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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Must Be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Never Recovered From Shocks of 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/campus-protests-militarized-police-response-20240512.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The backlash to 2020's protests, lockdowns features militarized cops, less press freedom. Voters must choose this or Trump's fascism]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cops Storming Protests Should Scare You About What's Next]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A violent coast-to-coast, riot-cop crackdown on campus protests threatens the right for all dissent on the eve of the presidential election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Must Federalize the Texas National Guard]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The standoff between Gov. Abbott's tin soldiers and U.S. Border Patrol is the greatest challenge to federal authority in 60 years. The president must act.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Dusts Off Racist, Willie Horton-Style Playbook]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/gop-midterm-strategy-crime-fear-20221002.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Devoid of actual ideas, the GOP has ripped a racist page from a 1980s playbook to scare voters around crime. The polls suggest it's working.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Today's GOP Hates Corporations Like Disney]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/desantis-disney-republican-war-corporations-20220424.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A stunning move by America's third-largest state against free speech is deeply tied to the far right's crusade to destroy U.S. education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Can't Ignore Truckers Crying 'Freedom']]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/canadian-truckers-freedom-convoy-ottawa-20220213.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Truckers and their pals crying "freedom" with incomprehensible demands occupy Canada's capital. Here's why things may get worse.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Killing of Amir Locke Leaves Blood on Hands of Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/amir-locke-minneapolis-police-shooting-20220206.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress chickened out on the George Floyd-inspired cop reform bill that would have all but banned the senseless raid that killed a Minneapolis man.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Gag Orders' for Teachers Are New McCarthyism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/maus-banned-books-teachers-race-mccarthyism-20220127.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Education experts say a flood of new laws and proposals to curb discussions of racial and LGBTQ issues is worst classroom scare since Scopes Monkey Trial.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Police State &amp; the End of George Floyd-Inspired Reforms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/george-floyd-police-reform-movement-died-2021-20211223.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just 18 months after George Floyd's murder and a massive protest for police reform, New York City's new mayor leads a movement in the opposite direction.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Beneficiaries of Covid-Inspired Government Aid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/child-tax-credit-us-poverty-cuts-20210801.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A surge in COVID-19-inspired initiatives will reduce Americans in poverty by a whopping 20 million people. Why didn't this happen sooner?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Garland's Elitist Caution Is a Danger for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/attorney-general-merrick-garland-institutionalism-trump-20210725.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the middle class begging for fighters, the elite institutionalism of Biden and his AG shows why a party of the college-educated is doomed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inability to Tax Rich Is Real Crisis for U.S. Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/bezos-musk-buffett-dont-pay-any-taxes-20210627.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A leak of IRS records shows the super-rich like Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett pay hardly any taxes. Put a fork in America if we don't do something.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Carrying Out the Bernie Sanders Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/president-biden-progressive-agenda-bernie-sanders-20210502.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden is poised to pull off an agenda that looks a lot like the fear of a "socialist" presidency under Bernie Sanders. Why Biden, and why now?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden&rsquo;s 'Mistake' at Border Isn't What Clueless GOP Thinks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/biden-border-surge-refugees-human-rights-20210321.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a political leader whose defining moment has been the mass shooting of 20 kindergartners and first graders in his home state in 2012, and his aggressive push for stricter gun laws ever since, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has never been one to mince words about either the welfare of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Warren Lost But Became President of U.S. Ideas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/elizabeth-warren-plan-free-college-biden-coronavirus-bailout-20200319.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A glass ceiling kept Sen. Elizabeth Warren out of the presidency, but she still won the war of ideas on free college and bailing out the middle class.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elites Who Missed Trump Rise Blowing It Again w/Bernie]]></title>
							<link>https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-trump-2020-presidential-media-coverage-20200225.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like most journalists who write about national politics, I was multitasking Monday night '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' my right eye on the ever-flowing stream of bile, with the occasional floating pearl, known as Twitter, and my left eye on cable news. There, a stream of mostly Boomer-era commentators could...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1,475 Lost Kids a Human Stain on America's Morality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/trump-immigration-policy-border-patrol-separating-families-20180527.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The moral rot that starts with President Trump's Oval Office slurs on immigrants is creating an American gulag where hundreds of kids are lost and migrants cope with a form of terror no parent should ever face.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Email Chain That Devoured U.S. Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/don-jr-and-the-email-chain-that-devoured-american-democracy-20170712.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The emails may prove to be the smoking gun in a shocking plot to steal information and thus a U.S. presidential election, but they also say something about ourselves. The truth is that Russia couldn't steal American democracy unless we helped them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Journalists, Turn on the Freakin' Camera Lights!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/democracy-dies-in-darkness-so-please-turn-on-the-freakin-camera-lights-20170626.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The moves by the White House to bar cameras or audio from press briefings are another small step on the road to authoritarianism. It's time to turn the cameras back on, or walk out the door.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Liberty Dies...With Bud Light and the 'Rocky' Theme?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/So-this-is-how-liberty-dieswith-Bud-Lite-Rocky-theme.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The monstrosity that is the American Health Care Act has nothing to do with improving health care, and everything to do with giving billionaires a tax break while making President Trump look like a winner. Inside a dark day for American democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cable TV Prez Launches Cable TV War to Boffo Reviews]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Cable-TV-president-launches-cable-TV-war----and-the-reviews-are-boffo.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's embrace of entertainment values over political logic came to a head on Thursday night, when President Trump launched a cruise-missile strike that amounted to a show for applauding cable TV pundits.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Save a Free Press in Trump's America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Jour.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's war of words against journalists is an assault on the Bill of Rights -- straight-up dictator stuff. And the only thing that can stop it is everyday citizens fighting for a free press.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary, the Panama Papers, &amp; the Death of U.S. Kleptocracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Hillary-the-Panama-Papers-and-the-fall-of-kleptocracy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did you see that Sen. Bernie Sanders released his income taxes?....well, his 2014 income taxes, anyway. He did it around 7 p.m. on a Friday night, on the same day that the Democratic presidential hopeful was making international headlines by speaking at the Vatican and meeting Pope...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stewart &amp; Colbert: In Irony We Trust]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bunch-rally-20101029,0,4294446.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Bunch</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you take them at their Facebook word, at least 223,609 people plan to attend the Jon Stewart/Stephen  Colbert "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" on the National Mall in  Washington on Saturday. According to enthusiastic posters on the social  network site, the rally is either a)...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What About the Concerns of Pennsylvanians?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/An_open_letter_to_Charlie_Gibson_and_George_Stephanapoulos.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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