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<title><![CDATA[Kurt Andersen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16011.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Kurt Andersen]]></description><category domain="16011">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Has America Already Undergone a Soft Breakup?]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/jk4Vr</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the GOP Went Crazy]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/right-wing-conspiracy-theories-from-the-1960s-to-today.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The frenzy on the right to discredit Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s investigation gets more astonishingly desperate by the day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'spurred not just by breathless talk radio and Fox News hosts, but also by Republican members of the House, who this week voted to release a Republican memo...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Gun Fantasy]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/fantasyland-book-excerpt-the-nra-won-the-gun-rights-debate-and-made-americans-fear-their-own-government.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One set of fantasies has had more current, awful, undeniable real-world consequences than any other: the one that recast owning guns as among the most important rights, as American liberty and individualism incarnate. During my lifetime, the love of guns has become a fetish.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hands Up. It's Showtime.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/opinion/hands-up-its-showtime.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Long before President Trump, the militarization of police was being shaped by fantasy and entertainment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How America Lost Its Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When did America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' become untethered from reality?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tea Party Madmen]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/opinion/the-madman-theory.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had breakfast this week with one of Hollywood'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most ferocious, self-confident and successful doers of deals. He was still steamed about what an unforgivably lousy negotiator his president had been on the debt ceiling agreement.One particular Obama move he found appalling above...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Democracy Killing Democracy?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/63662/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Add a Comment1 Comment '&#'.ord('|').';' Add YoursComments '&#'.ord('|').';' 				Add YoursThe tea-party movement takes its name from the mob of angry people in Boston who, in 1773, committed a zany criminal stunt as a protest against taxes and the distant, out-of-touch government that imposed them. Two years later, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is China the New Us? Or Are We?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1914270,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Author Kurt Andersen's new book, Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America, examines the economic, political cultural opportunities to be found in the wake of the financial crises. In this excerpt, the first of five on TIME.com, he glances back through history to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Hits the Reset Button]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-28/america-hits-the-reset-button/?cid=bsa:archive2</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[That Was Then... and This is Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1887728,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't pretend we didn't see this coming for a long, long time.In the early 1980s, around the time Ronald Reagan became President and Wall Street's great modern bull market began, we started gambling (and winning!) and thinking magically. From 1980 to 2007, the median price of a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Humor Deficit in 2008]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/49124/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Commentariat Russert Leaves Behind]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/48510/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clay Felker, 1925-2008]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/features/48013/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[I'm Not Totally Sure We Can]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/47551/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[About That Crush on Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/46658/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Falling Out of Love With Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/45783/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kurt Andersen</author>
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