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<title><![CDATA[George Packer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14408.xml</link><description><![CDATA[George Packer]]></description><category domain="14408">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Great Data-Center Rebellion]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/itxI6</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The meteoric emergence of the data-center rebellion is a response to the speed and scale of construction, which in turn reflect the sudden ubiquity of generative and agentic AI.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Don&rsquo;t Want to Stop Believing in America&rsquo;s Decency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-don-t-want-to-stop-believing-in-america-s-decency/ar-AA1OqKDK</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To be a patriot in Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s America is like sitting through a loved one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s trial for some gruesome crime.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tragedy of Charlie Kirk's Assassination]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-tragedy-of-charlie-kirk-s-killing/ar-AA1MjF4o</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December 2023, I spent half a minute with Charlie Kirk in the bowels of the Phoenix Convention Center. Turning Point USA, the youth organization that he founded in 2012 and built into a right-wing juggernaut, was holding its annual convention'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that the Chicago-born Kirk...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Vance]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/xf4zE</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[J. D. Vance could have brought the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Washington Post Is Dying a Death of Despair]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-washington-post-is-dying-a-death-of-despair/ar-AA1A2xc1?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How does a free press in this country die? Probably not the way Americans imagine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Will Have Trouble Reforming]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/12/28/george_packer_democrats_will_not_reform_in_time_to_beat_the_next_republican_interest_groups_have_cornered_the_party.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Goldberg and George Packer discuss the 2024 election results, why Democrats were shocked that Donald Trump won and the future of the party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Delusions That Led to a Historic Defeat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-democratic-delusions-that-led-to-a-historic-defeat/ar-AA1v7flN</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mood in America, as in electorates all over the world, is profoundly anti-establishment. Trump had a mass movement behind him; Kamala Harris was installed by party elites.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Dems Can Learn From the Trauma of 1968]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-democrats-can-learn-from-the-trauma-of-1968/ar-AA1ooGB5?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party will gather in Chicago this month like a trauma victim irresistibly drawn back to the original scene of horror, returning decades after the 1968 convention to overcome its spell or else succumb to it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/campus-left-university-columbia-1968/678176/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie Strikes Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/salman-rushdie-strikes-back/ar-BB1lHTnY</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie tells us that he wrote Knife, his account of his near-murder at the hands of a 24-year-old Shia Muslim man from New Jersey, for two reasons: because he had to deal with '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the elephant-in-the-room'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' before he could return to writing about anything else, and to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will America Abandon Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/we-only-need-some-metal-things/ar-AA1lf4lq</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1940, when Great Britain was fighting Nazi Germany alone, Winston Churchill asked to borrow a few dozen aging American destroyers to defend the English coast from imminent invasion. Churchill wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Mr. President, with great respect, I must...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Must Not React Stupidly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-must-not-react-stupidly/ar-AA1i7cSF</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If 10/7 was Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 9/11, as many of the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leaders have said, the meaning of the comparison is not self-evident. Its implications still have to be worked out, and they might lead to unexpected places.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Three Attacks on Intellectual Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-three-attacks-on-intellectual-freedom/ar-AA1eU4mp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In June 1953, at the height of the McCarthy era, while congressional investigators and private groups were hunting down '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'subversive'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or merely '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'objectionable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' books and authors in the name of national security, the American Library Association and the Association Book...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Can--and Must--Wield Its Power for Good]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-new-theory-of-american-power/ar-AA14mo5P</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A national mood disorder afflicts America, causing wild swings between mania and despair, superhuman exertion and bruised withdrawal. We overdo our foreign crusades, and then we overdo our retrenchments, never pausing in between, where an ordinary country would try to reach a fine...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Speech Can't Survive as an Abstraction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/free-speech-can-t-survive-as-an-abstraction/ar-AA10Ju2D</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The man who was about to interview Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution last Friday when a would-be murderer ran onstage with a knife is a 73-year-old former telemarketing entrepreneur from Pittsburgh named Henry Reese. He wears bow ties and speaks with a low-key, husky voice and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rotten Core of Our Political System]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-rotten-core-of-our-political-system/ar-AAXpjXV</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-rotten-core-of-our-political-system/ar-AAXpjXV]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their new account of the 2020 election, two New York Times reporters reveal just how broken American democracy has become.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Cannot Afford To Forget About Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/ukraine-america-democracy-russification/629521/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/ukraine-america-democracy-russification/629521/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans need to cure what ails our democracy, ridding ourselves of our incipient Russification.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Grown-Ups Are Losing It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-grown-ups-are-losing-it/ar-AAUSx2U</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've turned schools into battlefields, and our kids are the casualties.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine's Interests Are America's Interests]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-is-redefining-america-s-interests/ar-AAUpqmf</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-is-redefining-america-s-interests/ar-AAUpqmf]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If this conflict is a new cold war, it's one that the autocracies have been pursuing energetically and the democracies have been loath to accept.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Saigon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/biden-afghanistan-exit-american-allies-abandoned/621307/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Escape From Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/afghanistan-taliban-escape/619863/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even those with a visa must endure harrowing conditions on their way to freedom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-rumsfeld-deserves-to-be-remembered/ar-AALDCd0</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-rumsfeld-deserves-to-be-remembered/ar-AALDCd0]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The New Yorker, a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war. This was a first; until then, no one close to the president would talk to me, probably because my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How America Fractured Into Four Parts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People in the United States no longer agree on the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Civics Save America?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/can-civics-save-america/ar-BB1gLg7P</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/can-civics-save-america/ar-BB1gLg7P]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The early months of the Biden presidency have revealed a conflict between two approaches to policy. One is liberal and universalist, the other progressive and particularist. One pursues equality through programs that include as many Americans as possible; the other targets groups,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can't Abandon the Afghans Who Helped Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/we-cant-abandon-afghans-who-helped-us/618416/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. must fulfill its responsibilities to those who put their trust and lives in American hands.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Political Obituary for Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-legacy-of-donald-trump/617255/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Memoir Is an Exercise in Ironic Realism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/obamas-memoir-is-an-exercise-in-ironic-realism/ar-BB1b6oZY</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Autobiographies of famous people are almost always disappointing. The demands of public life degrade literary prose: the euphemisms, evasions, forced optimism, and name-checking; the pressure to please different constituencies; the need to project one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s personality onto a huge...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/republicans-are-suddenly-afraid-of-democracy/ar-BB19S0B9</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/republicans-are-suddenly-afraid-of-democracy/ar-BB19S0B9]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not a democracy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Republican Senator Mike Lee tweeted in the middle of Wednesday night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s vice-presidential debate. He was reacting to something he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d heard onstage there, in his home state of Utah. Another tweet: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'democracy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' appears...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Tries to Trick Voters Into Giving Up on Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-is-trying-to-trick-americans-into-giving-up-on-democracy/ar-BB19x1u0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democracy depends on belief in democracy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'on an extraordinary leap of faith by ordinary people that their rulers will abide by the rules, that their votes will count, that their compatriots won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t tear the country apart, that lies won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t become truth. When the checks and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Inside Story of Why Mueller Failed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/andrew-weissmann-mueller-book-where-law-ends/616395/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>George Packer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a new book, Andrew Weissmann, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies, lays out the limits and letdowns of the years-long Russia investigation.]]></description>
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