Week of May 11, 2015 Archives 
RealClearPolitics Morning Edition
Monday, May 11
Huckabee's Message as Formidable as Bush's Money - Josh Kraushaar, NJHillary Clinton's Immigration Hoax - Linda Chavez, New York Post
Republicans' Festival of Flip-Flopping - Juan Williams, The Hill
Arkansas: The Clintons Don't Live Here Anymore - Rebecca Berg, RCP
Liberal Hypocrisy on Blasphemous Art - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Wall Street Vampires - Paul Krugman, New York Times
The "No Bailout" Pledge - Amity Shlaes, Forbes
Patriots' Unsportsmanlike Conduct - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
China and Russia Grow Even Closer - Matt Schiavenza, The Atlantic
Lessons Obama Could Learn From V-E Day - Josef Joffe, Wall St. Journal
Of Museums and Racial Relics - Charles Blow, New York Times
No, Mrs. Obama, America's Museums Aren't Racist - Ian Tuttle, NRO
Why Huckabee, Carson & Fiorina Will Matter - Albert Hunt, Bloomberg
Bloomberg Could Beat Clinton for Dem Nomination - Seth Lipsky, NY Post
What's the Point of a Professor? - Mark Baerlein, New York Times
The Case for Conservative Civil Disobedience - Carlos Lozada, Wash Post
The Killing of Osama bin Laden - Seymour Hersh, London Review of Books
Panels: This Week | Fox News Sunday | Face the Nation | Meet the Press
Tuesday, May 12
King's Absence Signals a Saudi-U.S. Marriage Adrift - Baker & Shear, NYTObama's Lonely 'Arab Summit' - Amir Taheri, New York Post
The Trade Deal Tearing Apart the Dems - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Why Obama's in Danger of Losing on Trade - Dana Milbank, Wash Post
Bush's Disastrous Defense of the Iraq War - Byron York, Wash Examiner
Poll: 2016 Hopefuls Face United States of Angst - Alexis Simendinger, RCP
My Plan to Raise Growth & Incomes - Gov. Chris Christie, Wall St. Journal
Clinton Takes 1 Press Question Every 3.6 Days - Chris Cillizza, Wash. Post
Mark Halperin's Biased Grilling of Ted Cruz - Jonah Goldberg, LA Times
Fiorina Gives Lesson to GOP Field - Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week
'Clinton Cash' Should Matter to Every American - Peter Schweizer, FNC
Michelle Obama's Critics Have Much to Learn - Richard Cohen, Daily News
A Big Surprise in Britain - Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
The End of Britain as We Know It - Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Sy Hersh, Lost in a Wilderness of Mirrors - Jack Shafer, Politico
Krugman's Pretense of Economic Knowledge - Kevin Williamson, NRO
Brady, Pats Get What They Deserve From NFL - Nancy Armour, USA Today
Wednesday, May 13
The Bitter Backdrop to 2016 - Frank Bruni, New York TimesRepublican Field, Mellow Edition - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
What Michelle Obama Really Said - DeWayne Wickham, USA Today
First Lady's Address Was More Victim Politics - Ron Christie, Daily Beast
Bush Walks Back Iraq War Comment, Sort Of - Rebecca Berg, RCP
The Great Democratic Crack-Up of 2016 - Robert Draper, NYT Magazine
Handicapping a Dem Senate Takeover - Charlie Cook, National Journal
Dear Class of 2015, You're in Big Trouble - Furchtgott-Roth & Meyer, WSJ
Pamela Geller & the Anti-Islam Movement - David Shipler, The New Yorker
Jihadists More Repulsive Than Pam Geller - Peter Wehner, Commentary
New Tricks: Hiding Crime in Chicago - Bernstein & Isackson, Chicago Mag
Let Our Cities Move - De Blasio & Cornett, New York Times
A Room With White People Is a Microaggression - Katherine Timpf, NRO
The Sexism That Propels Fiorina's Bid - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Clinton War Room Jumps the Shark - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Moore's Law Turns 50 - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
For Folks Who Just Love Suppressing Free Speech - Charles Lipson, RCP
Thursday, May 14
The Democrats' Baffling Behavior - Karl Rove, Wall Street JournalIraq Question Is Not Bush's Alone to Field - Huey-Burns & Berg, RCP
Unhappy Days for America - Nicholas Lemann, New York Review of Books
Top Republican Unveils Obamacare Replacement - Philip Klein, Examiner
Republicans So Wrong It's Funny - Markos Moulitsas, The Hill
Excuses for Obama's Economy May Sink Clinton - Charles Gasparino, NYP
The Long Drive to End a Pregnancy - Monica Hesse, Washington Post
Emily's Story Didn't Have to End in Death - D.C. McAllister, The Federalist
