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<title><![CDATA[Michael Scherer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14979.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Scherer]]></description><category domain="14979">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Not-So-Veiled Threat vs. New Venezuela Leader]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-delcy-rodr%C3%ADguez-might-be-next/ar-AA1TyzP8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a telephone interview this morning, President Donald Trump issued a not-so-veiled threat against the new Venezuelan leader, Delcy Rodr'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'guez, saying that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'if she doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Laura Loomer Is the Joseph McCarthy of the Trump Era]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/8bPgL</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Laura Loomer has become the Joseph McCarthy of the Trump era.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two-Week Window for Diplomacy Was a Smoke Screen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-s-two-week-window-for-diplomacy-was-a-smoke-screen/ar-AA1Hb6ag</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump had insisted for months that he wanted the ultimate deal with Iran, one that would put a definitive end to the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ability to produce a nuclear weapon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Says He Decides What &lsquo;America First&rsquo; Means]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-he-decides-what-america-first-means/ar-AA1GIp94</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I caught Donald Trump by phone this morning, the president wanted to make one thing clear: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'America First'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' means whatever he says it does.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Remarkable Political Comeback]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/QXo6B</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump believes he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden To Announce Plan for Major Supreme Court Changes]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/HFdTP</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Plans include proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Must Win Over Millions Who Don&rsquo;t Think He Can Do Job]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-needs-support-from-millions-of-americans-who-don-t-think-he-can-do-the-job/ar-BB1pcMDN</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s team continues to believe that tens of millions of Americans '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' perhaps as many as 1 in every 5 voters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' will cast a ballot for him this year despite their current conviction that he is already too old or not mentally competent to do the job.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump &amp; Biden Pivot to a 2024 Race Many Voters Dread]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-biden-pivot-quickly-to-a-2024-campaign-that-many-voters-dread/ar-BB1hdyfs</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The presidential campaign matchup most Americans oppose is becoming a reality.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Bucks Tradition, Bets Big on Early Swing-State Ads]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/joe-biden-bucks-tradition-bets-big-on-early-swing-state-advertising/ar-AA1gxCja</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walking with purpose, pulling up his shirt sleeves, glad-handing voters, commanding the podium '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the images of Joe Biden flashing across swing-state television and computer screens since late August present a vibrant and pointed departure from the way most Americans now see the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Race Remains Stuck as Trump Dominates Heading Into Fall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-race-remains-stuck-as-trump-dominates-heading-into-fall/ar-AA1g9buV</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican rivals of Donald Trump and their allies have run about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' $75 million in advertising, hosted hundreds of events, deployed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' small armies of door-knockers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and staged'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a presidential debate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with ratings akin to the NBA Finals.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[RFK Jr. Tests the Conspiratorial Appetite of Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-tests-the-conspiratorial-appetite-of-democrats/ar-AA1c8Cq1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most famous living descendants of the most famous American political dynasty shows early strength against Biden in polls.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Group Raises Alarm Prepping 3rd-Party 2024 Bid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/no-labels-group-raises-alarms-with-third-party-presidential-preparations/ar-AA19nssv</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has money, name-brand political backers and declines to describe either President Biden or Donald Trump as acceptable candidates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hunter Biden Allies Plan To Go After His Accusers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/some-hunter-biden-allies-making-plans-to-go-after-his-accusers/ar-AA1571ie</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Facing GOP investigations, some Hunter Biden allies want to aggressively target his accusers and tell his story, while others want a lower-profile defense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Fear the Midterm Map Is Slipping Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-fear-the-midterm-map-is-slipping-away/ar-AA13hd4a</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Polls in both the House and Senate show improvements for Republicans amid economic and crime concerns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Fetterman's Changing Health Scare Story]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/inside-john-fetterman-s-changing-health-scare-story/ar-AAY5KxE</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Pa. Senate candidate's heart condition is much more serious than first revealed, raising concerns among some Democrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Democrats, a Worrisome Campaign Deja Vu]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/biden-leads-trump-so-did-hillary-clinton-for-democrats-its-a-worrisome-campaign-deja-vu/ar-BB1a9pqN?