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							<title><![CDATA[The Taliban Confront the Realities of Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/28/the-taliban-confront-the-realities-of-power-afghanistan</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They fought for decades to retake Afghanistan, but promises of a new start are already colliding with internal divisions and external opposition.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fight to Define the Post-Castro Era in Cuba]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2021-12-14/new-cuba</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While I was on a visit to Moscow a short time after the Soviet collapse, a retired senior Red Army general sighed nostalgically when I asked about his time in Cuba during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jair Bolsonaro's Southern Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/jair-bolsonaros-southern-strategy</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Brazil, a budding authoritarian borrows from the Trump playbook.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Choice on Cuba]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trumps-choice-on-cuba</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a few tweets, the President-elect is in the process of torpedoing a diplomatic breakthrough that took several years of arduous negotiations to pull off.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Conspiracists, at Home and Abroad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-and-the-conspiracists-at-home-and-abroad</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2008, during the primary campaign that, on the Democratic side, pitted the veteran political figure Hillary Clinton against the ascendant upstart Barack Obama, I visited a friend in White Bluff, Tennessee. A small, down-at-heel country town that sits in forested...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Cuba]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/03/a-new-cuba</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s plan normalized relations. It may also transform the nation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Paradox of Brazil and Its Olympiad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-paradox-of-brazil-and-its-olympiad</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For many countries, the prospect of hosting the Summer Olympics is sought after as the maximum consecration of their place as a modern power. In the past century, this was notoriously evident at the Berlin Olympics, of 1936, which Adolf Hitler hoped to use to show off the Olympian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forming a Real Partnership Against ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/forming-real-partnership-isis</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fighting ISIS will require real collaboration from some unlikely allies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ISIS and the Destruction of History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/isis-and-the-destruction-of-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It does something to our sense of ourselves, and of humanity, when we see pictures of men, willfully and with impunity, destroying some of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s oldest and rarest archeological treasures. A couple of weeks ago, it was video clips of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Egypt, Libya and ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/egypt-libya-isis</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The release, on Sunday, of a video showing the beheading of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christian workers is but the latest of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s documented horrors. In the video, the executioners make clear that the workers, who were kidnapped from Sirte,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Libya on Edge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/libya-edge</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid reports that the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) was finally beaten back from the Syrian-Turkish-border town of Kobani, and of threats and negotiation offers from ISIS hostage takers, came the news, on Tuesday morning, of an attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli. As many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Barbarians Who Killed James Foley]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/men-killed-james-foley</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A video showing the beheading, by a black-garbed executioner, of the American journalist James Foley is the latest in a series of sickening acts that the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, has visited on the world in recent months. Foley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s execution was presented as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last Days of Moammar Gaddafi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/07/111107fa_fact_anderson</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How does it end? The dictator dies, shrivelled and demented, in his bed; he flees the rebels in a private plane; he is caught hiding in a mountain outpost, a drainage pipe, a spider hole. He is tried. He is not tried. He is dragged, bloody and dazed, through the streets, then executed....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran: After the Crackdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_anderson</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early this summer, while walking  in the Alborz Mountains outside Tehran, I came across three members of Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s reformist Green Movement. It was a parching-hot afternoon, and they had taken shelter from the heat in a cherry orchard next to a stream, where fruit hung glistening from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad, Nukes &amp; Greens]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Savvy Cuba Move]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/04/jon-lee-anderson.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Reelection: Can Iran Change?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/13/090413fa_fact_anderson</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rising Influence of Hugo Ch'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'vez]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_anderson</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jon Lee Anderson</author>
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