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<title><![CDATA[Michael Hirsh - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14834.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Hirsh]]></description><category domain="14834">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[From 'I Love You' to 'Asshole': How Joe Gave Up on Bibi]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/22/biden-netanyahu-friendship-pressure-campaign-00148328</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After decades of building a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'close, personal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' friendship with Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden has had it with the Israeli prime minister. Now he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hitting him hard '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and it may be working.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin Is Quietly Shifting Its Strategy in Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/27/biden-endgame-ukraine-00133211</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For two years, Biden and Zelenskyy have been focused on driving Russia from Ukraine. Now Washington is discussing a move to a more defensive posture.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Next Republican Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/19/project-2025-trump-reagan-00115811</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether Trump wins or not, the GOP plans a renewed assault on his nemesis, the deep state. Can conservatives train enough loyalists to actually get the job done?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome Back to Kissinger's World]]></title>
							<link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/07/kissinger-review-gewen-realism-liberal-internationalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it's time to return to the ideas of one of the last century's greatest realists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Flying Blind With the Fed]]></title>
							<link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/01/flying-blind-with-the-fed-jerome-powell-federal-reserve-interest-rate-cut/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Fed chairman confirms that uncertainty over trade is slowing the global economy and no one knows quite what to do about it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Pelosi Be the First to Out-Bully Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/04/will-pelosi-be-the-first-to-out-bully-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Their clash over the wall represents two irreconcilable views of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'portending no end to the shutdown.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Surprise! Trump's Disruptive Foreign Policy May Be Working]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/05/trump-foreign-policy-russia-north-korea-219588</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beneath all the crazy talk, there may be reason to think that some of the]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Movie Trailer About North Korea Was Brilliant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/14/why-trumps-singapore-summit-movie-trailer-about-north-korea-was-brilliant-218823</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A president who loves to be flattered knows how to appeal to the vanity of dictators.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John McCain's Last Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/18/john-mccains-last-fight-218404</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Arizona senator's twilight struggle with Donald Trump is so bitter because they're more alike than you think.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Brinksmanship With North Korea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-case-for-brinksmanship-with-north-korea/2017/10/06/f8f93da8-a958-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?utm_term=.5c93fb343048</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Trump publicly slapped down his beleaguered secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, last weekend,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tweeting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top diplomat was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'wasting his time'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' trying to talk to North Korea about its nuclear and missile program, establishment types greeted the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Team Trump's Message: The Clash of Civilizations Is Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-team-islam-clash-of-civilizations-214474</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last February Mike Flynn, the incoming national security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, tweeted: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He urged his tweeps to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'please forward'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a Muslim-bashing video by one I.Q. al-Rassooli, a Britain-based, Iraqi-born polemicist who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Didn't the FBI Stop Omar Mateen?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/orlando-terrorism-fbi-omar-mateen-213971</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Omar Mateen was a disciple of "radical Islam," as Donald Trump angrily described him, and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'one of the soldiers of the caliphate,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' as the Islamic State approvingly deemed him, he wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a very impressive one, ideologically speaking. Mateen didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t observe Islam...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why George Washington Would Have Agreed With Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/founding-fathers-2016-donald-trump-america-first-foreign-policy-isolationist-213873</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the lamentation about the level of rhetoric in this Trumped-up election year, the race between Donald Trump and all-but-certain Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is already shaping up to be a debate over America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s global role of the kind we haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t had for decades,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Benghazi Says About How Clinton Leads]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/what-benghazi-says-about-how-hillary-leads-213303</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Hillary Clinton has her inevitability groove back, not least because last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Benghazi hearing left her looking, if anything, more presidential (as even a few frustrated Republicans admitted), maybe it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to ask what the whole imbroglio says about her management...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Humanized by Email Server, GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/hillary-emails-gop-213118</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it possible server-gate will achieve the opposite of what Republicans want and make Hillary Clinton seem more personable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and popular? So far, at least, the emails released this week seem to evoke less a Foggy Bottom Machiavelli at work than a fairly ordinary (if entitled) person,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Regrets of Jimmy Carter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/jimmy-carter-cancer-121563.html?hp=t4_r#.VdYXkflVhBc</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter, it turns out, won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be going gentle into that good night.