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<title><![CDATA[James Wolcott - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15955.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Wolcott]]></description><category domain="15955">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Rescue the Democrats?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/can-obama-rescue-the-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is strictly, sketchily anecdotal, so don&rsquo;t strap me to the wall and drill for data, but listening to fellow liberal neurotic Democrats over the last year, I detect a sense of abandonment. Of Obandonment, to be more precise. Obama, Obama, where art thou? The Bat Signal scours...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Halperin's Harassment Scandal Be a Game Changer?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/will-mark-halperin-harassment-scandal-be-a-game-changer</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reputations aren&rsquo;t what they used to be. The bigger they are, the faster they fall. Reputations that lurched upright for decades, showered with a confetti of newspaper clippings, festooned with honorary degrees, and fortified with genuine accomplishments, can be brought down today...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Alt-Left Is a Problem, Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/why-the-alt-left-is-a-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much of the media spotlight has been on the alt-right. But the alt-left provides a mirror image distortion: the same loathing of Clinton, rejection of identity politics, and itch for a reckoning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Became America's Insult Comic in Chief]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/11/wolcott-trump-insult-comic</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump&rsquo;s quest to become president of the United States as a stepping-stone to emperorship and eventual godhood is clearly a new viral strain of performance art, a vanity production with innovative, popular appeal, so let&rsquo;s examine its tooth marks. It feeds off too many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lena Dunham's Callow, Grating Memoir]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120027/not-kind-girl-review-lena-dunhams-callow-grating-memoir</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Retelling JFK's Death - Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/11/jfk-assassination-anniversary-books</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Andrew Breitbart's Circus Maximus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/06/andrew-breitbart-blogosphere</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He came, he saw, he conquered, he keeled over. To his legions of admirers and loyal consuls, the publisher, punditeer, and lightning rod Andrew Breitbart was an American Caesar cut down in his prime. A righteous fighter who brought the battlefield with him wherever he went, Breitbart...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Lusting for an Upstart Savior]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/06/james-wolcott-republicans2012-201106</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line" has been an article of political faith and a staple of punditry since the notion was popularized by Bill Clinton, who barbecued Kennedy charisma into a hunka hunka burnin&rsquo; love. Like so many political truisms, the conceit that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama is One Cool Cat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/09/wolcott-201009</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s kick off with a chewy quotation, a snap portrait of a presidential aurora in cinematic medium shot: &ldquo;Not terribly popular with the reporters (too much a contemporary), he carried himself nonetheless with a cool grace which seemed indifferent to applause, his manner...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's Man Crush on John McCain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/wolcott200807</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Vicious Clinton-Obama Party Split]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/06/wolcott200806</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Wolcott</author>
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