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							<title><![CDATA[A Lament for Joe Biden]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bid farewell to Joe Biden. I say that with regret, for the former vice president is the nicest of fellows, lacking malice, who likes people and likes doing something for them. Yet, his gaffes continue feeding the impression that he is a touch gaga, and, worse, no one can complete the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the President's Shrinking Sycophants]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever happened to pride?I ask because reports regularly surface about Donald Trump berating or insulting someone, often an aide, who just takes it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Campaign Reeks of Insincerity]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On one day last week, Joe Biden reaffirmed his support for the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the federal funding of most abortions. A day later, Biden reversed himself, giving as a reason the recent spate of draconian anti-abortion laws enacted in several states. Surely, however, Biden...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Lemmings Need to Focus on Defeating Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/30/the_democratic_lemmings_need_to_focus_on_defeating_trump_140188.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Party would be wise to get inside Mitch McConnell's head. It is a dark place, to be sure, full of furious resentments, but it is amazingly disciplined and organized so that nothing matters but certain cherished goals. One of them is to make President Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yankees Episode Reminds Us of America's Indelible Racism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/23/yankees_episode_reminds_us_of_americas_indelible_racism_140122.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Yankees have cut Kate Smith. She was once an immensely popular singer who premiered "God Bless America" on her radio show in 1938. The song quickly became iconic and, after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it became a staple of the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At Long Last, Trump, Have You No Decency?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/16/at_long_last_trump_have_you_no_decency_140060.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has summoned Joseph Welch from the grave. Welch stood up to Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954 when the demagogic Wisconsin Republican smeared Welch's associate, Fred Fisher, as a communist sympathizer. When McCarthy persisted, Welch earned his way into every Bartlett's by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hole in the Moral Heart of 'the Lehman Trilogy']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/09/the_hole_in_the_moral_heart_of_the_lehman_trilogy_139996.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hottest ticket in New York at the moment is "The Lehman Trilogy." Its limited run is sold out, but tickets are available from brokers. They can go for $1,900 a seat, which, I know, is astronomical. But, take it from me, it's well worth almost any price -- mine was a gift. It is an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Buttigieg's Face Is His Message]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/02/buttigiegs_face_is_his_message_139925.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Pete Buttigieg, conversational in Norwegian, Spanish, French, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Dari and, of course, English, would rather his face speak for him. It is a young face, a pleasant face, and one that explains why he is running for president. "My face is my message," he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Best Way to Get Rid of Trump Is to Beat Him at the Ballot Box]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/26/the_best_way_to_get_rid_of_trump_is_to_beat_him_at_the_ballot_box_139853.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My nightmare was not that Donald Trump would be exonerated by special counsel Robert Mueller, but that instead he'd be accused of colluding with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election. That would set the Democrats on the meandering path to impeachment and, by so doing,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden and Sanders Are Too Old to Be President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/19/biden_and_sanders_have_waited_too_long_to_be_president_139778.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The joke among people my age is that every dinner party starts with an organ recital: Who's lost a gall bladder, got a new kidney, or maybe just replaced a knee? What's the pain of the day and who sleeps through the night? Charles de Gaulle said old age is a shipwreck, so the question...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lots of Democratic Candidates, Too Little Experience]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/12/lots_of_democratic_candidates_too_little_experience_139714.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is mulling a run for the White House. Beto O'Rourke is also mulling one, and maybe mulling as well why he initially said he wouldn't run. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is for some reason also mulling a presidential run, and so is Stacey Abrams, who was apparently on some sort...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can Judge Trump by the Company He Keeps]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/05/we_can_judge_trump_by_the_company_he_keeps_139648.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Bible said it. Aesop said it. Every one of my elementary school teachers said it: You will be judged by the company you keep. In Donald Trump's case, that company not only includes Michael Cohen and the others who have been indicted or convicted for breaking the occasional law, but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Wrapping a Gift for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/26/democrats_are_wrapping_a_gift_for_trump_139576.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- I don't quite know what a handbasket is, but the Democratic Party is heading in one to electoral hell with its talk of socialism and reparations. Given a Republican incumbent who has never exceeded 50 percent in Gallup's approval ratings poll and who won the presidency...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After the Damage Done by Trump, Can America Ever Be Great Again?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/19/after_the_damage_done_by_trump_can_america_ever_be_great_again_139504.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There will be no Mount Rushmore for Donald Trump. But, if there's a presidential library, it should contain a Hall of Tweets, a Hall of Lies, a Hall of Insults and, with the "Marines' Hymn" softly playing, a Hall of Montezuma, with a section of his border wall. Finally, there should be a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blocking Amazon's New York Deal Doesn't Help Anyone]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/12/blocking_amazons_new_york_deal_doesnt_help_anyone_139438.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who for the moment represents a New York congressional district -- tomorrow the world! -- opposes Amazon's plan to locate one of its two satellite campuses in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City. Amazon promises more than 25,000 jobs. Ocasio-Cortez...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Confront the Bigotry of Mike and Karen Pence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/05/we_must_confront_the_bigotry_of_mike_and_karen_pence_139367.