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<title><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14913.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></description><category domain="14913">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Secret of Trump's Gaza Triumph]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-secret-of-trumps-gaza-triumph-764</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who could have foreseen the president's stunning innovation?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Utterly Lost Is the Left?]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/how-utterly-lost-is-the-left-960</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From UK's Labour to the response to Charlie Kirk in the US, it's paralyzed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized &amp; Lost Its Way]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had seemed unimaginable. We won equal rights to civil marriage in every state in the country. In 2020 came another stunning win. In a majority opinion written by one of President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Can't Understand Monarchy]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2022/09/america-cant-understand-monarchy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a coincidence that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Crown'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' debuted on US television in November 2016. America had just elected a new president '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' boorish, unstable, indifferent to rules, contemptuous of the law, with a long history of sexual assault, fraud and deception. There was no impulse he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With Jon Stewart]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-jon-stewart?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1MTgzMDQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MTIwMzQwMCwiXyI6ImdSaVZ5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ4ODQ1NTUyLCJleHAiOjE2NDg4NDkxNTIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi02MTM3MSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.8ld8icNEpe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How painfully, cringingly super-woke must a comedian get to stay relevant?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When All the Media Narratives Collapse]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dave Chappelle Defends Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dave-chappelle-is-right-isnt-he-b23</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The comedian defends reality. Which is currently under siege.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Not-So-Great New Normal]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/bidens-not-so-great-new-normal-45b</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The summer in a president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first year of office is often the moment the novelty wears off, and the limits to what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s possible come more clearly into view. It was when Bill Clinton, after a dreadful start, came crashing down to earth at 39 percent approval; when George W Bush...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Radicalization of Liberal Elites]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-you-e5f</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What happened to you?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a question I get a lot on Twitter. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'When did you become so far right?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Or, of course: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'See! I told you who he really was! Just take the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Ban Critical Race Theory. Expose It]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dont-ban-crt-expose-it-2d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a liberal way to fight illiberalism. And it's beginning to work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the 'Critical Race Theory' Debate Is All About]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the origins of our current moral panic about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'white supremacy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' become more widely debated, we have an obvious problem: how to define the term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Critical Race Theory.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This was never going to be easy, since so much of the academic discourse behind the term is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Politics Has Become America's Religion]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/topic/america-politics-become-form-religion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The one thing Catholicism teaches the bored and distracted churchgoer is that your own mood doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t really matter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When the Narrative Replaces the News]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-the-narrative-replaces-the-news-9ea</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the media grotesquely distorted the Atlanta massacres]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unbearable Whiteness of the Classics]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-the-classics-d60</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The woke argue that the study of ancient Greece and Rome should be junked. Oy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Culture War Aggression Is an Early Mistake]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/bidens-culture-war-aggression-fc4</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He may have needlessly crippled his chances for lowering the temperature already.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, This Is the Face of a Tyrant]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/yes-this-is-the-face-of-a-tyrant?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzE3OTgzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMzI5MzIwLCJfIjoidHVhU3IiLCJpYXQiOjE2MDEwNTQ1OTksImV4cCI6MTYwMTA1ODE5OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.jGTO2fya</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And a competent one at that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYT Returning to America's Roots. As in Salem]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/andrew-sullivan-run-new-york-times/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A reporter is in fear of being canceled if he doesn't cancel someone else. This is America returning to its roots, writes Andrew Sullivan]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Will Lose If This Election Is About Law and Order]]></title>
							<link>https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-trap-the-democrats-walked-right</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If law and order are what this election is about, they will lose it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Will Be the Real Swing Voter in November]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-covid-19-will-be-the-real-swing-voter.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only way Trump can win is to ignore the pandemic or lie about it. Neither strategy seems to be working at the moment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Is a Genocidal Menace]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-china-is-a-genocidal-menace.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time we treat the country as the rogue dictatorship that it is.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Say You Want a Revolution?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-you-say-you-want-a-revolution.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even good and important causes can morph from an exercise in overdue reform into a radical political movement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Time to Claim Victory in the Gay Rights Struggle?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/when-is-it-time-to-claim-victory-in-the-gay-rights-struggle.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last major obstacle to civil equality was toppled this week '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' by another Republican-appointed justice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There Still Room for Debate?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/andrew-sullivan-is-there-still-room-for-debate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is in a revolutionary moment. Being able to question ideology is more important than ever.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[By Biden's Own Standards, He Is Guilty]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/andrew-sullivan-by-bidens-own-standards-he-is-guilty.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The many red flags and question marks in Tara Reade's allegation would be largely irrelevant under the campus rules Biden helped institute.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can't Go on Like This Much Longer]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/andrew-sullivan-we-cant-go-on-like-this-much-longer.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The psychological damage from the deeply unnatural way of life under coronavirus lockdown is only going to intensify.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coronavirus Doesn't Have a Social Message]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/andrew-sullivan-coronavirus-doesnt-have-a-social-message.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a pathogen trying to replicate itself in our bodies. Everything else is projection.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for Conscious Uncoupling With China]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/andrew-sullivan-time-for-conscious-uncoupling-with-china.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pandemic has offered a dose of reality to a world suffering from many delusions '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' including ones about a communist dictatorship.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Live With COVID-19]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/andrew-sullivan-how-to-live-with-the-coronavirus.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The challenge our society faces is protecting life while accepting that the virus will not go away and cannot be beaten.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Should Ignore Trump Until It Rids Itself of Him]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/andrew-sullivan-america-is-trapped-in-trumps-blind-spot.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a thought experiment, I know, but bear with me: Imagine a situation where a president has been elected on a platform of nationalism laced with xenophobia and is supported by a base of cultish authoritarianism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's This, a Functioning Political Party in U.S.?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/andrew-sullivan-democrats-are-not-in-disarray.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Sullivan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Super Tuesday, the Democrats '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and especially black voters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' proved it's still possible for moderates and liberals to reject populism.]]></description>
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