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<title><![CDATA[David Harsanyi - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14593.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Harsanyi]]></description><category domain="14593">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Good News on Federal Workers You Haven't Heard]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/opinion/the-good-news-on-federal-workers-you-probably-never-heard-about/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Leaner Federal Workforce Is a Win for Taxpayers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/10/02/a_leaner_federal_workforce_is_a_win_for_taxpayers_154552.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs.
The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees. Not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Gaza Genocide' Is a Hoax]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/09/03/the_gaza_genocide_is_a_hoax_154469.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In May 2025, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, went on BBC Radio and told the audience that 14,000 babies in Gaza were going to die "in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them."
According to UNICEF, there are around 20,000 babies in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If 'Woke 1' Was 'Crazy,' What Does AOC Call the DSA?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4682852/if-woke-1-crazy-what-aoc-call-dsa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is suddenly trying to distance herself from what she, her comrades, and her organizational affiliations have and still advocate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mamdani Is a Clown. And the ICC Is a Joke]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4659866/zohran-mamdani-international-criminal-court-netanyahu-arrest-joke/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Creating Hamastan might be at the top of Zohran Mamdani's agenda, but mayors have no jurisdiction over foreign policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Even Without His Controversies, Graham Platner Is Just a Lightweight Extremist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/12/even_without_his_controversies_graham_platner_is_just_a_lightweight_extremist_154219.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Set aside, for a moment, that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner spent years with a Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo. Set aside that he blamed sexual assault victims for their predicament, that he called rural white Americans stupid racists, that he advocated political violence, that he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The SPLC's Real Scam]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/06/the_splcs_real_scam_154200.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was likely the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
At least that's what the Department of Justice's superseding indictment against the SPLC alleges. The organization secretly paid informants to engage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are in No Position to Lecture Anyone About Candidates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/30/democrats_are_in_no_position_to_lecture_anyone_about_candidates_154179.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are again acting like they occupy the high moral ground of American politics. But if 2026 has proven anything, it's that there's virtually nothing a left-wing candidate could say or do that would elicit condemnation from Democrats if doing so threatened their power.
Democrats,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nazi Tattoo? Hamas Defender? No Problem, Says Chuck Schumer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/01/nazi_tattoo_hamas_defender_no_problem_says_chuck_schumer_154080.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general.
Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Experts Predicted Catastrophe. Argentina Is Booming]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4524414/the-experts-predicted-catastrophe-argentina-is-booming/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Experts predicted Javier Milei would destroy Argentina. Inflation collapsed, poverty dropped 20 points. They were wrong again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Iran Deal Must Be Nothing Like Obama's]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/27/trumps_iran_deal_must_be_nothing_like_obamas_153989.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump recently announced that he's postponing strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days to negotiate a ceasefire. "I think it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody," he told journalists.
It's unclear who exactly the White House is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saint James Talarico (he/him)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/saint-james-talarico-he-him/ar-AA1XGjjb</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' here.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is in No Position to Lecture Us About Decency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/obama_is_in_no_position_to_lecture_us_about_decency_153863.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview with "No Lie" podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, former President Barack Obama claimed that conservatives do "the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together."
This is a jaw-dropping contention coming from a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama in No Position To Lecture Us About Decency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4460331/obama-no-position-to-lecture-about-decency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was Obama's systematic subversion of norms that made Donald Trump possible.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We don't need any more of his lectures.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shut Up and Ski]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/shut_up_and_ski_153837.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does anyone really believe the international media cares what Olympic snowboarders and curlers think about President Donald Trump's ICE raids, or whatever panic de jour is on the menu this week? Of course not. They want U.S. athletes to bash the American government on the world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Cry for The Washington Post, It Helped Destroy Media]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/06/dont_cry_for_the_washington_post_it_helped_destroy_media_153809.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat.
This was serious stuff. President Barack Obama, the paper ominously noted, was concerned that Moscow might...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Cry for the Washington Post]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/dont-cry-for-the-washington-post-it-helped-destroy-media/ar-AA1VKTZ5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December of 2016, the Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reported'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Price Controls Won't Work Any Better for Republicans Than It Does Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/price_controls_wont_work_any_better_for_republicans_than_it_does_democrats_153777.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Demonizing greedy bankers and landlords is the last refuge of the poorly polling politician.
