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							<title><![CDATA[Crime and Punishment and Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/opinion/keller-crime-and-punishment-and-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I DOUBT any president has been as well equipped as Barack Obama to appreciate the vicious cycle of American crime and punishment. As a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s, he would have witnessed the way a system intended to protect the public siphoned off young black men, gave...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Unsung Hero of Civil Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/opinion/keller-an-unsung-hero-of-civil-rights.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This year America will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, a candidate for the greatest legislative accomplishment of the last century. We will recall the presidents who launched (J.F.K.) and landed (L.B.J.) this profound if incomplete attempt to repair the damage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inequality for Dummies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/opinion/inequality-for-dummies.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inequality is in. The president, you have probably heard, has declared income inequality to be &ldquo;the defining challenge of our time.&rdquo; (Except he didn&rsquo;t quite, but we&rsquo;ll get to that.) Politicians, pundits and activists on the left have seized on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A To-Do List for a Presidency in Distress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/opinion/keller-salvaging-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is under water. His approval in the polls is low and sinking, his signature initiative is staggering from a combination of incompetence and sabotage, his foreign policy is a jumble. Congress is a Bermuda Triangle where the most elementary White House business disappears....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/opinion/a-conversation-in-lieu-of-a-column.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear Glenn,We come at journalism from different traditions. I&rsquo;ve spent a life working at newspapers that put a premium on aggressive but impartial reporting, that expect reporters and editors to keep their opinions to themselves unless they relocate (as I have done) to the pages...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rest of the Story on Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/opinion/keller-obamacare-the-rest-of-the-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless you&rsquo;ve been bamboozled by the frantic fictions of the right wing, you know that the Affordable Care Act, familiarly known as Obamacare, has begun to accomplish its first goal: enrolling millions of uninsured Americans, many of whom have been living one medical emergency away...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Being Mayor of New York City]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/opinion/keller-being-mayor.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IN electing their next mayor, New Yorkers have a choice between a man with impressive political gifts but limited management experience and a seasoned manager who seems politically tone deaf.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Gets Its '60s]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/keller-the-right-gets-its-60s.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right-wing campaign to sabotage the Affordable Care Act has driven a lot of normally temperate people past the edge of exasperation. Pundits have described the crusade as crazy, stupid, arrogant, dishonest, cynical, ridiculous and politically suicidal. And that&rsquo;s not just...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Solution in Syria Without Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/opinion/keller-the-missing-partner.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I sincerely hope Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, calculating showman (and now my fellow Op-ed writer), wants to play peacemaker in Syria. I&#194;&#146;m skeptical of his intentions, as I wrote last week, and my skepticism was compounded when Putin began imposing preconditions for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right-Wing War on Common Core]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/opinion/keller-war-on-the-core.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party. There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York Is Not Detroit. But...]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/keller-new-york-is-not-detroit-but.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a half-century of public life, Richard Ravitch has been lieutenant governor of New York, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a mayoral candidate, an adviser to many politicians and an instructor of many journalists in the wonkier aspects of governance. As a kind of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bloomberg Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/opinion/keller-the-bloomberg-legacy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He was not a model of inclusiveness. Whites are only a third of New York&rsquo;s population, but nonwhites are scarce in Bloomberg&rsquo;s bullpen. He has lived much of his life in a bubble of privilege, and he has an above-it-all demeanor that contributes to a sense, especially in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela and President Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/keller-mandela-and-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[GATHERING valedictory material on Nelson Mandela as he faded in a Pretoria hospital the other day, I came across a little book called &ldquo;Mandela&rsquo;s Way.&rdquo; In this 2010 volume, Rick Stengel, the ghostwriter of Mandela&rsquo;s autobiography, set out to extract &ldquo;lessons...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's the Strategy as We Inch Into Syria?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/opinion/keller-inching-into-syria.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Americans Live With the Surveillance State?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/opinion/keller-living-with-the-surveillance-state.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by an ex-CIA employee over a week ago that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data."We believe the United States should pay attention to the international community's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rethinking Diversity in Higher Education]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/opinion/keller-affirmative-reaction.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the coming days the Supreme Court is expected to rule on a case that could further restrict the use of race as a factor in college admissions. A white student denied a place at the University of Texas at Austin claims that although Texas uses race sparingly in its college admissions,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Should Call for Special Counsel on IRS]]></title>
