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							<title><![CDATA[America's Days as a Global Superpower Are Over]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/04/25/david_brooks_the_world_is_telling_the_us_your_days_as_a_superpower_are_over_trump_should_get_the_hell_out_of_iran.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss President Trump saying he's in no rush to end the Iran war.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Will Be Tension With Israel on Winding Down]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join William Brangham on "PBS NewsHour" to discuss the week in politics, including the war in Iran stretching on for almost a month.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Alienated Young Men, Trump Is Your Meal Ticket]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/19/david_brooks_for_alienated_young_men_trump_is_your_meal_ticket.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including how the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could mark a turning point in the war in Gaza, and key moments in the presidential race with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Do Families of the Hamas Hostages Endure the Agony?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You may think you know stories like this one, but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s important not to become numb to their evil and horror. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was attending the Nova music festival on October 7 when the Hamas terrorists descended. He and three others rushed to their car and tried to escape by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the current Israeli military approach is inhumane, is there an alternative?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Makes Nikki Haley Tougher Than the Rest]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/13/what-makes-nikki-haley-tougher-than-the-rest/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She's seen as a descendant of the Republican establishment, but she's actually the kind of bruiser who's in line with the current G.O.P. vibe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If We're the Bad Guys Here?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/02/what-if-were-the-bad-guys-here/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump seems to get indicted on a weekly basis. Yet he is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' utterly dominating'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tied'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with Joe Biden in the general election surveys. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why People Are Fleeing Blue Cities for Red States]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/13/why-people-are-fleeing-blue-cities-for-red-states/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of us in the Northeastern media who properly spend a lot of time slamming the Republican]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despite What You Think You Know, U.S. Is on the Right Track]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/despite-everything-you-think-you-know-america-is-on-the-right-track/ar-AA16j5LD</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, America is a wounded giant'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but it always has been, and the case for optimism is surprisingly strong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rotting of the Republican Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/david-brooks-the-rotting-of-the-republican-mind/ar-BB1brv2z</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent Monmouth University survey, 77% of Donald Trump's backers said Joe Biden had won the presidential election because of fraud. Many of these same people think climate change is not real. Many of these same people believe they don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need to listen to scientific experts on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The scene is one many of us have somewhere in our family history: Dozens of people celebrating Thanksgiving or some other holiday around a makeshift stretch of family tables'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, great-aunts. The grandparents are telling the old family stories for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Is Stronger Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/01/25/david-brooks-joe-biden-is/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was yet another epic failure of political punditry. Go back to the early months of Joe Biden's presidential campaign and read what the consultants and commentators were saying about him: His support is just name recognition; he'll fade! He's too old! He's running a zombie campaign!...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Praise of Washington Insiders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/11/15/david-brooks-praise/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a secret. The public buildings of Washington are filled with very good people working hard for low pay and the public good. There are thousands of them and they are very much like the Foreign Service officers that we've seen or are expected to see testifying at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Republican Party Apocalypse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-coming-gop-apocalypse/ar-AACl5Cf</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For much of the 20th century, young and old people voted pretty similarly. The defining gaps in our recent politics have been the gender gap (women preferring Democrats) and the education gap. But now the generation gap is back, with a vengeance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moral Peril of Meritocracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/moral-revolution-david-brooks.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our individualistic culture inflames the ego and numbs the spirit. Failure teaches us who we are.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Medicare for All': The Impossible Dream]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/opinion/medicare-for-all.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no plausible route from here to there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Killed The Weekly Standard?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/opinion/weekly-standard-closing-conservatism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bureaucratic mind has a temporary triumph.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Murder-Suicide of the West]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/trump-nato-european-union-history.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump forcefully caps off years of deterioration in European-American ties.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Took a Village to Raise Kavanaugh]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/opinion/supreme-court-conservative-republicans.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kavanaugh is the product of a community. He is the product of a conservative legal infrastructure that develops ideas, recruits talent, links rising stars, nurtures genius, molds and launches judicial nominees.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/trump-republican-party-conservative.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where do conservative loyalties lie? How can we serve those loyalties in these circumstances?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The American Renaissance Is Already Happening]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/opinion/the-american-renaissance-is-already-happening.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until last week, I was under the impression there were few of us Whigs left. But I was wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Holds America Together]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/what-holds-america-together.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walt Whitman had a prescription for national renewal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Progressives Win the Culture War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/opinion/progressives-win-culture-war.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The gun issue maybe the final battle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the Two-Party System]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/opinion/trump-republicans-scarcity.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We now have a scarcity mind-set, and that mentality and the perpetual warrior style it demands are incompatible with any civilized political creed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Abortion Memo]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/opinion/abortion-democrats-compromise.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To: Democratic Party LeadersFrom: Imaginary Democratic ConsultantRe: Late-Term AbortionsDear Democratic Leaders,Last week I watched as our senators voted down the Republican bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks. Our people hung together. Only three Democrats voted with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Decline of Anti-Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/anti-trump-opposition.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The quality of the opposition is deteriorating.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party Is Rotting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/opinion/the-gop-is-rotting.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party is selling its soul, doing harm to every cause it purports to serve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Evil Is Tech?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/how-evil-is-tech.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our devices consume our time and dilute our social interactions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Upper-Middle Class Is Ruining America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruining-america.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[College-educated Americans have become devastatingly good at making sure children of other classes can't join their ranks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Not Get Carried Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/opinion/russia-investigation-trump.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Brooks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We should be wary of sinking into the politics of scandal. It won't make us, America, or this administration's governance any better.]]></description>
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