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<title><![CDATA[Richard Kahlenberg - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17108.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Richard Kahlenberg]]></description><category domain="17108">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Liberal Without the Elitism: Robert Coles]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/10/a-liberal-without-the-elitism-robert-coles-rip/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I studied with the late Harvard professor Robert Coles, who had a nuanced understanding of class and race in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Studies Can't Stand Its Subject]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/american-studies-cant-stand-its-subject-c919f89c?st=NumCPH</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of articles in the field'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leading journal were negative, while not one was positive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Fight To Revive American Civics]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/15/inside-the-fight-to-revive-american-civics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right wants to erase unpleasant history, while the left talks of nothing else. Is there a middle ground for American civics?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Many on the Left Clinging to Racial Preferences]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/clinging-to-racial-preferences</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Too many on the left stubbornly hang on to a failed and unconstitutional approach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The College Board Capitulates to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/24/the-college-board-caves-to-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The College Board abandoned its race-neutral]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Eternal Social Justice Summer]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/thomas-chatterton-williams-summer-of-our-discontent/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thomas Chatterton Williams's Summer of Our Discontent asks a fair question: Why do the left's excesses offend voters more than the right's?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bobby Kennedy, Liberal Patriot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/bobby-kennedy-liberal-patriot</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A role model for our times.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Ditch DEI in Favor of Something Better]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/time-to-ditch-dei-in-favor-of-something</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For almost a half century, Republican presidents consistently attacked racial preference programs rhetorically but did little to roll them back.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Should Champion Patriotic Education]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5012423-liberal-patriotic-education-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats face two enormous challenges in light of their disastrous 2024 election showing. The first is to defend democracy as President-elect Donald Trump, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' most authoritarian figure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ever elected president, takes power with a much broader mandate than in his first term.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Two Civil Rights Heroes Can Teach the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/what-two-civil-rights-heroes-can</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you're worried about threats to liberal democracy in America, emanating primarily from Donald Trump but also from parts of the progressive left, a new memoir published by two veteran civil rights activists provides a refreshing reminder that a better path remains open.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Affirmative Action Champion Accepts Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/05/a-harvard-champion-of-affirmative-action-accepts-reality/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the university's longtime president, Derek Bok fought for racial preferences. Now, the nonagenarian icon of the educational establishment not only bows to the monumental Supreme Court ruling against Harvard but also has wise ideas for making campuses truly diverse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Liberals Can Root Out Illiberalism in Higher Ed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/what-liberals-can-do-to-root-out</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We liberals do a good job reminding voters of the deeply fragile nature of our democratic republic. But we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re less willing to take on illiberal tendencies on our own side, particularly among students and faculty at leading universities.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Bayard Rustin Could Teach Democrats Today]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/what-bayard-rustin-could-teach-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was doubly excited to see the new biopic Rustin released on Netflix ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cultural Realism in K-12 and Higher Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/cultural-realism-in-k-12-and-higher</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is the first release in a new TLP series surveying major domestic and foreign policy issues facing the country. These articles will explore the basic factual context shaping each policy area, examine the major positions on offer across the ideological spectrum, and evaluate which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/liberal-suburbs-have-their-own-border-wall/ar-AA1eenwm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York City suburb of Scarsdale, located in Westchester County, New York, is one of the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wealthiest communities, and its residents are reliably liberal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of an Imperfect SAT Adversity Score]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/defense-sat-adversity-score/590278/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The College Board's simple, straightforward indicator will make schools pay attention to the tough odds some applicants face.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stronger Together in Education]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2016/10/17/stronger_together_in_education_1733.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you are a presidential candidate running on a platform of Stronger Together, as Hillary Clinton is, what do you do once in office to unify the nation? How does a new president help promote the enduring, but increasingly elusive, American goal of creating e pluribus unum? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Public...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Strong Unions, Strong Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/strong-unions-strong-democracy.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the questions that came up during oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association on Monday are any guide, the ruling bloc of conservative justices appears ready to render a decision later this year that would significantly weaken public sector labor unions.By stripping...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Genius of Obama's Proposal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/the-genius-of-obamas-two-year-college-proposal/384429/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, President Obama traveled to Tennessee to propose that community college be free for all Americans willing to work hard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'just as elementary and secondary schooling has long been universally free to students. In today's economy, a high school degree no longer guarantees a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Fresh Chance to Rein in Racial Preferences]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520704579125003614256882.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could move the country another step away from racial preferences in college admissions. Last term, the justices avoided a definitive ruling about affirmative action at the University of Texas at Austin and sent the case back to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time For Class-Based Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/105938/president-obamas-affirmative-action-problem-and-what-he-should-do-about-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most consequential political decisions of the presidential campaign may soon take place without anyone noticing. On Monday, August 13, the Obama administration is slated to file an amicus brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the use of racial preferences in admission...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unionizing Should Be a Civil Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/opinion/a-civil-right-to-unionize.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
							<description><![CDATA[FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Next for Affirmative Action?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811u/obama-affirmative-action</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Kahlenberg</author>
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