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<title><![CDATA[Jill Lepore - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17016.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jill Lepore]]></description><category domain="17016">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Writing the Trump Years Into History]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you bring an American-history textbook up to date when the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s past has become a political battleground?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facebook's Broken Vows]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/02/facebooks-broken-vows</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the company's pledge to bring the world together wound up pulling us apart.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last Time Democracy Almost Died]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last time democracy nearly died all over the world and almost all at once, Americans argued about it, and then they tried to fix it. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The future of democracy is topic number one in the animated discussion going on all over America,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a contributor to the New York Times wrote...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Impeachment Hearings and the Coming Storm]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Riding on a train to Maine across a blanket of snow, as if on a sleigh, I listened to the Speaker of the House read from the Declaration of Independence.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Nancy Pelosi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announced that the House of Representatives would begin drafting articles of impeachment against'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Trump....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Invention--and Reinvention--of Impeachment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bird-eyed Aaron Burr was wanted for murder in two states when he presided over the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in the Senate, in 1805. The House had impeached Chase, a Marylander, on seven articles of misconduct and one article of rudeness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Robots Competing for Your Job?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/are-robots-competing-for-your-job</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Probably, but don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t count yourself out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/eugene-v-debs-and-the-endurance-of-socialism</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Journalism Have a Future?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalism-have-a-future</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Flip-Flopping on Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/flip-flopping-on-free-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan, fifty-five and as spruce as a groom, ran for governor of California in 1966. On the stump, he complained about undergraduate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'malcontents,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and, as Election Day neared, he made a point of denouncing invitations issued by students at the University of California,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World That Trump and Ailes Built]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-world-that-trump-and-ailes-built</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The measure of their influence lies in the distance between today's media and politics and those of the years they were born.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Atomic Origins of Climate Science]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-origins-of-climate-science</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A nuclear weapon is a certain thing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'atomic or hydrogen, fission or fusion, bomb or missile, so many megatons'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but nothing could be more uncertain than the consequences of using one. Nine nations have nuclear weapons; only the United States has ever used one, and that was in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/donald-trump-the-great-embarrassment?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Republicans never do any serious fighting in public,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' H. L. Mencken declared in 1932, just before the G.O.P.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Convention, where Herbert Hoover ran for the nomination, all but unopposed. Less than a month later, it took the Democrats four ballots and five days of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The State of the Presidential Debates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/the-state-of-the-presidential-debate</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This election'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first Presidential debate will be held on September 26th, the anniversary of the first televised Presidential debate, between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy, in 1960. Nixon and Kennedy met in a bare CBS studio in Chicago, without an audience; the event was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Steal an Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/04/conventions-primaries-and-the-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At sunrise on the day before the Republican National Convention begins, in Cleveland, a hundred women will take off their clothes and pose for the photographer Spencer Tunick outside the convention hall. Naked, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll be holding up big, round mirrors to the sky, to catch the light....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sex and the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/to-have-and-to-hold</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Louise Trubek and her husband, Dave, drove from New Haven to Washington to listen to oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Trubek v. Ullman, she was pregnant. The Trubeks had met at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and married in 1958.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Richer and Poorer: Accounting for Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/richer-and-poorer</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For about a century, economic inequality has been measured on a scale, from zero to one, known as the Gini index and named after an Italian statistician, Corrado Gini, who devised it in 1912, when he was twenty-eight and the chair of statistics at the University of Cagliari. If all the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Internet Be Archived?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 took off from Amsterdam at 10:31 A.M. G.M.T. on July 17, 2014, for a twelve-hour flight to Kuala Lumpur. Not much more than three hours later, the plane, a Boeing 777, crashed in a field outside Donetsk, Ukraine. All two hundred and ninety-eight people on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Watching the Killings]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/watching-killing</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a bad day, being online feels like having someone strap you down, jam an I.V. into your arm, and pump untested '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Clockwork Orange'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' drugs into your blood: the shuddering, Wi-Fi high; the low, a silicon-and-lead drag. On a worse day, being online is like being in a casino:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reading Elizabeth Warren]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/04/21/140421crbo_books_lepore</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her new book, Elizabeth Warren tells the story of her life in order to make an argument about America (the middle class is trapped in a vise of debt), which is the sort of thing politicians do when they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re running for office. Warren, who spent most of her career as a law-school...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary and the Path to a Female President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2014/03/10/140310taco_talk_lepore</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Presidential election were held today, Hillary Clinton would deliver her acceptance speech sometime before midnight tonight. Last week, a Times/CBS News poll found that a whopping eighty-two per cent of Democrats picked Clinton over both Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. Last month,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Game of Politics: It's Romney's Move]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/07/30/120730taco_talk_lepore</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1935, the year that Parker Brothers came out with Monopoly, Oswald B. Lord, of Park Avenue, New York, invented a board game called Politics. Lord was a businessman; his wife, Mary, was an heiress to the Pillsbury flour fortune. Lord must have figured that, if people would pay money...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitution and Its Worshippers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is written in an elegant, clerical hand, on four sheets of parchment, each two feet wide and a bit more than two feet high, about the size of an eighteenth-century newspaper but finer, and made not from the pulp of plants but from the hide of an animal. Some of the ideas it contains...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea and Sympathy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/03/100503fa_fact_lepore</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Boston Tea Party Ship is not open to the public. She has no masts, no rigging, and hardly any decking. To clamber aboard, I had to climb down an iron ladder, cross two floating docks, crawl under a stretch of ropes, and walk a plank, barefoot. This ship is a replica; the original...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The History of American Health Care Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/12/07/091207taco_talk_lepore</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jill Lepore</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without compulsory health insurance,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the Yale economist Irving Fisher said in a speech in December. December of 1916, that is. More than nine decades ago, Fisher thought that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bound for Glory: Writing for Campaign Lives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/20/081020crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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