December 16, 2018 Archives

Week of December 10, 2018 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, December 10

Europe Holds Its Breath as Macron Moves to Quell Protests

Jon Henley, Guardian

French Protests Giving U.S. Progessives a Panic Attack

Stephen Hayward, PowerLine

Theresa May Chooses the Lesser of 2 Humiliations

Andrew Grice, The Independent

Cohen's Pleas Concocted by Prosecutors to Snare Trump

Mark Penn, The Hill

Trump Doesn't Want a Chief of Staff

Rahm Emanuel, The Atlantic

Comey's Hubris Has Done Irreparable Damage to FBI

James Gagliano, DC Examiner

Huawei CFO's Arrest Could Turn Out to Be a Very Big Deal

Charlie Campbell, Time

Did the Deep State Sandbag Trump with Huawei Arrest?

David Goldman, PJ Media

Trump's Latest Rage Tweets Expose Depth of His Corruption

Greg Sargent, WP

No Collusion, Media Want Trump Impeached Over 'Just Sex'

John Nolte, Breitbart

How Hollywood Invented Ben Shapiro

Tina Nguyen, Vanity Fair

Tuesday, December 11

Trump, Schumer, Pelosi Get Into Shouting Match Over Border

Andrew Desiderio, DB

What Trump Needs From His Next Chief of Staff

Christopher Buskirk, The Spectator

Is America Great Again Yet?

Richard Cohen, Washington Post

Dirty Cop James Comey 'Can't Recall' Squat

Adriana Cohen, Boston Herald

What We Know About Trump & Russia Is Damning & Detailed

Jim VandeHei, Axios

Axios's 'Damning' Info Is Uninformed and Idiotic

Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist

Paul Ryan's Long Con

Ezra Klein, Vox

Climate Change Hysteria and the New French Rebellion

Joel Kotkin, New Geography

Brexit Retreat Opens Door for Boris Johnson

Stephen MacLean, New York Sun

Solzhenitsyn: The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire

Michael Scammell, New York Times

Venezuela's Socialist Experiment Is Deadlier Than Ever

David Papadopoulos, BBW

Wednesday, December 12

Macron Just Doesn't Get It

Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg

Why the Strasbourg Attack Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think

Tom Rogan, Examiner

U.S., Not China, Is Real Threat to International Law

Jeffrey Sachs, Globe & Mail

An Uncompromising Wall Divides U.S. Politics

Michael Graham, Boston Herald

Pelosi Shows Why Dems Need Her as Speaker

Carl Leubsdorf, Dallas Morning News

Cohen Didn't Commit a Crime (& Neither Did Trump)

Hans von Spakovsky, Daily Signal

The Tough Choice Facing Democrats on Impeachment

Julian Zelizer, CNN

The Democrats' Impeachment Flimflam

Scott Jennings, USA Today

Have Democrats Reached a Tipping Point on Climate Change?

Emily Atkin, TNR

Leave New IRS Free Speech Rule in Place

Jenny Beth Martin, RealClearPolitics

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Acts Out

Ariel Levy, The New Yorker

How the Liberal Morality Police Ruin Lives

Tammy Bruce, Washington Times

Thursday, December 13

Time Is Up, Let's Build the Wall

Rep. Jody Hice, Washington Examiner

Why Pelosi's Quiet Trump Burn Was Uniquely Satisfying

Lili Loofbourow, Slate

Pelosi and Schumer Got Skunked

Patricia Murphy, American Thinker

Health Law Survives Despite Trump, So Sign Up

Andy Slavitt, USA Today

Ballot Fraud, American-Style--& Its Bitter Harvests

Eric Eggers, RealClearInvestigations

The Republican Party's Suburban Delusion

Josh Kraushaar, National Journal

This Woman Is Trying to Change the Republican Boys' Club

Michelle Cottle, NYTimes

Is the Women's March Melting Down?

McSweeney & Siegel, Tablet Magazine

Don't Defund Health Care for Millions of American Women

Leana Wen, The Hill

The Gender Scandal--in Scandinavia and Canada

Jordan Peterson, National Post

An Impending Loss in the Fact-Checking Family?

Bill Zeiser, RealClearPolitics

Friday, December 14

Republicans Failed--Dems Have a Chance to Succeed

David Ignatius, Washington Post

Trump Is a Good President: One Foreigner's Perspective

Michel Houellebecq, Harper's

Mueller Team Destroyed Strzok/Page Texts Before Review

Bre Payton, The Federalist

Michael Cohen Got Wise. Will America?

Frank Bruni, New York Times

Republicans See 2018 'Autopsy' as Vital to Trump Re-Election

Adele Malpass, RCP

Will Uprisings Thwart Green Central Planners?

Veronique de Rugy, Reason

Forget Trump. We All Must Act on Climate Change.

John Kerry, New York Times

LGBT Liberals Becoming the Bullies We Used to Fight

Albert Eisenberg, Philly Inquirer

It's Time to Drop the 'LGBT' From 'LGBTQ'

Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic

Lie of the Year: Online Smears vs. Parkland Students

Holan & Sherman, PolitiFact

Here's the Problem With PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year'

David Harsanyi, The Federalist

Sunday, December 16

Why Beto Is a Bad Bet for Democrats

Josh Kraushaar, National Journal

Ignore the Beto Skeptics

Billy Freeland, Houston Chronicle

New Hipsters Threaten the Texas Miracle

Joel Kotkin, The Daily Beast

Mueller Probe Takes Swipes at Democracy

Jay Ambrose, Boston Herald

How John Kelly Failed to Tame the West Wing

Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine

No Glory in Comey Getting Away With Abuse of FBI Power

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Celebration of Obamacare's Death Is Again Premature

Max Nisen, Bloomberg

Is Anybody Nostalgic for the Clintons?

Katherine Miller, BuzzFeed

Why Are Americans Unhinged Over Christmas?

Christopher Caldwell, Spectator USA

Santa Gives Us a Reason for Hope

Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press