Week of August 11, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, August 11
Republican Takeover of Senate Appears More Assured - Chris Cillizza, WPN. Carolina's Hugely Important Senate Race - Byron York, DC Examiner
Presidential Overreach Is in Eye of the Beholder - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
A Presidency of Missed Opportunities - Robert Zoellick, Wall Street Journal
Let the Midterm Battles Commence - Juan Williams, The Hill
Stop the Looming Obamacare Bailout - Sen. Marco Rubio, FOX News
Back to Iraq - Robin Wright, The New Yorker
Liberals in a Funk Over Obama's Ineffectiveness - Ross Baker, USA Today
Americans Must Perk Up & Pay Attention - Charles Blow, New York Times
Lois Lerner's Salty Language - Sherman Frederick, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Obama Can Still Secure His Legacy - Walter Isaacson, Time
America's Disappearing Middle Class - Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast
Tolerate or Be Stamped Out - Erick Erickson, RedState
Women's Studies Is Failing Liberalism - Elizabeth Segran, The New Republic
Phosphorus and Freedom - Paul Krugman, New York Times
How Rand Paul Confounds Liberals - Kevin Williamson, National Review
Cuomo's Slow-Mo Disaster - Jeff Smith, Politico
Panels: FOX News Sunday | Meet the Press | Face the Nation | This Week
Tuesday, August 12
Obama Vacations While the World Burns - Dana Milbank, Washington PostPresident Calls Syria Criticism Horses*** - Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast
Dems Swimming in a Sea Turning Red - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
Can the GOP Ever Attract Black Voters? - Jelani Cobb, New York Times
When Obama Beat Clinton, We All Lost - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
Paying for Bush's Mistake in Iraq - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
DiFi's Tortured Logic on CIA Interrogations - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Hillary Clinton, Barbed and Bellicose - Frank Bruni, New York Times
President Rand Paul's Foreign Policy - Angelo Codevilla, The Federalist
How Many Unarmed People Have to Die? - LZ Granderson, CNN
The Wrong Reaction to the Missouri Shooting - Charles Cooke, NRO
David Gregory's Flight to Nowhere - Dylan Byers, Politico
Dotty Lynch: An Unsung Giant of Journalism - Scott Conroy, RCP
The Progressive Vision of Urban America - Gary Younge, The Guardian
Attacking Achievement - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
Robin Williams, 1951-2014 - Sonny Bunch, Washington Free Beacon
An Improvisational Genius, Forever in the Moment - A.O. Scott, NY Times
Wednesday, August 13
How to Dig Out of Our Stupid Sh*t Foreign Policy - Leslie Gelb, Daily BeastThe New Islamic Caliphate - Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
It's Going To Be a Long War - Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online
It's the Loyalty, Stupid - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Hillary - A Woman of No Convictions - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Reid to Blame if Democrats Lose Senate - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
Control of the Senate Comes Down to Iowa - Benjy Sarlin, MSNBC
Alaska Senate Race May Be Hottest of the Year - Ed Rollins, FOX News
Scott Walker's Crucible Begins - Sean Sullivan, Washington Post
No Matter What Happens, Politicians Will Live Well - John Tamny, RCM
There's a "Ferguson" Near You - Jesse Jackson, USA Today
All Killings Should Spark Outrage - Bill McClellan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Let the Immigrant Kids Stay - Frank Foer, The New Republic
If Only Obama Had Followed His Own Advice - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Ed Snowden: The Most Wanted Man in the World - James Bamford, Wired
Time to Lay Off Tony Stewart - Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner
A Sadder World w/out Williams' Divine Madness - Russell Brand, Guardian
2014: Sen: KY: McConnell +5 | Gov: KS: Davis +10 | House: UT4: Love +12
Thursday, August 14
Obama's Greatest Foreign Policy Test - Nicholas Burns, Boston GlobeOur Vacuous Middle East Policy - George Will, National Review
Michael Brown and Black Men - Charles Blow, New York Times
Add "Don't Loot" to "Don't Shoot" - Ross Kaminsky, The American Spectator
Ferguson Cops Become Brutal Occupying Force - Joan Walsh, Salon
What's Missing in Ferguson, Mo. - Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal
The Ferguson Police Arrested Me - Wesley Lowery, Washington Post
Obama's Achievement: Out-Golfing Tiger Woods - Joe Curl, Wash Times
