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<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Rauch - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14856.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Rauch]]></description><category domain="14856">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Politicized Science Is Neither Science Nor Progress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-danger-of-politicizing-science</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Truth and justice are best served by more rigor, not less.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Second Term Would Look Like This]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-second-term-would-look-like-this/ar-AA11dNCa?ocid=EMMX&amp;cvid=0c4f8ffe80ce43c38ed1a321d9fd5716</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Gets to Decide the Truth?]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/07/24/who-gets-to-decide-the-truth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all get a say'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'not just priests, princes, or partisans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's Covid Success]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-medias-covid-success</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Correcting its coverage of the lab-leak theory is not a sign of failure. It shows the system works.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/five-trump-amendments-constitution/618097/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 45th president profoundly altered our system of government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Vote Fraud Accusations Are Anti-Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-trump-has-done-to-america/ar-BB1bXacw</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court slammed the door on President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s preposterous lawsuits. State legislators ignored his pressure to countermand the voters. The Electoral College cast a majority of its votes for President-elect Joe Biden. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s efforts to usurp the presidency have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Twitter Needs a Pause Button]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/twitter-pause-button/592762/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instantaneous communication can be destructive. We need to tweak our digital platforms to make time for extra eyes, cooler heads, and second thoughts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gerrymandering Ruling Is Bad, But Alternatives Are Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/gerrymandering-ruling-could-have-been-worse/592879/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Highly partisan redistricting is a scourge, but the solutions involve political judgments that no court should make.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fact-Checking the President in Real Time]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/fact-checking-donald-trump-ai/588028/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even robots are trying to hold Donald Trump accountable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Drop the 'LGBT' From 'LGBTQ']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/dont-call-me-lgbtq/576388/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The case for a new term that describes all sexual minorities]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Prosperity Has Increased But Happiness Has Not]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/happiness-inequality-prosperity-.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our well-being is local and relative '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' if you live in a struggling area and your status is slipping, even if you are relatively comfortable, you are probably at least a bit miserable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Masterpiece, Kennedy Solidifies His LGBT Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/opinion/in-masterpiece-kennedy-solidifies-his-lgbt-legacy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By ruling narrowly in the case, the Supreme Court declined an invitation to set off political dynamite.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boycott the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Better Angels: Slowly Bridging Our Partisan Divide]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/12/22/better_angels_slowly_bridging_our_partisan_divide_135846.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a rainy, muggy day in Leesburg, Va. Although the town is 30 or so miles from the interminable partisan wrangling in Washington, D.C., it's infected with some of the same bitter polarization -- as is so much of the country. On this morning in July, I'm walking into a Veterans of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Can Stop Leaks If He Stops Acting Like Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4891168/donald-trump-leaks-leaking-sessions-russia-putin/?xid=homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump Administration is right to worry about leaks '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and, boy, is it worried. Director of National Intelligence'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Dan Coats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' told the Senate Armed Services committee that leaks are "devastating." At a press briefing, Attorney General'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Jeff Sessions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' said they were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Containing Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/containing-trump/513854/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One such day, in July of 1971 (nearly a year before the Watergate break-in), found him ordering his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, to execute a burglary. The president was exercised about politically damaging documents that he imagined were possessed by scholars at the Brookings...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What President Obama Got Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/leaving-a-clean-desk/505856/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one respect, presidents are like kindergartners. Well, sometimes in more than one respect, depending on the president. That aside, presidents and kindergartners have in common that one of the simplest ways to evaluate them is also one of the best: Do they clean up when they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Hillary Clinton Needs to Be Two-Faced]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/opinion/campaign-stops/why-hillary-clinton-needs-to-be-two-faced.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How American Politics Went Insane]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans and Democrats of 2016 have neither intelligible boundaries nor enforceable norms. As a result, renegade political behavior pays.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How 9 Predictions on Gay Marriage Turned Out]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3939029/heres-how-9-predictions-about-gay-marriage-turned-out/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not often'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in fact, pretty much never'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'have I been lost for words in the gay-marriage debate. But the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s national legalization of marriage equality leaves me gaping and gawping like a guppy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Be Not Afraid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/be-not-afraid/384965/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It often befalls presidents to be most criticized in office for what later turn out to have been their particular strengths. Disparaged at the time as simplemindedness, timidity, and slickness, Ronald Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s firmness, George H. W. Bush'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s caution, and Bill Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis/382235/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This summer, a friend called in a state of unhappy perplexity. At age 47, after years of struggling to find security in academia, he had received tenure. Instead of feeling satisfied, however, he felt trapped. He fantasized about escape. His reaction had taken him by surprise. It made no...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opposing Gay Marriage Isn't Like Racism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/24/opposing-gay-marriage-doesn-t-make-you-a-crypto-racist.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I seem to have made an unexpected midlife career move, and no, it isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t lucrative. After almost 20 years of standing on a soapbox for gay marriage, I am standing on another soapbox making the case for tolerating people who oppose same-sex marriage.The other day, I joined 57 other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Great Awakening on Gay Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/great-awakening-article-1.1385623</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most talented politician in America is a Kennedy. But this Kennedy wears a black robe to work.Anthony Kennedy is an associate justice on the Supreme Court, and the swing vote between the court's conservative and liberal factions. Legal analysts generally denigrate his skill as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Tips the Gay Marriage Scales]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/26/supreme_court_tips_the_gay_marriage_scales_118986.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What will be the effects of the Supreme Court's twin rulings on gay marriage? My first-blush take is that the rulings will have a modest effect on legal doctrine but a major effect on cultural momentum.
The Supreme Court did two things today. First, it overturned the federal Defense of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Case for Gay Marriage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/conservative_case_for_gay_marriage_118513.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA["It became a cascade." Dale Carpenter, a friend who e-mailed those words from Minneapolis, was writing about the unexpectedly lopsided'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' vote for same-sex marriage'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the Minnesota House last week (the state Senate approved it Monday, and the governor has signed it), but he might have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/05/16/conservative-case-for-gay-marriage-column/2174353/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA["It became a cascade." Dale Carpenter, a friend who e-mailed those words from Minneapolis, was writing about the unexpectedly lopsided vote for same-sex marriage in the Minnesota House last week (the state Senate approved it Monday, and the governor has signed it), but he might have been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-rauch/jonathan-rauch-copyedited_b_3073242.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I HAVE a peculiar memory which must date to when I was 10 or 11 years old. I am sitting at the piano daydreaming one afternoon, and it occurs to me that I will never get married. Simultaneously with this realization comes the recognition that I have always understood that marriage was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marriage Is Fracturing Along Class Lines]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/straight-marriage-article-1.1303011</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one knows which way the Supreme Court will go in the two gay marriage cases now before it. But whatever the court eventually decides, liberals can savor this moment. They have been at the forefront of the struggle for gay marriage and for the values of equality and inclusion. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Versus Washington (and Colorado): Why the States Should Lead on Marijuana Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/29/washington_versus_washington_and_colorado_why_the_states_should_lead_on_marijuana_policy_117714.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Rauch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana by decisive margins in initiatives last November, they set up not just one but two conflicts. The first, of course, is about drug policy. No less important, albeit less widely noticed, is a conflict about power. To what extent can and...]]></description>
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