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<title><![CDATA[Bob Herbert - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15043.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bob Herbert]]></description><category domain="15043">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Plot Against Public Education]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-plot-against-public-education-111630.html?hp=pm_1#.VDO3SSm0-R4</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates had an idea. He was passionate about it, absolutely sure he had a winner. His idea? America&rsquo;s high schools were too big]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Obama, There Is Always Some Excuse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-herbert/no-more-excuses_b_1941156.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to stop making excuses for Barack Obama. With so much at stake in this election, his performance at the debate on Wednesday night was indefensible.Ever since he was elected, there have been reasons offered, either publicly or privately, for why Obama has been unable to fully...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reversing Today's Downward Mobility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-herbert/how-we-can-bring-millions_b_1852507.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States needs to be reimagined. A recent study from the Pew Research Center tells us that in economic terms the middle class "has suffered its worst decade in modern history." It's shrinking.With jobs scarce, wages declining and the nation's wealth concentrating ever more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Destruction of Black Wealth]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Businesses owned by African Americans are suffering at higher rates than most during the downturn.Some youngsters want to grow up to become artists or athletes or firefighters. Some want to be doctors or dancers. Charles Walker wanted to own a supermarket.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Master Key to a Better American Future]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/opinion/12herbert.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is not racked with the turmoil that is shaking the Arab world, or the tragic devastation that has hit Japan. We are not in a state of emergency. We&rsquo;re in a moment when it is possible to look thoughtfully at the American landscape and take rational steps to ensure...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Shouldn't Single Out Muslim Community]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has often been the case in America that specific religions, races and  ethnic groups have been singled out for discrimination, demonization,  incarceration and worse. But there have always been people willing to  stand up boldly and courageously against such injustice. Their efforts ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[College the Easy Way]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/opinion/05herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cost of college has skyrocketed and a four-year degree has become an  ever more essential cornerstone to a middle-class standard of living.  But what are America&rsquo;s kids actually learning in college?For an awful lot of students, the answer appears to be not much.A provocative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At Grave Risk]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/opinion/22herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Buried deep beneath the stories about executive bonuses, the stock market surge and the economy&rsquo;s agonizingly slow road to recovery is the all-but-silent suffering of the many millions of Americans who, economically, are going down for the count.A 46-year-old teacher in Charlotte,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reagan's Policies Hurt Poor &amp; Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early in Eugene Jarecki&rsquo;s documentary, &ldquo;Reagan,&rdquo; you hear the voice of  Ronald Reagan saying, &ldquo;Someday it might be worthwhile to find out how  images are created  &mdash;  and even more worthwhile to learn how false  images come into being.&rdquo;Indeed. The image...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Corporate Stranglehold on U.S. Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/opinion/12herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the throngs celebrated in Cairo, I couldn&rsquo;t help wondering about what is happening to democracy here in the United States. I think it&rsquo;s on the ropes. We&rsquo;re in serious danger of becoming a democracy in name only.While millions of ordinary Americans are struggling with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need New Ideas on a Grand Scale]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/opinion/08herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Ronald Reagan crowd loved to talk about morning in America. For millions of individuals and families, perhaps the majority, it's more like twilight  &mdash;  with nighttime coming on fast.Look out the window. More and more Americans are being left behind in an economy that is being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Many Guns: How Many Deaths Are Enough?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/opinion/18herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 22, 2008, almost exactly one year after 32 students and faculty members were slain in the massacre at Virginia Tech, the dealer who had sold one of the weapons used by the gunman delivered a public lecture on the school&#194;&#146;s campus. His point: that people at Virginia Tech should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov't Must Take Steps to Stem the Violence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/opinion/11herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By all means, condemn the hateful rhetoric that has poured so much poison into our political discourse. The crazies don&rsquo;t kill in a vacuum, and the vilest of our political leaders and commentators deserve to be called to account for their demagoguery and the danger that comes with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turning a Blind Eye to Nation's Poor]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Consider the extremes. President Obama is redesigning his administration to make it even friendlier toward big business and the megabanks, which is to say the rich, who flourish no matter what is going on with the economy in this country. (They flourish even when they&rsquo;re hard at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Being Left Behind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/opinion/28herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I keep hearing from the data zealots that holiday sales were impressive and the outlook for the economy in 2011 is not bad.Maybe they&rsquo;ve stumbled onto something in their windowless rooms. Maybe the economy really is gathering steam. But in the rough and tumble of the real world,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inequality is Recipe for Instability]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even as millions of out-of-work and otherwise struggling Americans are tightening their belts for the holidays, the nation&rsquo;s elite are lacing up their dancing shoes and partying like royalty as the millions and billions keep rolling in.Recessions are for the little people, not for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Gift From Long Ago]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/opinion/23herbert.