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<title><![CDATA[Charles Blow - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15616.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Blow]]></description><category domain="15616">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Strongest Case for Biden Is His Resilience in Face of Onslaught]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is still standing, refusing to bow out '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he reiterated that once again in a lengthy and mostly successful news conference on Thursday night. Some may view it as selfish and irresponsible. Some may even see it as dangerous. But I see it as remarkable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forcing Biden Out Would Have Only One Beneficiary: Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://web.archive.org/web/20240704003019/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/opinion/biden-harris-trump-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instead of clearing the way for victory, liberals may well be paving the way for defeat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Persecution of Harvard's Claudine Gay]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/03/the-persecution-of-harvards-claudine-gay/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard who announced her resignation on Tuesday after her problematic congressional testimony about antisemitism and]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Didn't Put Racism on a Leash. It Granted It License]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/05/the-supreme-court-didnt-put-racism-on-a-leash-it-granted-it-license/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a recurrent theme in American history: the clawing back of hard-won progress. And the Supreme Court last week]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Anti-Woke, Anti-Vote Crusade Crashes Into Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/28/republicans-anti-woke-anti-vote-crusade-has-crashed-into-the-constitution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before the dust had cleared on the 2020 election, Republicans in statehouses across the country had already regrouped and coalesced]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[LGBTQ Americans: New Class of Political Refugees?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/14/l-g-b-t-q-americans-could-become-a-new-class-of-political-refugees/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eleanor McDonough used to be a legislative aide in the Florida State House of Representatives. She was, she believes, the]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Faces a Test as Trump Faces Prosecution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-may-face-prosecution-america-faces-a-test/ar-AA18Xw59</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Of course, Donald Trump went to social media to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' speculate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d be arrested on Tuesday of this week and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' big surprise '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that turned out not to be true.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Spectacular Fall of Lori Lightfoot]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/01/the-spectacular-fall-of-lori-lightfoot/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a stunning rebuke. On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, the first Black woman and first openly L.G.B.T.Q.+]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Divide the Working Class]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/01/18/how-to-divide-the-working-class/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York City was the site of one of the deadliest riots in United States history 160 years ago this]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unapologetic Black Power in the South]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/12/11/unapologetic-black-power-in-the-south/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m a strong advocate of Black reverse migration '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Black people returning to Southern states from cities in the North and West in order to concentrate political power.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dancing Near the Edge of a Lost Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/06/dancing-near-the-edge-of-a-lost-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most sobering statements from President Biden's speech last week on protecting democracy was one that might well]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Exploitative Anti-Blackness of Kanye West]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/09/the-exploitative-anti-blackness-of-kanye-west/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among Kanye's West's defenders, the thinking goes like this: He is a genius, a freethinker, an elevated conscience.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis Has a Race Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/oct/03/ron-desantis-has-race-problem/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In July, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida appointed Jeffery Moore, a former tax law specialist with the Florida Department of Revenue, to be a county commissioner in Gadsden, the blackest county in the state.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Has Had a Remarkably Successful Summer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/08/07/charles-m-blow-joe-biden-had/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Media narratives are driven by trajectory. Things get better or worse. People rise and fall. Maybe there is an upstart sensation who threatens the establishment. Maybe there is a spectacular fall from grace. Maybe there is a comeback. Regardless of the story, the direction of movement is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Dems Headed For a Biden Blood Bath?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/opinion/biden-approval-miderms.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America wants a show and a showman to distract from its misery. Biden is not that. And he is being punished for not being a huckster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Pandemic P.T.S.D.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/opinion/covid-pandemic-ptsd.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We underestimate the extreme trauma that society has endured, and still lives with, at our own peril.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seven Steps to Destroy a Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/republicans-democracy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican-led assault on our elections has been methodical and, so far, successful.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Demanding That Ketanji Brown Jackson 'Show Her Papers']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/opinion/ketanji-jackson-tucker-carlson.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Too many'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Black'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' people have had to present proof of their credentials at some point in their lives. It is humiliating and degrading.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin Still Making US Confront Its Original Sin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/26/opinion/trayvon-martin-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not every killing connects with the culture and activates a mass movement. This one did.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Will Be No Post-Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/opinion/no-post-covid.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Covid is here to stay. So are the societal transformations it's caused.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's 'Friend' Is the Enemy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/opinion/biden-mcconnell-friendship.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president suffers from the same blind spot as other white liberal leaders throughout history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When All-White Was All Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/opinion/supreme-court-nomination-identity-politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only when we disentangle the concepts of whiteness and maleness from the concept of power can we see the damage the association has done.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Edging Closer to Civil War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/opinion/abortion-rights-america.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I see too many uneasy parallels between what was happening nearly 200 years ago and what is happening now over abortion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden, Tepid in the Face of Catastrophe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/biden-voting-filibuster.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is the president so reticent to say unequivocally that we must protect voting rights at all costs, even at the expense of the filibuster?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Last Chance to Save American Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/opinion/voting-rights-congress.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This season of oppression is very likely the beginning of an era of oppression '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' unless Congress intervenes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, You're in Danger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/opinion/democrats-congress-midterms.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the president's agenda stalled in Congress, many Democratic voters are growing impatient and disillusioned.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mendacity of Joe Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/opinion/biden-haitian-migrants.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No White House fact sheet about other policies that benefited Black people can hide the fact that Haitian migrants at the southern border were treated like animals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill Was Right About 'Missing White Woman Syndrome']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/opinion/petito-missing-person-cases.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've seen it happen time and again. Missing white women and girls receive outsize media coverage when other missing people receive none.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis, How Many Covid Deaths Are Enough?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/opinion/ron-desantis-covid-death.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Florida's governor is allowing you to choose death so that he can have a greater political life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The G.O.P. Menace to Society]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/01/opinion/republicans-threat-america.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Blow</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is delusional to not tell the unvarnished truth because you believe your tone of conciliation will lead to rehabilitation.]]></description>
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