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<title><![CDATA[David Rohde - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15632.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Rohde]]></description><category domain="15632">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Iran Assassination Threat Appears To Weigh on Trump's Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/news/trump-iran-assassination-plot</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The prospect that Iran might try to kill Trump has hung over the president since he had a top Iranian official assassinated more than six years ago.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Gutted Election Interference Agency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/news/trump-gutted-cisa-election-interference</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has cut or pushed out key election security workers helping states protect voting infrastructure.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Diplomatic Efforts To End Iran War Face New Roadblocks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/news/diplomatic-efforts-to-end-iran-war-face-new-roadblocks</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Offers by Pakistan to broker peace have yet to gain traction as the Trump administration's diplomatic strategy remains murky.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Dems Make a Mistake By Focusing on Abrego Garcia?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-questions-rcna211601</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The allegations against Abrego Garcia are damning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Violence and the Democrats' Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/record-levels-of-gun-violence-and-the-democrats-dilemma</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid continued calls for police reform and a surge in firearm deaths, the Biden Administration and Mayor Eric Adams are trying to balance public safety and politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Jan. 6 Investigation Gets Closer to Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-january-6th-investigation-gets-closer-to-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judges, national-security officials, and Liz Cheney say that the effort must proceed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Garland vs. Bannon Is Bidenism vs. Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/garland-vs-bannon-is-bidenism-vs-trumpism</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether or not the Attorney General prosecutes the former White House strategist, polls suggest that provocation is proving more politically effective than probity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Legal Minefield That Trump Left for Merrick Garland]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-political-legal-and-moral-minefield-that-donald-trump-left-for-merrick-garland</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some fear that a former judge with a passionate belief in fairness and neutrality cannot effectively counter Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Barr's Break With Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/william-barrs-break-with-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Attorney General is, at long last, defending American democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Barr, Trump's Law and Order Enabler]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/william-barr-trumps-law-and-order-enabler</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Attorney General, more than any other member of Trump's Cabinet, has fulsomely defended a President whose response to the protests over George Floyd's death is being harshly criticized by current and former Administration officials.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Barr, Trump's Sword and Shield]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty, Barr claimed that the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'organized destruction'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of religion was under way in the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Opportunity to End America's Longest War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trumps-chance-to-bring-peace-to-afghanistan-and-end-americas-longest-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A variety of factors in Afghanistan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'some serendipitous, some the result of Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s repeated calls for an American withdrawal from the conflict'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'have come together to create an opportunity for peace.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington's Surveillance Leviathan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/the-security-industrial-complex/276906/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the last two years, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) have tried to describe to the American public the sweeping surveillance the National Security Agency conducts inside and outside the United States. But secrecy rules block them from airing the simplest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disengaged Obama Adds to Aura of Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/how-obama-has-contributed-to-his-own-aura-of-scandal/275984/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unprecedented Justice Department searches of journalists' phone records. IRS targeting of conservative political groups. Spiraling sexual assault rates in the military. And the downplaying of the first killing of an American ambassador in 30 years. In a matter of days, alarming accounts...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Double-Talk on Campaign Finance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/obama-talks-out-of-both-sides-of-his-mouth-on-campaign-finance/273626/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If George W. Bush had launched such a group, the coverage would be overwhelming and the criticism widespread. Last Friday, a story by Nicholas Confessore of the New York Timesrevealed that President Obama's political team is trying to raise $50 million to fund the conversion of his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's LBJ Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/obamas-lbj-moment-the-war-on-inequality-is-the-new-war-on-poverty/273165/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He quoted Jack Kennedy but sounded more like Lyndon Johnson.In an audacious State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama made sweeping proposals to reduce poverty, revive the middle class and increase taxes on the "well off." While careful to not declare it outright, an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bigger &amp; Bigger Banks Threaten Financial System]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/the-lesson-of-jp-morgans-2-billion-loss-break-up-the-big-banks/257050/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reports are startlingly familiar. Late Thursday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon announced a surprise $2 billion trading loss and stocks swooned. Dimon insisted, though, that there was no need for a Volcker Rule that would ban big banks from risky trading.Last week, a Reuters investigation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Lost Year for the American Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/the-year-in-review-for-the-american-middle-class/250421/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rohde</author>
							<description><![CDATA[- Jobs: Economists generally agree that the single most effective way to revive the American middle class is to create more high-paying, stable private sector jobs. The unexpected emergence of 140,000 new private sector jobs in November helped drop the unemployment rate to a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Are Lucky Kerry Lost in '04]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9d38cb54-d689-418e-ae28-0ab4f1639d5a</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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