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<title><![CDATA[Noam Scheiber - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14568.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Noam Scheiber]]></description><category domain="14568">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Parents Fret Over New Union Push for Remote Schooling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/08/us/teachers-unions-covid-schools.html?searchResultPosition=10</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chicago teachers have voted to go remote. Other unions are agitating for change. For Democrats, who promised to keep schools open, the tensions are a distinctly unwelcome development.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GM, Not Trump, Is Real Villain to Some Ohio Factory Workers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/business/economy/gm-plant-jobs-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After an election campaign in which he had pledged a manufacturing renaissance, President Trump came to this once-thriving industrial region of northeastern Ohio last year and all but waved a mission-accomplished flag.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Union Inroads Have Labor Leaders Scrambling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/business/economy/trump-labor-unions.html?_r=0&amp;referer=https://www.google.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald J. Trump redrew the electoral map with his rousing economic nationalism and evocation of a lost industrial age. It was a message that drew many union members to his cause. And now it is upending the alliances and tactics of the labor movement itself.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inequality Troubles Across Party Lines]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/business/inequality-a-major-issue-for-americans-times-cbs-poll-finds.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans are broadly concerned about inequality of wealth and income despite an economy that has improved by most measures, a sentiment that is already driving the 2016 presidential contest, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[De Blasio, Obama &amp; a Flawed Vision of Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/opinion/sunday/de-blasio-obama-and-a-flawed-vision-of-liberalism.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Puts Republicans in a Bind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120361/gop-reaction-obama-immigration-order-deadly</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are several reasons why Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive action on immigration has put Republicans in a terrible bind. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the fact that conservatives are likely to respond by demanding a hardline position from the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2016 nominee, torpedoing his or her electability....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jarrett's Defenders Misunderstand My Profile]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120282/valerie-jarretts-defenders-miss-point-my-profile</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I was keen to write a long profile of Valerie Jarrett is that she inspires so much speculation and debate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'speculation about her role in the White House; debate about whether it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s helpful or harmful to the president. I thought that producing a definitive story...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Question for Dems Before They Choose Hillary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120256/hillary-clinton-presidency-could-have-same-problem-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By most accounts, Hillary Clinton had a good election night. Or at least her 2016 chances did. The New York Times reported that voters and operatives woke up the next day counting on her to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'resurrect the Democratic Party.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' And that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the lopsided outcome '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' makes it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Valerie Jarrett, the Obama Whisperer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120170/valerie-jarrett-obama-whisperer</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even at this late date in the Obama presidency, there is no surer way to elicit paranoid whispers or armchair psychoanalysis from Democrats than to mention the name Valerie Jarrett. Party operatives, administration officials'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'they are shocked by her sheer longevity and marvel at her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What I Got Wrong About the Obama Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120084/what-my-book-got-wrong-about-obama-summers-geithner-recovery</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama got endless guff for pointing out the obvious in early October'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'policies are on the ballot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' this Election Day even if he isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t. Judging from the most recent polls, those policies aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t wildly popular. The more important question...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYC Officials Were Right to Lie Last Night]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119978/cuomo-de-blasio-lied-about-craig-spencers-ebola-thats-ok</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not beat around the bush here: The authorities in New York clearly lied in their press conference last night about Craig Spencer, the New York physician who contracted Ebola while volunteering for Doctors Without Borders in Guinea.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Next 2 Awful Years Will Look Like]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119779/2014-midterm-elections-what-republican-congress-will-look</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Republicans take control of the House and Senate, many of their members will call for the outright repeal of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms. But according to a former congressional aide close to the issue, the more serious threat to the regulations will come in the guise of moderate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate May Be at Stake in South Dakota]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119761/south-dakota-could-decide-senate-majority-mike-rounds-rick-weiland</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, a coalition of progressive groups announced they were pumping $2 million into the South Dakota Senate race. If you hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t previously known there was a Senate race in South Dakota this year, that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s probably forgivable. Mitt Romney carried the state by 18 points, and,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Finally, the Truth About the AIG Bailout]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/opinion/finally-the-truth-about-the-bailout.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' TODAY is the start of the trial in Starr International Co. Inc. v. United States, the case alleging that the government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2008 bailout of A.I.G. amounted to an unconstitutional plunder of the company'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s shareholders. Starr, a firm run by the former A.I.G. chief...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Succeed in Silicon Valley Without Trying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tech-investors-are-failing-due-diligence</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On July 1, Seth Bannon appeared before several hundred techies and investors at the New York Tech Meetup, the industry gathering where Tumblr and Foursquare made their debut.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Importance of Scott Walker's Reelection Bid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119208/scott-walker-mary-burke-governor-race-may-shape-future-us-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows the most important political race in the country this fall is the race that determines control of the U.S. Senate, which is very much up in the air. According to The New York Times prediction model, the deciding race would be North Carolina if the election were held today....