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							<title><![CDATA[AfD's Rise Isn't Just About East Germany]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/world/afd-germany-east-west-far-right/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Alternative f'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¼').';'r Deutschland has a stable national poll lead, including in the former West Germany. Its rise owes to much more than Eastern grievances.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Europeans, Trump-Style]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/the-new-europeans-trump-style/ar-AA1SCaY2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is sowing division in the European Union, even as he calls on it to spend more on defense.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Striking Out on Egypt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/06/striking_out_on_egypt_108788.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Having grown up in the Chicago area, rooting for years for the luckless Cubs and more recently for the hapless Washington Nationals, I feel particularly qualified to comment on the Obama administration's struggles to find a useful role to play in the crisis wracking Egypt...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Return of the Favorite Son?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/03/return_of_the_favorite_son_108756.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- When the National Governors Association holds its winter meeting here starting on Feb. 26, I expect to see some initial steps in the 2012 presidential campaign. That three-day gathering will offer the first and best opportunity for the enlarged group of 29 Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Missing a Tax Reform Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/30/missing_a_tax_reform_moment_108708.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- While I was out ill for six weeks in December and January, the world changed. Before that, the White House had badly misjudged the political climate. When I went to Ohio with Vice President Biden, he did his best to ignore the evidence of economic pain, giving a pep talk to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Takes Center Stage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/09/obama_takes_center_stage_108196.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It took a month for Barack Obama to make clear what he has learned from the midterm election "shellacking," but the time has not been wasted. Future political historians are likely to trace his recovery -- and re-election, if that's what happens -- back to decisions made in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Happy Warrior's Fall]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/05/a_happy_warriors_fall_108148.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- This was a sad time for many of us watching Charlie Rangel receive the censure of his colleagues in the House of Representatives -- not because of our disagreement with their judgment but simply because of who he is.
For 40 years or more, half his life, Rangel has been a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Solving the Fiscal Mess]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/02/solving_the_fiscal_mess_108116.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The two-day delay until Friday that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson obtained before their debt-management commission decides on their tough-medicine recommendations may not be enough to produce the votes needed to send those proposals on to Congress.
But make no mistake....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trust But Verify]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/28/trust_but_verify_108074.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Suppose he is serious. What if Barack Obama is telling the truth about his own beliefs when he says that neither party by itself can realistically hope to solve the challenges facing the United States?
Suppose he means it when he says that after the shellacking he and his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Murkowski's Epiphany]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/25/murkowskis_epiphany_108064.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- If you have any doubts about the real meaning of this month's midterm elections, let me refer you to the most notable winner in those tests. I am talking about Lisa Murkowski, the re-elected senator from Alaska.
The distinctive feature of the 2010 election was the energy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lame-Duck Game of Chicken]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/21/lame-duck_game_of_chicken_108022.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Washington began last week to come to grips with the new order of things, a regime in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell holds as much sway as the president of the United States.
With the additional leverage that six more Republican senators and a new Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wrong Signal From Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/18/wrong_signal_from_democrats_107993.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- When the rules of the House of Representatives forced the Democrats to confront a painful choice among their leaders, they did what Democrats are often inclined to do. They changed the rules. Usually, such a stunt would matter only to the members affected by the change. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Step Toward Fiscal Sanity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/14/a_step_toward_fiscal_sanity_107947.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- What Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have given America is the equivalent of a cold shower after a night of heavy drinking. It's sober-up time. The co-chairmen of the President's commission on deficits and debt, in outlining the steps they said would be necessary to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Swerve' Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/11/the_swerve_election.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The term of art that has been agreed upon for the voting that remade our politics earlier this month is that it was a "wave election."
That's not a bad description. It summons a picture of a large swell of water, rolling in from seemingly all directions and depositing its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: Time To Govern]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/04/obama_time_to_govern_107842.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The message to President Obama from Tuesday's election could not have been plainer: Don't abandon your goals. Change your way of operating.
