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<title><![CDATA[Ana Marie Cox - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17468.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ana Marie Cox]]></description><category domain="17468">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Path to a Texas Breakthrough]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/09/16/oct-2026-a-path-to-a-texas-breakthrough/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[James Talarico is deploying his Christian faith in his bid for the Senate. But he's winning because Texans have been pummeled by inflation and corruption.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Texas Senate Primary Win Is Going To Backfire]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/IO7fQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While MAGA candidate Ken Paxton's win isn't an assured victory for Democrats, he'll at least embroil the GOP in a nightmare of its own making.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Key to Minneapolis&rsquo;s Successful ICE Resistance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/key-minneapolis-successful-ice-resistance-110000500.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t let the made-for-Fox News spectacle of the Minnesota Occupation distract you. The most important lesson the rest of us can learn from that state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wide and deeply spread resistance is that Minnesotans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' solidarity didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just spring up when Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s goons...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Protesters Embraced the Good Kind of Weird]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-kings-embraced-good-kind-100000052.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unicorns are supposed to be rare and mythical. But at Saturday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s No Kings protests I saw the largest outbreak in America outside a Lisa Frank store. They were everywhere, but I was surprised to see almost a dozen of them down in New Braunfels, Texas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas Is Dry Run for GOP&rsquo;s Dismantling of Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-dry-run-gop-dismantling-165846716.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Texas Democrats fled the state to protest a redistricting map drawn at Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s request'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a map designed to all but shut Democrats out of congressional power'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'I spent the day at a public hearing where the only people left to debate the map were the Republicans who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deadly Floods Showed Texans&rsquo; Heroism &amp; Their Failed Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-floods-revealed-texans-heroism-235220583.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Texas novelist Billy Lee Brammer once described the rivers and creeks of the Hill Country around Austin as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'running deep like old wounds, boiling round the fractures.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This past weekend, those wounds opened. As of this writing, the catastrophic floods have claimed 95 lives,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Any Democrats Still Defending Biden?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/08/ana_marie_cox_democrats_arent_doing_themselves_any_favors_by_defending_biden_theyre_looking_to_the_past.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political commentator and podcast host Ana Marie Cox tells NewsNation's 'On Balance' that Democrats "aren't doing themselves any favors" by defending Biden.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Have Much To Learn From MAGA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/liberals-much-learn-maga-110000360.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have striven to set themselves apart from the movement that put Trump in office. Maybe they should imitate it instead.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Only Need To Make One Argument for Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/opinions/florida-abortion-vote-biden-trump-cox/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To win in November, President Joe Biden and other Democrats must seize upon and never let up on abortion rights as their most important policy focus. Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' historical reticence to give a full-throated and explicit defense of abortion rights or to take advantage of congressional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Haley Ride Iowa's Midwinter Madness to the Nomination?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/178034/nikki-haley-iowa-caucus-nomination</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite his lead, Trump isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a lock to win the caucuses. What does a competitive nominating race mean for the rest of us?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Strange, Pathetic New Humility of Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fox-news-interview-2024-pivot-rcna90479</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's pantomiming the same old manic exaggerations and empty boasts, but if you listen closely, you'll hear the whisper of a deflating air bag.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis Is Overrated]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/171102/ron-desantis-media-trump-2024</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pundits who are so bullish about his prospects of beating Trump are stubbornly refusing to learn the lessons of the past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Doesn't Fear a DOJ Indictment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-response-jan-6-committee-referral-shows-indictment-help-rcna62615</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To prosecute him for his role in Jan. 6 would just fill the widening gyre of his ex-presidential ego.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Simone Biles Just Proved Why She's the GOAT]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/simone-biles-withdraws-olympics-team-final-after-vault-miss-proving-ncna1275205</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It takes more strength to throw off enormous expectations than it takes to live up to them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Night Among the Trump Believers Way Up North]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/donald-trump-duluth-rally-w521806</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Wednesday night rally in Duluth proved the more things change, the more they stay the same]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Count Nancy Pelosi Out in 2018]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-cox-pelsoi-20180325-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pelosi remains the most competent wrangler of Congressional votes on either side of the aisle or the Capitol dome.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ben Carson Thinks You're the Crazy One]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/08/ben-carson-thinks-you-re-the-crazy-one.