And, as affordability remains a leading issue among voters, the Trump administration has regularly used rhetoric and ideas that mirror those of progressive Democrats like Zohran Mamdani.
Take the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Silence on Iran Isn't Hypocrisy; It's Consistency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/the_lefts_silence_on_iran_isnt_hypocrisy_its_consistency_153719.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are no flotillas on the way to save Iran. No Soros-funded "democracy" groups pressuring Western governments to intervene on behalf of civilians who are being arrested and murdered. No astroturfing movement demanding economic boycotts.
When college students returned from winter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sotomayor's Bad-Faith Warning on Presidential Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/12/sotomayors_bad-faith_warning_on_presidential_power.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time, warning that the administration is "asking us to destroy the structure of government."
Great. It's about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Release of Epstein Files Sets a Horrible Precedent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/21/release_of_epstein_files_sets_a_horrible_precedent_153562.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Harvard president Larry Summers has now lost virtually every professional association after a House committee released emails of his exchanges with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. There are around 20,000 pages of them. Many of the correspondences are embarrassing. There's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gaslighting Americans on Inflation Is a Bad Idea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/gaslighting_americans_on_inflation_is_a_bad_idea_153522.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked President Donald Trump this week if the affordability issue was a factor in the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City. "More than anything else, it's a con job by the Democrats," Trump said, before going on to harangue the media and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nuking Filibuster Would Come Back To Haunt GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/opinion/nuking-the-filibuster-as-donald-trump-wants-would-come-back-to-haunt-the-gop/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nuking the filibuster is unprincipled, but it also makes little political sense: Donald Trump would be doing Democrats a huge favor by greasing the wheels for exploiting fleeting one-party national'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Talk About the Real Genocide of Christians in Africa]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/04/lets_talk_about_the_real_genocide_of_christians_in_africa_153487.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With so much of the legacy media's focus spent on smearing Israel these days, you probably haven't heard a ton about the ongoing massacres in Nigeria.
Islamists have murdered tens of thousands of defenseless Christians, displacing around 15 million people from their homes.
Medieval...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Islamists Are Murdering Thousands of Christians]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/10/31/opinion/islamists-are-murdering-thousands-of-christians-but-lefties-focus-only-on-israels-supposed-sins/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Islamists have murdered tens of thousands of defenseless Christians, displacing around 15 million people from their homes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not 'Islamophobic' To Wonder How Mamdani Would React to 9/11]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/24/its_not_islamophobic_to_wonder_how_mamdani_would_react_to_911_153444.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it "Islamophobic" to wonder if NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has a soft spot for Islamic terrorists? Hardly.
"God forbid, another 9/11 -- can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo told WABC's "Sid and Friends in the Morning" this week.
"He'd...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Aren't 'Ceasefire Now!' Activists Celebrating Trump's Gaza Peace Deal?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/10/why_arent_ceasefire_now_activists_celebrating_trumps_gaza_peace_deal_153387.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone understands that slogans such as "Free Palestine!" and "Ceasefire Now!" are just euphemisms for a Hamas victory. Never has that been more evident than today.
Take New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the new darling of the American left. He has publicly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is a Massive Failure. The GOP Shouldn't Bail It Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/obamacare_is_a_massive_failure_the_gop_shouldnt_bail_it_out_153360.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it's a good time to remind everyone that the law has been a wide-ranging and expensive fiasco.
Virtually every promise made by Democrats regarding the Affordable Care Act...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schumer's Bad Shutdown Bet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3830403/chuck-schumer-bad-government-shutdown-bet/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party demanding extras, which is Schumer and the Democrats now, in shutdown negotiations historically loses these battles politically.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Can We Expect Immigrants To Embrace American Values if We Don't?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/how_can_we_expect_immigrants_to_embrace_american_values_if_we_dont_153329.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Harsanyi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to understand "the fundamentals of the history, and of the principles and form of government, of the United States."
Do they? According to...]]></description>
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