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<title><![CDATA[Evan Thomas - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14547.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Evan Thomas]]></description><category domain="14547">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Justice O'Connor Helped Preserve Abortion Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-supreme-court-justice-sandra-day-oconnor-helped-preserve-abortion-rights</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When, in 1981, Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court, her views on abortion became a source of intense speculation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sandra Day O'Connor Saved Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/how-sandra-day-oconnor-saved-affirmative-action/584215/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her struggle with the issue suggests that it won't be easy to stop the consideration of race in admissions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Play Spy vs. Spy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/opinion/will-trump-play-spy-vs-spy.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent days, President-elect Donald J. Trump has rejected the C.I.A.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s conclusions that Russian hackers attempted to sway the American elections, and has accused unnamed officials within the agency of trying to undermine him. And he has rejected the tradition of receiving the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Need a Foreign Policy Elite]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/opinion/why-we-need-a-foreign-policy-elite.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NO one, not even Donald J. Trump, vilified the Eastern elite more thanRichard M. Nixon. He particularly railed against Harvard. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'None of them in the cabinet, do you understand? None of those Harvard bastards!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he bellowed at his chief of staff H. R. Haldeman. Yet when it came...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Milhous Clinton]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Hillary+Milhous+Clinton&amp;oq=Hillary+Milhous+Clinton&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.79j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Hillary+Milhous+Clinton&amp;tbm=nws</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political shorthand to describe Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s resentful, suspicious attitude toward the press is to say that she brings to mind Richard Nixon. Like Nixon, she sees enemies everywhere (and, like Nixon did, she does have a lot of enemies). Like Nixon, she is guarded and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neocons Should Heed Hagel's Eisenhower Model]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-15/u-s-neocons-should-heed-hagel-s-eisenhower-model.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conflict between Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. secretary of defense, and his neoconservative detractors feels personal. Hagel once disparaged the neocons as "chicken hawks," and the neocons call Hagel "an appeaser."But beneath the name calling lies a deeper...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Consequences of Killing Gadhafi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/assassination-is-a-two-edged-sword/2011/06/30/AG1FNEuH_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the United States government trying to kill Moammar Gaddafi? Not officially. For the record, the United States is supporting a NATO mission to protect civilians from Gaddafi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s forces.  NATO jets are bombing Gaddafi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s command and control centers. If Gaddafi  dies, it may be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Straight Talk on Debt Could Save Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/13/what-obama-needs-to-do.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years into his presidency, Barack Obama  remains a remote, even mysterious figure. It'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s not that he isn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t  familiar. If anything, he is over-exposed, a common sight on TV,  speaking about this or that. But for all his constant presence, he is  oddly irrelevant. He isn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t a failure:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[53 Hours in the Life of a Near Disaster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/237655</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frustrated sons of privilege, caught between East and West, sometimes make for dangerous militants. Mohamed Atta, the lead 9/11 hijacker, was the son of a Cairo lawyer and the grandson of a doctor. The so-called underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is the son of a wealthy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Advice for the President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/233228</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president needs to tell the truth on taxes, entitlements, and how to really reform health care"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'before it's too late.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasIt has long been an unwritten rule of political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah Palin?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/222786</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rise and fall--and rise again--of Sarah Palin.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasModerate Republicans"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'yes, they are not yet extinct, though most are in hiding"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'scoff at Sarah Palin and wish she would go...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden: An Inconvenient Truth Teller]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/217090</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why General McChrystal Believes He Can Win]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/216237</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal believes he can win in Afghanistan. It's the rest of the world that needs convincing.The story of the Taliban's fall and rise, in their own words.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasIn Kabul,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Killing Granny]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/215291</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Riddle of Robert McNamara]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/205384</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Loyal Opposition of Paul Krugman]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/191393</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Evan Thomas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasTraditionally, punditry in Washington has been a cozy business. To get the inside scoop, big-time columnists sometimes befriend top policymakers and offer informal advice over lunch...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Georgia Crisis: A 3 a.m. Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/153338</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Election of Flip-Flops We Didn't Expect]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/143863</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hole In McCain and Obama's Resumes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/143072</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mythology of Munich 1938]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/141502</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/135382</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Global Warming's Curious Absence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Call for Sacrifice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/131449</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama: Alienated in the U.S.A.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/123024</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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