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beyond Benghazi: Hillary, Sid, &amp; Libya]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/hillary-clinton-2016-benghazi-118992.html?ml=m_t2_2h#.VX6mRvlViko</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/hillary-clinton-2016-benghazi-118992.html?ml=m_t2_2h#.VX6mRvlViko]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, one of those mistakes'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'perhaps her biggest and certainly her most politically potent one'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'will be front-and-center yet again when her longtime confidant and vast-right-wing-conspiracy whisperer, Sidney Blumenthal, testifies before a congressional oversight committee that is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Martin O'Malley Take Flight?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/martin-omalley-2016-118408.html?hp=t2_r#.VWwmN89VhBd</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Martin O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Malley grins gamely when I ask him why there isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t yet a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Martin O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Malley wing of the Democratic Party.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Elizabeth Warren has a wing. Why not him? O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Malley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been in governance far longer, has accomplished more, is arguably just as liberal as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill and Hillary Clinton's Excellent Adventure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/bill-hillary-clinton-state-dept-117336.html?ml=m_t1_2h#.VT4H4SFVhBd</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To get to the bottom of the latest incarnation of Clinton-gate, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re going to have to get inside one of the most impenetrable marriages ever. Good luck with that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Made Loretta Lynch's Father See Red]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/what-made-loretta-lynchs-father-see-red-117308.html?ml=po</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It took a long ride through the night to get here. They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d started out in Durham, at 1 a.m., Thursday, driving six hours, all so the Rev. Lorenzo Lynch (83 on Tuesday) could sit in the back row of the visitors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' gallery above the U.S. Senate floor, his dapper yellow straw hat in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Clinton Jilted Wall Street]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/hillary-wall-street-117092.html?ml=m_t4_2h#.VTYbqyHBzRZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tackling America's Police Abuse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/north-charleston-shooting-americas-police-abuse-epidemic-116838.html?hp=t2_r#.VSefbPnF-KQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was so automatic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'so chillingly casual. That was the most frightening thing, say some criminal-justice experts, about Michael Slager'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s actions in North Charleston, S.C., last week.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Korea's Finest Hour]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/north-korea-kim-jong-un-113680.html?ml=m_a3_1#.VJf9kF4AZc</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is a glorious week indeed for Kim Jong Un'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s dwindling little family business in Pyongyang. Finally, finally'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to be taken seriously. To get people to pay attention and not laugh at the same time (not too much, anyway). The North Korean regime'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which is to say three...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michael Hayden Fires Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/torture-report-michael-hayden-not-sorry-113450.html?hp=t4_r#.VIgznzHF--0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though the CIA'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'enhanced interrogation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' program long predated his takeover of the agency in 2006, former Director Michael Hayden has found himself at the center of the explosive controversy surrounding the Senate Intelligence Committee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive summary of its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Team of Bumblers?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/susan-rice-chuck-hagel-team-of-bumblers-112208.html?hp=pm_1#.VE4ROvnF-k5</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Obama, after months of equivocation over how to respond to the takeover of parts of Iraq and Syria by radical militants, announced in September that the United States would '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the White House swung quickly into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Quietly Slams Panetta]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/panetta-is-trying-to-rewrite-history-111719.html?hp=pm_1#.VDZtbPldW-0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just as they did with Robert Gates, White House officials are trying to avoid too much of a public spat with Leon Panetta, the latest former high-level administration insider to criticize the president, in the not unreasonable hope that the less they say, the quicker the story will go...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Glenn Greenwald Inc. Peaked?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/glenn-greenwald-inc-peaked-110576.html?hp=f2#.VAg9hfldW-0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For about a year, the global enterprise you might call Glenn Greenwald, Inc. has been taking off like a red-hot app. The question now is whether the sudden rise of Greenwald'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a 47-year-old lawyer-cum-activist from Queens by way of George Washington University'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'will soon follow...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama: Our Lonely First Duffer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/our-lonely-first-duffer-109814.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To many of us who play golf and generally suck at it'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'that'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s me, and most others'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'it is less a game than a subtle form of torture, a walking stress position. Other sports may be more physically taxing, but none tests one'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s character so severely'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'nerves, integrity, honesty and above all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton the Progressive?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/hillary-clinton-progessive-107686.html?hp=pm_2#.U5grAvldWk4</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bet on it: She won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be trying the Cinderella Woman thing again. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fair to say that no talking point in Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hyper-organized book rollout this week fell quite as flat as her rags-to-riches tale of starting out on the wrong side of the tracks '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Benghazi-Industrial Complex]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/hillarys-nightmare-the-benghazi-industrial-complex-106332.html?hp=pm_1#.U2dbr_ldWk5</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Hirsh</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps if the Republicans can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t beat Hillary Clinton fairly in 2016, they can make her so disgusted by the prospect of running that she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll stay out of the race.]]></description>
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