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<title><![CDATA[Michael Kinsley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14683.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Kinsley]]></description><category domain="14683">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Simplest Reason to Oppose Brett Kavanaugh]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kinsley-kavanuagh-stonewalling-20180816-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats should vote against him simply because they disagree with him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is Actually a Fascist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-actually-a-fascist/2016/12/09/e193a2b6-bd77-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why It's Pointless to Fact-Check Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/politics-media-gaffes-lies</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ann Romney gave the game away four years ago. Not that it was any secret, but the wife of the Republican presidential contender in 2012 spelled it all out in a way that should have been embarrassing to everyone involved in politics.A Democratic political operative named Hilary Rosen had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Serious Problem With Treating Trump Seriously]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/the-serious-problem-with-treating-donald-trump-seriously</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trouble with Donald Trump is not, as Jeb Bush and others would have it, that he's not a true conservative from any perspective. The trouble with Trump is not that his policy positions on immigration, ISIS, health care, Social Security, or whatever don't stand up to a moment of casual...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Middle-Class Rhetoric]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/helping-the-middle-class-election-candidates-michael-kinsley</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1984 the governor of New York was Mario Cuomo, father of the current governor. The elder Cuomo, who died on New Year&rsquo;s Day 2015, will be best remembered for his keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention, in San Francisco.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[False Ecstasy Over the Reagan Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2015/01/ronald-reagan-policy-political-failure</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every serious G.O.P. presidential aspirant invokes the glorious era of Ronald Reagan, to which the country must return. Ignore the fact that, for the likes of Paul Ryan and Rand Paul, Reagan&rsquo;s actual record&mdash;from increased bureaucracy to higher deficits&mdash;should be seen as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Appearances Will Shape the 2016 Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/11/appearance-politics-2016-presidential-race</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many journalists and commentators, including me, owe New Jersey governor Chris Christie an apology. We underestimated him.I remember the moment well. It was September 2011, three years ago. Christie was not yet famous for the performance art of jamming traffic on the approaches to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thomas Piketty's Improbable Dream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/07/thomas-piketty-wealth-money-redistribution</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a government taxes a certain level of income or inheritance at a rate of 70 or 80 percent, the primary goal is obviously not to raise additional revenue. . . . It is rather to put an end to such incomes and large estates, which lawmakers have for one reason or another come to regard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eyes Everywhere]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/books/review/no-place-to-hide-by-glenn-greenwald.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;My position was straightforward,&rdquo; Glenn Greenwald writes. &ldquo;By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them.&rdquo; You break the law, you pay the price: It&rsquo;s that simple.But it&rsquo;s not that simple,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Top Politicians &quot;Rebrand&quot; Themselves]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/06/political-rebranding-eric-cantor-paul-ryan?mbid=social_twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, The Washington Post carried a front-page article that filled me with weariness and despair. It ran under the headline eric cantor attempts to remake the house gop brand, and his own. Eric Cantor is the House majority leader. The story reported, &ldquo;In recent days,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Solution to Money in Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-kinsley-the-solution-to-money-in-politics/2014/04/04/5ac0b412-bb8c-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the day after the Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, The Post and the New York Times between them carried eight separate print articles about the ruling. McCutcheon is the latest in a string of decisions in which the court has held...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of the New York Times]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114347/interview-jill-abramson-future-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For generations, the publishers of the great American newspapers were accidents of birth&mdash;sons and daughters (and assorted other relatives) who inherited their positions atop the masthead. They may have been born into their roles, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean they were born for them....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ben Carson and the Gay Marriage Police]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113186/ben-carson-and-gay-marriage-police</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One reason the idea of gay marriage, or &ldquo;marriage equality,&rdquo; spread so fast is that it seems obvious once you think about it. It was a genuinely new idea when it first appeared in this publication in 1989. As was not the case with civil rights for African Americans, feminism,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Self-Pity Over Big, Bad Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112493/republican-self-pity-obamas-secret-plot-end-gop</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whoever could have imagined that Republicans could be such wussies? After all, the GOP is the Party of Testosterone. Democrats are the ones who are supposed to be wimpy and weepy. But lately the Republicans have been a bunch of crybabies: Hey mama, President Obama is picking on us. He's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President's Liberal Definition of Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-21/obama-inaugural-s-liberal-definition-of-rights.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's speechtoday made -- or tried to make -- two different points, bothconcerning the definition of "rights." Although couched in thekind of president-ese appropriate to such an occasion, bothgoals were easy to spot, and both are parts of a solidly liberalvision of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Kind of Tax Code Do We Want?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/the-capital-gains-tax-a-tragedy-in-two-acts.