Week of May 19, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, May 19
In Ark., Obama Is a 4-Letter Word Hampering Dems - Ron Fournier, NJThe Liberals' Defense Counsel - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
How Can Obamacare Not Be Repealed? - Jeffrey Anderson, Weekly Standard
In Georgia Primary, GOP Fray Could Take Toll - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Mounting Danger Signs for Democrats - Alexander Burns, Politico
A Dishonest Rewrite of the Duke Lacrosse Case - Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ
How Libertarians Get Constitution Wrong - Cass Sunstein, New Republic
Wait Listed Till You Die: Lessons of the VA Scandal - John Fund, NRO
Is This the Democrats' War on Women? - Patricia Murphy, The Daily Beast
Rising Oceans Will Be Unstoppable - Carl Safina, CNN
Science Has Become Blind to Green Bias - Sarah Knapton, Daily Telegraph
Poverty Is Not a State of Mind - Charles Blow, New York Times
Thomas Piketty's "Le Capital" - James Piereson, The American Spectator
Who's Afraid of Free Speech? Not Universities - James Goldgeier, Politico
Why the "Check Your Privilege" Crowd Won't Win - John Allen Gay, TNI
India's Modi Is the Opposite of PC Obama - Tunku Varadarajan, Daily Beast
Dear Jill: From One Pushy Media Dame to Another - Kara Swisher, Re/code
May 20th Polls: GA GOP Sen | KY GOP Sen | OR GOP Sen | PA Dem Gov
Tuesday, May 20
The VA Scandal Is Real, and Obama's Ducking It - Ron Christie, Daily BeastHeads Need to Roll at the VA - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Governing When Congress Won't Legislate - Dan Pfeiffer, Huffington Post
Why the GOP Is Suspicious of Clinton on Benghazi - Byron York, Examiner
Hillary's Obstacle Course - Frank Bruni, New York Times
Nunn Has Uphill Fight But a Head Start in Ga. - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
McConnell Is No Longer King of Kentucky - Shane Goldmacher, Natl Jrnl
What Left Gets Wrong About Constitutionalism - Rob Tracinski, Federalist
Holder Cites True Threat to Civil Rights - DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
Poverty and Snow Storms - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
What Jill Abramson Is Made Of - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
The State of Conservative Media - Matt Lewis, The Week
GOP Needs a Clear Message to Counter Obama's - Richard Benedetto, RCP
Why Julian Castro Said Yes to Obama - Ruben Navarrette, CNN
Now Trigger-Happy University Students - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Waiting for Ginsburg to Retire? Keep Waiting - L.J. Zigerell, Wash Post
DNC Chair on Obama and Congress - Bevan & Huey-Burns, Changing Lanes
Tuesday Primary Polls: GA GOP Sen | PA Dem Gov | KY GOP Sen
Wednesday, May 21
McConnell Leads Big Night for GOP Establishment - Jonathan Martin, NYTPerdue, Kingston Head to Runoff in Ga. - C. Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
GOP Puts Its Tea Party "Civil War" Behind It - Doyle McManus, LA Times
What the Media Miss About the Tea Party Movement - John Hart, RCP
The Clinton Magic Fades in Philadelphia - Josh Kraushaar, Natl Journal
VA Scandal Poses New Test for Obama - Michael Shear, New York Times
When a President Learns Everything on TV - Jonathan Tobin,Commentary
Billions Pledged to Bailout Insurers from Obamacare - Noam Levey, LAT
Obamacare Problems Will Continue to Multiply - James Taranto, WSJ
Shedding Light on Dark Money - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Reid Hides Behind Constitution to Hit Kochs - Charles Hurt, Wash Times
Climate Contrarians Cook Up New 'Controversy' - Michael Mann, Huff Post
The Silencing of Global Warming Critics - Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune
Get Ready for Slavery Reparations Debate - Isaac Chotiner, New Republic
Does Hillary Owe It to Democrats to Run? - Charlie Cook, National Journal
Turn Up the Heat on Hillary - Dick Morris, The Hill
Spies Fought Obama View al-Qaeda No Longer a Threat - Eli Lake, Dly Bst
Election '14 Maps: Battle for Senate | Governor Races | Battle for House
Thursday, May 22
Obama's Talking Points Miss Point on VA - John Kass, Chicago TribuneThe VA Scandal Is Bipartisan - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
Obama, the Unaccountable President - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Nuclear Winter in Kentucky Politics - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Dems Seek Issues to Lure Midterm Votes - Carl Hulse, New York Times
The President's Year of Inaction - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
Don't Be Fooled: Tea Party Still Controls GOP - Ana Marie Cox, Guardian
Repressive Tolerance on Campus - Steven Hayward, Claremont Rev. of Books
