Week of May 5, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, May 5
America the Shrunken - Frank Bruni, New York TimesThe Benghazi-Industrial Complex - Michael Hirsh, Politico
The AWOL Commander-in-Chief - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
DC's Annual Self-Abasement Ritual - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Midterm Landscape: A Republican Wave? - Page & Breitman, USA Today
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change - Caleb Rossiter, Wall Street Journal
Not All Republican Opposition to Obama Is Racist - Peter Beinart, Atlantic
Selective Outrage When It Comes to Racism - Linda Chavez, New York Post
Rand Paul Goes Through His Paces with Murdoch - Jason Horowitz, NYT
The Hillary Clinton Difference - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Freedom to Marry & Dissent: A Response - Anderson & George, RCPolicy
Inventing a Health Care Failure - Paul Krugman, New York Times
How Obamacare Pays Off Insurers - Cost & Anderson, Weekly Standard
California, Taking a Back Seat to Texas - Joel Kotkin, OC Register
Mary Jo White Doesn't Scare Anybody - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
Second-Guessing Obama's Foreign Policy - Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post
Life Under the Obama Doctrine - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
NC Sen: GOP: Tillis 40,Brannon 28,Harris 15 | Hagan v Tillis, v Brannon
Tuesday, May 6
Obama Is Creating an Era of Bad Feelings - Michael Barone, DC ExaminerTime for Some Happy Talk From Dems - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
GOP Race in N.C. Begins Pivotal Primary Stretch - David Joachim, NYT
The Tea Party, Revisited - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
Republicans Doomed Without Immigration Reform - Juan Williams, Hill
Dems Running Scared, Trying to Hide Records - Ed Rogers, Wash Post
Thomas Piketty Doesn't Care Much for Marx - Isaac Chotiner, New Republic
Why Louis C.K. Hit Home on Common Core - Josh Encinias, Natl Review
How the WH Helped Republicans on Benghazi - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Trey Gowdy Brings Prosecutor's Zeal to Probe - Oren Dorell, USA Today
Get Ready For a Lot More Jesus in Your Life - Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Freedom for Religion, Not From It - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Brendan Eich Is Like Donald Sterling - Arthur Chu, The Daily Beast
Sooner or Later, They Will Come for People You Do Like - Fredrik deBoer
Eye-for-an-Eye Incivility - Charles Blow, New York Times
The Oklahoma Heart vs. the Abolitionist Heart - Dennis Prager, Townhall
Vladimir Putin's Four Dirty Words - David Remnick, The New Yorker
Election '14: Primary Polls: NC,NE,GA | RCP Senate Map | Generic Ballot
Wednesday, May 7
Self-Inflicted Damage on Foreign Policy - David Ignatius, Washington PostHow Climate Change Is Already Affecting the U.S. - Brad Plumer, Vox
Actual Data Shows Climate Models Were Wrong - Sean Davis, Federalist
Monica Lewinsky: Burning the Beret - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Tillis Takes N.C. Primary in Win for Establishment - Scott Conroy, RCP
Butt Out of Nebraska, Mitch McConnell - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
White House Brings Benghazi Probe on Itself - Kirsten Powers, USA Today
Ronald Reagan's Benghazi - Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
The White House's Unnecessary Lies - Kevin Williamson, National Review
Internet Media: The Great Unwatched - David Segal, New York Times
Check Your Usage of "Check Your Privilege" - Julia Fisher, New Republic
The Catastrophe of Suicide - Emily Esfahani Smith, The New Criterion
Bush, Clinton Are the Wrong Candidates for 2016 - Josh Kraushaar, NJ
Lewinsky's Big Favor to Hillary Clinton - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Rand Paul's Support for Israel - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Is It Tea Party vs. Establishment in Georgia? - Kyle Wingfield, Atlanta JC
Just 7% of Journalists Are Republicans - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
Senate Polls: KY: McConnell(R) +1 | MI: Peters(D) +5 | IA: Braley(D) +4,+1
Thursday, May 8
Obama Unleashes the Left - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street JournalWelcome to the Benghazi Show Trial - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Americans Deserve the Truth on Benghazi - Rep. Trey Gowdy, USA Today
Honoring the Missing Schoolgirls - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Hillary Dropped the Ball on Boko Haram - Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast
Jeb & Hillary: Game of Thrones or Chicago Way? - John Kass, Chicago Trib
Clinton Can Win 45 States - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