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have a question for those Republicans who, along with Democrats, demand the resignation of Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam for the abhorrent photo that appeared on his page in his medical school yearbook: If bigotry is repugnant, why not demand the resignation of Vice President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Must Denounce the Bigotry of the Pences]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/04/republicans_must_denounce_the_bigotry_of_the_pences_139361.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- I have a question for those Republicans who, along with Democrats, demand the resignation of Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam for the abhorrent photo that appeared on his page in his medical school yearbook: If bigotry is repugnant, why not demand the resignation of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Howard Schultz -- a Cup Too Far]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/29/howard_schultz_--_a_cup_too_far_139301.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an era of identity politics, I should identify with Howard Schultz and his possible race for the presidency. We are both Brooklyn born, Jewish, the first males in our families to graduate from college, and we both like a good cup of coffee in the morning. But Schultz, if you will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Accepting Farrakhan Isn't Just Anti-Semitic, It's Racist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/22/accepting_farrakhan_isnt_just_anti-semitic_its_racist_139242.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When and how did it become acceptable to be an anti-Semite? When did it become OK to socialize with and even praise a Jew hater? I am referring, of course, to Louis Farrakhan, who spouts the most vile things about Jews yet retains the admiration of many on the left, including, notably,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is About to Lose the Middle East as Well as Syria]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/15/trump_is_about_to_lose_the_middle_east_as_well_as_syria_139175.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the communists under Mao Zedong won their revolution, Republicans in Washington raised the cry, "Who lost China?" Now, all these years later, Republicans are asking the same question about Syria. Their answer is Barack Obama. My answer is both Obama and President Trump share the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Which Side of the Wall of Decency Are You On?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/08/which_side_of_the_wall_of_decency_are_you_on_139114.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What this country needs is not a border wall, but about 1 million yellow vests. It needs federal workers who will not work without pay. What this country needs, in short, is a bit of the spirit that animated French workers and brought them out in the streets, wearing the yellow safety...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Turned the White House Into a Madhouse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/02/trump_turned_the_white_house_into_a_madhouse_139061.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I drove past the White House the other day. It'd been a while and the place seemed smaller, somewhat tawdry, almost haunted. I imagined bats winging in and out of it, spider webs in the corners and the president upstairs in the family quarters, talking back to the TV, railing against...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Times Ignores Appalling Pedigree of Anti-Semitism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/26/times_ignores_appalling_pedigree_of_anti-semitism_139017.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the centuries, anti-Semitism has been many things -- a religious conviction, an ideology, a national ethic, an unadorned expression of hate and, in more recent times, evidence of sturdy insanity. Now thanks to a New York Times interview with Alice Walker, it's been reduced to merely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Secrets of Success Have Finally Failed Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/18/trumps_secrets_of_success_have_finally_failed_him_138954.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The racket inside Donald Trump's head must sound like the roar of a train. Investigations are coming at him from all sides -- from the special counsel, from the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, from the New York state attorney general, from the relentless poking around of news...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is America Great Again Yet?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/11/is_america_great_again_yet_138887.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- OK, America, are we great again yet? Are we respected throughout the world? Are the Chinese quaking in their boots as we hike tariffs? Has Saudi Arabia come clean about murdering a Washington Post columnist after covering up the atrocity so clumsily that you could almost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Follies of Youthful Leaders Wreak Havoc on the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/04/the_follies_of_youthful_leaders_wreak_havoc_on_the_world_138819.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Black Death of the 14th century killed as much as 60 percent of Europe's population. A cause of the disease was the bacterium Yersinia pestis, but lacking microscopes, many at the time turned a keen eye on the Jews and killed them by the thousands. Still, somehow, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gillibrand Might Be Paying a Price for Turning on Franken]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/27/gillibrand_might_be_paying_a_price_for_turning_on_franken_138748.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Guess what name produces an explosion of outrage if dropped in a conversation with many New York Democrats? Donald Trump? Mitch McConnell? Paul Ryan? Guess again. It's Kirsten Gillibrand, the political assassin of Al Franken, widely seen as an opportunist who has so sharply changed some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voting Pelosi Off the Island]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/20/voting_pelosi_off_the_island_138702.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- According to lore or rumor, some ancient tribes used to place the old people on an ice floe and shove them into the frigid ocean. Whether this is true, I know not, but it is essentially what some 16 House Democrats want to do with Nancy Pelosi. Here the legend ends...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Democrats in Charge, Trump Has to Play by New Rules]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/13/with_democrats_in_charge_trump_has_to_play_by_new_rules_138630.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every organization has its rules. The Mafia forbade the killing of law-enforcement officials, so when Dutch Schultz (nee Arthur Simon Flegenheimer) planned to kill Tom Dewey, the New York special prosecutor, the mob killed Schultz instead. A similar rule seems to have guided David...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Will Always Fight Dirty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/06/trump_will_always_fight_dirty_138558.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Cohen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Whatever the outcome of the midterm elections, this we already know: Donald Trump will do anything to win. He will exaggerate. He will lie. He will smear his opponents. He will stoke racism, white nationalism and fear of immigration and he will do any of these things...]]></description>
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