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<title><![CDATA[James Fallows - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15455.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Fallows]]></description><category domain="15455">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Reporter Who Made Us Love Politics--or Tried]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/07/23/the-reporter-who-made-us-love-politics-or-tried/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walter Shapiro'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s journalism was big-hearted, clear-eyed, and guided by a deep reverence for the whole operating-level panorama of American democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Charlie Peters Matters]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/11/23/why-charlie-peters-matters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ideas and example of the Washington Monthly's founder and editor-in-chief for 30 years can play an ongoing indispensable role in responding to our country's deepest problems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reviving America, One College Town at a Time]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/reviving-america-one-college-town-at-a-time/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How symbiotic relationships between colleges and their communities have reaped rewards in Erie, Pennsylvania, and Waterville, Maine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden's Inaugural Address Succeeded]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-bidens-inaugural-address-succeeded/ar-BB1d0fCJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political speeches follow a surprisingly simple set of rules'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or at least the successful ones do. Newly sworn-in President Joe Biden observed them all in his inaugural address. Although his 20 minutes at the lectern are not likely to be parsed and studied for rhetorical flourishes,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Republicans to Face Consequences]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/time-for-consequences/ar-BB1cCOxB</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most immediate challenge any new president faces is deciding what not to do. For Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the catastrophes of the past four days have not radically changed the way they should make those choices. One week ago, it was imperative that they mainly look forward, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Should Investigate Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/how-biden-should-investigate-trump/617260/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The misdeeds and destructive acts are legion. The new president should focus on these three.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media Learned Nothing From 2016]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-media-learned-nothing-from-2016/ar-BB193qTx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re seeing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a huge error, and a potential tragedy, unfold in real time.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No Understanding Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/07/theres-no-understanding-donald-trump/593932/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A reader writes to James Fallows about why the experts can't seem to figure him out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Jump-Seat Pilot Who Saved a Boeing 737 Max]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/03/jump-seat-pilot-and-boeing-737-max/585301/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The very same airplane completed a flight one day, and plunged into the sea the next day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Ground the Airplanes. Ground the Pilots.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/03/dont-ground-the-airplanes-ground-the-pilots/584941/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I talked to a highly experienced pilot about the problem with the Boeing 737 Max 8.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It Time to Worry About the Boeing 737 Max 8?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/et302-boeing-737-max-8-blame/584572/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one knows for sure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but here is where experts will be looking for clues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Racist Kentucky Boys From Covington Catholic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/01/mayor-covington-kentucky-explains-what-his-city-stands/580876/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know who the young man in the MAGA hat in this photo is. And I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t care to know.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Grinding the System to a Halt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/how-shutdown-impacting-air-safety/579616/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thousands of air-traffic controllers and TSA employees continue to work without pay. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unfair'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s potentially dangerous.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Would Only Take One Senator]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/senate-inaction/568606/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Republicans clinging to a precarious 50'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'49 majority, every individual GOP senator can serve as a check on Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s excesses whenever they choose to act.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Fumbling Its Most Important Relationship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/china-trump/561359/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States has a China problem'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and pundits and politicians are making it worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reinvention of America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/reinventing-america/556856/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have seen the future, and it is in the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How California Turned Into a 'State of Resistance']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/books/review/state-of-resistance-manuel-pastor.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sociologist Manuel Pastor explores the rise, fall and rise again of America's most populous state.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Empty Rituals of an American Massacre]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/deeply-saddened/553478/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Actual Smart People Talk About Themselves]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/how-actual-smart-people-talk-about-themselves/549878/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve never met or interviewed Donald Trump, though like most of the world I feel amply exposed to his outlooks and styles of expression. So I can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t say whether, in person, he somehow conveys the edge, the sparkle, the ability to connect, the layers of meaning that we usually...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the GOP Will Come to Regret Rolling Back DACA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/sessions-and-daca/538857/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve followed the politics and reality of immigration for a long time. In the mid-1980s, I traveled around the country for several months on a big reporting project for'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Atlantic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about that era'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new migrants. I went and learned about the Haitians and Cubans of South...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Used State Power for Racist Ends]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/why-the-arpaio-pardon-matters/538131/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Reasons the Comey Affair Is Worse Than Watergate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/comey-watergate/526443/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tangled affair now known as Watergate began 45 years ago, before most of today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s U.S. population had even been born. (The median age of Americans is about 38, so most people in the country were born in 1979 or thereafter.) Thus for most people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Watergate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Truth Is What You Can Get Away With']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/with-such-a-people-you-can-then-do-what-you-please/517272/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest attacks on the press really that bad? Are they that out-of-the-ordinary, given the famous record of complaints nearly all his predecessors have lodged? (Even George Washington had a hostile-press problem.)]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['American Carnage': The Trump Era Begins]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/american-carnage-the-trump-era-begins/513971/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despair and Hope in Trump's America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/despair-and-hope-in-the-age-of-trump/508799/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have been alive for a long time. I remember the assassination of John F. Kennedy, when I was a 10th-grader, and then watching with my family through the grim following days as newscasters said that something had changed forever. The next dozen years were nearly nonstop trauma for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Great Leap Backward]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/chinas-great-leap-backward/505817/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if china is going bad? Since early last year I have been asking people inside and outside China versions of this question. By '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'bad'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t mean morally. Moral and ethical factors obviously matter in foreign policy, but I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m talking about something different.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James Comey and the Destruction of Norms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/10/trump-time-capsule-james-comey/505904/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rules in politics haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t changed that much in recent years. What has changed is adherence to norms, in an increasingly destructive way.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Donald Trump Meets Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/who-will-win/497561/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960 campaign, which was also the very first nationally televised general-election debate in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eastport's Lesson in Globalization]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/09/the-world-comes-to-a-tiny-town-eastports-object-lesson-in-globalization/498689/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama: Chessmaster, Not Pawn]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/obama-chessmaster-or-pawn/420195/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Fallows</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many of the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s supporters fear that he hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t really known what he is doing. Many of his critics worry that he is all too skillful at attaining his ends. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s increasing evidence that the critics may be right.]]></description>
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