Monica's Emancipation Proclamation - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Deconstructing Lewinsky's Vanity Fair Missive - Rebecca Traister, TNR
Weathermen as Props: An Old Messaging Trick - Martha Joynt Kumar, RCP
Elites Harp on Inequality, Real Folks Want Growth - B. Schneider, Reuters
Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Student Debt Has Got to Go - Dan Oliver, The Federalist
Education Debate an Opportunity - Sen. Marco Rubio, RealClearEducation
Campus Rape Victims Should Be Dialing 911 - Froma Harrop, Seattle Times
Obama Admin's Sexual Assault Lunacy - Heather MacDonald, Natl Review
The Six Principles of the New Populism - Robert Reich, Huffington Post
Giving Liberalism Its Due -- and Taking It to Task - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
2014 Polls: Sen: OR,IA,KY,MI,NH | RCP Map | Govs: ME,MI,IA | RCP Map
Friday, May 9
The Consequential Obama - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostObamacare Myth-Making - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
How Republicans Twist Benghazi - Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast
Doing the Benghazi Hearings Right - Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
Can the Kochs Hold Back History? - Timothy Egan, New York Times
Obama's Climate Change Diversion - Frank Beckmann, Detroit News
Progressive Bloggers Are Doing White House's Job - James Oliphant, NJ
Dan Sullivan Aims to Unite Alaska GOP - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
Lewinsky Saga Should Have Nothing to Do With 2016 - Mike Lupica, NYDN
Common Core Backlash Claims New Casualties - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
In Defense of Rahm Emanuel - David Axelrod, Chicago Tribune
The Budgetary Meat Cleaver Barely Draws Blood - Matt Purple, Spectator
What Tim Geithner Really Thinks - Andrew Ross Sorkin, NYT Magazine
Why I Filmed My Abortion - Emily Letts, Cosmopolitan
Abortion Selfies and American Community - Ben Domenech, The Federalist
So George W. Bush Isn't a Monster, After All - Matt Bai, Yahoo News
Boko Haram and the Kidnapped Schoolgirls - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wall St. Jrnl
Senate Polls: LA: Landrieu (D) +1 | NC: Tillis (R) +1 | GA GOP: Perdue +8
Saturday, May 10
After Carving Up Ukraine, Where Will Putin Go Next? - Masha Gessen, WPThe Trouble With Common Core - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Women Are Stars of This Election Season - Gail Collins, New York Times
White House's Obvious Attempts to Deceive - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Std
A Guide to Republicans' Benghazi Obsession - Sally Kohn, CNN
Abusing the Law for Partisan Ends - George Will, Washington Post
The Roberts Court's Cultural Amnesia - Jonathan Alter, The Daily Beast
At HGTV, the New Fascism Rolls On - Charles Cooke, National Review
Ted Cruz, the Reckless Accuser - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
California's High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown - Arthur Laffer, IBD
Why Democrats Need a Biden Candidacy - Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
Is Rand Paul a Secret Hawk? - James Kirchick, The Daily Beast
How to Shrink Inequality - Robert Reich, The Nation
The Devil Wears Obama - Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon
Is Wall Street Killing Its Bankers? - William Cohan, Bloomberg
The Problem With Mother's Day - Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist
How to Trick the Guilty and Gullible - Levitt & Dubner, Wall Street Journal
Sunday, May 11
It's OK to Be Sentimental About Mother's Day - John Kass, Chicago TribuneWe're Outraged, Heartbroken Over Kidnapping of Girls - Michelle Obama
No More Excuses for Islamic Extremist Monsters - Ralph Peters, NY Post
Mothers of the Missing - Jamie Lee Curtis, Huffington Post
#BringBackOurBalls - Mark Steyn, SteynOnline
Can Obamacare Help Dems in Midterms? - Eilperin & Somashekhar, WaPo
'Climate' a Huge Threat - to Dems in D.C. - Salena Zito, Pitt Tribune-Review
De Blasio Doubles Down as Lefty Crusader - Chris Smith, NY Magazine
Emanuel's Re-Election on the Ropes - Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times
Dig Into Benghazi & Get to the Truth - Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Meet the GOP's Benghazi Attack Dog - Paul Waldman, American Prospect
Feminists Hurt Cause by Trashing Monica - Margery Eagan, Boston Herald
Harvard Protects Its Brand, Not Victims - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
The 1 Serial Killer Hollywood Won't Touch - Lila Rose, Washington Times
With Malice Toward Nuns - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Protecting a Bay While Treading on Truth - Carl M. Cannon, OC Register
Forget Marx vs. Adam Smith, It's DMV vs. Apple - Kevin Williamson, NRO
Battle for Senate: NH (Dartmouth): Shaheen +3 | GA (AJC): Nunn Ahead