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<title><![CDATA[Richard Reeves - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14688.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Richard Reeves]]></description><category domain="14688">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden Should Not Roll Back Due Process on Campus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-roll-back-due-process-on-campus</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden wants to expand Title IX. Current rules on sexual assault strike a better balance between the rights of victims and the accused.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Capitalism Still Promise a Better Future?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/22/capitalism-broken-better-future-can-it-do-that</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The greatest challenges to capitalism come when that promise begins to be questioned]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Pretending You're Not Rich]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?src=me</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals, Worry About Citizens' Character, Not Just Trump's]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/26/liberals_worry_about_citizens_character_not_just_trumps_133705.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People are worried about the character of President Trump. Seasoned observers fear that he lacks the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'temperament'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for the office he occupies, and in particular the vital capacities for self-restraint, reflection, and empathy. This is understandable. The character of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressives Lost, but Their Ideas Are Winning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/progressives-lost-the-election-but-their-ideas-are-winning/382559/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Other American Dream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/28/the_other_american_dream_119747.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, President Obama is marking the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The March on Washington was for jobs, as well as freedom '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' indeed for the freedom that a job brings. Civil rights still have to be defended....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The American Way of Work]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/01/the_american_way_of_work_117215.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- I do have an office, at the University of Southern California, but except for actually teaching, I have been working at home for most of my life. Naturally, I'm interested in the controversy generated by Marissa Mayer, the new boss at Yahoo, when she ordered all that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Republicans Going the Way of the Whigs?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/22/are_republicans_going_the_way_of_the_whigs_117115.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- If I were a Republican activist, I think I would give up reading political journalism for a while. I might even turn to reading history, say the history of whatever happened to the Whig Party.
The Whigs, as most of us have almost certainly forgotten, begat the Republicans...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Making More Sense Than the Loyal Opposition]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/14/obama_is_making_more_sense_than_the_loyal_opposition_117022.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- President Obama said "jobs" 47 times in his State of the Union message last Tuesday night, so we know what's on his mind.
Whether he has the political strength and will to make those ideas -- some pretty good -- into policy and law is the question of the coming year, maybe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Ed Koch Never Became President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/06/why_ed_koch_never_became_president_116933.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- I was standing in line for a movie years ago on Lexington Avenue in New York, when an unmistakable voice came from near the front of the line. "Hey, Dick! Hey, Dick! It's Ed Koch!" Who else? He kept on speaking at the top of his voice -- he did not have a bottom -- over a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is Real and What Is Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/09/what_is_real_and_what_is_reality_116623.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- The 30th president of the United States, who was not such a bad guy, sometimes seems to be remembered only for a single quote: "The business of America is business."
If Calvin Coolidge of Vermont were alive and awake now -- he was noted for taking long naps -- he might...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An American Story: Daniel Inouye]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/20/an_american_story_daniel_inouye_116474.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- On Feb. 1, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially signed an order allowing Japanese-Americans to fight in the U.S. Army. Only a year earlier, the same president had signed an executive order to evacuate 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans living near the West...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Making of the President: 2062]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/07/the_making_of_the_president_2062_116359.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES --- It was Yogi Berra who supposedly said, "It's very hard to predict things, especially about the future." But then he also said, "I never really said all the things I said." He even talked about politics and the presidency: "You know Texas has a lot of electrical votes."
A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Century of Women]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/30/the_new_century_of_women_116291.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- I did not always agree with her politics and most of her policies, but I must say that I always felt a thrill when I saw television pictures of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arriving in some capital, the name of which most Americans could not pronounce. This gigantic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's A Brave New (Political) World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/16/its_a_brave_new_political_world_116178.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- The 2012 election is all over but the shouting, and the shouting this time seems extraordinarily loud and revealing of the future of American politics.
Do you hear what I hear? Any way you slice and dice the data, beginning with the fact that digitalization has produced...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Election in a Word]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/09/the_election_in_a_word_116115.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Mike Allen, for those who don't know, is Washington's insiders' insider. Every morning, sometimes as early as 4 a.m., the Politico.com editor sends out, via e-mail, a newsletter called the Political Playbook, a heads-up for the capital's political junkies.