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The polls are once again delivering feel-good boosts to Democrats: Joe Biden beats President Trump by 10, 11 or 12 points nationally, depending on the day. His edge in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin averages eight. Propeller-heads promise'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' better than 4 in 5 odds'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Sign of Surging Sanders Making Nice With Fellow Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/surging-sanders-shows-few-signs-of-making-nice-with-fellow-democrats/ar-BB10uIDL</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Bernie Sanders spoke of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'love and compassion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' on the day he won the Nevada caucuses last week, extolling the power of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'bringing people together'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and telling a crowd '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'you do look beautiful from here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' signs of what some top...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In 2020, a Chance for Dems to Redefine the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/no-one-has-a-leg-up-in-wide-open-2020-presidential-field-democrats-jockey-to-define-their-party--and-gain-an-advantage/2018/05/12/42ba34f2-5547-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.28cb3029</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The future of the Democratic Party has been booking late-night TV gigs, waking up for morning drive-time radio and showing up at watering holes in rural counties to try out new material.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi Isn't Going Anywhere. Will That Help or Hurt Dems?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-isnt-going-anywhere-will-it-help-or-hurt-democrats-in-2018/2017/10/28/2ea9baa2-bb17-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.f844392b9772</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump After Hours]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/donald-trump-after-hours/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[See how the President spends his time at the White House behind closed doors]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can President Trump Handle the Truth?]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4710614/donald-trump-fbi-surveillance-house-intelligence-committee/?xid=homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A President who peddles falsehoods and dabbles in conspiracy confronts the challenge of governing in reality]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Person of the Year 2016: Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/?xid=homepage</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/?xid=homepage]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even for Donald Trump, the distance is still fun to think about, up here in his penthouse 600 ft. in the sky, where it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to make out the regular people below. The ice skaters swarming Central Park'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Wollman Rink look like old-television static, and the Fifth Avenue holiday...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can America Learn to Love Ted Cruz?]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4284790/learning-to-love-ted-cruz/?xid=homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz was trying to play nice in Waukesha, Wis. Wearing Texas boots, blue jeans and his Princeton class ring, he rolled through a campaign speech perfected long ago, a precise list of one-liners delivered in a growling, apocalyptic style. Think Moses on high, tablets firmly in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump: Deal With It]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are some things you just can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do in politics, not at the presidential level, anyway.This is a game like any other, with rules honed over decades by the pros in blue blazers clutching focus-group results: Be likable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Trustworthy Trap]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3951961/hillary-clintons-cnn-interview-trustworthy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trustworthiness is a tricky thing in politics, a label that everyone demands but no one fully deserves. The reason has less to do with the integrity of the players than the rules of the game. Distortion, denial, defamation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'they all work. Only a straight-talking sucker would really...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scalise Falls Prey to His Own Politics of Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3649354/steve-scalise-david-duke-euro/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steve Scalise, the third-ranking Republican in the House, knows well how the Washington game of target and destroy is played.Long before he admitted on Monday to accidentally speaking before a 2002 conference organized by white supremacists, the Louisiana Congressman was playing offense...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Offers Muddled Message in Face of Crises]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3264457/obama-europe-isis-nato/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://time.com/3264457/obama-europe-isis-nato/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several questions remained about how he intends to deal with the multiple foreign policy crises facing his administrationPresident Barack Obama traveled to Estonia on Wednesday to set the world straight on his intentions. In a speech at the wood-paneled Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Deals Blow to Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/2940577/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-contraception-obamacare/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://time.com/2940577/supreme-court-hobby-lobby-contraception-obamacare/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Private corporations that are so-called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'closely held'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' have a right to religious freedom under U.S. law just like individual citizens, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, in a divided opinion that will allow religious for-profit companies to refuse to pay for the employee...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Foreign Policy Crises Are Piling Up]]></title>
							<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/25/barack-obamas-crisis-driven-second-term/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his January inaugural address sketching out the promise of a second presidential term, here are some things Barack Obama did not mention: Surveillance. Drones. Syria. Chechnya. North Korea. Benghazi. Guantanamo.And yet from roughly March 6, the day Rand Paul staged his 13-hour Senate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Geeks Who Leak]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2145506,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Scherer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 21st century mole demands no payments for his secrets. He sees himself instead as an idealist, a believer in individual sovereignty and freedom from tyranny. Chinese and Russian spooks will not tempt him. Rather, it's the bits and bytes of an online political philosophy that attract...]]></description>
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