Week of July 7, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, July 7
Our Progressive Constitution - E.J. Dionne, Washington PostFree Contraception v. the Constitution - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Ramparts Against Republicans - Charles Blow, New York Times
Paul, Rubio & the New Era of Conservative Ideas - James Antle, The Week
The Republican Party After the Apocalypse - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
Obama to Conservatives: Impeach Me, Please! - Carl Cannon, OC Register
Govt by Judiciary Is Not the Answer - Terry Eastland, Weekly Standard
Death Panels: A Good Idea Distorted by Demagoguery - H. Pollack, Politico
How Obamacare Will Kill Job-Based Plans - Sally Pipes, New York Post
'Tight or Loose' Is the New 'Red or Blue' - Chris Mooney, Mother Jones
A Texas Guide to Economic Recovery - Bradley Allen, Wall Street Journal
States Look to Gun-Seizure Law After Mass Killings - Dave Collins, WaPo
Privacy Panel Report Undercuts Snowden's NSA Claim - Bill Scher, RCP
On Foreign Policy, Obama Is Succeeding - James Carroll, Boston Globe
The Obama Presidency Unravels - Peter Wehner, Commentary
How's Lance Armstrong Doing in Purgatory? - John Richardson, Esquire
'Al the Pal'-Dixon Relished the Nickname - Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times
Sunday Roundtables: FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press | This Week
Tuesday, July 8
Obama: I Can't Work With Others; Sue Me - Debra Saunders, SF ChronicleDear Speaker Boehner: Do Your Job Instead - Sally Kohn, CNN
Why Isn't Obama Going to the Border? - Oliphant & Condon, National Jrnl
Is Obama Going to Repeat Bush's Mistake? - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Inequality Issue Can Boost Democrats - Juan Williams, The Hill
The Supreme Court's Subterfuge - Kent Greenfield, Boston Globe
Who's the Real Hobby Lobby Bully? - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The Mean Girls of Global Warming - Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
Beliefs, Facts and Money - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Bled Dry by the New Class - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
Good News About Obamacare in Jobs Report - Dean Baker, Huffington Post
GOP Is Coming Together, Not Apart - Lowry & Ponnuru, National Review
This "Imperial Presidency" Doesn't Rule Much - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Obama's Demagoguery in Disguise - Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
A Dose of Realism in Iraq - Steve Coll, The New Yorker
Should Germans Read "Mein Kampf"? - Peter Range, New York Times
Rahmbo's Chicago Has Become a War Zone - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Quinnipiac: Dem: Clinton 58, Warren 11 | GOP: Tight, Competitive Race
Wednesday, July 9
The Border Crisis Is Not "Obama's Katrina" - Alec MacGillis, New RepublicObama Is Failing - & Hasn't Hit Rock Bottom Yet - Alex Castellanos, CNN
Cleveland Won't Win Ohio for Republicans - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
Dems Running Out of States to Flip - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
Liberals Go to Barricades for Crony Capitalism - Tim Carney, Examiner
Obama Still Punking GOP on Contraception - Amanda Marcotte, Slate
Chicago Dems Protected on the National Stage - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Send the National Guard to Chiraq - Roland Martin, The Daily Beast
A Primer on Race - Thomas Sowell, National Review Online
Rethinking Wilson's Points - David Ignatius, Washington Post
The High Price of America's Detachment - Luiza Ch. Savage, Macleans
Is Christie Still Viable After Bridgegate? - Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair
Hillary Clinton Is Past Her Time - Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner
Fix America's Tax Code - Reps. Sander Levin & Chris Van Hollen, Detroit News
The War on Poverty Failed. Let's Try a New Way - Rep. Todd Rokita, RCP
The Male-Identifying Girl Who Didn't 'Transition' - Lindsay Leigh Bentley
Most Shocking Result in World Cup History - Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
Obama Job Approval: YouGov: 42% | Gallup: 42% | RCP Average: 41.1%
Thursday, July 10
Obama's Texas Two-Step - James Oliphant, National JournalThe Fundraiser in Chief - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
Where's Obama's "Lawlessness"? - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
The Moral Crisis on Our Southern Border - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Clinton's "Hard Choices" Shows Who She Is - Lanny Davis, The Hill
If Hillary Runs, It Won't Be as a Clinton Dem - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Semantics Can't Kill the Health Care Law - Timothy Jost, Washington Post
