obama Subverts Law in the Name of Clemency - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
It's Time for Greens to Get Radical - Jedediah Purdy, The Daily Beast
Dirty Politics Clog Keystone XL Pipeline - Phil Kerpen, USA Today
Dems and the Clinton Waiting Game - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Responding to the War on Women - David Harsanyi, The Federalist
A Rancher's Romantic Revisionism - Charles Blow, New York Times
Paying for Obamacare - Peter Suderman, Reason
Two Milestones in Education - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
The Closing of the Academic Mind - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
Vladimir Putin's Fear of the Internet - Masha Lipman, The New Yorker
A Beating in Detroit - Charlie LeDuff, New York Times
"Santo Subito!" They Chanted - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Sunday, April 27
Clinton, Warren & a Tale of Two Book Titles - Dan Balz, Washington PostIs Lapdog Media Beginning to Turn on Obama? - Michael Goodwin, NY Post
Time for Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to Go - Bill Plaschke, LA Times
Where No Dem Has Gone Before - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Home on the Racist Range - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
On Gay Marriage, Intolerance Cuts Both Ways - Carl Cannon, OC Register
CNN & The Rahmfather, Made for Each Other - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Piketty, Oligarchy & Conservative Evasion - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
The Best Way to Battle Income Inequality - Kevin Williamson, Natl Review
Who Will Influence Whom in East Europe? - Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Time for Consequences in Middle East - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Iraq's Never-Ending War - David Ignatius, Washington Post
The Gospel According to Mark Steyn - Conrad Black, The American Spectator
Keystone: A Delay Worth Celebrating - Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
Euphemisms for Affirmative Action - George Will, Washington Post
Sotomayor's Brave Dissent - Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star
Two Popes, Two Saints, One Message - George Weigel, New York Daily News
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