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							<title><![CDATA[If You Hate the Culture Wars, Blame Liberals]]></title>
							<link>https://jabberwocking.com/if-you-hate-the-culture-wars-blame-liberals/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I posted a series of charts that all documented a similar theme: Since roughly the year 2000, according to survey data, Democrats have moved significantly to the left on most hot button social issues while Republicans have moved only slightly right.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tax Cuts Were a Disaster - and GOP Wants More]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/trumps-tax-cuts-were-a-disaster-naturally-republicans-want-even-more/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1980 the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' federal deficit was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' soaring'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and Ronald Reagan campaigned on a singular promise: He planned to cut taxes on everyone, but especially the rich. He insisted that those benefits would quickly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' trickle down'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to everyone and supercharge the economy. Throw in some social...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Is Broken. Bring Back Pork.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/congress-is-broken-bring-back-pork/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earmarks were controversial, but eliminating them got Washington into this dysfunctional mess.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Isn't Failing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/sp-says-obamacare-isnt-failing</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[S&amp;P says that Obamacare isn't failing at all:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Voters Aren't Really Angry About the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/trump-voters-are-not-angry-about-economy-really</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Trust Gap Is Killing Her With Millennials]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/hillary-clintons-trust-gap-killing-her-millennials</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I was musing over a tweet from a guy who said that his daughter's friends all loathed Hillary Clinton. Just really, really couldn't stand her. This is obviously a fairly common sentiment. Bernie Sanders didn't win 80 percent of the millennial vote in Michigan just because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Right to Die: Assisted Suicide, My Family, and Me]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/assisted-suicide-legalization-california-kevin-drum</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[EVERY STORY HAS A BEGINNING. This one starts in late 2001, when my father-in-law fractured three of his ribs. Harry was a retired physician, and after a thorough workup that he insisted on, it turned out that his bone density was severely compromised for no immediately apparent reason....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Liberals Responsible for the Rise of Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/are-liberals-responsible-rise-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five-time Jeopardy! champion Tom Nichols writes today about why so many people are attracted to Donald Trump. Nichols is a Republican, but he makes it very clear that he deeply loathes Trump ("hideous," "narcissistic," "creepy," "stupid," etc.) and will never vote for him. So what's his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals, Knock Off the Mockery Over Limiting Refugees]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/11/liberals-should-knock-mockery-over-calls-limit-syrian-refugees</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Cillizza on the post-Paris push among Republicans to keep Syrian refugeesout of the country:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Over the past 24 hours, almost half of the nation's governors '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' all but one of them Republicans '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' have said they plan to refuse to allow Syrian immigrants into their states in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Problems Go Way Deeper Than Speaker Mess]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/no-escape-republicans-obamacare-speaker</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Has any piece of legislation in American history held on by its fingertips more dramatically than the Affordable Care Act? Let's review the tape.In 2009, it passed in the Senate by a margin of zero votes. In 2010, thanks to some fancy parliamentary maneuvering, it survived the loss of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Noose Is Tightening Around Chris Christie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/no-smoking-guns-yet-noose-tightening-around-chris-christie</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times is pretty clearly expending a lot of resources on the various Chris Christie scandals. So far they haven't produced any smoking guns, but they're sure digging up some stuff that doesn't look good for Team Christie. First up is a look at the Christie political team,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Nearing a Dead End on Health Care Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/republicans-nearing-dead-end-obamacare</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's funny that Republicans don't believe their own propaganda. For years, they've been hellbent on repealing Obamacare because they knew that once it was fully implemented in 2014, it would have millions of beneficiaries who would fight to keep it. Once the benefits of a new program...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Continue to Screw the Poor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/hooray-lets-screw-poor-even-more-when-economy-already-keeping-them-out-work</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are upset that spending on food stamps (aka SNAP) has gone up so much over the past few years. And why has it increased? Because more people qualify for SNAP these days:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Fine. But why do more people qualify? Well, the big increase starts right where you see that thick gray...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Need to Panic Over Mandate Delay]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/theres-no-need-panic-over-obamacare-mandate-delay</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has decided to delay the employer mandate in Obamacare. Like the individual mandate, which requires individuals to buy insurance if they don't get it elsewhere, the employer mandate requires big employers to offer insurance to their employees. Most big employers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Tantrum Against ObamaCare Continues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/republican-temper-tantrum-against-obamacare-continues</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've never expected conservatives to like Obamacare. I didn't expect them to vote for it. I didn't expect them to support it. I didn't expect them to refrain from campaigning against it.But the virulence and durability of their fight against has surprised me. I figured that once it was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good News About Affirmative Action's Future]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/future-class-based-affirmative-action</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although the Supreme Court's decision earlier this week in the University of Texas affirmative action case was basically a punt, the end appears to be very near for racial preferences in university admissions. The case was sent back to the Fifth Circuit Court for review, and the majority...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keeping Up With the Benghazi Conspiracy Theories]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/benghazi</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have you been keeping up with the latest on Benghazi! Yeah, me neither. But I guess it's time to correct that. It turns out there are two new developments that the wingers are pretty sure will finally blow the lid off the whole thing.First up is a dramatically anonymous "military special...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Has Problems, But It's on Track]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/04/obamacare-has-its-problems-its-basically-track</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Suderman reacts to Sen. Max Baucus's latest complaint about the implementation of Obamacare:If there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s any one legislator who can legitimately claim to be the law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s author, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Baucus. So it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s worth paying attention when Baucus says that he thinks the process...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware Conventional Wisdom on Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/03/republican-party-might-not-be-quite-dead-yet</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In my decades of polling, I recall only one moment when a party had been driven as far from the center as the Republican Party has been today....The Republican Party'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s ratings now stand at a 20-year low, with just 33 percent of the public holding a favorable view of the party and 58...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Chinese Bond Trope That Refuses to Die]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/chinese-bond-meme-refuses-die</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Skip the Rules and Let Smart People Stay in U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/skip-rules-lets-just-allow-smart-people-stay-united-states</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jack Lew's Deal Explained]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/jack-lews-deal-explained</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Citi's Odd Payment to Jack Lew]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/citis-odd-bonus-payment-jack-lew</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Target Citizens on U.S. Soil?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/can-president-target-american-citizens-us-soil</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Taxpayers Subsidize the Biggest Banks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/how-taxpayers-subsidize-americas-biggest-banks</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hagel Opponents Are Making It Personal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/when-it-comes-chuck-hagel-its-not-business-its-personal</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whose Idea Was It For the Sequester?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/whose-idea-was-sequester</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Can't Let Go of Their Benghazi Pet Rock]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/benghazi-conspiracy-theory-just-wont-go-away</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Republicans get hold of a pet rock these days, they just can't give it up. Yes, I'm talking about Benghazi:James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma said his panel would focus on the military'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s response to the assault. But, he said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'as bad as everything that I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve stated is, what I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Panic About Sequester Yet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/no-need-panic-about-sequester-yet</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nobody is Serious About the Deficit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/almost-nobody-serious-about-deficit</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Drum</author>
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