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<title><![CDATA[Eric Alterman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14599.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Eric Alterman]]></description><category domain="14599">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Great Antifa Hoax]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/great-antifa-hoax-100000541.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last July 4, a group of 11 protesters, among them a middle school teacher and a UPS worker, held what they called a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'noise demonstration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' outside the Prairie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'land Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center in the town of Alvarado, Texas, about 30 miles south of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Jews' Support for Israel Near Breaking Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/american-jews-support-israel-near-100000539.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To describe Benjamin Netanyahu'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s government as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'nightmare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for liberal American Jews would be to badly understate the case. Its behavior is likely worse than any of us previously could have imagined. Netanyahu and his extremist Cabinet have put Israel in what Rabbi Jill...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Harris Get the Jewish Vote She Needs?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/187705/kamala-harris-jewish-vote-2024-pennsylvania</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Jews vote on their traditional concerns, yes, she can. But Israel has become a conservative cause. And this will matter in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'gulp'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Pennsylvania.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democrats' Economics Changed]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/economy/altercation-how-democrats-economics-changed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Tomasky on how a dissident, if realistic, assessment of the economy became mainstream]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Death of Newspapers Really Means]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/altercation-what-the-death-of-newspapers-really-means/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People treat the death of newspapers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as a matter of concern only to journalists. This could hardly be more misguided. Responsible journalism is the foundation of our collective ability to address our problems as a society: to improve '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the common good.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Almost all of that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fox News Keeps Getting Foxier]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/altercation-fox-news-keeps-getting-foxier/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like right-wing politicians, they're primarily interested in catering to the most extreme parts of their base.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Damn the Author, But Don't Cancel the Book]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/altercation-damn-the-author-but-dont-cancel-the-book/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the new, deficient Philip Roth biography and the apparently sociopathic biographer]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Cover a White House That's Untethered From Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-covid-caputo/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Trump's Washington, ignorance, arrogance, and deliberate deception come together to destroy our democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Modern Republican Party Is Built on Lies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-lies-republican-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In some ways Trump is more truthful than previous Republican presidents.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of 'Liberal Intolerance']]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/the-myth-of-liberal-intolerance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most significant threats to free speech come from conservatives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Dems Can Learn From RFK's Presidential Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/what-can-democrats-learn-from-robert-f-kennedys-presidential-campaign/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals need to find a way to appeal to white working-class voters without betraying their principles.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Coverage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/how-false-equivalence-is-distorting-the-2016-election-coverage/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 15, Donald Trump won Florida, North Carolina, Missouri, and Illinois, dispatching Marco Rubio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign to the ash heap of history and giving every impression that he had become the Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presumptive nominee. Hillary Clinton also did extremely well that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/192393/trouble-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama presidency has been a devil'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bargain for Democrats. Despite the considerable policy accomplishments to its credit, the administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political impact has been virtually catastrophic. Since Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory in 2008, Democrats are down seventy seats in the House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Power of Piketty's &quot;Capital&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/179509/power-pikettys-capital</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were among those who followed the reports on French economist Thomas Piketty'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s US book tour in support of his university-press-published, 696-page, Marxism-tinged treatise on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and taxed your brain trying to recall a remotely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Speaks for American Jews?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/10/who_speaks_for_american_jews_120285.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, the Pew Research Center'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Religion &amp; Public Life Project published what may be the most thorough and reliable study of the political, cultural, social, and religious attitudes of Jewish Americans in many decades. Based on 70,000 screening interviews and nearly 3,500...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz Is Not the Same As Wendy Davis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/03/ted_cruz_is_not_the_same_as_wendy_davis_120196.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The government shutdown, together with the propaganda battle that led up to it, has revealed a number of ugly truths about the current political climate. One that is particularly shocking'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'no matter how many times I feel compelled to write about it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is the lengths that reporters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio, 'Sandalista']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/26/bill_de_blasio_sandalista_120110.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did Bill de Blasio force his friends to say '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Neek-a-rog-wha'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' once upon a time?
