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<title><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14613.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis]]></description><category domain="14613">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Tim Ryan Winning the War for Soul of Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/21/tim-ryan-is-winning-the-war-for-the-soul-of-the-democratic-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tim Ryan is a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'crazy, lying fraud.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how J.D. Vance, the best-selling memoirist turned Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, opened his remarks at his September rally alongside Donald Trump in the middle of the congressional district Mr. Ryan has represented for two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cause of the Crime Wave Is Hiding in Plain Sight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-cause-of-the-crime-wave-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/ar-AAZJtGF</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On December 31, 2020, a 40-year-old man named Leon Casiquito walked into Kelly Liquors on Route 66 in Albuquerque and tried to shoplift a bottle of tequila. When one of the owners, Danny Choi, tried to stop him, Casiquito flashed a small pocketknife. Choi told police he knocked the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lost Year: What School Closures Cost Teenagers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.propublica.org/article/the-lost-year-what-the-pandemic-cost-teenagers</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Hobbs, New Mexico, the high school closed and football was cancelled, while just across the state line in Texas, students seemed to be living nearly normal lives. Here's how pandemic school closures exact their emotional toll on young people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shemar, a twelve-year-old from East Baltimore, is good at math, and Karen Ngosso, his fourth-grade math teacher, at Abbottston Elementary School, is one reason why. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I would try to pump him up and tell him, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re a good student,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she said. But she knew that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Stop a Police Pullback]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/how-stop-police-pullback/615730/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reformers must tackle the challenge of underpolicing, which has often allowed officers to exercise an effective veto on reform.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Democrats Be as Stubborn as Mitch McConnell?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/opinion/can-the-democrats-be-as-stubborn-as-mitch-mcconnell.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In laying the groundwork recently for President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination for the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, had this to say: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What we hope would be that our Democratic friends will treat President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nominees in the same way that we treated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revenge of the Forgotten Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.propublica.org/article/revenge-of-the-forgotten-class</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting sight. I was looking for a professional sign-maker who had turned his West Carrollton ranch house into a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Turned My Blue State Red?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/who-turned-my-blue-state-red.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IT is one of the central political puzzles of our time: Parts of the country that depend on the safety-net programs supported by Democrats are increasingly voting for Republicans who favor shredding that net.In his successful bid for the Senate in 2010, the libertarian Rand Paulrailed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's an Autocrat on Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/barack_obama_has_moved_unilaterally_on_environmental_policy_because_republicans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Because you can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have a serious conversation with most Republicans about climate change.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Weak Republican Attack on Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/republican_convene_hearing_attacking_obamacare_the_affordable_care_act_is.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Republicans are in control of both chambers of Congress, the push to slay Obamacare by a thousand cuts is officially underway. But if the first stab is any indication, Republicans are going to need some sharper knives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Education of Jeb Bush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/testing-time</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December, Jeb Bush posted an update on his Facebook page which began by reporting that, over Thanksgiving, he and his family had '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'shared good food and watched a whole lot of football.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He added, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We also talked about the future of our nation. As a result of these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Forgot Their Winning 2012 Message]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120164/republicans-won-senate-because-democrats-forgot-2012-message</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day of the 2012 presidential election, while reporting on the south side of Columbus, Ohio, I came across a 50-year-old man named Matt Bimberg who was waiting for the bus. He was a middle-aged white man with a Detroit Tigers cap in a mostly black neighborhood, and was returning home...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Needs to Call Off the Voting Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119807/voter-id-laws-republican-voter-suppression-needs-stop</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are now three weeks to Election Day, which means we are deep into another round of the voting wars'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the ceaseless legislative, legal and regulatory battle over which Americans can vote, and when and where and with what paperwork they must do so. Here's a modest proposal: How about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Who Stand With NRA Win Nothing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119716/nra-and-gun-control-politics-arent-dominating-midterms</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Midterm politics hung heavy in the air when the Senate last year fell five votes short of blocking a Republican-led filibuster against the bill to expand background checks for gun purchases. Two of the Democrats who voted against the Manchin-Toomey bill were up for reelection in 2014 in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Strategy That Might Have Beaten McConnell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119479/democratic-candidates-need-talk-obamacare-voters</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times on Wednesday carried a provocative front-page dispatch from Kentucky by Abby Goodnough, who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been doing a superb job of covering the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the Bluegrass State as a window into the law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s import nationally. The piece captures the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons for Clinton From Cuomo's Primary Scare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119390/andrew-cuomos-primary-frights-five-lessons-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who not so long ago was being touted seriously as a 2016 presidential prospect (by your humble correspondent, among others) had a bit of a fright in yesterday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic primary. He got only 62 percent of the vote against Zephyr Teachout, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Going Backward in Its Birthplace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119214/republicans-shift-wisconsins-6th-district-petri-grothman</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s been so much talk of late about the transformation of the Republican Party over the course of the last few decades that it is easy to become inured to reports of ideologically extreme new arrivals in the party'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s ranks. After a while, the latest pronouncements of Michele...