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<title><![CDATA[Peter Dreier - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16185.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Peter Dreier]]></description><category domain="16185">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/whatever-happened-to-the-power-elite/ar-AA1EbgkZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American democracy, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s blindingly evident, is in crisis. Terms that once characterized faraway repressive regimes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'oligarchy, elite, plutocracy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'are now invoked to describe the current political moment. And Americans are aware of the threat the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s power...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Lewis: Good Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/civil-rights/john-lewis-good-trouble-obituary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The life of the civil rights icon, who died Friday from cancer, is a testament to perseverance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2017: A Year of Reaction and Resistance]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/2017-year-reaction-and-resistance</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[2017 began with President Trump lying about the size of his inauguration crowd and ended with his lying about the size of the benefits he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll get from the new tax bill. The year began with the largest protest marches in American history'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the five million strong Women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[VA Shooting Not About Bernie. It's About Right's Embrace of Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/virginia-shooting-isnt-about-bernie-it%E2%80%99s-about-right%E2%80%99s-embrace-guns</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Concentrating on James Hodgkinson's political leanings obscures the real problem of gun violence in America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??and why it's happening.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Trump Movement: Recover, Resist, Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/anti-trump-movement-recover-resist-reform-0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every day since Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s January 20 inauguration, Hetty Rosenstein gets up at 6 a.m. to write an email to activists throughout New Jersey about upcoming rallies, marches, meetings, and other events to protest Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agenda. The list began with 80 names, but by the end of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mourn. Then Organize.]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/mourn-then-organize</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It a time like this, many liberals and progressive will recall the words of labor activist Joe Hill:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Don't mourn, organize.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But let's be honest. We're in shock.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We need time to mourn.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' To recover from the trauma of this election. I feel awful for my 19-year-old twin...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confessing My Sins &amp; Exposing My Academic Hoax]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/academic-drivel-report</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know if there is a statute of limitations on confessing one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sins, but it has been six years since I did the deed and I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m now coming clean.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Six years ago I submitted a paper for a panel, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'On the Absence of Absences'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' that was to be part of an academic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9 Battlegrounds Could Flip the Senate--&amp; High Court]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/nine-battleground-states-could-flip-senate-and-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Within hours of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s death on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the Senate should not confirm anyone whom President Barack Obama nominates to fill the vacant seat, but wait until a new president is elected.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[People Die Because of the NRA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2015/10/06/people_die_because_of_this_man_the_real_reason_we_never_get_gun_control_no_matter_how_many_people_get_gunned_down/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer pulled the trigger on the gun that killed nine people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Thursday, Wayne LaPierre, the fanatic executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, also has blood on his hands.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' LaPierre, who has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Long Hot Summer of Riots and Rebellion?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/can-we-head-off-a-long-hot-summer-of-riots-and-rebellion_b_7439474.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nation's attention has been focused on the recent riots in Baltimore, but the harsh truth is that they could have happened in any major city. Indeed, we could see a long hot summer of urban (and, as in places like Ferguson, suburban) riots that would make the two-day disturbances in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Would MLK March for Now?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/50-years-after-the-march-on-washington-what-would-mlk-march-for-today/2013/08/22/f5fb5474-037b-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. march for if he were alive today?America has made progress on many fronts in the half-century since King electrified a crowd of 200,000 people, and millions of Americans watching on television, with his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I Have a Dream'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' address at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Won. Now It's Time to Change System]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/171263/obama-won-now-its-time-change-system</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s important, even landmark, accomplishments, by the time November 6 arrived, many Americans were disappointed with his first term. They expected him to be a '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'transformational'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' president who would somehow, single-handedly, change Washington'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s political culture....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Learning From Labor's Past]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/85134/wisconsin-unions-walker-triangle-shirtwaist-fire</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans tend to be fascinated by what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new and to be indifferent to the past, except when they can use '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'tradition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to reinforce current prejudices and power arrangements. This has had an unfortunate effect on how we govern ourselves. We forget important lessons, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons from the Health-Care Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=lessons_from_the_health_care_wars</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 9, at least 5,000 protesters picketed outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, D.C., where America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the powerful industry trade association, was holding its annual lobbying conference. About 50 public figures -- including writer Barbara...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kennedy Passed Liberal Torch to Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082801817.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressives Need More Protest]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/dreier</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Youth Movement Will Be Difference]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/dreier</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Dreier</author>
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