A Call to Arms on Climate Change - Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone
Global Warming Alarmists Are Getting Desperate - Kyle Smith, Forbes
Shinseki Is Still the Right Person to Lead VA - Thomas Davis, Wash Post
Why Eric Shinseki Is Hard to Fire - Byron York, Washington Examiner
The Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency, Explained - Ezra Klein, Vox
How Obama Became the Superhero of Excuses - Ron Fournier, National Jrnl
High Frequency Hyperbole, Part 2 - Asness, Brown, Mendelson & Mittal, RCM
Raise Wages, Create Jobs - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
Ben Carson: Lies the Left Tells About Me - Scott Conroy, Changing Lanes
CBS News: Obama Job Approval: 43% | Health Care Law: Oppose 54-41
Friday, May 23
Who Made a Pivot to Asia? Putin - Charles Krauthammer, Washington PostCompeting Visions for Russia's Economic Future - Andrew Kramer, NYT
The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
On Race, U.S. Needs to Look Ahead, Not Back - John McWhorter, Daily Beast
Obama's VA Response: Executive Inaction - Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
Why the VA Scandal Sticks - Michael Gerson, Washington Post
VA Scandal Decades in the Making - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
When the Left Used to Rave About the VA - James Taranto, Wall St. Journal
GOP Still Swallowing the Tea - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The Tea Party's Coming Rorschach Moment - Ben Domenech, The Federalist
'Tea Party' Label Has Outlived Its Usefulness - Nate Silver,FiveThirtyEight
The Marine Way: Medal of Honor vs. Selfie - William McGurn, NY Post
GOP Amps Up the War on Science - Amanda Marcotte, Salon
The Left's Hard Sell on Climate Change - John Fund, National Review
Donald Sterling Gets Company From Mark Cuban - Bill Plaschke, LA Times
Mark Cuban Is Not a Bigot - Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post
Ben Carson: Universities Need to Get a Grip - Scott Conroy, Changing Lanes
More Ben Carson: Will He Run in 2016? | Obamacare | IRS Targeting
Saturday, May 24
Why I Blew the Whistle on the VA - Sam Foote, New York TimesBlame Gov't Health Care, Not Shinseki - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Biz Daily
In VA Scandal, Accountability for Congress - Joe Conason, National Memo
The Case Against Reparations - Kevin Williamson, National Review
Reparations Are Workable and Affordable - Matt Yglesias, Vox
Obamacare and the Failure of Rule by Experts - Noemie Emery, Wkly Std
It's No Picnic in the Senate - Gail Collins, New York Times
What Would a Real War on Poverty Look Like? - Rob Tracinski, Federalist
Hillary Speaks! (Not Really) - Mark Leibovich, New York Times Magazine
The 2016 Presidential Candidate We Need - George Will, Washington Post
GOP Hawks Wary of Rand Paul - Jeremy Peters, New York Times
Mark Cuban and the "Price" of Progress - Ian Crouch, The New Yorker
Not Every Single Issue Is About Race - Stephen A. Smith, ESPN
The Resiliency of the New York Times - Carter Eskew, Washington Post
Four Lessons for Obama From George Washington - Paul Saunders, TNI
Netanyahu Says Obama Got Syria Right - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
How the Internet Destroyed Tom Cruise - Amy Nicholson, LA Weekly
Senate 2014: Primary Calendar, Polls | RCP Map: 45 D, 46 R, 9 Toss Ups
Sunday, May 25
A Time to Remember Sacrifices of Fallen Heroes - President Barack ObamaObama's Vapid Response to the VA Scandal - Jack Kelly, Pitt Post-Gazette
Treat Veterans With Respect, Not Pity - Phil Klay, Wall Street Journal
Campaign '14: A Fight for Power. Then What? - Dan Balz, Washington Post
The Tea Party Legacy - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Condoleezza Rice & the Graduation Gag Order - Carl Cannon, OC Register
The Case for Reparations Is Solid - Errin Haines Whack, The Guardian
Hillary Tries to Distance Herself from Obama - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
A Predictable, Horrible Response to Mass Murder - Amanda Hess, Slate
Piketty Findings Undercut by Errors - Chris Giles, Financial Times
Is Piketty All Wrong? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Delays, Fraud Signs VA System Ailing - Dennis Wagner, Arizona Republic
Hope Fades, Leaving Low Expectations - Sherman Frederick, Las Vegas RJ
The Vatican's Middle East Balancing Act - John Allen, Boston Globe
Stop Sneering, Ukip's Success Is No False Dawn - John Harris, Guardian
Splitting the IVF Baby - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Remains, Respect & 9/11 - Siegel & Sprayregen, New York Daily News
2014: Senate Map | Govs Map | House Map, Generic | 2016: GOP | Dems