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics of the capital-gains tax are absolutely correct when they say that a tax on capital hurts the economy by reducing the incentive to save and invest. They say the same thing about the tax on investment interest, and they're right about that too.Unfortunately, this is true of every...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Liberal Case Against Right-to-Work Laws]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/the-conservative-case-for-right-to-work-laws.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The enactment of a so-called right- to-work law by the state of Michigan this week is indeed, as the news media have described it, a blow against the union movement. Michigan, of all places. But it is also a blow against fairness and common sense."Right to work" sounds like a law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Would a President Romney Be So Bad?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kinsley-romney-as-president-20121011,0,6001582.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now don't get me wrong. I'm not hoping for this or expecting it, but maybe it wouldn't be the end of the world if Mitt Romney became president.Never in my life have I supported a Republican for president, and I don't intend to start now. I'm voting for Obama, and I urge you to do the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney: This Year's Michael Dukakis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/mitt-romney-this-year-s-michael-dukakis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If, as seems possible, Mitt Romney is not elected U.S. president on Nov. 6, he will not be the first presidential candidate to run on the issue of competence and then lose because he ran an incompetent campaign. He will not even be the first governor of Massachusetts to do so.In 1988,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hitting Romney Below the Belt?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kinsley-anti-romney-ad-20120809,0,6858274.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Romney people are trying a little jujitsu on an ad from Obama backers that implies Mitt Romney is responsible for the death of an Indiana woman who lacked health insurance. They want to turn the ad against Obama and to tar the president as the bad guy &mdash; the ruthless politician...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Outsourcing So Wrong?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kinsley-outsourcing-20120712,0,7010163.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Outsourcing" has become such a dirty word that it's hard to believe there could actually be something called the International Assn. of Outsourcing Professionals. What next? The Society of Professional Child Molesters?The IAOP's modest claim is that it is "the leading professional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Other Big Case the Court Got Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-04/the-other-big-case-the-supreme-court-got-right.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&#194;&#147;It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices,&#194;&#148; wrote U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, making pretty clear what he thinks about Obamacare even as he supplied the crucial fifth vote to uphold it.So Roberts gets big points for intellectual...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inequality: Even Worse Than We Thought]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-13/inequality-it-s-even-worse-than-we-thought.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current debate about rich and poor -- the 1 percent versus the 99 percent -- is a bit misleading because the evidence usually is data about income, not wealth. Looking at wealth would make the comparison even starker.There are some nice deals to be had in the income tax code these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Big Gulp]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-06/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-a-big-gulp.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The basic case against New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest crusade, to outlaw the sale of extra- large sugared soft drinks, is Libertarianism 101: In a free country, people should have the right to do what they want, even if it's bad for them.The major exceptions and complications...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Edward Conard Says What Romney Won't]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/edward-conard-says-what-mitt-romney-won-t.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The people at the New York Times Magazine must think that nobody has ever read Ayn Rand, or maybe even Adam Smith.Their cover story on Sunday -- misleadingly titled, &ldquo;Are the Rich Worth a Damn?&rdquo; -- reports breathlessly that there is this fellow named Edward Conard who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Bigotry Needs No Spokesman]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-03/mitt-romney-s-bigotry-needs-no-spokesman.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney didn't exactly fire Ric Grenell, who is gay, as his foreign policy spokesman. But when the religious right got wind of Grenell's hiring, his job started to shrink.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Bridges, Separate and Unequal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kinsley-column-seattle-toll-bridge-20120427,0,3593803.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two floating bridges across Lake Washington connect Seattle with its eastern suburbs. The roadbeds rest on huge pontoons and sway a bit as you drive across them on a windy day. One is the last gasp of Interstate 90 as it finishes its journey from Boston to the Puget Sound. The other is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Could Use Lesson in Humility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kinsley-column-romney-secrets-of-success-20120420,0,3509588.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA["I am being sunk by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure," says the ruined theater impresario Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks' "The Producers."Mitt Romney sees things differently. As he sees it, he is offering success to a society that seems to actually prefer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Worst Presidential Campaign Ever?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-15/kinsley-is-this-the-worst-presidential-campaign-ever-.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barbara Bush said the other day that the 2012 presidential race has been &ldquo;the worst campaign I&rsquo;ve ever seen in my life.&rdquo;I disagree. My vote would be for 1988, when her husband, George H.W. Bush, built a repulsive campaign against Michael Dukakis based on state prison...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Insincere Push to Crush Rush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-06/the-case-against-the-case-against-limbaugh-commentary-by-michael-kinsley.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Kinsley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The people who want to drive Rush Limbaugh off the air are not assuaged or persuaded by his apology over the weekend. They say he was not sincere: He only apologized, for calling a Georgetown University law student a "slut" and a "prostitute," because of pressure from advertisers.Well,...]]></description>
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