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<title><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15111.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></description><category domain="15111">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Administration's Cruelty Will Always Find Opponents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administrations-extraordinary-cruelty-will-always-find-opponents/2018/07/01/6ad705a0-7bd0-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?noredirect=on</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We are a country of laws, and of compassion,&rdquo; they will say. Many Americans, as always, will be working to keep that true.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Think America Isn't Still Racist? Look Around]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/shocked-by-the-racism-of-past-generations-look-around/2017/11/05/f70e1266-c0b4-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.11947b2e0a46</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some viewers may emerge from the gripping new courtroom drama &ldquo;Marshall&rdquo; shaking their heads at the racism of their great-grandparents&rsquo; generation. The movie, set in 1941, features infuriatingly bigoted villains, from a contemptuous judge to a roughneck mob bent on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Could Transform U.S.-China Relationship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-could-transform-americas-relationship-with-china-heres-how/2017/01/15/b342620a-d9a9-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html?utm_term=.460403e95f34</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is not all wrong about China. That gives his administration an opportunity to reshape what, if not handled carefully, could become the world&rsquo;s most dangerous bilateral relationship. During the presidential campaign, Trump was mostly off-base in his assessment of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[School Choice for Children Who Have None]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/school-choice-for-children-who-have-none/2017/01/01/60479c34-cead-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.ba9570820de5</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For most Americans, school choice is an undisputed right. Millions of parents choose to send their children to parochial or other private schools. Millions more decide where to rent or buy a home based on the quality of the local public schools. The only people who do not enjoy this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth That Hillary Clinton Is Just Lucky, Debunked]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-myth-that-hillary-clinton-is-just-lucky-debunked/2016/10/27/1487458e-9bbc-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html?utm_term=.3f1f58ef2327</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all know that Hillary Clinton is just lucky, not good. The second-most disliked candidate in history is winning only because her opponent is even more disliked. Any normal Republican would be waltzing to victory. Right?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the World Could Lose in America's Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-global-stakes-of-the-2016-election/2016/08/28/6f7d0ae6-6bba-11e6-8225-fbb8a6fc65bc_story.html?utm_term=.d1f451ecc8e8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The presidential election could be crucial to the future of democracy, and not just in the United States. The global impact of a Donald Trump presidency would be disastrous. But even a Hillary Clinton win won&rsquo;t help reverse the worldwide retrenchment in democracy and human rights...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ginsburg's Trump Derangement Syndrome Is a Bad Sign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-justice-ginsburgs-trump-derangement-syndrome-is-a-bad-sign/2016/07/14/e5392352-493a-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has taken herself to the woodshed, it&rsquo;s worth asking what her brief bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome says about our system&rsquo;s ability to withstand four years of a Trump presidency. Short answer: It is not a good omen. As the idea of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, Don't Celebrate Trump Nomination. Fear It.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-dont-celebrate-trumps-nomination-fear-it/2016/05/08/0ce784e4-13a7-11e6-93ae-50921721165d_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I know the polls say Donald Trump cannot win. But what if we are looking at the wrong poll question? What if Trump&rsquo;s overwhelming negatives don&rsquo;t matter? Or, to put it another way, what if the country&rsquo;s negatives matter more? Right now, about 6 in 10 Americans have an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Labels Stakes Out a National Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-labels-stakes-out-a-national-agenda/2015/06/28/e56f411c-1aa6-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama recently expressed his frustration at dysfunction in Washington.&ldquo;Congress doesn&rsquo;t work the way it should. Issues are left untended. Folks are more interested in scoring political points than getting things done,&rdquo; the president said. &ldquo;And as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and Iraq's Tragic &quot;Unraveling&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/iraqs-tragic-unraveling/2015/05/31/0c1ac642-0490-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Emma Sky expected to spend three months in Iraq apologizing to the Iraqi people for the invasion launched by George W. Bush and her prime minister, Tony Blair.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Credibility Gap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-limits-of-wishful-thinking/2015/02/22/0bbcf162-b845-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can President Obama sell an Iran deal at home?If his negotiators strike an agreement next month, we already know that it will be far from ideal: Rather than eradicating Iran&rsquo;s nuclear-weapons potential, as once was hoped, a pact would seek to control Iran&rsquo;s activities for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tim Kaine, Bridge Builder?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fred-hiatt-tim-kaine-bridge-builder/2014/12/14/9ddaee38-8239-11e4-8882-03cf08410beb_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Elizabeth Warren following the Ted Cruz model last week, imploring the House faithful to defy their president even at risk of a government shutdown, you had to wonder: Is the Democratic Party heading for a schism that could rival the tea party-establishment battles on the Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's False Deficit Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fred-hiatt-the-obama-administrations-false-victory-over-the-deficit/2014/10/05/a3e7a320-4b02-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A funny thing happened on the way to entitlement explosion,&rdquo; senior White House adviser John Podesta tweeted last week, appending a chart that showed the federal deficit shrinking and the rate of health cost growth slowing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's White House in Need of a Shake-Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fred-hiatt-rebuilding-the-team-of-rivals-in-the-white-house/2014/07/13/68ece7a6-090f-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe it is time for a shake-up.President Obama&rsquo;s second-term staffing was always going to be a risk. He abandoned his first term&rsquo;s team of rivals for a closer-knit team of loyalists. The bet was that he was assured enough in the job to no longer need the in-house challenge...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Tries to Control U.S. Media]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fred-hiatt-chinese-leaders-control-media-academics-to-shape-the-perception-of-china/2013/11/17/1f26816e-4e06-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s well known that Chinese censors shape and limit the news and history their people can learn. What may be more surprising is how Chinese officials shape and limit what Americans learn about China.Last month, a cultural attache in the Chinese embassy in Washington invited Perry...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fiscal Stalemate Needs Obama's Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fred-hiatt-fiscal-stalemate-needs-obamas-leadership/2013/03/24/a755841e-9307-11e2-ba5b-550c7abf6384_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&#194;&#146;s often said that Democrats want to raise taxes while Republicans want to cut entitlements. That&#194;&#146;s not quite right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The History Obama Needs to Make]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fred-hiatt-obama-can-make-history-with-entitlement-reform/2013/01/27/40e1ff04-674d-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you wonder how historians can argue endlessly about what happened long ago &mdash; did Lincoln fight to free the slaves or to preserve the union, say &mdash; look at how we can disagree about what happened just during the past four years, while we all were watching.On the left it is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Serious About Deficit Reduction?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022002481.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mocked for the timidity of his proposed 2012 budget, President Obama appeared before reporters  last week to insist that he is open to serious deficit reduction beyond  what's laid out in his plan. People in Washington are so impatient, he  complained. Why would anyone think that his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Freedom in Peril Around the World]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Less Debate Over Iraq and Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052303855.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You would hardly know, from following this year's election campaign or the extensive coverage of last week's primaries, that America is at war.Those elected to Congress in November will face fateful decisions on the continued deployment, or not, of U.S. forces in combat in Iraq and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why is Obama Killing D.C.'s Vouchers?]]></title>
							<link>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/02/obama_and_vouchers.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration said it was going to respect science and respond to evidence -- a contrast, many Democrats said, to the previous regime. So why is President Obama killing off the program that offers the best chance to find out if school vouchers work?Congress has been paying for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McConnell's Cynical Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013101837.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA["As I have said many times before, the best way to address the crisis is the Conrad-Gregg proposal."

-- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

No single vote by any single senator could possibly illustrate everything that is wrong with Washington today. No single vote could embody the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has Done a Good Job So Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803455.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday one year will have passed since President Obama's inauguration. Much of the tidal wave of assessments has been negative: Falling poll numbers. Unfulfilled promises. Disappointed supporters, disillusioned independents, angry opponents. He's been too cool or too egotistical,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Health Plan Could Bankrupt U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110817808.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House passage of health-care reform Saturday night should be a moment of celebration. In a country as wealthy as America, no one should have to go without medical care. As in other developed nations, everyone should have access to doctors, to medicine, to preventive services. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shirking Cost Control]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502043.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The "public option" is dangerous not for what it might do but for what it allows the politicians not to do.

From the start, the Obama administration has said that health-care reform has to make health care both more accessible and less costly . If Congress does the first without the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Refusal of the Dalai Lama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101554.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Our concern is that the Obama administration is perceived to be softening on human rights."

If that comment came from a human rights lobbyist, you might not pay too much mind. But I heard it from Anwar Ibrahim, a Malaysian leader who is one of the world's foremost spokesmen for Islamic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for a Commission to Investigate CIA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082803159.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Which Summer Obama Drama Will We See?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/09/AR2009080902091.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here are two versions of the summer sizzler "President Obama and the Exploding Deficit," playing in a cineplex near you:In Version One, President Obama pronounces himself ready to make hard political choices to tame the federal debt. But after spending a trillion dollars to extinguish an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Plan: Spend First. Tax Later]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070501589.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&amp;sub=AR</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Reagan era, some conservatives have hoped to shrink government by "starving the beast." Refuse to raise taxes, they figured, and eventually spending would have to fall.
It's beginning to look as though the new team may have a similar strategy, in reverse: Increase spending, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prognosis on Health Care: Debt]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Fred Hiatt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you listened to President Obama addressing the American Medical Association last week, you might think that the primary purpose of health-care reform is, as he said, "to control the spiraling cost of health care in America."

Obama spoke passionately about the damage that rising costs...]]></description>
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