Week of December 15, 2014 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, December 15
The Democrats Double Down - Stephen Moore, Weekly StandardTorture and the Truth - Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
Feinstein Offers Tears for Terrorists - Jed Babbin, The American Spectator
The Case for Justice Kennedy to Retire - Bill Scher, RealClearPolitics
Congress Can Pry Open Clammed-Up IRS - Charles Lipson, Wall St. Journal
Wall Street's Revenge - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Elizabeth Warren, Corporate-Welfare Queen - Kevin Williamson, NRO
Democrats Must Fight or Lose Young Voters - Juan Williams, The Hill
The Great Campus Rape Hoax - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
Sony Hack and the Yellow Press - Aaron Sorkin, New York Times
Dads, Give Your Daughters the Gift of Football - D.C. McAllister, Federalist
A Threatening Intersection of Tech and Free Speech - Carl Cannon, RCP
Democrats' Depressing New Reality - Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Tim Kaine, Bridge Builder? - Fred Hiatt, Washington Post
How to Keep Proving Economic Pessimists Wrong - George Osborne, WSJ
Why U.S. Women Are Leaving Jobs Behind - Miller & Alderman, NY Times
The Cop-Killing Cult of Larry Davis - Michelle Malkin, New York Post
Panels: Fox News Sunday | Meet the Press | Face the Nation | This Week
Tuesday, December 16
Dick Cheney Shows How Low We Can Go - Michael Cohen, Boston GlobeI Am Not Sorry the CIA Waterboarded - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Get Ready for the Obama Boomlet - Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
Democrats' Southern Exposure - Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner
Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court Justice! - Mike McCurry, RCP
Gruber Should've Been Time's Person of the Year - Jonah Goldberg, LAT
Clash Over Spending Bill: A New Day for Liberals - Joan Walsh, Salon
The Context for the Cromnibus Showdown - Ben Domenech, The Federalist
Warren Won't Rule Out '16 as Draft Effort Gears Up - Scott Conroy, RCP
Russia's Economy Is Doomed - Matt O'Brien, Washington Post
The Reagan-Clinton Template for Success - Gramm & Solon, Wall St. Jrnl
False Ecstasy Over the Reagan Economy - Michael Kinsley, Vanity Fair
Full Connection Just a Decade Away - Michael McEnaney, RealClearPolitics
Hollywood's Precious Outrage Over Sony - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Crippling the IRS - Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
Campuses Shut Down the Conversation - Jonathan Turley, USA Today
The CIA's "Torture Teacher" Hits Back - Toby Harnden, The Sunday Times
Dem '16 (FOX News): Clinton 62, Warren 12, Biden 10 | Clinton vs. GOP
Wednesday, December 17
Russia's Problems Are Everyone's Problems - Megan McArdle, BloombergThe Samantha Power Doctrine - Evan Osnos, The New Yorker
Bush's Killer Flaw--the Name, Not the Ideology - John Podhoretz, NY Post
Jeb Is Dismissing the Base at His Peril - Josh Kraushaar, National Journal
Welcome to Lawless Obama's America - Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Lie of the Year: Playing the Ebola Fear Card - Doyle McManus, LA Times
Did Cruz Really Bungle the Lame-Duck? - Byron York, DC Examiner
Obama Approach to Bush Torture Has Failed - Brian Beutler, New Republic
CIA Interrogations Followed the Law - Michael Mukasey, Wall Street Journal
The Top Five Legal Stories of 2015 - Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
The Clintons Have a Bill Cosby Problem - Roger Stone, The Daily Caller
Why Do People Vote Against Their Interests? - James Carville, The Hill
This Israeli Election Matters - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Meet Bill Nye, the Anti-Science Guy - Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
About "Black-on-Black Crime" - Gary Younge, The Nation
A Harvard Dean's Strange Comment on Race - Stephan Thernstrom, MTC
What to Do When Your Info Has Been Hacked - Brandon Bailey, AP
Obama Job Approval: ABC/WP: 39% | NBC/WSJ: 45% | RCP Avg: 41.8%
Thursday, December 18
Barack Obama's Cuba Surprise - Amy Davidson, The New YorkerA Victory for Oppression - Senator Marco Rubio, Wall Street Journal
Will Cuba Policy Alter Florida's Political Map? - Parker & Martin, NY Times
The Sony Hackers Are Terrorists - David Auerbach, Slate
Sony: From Hack Victim to Gutless Coward - Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Why Dems Need Elizabeth Warren - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
Democrats: The New Stupid Party - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