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley Ruining 'Sharing' for Everybody]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119072/silicon-valleys-sharing-economy-airbnb-lyft-are-selling-big-lie</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve used Airbnb or Uber or any other '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sharing economy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' service lately, you may be surprised to learn that you were not a consumer but a foot-soldier in a movement. And like any self-respecting movement, this one has a set of core principles that must periodically be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Has a Plan to Attack Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118540/hillary-clintons-inequality-strategy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if Hillary Clinton never draws a credible challenger for the 2016 nomination, she'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s clearly going to face a lot of questions about the issue that'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s at the front of Democrats'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';' minds: inequality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Hillary Clinton Won Over Skeptical Liberals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118432/hillary-clinton-2016-how-she-won-over-left-become-invincible</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118432/hillary-clinton-2016-how-she-won-over-left-become-invincible]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jay Brown is a blunt-talking doctor from Ames, Iowa, the kind of guy who believes the biggest threats to the republic are the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, and the corporatization of politics. Back in 2007, he signed up as a precinct captain for Barack Obama with one stated goal: to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind Obama &amp; Clinton's Marriage of Convenience]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118052/hillary-clintons-book-suggests-marriage-convenience-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So far, we know that Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new book, Hard Choices, catalogues the following disagreements with her former boss, Barack Obama: She favored arming and training moderate Syrian rebels, keeping Hosni Mubarak in power longer, taking a tougher line with Vladimir Putin, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley Insiders to Blame for Tech Bubble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117559/how-silicon-valley-investors-created-tech-bubble</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing debate over the existence of a tech bubble, the bubble-deniers have settled on a common theme: The valuations of tech companies may be rising, but the people bidding them up are savvy insiders. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re unlikely to be completely blinkered. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a handful of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of the Bed-Wetting Liberal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117257/bed-wetting-liberals-democrats-freak-over-setbacks-gop-doesnt</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117257/bed-wetting-liberals-democrats-freak-over-setbacks-gop-doesnt]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that over seven million Americans have enrolled in Obamacare, everyone who dismissed the goal as wildly implausible has some reckoning to do. And the comeuppance isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just for right-wingers, though that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s certainly the most satisfying variety. When Obamacare looked like it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brutal Ageism of Tech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-brutal-ageism</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have more botox in me than any ten people,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February.He is a reality-show producer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s idea of a cosmetic surgeon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'his demeanor brash, his bone structure preposterous. Over the course of our hour-long conversation, he would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Delusional Tea Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116562/tea-party-folding-debt-limit</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got to know when to hold them and when to fold them'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'thus spake Michele Bachmann in an interview with The Washington Post last week. Bachmann is, of course, the high priestess of not knowing when to fold them. In 2012, she alleged an Islamist conspiracy at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Go It Alone, Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116475/obamas-executive-action-approach-political-mistake</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday the president trekked to a middle school in suburban Maryland to unveil $750 million worth of corporate grants for wiring schools across the country. In keeping with his general theme of the last few weeks--'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'year of action,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a pen and a phone,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' basically...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Socialized Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116424/socialized-law-radical-solution-inequality</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maintain and refine, maintain and refine. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how progressives talk about the welfare state these days. After nearly a century of expanding government with programs like Social Security, Medicaid, and food stamps, suddenly the best the left can come up with are relative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bashing the Media Won't Save Christie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116297/chris-christie-bridge-scandal-bashing-liberal-media-wont-save-him</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Chris Christie opened a new front in the campaign to save his political career. The governor attacked MSNBC, a one-time booster that has morphed into the leading cable instigator of bridge-scandal coverage, for being a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'partisan network'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' whose efforts to advance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheer Up About Obamacare, Michael Moore]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116105/obamacare-will-lead-single-payer-michael-moore</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week the liberal documentary-maker Michael Moore prompted indigestion across the progressive wonk community by pronouncing Obamacare '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'awful.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' In a New York Times op-ed, he bemoaned the way the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s law preserved the health insurance industry rather than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Divide that Will Define Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115942/democratic-schism-over-bankers-vs-reformers-real</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Throughout the summer and fall, a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' group of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' writers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (including'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' me) began documenting the growing appeal of economic populism and the rising influence of its practitioners. We populist-boosters mostly had the field to ourselves for several months. But in the last few weeks, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Budget Deal Is a Win for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115904/ryan-murray-budget-deal-win-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noam Scheiber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re a liberal, your view of the just-brokered budget deal hinges on whether or not you think the sequester fight was lost before Patty Murray and Paul Ryan ever broke bread together. If you think the sequester was somehow repeal-able, then you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re going to hate this deal,...]]></description>
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