Week of September 1, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, September 1
Happy Labor Day. Are Unions Dead? - Jonathan Cohn, New RepublicCash for Clunkers: How Bad Policy's Made - John Sununu, Boston Globe
Will Tailwind Carry Republicans to Majority? - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
Obama's Social Schedule & Air Force One - Byron York, DC Examiner
Why ISIS Is Our Problem - Steve Coll, The New Yorker
The Eternal Collapse of Russia - Paul Starobin, The National Interest
American Diversity and the Wild West - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Republicans' Woman Problem - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politico
Misreading the "Gender Gap" - Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg
Al Gore and the Myth of Arctic Meltdown - David Rose, Daily Mail
The Medicare Miracle - Paul Krugman, New York Times
How to Survive--and Maybe Enjoy--PC University - Bari Weiss, WSJ
Liberals Have White Privilege Problem Too - Joseph Heathcott, Salon
The Making of "Latinos" - Mike Gonzalez, The Federalist
Is Your Student Prepared for Life? - Ben Carpenter, New York Times
Big Data and Chicago's Traffic-cam Scandal - Holman Jenkins, WSJ
A Light Shines in Harlem - Jeanne Allen, Huffington Post
Senate '14: IL (SunTimes): Durbin +7 | KY (CourierJrnl): McConnell+4
Tuesday, September 2
The Summer of Obama's Disconnect - Ron Fournier, National JournalWhat ISIS's Leader Really Wants - Graeme Wood, The New Republic
Radical Islam, Obama Incompetence & 9/11/14 - Joseph Curl, Wash Times
GOP Wave Has Failed to Materialize - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Reid's Anti-Koch Crusade Eats Up Senate Time - Byron York, DC Examiner
Residency Issue Comes to the Fore in Key Races - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
8 Questions -- and Answers -- About the Midterms - Dan Balz, Wash Post
If Obamacare Stays, Employer Insurance Will Go - Jim Angle, FOX News
Why Some Are More Equal Than Others - Jedediah Purdy, The Daily Beast
Mt. Rushmore Expansion Plans on Hold - Charles Kesler, Claremont Review
The New History Wars - James Grossman, New York Times
Obama's Curious Rage - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Tell the Truth About What Russia Is Doing - Wesley Clark, The Guardian
Cool Summer Doesn't Invalidate Warming - Tom Keane, Boston Globe
Bad News for Al Gore - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Eleanor Roosevelt: Feminist Icon - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Political Phrases to Know Ahead of Election - McCutcheon & Mark, RCP
Wednesday, September 3
The Murder of Steven Sotloff - Dexter Filkins, The New YorkerThe Islamic State Is Nothing New - Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Just What Are We Dealing With in ISIS? - Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Obama's "Malaise" Moment - Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner
Screw Politics, Obama Should Act on Deportations - Brian Beutler, TNR
Democrats' 5-Point Campaign Plan for the Fall - Ed Rogers, Wash Post
Ariz. Governor Race Tightens, But Will That Last? - Adam O'Neal, RCP
What Makes People Poor? - Thomas Edsall, New York Times
Dems Look to Cook Rich Ahead of Midterms - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Republicans' Foolish Fight Over Ambassadors - David Ignatius, Wash Post
Dems' Wish: A Shutdown That Won't Happen - Ron Christie, Daily Beast
NATO Swills Champagne, Putin Calls the Shots - Simon Jenkins, Guardian
Putin Is Neither a Realist Nor a Nationalist - Tom Nichols, The Federalist
Time for Strategy From Obama on ISIS - Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
We Finally Have Obama's Doctrine - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Health Care and the $20,000 Bruise - Eric David, Wall Street Journal
We Are Entering the Age of Alzheimer's - Kent Russell, The New Republic
Obama Approval: Battleground 44% | Gallup 39% | RCP Average 42%
Thursday, September 4
ISIS Faces "Hell" - or Containment - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPoliticsThe Collapse of Obama's Foreign Policy - Rich Lowry, Politico
This Is Obama's Real Moment of Truth - Jonathan Alter, The Daily Beast
How Liberal Delusions Provoked Putin - John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs
Obama Stronger on Terror Than He Sounds - Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
The Obama Economy Not Working for Dems - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Republicans Favored to Take Senate - Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
The President's Public Enemies - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
Strong Fed Govt Needed to Check Locals Run Amok - Franklin Foer, TNR
