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<title><![CDATA[David Moberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16033.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Moberg]]></description><category domain="16033">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How the Battle in Seattle Changed Everything]]></title>
							<link>https://inthesetimes.com/article/seattle-world-trade-organization-labor-protests-wto-trade</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1999, a coalition of union leaders, environmental activists and anti-capitalists took on the World Trade Organization and ushered in the 21st century for the U.S. Left.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Toppling the Tea Party]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/16534/toppling_the_tea_party_governors</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Prospects look grim for congressional Democrats this fall. Political forecasters are predicting that the party will fail to wrest control of the House from the GOP and will lose its majority in the Senate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How ObamaCare Could Flatline]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/15092/obamacare_how_it_could_flatline/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since it was signed into law in 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has survived a constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court and 37 attempts by congressional Republicans to kill it. Now, as the deadline for implementation of the legislation looms,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prosperity, Not Austerity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14188/prosperity_not_austerity</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After playing a key role in President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s re-election, the labor movement must pivot immediately to a new task: moving the president away from a potentially disastrous policy of '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'austerity economics'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and toward a second-term adoption of more worker-friendly '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'prosperity...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Labor's Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts Go Digital]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/14032/canvassers_gone_wired</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Columbus, Ohio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Theresa Bruskin, a field director for Working America (the AFL-CIO'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s community arm), passed a jarring mix of well-maintained bungalows and abandoned homes as she worked her way through Hilltop, a racially diverse, working-class neighborhood. Such traditional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Dead-End Path to Prosperity]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/13186/the_gops_dead_end_path_to_prosperity</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney may rue the day he called Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s budget proposal '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'marvelous,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' as if he were describing a splendid buffet at the mansion of a friend. The plan from the influential, youthful Republican chair of the House budget committee does offer people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Needs the White Working Class?]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/13009/who_needs_the_white_working_class</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once a key constituency of the New Deal coalition, since the 1950s the white working class has consistently voted against Democratic presidential candidates -- and their own interests.In the likely presidential face-off this fall, President Obama will rely on support from a core of young...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Job Plan Could Save His]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/12163/will_obamas_job_plan_save_his</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The major challenge facing the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as well as the primary obstacle to President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s re-election next year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is jobs. No president since Franklin Roosevelt has won re-election with the official jobless rate as high as it is now: 9.1 percent.Even if Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind Boehner's Lies]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/11773/behind_boehners_lies</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans relied heavily in this summer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debt limit debate on a not-so-secret weapon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'disinformation, often less politely called lies. Take, as an example, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s five-minute response to President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prime-time speech on July 25,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Organized Labor Rolls Out a Response]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/11461/unions_work_to_turn_the_tide</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unions are contending with the harshest legislative attack  on workers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' rights since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. Labor strategists,  their forces in decline, face an urgent question: What should unions do  to defend their existence, and to provide workers more power at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Austerity Alliance Wins in Illinois]]></title>
							<link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6945/anti-austerity_alliance_wins_in_illinois</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not lying down: Illinois advocates and activists rejected the idea of massive service cuts. (Photo courtesy of Responsible Budget Coalition)Last April, Sandra Wiekerson took a day off from her work caring for elderly people in their homes on Chicago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s northwest side. She joined...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can Win With Progressive Gov't]]></title>
							<link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6611/why_democrats_got_shellacked</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election results provide endless occasions for progressive  wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was bad enough that the Democrats lost  the House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'and lost it in the biggest turnover since 1938, but there  were also tragic losses of good political leaders in specific...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can Win Back Crucial Swing Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/6534/wooing_the_white_working_class</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ELYRIA, OHIO'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Want to know why so many Democratic candidates may find it tough to win over white working class voters this fall'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and why the effort is still not a lost cause in the long run?I found some answers one warm early fall evening as I walked up and down Hawthorne and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Face of SEIU]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/5980/the_new_face_of_seiu</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her first run for a union office, Mary Kay Henry was elected on May 8, 2010, to succeed Andy Stern as president of SEIU. She is the second openly gay leader of a national U.S. union'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Randi Weingarten, elected president of the American Federation of Teachers in 2008, was the first....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Battling Over Employee Free Choice]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/4450/battling_over_employee_free_choice</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Era of Big Government Isn't Over After All]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/4280/a_spectre_is_haunting_america</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Battling Over the Employee Free Choice Act]]></title>
							<link>http://inthesetimes.com/article/4191/ready_to_rumble</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The View From Ohio]]></title>
							<link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3969/the_view_from_ohio</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wooing the White Working Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/moberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Offers Hope for a 'New New Deal']]></title>
							<link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3907/back_for_the_future/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dismantling the Myth of McCain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3748/dismantling_the_myth_of_mccain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Winning the White Working Class]]></title>
							<link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3682/winning_the_white_working_class/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Moberg</author>
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