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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Unburdened by What They Have Done to Chicago]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/08/19/democrats-unburdened-by-what-they-have-done-to-chicago/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is what you get when politics is untethered from governance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Labels, With No Candidate, Says Yes to a 2024 Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/03/08/no-labels-with-no-candidate-says-yes-to-a-2024-presidential-campaign/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 14-year-old nonprofit is about to find out whether third-party politics has a centrist/establishment lane.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Third Party Candidates Widening Trump's Lead Over Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/02/08/third-party-candidates-widening-trumps-lead-over-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you add some of the names that will actually be on most presidential ballots come November, Joe Biden loses a couple of percentage points to Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Presidential Ballot Will Be Crowded With 3rd Party Candidates]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/02/02/presidential-ballot-will-be-crowded-with-third-party-candidates/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RFK Jr. predicts all 50 states, Libertarian Party expects at least 48, Green Party over 30, and a still-waffling No Labels 32.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Independents Hate the Trump-Biden Rematch]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/01/24/independents-hate-the-trump-biden-rematch/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's winning numbers nonetheless contain hints of future losing; meanwhile, RFK Jr. is polling near 20 percent.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Try To Whitewash Catastrophic School Closures]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2023/08/31/democrats-try-to-whitewash-their-starring-role-in-school-closures/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[School closers (and too many journalists) want to evade responsibility for a catastrophic decision.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2024 Chicago Convention Will Advertise Democrats' Failures]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2023/04/11/democrats-choose-to-advertise-failures-of-single-party-democratic-rule-by-holding-the-2024-dnc-in-chicago/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The DNC will hold its 2024 national political convention in a city that has been ravaged by decades of one-party Democratic rule: Chicago.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gatekeepers Terrified Musk Will Remove Gates From Twitter]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2022/04/14/gatekeepers-very-afraid-that-elon-musk-will-remove-the-gates-from-twitter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[$43 billion takeover bid reveals knowledge-class anxieties over free expression]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RIP, 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated']]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/12/27/rip-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated/?utm_medium=email</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you spend too much time observing the way politicians speak, you'll pick up an almost perceptibly mechanical gear-shift in their heads when the brain-groove reminds them to reproduce an anecdote or talking point they have formulated so many times before. Occasionally the subconscious...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Just Keep Closing Schools and Mandating Masks]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/11/05/they-just-keep-closing-schools-and-mandating-masks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So much for politicians, educators, and public health officials learning a damn thing from Tuesday's election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Dems Scrapping Gifted &amp; Talented Programs]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/10/08/nyc-scrapping-gifted-and-talented-program-is-a-triumph-of-redefining-language/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Branding disparate racial outcomes as "segregation" is an effective way in Democratic polities to tear down programs some progressives don't like.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden, Democrats' Mask Mandates and the Politics of Incivility]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/09/17/toddler-masking-biden-says-governors-are-playing-politics-with-the-lives-ofchildren/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president bemoans the incivility of politics while accusing Republicans of being "cavalier" about the potential for dead kids.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Families Are Fleeing Government-Run Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/08/27/families-are-fleeing-government-run-schools/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn elementary loses one-third of its student population and eight teachers, as the first 2021'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'22 enrollment numbers straggle in.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Staying Home Is What Unvaccinated-Punishers Want]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/08/19/you-staying-at-home-is-the-future-unvaccinated-punishers-want/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Complying with the layers of COVID-19 restrictions on travel and human interaction is exhausting even for the vaccinated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CDC Sentences Kids to Another Year of Irrational Masking]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/07/28/cdc-sentences-kids-to-another-school-year-of-irrational-masking/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Because adults can't evaluate risk, kids continue to suffer the most from COVID policy, despite suffering the least from COVID.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Randi Weingarten's Hilariously Awful Media Rehab Tour]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/05/21/randi-weingartens-hilariously-awful-media-rehabilitation-tour/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Teachers union president tries to rebrand as a school-reopener, but parents aren't having it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom's Idiotic Case Against the Recall: It Costs Too Much!]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/05/07/gavin-newsoms-idiotic-case-against-the-recall-it-costs-too-much/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California Democrats and journalists are suddenly concerned about expensive government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Equity Mess]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/05/02/the-equity-mess/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite their professed goals, Democrats' pandemic policies have widened disparities between races, classes, and genders.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Open Schools, Dems Still Keeping Them Closed]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/04/19/republicans-open-schools-democrats-still-keeping-them-closed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest data underscore an appallingly partisan split on what should be a more science-based decision.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teacher Unions Extract Final Payouts Before Schools Reopen]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/04/06/teachers-unions-extracting-final-payouts-before-schools-reopen/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[L.A. teachers win $500 childcare concession, though New York union still holding firm on anti-scientific 2-case rule.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Year Later, It Looks Like Schools Should've Never Closed]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/03/23/teachers-unions-hate-school-opening-science-now-that-they-cant-influence-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even after the massive Biden stimulus, union head honcho Randi Weingarten complains that schools don't have the resources or ability to fully reopen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Reminder Teachers Unions Are Putting Kids Last]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/01/26/schools-might-not-reopen-for-maybe-another-year-says-n-j-teachers-union/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Montclair cancellation of K-12 reopening is yet another reminder that unions are putting students last.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg and the Imperious Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2019/12/06/michael-bloomberg-and-the-imperious-presidency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Donald Trump could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it, what bit of]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders &amp; Elizabeth Warren vs. Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/12/bernie-sanders-and-elizabeth-warren-thin</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They say it's to protect free speech.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Jeff Flake Matters]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2017/12/09/why-jeff-flake-matters</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Principle and humility are shoved to the margins of the modern GOP.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Think Campus Free Speech Is No Big Deal? Watch This]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/17/if-you-think-campus-free-speech-is-no-bi</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Moynihan finds students scared to express nuanced ideas, a progressive professor demonized as a racist, protesters mocking free speech,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did the Libertarian Party Blow It in 2016?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2017/01/07/did-the-libertarian-party-blow</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Objectively speaking, 2016 was the Libertarian Party's best year ever. It was also a savage disappointment. On the positive side, the presidential ticket]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nice Guys Finish Third: Gary Johnson's Awkward Night]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/blog/2016/06/23/nice-guys-finish-third-gary-johnsons-awk</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eight hours before he stepped on a CNN stage for a widely anticipated, strategically critical town hall appearance, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson explained to me why he was planning yet again to wear athletic sneakers to a formal event. "It's analogous to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Govt Stifled Reason's Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/19/government-stifles-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past two weeks, Reason, a magazine dedicated to "Free Minds and Free Markets," has been barred by an order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from speaking publicly about a grand jury subpoena that court sent to Reason.com. The subpoena demanded...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Liberals Turned Against Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/30/when-the-left-turned-against-f</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Welch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 4, in a designated "free-speech zone" at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), associate professor of feminist studies Mireille Miller-Young walked over to a 16-year-old anti-abortion protester named Thrin Short and demanded that Short take down a graphic sign...]]></description>
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