Are Liberals the Real Authoritarians? - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The Archie Bunker View Of Globalization - Ben Domenech, The Federalist
Obama Foreign Policy Better Than It Looks - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Obama's I-am-the-Change Foreign Policy Exposed - Allahpundit, Hot Air
An Old Contempt in Rotherham - Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
How to Succeed in Modern Journalism - Matt Lewis, Changing Lanes
Has Glenn Greenwald Inc. Peaked? - Michael Hirsh, Politico
How Do I Love Texas? Let Me Count the Ways - Heather Wilhelm, RCP
Obama Approval: Gallup 38% | YouGov 41% | RasRpts 47% | RCP 41.7%
Friday, September 5
North Carolina Tries to Shake Off Obama - Margaret Carlson, BloombergAfter Bashing Filibuster, Will Dems Embrace It? - Byron York, Examiner
Obamacare Lawsuits Suffer a Big Setback - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Whatever Happened to Global Warming? - Matt Ridley, Wall Street Journal
Dems Ignore Blowback Risks With Harsh Rhetoric - Scott Conroy, RCP
Pursuing ISIS to the Gates of Hell - Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
A Realistic and Effective Strategy Against ISIS - Sen. Rand Paul, Time
U.S. Colleges' Sexual Assault Crusade - Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
The Trouble With Harvard - Steven Pinker, The New Republic
Obama Has Failed in Ukraine - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
WH Ukraine Policy Needs an Off-Ramp - Michael Dougherty, The Week
Bring Back the Party of Lincoln - Heather Cox Richardson, New York Times
History Is Not on Democrats' Side in 2016 - Dan McLaughlin, The Federalist
How to Save the Lives of Troubled Vets - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
Obama's Absurd Excuse for Defense Cuts - Mitt Romney, Washington Post
The Tyranny of the Home-Cooked Family Dinner - Amanda Marcotte, Slate
Feminism Starts in the Kitchen - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
Governors '14: WI: Burke 48, Walker 44 | PA: Wolf 52, Corbett 41 | Map
Saturday, September 6
Voters Think Obama Is on the Wrong Track - Ed Rogers, Washington PostWomen's Issues Loom Large in Midterms - Gail Collins, New York Times
A Bold & Optimistic GOP Can Create a Wave - Larry Kudlow, Nat'l Review
President Obama & the 2014 Election - Elizabeth Drew, NY Review of Books
Will Foreign Policy Rear Its Head in Campaign? - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
Obama's Right Approach to Islamic State - Colbert King, Washington Post
Don't Blame Obama -- History Will - Rick Wilson, Ricochet
No Calamity After Raising Minimum Wage - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Where Are the Jobs? Where's the Wage Growth? - James Pethokoukis, AEI
Ukraine's Ceasefire Will Fail - Linda Kinstler, The New Republic
America's Dangerous Aversion to Conflict - Robert Kagan, Wall St. Journal
How to Secure America's Peace - Angelo Codevilla, Liberty Law
Bad Prospects for Congress This Fall - Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic
"World Order" Is Vintage Kissinger - Hillary Clinton, Washington Post
13 Hours in Benghazi - Bret Baier, FOX News
Peter Thiel Disagrees With You - Roger Parloff, Fortune
Joan Rivers: The Entertainer - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Latest Polls: Election '14 | Obama Approval: Ipsos 38% | RCP Avg 41.7%
Sunday, September 7
How Obama Mishandled Immigration - Chris Cillizza, Washington PostThe World Needs a Clarion - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Outsiders "Bear Witness" in Ferguson - Mark Leibovich, NYT Magazine
Democrats Look Like the Party of the Past - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Will Kansas Go Blue? - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
On the School-Choice Barricades - Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal
Why Can't Obama Fix the World? - David Remnick, The New Yorker
State Department's Wrestling Match With Bill O'Reilly - S.E. Cupp, CNN
Why Was Lerner's BlackBerry Wiped Clean? - Becket Adams, DC Examiner
Leading From Within - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Jobs Numbers Tank as Obama's Policies Fail - Peter Morici, TheStreet
Obama Should Read Reagan's Diaries - Brent Budowsky, The Hill
Will the Real Rand Paul Please Stand Up? - Rick Santorum, Politico
America Is Sick of the Neocon Interventionists - James Antle, The Week
The Technology That Ruined Baseball - Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
ALS Supporters, Get to Know SMA - Carl Cannon, Orange County Register
A Healing Illness - Peter Wehner, Weekly Standard
2014 Senate Polls: NBC/Marist, CBS/NYT | RCP Map | No Toss Up Map