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<title><![CDATA[Robert Kuttner - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14989.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Kuttner]]></description><category domain="14989">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Political Economy of Diesel]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/10/07/political-economy-of-diesel-trump-iran-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump is trying every possible short-term trick to cut diesel prices. None of it will work; he might as well command the tide to recede.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red Tide Goes Out--With a Blue Splashback]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/10/05/red-tide-goes-out-blue-splashback-republicans-democrats-midterm-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are surging in Republican states but have some problems in their own strongholds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Union Way To Build Progressive Power]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/09/24/new-union-way-to-build-progressive-power-deep-canvass/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A deep canvass of union members produces an agenda that can rally working families.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rep. Nixon's Stunning Florida Senate Win]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/08/21/stunning-florida-senate-win-angie-nixon-dsa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A democratic socialist manages to build the coalition that has long eluded the left.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yale Loses the Capitulation Bowl]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/07/27/yale-protests-maurie-mcinnis-trump-connecticut/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The university's president embarrasses herself in trying to give in to Trump blackmail.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Prime Minister Burnham Succeed?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/07/17/can-prime-minister-burnham-succeed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a great deal riding on his success, and not just for Britain.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Budget Consequences of Graham's Sudden Departure]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/07/13/budget-consequences-of-lindsey-grahams-sudden-departure/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's effort to use budget reconciliation for his scheme to take over elections now becomes even more of a stretch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Blows Up His Own Iran Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/07/08/trump-blows-up-his-own-iran-deal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He began the war on impulse; now Trump is ending the truce impulsively. The winner: Iran.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and Teddy Roosevelt: Lost in the Badlands]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/07/06/trump-roosevelt-lost-in-the-badlands/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bizarre affinity of Trump for the great progressive president]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Groundhog Day: Endless Cold War With Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/07/01/trumps-groundhog-day-endless-cold-war-with-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've entered into a period of prolonged stalemate, on terms favorable to Iran.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing Is Safe From Private Equity Rollups]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/06/16/nothing-is-safe-from-private-equity-rollups/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is antitrust enforcement equal to the challenge of defeating the most prevalent abuses?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blues for ActBlue]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/06/15/blues-for-actblue-democratic-fundraising-congress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The assault on the Democrats' main fundraising platform is a partisan hatchet job, but ActBlue itself is far from blameless.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some of the Kids Are All Right]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/06/08/some-of-the-kids-are-all-right/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You might expect that new high school graduates would be depressed and dejected. They are inheriting a shaky economy, a world at risk of becoming uninhabitable, and a country whose president makes a mockery of what they learned in social studies about American democracy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Good Election Night for Progressives]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/06/03/good-election-night-for-progressives-steyer-becerra-california/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s begin with California. Though Republican Steve Hilton is currently leading in the jungle primary for the governor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s race, with Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer running second and third, there are still millions of late ballots to be counted. It remains a possibility that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Congress Pass the Housing Bill?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/05/26/will-congress-pass-housing-bill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump has been trying to kill bipartisanship, but this is one bipartisan bill that Trump desperately needs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Crusades Against His Own Party's Incumbents]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/05/20/trump-trips-up-trump-senate-house-primaries-paxton-texas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's actions produce some short-run gains for his personalist brand of politics, but as the fall election approaches, they portend a divided and disabled Republican Party against energized and progressive Democrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Epic Collapse for Britain's Labour Party]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/05/08/britains-labour-party-keir-starmer-spain-pedro-sanchez/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Britain's centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain's Socialist Pedro S'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'nchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turning Civil Rights Inside Out]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/05/01/turning-civil-rights-inside-out-supreme-court-voting-rights/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Capital Ideas]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/04/03/apr-2026-magazine-capital-ideas-beckert-cassidy-reviews/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two books on the history of capitalism provide lessons for how to tame it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Exit or Escalation]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/03/16/exit-or-escalation-trump-iran-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will Trump look for a way to limit his Iran debacle, or will he double down on catastrophe?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Harmoniously Passes Expansive Housing Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/03/13/elizabeth-warrens-amazingly-progressive-housing-bill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the Massachusetts senator enlisted most Senate Republicans to support sweeping legislation]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After the Washington Post]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/02/06/post-mortem-journalism-washington-newspapers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What will it take to preserve a great newspaper in the nation's capital, and to sustain independent daily journalism generally?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Private Equity Saks Another Retail Outlet]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/01/20/private-equity-saks-another-retail-outlet/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's the old story: Load up companies with debt, pull out all the value, and leave them as a dead shell.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tariffs: Maybe Not So Crazy]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/01/14/trump-tariffs-china-tax-economy-inflation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's tariffs are more petulance than policy, but strategic uses of tariffs can make economic sense. Look at China's declining trade surplus with the U.S.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republicans' Endangered Health]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2025/12/12/republicans-endangered-health/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The refusal to extend ACA subsidies becomes a huge political liability and signals deepening splits.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sources of America's Hidden Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2025/12/01/sources-of-americas-hidden-inflation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How market power jacks up prices, and how Trump's policies add to the pressure]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive Mayors vs. Developers]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2025/11/25/progressive-mayors-vs-developers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In New York, one of the toughest challenges that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faces will be preserving and increasing the supply of affordable housing. Same story in Boston, where progressive Mayor Michelle Wu is constrained by similar forces.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump a Lame Duck Yet?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2025/11/21/is-trump-a-lame-duck-yet/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He is clearly weaker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and also more dangerous. But the more Republicans are willing to stand up to him, the more his threats ring hollow.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Feeble Made-for-TV Diplomacy]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2025/10/28/trumps-feeble-made-for-tv-diplomacy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump left town last weekend for a six-day Asia trip, partly to change the subject and partly to score some cheap symbolic victories. As always, his goal was short-run successes, with foreign leaders fawning in his presence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's the Cure for Damaged Democratic Brand?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/2025-10-14-democratic-brand-independent-populists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Kuttner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk about the Democrats as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'damaged brand.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Democratic Party actually has a lower approval rating'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' than Donald Trump does.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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