Share the View: Republicans Aren't Traitors

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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

MARCH 11, 2015 bloombergview.com

HILLARY CLINTON Jonathan Bernstein: "Hillary Clinton has pulled off one of the most impressive accomplishments in U.S. political history: She has unified her party around her, perhaps securing the presidential nomination earlier and more easily than any politician ever. Naturally, the press has concluded she doesn't know what she's doing." Read more... Megan McArdle: "In this day and age, there is no reason that any federal e-mail should ever be deleted. Storage is cheap, and if taxpayers can pay millions for farm subsidies, they can certainly afford a few million for electronic storage." Read more... COMPANIES Justin Fox: "Apple, after creating what was billed as the ultimate bundle in the form of the iPhone, is now in the unbundling phase. ... Why is Apple doing this? Because it had to come up with something new to sell, dummy!"Read more... FOREIGN POLICY Ramesh Ponnuru: "Were Republican senators out of bounds in sending a letter to Iran's government about the limits of President Barack Obama's power in foreign policy?" Read more... Bernstein: "Yes, it was unseemly for Republican Senator Tom Cotton and 46 colleagues to turn their recent complaints about Barack Obama's Iran policy into an 'open letter' to Iranian leaders. But this hardly makes Cotton a traitor." Read more... LATIN AMERICA The Editors: "The White House's executive order on Monday authorizing sanctions on Venezuelan officials names only seven people. Its real target may be Venezuela's neighbors, whose tacit acceptance of the Bolivarian Republic's bad behavior undermines U.S. efforts to change it." Read more... SPORTS Kavitha A. Davidson: "The fallout from the University of Oklahoma's racist fraternity video scandal continues, reaching all the way to the world of college sports." Read more... GAY RIGHTS Noah Feldman: "Does the ever-deepening public conflict between state and federal courts in Alabama serve or hinder the cause of gay marriage nationally? This difficult question faces federal District Judge Callie Granade, who must now choose the next move in her legal chess match with the Alabama Supreme Court." Read more... LAW McArdle: "De-incarceration is clearly an idea whose time has come. But doing it means thinking clearly about de-incarceration." Read more... RUSSIA Leonid Bershidsky: "The operas of 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner have long been controversial. They have never been performed in Israel, for instance, because Wagner was a rabid anti-Semite much admired by the Nazis. It turns out he can also generate scandal in President Vladimir Putin's Russia -- but for an entirely different reason."Read more...