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<title><![CDATA[Andrew Ferguson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15168.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Andrew Ferguson]]></description><category domain="15168">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Emil Bove Will Make an Excellent Circuit Court Judge]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5355582-emil-bove-will-make-an-excellent-circuit-court-judge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Emil Bove'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' will make an excellent addition to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. We know this because the three of us shepherded 252 Article III judges to confirmation under President Trump as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republican chief counsels for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee under...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cringey Gushing Over Jimmy Carter]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/media/a-great-great-great-man-the-cringey-gushing-over-jimmy-carter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it the very unseemliness of the death watch over poor Jimmy Carter that has forced everyone to talk balls?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good Riddance, Madame Speaker]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/columns/good-riddance-madame-speaker/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Quite apart from the sympathy and horror every decent person feels over the attack on her husband, I for one am going to miss the old gal, as Nancy Pelosi slowly passes from power, with the expectation that this failed election is her last. She's had a good run, growing from a back...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leave Lincoln Out of the Lincoln Project]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/tactics-lincoln-project/613636/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Lincoln Project partakes of the spirit of a famous Republican president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but he's not its namesake.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Springtime for Introverts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/springtime-introverts/608770/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world has caught up with us at last.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The College President Who Simply Won't Raise Tuition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/mitch-daniels-purdue/606772/?</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue's tuition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'at less than $10,000'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for seven straight years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Marriage Counseling Save America?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1970s, Kingsley Amis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the grumpy British novelist now remembered mostly as the father of the slightly less grumpy novelist Martin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'made a remark that even today holds a high place in the anthologies of human grumpiness: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s one word that sums up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheering the Constitution's Demise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/who-constitution/596341/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Heidi Schreck isn't a fan of America's founding charter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which may be why her audiences are such big fans of hers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Guilty Pleasures of Mansion Porn]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/wall-street-journals-mansion-porn/593389/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Each week, The Wall Street Journal offers its readers the choice between envy and schadenfreude.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tyranny of the 70-Somethings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/there-should-be-age-limit-presidents/591724/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party's gerontocracy is holding back the political causes it claims to want to advance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of Humor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shows-death-humor/587872/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House Correspondents' Dinner reveals a republic too fractured to be funny.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No Substitute for Print]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/andrew-ferguson-joys-reading-print-newspaper/586792/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some joys can't be digitized.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What It Was Like to Work for Bush]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/george-h-w-bush-1924-2018</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are each of us a black box, and I scarcely knew him, but even I could see there were many keys to George H.W. Bush.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illinois Is a Mess. Here's Why.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/illinois-is-a-mess-heres-why</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political dysfunction as far as the eye can see.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Yale Law School Freakout]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/supreme-court-on-cue-yale-law-school-students-freak-out-about-kavanaugh</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every activist, party hack, and ideological mainchancer bolted from the blocks, issuing petitions and press releases and formal statements with astonishing speed and at maximum volume. This includes Kavanaugh'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s alma mater, Yale Law School, and a contingent of his fellow Yalies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama WH: They Literally Learned Nothing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/going-dont-need-rhodes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re Going, We Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Need Rhodes]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Re-educating the Baristas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/reeducating-the-baristas-is-a-stupid-and-futile-gesture-from-starbucks</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A futile and stupid gesture from Starbucks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barbara Bush's Subversive Secret to Happiness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/remembering-barbara-bushs-wellesley-commencement-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the death of Barbara Bush, much, though maybe not enough, has been made of her once-famous commencement address to the Wellesley College class of 1990. Read today it has the feel of an antique. But her voice is strong in it, and she was always worth listening to.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Guide for the Gender-Perplexed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-guide-for-the-gender-perplexed/article/2011968</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don't know the book acquisition budget of the public library in the town of St. Michaels, a quaint little tourist trap on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I hope it's large enough to buy several copies of Ryan T. Anderson's new book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All the News That's Fit for Our Readers' Sensitivities]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/all-the-news-thats-fit-for-our-readers-sensitivities/article/2011785</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Quinn Norton is an engaging, funny, and stylish writer on technology and the odd communities that inhabit our digital world and make it so scary. She is also, to quote her own description, a bisexual anarchist pacifist, prison abolitionist, &amp; vegetarian. Currently I'm fretting about fair...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Search of Black and White]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/ferguson-in-search-of-black-and-white/article/2011510</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A story for our times: It took place, of course, on Twitter, though it was first written up in the trade publication Inside Higher Ed.Safiya Umoja Noble is an assistant professor at USC's Annenberg School of Communication, where she specializes in marking the ways that digital media...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Final Hagiography of the Obama Team]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/ferguson-the-final-hagiography-of-the-obama-team/article/2011419</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new documentary The Final Year records the ups, the downs, the smiles, the frowns of President Obama's foreign policy advisers during their last months in office. It was made for HBO but it won't hit the small screen until later this year. For the moment it's playing in a few...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comedy Boy of the Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/comedy-boy-senate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Al Franken took to the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Senate floor on Pearl Harbor Day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the day of his personal infamy. He went there to resign his Senate seat, and he did, but the theme of his resignation speech was that, under the circumstances, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d be crazy to resign. As he plugged along, all the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Be Sure, Nazis Are Evil]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/to-be-sure-nazis-are-evil/article/2010676</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not always easy to sympathize with reporters for the New York Times, because so many of them act like .'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??. how to put it? .'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??. like reporters for the New York Times. But there are exceptions, and to their list we may now add the name of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sally Quinn &amp; the Ruling Classless]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-ruling-classless/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sally Quinn, the well-known Washington journalist, has published a new memoir called'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Finding Magic. Even for those of us who have followed her nearly 50-year career with unflagging interest, it is full of news.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Recall the Summer of Love? Lucky You]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/flowers-in-their-hair/article/2009233</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[San FranciscoIf you're going to San Francisco, be sure to check out the trams at the airport. They're done up in psychedelic colors. And over by the gates you can have your picture taken in a mock-up of an old VW bus like the hippies used to drive, also decorated psychedelically. Wearing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media Have a Bad Case of the Trumps]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-kiss-up-that-wasnt/article/2008488</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A dozen men accompanying Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to America last month have been criminally charged for attacking protesters who had gathered outside the Turkish ambassador's home in Washington D.C.Bystanders filmed the May 16 altercation as members of Erogan's security...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roger Ailes: The Ziegfeld of Political Theater]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-ziegfeld-of-political-theater/article/2008129</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many mistaken beliefs left over from the 1960s are embedded in mainstream, which is to say liberal, American culture. As an earnest young lefty I was taught that generals like war, that businessmen like free markets, that Christians think everyone else is going to hell, and that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The AP's Pronoun Decree]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-aps-pronoun-decree/article/2007577</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just who does they think they is? That's the question that raced through the language snob community late last month. Maybe not phrased in those exact words.We was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??no, we were'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??reacting to a bit of shoptalk from the editors of The Associated Press Stylebook. The importance and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Berkeley Offline: Another Win for the Grievance Industry]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/berkeley-goes-offline/article/2007153</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Ferguson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??few years ago, an adjunct professor and disability-rights activist named Stacy Nowak went to take a look at a college course offered online by the University of California, Berkeley. The course was called Journalism for Social Change. Nowak is deaf. She has no connection to UC...]]></description>
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