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a half-century ago this month that John F. Kennedy won the presidency in a thrilling and heart-stoppingly close election against Richard Nixon. You&rsquo;d probably be surprised at the number of Americans who are clueless about when Kennedy ran: &ldquo;It was 1970, right?&rdquo;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hiding From Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/opinion/20herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[However you want to define the American dream, there is not much of it that&rsquo;s left anymore.Wherever you choose to look  &mdash;  at the economy and jobs, the public schools, the budget deficits, the nonstop warfare overseas  &mdash;  you&rsquo;ll see a country in sad shape....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black Communities Face a Cultural Imperative]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/opinion/16herbert.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid my Uncle Robert, for whom I was named, used to say that blacks needed to &ldquo;fight on all fronts, at home and abroad.&rdquo;By that he meant that while it was critically important to fight against racial injustice and oppression, it was just as important to support,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Fix the Deficit, We Can't Avoid Tax Hikes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/opinion/09herbert.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most frustrating tendencies of mainstream leaders in the  United States is their willingness, year after debilitating year, to  embrace policies that have no hope of succeeding.From Lyndon Johnson&#194;&#146;s mad pursuit of victory in Vietnam to George W.  Bush&#194;&#146;s disastrous invasion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sorry State of America's Infrastructure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/opinion/26herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you had a leak in your roof or in the kitchen or basement, you&rsquo;d probably think it a good idea to have it taken care of before matters got worse, and more expensive.If only we had the same attitude when it comes to the vast and intricately linked water systems in the United...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[That Sinking Feeling]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/opinion/19herbert.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama seems to think he&#194;&#146;s done a pretty terrific job as president, but maybe he hasn&#194;&#146;t trumpeted his accomplishments effectively enough.He told The Times&#194;&#146;s Peter Baker, in an interview for the Sunday magazine, &#194;&#147;Given how much stuff was coming at us, we probably spent much more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boehner, Quintessential Influence-Peddler]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/opinion/05herbert.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s beyond astonishing to me that John Boehner has a real chance to be speaker of the House of Representatives.I&rsquo;ve always thought of Mr. Boehner as one of the especially sleazy figures in a capital seething with sleaze. I remember writing about that day back in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now Is No Time to Cut Deficits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/opinion/02herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One in five American kids was living in poverty in 2009. Across the country, once solidly middle-class families are lining up at food pantries and soup kitchens for groceries or a hot meal. In New York City, a startling indicator of the continuing economic stress is the rise in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disenchantment Among Black Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/opinion/21herbert.html?ref=columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe it was just a coincidence, but it was striking, nevertheless.The mayor of Washington, Adrian Fenty, one of the so-called postracial black leaders, suffered a humiliating defeat in his bid for re-election last week when African-American voters deserted him in droves. The very same...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Crisis Has America On Its Knees]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/opinion/18herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I didn&rsquo;t notice much when a terrific storm slammed into parts of New York City on Thursday evening. I was working at my computer in a quiet apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The skies darkened and it began to rain, and I could hear thunder. But that&rsquo;s all. I made...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Recovery's Long Odds]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/opinion/14herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We can keep wishing and hoping for a powerful economic recovery to pull the U.S. out of its doldrums, but I wouldn't count on it. Ordinary American families no longer have the purchasing power to build a strong recovery and keep it going.Americans are not being honest with themselves...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rising to the Occasion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07herbert.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Labor Day afternoon in Milwaukee, President Obama finally began to vigorously push the kind of high-profile, rebuild-America infrastructure campaign that is absolutely essential if there is to be any real hope of putting Americans back to work and getting the economy back into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Janitors and Kings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/opinion/04herbert.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ms. Escobar is one of 16 janitors who were laid off from their jobs at a luxury complex in Los Angeles that houses some of the wealthiest tenants imaginable. JPMorgan Asset Management, a unit of the vast JPMorgan Chase empire, manages an intricate investment web that owns the buildings....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hero Named Bobby]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/opinion/24herbert.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bob Herbert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was surprised  &mdash; but probably shouldn&rsquo;t have been  &mdash; that so many people had never heard of Bobby Thomson, who died at his home in Savannah, Ga., last week at the age of 86.]]></description>
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