President Obama's Winning Streak Continues - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
It's Official: Biggest GOP House Majority Since 1929 - N. Rothman, Hot Air
Russia Seen From Within - George Friedman, Stratfor
We're Still Picking Up Dick Cheney's Pieces - Jeffrey Simpson, Globe & Mail
Drone Strikes More Defensible Than Torture? - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
Taliban Reaches New Levels of Atrocity - HDS Greenway, Boston Globe
Christians Around World Under Seige - Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun-Times
The Obamas: Our Experiences w/Racism - Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, People
The New Media Model Is Perfect - Lynn Sweet, RCP Changing Lanes
The Absurdity (& Bright Side) of 2016 - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
Obama Approval: GWU 43% | YouGov 44% | Ipsos 37% | RCP Avg 42%
Friday, December 19
President Obama Tries on Superman Costume - Gloria Borger, CNNObama Throws in the Towel on Cuba - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Welcome Back, Cuba - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
The Cuban Regime Is a Defeated Foe - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Vladimir Putin's Bubble Bursts - Paul Krugman, New York Times
WH Hails Economy But Poll Finds Few Concur - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
A Model Senator - Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard
Slashing IRS Budget Carries Heavy Price - Norm Ornstein, National Journal
An Exit Ramp From Obamacare - Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review
What McConnell Can Do to Improve Elections - Jason Grumet, RCP
North Korea Is Not Funny - Adrian Hong, The Atlantic
U.S. Bows Down to a Group of Anonymous Norks - Charles Cooke, NRO
The Unidentified Queen of Torture - Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
How to Fight the Lone Wolf - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The Virtue of Amoral Foreign Policy - Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Technical Advances Mean Every Day Is Christmas - Ross Pomeroy, RCP
The Assault on "Broken Windows" Policing - Bratton & Kelling, Wall St Jrnl
Saturday, December 20
Sony Caved to Terror. No One Else Should. - Flemming Rose, NY TimesAfter 2014 Losses, Obama's Operation Revenge - Glenn Thrush, Politico
Will Diversity Destroy the Left? - Jonathan Bronitsky, The Federalist
Bush: Front-Runner, Underdog or Both? - Dan Balz, Washington Post
The Castros Finally Hit the Jackpot - Rich Lowry, National Review
Did Obama Do the Right Thing on Cuba? - Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
God Isn't Dead in Gotham - Kate Bachelder, Wall Street Journal
Next Up in America: The Liberal Retreat - Walter Mead, American Interest
President Obama Unbound - Timothy Egan, New York Times
As Vermont Goes...A Warning for Obamacare - John Fund, NRO
Warren Could Be the Big Surprise of 2016 - Daniel Gross, The Intl Economy
Bush/Clinton: Dynastic Politics in America? - Michael Barone, DC Examiner
Liberal Bias Is Killing Social Science - Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Week
Good Riddance to Worst Congress Ever - Dana Milbank, Washington Post
The Kingmaker: DeMint Is Getting Back in the Game - Tim Alberta, NJ
Al Sharpton, Civil Rights Fraud - Michael Tracey, New York Daily News
Cuba Isolationists Just Don't Get It - Sen. Rand Paul, Time
Sunday, December 21
Protesters Get Their Wish: Dead Cops - Bob McManus, New York PostRift Grows Between Mayor & Police Force - Matt Flegenheimer, NY Times
Who's Going to Protest on Behalf of Dead Cops? - Mike Lupica, Daily News
How Congress Can Address Our Racial Outrage - Rep. John Conyers, WaPo
North Korea & the Speech Police - Ross Douthat, New York Times
Gossip as a Terrorist Weapon - Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register
New Cuba Policy Looks Forward - Secs. Kerry, Pritzker & Lew, Miami Herald
The Cuban People Keep Waiting - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Obama's 4th Quarter Foreign Policy Surprises - Doyle McManus, LA Times
The Week Putin's Dream Died - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph
Oklahoma's AG Could End Obamacare - George Will, Washington Post
Enter Jeb Bush - David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Will Jeb Stumble in Iowa? - Cameron Joseph, The Hill
Spy vs. DiFi - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh Doubts Over Bailout of A.I.G. - Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times
Congress's Gift That Keeps on Giving - P.J. O'Rourke, The Daily Beast
What's a Dog's Love Worth? Legally, Nothing - John Russell, Indy Star