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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Spin Won't Save His Failed Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/05/spin-wont-save-trump-165091</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History shows us that theatrical press briefings can't disguise bad policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Make Sense of the Shocking New MLK Documents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/04/how-to-make-sense-of-the-shocking-new-mlk-documents-227042</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new trove of FBI records has become yet another political weapon in our hyper-partisan age. That doesn't mean we should ignore it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened the Last Time the Left Got Nasty]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/05/democrats-civility-1960s-violence-218948</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History shows why Democrats shouldn't take the low road.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's a Logic to Trump's War on the Media]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/there%E2%80%99s-logic-trump%E2%80%99s-war-media</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump goes after the news media not because he thinks they're strong, but because he thinks they're weak and he can diminish them further.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Reeling Dems Can Learn From Bill Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchaprilmay-2017/a-consequential-presidency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats must rebuild after a devastating 2016. Here's how Bill Clinton rescued the party 25 years ago.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Democrats Don't Need an Overhaul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-greenberg-democrats-do-not-need-a-big-overhaul-20161211-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until Nov. 8, everyone talked as if the presidential election would hinge on smallest incident: a killer ad, a fatal gaffe, an October surprise. But now, in the emerging conventional wisdom, tactics are suddenly deemed unimportant, as we rush to propound big theories about What It All...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trumpmania Probably Won't Last]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/2016-donald-trump-1912-teddy-roosevelt-213780</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican convention appears to be primed for a rupture of a kind we haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t seen since Teddy Roosevelt broke dramatically with the party in 1912. The parallels are striking: The party is riven between establishment and insurgents. The people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s choice is prone...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I'm OK With Calling LBJ a &quot;Liberal Hero&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117369/lbj-accomplishments-make-him-liberal-hero-despite-vietnam</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I wrote my mixed assessment of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'All the Way,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the engaging but often-cartoonish Broadway play about Lyndon Johnson, I criticized '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Baby Boomers who insisted that the blunders of Vietnam should negate the triumphs of the Great Society.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I was thinking, when I wrote...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[JFK Was an Unapologetic Liberal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115522/jfk-was-unapologetic-liberal</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s assassination, the hype'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the movies and books and magazine covers, the roundups and reminiscences and retrospectives'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is in overdrive. How can America resist another JFK love-in? The popular adoration of Kennedy, five decades...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Howard Zinn's Influential Mutilations of History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112574/howard-zinns-influential-mutilations-american-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 1980s, in the faculty-filled suburbs west of Boston, the historian Howard Zinn was something of a folk hero. The Boston Globe, where Zinn published a column, ran stories of his battles with the dictatorial John Silber, the president of Boston University, who cracked down on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of Second-Term Failure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/110226/the-myth-second-term-failure</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NIXON HAD WATERGATE, Reagan had Iran-Contra, Eisenhower had Sherman Adams, and Clinton had Monica Lewinsky: It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an article of faith that presidents, once reelected, wander into error and scandal. This claim seems especially true in the postwar age, when divided government has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hope, Change, Nietzsche]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/book/review/reading-obama-james-kloppenberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama, though he is evidently thoughtful and intellectually capable, is not usually considered a man of ideas. In contrast to a policy wonk such as Bill Clinton or an ideological standard-bearer such as Ronald Reagan, Obama has never even brandished a distinct political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New and Confused Attacks on Progressivism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2271202/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the eccentricities of today's resurgent right, one of the  strangest has to be the virulent, obsessive hatred of Woodrow Wilson.  For a long time, conservatives have talked about turning back the clock  to a period before America veered off course. Typically, though, they  have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Woodrow Wilson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/book/review/the-do-gooder</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Mexican Revolution was not Woodrow Wilson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s finest hour. After a coup in 1913, Wilson tried and failed to make common cause with the so-called constitutional rebel leader, Venustiano Carranza. The President then exploited a minor incident and seized the Caribbean port of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Folly of the 'Hundred Days']]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123759302359600669.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Plagiarism Should Not Be Forgotten]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2198543/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Patriotism Debate May Help Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2194695/entry/2194698/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Bill Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/04/28/quot-you-get-a-very-bad-grade-in-history-quot.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Didn't Dems Want a Tough Candidate?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2ae1b82c-0420-4e47-adba-4af115719d47</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Greenberg</author>
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