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<title><![CDATA[Megan McArdle - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14883.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle]]></description><category domain="14883">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Last Ditch of the Great Awokening]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/09/27/last-ditch-lesbian-bar-massachusetts-shows-how-woke-is-retreat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Interview Exposing Academia&rsquo;s Cluelessness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/19/higher-education-is-losing-publics-trust/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have been fun for the anthropologists when their discipline'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' was singled out'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as a hive of political groupthink. In fact, they got very angry about the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' commissioned by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Transgender Sports Campaign Was Doomed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/05/supreme-court-transgender-rulings-backfired-activists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Advocates missed the critical step of building a true public consensus.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Socialism Is Back In Vogue. Wait for Reality To Set In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/21/americas-new-socialist-mayors-face-grim-fiscal-reality/?itid=hp_opinions_p001_f020</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has never been a better time in America to be a socialist. We aging Gen Xers who thought that socialism had been decisively refuted by the fall of the Berlin Wall have been refuted ourselves: Democratic socialists now'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' run Seattle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York City, and come January, probably...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sweetheart Deal Is Over for Academia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post-597/20251020/281840059888504</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Trump administration's war on universities settles into its entrenched phase, it's given new urgency to a long-simmering debate about whether, and how, academia should pursue viewpoint diversity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ludicrous Premise of Warren's Health Plan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-the-math-for-warrens-health-care-plan-adds-up-if-you-accept-its-ludicrous-premise/ar-AAJKSLw</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the phrase users highlighted the most in Sen. Elizabeth Warren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s (D-Mass.) newly announced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Medicare-for-all plan. Which is very on-brand. Andrew Yang may be running with a campaign button reading '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Math,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Warren who has successfully framed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Roe v. Wade Backfire on Liberals?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2019/05/22/Did-Roe-v-Wade-backfire-on-liberals/stories/201905220022</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court never should have taken up the case.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, Bernie, but Most Americans Like Their Health Insurance the Way It Is]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/04/sorry_bernie_but_most_americans_like_their_health_insurance_the_way_it_is_140248.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2020 presidential race looks increasingly like it will be the Medicare-for-all election, as an increasing number of Democratic primary candidates -- including front-runners such as Sens. Kamala D. Harris, D-Calif., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., -- sign on to the slogan. The policy ought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Uber and Lyft Are Locked in a Price War. There Are Only Two Ways Out.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/01/uber_and_lyft_are_locked_in_a_price_war_there_are_only_two_ways_out_140216.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The market for ride sharing is starting to look like a pie-eating contest where the prize is ... more pie.
Lyft went public March 29, and the stock almost immediately went into a steep decline as investors belatedly noticed that the company hadn't made any money yet and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet Your New Woke Inquisitors, Same as the Old Ones]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/26/meet_your_new_woke_inquisitors_same_as_the_old_ones_140173.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Middlebury College in Vermont kicked off this year's college disinvitation season on April 17, canceling a speech by anti-liberal Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko hours before his scheduled talk. The success of social-justice-seeking "woke" students in shutting down...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Really Benefit From Warren's Student Debt Plan?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/24/who_will_really_benefit_from_warrens_student_debt_plan_140149.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- For years after graduating from business school, I used to joke, I was living on Ramen and Cheez Doodle Surprise -- the surprise being that you're 32 years old and still carrying so much student-loan debt that you can't afford brand-name ramen.
Ah, well. I'd decided to use...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brexit and Trump Are Flailing. but the Establishment Shouldn't Relax Yet.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/17/brexit_and_trump_are_flailing_but_the_establishment_shouldnt_relax_yet_140083.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Global politics in recent years has had more twists and turns than a Hollywood thriller. Three years ago, British and American populists were staging an insurgency against their out-of-touch political establishments. Two years ago, they were taking victory laps. But, as any...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Irish Cultural Pride Gives This Cosmopolitan Second Thoughts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/13/irish_cultural_pride_gives_this_cosmopolitan_second_thoughts_140050.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Irish certainly isn't the hardest language in the world; it doesn't boast the 64 cases of Tsez, or Navajo's rococo verb architecture. But as Indo-European languages go, Irish is rather tricky, hard to learn unless you soak it up as a child.
It's hard to explain why a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brexiteers Are Just Like Trumpists -- Except on This]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/10/brexiteers_are_just_like_trumpists_--_except_on_this_140015.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The similarities between Trumpism and Brexit support have been frequently noted. And indeed, it's hard for an American to spend a week in Britain, as I recently did, without feeling a certain amount of deja vu. Yet it's also hard to spend any time talking to Brexiteers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brexit Hasn't Even Happened, yet Ireland Is Already Seeing Signs of the Economic Toll]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/05/brexit_hasnt_even_happened_yet_ireland_is_already_seeing_signs_of_the_economic_toll_139982.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN -- One doesn't necessarily expect to find an advanced manufacturing operation in the Donegal Gaeltacht, one of the last rural redoubts where the Irish language can be heard in everyday life. Yet there Irish Pressings is, producing tooling and parts for the auto industry. Since it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Irish Border Is Illogical - Just Like Brexit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/04/the_irish_border_is_illogical_-_just_like_brexit_139958.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN -- Last week, I drove across the Republic of Ireland in under 15 minutes.
