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							<title><![CDATA[Texas Democrats Are Embracing a Strategy From 1787]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/texas-democrats-are-embracing-a-strategy-from-1787</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics are having a lot of fun with this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s walkout of Democratic legislators in Texas, a successful effort to deny a quorum and prevent a vote on restrictive election legislation. Although presented as outrageous and strange, the maneuver is an old American tradition, with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorry, President Trump, Twitter Makes Its Own Rules]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sorry-president-trump-twitter-makes-210003063.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My view of the dust-up between Twitter and President Donald Trump is simple: The company should treat him exactly like it would treat any other user. But I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll also admit to a degree of concern about how it treats other users, particularly the company'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s growing determination to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, China Can't Be Sued Over Coronavirus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-24/can-china-be-sued-over-the-coronavirus</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nation-states are immune from such lawsuits.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Black Voters Keep Picking Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-black-voters-keep-picking-130021182.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although opinion polls currently put President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s approval among black voters at between 20 and 30%, most experts doubt that anything like that proportion of the black vote will go to Trump on Election Day. Yes, strange things happen in politics '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' remember the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jay-Z Has Every Right to Take the NFL&rsquo;s Money]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-17/jay-z-s-nfl-deal-isn-t-political-just-business?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roc Nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s deal with the league isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t personal or political, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just business.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nike Has Free-Speech Rights, Too]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nike-free-speech-rights-too-150012097.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the Fourth of July has slipped past, let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s take a quick look at a trio of controversies over history and tradition that erupted just as the holiday was creeping up on us.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Court Was Right Not to Strike Down Gerrymandering]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/supreme-court-gerrymandering-case-upholds-a-political-tradition</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gerrymandering Is an American Political Tradition]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Thanksgiving Address America Needs to Hear]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-21/thanksgiving-2018-words-america-needs-to-hear?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One hundred and fifty years ago, when the country was even more divided than it is now, a Philadelphia rabbi offered a healing message.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NFL's Anthem Policy Is Nothing New (Ask the NBA)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-24/nfl-s-anthem-policy-isn-t-as-bad-as-its-critics-think</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's nothing new (ask the NBA), the protests aren't effective anymore, and owners have a business to run.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Much Power Lies in Tech Companies' Hands]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-17/too-much-power-lies-in-tech-companies-hands</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I hope the tumult will die down, and that the bannings stop with the Daily Stormer and its kin, who regularly serve up hatred and vitriol in support of vicious ideologies that cost many millions of lives. I hope, in other words, that we will be able to draw reasonable lines. But where...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Fall of Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-11/trump-and-the-fall-of-liberalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats showed a hubris in recent years that was at odds with the party's ascendance in the 1950s to 1970s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hamilton's Place in Our Hearts and Minds]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-18/hamilton-s-place-in-our-hearts-and-minds-and-wallets-</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm all for finally getting a female face back on U.S. currency, but why demote Alexander Hamilton? Hamilton, whose image currently adorns the $10 bill, is among the most admirable of the founding generation. But because he lacks a constituency, he's an easy target. And that's too bad.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Voters Are Loyal to the Clinton Brand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-06/why-voters-are-loyal-to-the-clinton-brand</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have the questions swirling around the finances of the Clinton Foundation damaged Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s brand? Many observers seem to think so. That word -- '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'brand'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' -- keeps popping up. Yet polls show that voters continue to lean her way. When pundits express surprise at Clinton'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meddling in Iran Talks Is Congress's Job]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-05/meddling-in-iran-talks-is-congress-s-job</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Put aside the overheated spat about the wisdom of inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress this week. The deeper constitutional issue involves the insistence by President Barack Obama that the House and Senate have no business floating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CIA Report, Rolling Stone &amp; False Dilemmas]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-11/cia-torture-report-rolling-stone-and-false-dilemmas</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A fascinating side event to the furor over the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the treatment of post-Sept. 11 detainees has been the debate over the majority staff'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bizarre decision not to interview the Central Intelligence Agency officials who oversaw the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Get Obama Out of His Bubble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-26/how-to-get-obama-out-of-his-bubble.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During Bill Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency, I once listened to a senior White House aide complain about the amount of time his boss spent meeting ordinary citizens. There was always a sob story, the aide said, and the president would return to the Oval Office demanding that his staff waste...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Long-Term Unemployment Is Turning Jobless Into Pariahs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-03/long-term-unemployment-is-turning-jobless-into-pariahs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. created 165,000 new jobs in April, pushing down the unemployment rate to 7.5 percent from March'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 7.6 percent. But as of the end of April, 4.4 million Americans, or 37 percent of the unemployed, had been without a job for 27 weeks or longer, barely better than March'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Founders Desired Cabinet Fights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111741/borking-hagel-just-what-the-founding-fathers-would-have-wanted</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The furious opposition to the Hagel nomination has moved many commentators to a certain nostalgia---conjuring up a simpler time, when Cabinet selections were less controversial. Since World War II, only two cabinet nominees have actually been voted down, and six more have withdrawn...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Radical Islam Can Learn From Larry Flynt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-20/how-muslim-extremists-can-learn-from-larry-flynt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So now it's the French who are frantically closing their embassies, worried about violent mobs enraged after the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons, some of them pornographic, mocking the Prophet Muhammad.France's official response has been more restrained than last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D.C. Must Be Pro-Market, Not Pro-Business]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-07/true-capitalists-are-pro-market-not-pro-business.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the failure of the effort to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a curious meme has been slithering through the commentariat: Public-employee unions are down and out.They aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t, of course. They remain as formidable as ever, and will spend the current election cycle doing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reid's Rule Change Was Purely Partisan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-13/reid-s-senate-rule-change-was-purely-partisan-stephen-l-carter.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless you follow chess, you probably missed the news that Hikaru Nakamura, the most talented player America has produced in a generation, lost a game in Bilbao, Spain, the other day when he overstepped the time limit.Chess is played with a dual clock, and each player has a set amount of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Fears Threaten Justice Ginsburg's Job]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-07/liberal-fears-threaten-a-justice-s-job-commentary-by-stephen-l-carter.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On election night 1980, after the scope of Ronald Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s landslide became clear, a major television network solemnly reported that Justice Thurgood Marshall had told friends that he planned to step down from the Supreme Court and allow the defeated president, Jimmy Carter, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We Winning in Afghanistan?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/26/are-we-winning-in-afghanistan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did we win? The question came to mind after President Obama, in a prime-time'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  address, announced a plan to draw down American forces from Afghanistan from 100,000 today to 90,000 at the end of the year and about 70,000 by the summer of 2012. He confirmed his earlier insistence that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sonia I Know]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-26/the-sonia-i-know/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Holder is Right, We Need Dialogue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25carter.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Affirmative Action is a Distraction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/opinion/06carter.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Carter</author>
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