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<title><![CDATA[Jacob Heilbrunn - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16507.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jacob Heilbrunn]]></description><category domain="16507">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Great Contemporaries: Kissinger on the Secrets to Leadership]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/great-contemporaries-kissinger-secrets-leadership-204494</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his new book Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, Henry Kissinger offers a guide for the perplexed to international relations by presenting illuminating studies of leaders from the past century.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tribute to Brent Scowcroft]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/tribute-brent-scowcroft-166440</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Brent Scowcroft, who has died at age ninety-five, was one of America's leading statesmen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Trump Altered the Course of U.S. Foreign Policy?]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/has-trump-altered-course-american-foreign-policy-124101</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump has tip-toed up to the brink of war with Iran but refrained from an all-out confrontation. It will be Trump, and Trump alone, who is the Decider.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Perfectly Positioned to Stage a Comeback]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/reports-death-biden-campaign-greatly-exaggerated/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden has blown it. His era is over. The obsequies for his campaign are pouring in. Michael Hirsh in Foreign Policy thus announced today that Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s vaunted experience on the foreign stage has turned out be a lead balloon: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'It appears many voters across the spectrum...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trends Continue, Trump on Firm Path to Re-Election]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-boris-johnson%E2%80%99s-victory-and-impeachment-could-augur-trump-triumph-2020-105007</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump is chalking up wins with his trade deals and the GOP is holding firm on impeachment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Impeachment Push Hillary Clinton to Run?]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/could-trumps-impeachment-crisis-push-hillary-clinton-run-2020-84301</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As much as Trump loathes President Obama, it's Hillary who has been his true foil. A 2016 election 2.0 would be a dream come true for him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The More Trump Bellows, the Guiltier He Looks]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/trump-bellows-mueller-guiltier/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one has done more to imperil his presidency than Trump himself]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stan Lee Made Comic Books Great Again]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/stan-lee-comic-books/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Marvel editor-in-chief turned the superhero world upside down by introducing ironic detachment and human foibles]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has the Wind in His Sails. Opponents Beware.]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/five-ways-trump-can-dominate-everything-24712</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From trade to NATO to the Helsinki summit, Trump is going on the offensive. His opponents should beware.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Master Stroke]]></title>
							<link>https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/does-donald-trump-deserve-the-nobel-peace-prize/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's acceptance of Kim Jong-un's invitation to meet is a master stroke. It's exactly the kind of thing Ronald Reagan liked to do. Reagan, you may recall, announced his pursuit of a missile'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Germany's Angela Merkel Really in Danger?]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/germanys-angela-merkel-really-danger-23339</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Weimar-like chaos'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'so we are told'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'may hover over the good, old Federal Republic of Germany.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chelsea Manning: What Was Harvard Thinking?]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chelsea-manning-what-was-harvard-thinking-22328</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Politics at Harvard University'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Kennedy School announced on Wednesday that it was inviting Chelsea E. Manning--who disseminated almost 750,000 secret American government cables and documents about Iraq to Wikileaks and spent seven years in prison before her...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Brings Realism Back to U.S. Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/trump-foreign-policy-realism-realpolitik-215536</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s true'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the term realpolitik, which is intimately associated with 19th-century authoritarian statesmen such as Klemens von Metternich and Otto von Bismarck, has always carried an unsavory whiff in America. Despite George Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s warnings about the dangers of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Serial Bungling Suggests Comey Was Out of His Depth]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/it-was-inevitable-trump-would-fire-james-comey-20589</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was probably inevitable that Donald Trump would fire FBI Director James B. Comey. The surprising thing may be not that Trump terminated him today, but that Trump waited as long as he did. Comey has repeatedly displayed lamentably bad judgment. The question that those outside of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Trump to Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Kim Jong-un]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/time-donald-trump-roll-out-the-welcome-mat-kim-jong-un-20432</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump is inviting the wrong Asian dictator to meet him in Washington. Instead of focusing on Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte, he should extend an invitation to North Korea'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Kim Jong-un. His comments today that under the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'right circumstances'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he would be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[France's Presidential Election Goes Populist]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/frances-presidential-election-goes-populist-20320</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So much for Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prediction, in a tweet, that a terrorist attack on the Champs-Elysees would have a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'big effect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' on the outcome of the election. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s last-minute intervention may well have backfired given the fear and loathing that he inspires in much of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are the Clintons Always Under Investigation?]