The Playbook...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Play the Race Card -- Again!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/31/time_to_play_the_race_card_--_again_115985.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- It was a dark and stormy night over most of the Eastern states, and all through many houses, not a creature was stirring. Water rushed around and nasty politics were forgotten for a bit. In New Jersey, the sting-tongued Republican governor, Chris Christie, said only good...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Final Days of a Bad Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/26/the_final_days_of_a_bad_campaign_115927.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Beneath his cool exterior, there is passion and a trash-talking crudeness hidden in President Obama.
For weeks, even before the first debate, he worried that Mitt Romney might defeat him in November. What bothered him is that he reckons the economy will be bouncing back and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/19/the_next_america_115829.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Assuming that neither man faints on the stage at their final debate on Monday, the Obama-Romney race now depends on three smoking guns rarely discussed by candidates: geography, demography, and getting out the right vote.
Geography first. There is much fundraising but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Lies -- So What? Who Cares?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/11/romney_lies_--_so_what_who_cares_115742.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- For at least the last couple of decades, the Republican Party has been anti-modern, but Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president, is modern, even post-modern. I don't mean that as a compliment. The man is a serial liar in a society that increasingly tolerates...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Did He Say? Never Mind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/06/what_did_he_say_never_mind_115686.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Score one for Mitt Romney, at least on style. He did what he had to in the Denver debate, though truth was not his strongest suit. President Obama barely showed up, but he was, overall, a good deal more truthful, especially when he said he'd rather be home celebrating his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Unloved America']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/26/the_unloved_america_115575.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- While President Obama was talking tough at the United Nations and being charming "eye candy" with Barbara Walters and her gang on "The View," the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair, was being wise on a round of appearances on American political shows. His...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Lies and Liars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/31/romneys_lies_and_liars_115288.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- I once wrote, about Gerald Ford, that an honest politician is one who lies only when he has to. Ford, a pretty straight shooter, is gone now. He has been replaced by Mitt Romney the ignorant and Paul Ryan the liar.
Last week's Republican National Convention may be the last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stockman Redux]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/25/stockman_redux_115205.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As he became president in 1981, Ronald Reagan called in a 34-year-old congressman from Michigan named David Stockman, considered by many to be the most articulate and intellectually imposing Republican of the moment.
Stockman had impressed the new president by humbling the old man in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Train Doctors and Nurses, Not Soldiers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/03/train_doctors_and_nurses_not_soldiers_114990.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Some days, I feel I have seen it all. Other days, I just don't want to get out of bed. Over eight years my family has been hit with lung cancer, brain cancer, strokes and various other medical calamities. My wife has had eight operations, in the United States and in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Hates Washington Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/07/20/washington_hates_washington_too_114868.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- John McCain, as you may have noticed, is a cranky old man. But he is a great American, serving the country in war and peace.
He did it again this week after Michele Bachmann and four other Republican zealots signed on to an investigation of Secretary of State Hillary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Nation of Immigrants, Yes!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/22/a_nation_of_immigrants_yes_114574.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Scene I: When David Halberstam, possibly the best journalist of his generation, was assigned to Poland by The New York Times, he ended up marrying a beautiful Polish actress named Elzbieta Czyzewska. And as you can guess, American politicians with large numbers of Poles in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Tries a New Way]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/15/california_tries_a_new_way_114486.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- The headline of the Los Angeles Times editorial page on the day after the state's primary on June 5 was: "What Tuesday Told Us: The top-two primary was held and the world kept turning."
As it has many times over more than a century, the Golden State again tried to reform...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Country for Sale]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/07/country_for_sale_114407.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- The word "takeaway" was first used in 1961, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. And then it was about Chinese restaurants. Now it is about everything, including elections.
"Three Takeaways From the Recall Vote" was the headline over the election analysis of Sean...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tea Is Getting Weaker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/17/the_tea_is_getting_weaker_114177.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Reeves</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Uh, oh! Some people are looking over the right shoulders of the Republicans who rode into the House of Representatives on the tea party wave of 2010. And they don't like what they're seeing.
The Club for Growth is fundamentally a conservative lobbying and research group...]]></description>
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