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<title><![CDATA[Peter Beinart - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15704.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></description><category domain="15704">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Winning Template for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/abdul-el-sayed-democrats-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The candidate has crafted a progressive nationalism and shown his party how to turn Republicans' financial advantage against them]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Not the First U.S. President To Fall in Love With War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/25/trump-venezuela-greenland-war-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his fresh intoxication with global conquest, Trump is following an established pattern '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' one that promises disaster]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/22/the-great-rupture-in-american-jewish-life/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the last decade or so, an ideological tremor has been unsettling American Jewish life. Since Oct. 7, it has become an earthquake. It concerns the relationship between liberalism and Zionism, two creeds that for more than half a century have defined American Jewish identity. In the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Foes Are Joining Forces]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/03/americas-foes-are-joining-forces/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Biden administration recently made two grim announcements: Iran is helping to manufacture drones for Russia. China operates a spy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Fueling Panic About China]]></title>
							<link>https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/stop-fueling-panic-about-china</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In The Best and The Brightest, David Halberstam tells the story of a lunch between two Kennedy administration officials and the sociologist David Riesman in 1961. The Kennedy men boasted that their administration was both escalating and regulating the cold war. They were getting tough on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Goes Big Without Sounding Like It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-goes-big-without-sounding-like-it/ar-BB17v9OH</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost halfway through Chris Wallace'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s July 19 interview with Donald Trump, an exchange occurred that encapsulates the current state of the presidential race. The president claimed that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'wants to defund the police.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Wallace contradicted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are Exaggerating the China Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-are-allowing-trump-to-frame-the-debate-on-china/ar-BB17cW4I?li=BBnbcA1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If they keep speaking the GOP's language, it will haunt them for years to come.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Kasich Boosts the Biden Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-kasich-gives-biden/ar-BB170qcQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican ex-governor amplifies the Democratic candidate's remarkably simple message to voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Gets Trumpier Under Stress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-gets-trumpier-under-stress/ar-BB160040</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Donald Trump loses reelection, it will be because the country changed and he did not. Over the past several months, the United States has witnessed a once-in-a-century pandemic, the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, and some of the largest protests since the 1960s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Protesters Are Upholding America's Moral Authority Abroad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-protesters-are-upholding-americas-moral-authority-abroad/ar-BB15nLF7</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In December 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. interrupted himself during a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' speech'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on desegregation to discuss an event on the other side of the world: the prodemocracy uprising then being quashed in Hungary. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Our minds leap the mighty Atlantic,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he told the National Committee...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cities May Have No Choice But to Defund the Police]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cities-may-have-no-choice-but-to-defund-the-police/ar-BB15hNIW</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a modest scale, police defunding is happening. For years, powerful police unions have made law-enforcement funding all but untouchable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking From China Is Exactly the Wrong Answer]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/bgaj9Z</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After scuttling its partnership with Beijing on public health, the U.S. was unprepared for the pandemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Party Isn't Ripe for Anti-Establishment Takeover]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/regular-democrats-are-just-fine-establishment/607417/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2016, rank-and-file Republicans were ready to overthrow the establishment. Biden's Super Tuesday voters felt otherwise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Among Ordinary Democrats, Sanders Is Strikingly Popular]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/regular-democrats-arent-least-bit-worried-about-bernie/606688/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judging by media coverage and the comments of party luminaries, you might think Democrats are bitterly polarized over Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential bid. Last month, Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' declared'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'nobody likes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the Vermont senator.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeachment May Have Hurt Biden, Not Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/ex43En</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The impeachment struggle is now over. Historians may one day vindicate Democrats for exposing Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s abuse of power. But as of now, they have lost. Not only will Trump remain president, and not only does he appear stronger politically than before the impeachment battle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Has-Beens Love Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/LjJVuZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trace the careers of Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, both of whom joined Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s impeachment team last week, and you notice a similar arc. As young men, each rapidly ascended to the upper echelons of the legal profession.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iraq and Iran Have Nationalists, Too]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/g8TWp2</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s missile attack last night on bases where American forces in Iraq are stationed offered the latest evidence that the Trump administration has done something extraordinary. By killing Qassem Soleimani, Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most powerful military leader, at a Baghdad airport, it has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Embassy Attack Revealed Trump&rsquo;s Weakness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/trump-put-himself-irans-mercy/604321/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Cory Booker Blew It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-cory-booker-blew-it/602716/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic field has room for a moderate who isn't Joe Biden. But by backing away from his own record, a promising New Jersey centrist took himself out of contention.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nikki Haley Is Playing a Long Game]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/smLqPc</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nikki Haley has a theory about the post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Donald Trump GOP. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s that Republicans will want to move on from Trump without repudiating him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren Couldn't Be Luckier]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/L24VFd</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re Pete Buttigieg. You had the best October of any candidate in the Democratic presidential race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Utter Emptiness of Trump's Populism]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/t72rpA</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump is a big fan of Poland'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ruling Law and Justice Party, which, like him, demonizes immigrants and the press. Trump travelled to Warsaw to meet the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leaders less than six months after taking office, before he visited Britain, Germany, or France.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Are Hypocrites for Condemning Trump Over Syria]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/h9UPyx</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night, the Democratic presidential candidates vied with one another to offer the harshest condemnation of President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s abrupt withdrawal of American troops from northern Syria.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Ukraine Claims Are Debunked Conspiracy Theories]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/Ge3J4h</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Normally, conspiratorial thinking is a weapon for the weak. But Trump's GOP wallows in paranoia even when it controls the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Yang Is the New Ross Perot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/andrew-yang-consummate-outsider/598288/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like Ross Perot, the Democratic businessman downplays social issues and focuses on economics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the perfect formula for some disaffected voters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warren's Strategy Worked for Obama in 2008]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/warren-asks-voters-choose-hope/597661/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren is imploring Democrats to choose inspiration over caution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'just as an insurgent Illinois senator did against Hillary Clinton in 2007.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disloyal to What?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trump-assumes-disloyalty-jews/596533/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president often implies that what determines national loyalty is not citizenship but ethnicity, religion, and race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defending Free Trade Is Biden's Best Bet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/defending-free-trade-is-bidens-best-bet/596197/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many leading Democratic candidates are running against free trade, but trade is popular'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'especially in Iowa.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/measles-as-metaphor/592756/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The return of a vanquished disease reflects historical amnesia, declining faith in institutions, and a troubling lack of concern for the public good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Conjure Up Liberal Support for Antifa Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/conservatives-conjure-liberal-support-antifa/593164/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Beinart</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite trawling social media, conservative publications found scant evidence that mainstream commentators approved of an attack on a journalist.]]></description>
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