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-are-the-clintons-always-under-investigation-16342</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is it that the Bill and Hillary Clinton are seemingly under permanent scrutiny from government investigators? Is it because they are a noble couple being hounded by their enemies? Or is it because they an elastic sense of morality, coupled with the sense of entitlement that the baby...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Democrats Topple Hillary Clinton?]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-trump-democrats-topple-hillary-15457</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders will not defeat Hillary Clinton. Right now she looks as though she will do well in upcoming primaries in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida. But Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fiery performance in last night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debate and his win in Michigan are underscore that there is a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Is Panicking Max Boot &amp; Robert Kagan]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-trump-panicking-robert-kagan-15329</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone looking for further converts to the Hillary Clinton campaign might do well to look at the Marco Rubio campaign. If Clinton is the leading liberal hawk, Rubio is the foremost neocon candidate. In 2014 National Review published an article about him titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The neocons...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Correctness Goes to War on U.S. History]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/political-correctness-goes-war-american-history-14427</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George Orwell once remarked that Stalin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Soviet Union was a place yesterday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s weather could be changed by decree. America, it seems, is not wholly immune to this totalitarian impulse either. It increasingly manifests itself in political correctness, a phenomenon that is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Should Fear Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-gop-should-fear-hillary-clinton-14076</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the efforts of the media to inject some sizzle into the Democratic race, the blunt fact is that Hillary Clinton is and always has been a lock to win her party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential nomination. Having lost the 2008 primary battle to Barack Obama, she is not about to suffer from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Interview With Henry Kissinger]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-interview-henry-kissinger-13615</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The National Interest'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s editor, Jacob Heilbrunn, spoke with Henry Kissinger in early July in New York.Jacob Heilbrunn: Why is realism today an embattled approach to foreign affairs, or perhaps not as significant as it was when you had figures such as Hans Morgenthau, George F. Kennan,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Wild Sense of Entitlement]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/hillary-clintons-wild-sense-entitlement-12367</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. Just when it looked as though Hillary Clinton was set to roll to the Democratic nomination, fresh peccadilloes involving her and Bill are surfacing. They may be waved off as manifestations of CDS'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Clinton derangement syndrome'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but that would be a mistake. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Threat to Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/the-real-threat-to-hillary-clinton-jim-webb.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' THE conventional wisdom is that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be almost impossible to dislodge from the Democratic presidential nomination and that even if she does encounter some hiccups, they will come from her left flank on economic policy. But if Mrs. Clinton runs,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The German-American Break Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heilbrunn-u-s--germany-relations-20140711-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Bush administration launched the Iraq war in 2003 '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' which then-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder vehemently opposed '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' many Germans have come to view America as a militaristic rogue state, more dangerous even than Russia or Iran.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neocons Ready to Ally With Hillary?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realcleardefense.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' AFTER nearly a decade in the political wilderness, the neoconservative movement is back, using the turmoil in Iraq and Ukraine to claim that it is President Obama, not the movement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s interventionist foreign policy that dominated early George W. Bush-era Washington,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Would Reagan Do?]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/what-would-reagan-do-9252</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/what-would-reagan-do-9252]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP is not in trouble. It is in crisis. At a moment when Grover Norquist is assailing Ted Cruz and others'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'It'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'d be a good idea if they stopped referring to other Republicans as Hitler appeasers because they opposed the strategy they put forward which failed. I think if you make a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Administration Bungles Snowden Affair]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/russia-love-snowden-goes-free-8817</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With its decision to grant Edward Snowden temporary asylum, Russia is once again demonstrating its independence from America and handing a big victory to WikiLeaks. The Obama administration has gone into overdrive to attempt to capture Snowden, promising Moscow that Snowden would neither...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At White House, Liberal Interventionists Ascend]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-heilbrunn-obama-rice-power-20130607,0,4704730.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With his decision to elevate Susan Rice to become his national security advisor and the nomination of Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, President Obama is not simply rewarding the loyalty of two women who have backed him from the start. Nor is he merely increasing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're in for a Coolidge Revival]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/books/review/coolidge-by-amity-shlaes.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=1&amp;</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jacob Heilbrunn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past December the Claremont Institute convened a forum at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington to discuss the presidential election. The mood among the conservative stalwarts during the reception may have ranged from pensive to glum, but it brightened somewhat when...]]></description>
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