March 21, 2018 Archives

Week of March 19, 2018 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, March 19

The Blamer-in-Chief in the Oval Office

Albert Hunt, Bloomberg

A 'Higher Loyalty' to Their Inflated Sense of Virtue

Roger Kimball, American Greatness

Congress Must Draw a Red Line to Protect Mueller

Sen. Mark Warner, USA Today

Score McCabe's Ouster as a Victory for President Trump

Tom Shattuck, Boston Herald

Republicans Bet Their Senate Majority on Trump

Everett & Robillard, Politico

Students Change the Tide on Guns

Juan Williams, The Hill

Why I Didn't Join My School's Walkout

Dakota Hanchett, New York Times

Kushner and MBS: A Tale of Two Princes

Peter Bergen, CNN

What Putin's Reelection Means for Russia and the Rest of Us

Nikolas Gvosdev, TNI

The Iraq Reckoning Still to Come

Andrew Bacevich, New York Daily News

Silicon Valley Facing Unprecedented Backlash

Ethan Baron, San Jose Mercury-News

Tuesday, March 20

Trump Is Done Playing Nice With Mueller

Chris Cillizza, CNN

A Hero Only to a Lynch Mob

Wesley Pruden, Washington Times

Trump's High-Tech Dirty Tricksters

Michelle Goldberg, New York Times

What's Genius for Obama Is Scandal When It Comes to Trump

Ben Shapiro, The Hill

Small-Town America Has Gotten Economic Jolt Under Trump

Ron Brownstein, CNN

15 Years Later, It's Time to Bring Our Troops in Iraq Home

Cliff Maloney, Examiner

Congress Is Falling Short of Its Oversight Duties

Sen. Carl Levin, Detroit Free-Press

GOP Research Group Has Growing Role to Play

James Arkin, RealClearPolitics

Kamala Harris Is Dreaming Big

Abby Aguirre, Vogue

Hillary Should Just Admit She Hates Half of America

Katherine Timpf, National Review

Why the Austin Bombings Are So Terrifying

Joanna Allhands, USA Today

She's 93. He's 43. She Loves Trump. He Doesn't. Road Trip!

Ken Herman, Austin AS

Wednesday, March 21

Did Cambridge Analytica Boost Trump to Victory in 2016?

John Cassidy, New Yorker

Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes

Ross Douthat, New York Times

Trump Is Right: Mueller Should Never Have Been Appointed

Alan Dershowitz, The Hill

Attacks on Mueller Put Trump in Greater Danger

Greg Sargent, Washington Post

Jared Kushner's Dreams of Mideast Peace Are Alive

Noah Feldman, Bloomberg

The Passive Foreign Policy President

Daniel Benaim & Brian Katulis, The New Republic

The Donald, the Larry, and the Art of Communication

Steve Cortes, RealClearPolitics

The Janus-Faced War on Unions

Richard Trumka, New York Daily News

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner Is Dead Meat

Dennis Byrne, ChicagoNow

Beto O'Rourke Doesn't Want to Be Dems' Next Big Cause

Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico

How Safe Are Driverless Cars? It's Too Soon to Tell.

Megan McArdle, Washington Post

Generic Ballot: Quinnipiac: Democrats +6 | YouGov: Democrats +6 | More Polls

Thursday, March 22

Trump Sticks Two Thumbs in China's Eye

David Andelman, CNN

Trump's China Tariffs Could Actually Work

Evan Horowitz, Boston Globe

Zuckerberg Plays Along w/Scapegoating of Facebook

Michael Brendan Dougherty, NR

Why Facebook Won't Change

Trevor Timm, NBC News

It's Time to Put John Brennan Under Oath

David Harsanyi, The Federalist

Justice Department Headed Down a Dangerous Path

Noah Feldman, Bloomberg

The Deep State Is in Deep Trouble

Roger L. Simon, PJ Media

Does Nancy Pelosi Deserve to Keep Her Job?

David Leonhardt, New York Times

Why Lipinski's Victory Matters

Evan Bayh, RealClearPolitics

Russians Are Hacking Our Electric Grid. What's the Plan?

Suedeen Kelly, USA Today

Kim Gardner's Ridiculous Case Against Eric Greitens

Dave Grossman, The Federalist

How the Internet Has Broken Our Brains

Luke O'Neil, Esquire

Friday, March 23

John Bolton Will Let Trump Be Trump -- Which Is Good

James Robbins, USA Today

Bolton's Incompetence More Dangerous Than His Ideology

Heather Hurlburt, NY Mag

The Two Major Deals Congress Couldn't Strike

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

House GOP Thinks Intel Community Wrong on Russia

Byron York, DC Examiner

If Trump Fires Mueller, GOP Will Do... What, Exactly?

Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast

Republicans Still Don't Get Trump

Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon

Some Dems Want to Dump Nancy Pelosi. Are They Nuts?

Patricia Murphy, Roll Call

How Climate Tactics Paved the Way for Gun Control Bullying

Julie Kelly, Federalist

March for Our Lives Shows Congress Must Act on Guns

Shannon Watts, The Hill

Is Tribalism Really on the Rise? Meh.

Heather Wilhelm, National Review Online

How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of 'Race'

David Reich, New York Times

Marist: Trump Job Approval: 42% | Generic Ballot: Dems +5 | More 2018 Polls

Sunday, March 25

What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From 1963

Julian Zelizer, The Atlantic

When Will Media Ask Parkland Kids Some Real Questions?

Eddie Scarry, Examiner

When Trump Goes Low, Go Low

Karen Tumulty, Washington Post

Total Political War

Matthew Peterson, American Greatness

Why Democrats Are Bullish on Governor's Races, Too

Albert Hunt, Bloomberg

Omnibus Bill Shows Why Populists Must Take Capitol Hill

Steve Hilton, Fox News

Behind 'Trade War' Slogans, a Few Routes to Peace

Daniel Moss, Bloomberg

6 Minutes and 20 Seconds that Could Change the World

Joan Walsh, The Nation

Texas Provides Proven Template to Combat School Shootings

Ken Paxton, The Hill

The Only Guy in America Brave Enough to Take on Google

Salena Zito, New York Post

How to Fix Facebook

Chen, Heller, Marantz, & Wiener, The New Yorker