Week of April 28, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, April 28
Donald Sterling Is Not Cliven Bundy - Matt Berman, National JournalWas Martin Luther King Wrong? - Bruce Ackerman, Los Angeles Times
Political Fraud About Voter Fraud - Robert Popper, Wall Street Journal
Poll Shows Peril for Obama, Senate Dems - Ronald Brownstein, Natl Jrnl
How Democrats Can Survive in 2014 - Sasha Issenberg, The New Republic
Oligarchy in the Twenty-First Century - Matthew Continetti, Free Beacon
Obama and the Myth of the Strong Leader - Archie Brown, Politico
How America Forgot Geopolitics - Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs
Union Outbid by Enviro Billionaire on Keystone - Byron York, Examiner
High Plains Moochers - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Liberals Swoon Over Marxist Reboot - Kyle Smith, New York Post
Why Social Networks Are Falling Apart - Mike Elgan, CIO
The Gun Supremacists' Folly - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Baltimore Behind Bars - Charles Lane, City Journal
The World's Resources Aren't Running Out - Matt Ridley, Wall St. Journal
The Bleaching of San Francisco - Adam Hudson, Truthout
Straight Talk About Gay Republican Carl DeMaio - Dana Perino, Fox News
Panels: This Week | FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press | Face the Nation
Tuesday, April 29
Ending Asia Trip, Obama Defends His Foreign Policy - Mark Landler, NYTObama's Foreign Policy: From Bad to None - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Dems' Hopes Rise to Keep Senate - Juan Williams, The Hill
Outlook Bleak for Democrats, Poll Finds - Balz & Craighill, Washington Post
Why Dems Should Avoid the "R Word" - Charlie Cook, National Journal
Piketty Wants Equality -- Forget Growth - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
How to Really Rein In the Super Rich - Sally Kohn, The Daily Beast
What the Right Can Learn About Inequality - Ben Domenech, Wall St. Jrnl
The Racists Among Us - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The NAACP's Long, Strange Relationship w/Sterling - Dylan Scott, TPM
How the Feds Botched the Bundy Cattle Roundup - Jon Ralston, Politico
Politics Versus Education - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
The NRA Has Declared War on America - Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
GOP Can Win in 2016 by Following Reagan's Path - Frank Donatelli, RCP
A Long Con for Tea Party PACs? - Steve Benen, MSNBC
A Marxist Analysis of Hillary Clinton - Mickey Kaus, The Daily Caller
A Doctor's Declaration of Independence - Daniel Craviotto, Wall St. Journal
Election 2014: Battle for Senate | Statehouse Battle | Generic Ballot
Wednesday, April 30
A Foreign Policy Flirting With Chaos - Richard Haass, Wall Street JournalThe Trouble w/Attacking Obama's Foreign Policy - Andrew Kohut, Politico
Idiot Kerry's "Apartheid" Comment Backfires - John Podhoretz, NY Post
Is Barry Whiffing? - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Sterling's Case Is a Tawdry Novel of Our Age - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Time
White House Directed Incorrect Benghazi Narrative - Sharyl Attkisson
The Strange Demise of Cover Oregon - Lou Cannon, RealClearPolitics
The "Stupid Party," Revisited - Gov. Bobby Jindal, CNN
Dems Can Overcome Midterm Fatalism - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
2014 Looks Worse for Dems Than 2010 - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
Will Liberal Cities Leave the Rest of U.S. Behind? - Thomas Edsall, NYT
Liberals Trip Over Income Inequality - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Getting Past Name-Calling to Talk About Poverty - Juan Williams, WSJ
Toyota Says Bye to California, Howdy to Texas - Chuck Ross, Daily Caller
How Obama Sold Out the Kale Crowd - Jason Zengerle, The New Republic
Christie's Fundraising Prowess Offers Comeback Path - Scott Conroy, RCP
NBC/WSJ: Obama Job Approval: 44% | Health Care Law: 36% Approve
Thursday, May 1
Democrats on Thin Ice in 2014 - A.B. Stoddard, The HillThe Woman Who Could Beat Scott Walker - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The Democrats Own This Economy - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
New Benghazi Email Isn't a Smoking Gun - John Dickerson, Slate
Why the Benghazi Email Still Matters - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Thomas Piketty Terrifies Paul Ryan - Paul Rosenberg, Salon
The Great Income Inequality Sham - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
What's Hillary Clinton Afraid Of? - Thrush & Haberman, Politico
