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<title><![CDATA[Nicholas Lemann - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14604.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nicholas Lemann]]></description><category domain="14604">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Can the 1980s Explain 2024?]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/08/25/can-the-1980s-explain-2024/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The yuppies embodied the winning side of America's deepening economic divide. Bruce Springsteen spoke for those left behind. Two new books consider what liberals can learn from the decade.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Political Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/the-new-political-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rules of the marketplace, once managed by experts, are increasingly subject to partisan conflict. Good'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what the Founders intended. And liberals need to be the vanguard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats at a Crossroads]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/michael-kazin-democrats-history/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Kazin's new book examines the contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Appears Ready to Defeat Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-appears-ready-finally-to-defeat-affirmative-action</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Moderate conservative Justices voted with liberals to protect the program in the past, but there are no such Justices now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Affirmative Action Survive?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/02/can-affirmative-action-survive</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' policy has made diversity possible. Now, after decades of debate, the Supreme Court is poised to decide its fate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Larger Lesson of Liz Cheney's Ouster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/24/the-larger-lesson-of-liz-cheneys-ouster</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is to her credit that she stood up to Trump, but, with the Middle East erupting again, let's be careful that we don't also embrace her bellicose foreign-policy views.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Economically Liberal Legislation in Decades]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/the-stimulus-bill-is-the-most-economically-liberal-legislation-in-decades</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's bill is a sign that our democracy isn't completely broken, and may convince Americans that government can solve problems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Journalism Be Saved?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/02/27/can-journalism-be-saved/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Newspapers are dying. Can journalism be saved?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Admissions Aren't the Biggest Problem With College]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/want-to-fix-college-admissions-arent-the-biggest-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Busting the admissions cheaters is the right thing to do, but it won't change America much'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the right cause to take up is raising graduation rates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Quiet Ruthlessness of the Clinton Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-quiet-ruthlessness-of-the-clinton-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, it looked as if Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Presidential campaign might be in big trouble. James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., announced that the bureau had found new evidence that might be relevant to the investigation into her e-mails. The evidence, it was soon reported, had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/28/why-big-business-and-big-government-haunt-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the necktie-eschewing, more loosely hinged 2016 edition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'went to New Hampshire last month to attack Bernie Sanders on behalf of his wife'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Presidential campaign. At one stop, he derided Sanders as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the champion of all things small and enemy of all things...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unhappy Days for America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/may/21/our-kids-unhappy-days-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert Putnam made the leap from the academic prominence he had already achieved to something much broader in 1995 with an article in the Journal of Democracy called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Bowling Alone: America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Declining Social Capital.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's New Iraq Gamble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hillary-clintons-new-iraq-gamble</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in January, 1991, over the objections of his Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney, President George H. W. Bush sought a Congressional resolution authorizing him to launch a war to expel Saddam Hussein'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Iraqi military forces from Kuwait, which Saddam had invaded a few months...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Kitty Genovese Story Means]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/03/10/140310crbo_books_lemann</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Plucking a few events out of the vastness of the world and declaring them to be the news of the day is a mysterious and complicated project. Sometimes what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s news is inarguable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the outbreak of war, a head-of-state transition, natural calamity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but very often it falls into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Picking on the D.C. Elite!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114423/mark-leibovichs-town-reviewed-stop-picking-washington</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've been having an argument with a friend of mine, a veteran Washington journalist, about whether it can really be true that where I live (an apartment building on the Upper West Side of New York, all of whose residents are Columbia faculty members), people aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t talking about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113096/how-michelle-rhee-misled-education-reform</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The other day I picked up a copy of The Adventures of Augie March. I hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t remembered that Saul Bellow, writing in the early 1950s, when he was not yet forty, about Chicago in the 1920s, had been in full sympathy with the urban poor, as he definitely was not later in his career....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama, Supportable and Inscrutable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/108151/the-cipher-barack-obama-david-maraniss</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[EVERYBODY THESE DAYS is always complaining about hyper-partisanship, but the truth is that a much older complaint about American politics still has a lot of validity: that it takes place within a very narrow range of acceptable views, compared with the politics of most other democracies....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Did Reid Do It?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/11/how-reid-did-it.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well,  he escaped again. Just about the only Democrat who performed better  than expected at the polls yesterday was Harry Reid, the Senate majority  leader, who beat his Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, by a  comfortable margin. (I wrote about the campaign for The New Yorker.) ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Desert Storm: Is Harry Reid Going Down?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/25/101025fa_fact_lemann?currentPage=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One evening in Las Vegas, I dropped in on a bimonthly meeting of the Clark County Republican Party at which Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, was scheduled as the last speaker on a long program. The meeting was in a function room somewhere within the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kennedy's Cause: Universal Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/09/07/090907taco_talk_lemann</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Lemann</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Barbara Walters Got Where She Is]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/05/12/080512crbo_books_lemann</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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