Obamacare: Death by Paperwork - Betsy McCaughey, New York Post
Dems Push Race Issues, Revving Up Voters - Alexandra Jaffe, The Hill
Can High-Speed Rail Opposition Boost Calif. GOP? - Adam O'Neal, RCP
The Rant Agenda - Gail Collins, New York Times
Gun Control Activists' Cheap Gimmicks - S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News
Moderate Voters Are a Myth - Ezra Klein, Vox
Distrustful Americans Still Live in Age of Watergate - Julian Zelizer, CNN
Obama and the Verdict of Posterity - Matthew Hennessey, City Journal
Sexts From Warren Harding - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
The Transgender Religion - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Latest 2014 Polls: Senate: LA, AR, NH - RCP Map | Govs: FL, NY - RCP Map
Friday, July 11
A Real Crisis on the Border - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalThere's No Border Crisis. Just Pass the Damn Bill - Sally Kohn, Daily Beast
President Obama's Man-Made Disaster - Rich Lowry, National Review
New Border Politics: Blame Obama First - Clarence Page, Herald Leader
Scampering Away From Failure - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Who Wants a Depression? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Why the Pension Problem Will Get Worse - Steven Malanga, City Journal
The Verdict Is In: Obamacare Covering Uninsured - David Nather, Politico
Brace for Next Round of Obamacare Rate Shock - Philip Klein, Examiner
An Overriding Need for Reform Now - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The Immigration No-Brainer - Charles Krauthammer, Investor's Biz Daily
The Secret War on Black Republicans - Keli Goff, The Daily Beast
Mitt Romney in Denial After 2012 Defeat - Dan Balz, Changing Lanes
Hey, New Hampshire, Bob Smith Is Back - Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
The German-American Break Up - Jacob Heilbrunn, Los Angeles Times
Is Chicago Cooking the Books on Crime Stats? - Josh Voorhees, Slate
Our Conservative Popular Culture - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Senate Polls: GA GOP Runoff | LA | AR | NH | Senate Map | House Map
Saturday, July 12
Rules to Run By in an Election Year - Gail Collins, New York TimesDisorder at the Border - Scott Johnson, Weekly Standard
Republicans' Lawsuit Faceplant - Brian Beutler, The New Republic
More IRS Smidgens Show Up - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
The Rise of Southern Democrats - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
"Dirty Harry" Reid's Increasing Eccentricity - Wesley Pruden, Wash Times
Obama's Understated Foreign Policy Gains - Michael Cohen, NY Times
Is America Losing Germany? - Michael Werz, CNN
Wealth Is Hillary's Greatest Accomplishment - David Harsanyi, Federalist
Hillary Clinton's Lawyerly Past - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
The Left's Hollow Complaints About Hobby Lobby - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
John Roberts' Meddlesome Supreme Court - Simon Lazarus, New Republic
Clueless Reporters & Important Slow News - John Stossel, FOX Business
The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit - Ben Austen, New York Times Magazine
A Recovery Without the Middle Class? - Joel Kotkin, Forbes
Is Hamas Trying to Get Gazans Killed? - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
LeBron, the Midwest and Coming Home - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Sunday, July 13
Isn't It Rich? - Maureen Dowd, New York TimesGOP Has Problems, But So Do Dems - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Border Crisis Scrambles Immigration Politics - Tumulty & Nakamura, WP
Obama, the Border, and Borderline Judgment - Carl Cannon, OC Register
Why ISIS's Rise Should Worry America - Michael Mukasey, NY Daily News
Our Attention-Deficit-Disorder Politics - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
What the Military Did While Benghazi Burned - C. Cass, Associated Press
5 Myths About the Gaza Crisis - Aaron David Miller, Washington Post
Diminished Obama Fumbling in Middle East - Steve Huntley, Chicago ST
Same-Sex Marriage's Winning Streak - Mike Littwin, Colorado Independent
The High Cost of Regulations - Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Time for Marshall Plan for Black Americans - S. Muwakkil, In These Times
Obamacare's Next Court Threat - Elise Viebeck, The Hill
The Jeff Bezos Era at the Washington Post - Dan Balz, RCP Changing Lanes
Cleveland, No Need to Swoon Over RNC - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Why LeBron Can't Go Home Again - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Time
The Best Team vs. The Best Player - Matthew Futterman, Wall St. Journal