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<title><![CDATA[Lawrence Wright - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15332.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Lawrence Wright]]></description><category domain="15332">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Plague Year]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' COVID-19'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' pandemic when events might have turned out differently. The first occurred on January 3, 2020, when Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with George Fu Gao, the head...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Survivors Help Cure Covid-19 &amp; Rescue Economy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/can-survivors-of-the-coronavirus-help-cure-the-disease-and-rescue-the-economy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An ever-expanding group of people who have been infected by the virus and have recovered could provide invaluable antibodies for COVID-19 patients and return to work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Future Is Texas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-future-is-texas</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state's demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation's bellwether.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Families Who Negotiated With ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/five-hostages</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five American families, each harboring a grave secret, took their seats around a vast dining table at the home of David Bradley, a Washington, D.C., entrepreneur who owns the media company that publishes The Atlantic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Twenty-Eight Pages]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/twenty-eight-pages</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the bottom floor of the United States Capitol'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new underground visitors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' center, there is a secure room where the House Intelligence Committee maintains highly classified files. One of those files is titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ISIS's Savage Strategy in Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/06/isis-savage-strategy-in-iraq.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Islamist storm passing through Iraq right now has been building up since the United States invaded the country in 2003, which unleashed longstanding sectarian rivalries that spilled over into civil war. But the appalling brutality currently on display, initiated by the Islamic State...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The al-Qaeda Switchboard]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2014/01/13/140113taco_talk_wright</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden has started a critical debate about the legality and the effectiveness of the N.S.A.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s practice of collecting unlimited records of telephone calls made to, from, and within the United States. Last month, two federal judges came to opposing conclusions about these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2 Questions at Heart of Bin Laden's Islam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-09/questions-at-the-heart-of-bin-laden-s-jihad-commentary-by-lawrence-wright.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Osama bin Laden began his war on America in 1996, he was posing two questions. The first was: What is Islam?Al-Qaeda'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s definition of the faith is one that is permanently in conflict with nonbelievers -- a category that includes all Muslims who don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t subscribe to the narrow...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Different Kind of Texan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/08/29/110829taco_talk_wright</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December, 2000, shortly after the Supreme Court finally ruled on the disputed Presidential election, the mood at the Christmas party in the Texas Governor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Mansion, in Austin, was a mixture of elation and disbelief. President-elect George W. Bush, a little sweaty as he came off...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pakistan's Double Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_wright</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the end of the Second World War, and the United States is deciding what to do about two immense, poor, densely populated countries in Asia. America chooses one of the countries, becoming its benefactor. Over the decades, it pours billions of dollars into that country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of Violent Jihad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,760938,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was at home when I learned the big news about the killing of Osama  bin Laden. My brother-in-law had just called me, so I rushed to turn the  TV on to see what had happened.I felt a sense of relief and a feeling of closure. Although I recognize  that al-Qaida has not died with its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bin Laden Is Dead but Is al-Qaeda?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/bin-laden-hey-hey-goodbye.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bin Laden is dead but is Al Qaeda? Certainly, his terror organization  could not die without its leader being killed or captured. In the last  few months it was fashionable to say that bin Laden was irrelevant. But  the fact that he was able to evade justice since 1998, when he ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Threat From Al Qaeda Remains]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/09/lawrence-wright-al-qaeda.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda's Heretic]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/13/heretic.alqaida.part.one</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Wright</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al Qaeda: The Rebellion Within]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/02/080602fa_fact_wright</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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