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the gifts that Ben Carson has given comedy writers and Twitter wags in the past weeks, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s his stubborn belief that the Biblical prophet Joseph built the pyramids that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s captured the public'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s imagination the most. Self-serious pundits, meanwhile, bemoan this spasm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Cruz Be the Last Wingnut Standing?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/20/will-ted-cruz-be-the-last-wingnut-standing.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/20/will-ted-cruz-be-the-last-wingnut-standing.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s beginning to look like Ted Cruz will be the last wingnut left standing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' True, his path to the nomination depends on the collapse of both Ben Carson and Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'eventualities once thought as certain as Bernie Sanders staying on the fringe and Jeb Bush gliding to a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fiorina Lies Like a Boss]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/29/car-lying-carly-fiorina-lies-like-a-boss.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Central Intelligence Agency has some tips for spotting liars. Unfortunately, most of them also sound like stage directions for a GOP primary candidate: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Failing to answer.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Attacking.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Denial.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Even, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Bringing up religion.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' One particular...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary vs. The World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/29/hillary-vs-the-world.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/29/hillary-vs-the-world.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There aren't going to be a lot of "Minnesota nice" jokes coming out of this weekend's Democratic National Committee meeting here in the Twin Cities.Sure, speakers did obligatory eye-pops at the promise of state fair food, made Garrison Keillor references, and sang Paul Wellstone praises....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gross-Out Politics of Abortion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/17/the-gross-out-politics-of-abortion.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/17/the-gross-out-politics-of-abortion.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The primary driver behind the views of and discussion about the Center for Medical Progress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Planned Parenthood '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' video is disgust, something akin to the morbid fascination that drives people to Jackass'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s violent antics or clinical acne extractions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How 'Public Servant' Hastert Got His Riches]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/30/how-public-servant-hastert-got-his-riches.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/30/how-public-servant-hastert-got-his-riches.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's clear that the indictment of Dennis Hastert has raised more questions than it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s provided answers. But I suspect a lot of people are asking the wrong ones. Hastert's 'misconduct' may turn out to be of sexually predatory nature, in which case talk of how much his reputation is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Glenn Beck: Free the Weed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/25/glenn-beck-free-the-weed.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/25/glenn-beck-free-the-weed.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gone to pot. On Thursday, he devoted his entire radio show to the question of drug legalization. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d been dropping hints for weeks that the abuse of police power was pushing him toward endorsement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary's Endless Reintroduction Tour]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/16/hillary-s-endless-reintroduction-tour.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/16/hillary-s-endless-reintroduction-tour.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The biggest problem with the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' premiere video'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' out of Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Brooklyn campaign headquarters isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the video itself.Yes, Clinton is benignly stiff; yes, the people-on-the-street interactions are credulously gushy and earnest. This is a defiantly non-hipster version...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marco Rubio, Gen-X Fraud]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/19/marco-rubio-gen-x-fraud.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/19/marco-rubio-gen-x-fraud.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans With Daddy Issues]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/12/indoctrination-at-the-dinner-table-rand-paul-and-ted-cruz-have-serious-daddy-issues.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The articles have already started to appear: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s crazier? Ted Cruz'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Jesus-huffing father vs Rand Paul'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gold-shilling doomsday dad?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Americans are already familiar with Ron Paul'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wild ideas and chin-stroking over his cost-benefit to Rand has been a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Coming Out as a Christian]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/why-i-m-coming-out-as-a-christian.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Inevitably Is Not a Problem]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And how exactly is it a bad thing for her or Democrats that Hillary Clinton has the nomination all but sewn up? News flash: It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not.Pundits can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t stop snatching Hillary's defeat from the jaws of victory, insisting that her commanding lead in the polls is itself a problem. A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Franken's Race Can Teach Other Dems]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite a snippy debate Sunday, the senator'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s run a staid campaign'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t distanced himself from Obama. The pundits may be bored, but he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s winning a state the GOP hoped to pick up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Better Get-Out-the-Vote Plan for Dems]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ana Marie Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three. That is the number of times Israel has fought Hamas since 2007, when the terror group seized control of the Gaza Strip. There was Operation Cast Lead in 2008, Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, and now Operation Protective Edge in 2014. In all three cases the story has been the...]]></description>
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