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<title><![CDATA[Charles Lane - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16782.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Lane]]></description><category domain="16782">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The End of the Mass Incarceration Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/america-prison-decline-mass-incarceration-myth?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States seems to be experiencing a virtuous cycle in which crime and incarceration decline in tandem.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barney Frank's Consistent Message: Moderate or Die]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/barney-franks-decades-long-quest?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barney Frank believed his party is heading toward a political cliff, and he deserves great credit for using his last breath to warn it. However, Democrats don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t seem inclined to heed him, unlike the last time he issued a similar warning, in that long-ago era when this remarkable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illegal Immigrant Crime Is Its Own Kind of Tragedy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/illegal-immigrant-crime-is-its-own-kind-of-tragedy?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few Democrats acknowledge what most Americans believe: Tolerance should be far lower for crimes committed by people who entered the country illegally, writes Charles Lane.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Teenagers in the Netherlands Ask To Be Put to Death]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/oosterhoff-netherlands-teen-euthanasia/686344/?gift=NHYY-D3S4U1V4HnFykggkrgePgd7qL6NjfokTtDWgkM&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or something else?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is American Pride Now a Partisan Issue?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tauntongazette.com/opinion/20190709/opinion-american-pride-is-now-apparently-partisan-issue</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To the lengthy list of issues that divide Republicans from Democrats, add this seemingly nonpartisan question: How proud are you to be an American?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Military Wasn't Built for Such a Partisan Nation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-military-was-not-built-for-such-a-partisan-nation/2018/12/30/54b9fa2a-0abe-11e9-85b6-41c0fe0c5b8f_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.249577a7f355</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Can the United States maintain its national security and governmental stability after the secretary of defense, Jim Mattis, leaves office as the new year begins ?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Thought Fraud in Reporting Was Gone. I Was Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-thought-fraud-in-reporting-was-done-for-i-was-wrong/2018/12/25/57eb8e64-078c-11e9-a3f0-71c95106d96a_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.02eff685b166</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly 30 years ago, the Cold War'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s end opened Germany'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s border to the formerly Soviet-dominated east. Asylum seekers from poor and war-torn nations poured across it. A violent backlash from ultra-right-wing Germans ensued.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[IL's Roskam Finds Himself on Thinnest of Political Ice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-predicament-peter-roskam-6th-district-sean-casten-1102-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican Rep. Peter Roskam'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s re-election campaign has taken him to a conference room at the Downers Grove headquarters of Elkay Manufacturing, maker of sinks, faucets and kitchen cabinets.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Staying Silent Out of Fear]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-need-the-exhausted-majority-to-speak-up/2018/10/15/160440fa-d090-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.e6b500cc15c3</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most ordinary people found it unbearable to live under communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The reasons varied: shortages of consumer goods, incessant propaganda, restrictions on travel.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Unions in Trouble. They Have Themselves to Blame.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-unions-are-in-deep-trouble-and-they-have-themselves-to-blame/2018/02/14/a317d396-11a8-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.89816c6babe7</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No obscure Supreme Court ruling deserves its obscurity less than'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the transformational 1977'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' case'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in which the justices upheld mandatory dues for public-employee unions. At the time, collective bargaining in the public sector was new, an outgrowth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Witnessing a Nightmare for Our Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-witnessing-a-democratic-nightmare/2018/02/07/2e602d16-0c51-11e8-8890-372e2047c935_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some of the most effective intelligence agencies in history have served the most odious dictatorships. The Soviet KGB, the East German Stasi, Cuban state security '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' many American intelligence pros ruefully concede that these services ran rings around Western counterparts, even if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Want the Supreme Court to Decide What Is Too Partisan?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-we-really-want-the-supreme-court-to-decide-how-partisan-is-too-partisan/2017/06/21/7b5fd7e0-569b-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.7603d1551746</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decision was 5 to 4, with the most conservative Republican-appointed justices in favor of Bush. Democrats condemned the ruling as nakedly partisan, saying it was based not on precedent but a cooked-to-order legal rationale: Recount rules didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t treat all ballots the same way,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Health-Care Plan Goes in Exact Wrong Direction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-health-care-plan-goes-in-the-exact-wrong-direction/2017/03/22/bf01c608-0f19-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a lot not to like about America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fragmented, inefficient health-insurance system. If you had to identify its fundamental flaw, however, it would probably be this: People need medical care whether they have a job or not, yet the U.S. system is built on a linkage between...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Are Learning to Love States' Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/liberals-are-learning-to-love-states-rights/2017/03/15/c40044e6-098c-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.f9b2c95db295</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[States'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' rights is making a comeback, but this time it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s progressives, not slaveholders or white supremacists, raising the cry. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an independence movement in California '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the frustrated giant that provided Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s popular-vote margin of 3 million...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Liberals Undermine the Food Stamp Program]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-liberals-undermine-the-food-stamp-program/2017/02/15/ab332840-f3af-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress created the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, or food stamps, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'to alleviate .'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';'.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';'. hunger and malnutrition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet through normal channels of trade,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in the words...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Can't Break the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-cant-break-the-supreme-court/2017/01/25/f99022d6-e324-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?utm_term=.438f33bb5801</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump plans to nominate a replacement of Justice Antonin Scalia next Thursday, so Americans of all political stripes have a week to work themselves into a frenzy over the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s future '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or to keep a sense of perspective. I vote for the latter. To be sure, it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Pardon You Should Be Angry About]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-chelsea-manning-this-is-the-obama-pardon-you-should-be-mad-about/2017/01/18/1b3c8b6a-ddb0-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.bc637b571940</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The quality of mercy is not strain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Shakespeare wrote. