Week of December 18, 2017 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, December 18
Trump Foreign Policy Plan Stresses Home Front
Samuelsohn & Crowley, Politico
A Jacksonian Manifesto
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Dems Could Claim a New American Majority. Will They?
Steve Phillips, NY Times
Scott Pruitt: The Man They Love to Hate
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
What Excruciating Video of Judicial Nominee Reveals
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN
13 Bold Women Challenge #Metoo Campaign
Shriver, Hoff Sommers, Yoffe, et al., Spiked
97 Men (& a Woman) Taken Down by #MeToo Movement
Lizzie Crocker, Daily Beast
How Obama Secretly Let Hezbollah Off the Hook
Josh Meyer, Politico
Mr. Pence's High-Stakes Trip to Egypt
Joel Rosenberg, Jerusalem Post
Are You Old? Infirm? Then Kindly Disappear
Frank Bruni, New York Times
I Turned My Coworker Into HR, and She Changed My Heart
Chad Greene, Federalist
Give the Gift of Coordinated Care to Dialysis Patients
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Tuesday, December 19
Republicans Set to Pass an Unworkable Tax Bill
John Cassidy, The New Yorker


Zero Excuses to Stand Against the Trump Tax Cuts
Stephen Moore, The Hill
6 Whoppers From Trump's National Security Speech
John Kirby, CNN
National Security in Tradition of Truman, Reagan, & Reality
Newt Gingrich, Fox News
The Democratic Unity the GOP Built
John Stoehr, U.S. News & World Report
Will There Be a Dem 'Blue Wave' in 2018? Not So Fast
John Davidson, The Federalist
Northam Shows Why Democrats Can Never Be Satisfied
Josh Barro, Business Insider
#MeToo Has Debunked the 'Lean In' Philosophy
Sarah Seltzer, The Nation
Current Sex Panic Harks Back to Era of Coddling Women
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
How Robots Will Transform Fast Food
Alana Semuels, The Atlantic
Merry Christmas, Iraq
William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
Technology is Making Natural Gas Nimbler
Washington Post
Trump Job Approval:  Quinnipiac: 37% | CNN: 36% | NBC/WSJ: 41% | CNBC: 42%
Watch Live: Senate Expected To Vote On Tax Cut Bill
Wednesday, December 20
On the Road to Kleptocracy
Adele Stan, The American Prospect


Dear Democrats, Ownership Isn't Theft
David French, National Review
The GOP Just Bet Their Majority on a Tax Bill No One Likes
Steve Israel, The Hill
What'll Dems Do If Americans Like Trump's Tax Cut?
James Pethokoukis, The Week
Why Obamacare Will Survive
Dylan Scott, Vox
Trump's Successes Have Been Underreported
Gary Varvel, Indianapolis Star
When America No Longer Is a Global Force for Good
Susan Rice, New York Times
Did Obama Go Wobbly on Hezbollah?
Peter Brookes, Boston Herald
Dear Matt Damon, Here's What We Want From You
Madeleine Aggeler, NY Magazine
#MeToo Movement Goes Too Far
Michael Cromwell, Baltimore Sun
Greatest Day in U.S. History Is All But Forgotten
Phil Kadner, Chicago Sun-Times
MS-13 Menaces a Community 7 Miles From White House
Miller & Morse, Wash Post
Replay: President Trump Celebrates Tax Cuts & Jobs Act
Thursday, December 21
Trump Administration Became Truly Historic This Week
Newt Gingrich, FOX News


You Cannot Be Too Cynical About the Republican Tax Bill
Thomas Edsall, NY Times
Unlike Obamacare, People Will Probably Like Tax Reform
David Harsanyi, Federalist
Latest 2018 Midterms Polling Looks Extremely Good for Dems
Andrew Prokop, Vox
Nikki Haley Takes On World Government
Seth Lipsky, New York Post
Trump's Ticket to Survival: Ban All the Words
Dana Milbank, Washington Post
No, Trump Administration Didn't 'Ban' 7 Words at CDC
Julie Kelly, American Greatness
When #MeToo Goes Too Far
Bret Stephens, New York Times
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at Risk
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
Real Security Threats vs. Climate Change
Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
Russian-Egyptian Military Cooperation on the Rise
Sayed Elhadidi, Al-Monitor
Friday, December 22
America's Getting Greater
Adriana Cohen, Boston Herald


A Sweetheart Tax Deal - For the Trumps
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The Democrats Stink of Weakness and Defeat
Scott McKay, The American Spectator
Impeachment Fervor Fuels Dem Tensions
Niall Stanage, The Hill
Did Obama Read the Steele Dossier in the WH Last August?
Lee Smith, Tablet Mag
The Four Threats to Robert Muelller
Richard Painter & Norman Eisen, New York Times
Criticism of Mueller Isn't a Threat to the Rule of Law
Jonathan Tobin, National Review
Republican Control of the Senate Hangs by a Thread
Jeff Greenfield, Politico
Lessons From Virginia for the GOP
Phil Cox, RealClearPolitics
Christmas Lessons From California
Victor Davis Hanson, Investor's Business Daily


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