Ariz. Gov Race May Be Template for 2016 - Adam O'Neal, RealClearPolitics
U.S. Is Tired of Solving Everyone's Problems - Froma Harrop, Seattle Times
Why We Must Keep Troops in Iraq & Afghanistan - Max Boot, LA Times
The Perils of International Idealism - Bruce Thornton, Hoover Institution
It's Time for Our Crack-Smoking Mayor to Go - Royson James, Toronto Star
Data Journalism Detached From Reality - James Taranto, Wall St. Journal
Sensationalist CNN Has Jumped the Shark - Mike Ross, Boston Globe
Kibbe's Tea Party Manifesto Missing Key Ingredient - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
Four Days That Changed the NBA - Rick Maese, Washington Post
Friday, May 2
Apathy in the Executive - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalWhat Working People Will Vote for This Year - Richard Trumka, Wash Post
Begich Vies to Make Obama "Irrelevant" in Alaska - Scott Conroy, RCP
A Bad Death in Oklahoma - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
WH's Benghazi Story Starting to Unravel - Catherine Herridge, FOX News
Why Economics Failed - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obama's Foreign Policy of Denial - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Could Health Law Data Signal Turnout Boost? - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
Porky's II: The Earmarkers Strike Back - Sen. Tom Coburn, Wall St. Journal
Don't Run for President, Hillary - Tina Brown, The Daily Beast
What If Paul Is Right on Foreign Policy? - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Sports, the Most Progressive Force in America - Timothy Egan, NY Times
How Media Again Failed on Duke Lacrosse Story - Johnson & Taylor, RCP
Gosnell: The Movie Hollywood Won't Make - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Why Choice Still Matters - Jessica Valenti, The Guardian
The Mystery of "The Little Prince" - Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
How the "Jesus' Wife" Hoax Fell Apart - Jerry Pattengale, Wall St. Journal
Battle for Senate: 2014 Primaries, Calendar | RCP Map: 45D, 47R, 8TU
Saturday, May 3
Shellacking II: The Sequel - Matthew Continetti, Washington Free BeaconRepublicans' Identity Crisis Could Get Worse - Brian Beutler, New Republic
Why Democrats Shouldn't Be Celebrating - Charlie Cook, National Journal
The Unhappy Truth About Ukraine & Russia - Leslie Gelb, The Daily Beast
Game-Changer Jobs Report? - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
No Cure for Republicans' Benghazi Fever - David Corn, Mother Jones
The White House Put Politics Ahead of Truth - Jay Sekulow, FOX News
Why I'm Endorsing Clinton in 2016 - Sen. Tim Kaine, Politico
Republican Establishment's Counterattack - Kraushaar & Oliphant, NJ
Giving Lindsey Graham Grief - Reid Smith, The American Spectator
Affirmative Action Case Isn't Just About Race - Patricia Williams, Nation
Why Liberals Think Conservatives Are Racist - Rachel Lu, The Federalist
This Botched Execution Could Sway Public - Sarat, Weaver & Richard, TNR
Fat and Heart Disease, Reconsidered - Nina Teicholz, Wall Street Journal
How to Lose $100 Million: Tina Brown's Undoing - Luke O'Brien, Politico
CBS Struggles with Rhodes Conflict of Interest - Thomas Lifson, AmThinker
A Better Way to Cover the White House - Ron Fournier, National Journal
Sunday, May 4
What Americans Want in a Foreign Policy - Doyle McManus, LA TimesVladimir Putin's Vengeful Plan - Ralph Peters, New York Post
It's Not Just About Obama - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Why Things Have Changed on Benghazi - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Bullying the Bench in North Carolina - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Can Michigan's Land Lead GOP Wave? - Nolan Finley, Detroit News
42 and 45 Overpower 44 - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Obamacare Will Be Vindicated by History - Ronan Keenan, Salon
The Obamacare "Tax" Could Spell Its Doom - George Will, Washington Post
McAuliffe Should Expand Medicaid by Any Means - Jamelle Bouie, Slate
Dems' Plan to Counter Criticism: Outlaw It - Seth Mandel, Commentary
Kerry, the Anti-Diplomat, Strikes Again - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
Minimum Wage? Can We Discuss Its Opposite? - Carl Cannon, OC Register
College, the Great Unequalizer - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Outrageous Attacks on Women's Health - Lauren Rankin, Rolling Stone
Kafka and the Guillotine - Kevin Williamson, National Review
Perry Returning to Iowa, Showing Serious '16 Interest - Scott Conroy, RCP
Election 2014: Battle for Senate | Statehouse Battle | Battle for House