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<title><![CDATA[Nicholas Confessore - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17261.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nicholas Confessore]]></description><category domain="17261">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Mulvaney Destroys a Bureaucracy From Within]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/magazine/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-trump.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The C.F.P.B. was created to protect Americans from predatory lenders after the financial crisis. President Trump's new chief of staff took it apart on his way to White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unlikely Activists Took On Silicon Valley--&amp; Won]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Follower Factory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media's black market.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Hide $400 Million]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-million.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=magazine&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=2&amp;pgtype=sectionfront</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few weeks after she realized her husband was finally leaving her, Sarah Pursglove flew down to the Bahamas to figure out how much money he really had. Like many women married to very wealthy men, she didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know much about the family accounts. Her husband, a Finnish entrepreneur...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders: Aims to Shape Democrats' Agenda After Primaries]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz, Rubio: Rival Factions of Top Donors Aid Campaigns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/us/politics/rival-factions-of-top-donors-get-behind-marco-rubio-and-ted-cruz.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blumenthal's Libya Involvement Scrutinized]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/clinton-friends-libya-role-blurs-lines-of-politics-and-business.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the Clintons last occupied the White House, Sidney Blumenthal cast himself in varied roles: speechwriter, in-house intellectual and press corps whisperer. Republicans added another, accusing Mr. Blumenthal of spreading gossip to discredit Republican investigators, and forced him to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How School Lunch Became a Battleground]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/magazine/how-school-lunch-became-the-latest-political-battleground.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The lunch ladies loved Marshall Matz. For more than 30 years, he worked the halls and back rooms of Washington for the 55,000 dues-paying members of the School Nutrition Association, the men and still mostly women who run America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s school-lunch programs. They weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Billionaire Dem Sets Eye on Senate Races]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/politics/billionaire-expands-activism-to-senate-races.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist, recently contributed $5 million to a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'super PAC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' dedicated to keeping Democrats in control of the United States Senate, cementing his alliance with the party as the 2014 campaign swings into high gear.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Beat Mitt Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/books/review/the-message-the-reselling-of-president-obama-by-richard-wolffe.html?ref=books</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wolffe, who is the executive editor at msnbc.com, reports that in their effort to win, Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s people became everything they purported to disdain. They obsessed over winning the daily news cycle. They reveled in biting negative ads, battering Mitt Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s business career to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Record Spending by the Obama Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/us/politics/record-spending-by-obamas-camp-shrinks-coffers.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has spent more campaign cash more quickly than any incumbent in recent history, betting that heavy early investments in personnel, field offices and a high-tech campaign infrastructure will propel him to victory in November.Since the beginning of last year, Mr. Obama and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Strategy on Rival's Career Has Pitfalls]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/us/politics/bain-strategy-against-romney-may-have-pitfalls-for-obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, a few dozen hedge fund and investment executives arrived at the Park Avenue home of Hamilton E. James, president of the private equity firm Blackstone. Each had paid $35,800 to spend two hours at a fund-raiser with President Obama, but the timing proved awkward: A few hours...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Turns to Romney]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/us/romney-perry-and-cain-open-wide-financial-lead-over-field.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that the relationship between President Obama and Wall Street has chilled. A striking measure of that is the latest campaign finance reports.Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top sources...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Small Donors Slow to Return to Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/us/politics/small-donors-slow-to-return-to-obama-fold.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They were once among President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most loyal supporters and a potent symbol of his political brand: voters of moderate means who dug deep for the candidate and his message of hope and change, sending him $10 or $25 or $50 every few weeks or months.But in recent months, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enter Rick Perry, Formidable Fundraiser]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/us/politics/13donate.html?_r=1&amp;hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Gov. Rick Perry of Texas arrives in South Carolina on Saturday to begin his presidential campaign, he might claim any number of credentials for the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top office: Creator of jobs. Cutter of taxes. Defender of gun rights.But it is a credential Mr. Perry is unlikely to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Stable of Wealthy Donors Fuel Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/us/politics/17donate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nicholas Confessore</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama recruited roughly 150 new elite donors, raising as much as a half a million dollars each, to help propel him to a large and early lead over his Republican opponents in the race for campaign cash, according to campaign filings released last week.The new fund-raisers,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kennedy is Forceful but Remains Elusive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/28kennedy.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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