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<title><![CDATA[Benjamin Wallace-Wells - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14970.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Wallace-Wells]]></description><category domain="14970">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Which Way Should the Democrats Go Now?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Violence in the Era of Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Fetterman's War]]></title>
							<link>https://web.archive.org/web/20240624103225/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/john-fettermans-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the Pennsylvania senator trolling the left or offering a way forward for Democrats?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Sleepy, Sleazy Criminal Trial]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most striking aspect of the former President's hush-money trial so far has been that, for the first time in a decade, Trump is struggling to command attention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why DeSantis Doesn't Have a Prayer in Iowa]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Florida governor has won the backing of the state's political establishment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the electorate has always been skeptical of Trump. So what went wrong?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Futility of the Never Trump Billionaires]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every party, at every time, has some tension between its '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'lites and its base. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to think of a more spectacular divide than the one currently defining the G.O.P.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson and the Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/tucker-carlson-and-the-right</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The big question for the G.O.P. during the Biden era is whether the legacy of Carlson's culture wars adds up to a viable platform for a major political party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Nancy Pelosi Era Really Ending?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/is-the-nancy-pelosi-era-really-ending</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Speaker of the House is stepping aside, but her school of politics isn't going anywhere.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Soon Will Covid Be 'Normal'?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, six medical experts close to the White House published three op-eds in the Journal of the American Medical Association, arguing that the time had come for a new approach to the pandemic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'one that sets aside the campaign for eradication in favor of living with the disease.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Philosopher Is Hopeful About the Democrats]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is the matter with the Democrats? On one level, the answer is simple. Voters with college degrees are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' increasingly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' siding with the Party, while those without are moving toward the Republicans, and there are more people in the second category than the first: about two in five...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Omicron Travel Restrictions Work?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/will-the-omicron-travel-restrictions-work</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Attempts to slow the pandemic by screening international arrivals have a mixed record of success.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[VA Race Will Be Latest Verdict in Culture Wars]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Unite the Right rally, in 2017, Virginia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s politics have been in flux. Is the state, like Charlottesville, a place under threat from reactionaries, or is it, also like Charlottesville, a place that has fought them back? This past week, two developments have pointed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to Biden's 'Summer of Freedom'?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even in the compressed historical arc of the pandemic, July 1st wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t so long ago. The mood that morning, when President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s COVID-response co'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¶').';'rdinator, Jeff Zients, opened the White House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s weekly pandemic briefing, was unusually optimistic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pandemic Enters an Uncertain New Phase]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/an-uncertain-new-phase-of-the-pandemic-in-which-cases-surge-but-deaths-do-not</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the Delta variant, people now have to make different calculations about personal risk. The problem is that the parameters are not yet fully known.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Adams &amp; the Uncertainty of Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/eric-adamss-victory-and-the-uncertainty-of-the-biden-era-democratic-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Adams won New York City's mayoral primary by appealing to centrist, working-class voters. But his political vision remains undefined.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adams's Victory and the Democrats' Uncertainty]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Adams won New York City's mayoral primary by appealing to centrist, working-class voters. But his political vision remains undefined.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inventing the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('`').';'Remote work turned out to be advantageous for people looking to leak information to reporters. Instructions that once might have been given in conversation now often had to be written down and beamed from one home office to another. Holding a large meeting on Zoom often required...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Do Conservatives Fear Critical Race Theory?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/what-do-conservatives-fear-about-critical-race-theory</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the Texas legislature, Republicans seemed willing to acknowledge systemic racism but resistant to the idea of talking about it with children.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sudden Rise of the Lab-Leak Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-sudden-rise-of-the-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scientists and political commentators are no longer dismissing the possibility that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese laboratory. What changed?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Is in Charge of Cancel Culture?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-populism/who-is-in-charge-of-cancel-culture</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals increasingly embrace the progressive critique of structural racism, but they are far less certain what to do about it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Covid Response: Good, Bad &amp; Embarrassing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-good-the-bad-and-the-embarrassing-in-americas-covid-19-response</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Were Americans too unruly, or did elected officials expect too little of them?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump's Trial Tells Us About Biden Admin]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About ninety minutes before Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second impeachment trial began, I spoke by phone with Senator Sherrod Brown, the progressive Democrat from Ohio, who was preparing to serve as a juror. Brown is the new chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and he had been occupied with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Count Continues, Despite Trump's False Claims]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much of Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'day three of what is fast becoming Election Week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'was quiet. There were no mass protests, and, though Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s campaign sent lawyers into courtrooms and surrogates before television cameras to challenge aspects of the vote-counting process, their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Effort to Make 2020 a Moral Referendum]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/joe-bidens-effort-to-make-this-election-a-moral-referendum</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The distillation of the former Vice-President from a moderate Democrat into a more intimate figure, a grief-counsellor-in-chief, has been the most important work of his campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Democrats Win Back Pennsylvania?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kamala Harris arrived at midday Thursday on the 7600 block of Forrest Avenue in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, and exited a campaign Suburban wearing a black face mask, a black suit, and a stark ivory scarf around her neck.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden, AOC, and the Shaky Unity of the DNC]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joe-biden-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-the-shaky-unity-of-the-democratic-national-convention</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats are still (relative to Republicans) the party of the future, but their vision now belongs to leaders far younger than their Presidential nominee.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris Gives New Meaning to the Biden Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/kamala-harris-vice-presidential-nominee-joe-biden-2020-election</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden has consistently said that he is just a transitional figure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a generational bridge. Now we know a bit more about who may come next.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Minneapolis Dems Dismantle the Police?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-activism/can-minneapolis-dismantle-its-police-department</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After George Floyd's killing, the city council pledged to end policing as we know it. They were far less certain about how they would do it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie's Winning Message]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/on-the-eve-of-the-iowa-caucuses-bernie-sanders-is-the-democratic-front-runner</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders, at seventy-eight, three months clear of a heart attack, has outlived obscurity to become the co-front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. He is still thin and intent; to my eye, the hunch in his back has deepened. On a tour of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden and Sanders Battle for the Working Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/joe-bidens-battle-with-bernie-sanders-for-working-class-voters</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former Vice-President's campaign can seem narrowly pitched, but there are plenty of voters who trust Democrats more than they do politics.]]></description>
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