							<link>http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/bring-back-ken-starr/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are howling for President Obama to name a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service&rsquo;s targeting of Tea Party groups. The president should call their bluff.The president should announce that he has told the Justice Department to appoint an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Legalize Pot]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/opinion/keller-how-to-legalize-pot.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at U.C.L.A., was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. Sure, he said, the government should remove penalties for possession, use and cultivation of small amounts. He did not favor making...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dark Heritage: A Think Tank Attacks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/opinion/keller-dark-heritage.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week the Heritage Foundation delivered a report claiming that legalizing undocumented immigrants will create a more-or-less permanent underclass of benefit-sucking, wage-lowering, economy-crippling parasites, with a cost to American taxpayers of &#194;&#151; megaphone, please &#194;&#151; SIX POINT...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Do the Right Thing in Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/opinion/keller-syria-is-not-iraq.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IN the search for an American response to the civil war in Syria, the favorite guidebook seems to be our ill-fated adventure in Iraq. We have another brutal Middle East autocrat holding power on behalf of a sectarian minority. We have another dubious cast of opposition factions competing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cowboys and Eggheads]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/keller-cowboys-and-eggheads.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My Times colleague Mark Mazzetti has a new book out that is getting a lot of attention, including some cinematic excerpts published in The Times, here and here. &ldquo;The Way of the Knife&rdquo; recounts the recent transformation of the Central Intelligence Agency from a traditional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sequester Is Obama's Own Fault]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/opinion/keller-obamas-fault.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our feckless leaders may be incapable of passing a budget, but, boy, can they pass the buck. The White House spent last week in full campaign hysteria, blitzing online followers with the message that heartless Republicans are prepared to transform America into &#194;&#147;Les Mis&#195;&#169;rables&#194;&#148; in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Keeping On: One Fighter Pilot's Simple Code]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/opinion/keller-on-keeping-on.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WHEN I heard the story of John Borling&#194;&#146;s poems, I thought of Samuel Johnson&#194;&#146;s quip about a dog that walks on its hind legs: it doesn&#194;&#146;t matter whether it is done well; the surprising thing is that it is done at all. Borling&#194;&#146;s poems were tapped out in code, letter by letter, on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Catholicism Inc.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/opinion/keller-catholicism-inc.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Behold a global business in distress &mdash; incoherently managed, resistant to the modernizing forces of the Internet age, tainted by scandal and corruption. It needs to tweak its marketing, straighten out its finances, up its recruiting game and repair its battered brand. Ecce...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Reform Can Clear Congress This Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/opinion/keller-selling-amnesty.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s assume that President Obama and the Democrats sincerely want an immigration bill, that this is not a trick to trap Republicans into an anti-immigrant vote that will alienate Hispanic voters and secure Democratic advantage for a generation. The Senate seems to be hospitable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Invasion of the Data Snatchers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/keller-invasion-of-the-data-snatchers.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[YOU are the editor of a local newspaper. A reporter on your staff comes to you having obtained (by legal means) one of the following: &bull; Police records of arrests for drunken driving;&bull; The personal details of all the employees of local clinics that perform abortions;&bull; The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary: The Missed Opportunity]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in January I proposed that President Obama do a switcheroo, sending Joe Biden to the State Department and making Hillary Clinton his running mate. I acknowledged the reasons that this was probably a fantasy, but contended the arguments in favor were as simple as one-two-three:   ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fiscal Cliff Presents Opportunity for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/opinion/sunday/keller-head-for-the-cliff.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON is so immobilized by partisan rancor that those of us who crave a little common sense find it hard to ward off despair. Whether you blame Republican cynicism, Democratic fecklessness or presidential disengagement, it is now a given that Washington has become a sludge pit of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Should Defend the Health Care Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/opinion/keller-five-obamacare-myths.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ON the subject of the Affordable Care Act &#194;&#151; Obamacare, to reclaim the name critics have made into a slur &#194;&#151; a number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom. Much of this is the result of unrelenting Republican propaganda and right-wing punditry, but it has gone largely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Day After North Korea Collapses]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/opinion/keller-the-day-after.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Keller</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE one thing everyone knows about North Korea is that we know very little about North Korea, except that it is miserable, totalitarian, nuclear and erratic. It is the hermit kingdom, the dark side of the moon.But thanks to many thousands of refugees who have reached freedom by way of a...]]></description>
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