An Island Big Enough for Clinton & Obama? - Shear, Martin & Chozick, NYT
Hillary Doesn't Have Problem on Her Left - Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
How Hillary Will Fail Liberals - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Clinton Hurt 2014 Democrats - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
The Libertarian Moment Isn't Happening - David Frum, The Atlantic
GOP's Libertarian Shift Can't Just be a Moment - Ben Domenech, Federalist
Why's Obama Trying to Send a Reporter to Jail? - Trevor Timm, Guardian
Did Southern Culture Kill NASCAR Driver? - Leon Wolf, The Federalist
The Crazy World of Public Schools - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Obama Job Approval: FOX News 42% | Gallup 40% | RCP Average 41.1%
Friday, August 15
Change and Chaos in Ferguson - Megan McArdle, BloombergOur Selective Outrage - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Is Government Our Servant or Our Master? - Kevin Williamson, NRO
Calculating Clinton Gets the Math Wrong - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
Where Obamacare Is Going - Scott Atlas, Wall Street Journal
President Obama Should Sue Right Back - Thomas Geoghegan, Politico
Obama's Executive Power Isn't What He Thinks It Is - Danny Vinik, TNR
Gloomy, Frantic Dems Plead: More Money - Byron York, DC Examiner
The Dangers of Populist Rebellion - Curtis Wilkie, New York Times
A President Lobbyists Can Love - Michelle Malkin, New York Post
A Rising Libertarian Shift on the Right - Dan Balz, Washington Post
What I Saw in Ferguson - Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Must We Have a Dead White Kid? - Erick Erickson, RedState
Hillary Clinton Is Not Inevitable - Ezra Klein, Vox
Missing the Big Picture - Charles Krauthammer, National Review
The Forever Slump - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Obama and the Ghost of Lyndon Johnson - Peter Harris, National Interest
Saturday, August 16
New Looting, Unrest in Ferguson - Hennessy-Fiske & Pearce, LA TimesMemo to the World: We're Fine - Bill McClellan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ferguson a De Facto Apartheid State - Brian Beutler, The New Republic
Who Lost the Cities? - Kevin Williamson, National Review Online
As World Boils, Fingers Point Obama's Way - Peter Baker, New York Times
Will Foreign Policy Be Biggest Drag for Dems in Nov? - Rich Baer, PJ Media
Democrats More Liberal, United Than Ever - Michael Cohen, Boston Globe
Confession of a Disillusioned Democrat - Joe Piscopo, Washington Times
For Perry, It's Not the Crime, It's the Politics - Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune
Perry the Latest Victim of "Lawfare" - Leon Wolf, Red State
Is George Soros Betting On a Market Crash? - Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge
Secular Stagnation is a Cover-Up - Larry Kudlow & Stephen Moore, NRO
The Draw of the New City-States - Roger Cohen, New York Times
The Great Chinese Exodus - Andrew Browne, Wall Street Journal
My Twitter Fight With Matt Lauer - Neera Tanden, RCP Changing Lanes
Yes, Katy Perry, Babies Need Daddies - D.C. McAllister, The Federalist
A Mound Becomes a Summit - William C. Rhoden, New York Times
Governor Polls: WI: Walker +1 | GA: Deal +4 | RCP 2014 Governor Map
Sunday, August 17
Ferguson & the Rise of SWAT Armies - Carl Cannon, Orange County RegisterCigars, But Not Close - Mark Steyn, SteynOnline
Colorado, a Battleground and Bellwether - Frank Bruni, New York Times
Patients' Angst Spurs Oregon Doctor to Enter Key Race - Salena Zito, PTR
Obama Tests Bounds of Lame-Duckery - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
A Better Way Up From Poverty - Rep. Paul Ryan, Wall Street Journal
Stop Calling Abortion a "Difficult Decision" - Janet Harris, Washington Post
Yes, People Believe Abortion Is Murder - Rachel Lu, The Federalist
Where's the Justice at Obama's DOJ? - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
In a Stew Over Inversions - George Will, Washington Post
How to Talk About Climate Change - Charles Mann, The Atlantic
Climate Science Does Not Support IPCC - Fred Singer, American Thinker
The Dark, Lucrative World of Debt Collection - Jake Helpern, NYT Mag
The 2016 Battle Heats Up Already - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Good Hillary, Bad Hillary - Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Strauss' Political Philosophy: Reviled but Redeemed - Peter Berkowitz, RCP
Why They Hate Israel - Mortimer Zuckerman, New York Daily News
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