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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Is a Political Court. GOP Actions Are Proof.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-court-is-a-political-court-republicans-actions-are-proof/2016/03/09/4c851860-e142-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decision of the Republican Senate majority to consider no nominee of President Obama to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia is significant, but not for the usual reasons given &mdash; that the work of the court will be disrupted or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Chief Justice's Heartless Gay Marriage Dissent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2015/scotus_roundup/supreme_court_gay_marriage_john_roberts_dissent_in_obergefell_is_heartless.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was no surprise that the Supreme Court held Friday that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. It is very difficult to distinguish the case from Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 invalidated state laws forbidding miscegenation. There was, as an economist would say, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Gay Marriage Became Legitimate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/113816/how-gay-marriage-became-legitimate</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1991 the political scientist Gerald Rosenberg published a book called The Hollow Hope in which he argued that the Supreme Court, and courts more generally, have much less influence on policy than is generally believed. Even such notable decisions as Brown v. Board of Education, which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're in a Depression Without Endpoint]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/94055/posner-recession-depressions-entitlements</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the notion that we are merely living through the aftereffects of a mere &#194;&#147;recession&#194;&#148; that ended in 2009 sounds somewhat ridiculous, that&#194;&#146;s because it is. If we were being honest with ourselves, we would call this a depression. That would certainly better convey both the severity of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How I Became a Keynesian]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Crisis of Regulation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/opinion/25posner.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ChicagoTHE 88-page report   issued by the Treasury Department last week proposes far-reaching changes in financial regulation. Unfortunately, the report is premature, overambitious and obsessed with reorganization. It is also afflicted by Roosevelt envy. It is natural for a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GM Reorganization &amp; the Federal Govt]]></title>
							<link>http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/richard_posner/2009/05/the_general_motors_reorganization_and_the_federal_government.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It now seems certain that General Motors will declare bankruptcy on Monday, that the federal government will as part of the reorganization in bankruptcy acquire more than 50 percent of the common stock of the reorganized company, and that the government will invest perhaps $30 billion in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Went Too Far in Deregulating the Banks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/05/08/a-failure-of-capitalism-the-crisis-of-08-and-the-descent-into-depression.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Capitalism in Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165301306893763.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current economic crisis so far eclipses anything the American economy has undergone since the Great Depression that "recession" is too tepid a term to describe it. Its gravity is measured not by the unemployment rate but by the dizzying array of programs that the government is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Psyche Explain the Economic Crisis?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wrongheaded Gun Control Decision]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Posner</author>
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