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<title><![CDATA[Mona Charen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14574.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mona Charen]]></description><category domain="14574">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Mahmoud Khalil Has Rights, Dammit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-has-rights-dammit-immigration-israel-hamas-october-7-free-speech-antisemitism-columbia</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I can't defend what he said, but I defend his right to say it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Jewish Voters Should Reject Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-jews-should-reject-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The left's antisemitism problem doesn't compare to his Nazi-adjacent new right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Can't Blow the Debates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-cant-blow-the-debates</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They may be his only chances to change people's minds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Checks and Balances Won't Save Us from Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/15/checks_and_balances_wont_save_us_from_trump_150202.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The already-forgotten-but-not-yet-gone Kevin McCarthy shared some thoughts on threats to our democracy with Bob Costa on "Face the Nation." McCarthy is unworried about Trump's authoritarian ambitions. "Yeah, but remember, you have a check-and-balance system."
McCarthy isn't the only one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Oldest Hatred Roars Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/03/the_oldest_hatred_roars_back_150005.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one day of savagery, Hamas brought the world's oldest hatred into the mainstream. The upwelling of antisemitism around the globe, and especially in the United States, mocks the naivety of those who imagined that the oldest hatred was mostly in the past, that Israel could be a normal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hamas Uses Israel's Humanity Against It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/20/hamas_uses_israels_humanity_against_it_149932.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hamas is banking on short memories, lazy journalism and short fuses. The lies it told about the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital event illustrate the war on truth that it conducts simultaneously with sadistic attacks on civilians. Hamas's attack on Israel constituted an encyclopedia of war...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Dangerous Narcissists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/22/our_dangerous_narcissists_149792.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you're like me, you've gotten a bellyful of AI analysis, speculation and dire warnings over the past few months. Alongside hopes of cancer cures, obedient home robots, personalized tutors, energy efficiency and wildlife preservation, we've heard from leaders in the field that AI will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Hid'n Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/15/stop_hidn_biden_149759.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our octogenarian president traveled 8,000 miles to meet with India's premier, Narendra Modi, and to attend the G20 summit in New Delhi. He then flew another 2,000 miles to visit America's new pal, Vietnam -- all over the course of just five days. That's a demanding trip, even for a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Change the Format of Debates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/25/change_the_format_of_debates_149671.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Milwaukee debate was a travesty. Not that the moderators asked the wrong questions (though, seriously, UFOs?) or that the candidates gave the wrong answers -- rather, the entire format is guaranteed to elicit the kind of behavior that least conduces to good leadership.
There should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Supporters Are Responsible for Their Choices]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/11/trump_supporters_are_responsible_for_their_choices_149611.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I applaud people attempting to bridge divides in America, so two cheers to the New York Times' David Brooks for taking a stab at understanding Donald Trump's popularity from the point of view of his supporters. Why not three cheers? Read on.
Brooks writes that most people in elite...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Trials Will Be a Step Toward Truth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/04/trumps_trials_will_be_a_step_toward_truth_149583.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a little hard to recall now, but last year, Donald Trump was in eclipse. In July 2022, half of GOP primary voters expressed a desire to move on from Trump. His anointed candidates fared poorly in November, and even some of his most ardent backers, including the Murdochs, were eyeing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jason Aldean Thinks He's Been Misunderstood. He Hasn't.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/28/jason_aldean_thinks_hes_been_misunderstood_he_hasnt_149552.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jason Aldean is full of righteous indignation that people are outraged by his music video "Try That in a Small Town."
Against a montage of rioters pitching rocks and Molotov cocktails, masked criminals robbing convenience stores and protesters flipping off cops, Aldean presents himself...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Read Polls Without Terror]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/30/how_to_read_polls_without_terror_149429.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Experts will advise you never to eat meat with cream sauce at a buffet; always to lock your car even when just dashing into the 7-Eleven for two minutes; and never to read national polls in the year before an election.
But there are coping mechanisms if you, like me, fail on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republicans Who Know This Indictment Is Devastating]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/16/the_republicans_who_know_this_indictment_is_devastating_149363.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What will Republican voters make of Trump's federal indictment? There have already been polls, but they are too early to mean much. Voters' reactions will be influenced by Republican leaders and media personalities. For the past eight years, "influencers" have rallied around Trump. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the GOP Tiptoeing Toward Normality?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/09/is_the_gop_tiptoeing_toward_normality_149337.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every morning, before we open our eyes, every one of us must grapple with the excruciating possibility that Donald Trump could be reelected. It's the nightmare from which we cannot awake, at least for now. And yet, something is stirring in the Republican Party. After eight vertiginous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tim Scott and the Republican Id]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/26/tim_scott_and_the_republican_id_149285.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching Tim Scott's announcement speech, I was struck by how differently I would have responded to his message 10 years ago. In 2013 I wrote: "It's to their credit that Republicans are obsessed with getting the government to address its unconscionable and unmanageable debt, freeing up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Trump Wannabee]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/12/the_democrats_trump_wannabee_149219.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is causing eyebrows to arch all over the political world. The 69-year-old son of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is a former environmental lawyer turned vaccine conspiracist. On April 19, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. His aim?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Clarence Thomas Crooked?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/04/14/is_clarence_thomas_crooked_149105.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The journalists at ProPublica are proud of their scoop about Justice Clarence Thomas accepting scads of luxury gifts over the years from a billionaire pal, Harlan Crow. Many who never liked Thomas' jurisprudence are piling on and declaring a four-alarm fire. Writing in The American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thinking About Biden's Age]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/10/thinking_about_bidens_age_148968.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In late 2019, Politico asked a high-ranking Biden aide about the candidate's age. "If Biden is elected," the anonymous adviser said, "he's going to be 82 years old in four years and he won't be running for reelection."
