Week of May 26, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, May 26
Memorial Day, at War - Marisa Porges, The New YorkerOur Troops' Courage - David DesRosiers, Washington Times
Europe's Secret Success - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Will European Elites Listen to Voters? - John Fund, National Review
Obama's Rules for Coal Plants Are a B.F.D. - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
The Staying Power of Keynesian Economics - Sheldon Richman, Reason
Walking a Fine Line on Campaign Finance - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
State Campaign Finance Laws on Borrowed Time - George Will, Wash Post
America's Latest Gun-Control Failure - Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
John Edwards, Chasing Ambulances Again - Byron York, DC Examiner
Eyes Everywhere - Michael Kinsley, New York Times
Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims - Toby Harnden, The Sunday Times
Democrats' Race-Card Hustlers - Larry Elder, Townhall
Rebutting Mark Cuban on Bigotry - Charles Blow, New York Times
A Masterpiece of a Museum - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Horror and Honor - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Greet Them Ever With Grateful Hearts - Kyle Wingfield, Atlanta JC
Sunday Panels: This Week | FOX News Sunday | FTN | McLaughlin
Tuesday, May 27
The Left Used to Love the VA's Socialist Paradise - Rich Lowry, NY PostPrivatization Won't Fix the VA - Suzanne Gordon, Boston Globe
Questions Mount About Obama's Competence - Byron York, Examiner
The Banality of Anger - Roger Cohen, New York Times
Voters Deliver Rebuke to European Big Govt Elites - Roger Kimball, PJM
Political Earthquake in the U.K. - John O'Sullivan, National Review
Obama to Announce Crackdown on Carbon - Coral Davenport, NY Times
Piketty & a Hockey Stick: The Left's Bad Math - Graeme Archer, Telegraph
Calif. Rampage Further Proof Misogyny Kills - Jessica Valenti, Guardian
Hijacking a Murder to Boost Self-Esteem - Heather Wilhelm, The Federalist
The Republican Party Is Lost Without Obama - Joan Walsh, Salon
Democrats' Research Revealed: Go Negative - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
The Times When Race Matters - Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
A Young College Grad Calls My Show - Dennis Prager, Townhall
Hillary Clinton Versus the Press - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Why Can't Team Obama Bring Home Marine? - Tamara Holder, FOX News
Death at 19,000 Feet - Fairclough, Zhong & Pokharel, Wall Street Journal
AP/GfK: Obama Job Approval: 43% | Health Care Law: 28% Approve
Wednesday, May 28
GOP Candidates Make Life Easier for Dems - Eleanor Clift, The Daily BeastObama's Audacity of Inaction - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Afghanistan and How Wars End - Major Garrett, National Journal
The VA Needs a Good Marine - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
What Obama's Many Messes Really Mean - S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News
GOP's Outrageous Health Care Hypocrisy - Brian Beutler, New Republic
"These People Don't Know What They Are Doing" - Brit Hume, FOX News
Ignoring the Insanity of Gun Violence - Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
Most Asinine Things About #YesAllWomen - Mollie Hemingway, Federalist
Vladimir Putin Blinked - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Did Woodrow Wilson Destroy the Presidency? - Stephen Knott, Natl Interest
A Commencement Speech That Energized a Nation - Julian Zelizer, CNN
Dems Through Looking Glass on Civil Rights - Noemie Emery, Examiner
Speaking Freely at the University of Minnesota - Carl Cannon, RCP
Climate Change Doomed the Ancients - Eric Cline, New York Times
Gibson Guitar and the Abuse of Justice - Bill Frezza, Forbes
Will Toni Preckwinkle Challenge Rahm? - Tom Bevan, Changing Lanes
Latest '14 Polls: Governor: MI, FL, GA, Map | Senate: MI, KY, WV, HI, Map
Thursday, May 29
Doctors' War Stories From VA Hospitals - Hal Scherz, Wall Street JournalNo, the VA Is Not an Obamacare Preview - Sam Baker, National Journal
Obama's Empty Foreign Policy Vision Falls Flat - Nile Gardiner, The Hill
Why Restraint Makes Us Stronger - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Obama's Real Foreign-Policy Problem - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Ignoring the Path to Recovery - George Will, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Racism Is the Real Origin of Religious Right - Randall Balmer, Politico
Liberals Are Stuck in the Past on Race - Naomi Schaefer Riley, NY Post