Okay, I cheated a little. Starting in Belleek, at the far western tip of Northern Ireland, I made for the Fairy Bridges of Bundoran, located on the Atlantic Ocean only 8.5 miles away. I was exploiting a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brexit Shambles Ever Onward, Destination Unknown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/29/brexit_shambles_ever_onward_destination_unknown_139903.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LONDON -- On Wednesday night, British Prime Minister Theresa May told her party that she would agree to resign and make way for another leader if it voted to approve her plan for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. As more than one wag noted, it was a rather long-winded way of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Political Storms Over the Mueller Report and Brexit Have in Common]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/27/what_the_political_storms_over_the_mueller_report_and_brexit_have_in_common_139876.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- I am writing this column from Toronto Pearson International Airport, on a layover en route to London. Behind me is the political storm over the long-awaited report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who appears to have found no evidence that Donald Trump's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2020 Race Is on -- Between the Commentariat and the Modelers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/22/the_2020_race_is_on_--_between_the_commentariat_and_the_modelers_139836.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We in the political commentariat tend to like complex and nuanced campaign narratives. We pore over the details of the policy prescriptions, hunt for subtle trends in national sentiment and analyze how this remark or that alliance will affect a candidate's chances with America's amazing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Irish Bigotry Is Mostly Gone. But We Shouldn't Forget the Gift of Being Irish.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/20/anti-irish_bigotry_is_mostly_gone_but_we_shouldnt_forget_the_gift_of_being_irish_139805.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- A couple of years ago, I offhandedly used the term "mackerel snappers" in a column -- an old Protestant slur against Catholics who avoid meat on Fridays. A short time later, I got a phone call from my father, who chided me, in strenuous terms, for using such rank bigotry,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Possible Way to Stop Mass Shootings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/16/a_possible_way_to_stop_mass_shootings_139768.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What makes a man walk into a house of worship and slaughter innocents under the eyes of God? We should perhaps be grateful that we'll never really understand it; glad that the ordinary human mind cannot even imagine the urge toward such wanton brutality.
All we can really do is grieve...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The College Admissions Scam Reveals a Truth About Our Self-Perpetuating Elites]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/15/the_college_admissions_scam_reveals_a_truth_about_our_self-perpetuating_elites_139761.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Let us have a moment of silence for all the affluent parents who have spent the past decade or so frantically preparing their kids for college admissions. They vastly overpaid for homes near excellent public schools -- or perhaps forked over the annual price of a new car to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Things Should Never Be Resurrected. Court-Packing Is One of Them.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/13/some_things_should_never_be_resurrected_court-packing_is_one_of_them_139733.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Ideas, like clothes, come in and out of fashion, and we seem to be living in a moment of ideological retro chic. President Trump has brought back isolationism and industrial policy, while the left has hauled socialism out of the attic and is busily trying it on to see how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Socialists Are Selling Us a System That No Longer Works]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/08/democratic_socialists_are_selling_us_a_system_that_no_longer_works_139695.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Democratic socialism is having something of a moment. It isn't just Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; since President Trump was elected, the membership of the Democratic Socialists of America has grown nearly tenfold. Admittedly, that amounts to only 56,000...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Uber and Lyft Are Losing Money. at Some Point, We'll Pay for It.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/06/uber_and_lyft_are_losing_money_at_some_point_well_pay_for_it_139669.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Legend has it that in 1929, businessman Joseph Kennedy, the father of the future president, realized it was time to get out of the stock market when the shoeshine boy started offering him trading tips.
I had my own such moment a couple of years back when I started hearing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next Chicago Mayor Will Make History -- and Face a Staggering Fiscal Challenge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/01/the_next_chicago_mayor_will_make_history_--_and_face_a_staggering_fiscal_challenge_139631.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Chicago's next mayor will be a black woman. Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, and Toni Preckwinkle, the president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, took the top two positions in the first-round election on Tuesday, beating 12 other candidates, and will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren Are Wrong -- We Shouldn't Pay Reparations for Slavery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/27/kamala_harris_and_elizabeth_warren_are_wrong_--_we_shouldnt_pay_reparations_for_slavery_139602.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are wrong. We shouldn't pay reparations for slavery.
The idea of paying reparations for slavery has been around since the Civil War. It has gone dormant for long periods but has never gone away, because the toxic legacy of slavery never...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why U.S. Health-Care Reformers Shouldn't Use Other Countries as a Model.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/22/why_us_health-care_reformers_shouldnt_use_other_countries_as_a_model_swiss_miss_anyone_139553.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It's the killer argument, the coup de grace that every advocate for universal health care coverage eventually delivers: "Other countries have better outcomes than we do at half the cost." And since Democrats seem to be gearing up to make another big push for health care...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jussie Smollett's Story Was Theatrical. We Should Have Been Cautious From the Start.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- On Jan. 29, Jussie Smollett, a gay African-American actor, reported to Chicago police that he had been the victim of a vicious hate crime. As my colleague Nana Efua Mumford has noted, the disturbing details were almost cinematic, like an episode of "Empire," Smollett's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Myopic Green New Dealers Need to Look Beyond America for a Climate Cure]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan McArdle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- If you are going to make fun, as I have, then you are eventually going to be asked what your'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' plan is to combat the insane risks humanity is taking with the world's climate.
The retort is an evergreen in policy debates. No doubt when skeptics raised questions about the...]]></description>
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