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<title><![CDATA[Paul Starr - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15608.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Paul Starr]]></description><category domain="15608">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Liberals, Progressives Should Celebrate 250th]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/06/23/how-liberals-and-progressives-should-celebrate-americas-250th/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is an apt moment to return to the nation's founding ideals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the GOP Forgot It Was Conservative]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/03/27/apr-2026-magazine-how-republican-party-forgot-it-was-conservative/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The main theme in much writing on contemporary politics is how ideologically polarized Democrats and Republicans have become. But the truly consequential change is that Republicans have broken with their own past. Under Donald Trump, the party hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just reversed its positions on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Historic Reversal of Cultural Affordability]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2025/12/01/historic-reversal-of-cultural-affordability/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America used to be a pioneer in democratizing culture.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of the Politics of Retribution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/sleepwalking-into-revenge-the-rise-of-the-politics-of-retribution/ar-AA1PcUOg</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The air is thick with talk of revenge, and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not limited to Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s personal vendetta against individual enemies like James Comey, Letitia James, and John Bolton.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Today's America Came About]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/culture/books/2025-09-10-how-todays-america-came-about/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two different accounts from two of the Prospect's co-founders]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Exemplary Radical Skeptic]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/health/2025-02-12-christopher-jencks-exemplary-radical-skeptic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect's founding group, has died.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2024's Foreseeable Unforeseens]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-07-2024s-foreseeable-unforeseens/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What many refused to see in the last election becomes clearer day by day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Social Triumph &amp; Political Tragedy of Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/justice/2024-12-04-social-triumph-political-tragedy-immigration/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if you think immigration is good, you must consider the people who don't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Should Democrats Say to Young Men?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-20-what-should-democrats-say-to-young-men/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Young men appear to be drifting right. Ignoring them means trouble.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's the Working Class, Stupid]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/culture/books/2024-02-15-its-working-class-stupid-judis-teixeira-review/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Have at Stake in Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/world/what-we-have-at-stake-in-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first issue of this magazine, published in Spring 1990 as the Soviet Union was collapsing, carried an image on the cover of a new world being born, breaking out of its old shell. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It is a conceit of new publications that their appearance coincides with an historic change. By...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Center-Right and Our Future]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/center-right-and-our-future/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Should liberals and progressives take the hand that some anti-Trump conservatives are extending? Let's talk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Trouble With the Sprawling Reconciliation Bill]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/infrastructure/building-back-america/real-trouble-with-the-sprawling-reconciliation-bill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Focusing the agenda could have a benefit: a clearer message.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confrontations Are Coming: Dems Must Be Bold &amp; Careful]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/confrontations-are-coming-democrats-bold-and-careful/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why Democrats have to be bold and careful at the same time]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Precarious Greatness of the Biden Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/precarious-greatness-of-the-biden-strategy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The relief legislation could be the first step toward solving long-standing political problems for Democrats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Can Rebalance the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/justice/how-to-rebalance-the-supreme-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Combine an immediate expansion with a proposal for a constitutional amendment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need to Reopen Schools - But How?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/coronavirus/we-need-to-reopen-schools/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While more than 20 European countries have reopened schools, America seems unable even to approach the problem rationally.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Churchgoers Have a Right to Risk Infection?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/coronavirus/do-churchgoers-have-a-right-to-risk-infection/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the White House tries to roll back rules on religious gatherings, the Supreme Court reaffirms the public-health powers of the states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bloomberg &amp; Sanders Could Decide the Democratic Race]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/politics/how-bloomberg-and-sanders-could-decide-the-democratic-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neither will win the nomination, but by accumulating delegates one of them may determine who does.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Need a First-Things-First Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/article/democrats-need-first-things-first-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can we get beyond the clash between progressives and moderates?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Democrats Define Their Own Cause?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/article/can-democrats-define-their-own-cause</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Or will Trump define it for them?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Warren Overtake Sanders?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/article/can-warren-overtake-sanders</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The race for the left lane in the Democratic Party looks like it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s changing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Second Term Would Cause Irreversible Damage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/trump-2020-second-term/585994/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's more likely than most people think'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and compared with his first term, its effects would be far more durable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Robocall Deluge Is a Case of Government Failure]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/article/robocall-deluge-case-government-failure</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If your experience has been like mine, your phone has become a lot less useful to you in recent years thanks to the surge of robocalls.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2020 and the Democrats' Theory of Change]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/article/2020-and-democrats-theory-change</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats can and must think big, but they have to frame their ideas around the realities of a coalition party that includes suburban moderates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's How the Democratic Nomination Battle Will Go]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/article/heres-how-democratic-presidential-nomination-will-go</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Democratic presidential nomination is wide open and will have more than a dozen serious candidates, it is foolhardy and premature to speculate about how the race will play out. So let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s be foolhardy and premature and do exactly that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Reasons MAGA Doesn't Add Up]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/article/5-reasons-why-maga-conservatism-has-never-made-any-sense</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even on its own terms, MAGA doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t add up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Democrats Finally Won With Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/how-democrats-finally-won-health-care</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And how they can build on that success in 2020]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can a Blue Wave Save America?]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/can-blue-wave-save-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An ordinary wave in November won't be enough. Democrats need a big majority of votes to get even a small majority of seats. And failure could unleash Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Trump Is Far From Finished]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/no-trump-far-finished</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Starr</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Manafort and Cohen convictions haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t changed the political realities.]]></description>
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