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<title><![CDATA[Gerard Baker - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14659.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Gerard Baker]]></description><category domain="14659">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[AI Promises Boom, Doom and Both at Once]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-promises-boom-doom-and-both-at-once-ef903ff5?st=YpaLb2</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The companies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' calls for regulation may be self-dealing, but that doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t make them wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last First Day of School]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-last-first-day-of-school-love-is-proved-in-the-letting-go-80c01e7b?st=ytXgzf</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An annual ritual with my youngest daughter has me thinking about the loss inherent in life'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s seasons.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Way Out of Trump's Iran Trap? We'll Find Out in 2029]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-way-out-of-trumps-iran-trap-well-find-out-in-2029-6abd049c?st=GJDkcb</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unlike in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, at least he has had the wisdom so far to resist a greater mobilization and commitment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Britain Has a New Prime Minister, It&rsquo;s a Day Ending in Y]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-britain-has-a-new-prime-minister-its-a-day-ending-in-y-4240d7ff?st=ttwEyC</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can Andy Burnham pull the U.K. out of its slough? Unlikely, unless he has something new to offer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Dems Have Pulled Off Trifecta of Political Infamy]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/06/13/opinion/california-democrats-destroy-trust-in-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We weren't sure you could do it, but you came through.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When '60 Minutes' Is an Hour Too Long]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/when-60-minutes-is-an-hour-too-long-1b853520?st=mCU6WN</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scott Pelley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hysterical self-indulgence illustrates what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gone wrong with the American news media.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If 1977 England Could Hold a Jubilee, So Can America Today]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-1977-england-could-hold-a-jubilee-so-can-america-today-088f5473?st=oKGNgb</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our situation is far less dire. Unlike the U.K. then, the U.S. is still the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s envy and its beacon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Book of JD, King James Version]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-book-of-jd-king-james-version-9fad4c75?st=Jme2xz</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Donald was anointed by God to lead the Chosen People out of the slavery into which they had fallen.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Still Want Normalcy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/voters-still-want-normalcy-ce53efaf?st=c8XW2T</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a strange dynamic at work in American politics. In volatile times, the message of the last two presidential elections seems to be that voters are yearning for someone to restore a measure of normality to national life. Partisans on both sides always think the moment is ripe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You May Already Have Won - or Lost - the Iran War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/you-may-already-have-won-the-iran-war-ff460cda?st=wCGnAy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages. Some of us still harbor doubt about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Not Losing' Has Different Meanings for Iran and U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/not-losing-has-different-meanings-for-iran-and-the-u-s-41fa1250?st=7VZX9v</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s another asymmetrical 21st-century war, in which the enemy sees its survival as sufficient for victory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Iran Cracks Down, Where Are the Protests Over Here?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iran-cracks-down-where-are-the-western-protests-791828d3?st=rrRVYW</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a bit like Gaza,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' says a BBC journalist, in what is an unintentionally revealing remark.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Conservative 'Infighting']]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/vance-heritage-and-the-case-for-conservative-infighting-8ba00726?st=EQiNba</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes promote noxious ideas that imperil the American right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump-Style Populism Is Rising in Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-style-populism-is-rising-in-europe-7d5b8b7e?st=zvpeYH</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Britain, France, Italy, Germany and elsewhere, voters are rejecting the establishment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nihilism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hamas Starves Jews and Palestinians, Blames Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hamas-starves-jews-and-palestinians-and-israel-gets-blamed-36adcea3?st=2C8xbb</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Western press and politicians play along with the terror group'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ghastly propaganda campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump Looks Judicious and Pragmatic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-iran-strike-looks-judicious-and-pragmatic-whether-you-are-a-hawk-or-a-dove-fc0c3b97?st=mJ56E2</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By attacking key nuclear sites, the U.S. enters a fight in our national interest in which an ally has done most of the heavy lifting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Stand Up for the Bureaucrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-stand-up-for-the-bureaucrats-protest-dodge-government-policy-d9b18071?st=s7wYb2</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-stand-up-for-the-bureaucrats-protest-dodge-government-policy-d9b18071?st=s7wYb2]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t invent a scene that better explains our current politics than the one last week outside the Treasury in Washington. Some genius in the Democratic Party evidently thought it a good idea to put some of the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most prominent faces, most notably Senate Minority...