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<title><![CDATA[Ari Berman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16576.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ari Berman]]></description><category domain="16576">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Seems Eager To Help Trump End Mail Voting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-mailing-in-voting-mississippi-supreme-court-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican National Committee and the Trump administration want to overturn mail ballot deadlines in 29 states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Democrats It&rsquo;s Democracy or the Filibuster.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/democrats-just-introduced-a-new-voting-rights-bill-its-going-nowhere-if-they-dont-reform-the-filibuster/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A key group of Democratic senators, including centrist Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), introduced a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' new voting rights bill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on Tuesday that would expand access to the ballot for millions of Americans, ban partisan gerrymandering, and crack down on dark money groups. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s expected to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Protect Your Right to Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/04/elizabeth-warren-coronavirus-voting/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent days, Wisconsin has been thrown into political chaos, with the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic governor pushing to delay Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election amid rising cases of the coronavirus, and Republican leaders in the legislature refusing to either postpone voting or mail a ballot to every...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Voter Purges in WI &amp; GA Could Tip 2020 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/gop-led-voter-purges-in-wisconsin-and-georgia-could-tip-2020-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands of voters are set to be purged in two key swing states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Becoming a Two-Tiered Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/the-united-states-is-becoming-a-two-tiered-country-with-separate-and-unequal-voting-laws/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But the midterms showed that voting rights may finally be a political winner.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton on 2016: 'Lots of Questions About Its Legitimacy']]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/hillary-clinton-on-trumps-election-there-are-lots-of-questions-about-its-legitimacy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones, Clinton says Russian interference and GOP voter suppression efforts may have cost her the presidency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Man Behind Trump's Voter Fraud Obsession]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/magazine/the-man-behind-trumps-voter-fraud-obsession.html?mcubz=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kris Kobach likes to bill himself as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the A.C.L.U.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s worst nightmare.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The Kansas secretary of state, who was a champion debater in high school, speaks quickly for a rural Midwesterner, with the confidence of a man who holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford and Yale Law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Big Win for Voting Rights in Texas, a Big Loss for Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/a-big-win-for-voting-rights-in-texas-and-a-big-loss-for-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 10, a federal court in Texas found that the state's congressional redistricting maps intentionally diluted minority voting strength in order to gain partisan advantage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Has Declared War on Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/the-gop-has-declared-war-on-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many in the media are portraying the Republicans move to invoke the nuclear option to confirm Neil Gorsuch as a mere squabble over Senate rules, the latest example of hyper-partisanship in Washington that both parties are equally responsible for.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Reasons Why Democrats Are Right to Block Gorsuch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-should-do-everything-they-can-to-block-neil-gorsuch/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Neil Gorsuch's nomination in an 11-to-9 party-line vote today. But 41 Senate Democrats have now pledged to oppose Gorsuch, which gives them the votes needed to block his nomination.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voting Rights Act Is Once Again Under Threat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/opinion/why-the-voting-rights-act-is-once-again-under-threat.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his opinion for the majority in the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2013 Shelby County decision, which struck down a major section of the Voting Rights Act, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'history did not end in 1965.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But the sad truth is that voter-suppression efforts...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Winning the War on Voting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/182233/gop-winning-war-voting</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the 2010 election, the Republican Party has waged a long and aggressive war on voting. In 2011 and 2012, at least 180 new voting restrictions were introduced in forty-one states, with twenty-seven election changes passing in nineteen states. The attack on voting rights intensified...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Willie Horton Politics in the Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/178686/willie-horton-politics-senate-votes-against-civil-rights</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, the US Senate voted 47 to 52 not to confirm Debo Adegbile to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Every Republican Senator and seven Democrats voted against Adegbile'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Fix for the Voting Rights Act]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/177962/members-congress-introduce-new-fix-voting-rights-act</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the wake of the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision last June invalidating a critical section of the VRA. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[N.C. Shows Why Voting Rights Act Is Still Needed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/177577/north-carolina-shows-why-voting-rights-act-still-needed</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Winston-Salem today set the schedule for a trial challenging North Carolina'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sweeping new voter restrictions. There will be a hearing on whether to grant a preliminary injunction in July 2014 and a full trial a year later, in July 2015.This gives the plaintiffs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Holder: Voter Suppression Will Not Stand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/175873/doj-texas-voter-suppression-will-not-stand#axzz2cmPKD5vb</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one week last August, federal courts found that Texas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' voter ID law and redistricting maps were discriminatory and violated the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent decision invalidating Section 4 of the VRA, which previously covered Texas, tragically wiped away...