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<title><![CDATA[Robert Draper - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16472.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Draper]]></description><category domain="16472">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene's Break With Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eleven days after Charlie Kirk was killed in September, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the third-term Georgia congresswoman, was watching his memorial service on TV as the luminaries of the conservative movement and the Trump administration gathered to pay tribute to the young activist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Erika Kirk: Charlie Was Too Excited To Sleep on His Last Night]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/us/politics/erika-kirk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk8.Bp32.11mJOHcb_Hhe&amp;smid=url-share</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an interview, the wife of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk said she had implored him to wear a bulletproof vest. But she sees divine work in his death.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Far-Right Pushes Through-the-Looking-Glass Narrative on J6]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/23/far-right-pushes-a-through-the-looking-glass-narrative-on-jan-6/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six months since the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol completed its work, a far-right ecosystem of true believers has embraced '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'J6'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' as the animating force of their lives.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Burns, a C.I.A. Spymaster With Unusual Powers]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/09/william-burns-a-c-i-a-spymaster-with-unusual-powers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To mark the 20th anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, stood in the lobby of the agency'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s headquarters in Langley, Va., and sought to exorcise the ghosts of the prewar intelligence failures that haunt the building to this day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will Political Arsonist Matt Gaetz Do w/New Powers?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/matt-gaetz-political-arsonist-powers-125327228.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The night before the start of a humiliating and historic five-day floor fight in Rep. Kevin McCarthy's quest to become speaker, Rep. Matt Gaetz, McCarthy's chief tormentor, handed him a list of demands from a hard-right faction ensuring that if McCarthy's victory did occur, it would only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did America Misjudge Sanders? Or Vice-Versa?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/magazine/bernie-sanders-campaign.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Throughout his insurgent campaign, he remained steadfast in his radical vision '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and forced a reckoning for the Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi's Last Battle]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/magazine/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As she prepares to lead the House of Representatives again, the most powerful Democrat in Washington will have to navigate between a rampaging president and her colleagues'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' plans for fighting back.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats Have an Immigration Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/the-democrats-have-an-immigration-problem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Family separations, multibillion-dollar border-wall schemes, unleashed ICE officers '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the Trump presidency has taught the Democrats what they stand against. Now they have to figure out what they stand for.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Post-Obama Democratic Party in Search of Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/magazine/a-post-obama-democratic-party-in-search-of-itself.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 44th president left office as one of the most popular in American history. He also left behind a party struggling to find an identity '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and to reconnect with voters in time for the 2018 elections.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can This White House &amp; This Congress Work Together?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/magazine/trump-vs-congress-now-what.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Jan. 9, less than two weeks before President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inauguration, the House speaker, Paul Ryan, hosted a dinner at his office in the Capitol with members of Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inner circle. The guests included the president-elect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chief White House strategist, Stephen K....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obamacare Really Go Under the Knife?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/magazine/will-obamacare-really-go-under-the-knife.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six days after he was sworn in as America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 45th president, Donald J. Trump traveled to Philadelphia to address Republican lawmakers at their annual retreat. Standing behind a lectern emblazoned with the presidential seal, Trump predicted, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This Congress is going to be the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Set Off a Conservative Media Civil War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/magazine/how-donald-trump-set-off-a-civil-war-within-the-right-wing-media.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=magazine&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;cont</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent years, one of the most important events on a prospective Republican presidential candidate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s calendar was the RedState Gathering, a summer convention for conservative activists from across the nation. Its host was Erick Erickson, a round-faced, redheaded former election...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump Campaign Too Small? Or Is Clinton's Too Big?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/magazine/is-trumps-campaign-too-small-or-is-clintons-too-big.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=magazine&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the view expressed by many commentators that last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican convention more closely resembled a grand-mal seizure than a smoothly coordinated rollout of a presidential nominee, Donald Trump emerged from Cleveland with exactly the kind of bounce such events are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the GOP Senate Majority Survive Trump?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/magazine/can-the-gop-senate-majority-survive-donald-trump.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FDraper%2C%20Robert&amp;_r=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a Sunday morning in early June, Senator Mark Kirk rolled into an uptown Chicago bar in his wheelchair to take part in the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 47th annual L.G.B.T. Pride Parade, wearing a red polo shirt, charcoal khakis and the abashed half-smile of a 56-year-old man who has already assessed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Trump's Wild Ride]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/magazine/donald-trump-primary-win.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump was on the phone with a man he had never met, a Republican delegate in Pennsylvania. It was May 2, one day before the Indiana primary election, and the private plane bearing his last name in gigantic letters was taxiing along a runway at Indianapolis International Airport....