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							<title><![CDATA[VA Went to War Over History. Students  Came Out on Top]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/09/glenn-youngkin-history-wars-virginia-00113958</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Glenn Youngkin launched a battle over history in schools. Improbably, everybody won.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Courage, Not Pandering, Is Key to Biden Admin's Success]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/16/why-pandering-was-always-the-wrong-choice-for-biden-00009417</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, a new conventional wisdom has coalesced: Joe Biden is fumbling away his presidency by ignoring the first lesson of politics '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' give your voters what they want.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Party of Hubert Humphrey]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/did-hubert-humphrey-doom-the-democratic-party/557282/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seventy years ago, on the night of July 14, 1948, Hubert Humphrey, speaking at the Democratic convention in the Philadelphia Convention Hall, changed the course of the Democratic Party, and of post-war American politics. Yes, that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the same Hubert Humphrey whom those of us who came...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's First 'Rigged' Presidential Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=America%E2%80%99s+First+%E2%80%98Rigged%E2%80%99+Presidential+Election&amp;rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS645US645&amp;oq=America%E2%80%99s+First+%E2%80%98Rigged%E2%80%99+Presidential+Election&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.503j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should We Worry About a War With China?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/02/over_the_horizon</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that, a decade after 9/11, America has become too preoccupied with the threat from "nonstate actors" and too complacent about the more classic dangers posed by powerful and self-aggrandizing states? Or, put more succinctly, how afraid of China should the United States...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kerry, Obama's Man in Kabul]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/john-kerry-our-man-in-kabul.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Kerry surprised a lot of people when he endorsed Barack Obama for president  in early 2008. Kerry was a longtime friend of Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chief rival,  Hillary Clinton. He had served in the Senate for a quarter-century and  had built a reputation as a cautious, incremental figure...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Not The Realist Supporters Thought]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/31/a_moral_adventure</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late in the summer of 2007, I watched Barack Obama speak to a small crowd gathered in the backyard of a supporter in Salem, New Hampshire. He had a lot to say about foreign affairs. Abroad as at home, he said, we need "a new ethic of mutual responsibility" based on the recognition that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan Starting to Feel a Lot Like Vietnam]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/69790/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the millions of Americans who opposed the war in Iraq, including Barack Obama, Afghanistan was the good war - "The War We Need to Win," as candidate Obama titled a key foreign-policy speech he gave in August 2007. Iraq, Obama said, was a sickeningly misguided gift to Osama bin Laden:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[French Spending Coming Home to Roost]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/22/the_spectacle_of_the_society</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin proposed allowing employers to hire workers up to age 26 to their first job on a probationary basis and be able to fire them without the immense rigmarole imposed by France's elaborate labor laws. The French took to the streets...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bad Politics Is Better Than No Politics in Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/09/politics_as_usual</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember Iraq? That war we used to have? Most of us have moved on to the savage melodrama of Afghanistan -- but not U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who just returned from his fourth trip to Baghdad since taking office (and his 17th since the war began, as he reminds anyone within...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan's Civic War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Afghanistan-t.html?ref=magazine</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lt. Col. Guy Jones, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Second Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry, is on his fourth tour of Afghanistan. The first time around, in June 2002, when he was a 31-year-old company commander, his job was to find Osama bin Laden. He still has happy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Role]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29Biden-t.html?ref=magazine&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
							<description><![CDATA[JAMES TRAUB

Published: November 24, 2009 















    When Vice President Biden travels to Iraq, which he does every two months or so, he flies on Air Force Two to an airbase in southern England and then transfers to a cargo plane, a C-17, retrofitted for vice-presidential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama is Having 2nd Thoughts About Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/weekinreview/04traub.html?ref=weekinreview</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Israel Lobby]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13JStreet-t.html?ref=magazine</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taunting the Bear]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/weekinreview/10traub.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does US Still Believe in Democratization?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine&amp;oref=slogin</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Traub</author>
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