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<title><![CDATA[Hendrik Hertzberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14807.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Hendrik Hertzberg]]></description><category domain="14807">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Wisdom of the Crowd]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t follow leaders,&rdquo; the bard of Hibbing once advised. &ldquo;Watch the parking meters,&rdquo; he added&mdash;whatever that meant.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carbon Tax Lessons From Australia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik-hertzberg/carbon-tax-goes</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dubious about &ldquo;American exceptionalism&rdquo;? Well, try this: the United States is the world&rsquo;s only major advanced democracy whose flagship conservative party maintains that global warming is a non-problem. Of course, not all Republicans share their Texas comrades&rsquo;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas Republicans Have a Dream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/07/texas-republican-new-party-platform.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious,&rdquo; Sigmund Freud wrote in 1899, over in Vienna, Austria.The Republicans of Texas don&rsquo;t have a lot of time for foreigners like Freud and foreign notions like psychoanalysis, although they do believe in therapy, as long as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bad Death in Oklahoma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/05/a-bad-death-in-oklahoma.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most telling moment in Oklahoma&rsquo;s botched execution of Clayton Lockett came six minutes after the purportedly lethal drugs had begun to enter the condemned man&rsquo;s body through an intravenous tube. It was a moment that pointed up the contradictions, incoherence, and bad...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good Show, But This Bridge Goes Nowhere]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2014/01/good-show-but-this-bridge-goes-nowhere.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you watched the whole thing&mdash;and the strange thing is that MSNBC carried every last second, whereas Fox News dropped out after an hour or so, taking the Republican base with it&mdash;then you had to admit that Chris Christie&rsquo;s marathon press conference left his paradoxical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Will Pay for This]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/10/21/131021taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the time that long-obscure, lately apposite sentence became part of the Constitution, on July 9, 1868, the insurrection that occasioned it had been thoroughly, and bloodily, suppressed. Throughout the Civil War and afterward, Republicans in Congress had enacted some of the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tough Questions on Snoop Scoops]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/06/24/130624taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the first week of June, when the Washington Post and London&rsquo;s Guardian, doing the work that journalism is supposed to do, published detailed news of the National Security Agency&rsquo;s gigantic programs of cell-phone and Internet information-gathering, the world has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Return of Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/02/04/130204taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Barack Obama had been sworn in for the final time for his final term - and after he had delivered his final Inaugural Address, and after he had turned to leave the podium atop the Capitol steps (though not before turning back to gaze at the multitude on the Mall, murmuring,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calmly, Obama Fights on Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2013/01/calmly-obama-fights.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That wasn&#8217;t quite a whole New Obama we saw at Wednesday&#8217;s gun violence announcement. As ever, the President&#8217;s affect was calm and composed. But something in him is subtly different. It&#8217;s no longer quite correct to call him No Drama Obama. No Melodrama Obama,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Gun Control Happen?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/01/07/130107taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Within hours of the unspeakable massacre of twenty first graders and six teachers and staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, December 14th, bookers for the television networks&rsquo; Sunday-morning political talk shows hit the phones,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Obama Won]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/12/03/121203taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving was still two weeks away when the Republican Party, to its evident shock, found itself stuffed, trussed, roasted, and ready to be served with all the trimmings. This was not the menu that the Party&rsquo;s nominees, donors, and operatives had looked forward to. It was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After 2 Debates, It's All Tied Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2012/10/obama-takes-second-debate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ll explain the baseball metaphor in a minute, but first: I think I speak for all Obama supporters, when I say, What a relief!In Game One, it was clear from the beginning that the President was blowing it. &ldquo;This is a catastrophe,&rdquo; I moaned to a friend at around the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Lies About &quot;You Didn't Build That&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2012/08/we-built-it.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six weeks ago, speaking off the cuff at a firehouse in Roanoke, Virginia, President Obama argued that economic growth is driven by a dynamic of both individual and collective effort, of both private and public enterprise. Here&#8217;s part of what he said:
If you&#8217;ve been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Lunatics Out to Destroy Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2011/09/economy-friedman-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thomas L. Friedman&#194;&#146;s latest column, one of his mock memos, damn near ruined my Sunday. Here&#194;&#146;s how it starts: TO Barack Obama, John Boehner, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Eric Cantor, I just have two words of advice: Herbert Hoover.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Book on Barack]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/10/03/111003taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the United States is one big book club, and sometimes it feels that way, then the White House must have been hoping that this would be the week when everyone was talking about &ldquo;The Rogue,&rdquo; Joe McGinniss&rsquo;s much ballyhooed takedown of his erstwhile Alaska neighbor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barry Gives 'Em Hell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2011/09/give-em-hell-barry.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That&rsquo;s what Chris Matthews wondered whether we&rsquo;d see and hear tonight, and that&rsquo;s pretty much what we got. I don&rsquo;t mean that President Obama demonized the Republicans&mdash;that&rsquo;s for later, if and (more likely) when they block all or most of what he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama vs. Netanyahoo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/06/06/110606taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A week ago Monday, Barack Obama hied himself to the land&mdash;well, a land&mdash;of his forefathers. Like Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton before him, President Obama deemed it politic to drop in on his ancestral village on the auld sod of Ireland. In tiny Moneygall,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election 2012: The GOP's Best Hopes?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/05/23/110523taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a chilly winter for Barack Obama, politically speaking. For six months, he and his party shivered under the avalanche that had buried them in November&rsquo;s midterm election while Republicans disported themselves on the partisan ski slopes, pausing only to throw snowballs, some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President's Stand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2011/04/obama-cuts-his-rhetorical-deficit.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the mysteries of the Obama Presidency has been Obama&rsquo;s  inability&mdash;or disinclination, I&rsquo;m not sure which&mdash;to give sustained  emotional sustenance to a certain slice of his supporters. I don&rsquo;t mean  the &ldquo;Democratic base,&rdquo; especially the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prisoners: The Guantanamo Quagmire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/04/18/110418taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On May 13, 1943, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. The Allies  suddenly found themselves saddled with nearly three hundred thousand  prisoners of war, including the bulk of General Erwin Rommel&rsquo;s famed  Afrika Korps. Unable to feed or house their share, the British asked ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Union Blues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/03/07/110307taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Fifteen million Americans bring you Edward P. Morgan and the news.&rdquo; From 1955 to 1967, that line, heard on the ABC radio network every weeknight at 7 P.M., heralded the nation&rsquo;s best news broadcast. Those fifteen million Americans were the members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Noxious Filibuster Needs Altering]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/01/10/110110taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The  hundred and eleventh Congress, which had emitted more than a few  whimpers along the way, ended with a fusillade of bangs. Reconvening for  the last time after the shock of November&rsquo;s Republican wave, the  outgoing, still Democratic Congress legislated with unwonted vigor and ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Voters Were Thinking]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/11/15/101115taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack  Obama had the mot juste last Wednesday for what had just befallen him  and his party: a &ldquo;shellacking.&rdquo; The President&rsquo;s choice of word was one  syllable (and one &ldquo;g&rdquo;) longer than his predecessor&rsquo;s summary after a  parallel midterm debacle. But,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush, Obama and the Cost of Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/09/13/100913taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking from the Oval Office last Tuesday evening to mark what he called, with more hope than precision, &ldquo;the end of our combat mission in Iraq,&rdquo; President Obama had occasion to mention the previous occupant. &ldquo;This afternoon,&rdquo; he said,I spoke to former President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Post's &quot;Top Secret America&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/08/02/100802taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These are hard times for newspapers, and not just the Times. America&rsquo;s other iconic daily of the past half-century, the Washington Post, has been doing a long, slow fade, speeded up lately by the Great Recession. The Post&rsquo;s weekday circulation is barely two-thirds what it was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spilled Oil: Our Summer of Discontent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/06/28/100628taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the young Presidency of Barack Obama, and for the nation, this hellish summer of discontent started in balmy spring, on the evening of April 20th, forty miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. At first, after the explosion aboard the giant oil rig Deepwater Horizon, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Nuclear Spring]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/04/26/100426taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Dr. Strangelove&rdquo; is a lot less scary than it used to be. When Stanley Kubrick&rsquo;s great, dark satire first appeared in theatres, not long after the Cuban missile crisis, the laughter of audiences was laced with dread. Back then, the spectre of nuclear war&mdash;of global...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Confident State of the Union Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/02/08/100208taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s first State of the Union address came at the end of the most harrowing nine days of his young Administration. On January 19th, a Republican won the Massachusetts seat that had been held for nearly half a century by Edward M. Kennedy, thereby depriving the Senate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Mandate Hijacked by Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2010/01/one-year-beware-of-sudden-downdrafts.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing But Bad Choices On Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/12/14/091214taco_talk_hertzberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hendrik Hertzberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are no good options for the United States in Afghanistan. That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom&#194;&#151;the reigning clich&#195;&#169;&#194;&#151;happens to be true. President Obama did not pretend otherwise in his address at West Point last week. His...]]></description>
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