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Can't Keep a Resolution, But Maybe Our Leaders Can]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/i-cant-keep-a-resolution-but-maybe-our-leaders-can-trump-biden-harris-pope-francis-cd5b5a87?st=eaeaGj</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/i-cant-keep-a-resolution-but-maybe-our-leaders-can-trump-biden-harris-pope-francis-cd5b5a87?st=eaeaGj]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My suggestions for Trump, Biden, Harris, the legacy media, European leaders and even Pope Francis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Back, This Time Without Disdain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-back-this-time-without-disdain-silicon-valley-eu-50129b17?st=HmV9Aj</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-back-this-time-without-disdain-silicon-valley-eu-50129b17?st=HmV9Aj]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As his domestic critics have gotten in line, so the world has saluted his restoration, if reluctantly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe and Hunter Biden and the Rule of Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/joe-and-hunter-biden-and-the-rule-of-law-presidential-pardon-7e9d5777?st=Rowjr2</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/joe-and-hunter-biden-and-the-rule-of-law-presidential-pardon-7e9d5777?st=Rowjr2]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pardon me, what was that about preserving democratic norms?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four More Years of Trump May Make America Normal Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/four-more-years-of-trump-may-make-america-normal-again-border-climate-change-transgender-925d3ed2?st=TeNatS</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/four-more-years-of-trump-may-make-america-normal-again-border-climate-change-transgender-925d3ed2?st=TeNatS]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our age of bizarre ideological conceits'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'climate-change alarmism, transgender ideology, immigration extremism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is reminiscent of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'The Emperor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s New Clothes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Defends Itself&mdash;And May Save Western Civilization]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/israel-defends-itself-and-may-save-western-civilization-war-mideast-national-security-8606ec52?st=e83z8W</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/israel-defends-itself-and-may-save-western-civilization-war-mideast-national-security-8606ec52?st=e83z8W]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The equivocation of Biden, Harris and other leaders should cause us all to feel a degree of shame.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons for Kamala Harris From the Women Who Won]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lessons-for-kamala-from-the-women-who-won-double-standard-thatcher-merkel-meloni-7f3f47ad?st=NmPNF4</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lessons-for-kamala-from-the-women-who-won-double-standard-thatcher-merkel-meloni-7f3f47ad?st=NmPNF4]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Female leaders are held to a double standard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and so far the ones who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve risen have all been conservative.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Democrats&rsquo; Deception Win the Election Again?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-deception-may-be-enough-to-win-again-dnc-kamala-harris-election-8572df67?st=671tisjizkan86n</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-deception-may-be-enough-to-win-again-dnc-kamala-harris-election-8572df67?st=671tisjizkan86n]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If voters believe the chants of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'USA! USA!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re in for another four years of far-left governance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Wishes America Could Forget Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harris-tries-to-forget-joe-biden-election-2024-d45716e1?st=f867ikzv3vs14es</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harris-tries-to-forget-joe-biden-election-2024-d45716e1?st=f867ikzv3vs14es]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Now is the time to chart a new way forward,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' she said last week, obscuring her role in charting the old way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reinvention of Kamala Harris]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-reinvention-of-kamala-harris-2024-presidential-election-3aab4316?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-reinvention-of-kamala-harris-2024-presidential-election-3aab4316?mod=opinion_lead_pos5]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only real question for the 90 days remaining in this presidential campaign: Can Operation Transfiguration succeed?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Gaslit America for 4 Years in the Name of 'Democracy']]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-deserve-biden-even-if-the-country-doesnt-2024-presidential-election-a86a9756?mod=opinion_lead_pos6</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-deserve-biden-even-if-the-country-doesnt-2024-presidential-election-a86a9756?mod=opinion_lead_pos6]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve deceived and gaslit us for four years, all in the name of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'democracy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' That collapsed Thursday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the CNN Debate Could Change Everything]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-vs-biden-this-debate-could-change-everything-62871e23?mod=opinion_lead_pos6</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president takes a risk in proposing a face-off so early in the cycle. He also has some advantages.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[European Voters Stun the Elite Establishment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The continent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s elites worry about America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election, but the problem has hit closer to home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Biden Drag Senate Democrats Down With Him?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gerard Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So far at least, his party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s swing-state incumbents are polling ahead of the unpopular president.]]></description>
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