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the GOP Establishment Doesn't Like Kasich]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/magazine/why-the-republican-establishment-doesnt-like-john-kasich.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Improbable as it seemed just two months ago, the one remaining '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'establishment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Republican presidential candidate in the race is John Kasich, whose last name many voters still can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t pronounce. (Try remembering it this way: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Kasich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' rhymes with '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'basic.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';')...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fall of the GOP Campaign Guru]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/magazine/donald-trump-and-the-fall-ofthe-republican-campaign-guru.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As hapless as the news media and the Washington establishment have at times appeared as they flail about in the political tempest wrought by Donald Trump, there is another group in the 2016 election cycle that has come off looking at least as bewildered: the campaign gurus of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Many Frenemies of Ted Cruz]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/magazine/the-many-frenemies-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One evening at a hotel bar in Des Moines shortly before the Iowa caucus, a top strategist for the campaign of Senator Ted Cruz looked up from his adult beverage, allowed himself an amused smile and observed, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We probably have had more frenemies than anyone else in the field.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Rebel Against Governing Experience]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/magazine/the-primary-that-disqualified-the-qualified.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;_r=1&amp;mtrref=undefined&amp;gwh=C87C83E7D83ED106302972C341BC5C19&amp;gwt=pay</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Midway into a long December'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s day of campaigning throughout New Hampshire, the state on which he had pinned his flagging electoral hopes, the Republican presidential candidate John Kasich stood in the middle of a Greek restaurant'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s banquet room and shared a few words of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Between Iraq and a Hawk Base]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/magazine/between-iraq-and-a-hawk-base.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first sign that the Republican Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 17 presidential candidates might have trouble explaining what a conservative foreign policy should look like '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' beyond simply saying that it should not look like Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' emerged on May 10. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s when the Fox...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Grapple With BlackLivesMatter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/magazine/do-the-democrats-understand-americas-new-racial-politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Democratic Crack-Up of 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/the-great-democratic-crack-up-of-2016.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maryland might seem a peculiar venue for a blood feud over the future of the Democratic Party. It is the second-bluest state in the United States, after Massachusetts, according to Gallup; its registered Democrats, more than 30 percent of whom are black, outnumber registered Republicans...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Scott Walker Unite the Republicans?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201409/scott-walker</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's most divisive governor is fighting for his political life in Wisconsin, deadlocked in one of the year's most consequential races. If he loses, he's just another casualty of Republican stubbornness. But if he pulls it out, he'll become an instant contender for the White...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has the &quot;Libertarian Moment&quot; Arrived?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/has-the-libertarian-moment-finally-arrived.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s say Ron Paul is Nirvana,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said Kennedy, the television personality and former MTV host, by way of explaining the sort of politician who excites libertarians like herself. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Like, the coolest, most amazing thing to come along in years, and the songs are nebulous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Wendy Davis Have It All?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/wendy-davis.html?ref=magazine&amp;_r=2&amp;gwh=91ABC433903DDF5836C1717492ABF519&amp;gwt=pay</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One sunny Friday morning in late January, Wendy Davis took me on a two-hour tour of the life she led just a decade or so ago, back when she was a city councilwoman and the world knew nothing of her or the pink running shoes she wore during her epic filibuster, or her ambition to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Making of the Shutdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/war-within-shutdown-tea-party-robert-draper-99378.html?hp=f1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest chapter in the unlovely and endless story of Washington dysfunction was written last month, when much of the federal government was shut down for the first time in nearly two decades, and the country was once again brought to the brink of financial default. Among the feuds...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kinshasa, Urban Pulse of the Congo]]></title>
							<link>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/kinshasa-congo/draper-text</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Behold the artist. He emerges from a shed that is no bigger than a jail cell, though it is brightly painted and a sign above its door announces, Place de la Culture et des Arts. The artist lives here, works here. He is 32, with a Mohawk, gold earrings, oversize black-framed glasses,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Texas Dems' Moment Finally Arrived?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/life-and-death-and-life-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Somebody has to step up,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Wendy Davis observed one evening in late May over drinks at the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'As long as the Democrats continue to buy into the same bullshit that some of the Republicans are saying'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Oh no, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Texas,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future Mr. Speaker?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112487/chris-van-hollen-democrats-next-speaker-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early in 2011, Republican House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy had that particular ironic development in mind when he approached Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland congressman and rising Democratic star, on the House floor and offered him some free advice on how to get ahead. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can GOP Be Saved From Obsolescence?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/magazine/can-the-republicans-be-saved-from-obsolescence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Draper</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One afternoon last month, I paid a visit to two young Republicans named Bret Jacobson and Ian Spencer, who work in a small office in Arlington, Va., situated above an antique store and adjacent to a Japanese auto shop. Their five-man company, Red Edge, is a digital-advocacy group for...]]></description>
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