The Campaign for Junk Food - Michelle Obama, New York Times
Is the Midterm Tsunami on Its Way? - John & Jim McLaughlin, NRO
Democrats Won't Run on Obamacare - Ezra Klein, Vox
President's Speech Reads Like a Response to Rand Paul - Chris Cillizza, WP
From Toxic Misogyny to Toxic Feminism - Cathy Young, RealClearPolitics
In a Literary Voice, Angelou Sang Out to World - Elizabeth Alexander, NYT
Chance for an Ally: Conservative Rising in Britain - Seth Lipsky, NY Post
Ed Miliband on the British Campaign Trail - Jim Waterson, Buzzfeed
Adam Carolla on the Case for Reparations - Tom Bevan, Changing Lanes
Friday, May 30
VA Scandal Is a Crisis of Leadership - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalCalls for Shinseki's Ouster Grow - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Sending Drones Not Divisions - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Emptiness at West Point - Charles Krauthammer, National Review
Saving the Planet Is Cheap - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Lies, Damn Lies, & Global Warming Rules - Foran & Geman, Nat'l Journal
America's Gun Culture Madness - Diane Francis, New York Daily News
Stop Holding Country Hostage to Crazy People - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
Obama's Leadership is Right for Today - Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
A Presidency in Deep Trouble - Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
Clinton Aims to Be America's Next Decider - John Dickerson, Slate
No One Thinks America Is Stronger Today - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
My Response to the Financial Times - Thomas Piketty, Huffington Post
Voters Reject Economic Redistribution - Michael Barone, Wash Examiner
The Most Important Case You've Never Heard Of - Campbell Brown, DB
Don't Major in Intolerance - Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg
Adam Carolla: Free Speech & Empty Slogans - Tom Bevan, Changing Lanes
Latest Polls: Senate: KY, NC, OR, AR, Map | Governor: AR, OR, MI, Map
Saturday, May 31
The White House Is Exhausted - George Condon, National JournalSo Long, Jay Carney - Reid Cherlin, The New Republic
Tillis and Hagan in a Tar Heel Showdown - George Will, Washington Post
How Jerry Brown Saved California - John Nichols, The Nation
Identity Politics Devours Its Children - Noemie Emery, Weekly Standard
Misogyny Crosses Lines of Race and Culture - Joan Walsh, Salon
Indoctrination in White Privilege - Walter Williams, Townhall
In KY, the Health Law Is Working - Gov. Steve Beshear, Huffington Post
The Worst Week of the Obama Presidency - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
We're at a Tipping Point for Transgender Equality - Jane Fae, Guardian
Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman - Kevin Williamson, National Review
President Obama, Fending Off Imaginary Critics - Mark Salter, RCP
Are Reform Conservatives Serious? - E.J. Dionne, The Atlantic
Time for Democrats to Panic Over Economy? - Ben White, CNBC
Bernanke's Loose Lips - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
The Only Certainty About Diet Trends Is Their Reversal - David Sax, LAT
The Shawshank Residuals - Russell Adams, Wall Street Journal
Latest 2014 Polls: MS GOP | IA GOP | KY Sen | NC Sen | FL Gov | AR Gov
Sunday, June 1
Obama's Foreign Policy Book - Thomas Friedman, New York TimesA Legacy of Foreign Policy Failure - Amir Taheri, New York Post
The High Price Obama Paid in POW Swap - Lake & Rogin, Daily Beast
Fixing the VA Won't Be Easy - Phillip Carter, Slate
Dems Lop Off Shinseki's Head to Save Their Own - John Kass, Chicago Trib
Obama Begins Last Big Push on Climate - Baker & Davenport, NY Times
The Great Coverup: Obamacare in Blue States - Michael Astrue, Wkly Std
Can Hillary Close Her Benghazi Chapter? - Amy Davidson, New Yorker
Hillary Plays the Victim Card - Again - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Was Clinton a Good Secretary of State? - Walter Russell Mead, Wash Post
Ronald Reagan & AIDS: Correcting the Record - Carl Cannon, OC Register
Rules for Everyone But Conyers - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Gerry Adams: A Past Not Past - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Gwyneth Was Right: The Internet Is War - James Poulos, Daily Beast
Two Cheers for Bloomberg - James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
NFL Last Bastion of White, Male Conservatives - Neal Gabler, Reuters
Adam Carolla on Obama & Bill Clinton - Tom Bevan, Changing Lanes
Tuesday GOP Primaries: IA (DMR): Ernst +18 | MS: Race Tied at Close