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<title><![CDATA[Sam Tanenhaus - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15914.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sam Tanenhaus]]></description><category domain="15914">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Trump&rsquo;s Governing Style Mimics the Mob]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the comparisons to fascists and autocrats. The most accurate model for understanding the transactional tough guy in the White House is the politically connected underbelly of 1970s and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'80s New York real estate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On the Front Lines of the GOP's Civil War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a14428464/gop-never-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2016, a group of Republicans broke ranks with their party to try to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidency. Now they're rallying once more to keep him from destroying the country. Sam Tanenhaus reports on the Never Trumpers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Art of the New Deal?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/donald-trumps-art-of-the-new-deal.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Can Save the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/campaign-stops/how-trump-can-save-the-gop.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Richard Nixon Created Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Benghazi testimony, in all its layered meaning, overpowers cogent analysis and even neutral description. It was unsettling, strange, riveting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and without any true precedent: A front-runner for her party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential nomination, and the first woman ever...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson &amp; Today's Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-26/jesse-jackson-created-the-modern-democratic-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the more arresting moments in the presidential campaign came last week, when Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange with activists from Black Lives Matter. "Look, I don't believe you change hearts," Clinton said, when pressed about her support for their goals. "I believe you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Selma&quot; vs. &quot;Selma&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/selma-vs-selma</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if you have an infallible memory for film, you won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t recall the moment in Ava DuVernay'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Selma'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' when President Lyndon Johnson suggests a compromise to Martin Luther King, Jr., who has been leading protesters in their demand for voting rights but encountering...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dinesh D'Souza Is Planning His Prison Memoir]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119409/interview-dinesh-dsouza-jail-time-intellectual-conservatism</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On September 23, Dinesh D'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Souza will appear before a federal judge in Manhattan to learn whether he will do jail time for violating campaign-finance law. (He pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of funneling $20,000 to a friend'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Senate campaign via straw donors.) It...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gonzo Historian]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/the-gonzo-historian/375059/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political life in America has been so intensely polarized for so long that we now accept the condition as permanent, even as the costs steadily mount. A generation ago, it would have been unthinkable for one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in modern history, the Affordable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Note to GOP: Channel Jack Kemp]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/sunday-review/note-to-republicans-channel-jack-kemp.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Benefits of Intransigence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/sunday-review/the-benefits-of-intransigence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IF the government shutdown has shown us anything, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s that the 80 or so House Republicans driving the crisis have emerged as the most unified force in politics: tightly organized, highly disciplined and ideologically firm.But wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t their plan to make the budget a vehicle for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hands-Tied Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/sunday-review/the-hands-tied-presidency.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AS the debate on the Syria intervention began in Congress last week, some wondered why President Obama, who has been frustrated repeatedly by Republican legislators, would risk being thwarted yet again and possibly jeopardize the ability of future presidents to pursue ambitious foreign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Is the Party of White People]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112365/why-republicans-are-party-white-people</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Barack Obama sworn in for a second term'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the first president in either party since Ronald Reagan to be elected twice with popular majorities'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the GOP is in jeopardy, the gravest since 1964, of ceasing to be a national party. The civil rights pageantry of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of Textbook Libertarianism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/weekinreview/23tanenhaus.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Rand Paul, the victor in the Republican Senate primary last week in Kentucky, criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964, singling out the injustice of non-discriminatory practices it imposed on private businesses, the resulting furor delighted Democrats and unsettled Republicans.Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making Sense of Political Anger]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24tanenhaus.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[TURNOUT Several thousand Tea Party supporters gathered last October at the Spokane Convention Center in Washington. The movement is making life difficult for the Republican establishment. Like so many good narratives, political stories often unfold along simple lines but invite multiple,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism, Politics, and the Power of Palin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/12/07/091207crbo_books_tanenhaus</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Palin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supporters identify with her: she represents the erasure of any distinction between the governing and the governed.The last time the publication of a political memoir aroused as much interest as Sarah Palin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Going Rogue: An American Life'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' (Harper; $28.99)...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[100 Days in the Footsteps of FDR &amp; LBJ]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/weekinreview/03tanenhaus.html?ref=weekinreview</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatism is Dead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9dfd540a-3d44-4684-a333-415ef34efa5b</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kennedys: A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25tanenhaus.html?ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Imperial Vice Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c562972c-8951-49a0-b4e9-f8045a7e287f&amp;p=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Requiem For Two Heavyweights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/weekinreview/13tanenhaus.html?ref=weekinreview</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sam Tanenhaus</author>
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