The folks at'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' think it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s front-page news that back in 1988, when he was 26 years old,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democratic mayoral candidate and current New York City Public Advocate Bill de...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[De Blasio and the Rise of Economic Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/176028/bill-de-blasio-and-rebirth-economic-liberalism#axzz2e8SSEtNr</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Good news, for once: Bill de Blasio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent surge in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary tells us that, moribund as it may have appeared in recent years, economic liberalism in America is not dead yet.True, it looked to be buried alive until recently, beneath not only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Labor for a Day, Capital for the Rest of the Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/05/labor_for_a_day_capital_for_the_rest_of_the_year_119840.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the mainstream media, we focus on the business world every day and on labor one day a year. This obscures the awful treatment that so many U.S. workers endure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'particularly their meager vacation time.
Last week, I made a short and somewhat jocular reference to how little vacation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mainstream Media and the Slowly Boiling Frog]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/30/the_mainstream_media_and_the_slowly_boiling_frog_119780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late August is when Americans tend to take their relatively meager vacations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'workers in other social democracies tend to enjoy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' six paid weeks of vacation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' rather than just two weeks, a tendency that American news rarely recognizes. Since the vacation-bound mainstream media is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Indiana Is the Latest Skirmish in the Conservative War on Knowledge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/26/indiana_is_the_latest_skirmish_in_the_conservative_war_on_knowledge_119388.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the former Republican governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have much in common, except neither one of us are big fans of the late pro-Communist historian and anti-war activist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Howard Zinn. When my daughter was in middle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mainstream Media Refuses to Recognize the Elephant in the Room]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/18/mainstream_media_refuses_to_recognize_the_elephant_in_the_room_119277.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' John Cassidy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote a nice column following a two-week vacation in which he noted, without surprise, that yes, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s two-decade-long descent into wacky, quasi-religious, know-nothing nativism,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' together with '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a deep...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Have Progressives Abandoned Economic Liberalism?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/12/have_progressives_abandoned_economic_liberalism_119192.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent, much-discussed article in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Slate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Left?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Barry Friedman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Dahlia Lithwick'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' asked, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Have progressives abandoned every cause save gay marriage?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
The question was obviously overstated'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'perhaps on purpose'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to provoke....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Much Less Conservative than the Mainstream Media Believe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/21/america_is_much_less_conservative_than_the_mainstream_media_believe_118916.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a well-known '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fact'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' within the mainstream media that the country is not as liberal as journalists like to think it is. As with the consistent insistence on the prevalence of liberal bias, however, that fact is also fundamentally false.
MSNBC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Joe Scarborough is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame News for Public's Ignorance About Climate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/31/blame_the_news_for_the_publics_ignorance_about_climate_118638.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a blog post titled, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t everyone else?,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Brad Plumer covers a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' new survey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by John Cook and Dana Nuccitelli of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Skeptical Science. According to the survey, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Among abstracts [of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here Is A Realistic Approach to Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/03/think_again_a_realistic_approach_to_syria_118250.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Syria, as the cliche goes, is a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'problem from Hell.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Listening to conservative experts on the Sunday morning talk shows, however, it all appears to be pretty simple. As'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' noted:

On Sunday, several leading...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Think Again: 'Class Warfare' Revisited]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/19/think_again_class_warfare_revisited_118040.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first time I clicked on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' this'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Politico'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' article, titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Obama, class warrior,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I had to check my calendar. Had I forgotten April Fools Day? What else could explain what otherwise struck me as a purposeful'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'indeed, expertly executed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'parody of a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Politico'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Acknowledging Our Mistakes in Iraq Will Prevent Us from Repeating Them]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/29/think_again_acknowledging_our_mistakes_in_iraq_would_prevent_us_from_repeating_them_117718.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For better or worse, the Vietnam War proved itself to be a learning experience for Americans and the U.S. government. In the military, it resulted in what became known as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Weinberger Doctrine,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' set up a number of demanding conditions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for a president to consider...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Tsunami of Regressive Legislation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/169287/president-romney</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Allergic to issues, obsessed with personality, and unwilling to confront the reality of Republican radicalism, most members of the mainstream media have focused their coverage of the GOP presidential nominee on a single banal inquiry: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Who is Mitt Romney?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Allow me to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a Liberal Should Wish for in Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/30/eric-alterman-what-liberals-want-from-iowa-s-caucuses.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Alterman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, this is odd: 62 percent of those surveyed say they're optimistic about what 2012 will bring for the country according to a survey published Thursday. But if you listen to the Republican presidential candidates scrambling around Iowa this weekend, America is not headed to hell in a...]]></description>
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