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Militarized Police &amp; Sensible Gun Control]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119170/libertarians-oppose-militarized-police-not-gun-control-make-sense</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Perry Charges Are Thin, But Clarifying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119120/rick-perrystexas-indictment-thin-its-also-clarifying</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barely had their schadenfreude subsided over the indictment Friday of Texas Governor Rick Perry for abusing the powers of his office than even some liberal commentators began questioning the charges. The two counts brought against Perry by a grand jury concern his attempt to force the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walker's Rhetoric Suggests He's in Trouble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118927/explaining-scott-walkers-populist-attacks-against-mary-burke</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got some good news on Thursday, as the state Supreme Court issued a 5-2 ruling upholding the defining act of his term as governor, a sweeping 2011 law that all but eliminates collective bargaining for most public employees.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Border Crisis Is Not &quot;Obama's Katrina&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118591/child-migrant-border-crisis-isnt-obamas-katrina-not-even-close</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rarely have we been presented with a policy problem as complex as the crisis unfolding on the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas, where thousands of women and children, including many unaccompanied minors, have been making their way from Central America to the Rio Grande Valley under the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Bubble Could Sink Walker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118263/scott-walkers-wisconsin-bubble-could-sink-him-john-doe-investigati</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was a big political development in Wisconsin Thursday, with the release of court documents that include an allegation by state prosecutors that Gov. Scott Walker, a 2016 presidential prospect, was part of a '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'criminal scheme'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' to skirt state laws in coordinating with outside...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118145/scott-walkers-toxic-racial-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In early August of 2011, a few days after Congress passed a deal to end the debt-ceiling showdown that brought the nation to the brink of credit default, a conservative talk-radio host in the Milwaukee suburbs went on an extended riff about Gwen Moore, the first African American elected...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Hypocrisy on the VA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117849/republicans-hypocritically-attack-obama-over-veterans-scandal</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117849/republicans-hypocritically-attack-obama-over-veterans-scandal]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It took very little time at all for reports of falsified records covering up delays at a Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix to balloon into just another who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s up-who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s down Washington political story. From the New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' front-page article today declaring in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nunn Should Stop Running From Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117833/michelle-nunns-obamacare-ambivalence-georgia-needs-stop</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Georgia, where the Republican Senate primary takes place today, the early campaign season has been spent with the candidates vying to out-conservative each other. One Senate candidate ran an ad declaring that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'no one in Congress should get a subsidy to pay for their own health...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mary Jo White Doesn't Scare Anybody]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117632/secs-mary-jo-white-whiffs-transparency-wall-street-dark-money</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, when President Obama named Mary Jo White as his pick to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, he cast the nomination as a shot across the bow of Wall Street wrong-doers. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not enough to change the law,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We also need cops on the beat to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can Overcome Midterm Fatalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117571/democrats-midterm-election-fatalism-can-and-must-be-overcome</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just when Democrats were starting to feel somewhat less gloomy about their prospects in this fall'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s midterm elections, there comes another downer poll, this one from the Washington Post and ABC, showing President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s approval rating at an all-time low of 41 percent, down...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Overblown IRS Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117345/irs-tea-party-scandal-karl-roves-crossroads-gps-now-plays-victim</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the final days of tax season, Republicans are doing their best to stir a new round of outrage over the IRS'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';' close scrutiny of conservative groups seeking nonprofit status. On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee made a big show of voting to release documents...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov. Christie's Self-Exoneration Report]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117181/christies-own-lawyers-exonerated-him-today-here-are-five-takeaways</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 300-page report commissioned by Chris Christie on the September lane closures at the George Washington Bridge and allegations that his administration used Sandy recovery funds to pressure the mayor of Hoboken to accept a big development project came out today, and not surprisingly,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are Hurting Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116992/florida-special-election-result-shows-democrats-need-more-obamacare</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alec MacGillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By this logic, Democratic candidates in 2014 should be running as fast as they can from Obamacare. This strikes me as entirely wrong. What Democrats need this year is more Obamacare, not less.]]></description>
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