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<title><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14893.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama]]></description><category domain="14893">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Revolutionized Executive Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-grave-choice-facing-the-next</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It will take a supreme act of will for the next administration to put the genie back in the bottle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Houston, We Have a Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-it-took-so-long-to-return-to</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not rocket science that kept America from returning to the moon. It's state capacity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Coming Plutocracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/our-coming-plutocracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama on why Larry Ellison and Elon Musk threaten republican government in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making the World Safe for Criminals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/making-the-world-safe-for-criminals</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is undergoing repatrimonialization as we speak.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Era in U.S. Politics and Perhaps for World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/f4dbc0df-ab0d-431e-9886-44acd4236922?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Following Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s vote, it now seems that it was the Biden presidency that was the anomaly, and that Trump is inaugurating a new era in US politics and perhaps for the world as a whole.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Year of Elections Good for Democracy - So Far]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/year-elections-has-been-good-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But the biggest test will come in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not Too Late To Reverse America&rsquo;s Political Decay]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/2b204c19-4050-4316-852c-9b0dbfdf23a1?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a society'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s institutions fail to adapt to changing circumstances, sclerosis follows]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Still the End of History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/still-the-end-of-history/ar-AA132RkB</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, though, it has become evident that there are key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of History Is History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2022/6/6/23060685/vox-conversations-francis-fukuyama-liberalism-and-its-discontents</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama is easily one of the most influential political thinkers of the last several decades. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s best known for his 1992 book'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The End of History and the Last Man, which arrived on the scene as the Cold War was ending. Fukuyama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s central claim was that liberal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Public Service Under Grave Threat From Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2020/what-would-a-second-trump-term-do-to-the-federal-bureaucracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An EPA stocked with climate change deniers. A surgeon general sympathetic to anti-vaxxers. It could get grim.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism Is Poisoning the Global Liberal Order]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/populism-is-poisoning-the-global-liberal-order/article37777370/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether springing up in the U.S., Europe or Asia, populists are predictable. Immigrants and elites are usually the first to be targeted by these groups. Populists appeal to "true" citizens to reclaim their homeland, through border walls and trade protectionism. The free press will also...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is American Democracy Strong Enough for Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-american-democracy-214683</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the other hand, as a political scientist, I am looking ahead to his presidency with great interest, since it will be a fascinating test of how strong American institutions are. Americans believe deeply in the legitimacy of their constitutional system, in large measure because its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At the &quot;End of History&quot; Still Stands Democracy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years ago, I wrote the essay "The End of History?" for a small journal called the National Interest. It was the spring of 1989, and for those of us who had been caught up in the big political and ideological debates of the Cold War, it was an incredible moment. The piece...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What &quot;The Wire&quot; Tells Us About Poverty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1297</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Season 3, Episode 4 of the HBO series The Wire, Major '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Bunny'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Colvin, a senior black police commander assigned to Baltimore'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s violent western police district, is interviewed by two white officials from Johns Hopkins University who want to persuade him to leave the city police force...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran, Islam and the Rule of Law]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300374086282670.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Columbia University President Lee Bollinger introduced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his school in September 2007, he denounced him as a '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'petty tyrant.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'            Ahmadinejad is many bad things, including a Holocaust denier and a strong proponent of a nuclear Iran. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fall of America, Inc.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/162401?tid=relatedcl</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[World's Bullies Can Only Go So Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202395.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iraq May Be Stable, But the War Was a Mistake]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121876047023242841.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Powerful Weakness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-fukuyama29apr29,0,7334642.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Fukuyama</author>
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