April 2, 2018 Archives

Week of April 2, 2018 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, April 2

5 Reasons Trump Should Get the U.S. Out of Syria

Daniel DePetris, DC Examiner

Putin Unleashes 'Satan 2' Missile in a Blaze of Glory

Samantha Vinograd, CNN

Comey's Book Tour Is a Colossal Mistake

James Gagliano, The Hill

What Will Happen If Democrats Retake the House?

Ryan Cooper, The Week

Republicans' Opportunity With Hispanic Voters

Wilson & McGoldrick, FOX News

America's Moral Malady & the Agenda of White Supremacy

William Barber, Atlantic

Can You Prove You're Not a Racist?

Lionel Shriver, The Spectator

California Commits Massive Medicaid Fraud

David Catron, The American Spectator

How Republicans Rigged Our Democracy

David Faris, The Guardian

Horror Stories Show How Much Work Is Needed at the VA

Maureen Callahan, NY Post

Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do?

Sapna Maheshwari, NY Times

Tuesday, April 3

The Military Shouldn't Pay for the Wall. No One Should

James Stavridis, Bloomberg

Amnesty-Seeking Caravan Plays Into Trump's Hands

John Davidson, The Federalist

The U.N. Battens Down the Hatches for Hurricane Bolton

Richard Gowan, Politico

Thank You, Jeff Sessions

William McGurn, Wall Street Journal

What Mueller's Most Conspicuous Silence Suggests

David Graham, The Atlantic

No Sympathy for Amazon

David Dayen, The New Republic

Trump Is Wrong About Amazon on All Counts

Rich Lowry, New York Post

The Corporations Boycotting Ingraham Should Know Better

Roger Simon, PJ Media

Dollars for Decency

Robert Reich, The American Prospect

Roseanne Is Bringing Conservative Women Out of the Closet

Mark Penn, The Hill

How North Korea Could Start World War III

Gordon Chang, The Daily Beast

Full Replay: President Trump Press Conference With Leaders Of Baltic States

Wednesday, April 4

Savvy Trump Outplaying China on Trade, N. Korea on Nukes

Michael Chugani, SCMP

President Trump's Perversion of Leadership

Frank Bruni, New York Times

Democrats Roll Out Welcome Mat for Caravan

Michael Graham, Boston Herald

Trump's Dumb Plan to Confront the Migrant Caravan

Gustavo Arellano, NBC News

President Trump Is Right About Syria Withdrawal

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, CNBC

Cyber-Espionage Is Shifting World Power Dynamics

Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics

Trump Is Bashing Amazon for the Wrong Reasons

Danny Westneat, Seattle Times

When Will Media Accept Trump Is Not a Criminal Target?

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Scott Pruitt Is Too Crooked to Fail

Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast

When the EPA Was Really Corrupt

Julie Kelly, American Greatness

50 Yrs After His Murder, It's Time to Kill the Myth of MLK

Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald

I Don't Care if 'Roseanne' Is Pro-Trump, I Hope It's Pro-Civility

Gary Abernathy, WP

Replay: WH Press Briefing: China Trade, Syria Withdrawal, Mexican Border

Thursday, April 5

Trump, Driven by Fear

Charles Blow, New York Times

Pruitt Is the Greatest-Ever Administrator of the EPA

James Delingpole, The Spectator

Have Republicans Won Their War on Science?

Emily Atkin, The New Republic

The Pitchforks Are Out for McKinley

Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal

The Whitewashing of King's Assassination

Vann Newkirk, The Atlantic

King Was a Gift of Grace to the United States

Lance Morrow, City Journal

Prediction: Big Trump Success in Korea and in the Midterms

Conrad Black, NY Sun

Trump Just Put Himself in a Political Red Zone

Julian Zelizer, CNN

Big Tech Needs to Fix Image Problem With Conservatives

Patrick Maines, Federalist

Everyone Got the Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong

Melissa Jeltsen, HuffPost

Hawaii's Ill-Chosen Legalization of Assisted Suicide

Matt Valliere, RealClearPolitics

Friday, April 6

Things Are Going Trump's Way. He Should Reject Mueller Interview

Mueller Will Drop Midterm Russia Bombshells on GOP

Brent Budowsky, The Hill

China Gets Trumped

Christian Whiton, The National Interest

No 'Pot of Gold' at End of a Trade War With China

Daniel Griswold, Los Angeles Times

Should the World Buy What the Saudi Crown Prince Is Selling?

Karl Vick, Time

Firing Kevin Williamson Is Just the Beginning

Ben Domenech, The Federalist

Kevin Williamson Was Fired for Wanting Women to Suffer

Kirsten Powers, USA Today

Anthony Scaramucci on Bannon & Backstabbing in DC

Edward Luce, Financial Times

The New EPA and Why the Radical Left Is Losing It

Steve Forbes, Investor's Biz Daily

Trump Needs to Fire Scott Pruitt, Not Promote Him

Eisen & Shaw, USA Today

Majory Stoneman Douglas -- 'Queen of the Everglades'

Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics

Sunday, April 8

A First-Year Assessment of Trump's Triumphs

Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post

Dallet's Big Win Has Wisconsin GOP on Edge

Mitch Henck, Madison Times

Trump Is Doing What He Promised, Much to Liberals' Horror

Liz Peek, FOX News

Mark Zuckerberg's Apology Tour

Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker

Amazon Didn't Kill Toys R Us, Wall Street Greed Did

Bill Pascrell, USA Today

California's War on 'Economic Crimes' Echoes Communism

Steven Greenhut, OCR

The Music Man in the White House

David Von Drehle, Florida Sun-Sentinel

Only Acceptable Opinions

Derek Hunter, Townhall

The Lost Art of the Political Speech

David Shribman, Globe & Mail

Uh Oh: College Students Not Sure About Protecting Free Speech

Cathy Young, LAT

Inside the Worst Maritime Disaster in Decades

William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair