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							<title><![CDATA[What a Generation Is Learning from Trump and Covid-19]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m thinking about children during this era of the coronavirus and Donald Trump, and all the reasons there are to worry about them. The news warns about the human costs of remote learning: isolation, social deprivation, the dangers of excessive screen time to brain development....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Save the Catholic Church, Abolish the Priesthood]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/to-save-the-church-dismantle-the-priesthood/588073/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and take the faith back into their own hands.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ed Markey Hopeful for Green New Deal's Chances]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-ed-markey-the-co-sponsor-of-the-green-new-deal-may-be-hopeful-for-its-chances</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the Nuclear Freeze resolution, in 1982, Markey changed America's position on a potential catastrophe. He could help do it again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Summoning Bishops, Is Francis Missing the Point?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/in-summoning-the-bishops-to-address-the-sexual-abuse-crisis-is-pope-francis-again-missing-the-point</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis is woefully in the grip of male-dominated, celibate clericalism, even though he criticizes it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has Become a Figure of Disappointment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WHEN PRESIDENT Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address Tuesday night, the nation will implicitly consider the state of the president himself. Six years ago, he was defined by the word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'hope.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He had arrived on the scene as a political innocent, and many who voted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Foreign Policy, Obama Is Succeeding]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/07/06/foreign-policy-obama-succeeding/wQsiIjeEE1Zv5WJZaRwHbO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Radical Pope's First Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_carroll</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On most Wednesdays, the Pope gives a general audience, and this one was packed. It was a balmy October morning, and more than a hundred thousand pilgrims, tourists, and Romans had funnelled into St. Peter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Square. It was the first of three large gatherings Pope Francis presided...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Land of Economic Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/01/03/now_the_rich_get_richer_quicker/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new year requires an inventory of the old. Mostly, this is an individual impulse, leading to resolutions and renewal. Such reckoning can seem an intensely private exercise. But what of a whole society? Can we assess the year just past with an eye on the entire land? Morally, how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fallout From a Treaty Failure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/11/29/fallout_from_a_us_treaty_failure/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LAST WEEK the Energy Department'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inspector general cited 16 incidents in which agents driving trucks carrying nuclear weapons were intoxicated. Two were arrested at a bar. The astounding revelation that convoys carrying the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most lethal material could be so carelessly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coal Industry Ponders Fight Against KY Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100728/NEWS01/307280114/Coal+industry+ponders+fight+against+Kentucky+democrats+Jack+Conway++Ben+Chandler</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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	By James R. Carroll  &#149; jcarroll@courier-journal.com
&#149; July 28, 2010
WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Coal company executives are considering whether to launch an industry-funded campaign organization aimed at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defined by Our Resume?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/05/24/who_do_you_think_you_are/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LAST WEEK a pair of news stories about the invented self competed for attention. One concerned the attorney general of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, and the other a former Harvard student, Adam Wheeler.Blumenthal, a Democrat running for Chris Dodd'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s Senate seat, was regarded as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The True Patriotism of Paying Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/12/the_true_patriotism_of_paying_taxes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If faces fall into an unwilled grimace this week, it is because taxes are due. A pinch is felt across the land, with a universal wish that the bill was not so high. But the sting of taxes, paradoxically, is a prompt for gratitude because the returns we file, checks included, are both a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will GOP Stymie Continued Arms Reduction?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-26/the-next-gop-screw-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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									Is Barack Obama near a foreign-policy accomplishment to pair with health-care reform?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and the Ambiguities of History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/14/president_obama_in_oslo/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PRESIDENT OBAMA'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'S Oslo speech could have been titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the ambiguities of history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' That the president spoke with self-awareness from within those ambiguities made the speech important. Two notes of ambiguity stood out. First, that his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'labors on the world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rusting and Fall of the Iron Curtain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/11/09/the_rusting_and_fall_of_the_iron_curtain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'YOU KNOW what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been going on in Berlin,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' my father said to me. It was a night in the summer of 1961. I was an ROTC-obsessed student at Georgetown University. Dad was a general on the Air Staff at the Pentagon, where he had worked late. He had let his driver go home...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Your Move, Mr. Ahmadinejad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-29/your-move-mr-ahmadinejad/?cid=bs:archive8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Search of Empathy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/08/17/in_search_of_empathy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Obama-Notre Dame Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/carroll?rel=hp_picks</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Can Make the Violence Stop, for Good]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/05/enlightenment_in_gaza/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy, the Champion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/01/ted_kennedy_the_champion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Preventing the Other Meltdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/10/13/preventing_the_other_meltdown/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Berlin, Hope for the Fall of Other Walls]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/07/28/in_berlin_hope_for_the_fall_of_other_walls/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[JFK and His Pacifist Speechwriter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/06/02/the_war_hero_president_and_the_pacifist/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Immorality of Iraq War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/05/the_new_immorality_of_iraq_war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Carroll</author>
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