Is Kim Jong Un Panicking? - Christian Whiton, CNN
Progressives' Looming 2016 Challenge - Joan Walsh, Salon
Planet Obama: Where Self-Awareness Goes to Die - Heather Wilhelm, RCP
Exposing Mega-Donors and Super PACs - Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
The Real But Overstated Decline of U.S. Christianity - Ross Douthat, NYT
Punishing Parents - George Will, Washington Post
The Botched Execution of Clayton Lockett - Jeffrey Stern, The Atlantic
How Broken Windows Policing Empties Prisons - George Kelling, NY Post
The Galaxy-Sized Video Game - Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker
FOX News: Bush 13, Carson 13, Walker 11, Huckabee 10, Rubio 9, Paul 7
Friday, May 15
A Gift Basket for Clinton from the GOP - Eugene Robinson, Washington PostDems Get a Taste of Obama's Arrogance - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Why Jeb Had to Ditch Dubya - Matt Lewis, The Daily Beast
Fraternity of Failure - Paul Krugman, New York Times
Marco Rubio's Problematic Pillar - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
The Great Stephanopoulos Mess - Jack Shafer, Politico
Stephanopoulos Gave to the Clintons. So What? - Jonathan Chait, NY Mag
George Stephanopoulos's Credibility Is Gone - Howard Kurtz, FOX News
The Plot Against Trains - Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
The Left Won't Let Amtrak Tragedy Go to Waste - Charles Cooke, NRO
Is Clinton Ready to Lead? - David Ignatius, Washington Post
When Will Hillary Answer for Her Iraq Vote? - David Harsanyi, Federalist
A Long-Awaited Reform to Patriot Act - Russel Berman, The Atlantic
Why Britain Should Leave the EU - Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Week
America's Pakistan Policy Is Sheer Madness - C. Christine Fair, TNI
How Congress Botched the IRS Probe - Cleta Mitchell, Wall Street Journal
Blues Legend B.B. King Dead at 89 - Tim Weiner, New York Times
Saturday, May 16
Bush Must Resolve His Brotherly Dilemma - Michael Cohen, Boston GlobeJeb Bush Knows Iraq Proved to Be Catastrophe - Andrew McCarthy, NRO
Stephanopoulos & the Dem Media Problem - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Russ Feingold Wants a Rematch - Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Reid Sells Out Durbin, Democratic Party Soul - Terry Michael, Reason
Let George Pataki Do It - Gail Collins, New York Times
Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush Roll the Dice - Fred Barnes, Wall St. Journal
David Simon's Wrong About Baltimore Arrests - Francis Barry, Bloomberg
Why I Flew Onto the Capitol Lawn - Doug Hughes, Washington Post
Obama's Casual Slander of U.S. Christians - Mark Hemingway, Wkly Std
Republicans Can't Slap On Feminist Label - Jessica Valenti, The Guardian
Slaking California's Thirst--If Politics Allows - Allysia Finley, WSJ
Will Anyone Ever Defend Banks? - Larry Kudlow, CNBC
Dear ABC News: Tell Us You Didn't Shaft Free Beacon - Erik Wemple, WP
The Real Story of the American Family - Stephanie Coontz, Am. Prospect
Lunatic Postmodern Target: Motherhood - John Podhoretz, New York Post
Downplaying Attacks on Mideast Christians - Walter Russell Mead, WSJ
Sunday, May 17
Iowa GOP Delights in Bounty of Choices - Jennifer Jacobs, DM RegisterWhy the GOP Can't Get No Satisfaction - Jim Messina, Politico
Stephanopoulos Has To Go - Kevin Williamson, National Review
He Is Heavy. He's My Brother. - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Hillary's Endless Reintroduction Tour - Ana Marie Cox, The Daily Beast
You're Remembering Reagan Wrong - H.W. Brands, Time
Don't Be Sure Economy Will Return to Normal - Tyler Cowen, NY Times
Seeded w/Tax Cuts, Kansas Harvests the Benefits - Andrew Wilson, WSJ
A Train Crashes - & Democrats Jump the Tracks - Carl Cannon, OC Register
The Lasting Mystery of the Tsarnaev Brothers - Peter Bergen, CNN
Brown's Arid CA, Thanks Partly to His Dad - Adam Nagourney, NY Times
At the Mercy of Climate Jihadists - Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register
New Putin Invasion Coming This Summer - Weiss & Miller, The Daily Beast
Trolling: New Language of Diplomacy - Daniel Drezner, Washington Post
Waterboarding Worked - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Patriots' Excuses for Deflategate Fall Flat - Mike Lupica, NY Daily News
A Life in Motion, Stopped Cold - Sarah Lyall, New York Times
GOP 2016 Polls: National | Iowa | N.H. | General: Clinton vs. GOP Field