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to March on Washington--Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/175757/time-march-washington-again#axzz2bsAX5y7i</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They carried signs that demanded '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Voting Rights,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Jobs for All'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Decent Housing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' They protested the vigilante killing of an unarmed black teenager in the South and his killer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s acquittal. They denounced racial profiling in the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NC GOP Pushes Extreme Voter Suppression Laws]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/175395/north-carolina-republicans-push-extreme-voter-suppression-measures#axzz2ZxrCItfT</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, the North Carolina legislature will almost certainly pass a strict new voter ID law that could disenfranchise 318,000 registered voters who don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have the narrow forms of accepted state-issued ID. As if that wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t bad enough, the bill has since been amended by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Carolina's Moral Mondays]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/175328/north-carolinas-moral-mondays</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On an overcast afternoon in early July, 300 activists pack into the white-columned Christian Faith Baptist Church to prepare for the ninth wave of Moral Monday protests at the state legislature. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Supporters on the right, civil disobedience on the left,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re told as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Strategy for Voting Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/175090/new-strategy-voting-rights#axzz2YGXGxPni</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hank Sanders grew up in segregated, rural southern Alabama and in 1971 moved to Selma'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the birthplace of the Voting Rights Act. Before the VRA, only 393 of the 15,000 black voting-age residents in Dallas County, where Selma is located, were registered to vote. Less than a year later,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the GOP's War on Voting Backfired]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/171146/gops-failed-voter-suppression-strategy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the 2010 election, Republicans passed new voting restrictions in more than a dozen states aimed at reducing the turnout of Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'coalition of the ascendant'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This is not rocket science,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Bill...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fightback on Voting Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/170493/fightback-voting-rights</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, in states from Florida to Ohio to New Hampshire, courts have blocked new laws passed by Republicans that restrict the right to vote for young, minority, elderly, disabled and low-income voters. A major exception to that trend had been Pennsylvania, where GOP House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney-Ryan Economics Would Deepen Recession]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/169373/romney-ryan-economic-plans-would-increase-unemployment-deepen-recession</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much has been written in recent days about Paul Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s plans to privatize Medicare, dismantle Social Security, massively cut taxes for the wealthy and drastically redistribute income from the bottom to the top.Yet perhaps the most disturbing feature of Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s budget is that, in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has a Jobs Plan. Romney Doesn't.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/168340/obama-has-jobs-plan-romney-doesnt</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no secret that the presidential election will be decided by the state of the economy and which candidate has a better plan for creating jobs. So, toward that end, consider a few relevant numbers:+ 1.4 million to 3.3 million'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how many jobs were created or saved...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Supreme Court Matters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/167350/why-supreme-court-matters</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Gerald Ford nominated him in 1975, Justice John Paul Stevens occupied the ideological center of the Supreme Court. By the time he retired in 2010, he was the Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most liberal member. Over those thirty-five years, the Court changed far more than Stevens did....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Economic Populism Is a Winning Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/167336/why-economic-populism-winning-strategy-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The centrist Democratic group Third Way has a new report out about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Swing Independents,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' who they claim are the Soccer Moms/Reagan Democrats/Rockefeller Republicans of 2012. (I prefer to think of them as the fickle souls who can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t make up their minds.)These Swing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The &quot;Voter Fraud&quot; Fraud]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/167217/voter-fraud-fraud</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As President Obama spoke about Representative Paul Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s budget yesterday, Fox News broke away from the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s remarks to cover '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a stunning case in South Bend, Indiana.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The story covered an indictment by the St. Joseph County prosecutor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s office alleging...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the GOP Is Resegregating the South]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/165976/how-gop-resegregating-south</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[North Carolina State Senator Eric Mansfield was born in 1964, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed the right to vote for African-Americans. He grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and moved to North Carolina when he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He became an Army...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Makes Case for Equality, Investment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/164996/osawatomie-obama-embraces-new-populist-moment</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s become a clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' to say that Occupy Wall Street has changed our country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political conversation. But if you want to know exactly how the Occupy movement has impacted the debate in Washington, read Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, today.For much of 2011,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Should Thwart GOP Obstructionism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/164972/how-obama-should-thwart-gop-obstructionism</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ari Berman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week President Obama is launching a media blitz in support of Richard Cordray, his nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The Senate Banking Committee has confirmed Cordray, but the full Senate is likely to block his nomination this week, since Republicans...]]></description>
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