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							<title><![CDATA[The Senate's Challenge in Trump's Washington]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&lsquo;I try to kind of ignore the noise and focus on the agenda,&rdquo; says Mitch McConnell during an interview last week.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When the CEO Met the CEO President]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[United Technologies head Gregory Hayes on how Trump kept the Carrier plant open&mdash;and the high-paid factory jobs he&rsquo;s having trouble filling.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Algorithms Can Help Beat Islamic State]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Rago interviews Dartmouth's Hany Farid and writes that he changed the world by combating child porn. Now his software could suppress terrorists online.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[History Repeats as Farce, Then as 2016]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Trump Unlock the Keystone State?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Donald Trump can win in Pennsylvania, he could take residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Running to Survive in the Year of Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teaching the &quot;Habits of Democracy&quot;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The head of Longwood University, host of 2016&rsquo;s vice-presidential debate, says liberal arts&mdash;and educated citizens&mdash;can fix what ails our politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz's Establishment Turn]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thank&mdash;or blame&mdash; Phil Gramm for Ted Cruz. The retired Texas senator&rsquo;s opposition to Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s health-care plan in the early 1990s inspired his political career, says the man with the second-best odds of running against Mr. Gramm&rsquo;s old nemesis this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz Likes Being Hated]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz isn&rsquo;t running against Marco Rubio or Donald J. Trump or even Hillary Clinton,not really. His real opponent is the Republican establishment, or the permanent syndicate of politicians, lobbyists, donors, business interests and insiders that he calls &ldquo;the Washington...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chris Christie Makes His Charge]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chris Christie on Tuesday is an introduction and two answers deep into his 47th town-hall meeting in New Hampshire so far, at an American Legion post. He&rsquo;s surrounded by about 250 voters with the slightly feral look of people who understand their influence in choosing the next...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Jeb Bush Make a Comeback?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican voters seem to be more skeptical of their political dynasts than Democrats are of theirs. Hillary Clinton is rolling toward a royal accession; New York&rsquo;s governorship is held by a Cuomo, California&rsquo;s by a Brown; the Kennedy mystery cult persists. On present trend...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kasich vs. Obscurity]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ohio hasn&rsquo;t voted for a presidential loser since 1960 and it may decide the 2016 election, at least if the winner is a Republican: The GOP probably can&rsquo;t make the Electoral College arithmetic work otherwise, and no Republican ever has won without carrying the swing state. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Talks Trade, Taxes and His Fitness for the White House]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Rago interviews Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the War Against the Islamic State]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some six months ago, the Islamic State terrorist army poured south from Syria through Iraq&rsquo;s Tigris and Euphrates valleys, conquering multiple cities including Mosul and the border city of al Qaim. Iraqi army regulars disintegrated, the offensive carved out a rump state controlling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Oilman to Thank at Your Next Fill-Up]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, an OnCue Express in Oklahoma City became the first U.S. filling station since 2010 to sell regular gasoline for under $2 a gallon. The national average&mdash;hovering around $2.74 this week, also the lowest since 2010&mdash;is down 51 cents in a year and continues to fall,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Scott Walker Keeps Winning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Wow. First off, I want to thank God for his abundant grace and mercy. Win or lose, it is more than sufficient for each and every one of us,&rdquo; Scott Walker said, taking the podium on Tuesday night at the Wisconsin state fair grounds after being re-re-elected for governor. It...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In New England, a Republican Surge]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a scene reminiscent of &ldquo;Weekend at Bernie&rsquo;s,&rdquo; Hillary Clinton , Elizabeth Warren and a retinue of other Democratic celebs gathered on Friday to prop up Martha Coakley &rsquo;s ailing campaign for Massachusetts governor, at Boston&rsquo;s Park Plaza Hotel. The place...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economist Who Exposed Obamacare]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In September, two weeks before the Affordable Care Act was due to launch, President Obama declared that "there's no serious evidence that the law . . . is holding back economic growth." As for repealing ObamaCare, he added, "That's not an agenda for economic growth. You're not going to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tom Coburn: The Doctor Who Is Sick of Washington]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tom Coburn stood for Congress in 1994 as a political tenderfoot for two main reasons: As an obstetrician he thought government was impinging too much on his medical practice, and the nine-term House Democrat who held his Oklahoma district's seat favored the Clinton national health plan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Weekend Interview: Mitt Romney]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does Mitt Romney have a governing vision, a dominating set of political principles? It's the big question many voters say they have about the GOP presidential candidate. So when the former Massachusetts governor visited the Journal editorial board this week, we put it to him squarely, if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama &amp; The Narcissism of Big Differences]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever the rhetoric that preceded this week's deal, the debt-ceiling debate was never really about the debt at all. It was about the terms on which the debate would continue. The "two different worldviews" that divide Washington, explains Eric Cantor, are too far apart for anything...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Story of Dick Cheney's Heart]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA['I remember when I was 14 years old, 1955, my grandfather, mom's dad, was visiting with us. He'd already had a couple heart attacks. He was 66," says Dick Cheney, who is 70 and has survived five heart attacks. "One morning I was in the house alone while my folks were outside and he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Ominous Preview of ObamaCare]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that  Congress passed three months ago is "essentially identical" to the  Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed  into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees.As events are  now...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WellPoint CEO: Wasted Opportunity for Real Reform]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York   Angela Braly is in good spirits considering that her company seems to have narrowly avoided being converted into a public utility, if not destroyed outright. One gets the sense that she's always in good spirits. After years of sustained political assault, the power of positive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Rago</author>
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