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven/Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:/It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Auto Industry Doesn't Need Trump to Stage-Manage It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-american-auto-industry-does-not-need-trump-to-stage-manage-it/2017/01/04/d97260c4-d2a1-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?utm_term=.b1775ca52e78</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes wrote that gut feelings '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'animal spirits,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' as he called them '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' were often more important to investment decisions than a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'mathematical expectation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' President-elect Donald Trump, too, understands animal spirits. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Griping About the Popular Vote? Get Over It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/griping-about-the-popular-vote-get-over-it/2016/12/14/1f85f90a-c220-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html?utm_term=.ce0bc1f864da</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What an outrage: On Sunday, the National Football League awarded the Tennessee Titans a win over the Denver Broncos because they scored more points, even though the Broncos got more total yards than the Titans.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will It Take for Dems to Woo the White Working Class?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/42d90508-b1a6-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats from President Obama on down are blaming their 2016 debacle in part on too much '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'identity politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' messaging aimed not at voters broadly, but at Latinos, women, African Americans and the LGBT community as groups.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Take Trump Seriously and Literally]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/take-trump-seriously-and-literally/2016/11/16/cbdcf2c8-ac25-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If they gave Pulitzer Prizes for pithiness, journalist Salena Zito'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s analytical couplet on the surprise winner of Campaign 2016 would get one. The press took Republican Donald Trump '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'literally, but not seriously,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' she wrote, whereas Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supporters took him...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's How You Destroy a Democratic Republic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-how-you-destroy-a-democratic-republic/2016/11/02/37fe45e0-a11a-11e6-8832-23a007c77bb4_story.html?utm_term=.cae09c5491ca</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the 58th presidential election under the U.S. Constitution now less than a week away, it is clear that the 228-year-old document is not achieving one of its central purposes. James Madison intended it to curb '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'factious spirit'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' what we call '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'partisanship'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Clinton Look Two-Faced, or Clear-Eyed?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/did-wikileaks-make-hillary-clinton-look-two-faced-or-clear-eyed/2016/10/12/ae59f3ba-8fc7-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html?utm_term=.dc1ad5478178</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the non-surprises in the much-hyped WikiLeaks release of hacked emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign, none was less revelatory than the predictable fact that she had preached the gospel of limited disclosure, behind closed doors.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If everybody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s watching, you know,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Media Blitz on Trump Isn't Working]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s to blame for the fact that November is just around the corner and Donald Trump is within shouting distance of electoral victory?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The media, of course. Journalistic institutions stand accused of facilitating Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rise, through reportorial lassitude or outright...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Epidemic of Honesty on Doping Breaks Out in Rio]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-candor-epidemic-breaks-out-in-rio/2016/08/10/d2fc3fdc-5f13-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html?utm_term=.8ebc084bdd9c</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Irrefutable archival evidence proves that, during the 1970s, the communist East German government systematically administered anabolic steroids to its Olympic women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s swim team, which won 11 out of 13 possible gold medals in Montreal in 1976.At the time, U.S. swimmer Shirley...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, Working Class Hero]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/working-class-hero/2016/07/20/345280ca-4e84-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From this hilltop town overlooking the Ohio River, I scan the community of Aliquippa on the opposite bank for any remnant of the vast Jones &amp; Laughlin Steel complex that once employed 10,000 there.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'They tore the last of it down years ago,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a passing police officer explains. A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Delusion That Americans in Benghazi Could've Been Saved]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-dangerous-delusion-that-the-americans-in-benghazi-could-have-been-saved/2016/06/29/056e93ca-3e2b-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll never guess who comes off as a hero of the Republican-drafted House Benghazi committee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s majority report: President Obama.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Within 90 minutes of the Sept. 11, 2012, surprise attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound that killed Ambassador J.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';' Christopher Stevens and an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the European Union Survive?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-here-and-now-issues-driving-brexit/2016/06/15/2760b524-3315-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is history on the European Union'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s side? It depends on what you mean by '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The history of the 20th'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' century, in which Europe nearly destroyed itself in a series of bloody wars among its rivalrous states, provided the rationale for the European project: Peace and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop the Olympics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stop-the-olympics/2016/05/18/861cf49a-1d19-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If anyone reading this column still believes in the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Olympic ideal,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' please give me a call: I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got a stadium in Rio de Janeiro I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d like to sell you.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Discredited long ago by the very corruption and nationalism they were originally meant to transcend, the Olympic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard's Clueless Illiberalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harvards-clueless-illiberalism/2016/05/11/c1cdbc34-16d6-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Lane</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Touring early America, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s propensity to form associations for every purpose under the sun: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense and very small .'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';'.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';'. to give f'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('ª').';'tes, to found...]]></description>
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