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<title><![CDATA[Catherine Rampell - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17219.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Catherine Rampell]]></description><category domain="17219">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Hard To Exaggerate How Bad Harris&rsquo;s Price-Gouging Plan Is]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When your opponent calls you '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'communist,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' maybe don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t propose price controls?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Could Be a Whistleblower. So Could Anyone With a TV.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailyprogress.com/newsvirginian/opinion/rampell-i-could-be-a-whistleblower-so-could-anyone-with/article_ad60cb9b-cb0b-5dde-94fb-f26c875fc43d.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I would like to file a whistleblower complaint. With whom, I don't know exactly. But the information I have demands to be heard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Trade War Hurts U.S. Economy, Alliances]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-trump-trade-china-democrats-free-markets-rampell-20190514-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have been muted in their criticism. Perhaps this is because, when it comes to trade policy, most of them don't have a leg to stand on.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 2 Worst Economic Ideas Have Collided]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/05/10/catherine-rampell-trumps/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At 12:01 a.m. Friday, President Trump's two worst economic ideas finally collided '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and made each other even worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Turn Into the Boy Crying Socialism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/03/22/catherine-rampell-trumps/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has made fearmongering about socialism a key plank of his re-election campaign. It's more lazy name-calling from a lazy thinker, but this time the lazy name-calling may backfire.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Budget Is Heartless and Whackadoodle]]></title>
							<link>https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/rampell-it-wont-be-adopted-so-what-good-is-trumps-budget/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It tells us his priorities: extend tax cuts for the rich, cut social programs and trust in magic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Have Become the Soviet Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.timesonline.com/news/20190123/gop-has-become-soviet-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, Ayn Rand-reading, red-baiting Republicans denounced Soviet Russia as an evil superpower intent on destroying the American way of life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Republican Who Didn't Believe in 'Voodoo Economics']]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-hw-bush-was-the-last-of-his-kind--a-republican-who-didnt-believe-in-voodoo-economics/2018/12/03/25aa090a-f740-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.4ad612200296</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Characterizing Reaganomics as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'voodoo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' was colorful, yes, but it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t crazy. Of course it was ridiculous to claim you could increase tax revenue by cutting taxes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Isn't to Blame. His Entire Party Is]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/be-angry-at-trump-but-dont-let-republicans-off-the-hook/2018/10/29/22bd0b96-dbb8-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.c05b19afd535</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House says it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unfair to blame President Trump for our poisonous, increasingly violent political atmosphere. And you know what? They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Should We Believe Kavanaugh?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-should-we-believe-kavanaugh/2018/09/20/5aa24980-bd05-11e8-be70-52bd11fe18af_story.html?utm_term=.b3fd12554332</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why does it matter whether a then-17-year-old Brett M. Kavanaugh drunkenly tried to rape a 15 year old, at a house party, 36 years ago? That question is implicit in all of the Republican defenses of the Supreme Court nominee.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economy Is Great. That Doesn't Mean Trumponomics Is]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-economys-great-that-doesnt-mean-trumponomics-is/2018/07/26/2327dd6e-910c-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of reasons not to read too much into one quarter of strong growth '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or interpret it as evidence that Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tax cut and trade war are good things.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Inhumanity at Border Reveals Scam]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-inhumanity-at-the-border-reveals-their-grand-scam/2018/05/28/b3b18d9c-62b0-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.d99bafb38f68</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since October, more than 700 minor children have been separated from their parents at the border. More than 100 have been under 4'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‰').';'years old.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare: This Is What Death Spiral Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-a-death-spiral-looks-like/2018/05/14/07cea4cc-57b3-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.f67053ff16d8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three states have announced preliminary 2019 premium-rate requests for Obamacare individual-market policies, and the numbers don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t look good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Get Ready. Republicans Want to Cut Taxes Again.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-need-to-stand-for-more-than-cutting-taxes/2018/03/15/f1e97916-287d-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.de62cf32169d</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just months ago, Republicans got away with a massive upward redistribution of wealth, raiding $1.5?trillion from the Treasury and sticking future generations with the bill.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame 'Washington,' Blame Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-blame-washington-blame-the-gop/2018/02/19/f374bf28-15ba-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.2c1da4e38b80</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dysfunctional Washington refuses to work out its differences to solve problems that matter to Americans.So say pundits and policy activists, perhaps hoping that diffuse criticism, rather than finger-pointing, will yield a government willing to govern.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Immigration 'Compromise' Is a Trick]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-immigration-compromise-is-a-trick/2018/01/29/e629d2d6-0539-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.ae681b8757af</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' immigration plan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is not a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'compromise.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'generous'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' deal for Democrats, and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not full of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'concessions.