That was then. Though Joe Biden never did forswear a second term,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Patrick Mahomes' and Jalen Hurts' Most Important Teams Were Their Parents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/17/patrick_mahomes_and_jalen_hurts_most_important_teams_were_their_parents_148878.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My husband went to California on a business trip a few weeks ago. While he was away, I found myself doing something completely out of character -- switching on the TV while cooking or reading the paper. A silent house felt lonely. In 1960, just 13% of households were comprised of single...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Police Profanity Isn't Just Impolite; It Poisons the Relationship With the Public]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/10/police_profanity_isnt_just_impolite_it_poisons_the_relationship_with_the_public_148843.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Police reform is hard. Not that there's any shortage of smart proposals. In the wake of the shameful beating death of Tyre Nichols, we've seen a number of promising reform ideas, including dramatically increasing training and disempowering police unions, both of which I support. But, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Honor Tyre Nichols with Real Reform]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/03/honor_tyre_nichols_with_real_reform_148813.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Driving to dinner on Sunday, I found myself suddenly surrounded by emergency vehicles. Fire trucks, police cars and ambulances seemed to converge from all directions. Had someone jumped off the bridge into the river?
I thought of that crush of rescuers when the video of Tyre Nichols'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lying to Parents about Trans Kids Hurts Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/27/lying_to_parents_about_trans_kids_hurts_kids_148783.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you are the parent of a 15-year-old girl and discover that her school has been concealing her daytime behavior from you. Your daughter has joined a far-right Mormon spin-off cult, believes in plural marriage, has spoken of dropping out of school to get married, and declines...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Normalization of Marjorie Taylor Greene]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/13/the_normalization_of_marjorie_taylor_greene_148721.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During one of Kevin McCarthy's gauntlet of punishing votes, it was striking to see with whom he passed the time. There she was, dressed in sophisticated black, the member hailed as a "key ally" to the new speaker of the House: Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Her choice of color (in the past she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/06/it_couldnt_happen_to_a_nicer_guy_148689.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's a funny thing about the Freedom Caucus' insurrection against Kevin McCarthy, which on Tuesday denied him election as Speaker of the House on three consecutive ballots for the first time in a century. On the surface, it looks like the firebrands and zealots are in revolt against...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Greg Abbott: Scrooge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/30/greg_abbott_scrooge_148670.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Christmas eve in Washington, D.C., the temperature plunged to 15 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest on record. In our neighborhood, people were admonishing their neighbors for leaving dogs outside too long. "It's friggin' 15 degrees!"
And yet, the governor of Texas nonetheless decided to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Naysayers are Wrong: Fusion Will Change the World.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/23/the_naysayers_are_wrong_fusion_will_change_the_world_148644.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A government laboratory, after decades of tireless effort and many a disappointment, announces that it has achieved the holy grail of green energy -- nuclear fusion ignition! And the response has been ... a damp squib.
A reporter at The Guardian sniffed that what happened at Lawrence...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Needs Hunter Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/09/the_right_needs_hunter_biden_148583.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right is positively giddy over the so-called Twitter files. House Republicans called a press conference to declare that their very top priority will be investigating Hunter Biden's laptop. Rep. Elise Stefanik promised in July that if given the majority, Republicans would get...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Torment Is a Reminder of What We Have]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/02/chinas_torment_is_a_reminder_of_what_we_have_148546.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2022, the United States conducted its 117th consecutive peaceful election (though the aftermath of the 1860 election was not). The 2022 elections were blissfully uneventful, with losers conceding gracefully.
To call that a relief is a tremendous understatement, but this is no time to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pro-Lifers Need a New Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/18/pro-lifers_need_a_new_strategy_148490.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mona Charen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is the pro-life movement? I've always imagined it to be broader than just efforts to make abortion illegal. In the wake of the 2022 elections, in which voters rejected candidates whose abortion postures were perceived as extreme, those who care about the welfare of unborn children...]]></description>
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