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<title><![CDATA[David Leonhardt - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15685.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Leonhardt]]></description><category domain="15685">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden May Matter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/briefing/joe-biden-legacy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We explore the president's legacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Largest Immigration Surge in U.S. History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/recent-immigration-surge-has-been-largest-in-u-s-history/ar-AA1vF7Za</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to a New York Times analysis of government data.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are Biden's Next Steps on Immigration?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president has come to recognize that the surge of undocumented immigration is a threat to his re-election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hard Truth About Immigration]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the United States wants to reduce inequality, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going to need to take an honest look at a contentious issue.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why 'Follow the Science' Fails to Answer Many Questions]]></title>
							<link>https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/NN_sample.html?action=click&amp;module=nl-index-see-the-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The C.D.C. describes medium-rare hamburgers as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'undercooked'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and dangerous. The agency also directs Americans to avoid raw cookie dough and not to eat more than a teaspoon or so of salt every day. And the C.D.C. tells sexually active women of childbearing age not to drink...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Covid Americas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/briefing/covid-behavior-vaccinated-unvaccinated.html?smid=tw-share</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The unvaccinated are less worried than the boosted, according to a poll.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid Has Created a Crisis for American Children]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html?searchResultPosition=2</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American children are in crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Uniquely Failing to Control Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/united-states-failure-coronavirus.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Slowing the coronavirus has been especially difficult for the United States because of its tradition of prioritizing individualism and missteps by the Trump administration.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[7 Reasons We Can't Yet Reopen America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-reopen-economy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're making progress, but not nearly enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Be Fooled, Trump's Hurting His Reelection Chances]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/opinion/trump-coronavirus-election.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't be fooled by snapshot polls.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Centrist Bias' Hurts Sanders and Warren]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/12/27/david-leonhardt-press-has/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John F. Harris is about as mainstream as the mainstream media gets. He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, including as its political editor. Then he became the founding editor of Politico, where he is now a columnist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump vs. the United States of America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/donald-trump-vs-the-united-states-of-america/ar-AAHGsQ3</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s worth stepping back to look at the full picture.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' He has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' pressured'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Ignore Black Voters' Complex Views on Reparations]]></title>
							<link>https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/TY_14364.html?campaign_id=39&amp;instance_id=10261&amp;segment_id=14364&amp;user_id=663c23553dd94cec988710bdf78d3c32&amp;regi_id=13689333</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several top-tier Democratic presidential candidates went to Charleston, S.C., this weekend to speak at an event on black economic empowerment. I was there, and I was fascinated by a nationwide poll of black Americans that was done as part of the event.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Biden's Defense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/joe-biden-inappropriate-touching.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Readers and a political scientist take exception to the outrage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump to Blame for Increase in White-Nationalist Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/trump-violence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He doesn't deserve blame for any specific attack. He does deserve blame for the increase in white-nationalist violence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Dose of Moderation Would Help Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/opinion/2020-moderate-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They can appeal to moderate voters without betraying progressive values.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York Did Us All a Favor By Standing Up to Amazon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/opinion/amazon-new-york.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, Amazon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s departure will modestly hurt the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s economy. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s also a victory against bad economic policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Nightmare Opponents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/opinion/amy-klobuchar-sherrod-brown-2020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar, Sherrod Brown and how to be a middle-class fighter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real State of the Union, in Charts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opinion/trump-state-of-the-union.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not pretty. But there is one big reason for hope.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Impeachment Options for House Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/trump-impeachment-democrats-republicans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And why I think two of them are misplaced.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Run, Joe, Run]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/opinion/joe-biden-2020.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden has strengths no other candidate does, and Democrats need a diverse field.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The People vs. Donald J. Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/sunday/trump-impeachment.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He is demonstrably unfit for office. What are we waiting for?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Finally, a Check on Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/opinion/democrats-house-of-representatives-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The countdown of the year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most significant stories continues with the Democratic takeover of the House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Secret to Democrats Winning in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/opinion/democrats-2020-election-economic-populism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the populism, stupid.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Monopolization of America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/opinion/monopolies-in-the-us.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Would Rather Undermine Democracy Than Lose Fairly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/florida-georgia-election-recount-republicans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Marco Rubio and other top Republicans would rather undermine democracy than lose fairly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Have to Fear If Republicans Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/opinion/hungary-orban-republican-party-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before the midterms, a trip to Hungary shows the dangers facing the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Consequences If Republicans Win Everything Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/opinion/sunday/midterm-elections-republican-party-trump-senate-house.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Total victory for the G.O.P. would mean Trump unleashed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Trump Derangement Syndrome' Is a Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/opinion/columnists/democrats-midterms-progressive-left-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And the Democratic Party has not actually become a band of radical leftists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Urgent Question of Trump &amp; Money Laundering]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/opinion/trump-money-laundering-russia-mueller.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Leonhardt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Bruce Ohr, President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.]]></description>
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