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a sleight of hand designed to help the far right shove through sharp new limits on legal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanderscare Is All Cheap Politics and Magic Math]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sanderscare-is-all-cheap-politics-and-magic-math/2017/09/14/d8db627c-998a-11e7-b569-3360011663b4_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Repeal and replace Obamacare? Right-o, show us a replacement plan,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' any'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' replacement plan, that won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t raise rates and cause millions of Americans to lose their insurance. These were hollow promises, with no serious plan backing any of them. Thanks to the Grand Old Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Frat Told It's 'Appropriating Culture.' School Won't Say Which.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-fraternity-was-told-it-was-appropriating-culture-administrators-wont-say-which/2017/04/20/d57fa01a-25e1-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t blame college students for their hostility to free expression. The fault ultimately lies with cowardly school administrations, who so often cave to student demands for censorship. Or as some now prefer to call it, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'empowering a culture of controversy prevention.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Think Tax Reform Will Be Easy for Trump? Ha, Ha.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/think-tax-reform-will-be-easy-for-trump-ha-ha/2017/03/27/8f65e4b4-132a-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.c6e282a2ca2b</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You thought tax reform would be an easy win for Republicans? Oh, it feels good to laugh again. After the Obamacare-repeal disaster, President Trump has decided to move on to tax reform. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hoping to quickly restore public faith in his leadership, which has so far been stymied by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Uncertainty Paralyzing Millions' Lives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/these-ordinary-americans-enrolled-in-obamacare-to-protect-their-futures-now-what/2017/03/20/3de6869e-0dac-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The uncertain future of Obamacare isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just wreaking'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' havoc'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for insurers, hospitals and other companies in the health-care ecosystem.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Suggestion to Donald Trump: Listen to Ivanka]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-suggestion-to-donald-trump-listen-to-ivanka/2016/11/14/251a6b90-aaaf-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has said he wants to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'bind the wounds of division.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He will prove that he can be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'president for all Americans,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' not just those who voted for him. Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s say we take the president-elect at his word, though his decision to make alt-right leader Stephen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Exactly What's Wrong With &quot;More of the Same&quot;?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Hope and change'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' are so 2008. Now, if anything, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just about hope. Donald Trump and his supporters have been insisting for months that this election is a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'change'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' election. That is, Americans want to throw the bums out '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' specifically, the party of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reports of Obamacare's Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows the Affordable Care Act has been a massive, expensive failure, with prices and spending spiraling out of control.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will Millennials Start Liking Hillary Clinton?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Millennials are souring on Hillary Clinton. Again.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Not that they were ever so sweet on her to begin with, at least relative to how they swooned over other Democrats. Both Bernie Sanders in the recent primary campaign, and Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 general elections, received...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shutting Down Speech on Campus]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Around the country, colleges have found a new excuse for shutting down free speech: safety.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Just as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'national security'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' has periodically served as a pretext for robbing Americans of civil liberties, so too has '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'campus security'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' newly become a convenient rationale...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Blame Feds for Hurting Small Businesses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-blame-the-feds-for-hurting-small-businesses/2016/08/25/2974c11c-6aff-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html?utm_term=.598433f974d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every four years, presidential candidates pledge to destroy the evil federal bureaucracy wreaking havoc on our small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency! Level the Labor Department! Eliminate Education, kill Commerce and eradicate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Millennials Aren't Buying Homes. Good for Them.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Millennial homeownership rates are way, way down. And believe it or not, that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s probably a good thing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Across all age groups, the U.S. homeownership rate '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' at 62.9 percent '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' has now fallen to its lowest level in more than five decades. Among younger Americans only,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Republican Platform Spells Doom for Them]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party had a chance to disavow Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s xenophobia and nativism. Instead, the GOP doubled down. In the new 2016 Republican platform, delegates not only promised a wall along the southern border; they also decided to replace the term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'illegal immigrants'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Voters Like That She's Not Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Suddenly, after months of schoolyard taunts and sloganeering, everyone wants to wear the mantle of substance.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump would much rather run an election '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'based on issues and policy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' rather than personal attacks, he told ABC News on the very day his campaign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Would Be Biggest Threat to the Economy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Catherine Rampell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These days, America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recovery looks vulnerable to a lot of scary economic shocks. Most of these come from abroad: Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s potential exit from the European Union, for instance, or a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'hard landing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' from years of rapid economic growth in China.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But right now, the...]]></description>
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