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<title><![CDATA[Tim Dickinson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15535.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tim Dickinson]]></description><category domain="15535">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[They Can Resist, But Are Caving to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/they-re-powerful-enough-to-resist-but-are-caving-to-trump/ar-AA1KDEyg</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let the history books reflect that, when fascism reared its head in America, much of civil society chose to debase itself and accommodate it, rather than fight back.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Guide to Donald Trump's Fascist Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/guide-trump-fascist-presidency-ignoring-131753524.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's second term has been characterized by an utter disregard for the nation's foundational principles]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Sounds Left Wing Battle Cry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-battling-government-billionaires-140000417.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a frigid Friday night in Omaha, and Bernie Sanders has come to this riverside Nebraska city to sound a battlecry for democracy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and rally Americans to fight the rising threats of authoritarianism and billionaire rule. The thin ice floes careening down the Missouri River...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Radical Agenda]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/2020-election-democrat-platform-848304/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Play it safe or go bold? In the race to beat Trump, party leaders are rolling out revolutionary policies for the first time in a generation]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi: They Come After Me Because I'm Effective]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/nancy-pelosi-interview-696750/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House Minority Leader on the midterms, impeachment, her own party, sexism and the sexist-in-chief]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A History of Sex and Abuse in the Trump Administration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/a-history-of-sex-and-abuse-in-the-trump-administration-w516979</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nunes Memo: Watergate, It Ain't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-nunes-memo-heres-what-you-need-to-know-w516292</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Climate-Change Siege Is Fully Upon Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/summer-of-hell-and-high-water-shows-climate-change-is-here-w441345</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Southern California was ready to burn. El Ni'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('±').';'o rains that topped off reservoirs in the north of the state barely drizzled down south, leaving the region in a worst-in-centuries drought. By June, tree die-off in state forests, accelerated by bark beetles feasting on dry pines, had more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Fights On]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bernie-sanders-fights-on-the-rolling-stone-interview-20160531</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A defiant candidate on what he's trying to achieve]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America Can't Quit the Drug War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-america-cant-quit-the-drug-war-20160505</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March, the commander in chief of the War on Drugs stood in front of a crowd of policymakers, advocates and recovering addicts to declare that America has been doing it wrong.Speaking at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' focused on an overdose...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders' Political Revolution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bernie-sanders-political-revolution-20151118</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' just plain "Bernie" to his backers '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' is the unlikeliest of political sensations. The self-styled "democratic socialist" has packed arenas and meeting halls from Seattle to L.A. to Atlanta, drawing nearly 400,000 supporters to his rallies. Decrying...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet the Rebels Who Overthrew Boehner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/meet-the-right-wing-rebels-who-overthrew-john-boehner-20151006</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican civil war has claimed its biggest casualty yet. The revolution that toppled John Boehner was carried out by a group of intransigent conservatives who had made the speaker of the House's job hell ever since the Tea Party wave of 2010 elevated him to power. It is only in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Kochs' Toxic Empire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[he enormity of the Koch fortune is no mystery. Brothers Charles and David are each worth more than $40 billion. The electoral influence of the Koch brothers is similarly well-chronicled. The Kochs are our homegrown oligarchs; they've cornered the market on Republican politics and are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Tax Scam Ever]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-scam-ever-20140827</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In July, the American pharmaceutical giant AbbVie, maker of the world's top-selling drug '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the arthritis treatment Humira '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' reached a blockbuster deal to acquire European rival Shire, best known for the attention-deficit medication Adderall. The merger was cheered by Wall...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare: It's Working!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamacare-its-working-20140409</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one would claim that the Affordable Care Act rollout has all gone according to plan. The troubles started in the summer of 2012, when the Supreme Court took an ax to one of the main pillars of Obamacare: expanding Medicaid to cover any American earning less than $16,000. The federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hey, Washington! The Pay Is Too Damn Low]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/hey-washington-the-pay-is-too-damn-low-the-minimum-wage-war-20140227</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly five years into the recovery from the Great Recession, the American economy remains fundamentally broken. Inequality is getting worse: Ninety-five percent of income gains since 2009 have gone to the top one percent of earners. Private employers have added more than 8 million jobs,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Republicans Rig the Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-republicans-rig-the-game-20131111</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the nation recovers from the Republican shutdown of government, the question Americans should be asking is not "Why did the GOP do that to us?" but "Why were they even relevant in the first place?" So dramatically have the demographic and electoral tides in this country turned against...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Republican Suicide Machine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-republican-suicide-machine-20131009</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day before Congress broke for its August recess, on an afternoon when most of official Washington was tying up loose ends and racing to get out of town, Sen. Ted Cruz was setting the stage for the chaos that has consumed the nation's capital in recent weeks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Jerry Brown Turned Around California]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jerry-browns-tough-love-miracle-20130829</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As wind turbines spin like massive, inverted egg-beater blades against the bluest California sky, Jerry Brown steps into the sun. Since he took office in 2011, Brown's hawklike brow has been cemented in a scowl as he battled to stave off bankruptcy for the Golden State. But as he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Historic Presidency: The Case for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/220013</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For many progressives, the  presidency of Barack Obama has been deeply disappointing. To hear some  prominent lefties tell it, the New Jesus of the campaign trail has  morphed into the New Judas of the Oval Office. "He loves to buckle,"  MSNBC host Cenk Uygur declared in a July segment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Spill, the Scandal, and the President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965#</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Dickinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For weeks, the administration had been insisting that BP alone was to blame for the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf -- and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make-Believe Maverick]]></title>
							<link>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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