There will be a temptation to interpret the Democrats' loss of their House majority and of at least six Senate seats as a rejection of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran and Obama's Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/31/iran_and_obamas_legacy_107784.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- When the midterm election cycle began, the prevailing opinion was that Barack Obama was cleverer and more inspirational than anyone else on the scene. As it ends, nothing appears to have changed. OH, YES, I know that Democrats have fallen into a peck of trouble and may lose...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Verdict Withheld?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/28/verdict_withheld_107757.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- I have this strange feeling that we are about to be badly misled about the political climate in this country. We are going to look at the returns on the biggest Republican victory in 16 years and think that it spells doom for the Democrats and a shift to the right in our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain's Austerity Model]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/24/britains_austerity_model_107698.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The most important political news last week came from across the Atlantic, where the coalition government of British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered an austerity budget that radically reduces government spending on the welfare state. Both the policy and the political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wisdom From a Bygone Era]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/21/wisdom_from_a_bygone_era_107663.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Itinerant politicians and journalists have learned they can expect a warm welcome and a stimulating evening when they visit the hilltop home of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics here at the University of Kansas.
When my turn came Monday night, I found it an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Thoughtful Opposites]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/16/gops_thoughtful_opposites_107603.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- While much of Washington was preoccupied Thursday evening by the contrast between the unacceptable and the profoundly uncomfortable -- the first televised debate between Majority Leader Harry Reid and his challenger, Sharron Angle -- a different scene was unfolding in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Vanishing Center]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/14/the_vanishing_center_107565.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Dipping back into conversation in the capital on a brief break from the campaign trail, I heard members of Congress, lobbyists and political operatives stewing about one topic above all others: What happens if this election blows up the center of American politics?
On both...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ohio's Rob Portman is a Man to Watch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/10/ohios_rob_portman_is_a_man_to_watch.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CLEVELAND -- There is a pattern to the political life of Rob Portman, as he reflected over dinner the other night. It is one that has brought him to the verge of victory in the Ohio Senate race, and conceivably could make him the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.
Portman, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Tries to Keep Voters Hopeful]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/07/chatty_joe_biden_tries_to_keep_voters_hopeful.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Joe Biden has a lot to say for himself. I spent a rainy 12-hour day with the vice president on Monday and from beginning to end, I don't think there was any period when he was not talking to people. The man is determined to carry the burden of his work. He wants to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner Antes Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/03/boehner_antes_up_107408.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Democrats were lying in wait for John Boehner when the Republican leader of the House announced that he would address the subject of congressional reform in a speech on Thursday at the American Enterprise Institute. Before Boehner opened his mouth, Speaker Nancy Pelosi...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Middle Has Swung Against Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/30/the_middle_has_swung_against_dems.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Sometimes the most important clues are hiding in plain view. That was the case in late June, when the Gallup Organization reported that the share of voters who describe themselves as conservative had increased from 37 percent to 42 percent in the past two years.
That does...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Maverick's Subtle Ways]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/19/the_mavericks_subtle_ways_107217.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- As Republican leaders assess a tea party movement that has both energized and polarized their ranks, John McCain takes a generally benign view of the political landscape -- but clearly comes down on the side of the traditional establishment rather than with the young...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Turn It Around After November?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/16/can_obama_turn_it_around_after_november.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The end of the primary season arrived Tuesday amid growing signs that a grass-roots rebellion among conservative tea party activists may jeopardize Republican prospects for large-scale, recession-fueled gains from the Democrats.
The stunning defeat of nine-term moderate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[JFK's Tolerance Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/12/jfks_tolerance_moment_107119.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago Sunday John Kennedy gave one of the best political speeches I ever heard, a plea for religious tolerance that has strange pertinence today when a little-known minister has been threatening to burn a Quran to strike a blow against Muslims.
The notion of using...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Era, Phase Two]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/the_obama_era_phase_two_107080.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Nov. 2 is likely to be marked as the official start of Phase Two of the Obama presidency, but in some respects, the turn to the right that will mark his tenure became visible in this first week in September.
The signs were there in the polls signaling the likelihood of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Ambivalence in This Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/05/no_ambivalence_in_this_race_107022.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Broder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA -- For decades, Pennsylvania has perfected a unique politics of ambivalence in its Senate races, sending to Washington nonconformists who do not fit comfortably into their parties' norms but reflect accurately the subtle variations within their constituencies. For 30 years,...]]></description>
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