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<title><![CDATA[Jane Mayer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17485.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer]]></description><category domain="17485">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth's Secret History]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump's nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Retiring Democrat Shedding Tears Over the Future]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Kentucky representative John Yarmuth fears for the country's democratic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and Democratic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'future, but expresses some hope for President Biden's legislative agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Democrats Nail Trump?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On February 22nd, in an office in White Plains, two lawyers handed over a hard drive to a Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, who, along with two investigators, had driven up from New York City in a heavy snowstorm. Although the exchange didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t look momentous, it set in motion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Feinstein's Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Older lawmakers' foibles and infirmities are coming under new scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and coverup.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/why-trump-cant-afford-to-lose</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could Covid Stop Barrett's Supreme Court Confirmation?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ten days ago, Amy Coney Barrett'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s path to the Supreme Court seemed almost as rosy as the famous White House garden in which President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' nominated her. Senate Majority Leader'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Mitch McConnell'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' seemed sure that he had the votes necessary to get her confirmed,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For McConnell, Keeping Senate Majority Matters Most]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/for-mitch-mcconnell-keeping-his-senate-majority-matters-more-than-the-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faced with choosing between another right-wing Justice and losing his control of the Senate, no one who knows the Majority Leader well thinks he'd hesitate to do whatever is necessary to stay in power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Mitch McConnell Became Trump's Enabler-in-Chief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate Majority Leader's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden &amp; Ukraine]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For nearly two years, conservative operatives have been trying to weaponize the Ukraine-based story that has led Trump to the brink of impeachment. A look back over the coverage of the story'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a repeatedly discredited conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revisiting the Case of Al Franken]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A close look at the accusations against the former senator.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Making of the Fox News White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Kobach's Defeat in KS a Model for How to Beat Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-kris-kobachs-defeat-in-kansas-a-model-for-how-to-beat-trumpism</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his gubernatorial run, in Kansas, Kris Kobach seemed to be trying to be more Trumpian than Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against Kavanaugh]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-sexual-misconduct-allegation-against-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-stirs-tension-among-democrats-in-congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Senate Democrats disclosed that they had referred a complaint regarding President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the F.B.I. for investigation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump vs. Koch Is a Custody Battle Over Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-vs-koch-is-a-custody-battle-over-congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Charles Koch'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political-fundraising network has grown into a private political machine that arguably rivals, and by some estimates overpowers, the Republican Party itself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[4 Women Accuse NY Attorney General of Abuse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Trip to Las Vegas Adds Intrigue to Steele Dossier]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-trump-trip-to-las-vegas-adds-intrigue-to-the-steele-dossier</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the allegations about Donald Trump contained in the ex-British spy Christopher Steele'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s infamous '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dossier,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the most notorious remains a secondhand report that Trump consorted with prostitutes in 2013 while staying in the Presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Christopher Steele Compiled the Sordid Trump Dossier]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top-stories</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In January, after a long day at his London office, Christopher Steele, the former spy turned private investigator, was stepping off a commuter train in Farnham, where he lives, when one of his two phones rang. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d been looking forward to dinner at home with his wife, and perhaps a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Paris Withdrawal, the Kochs' Campaign Becomes Overt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/in-the-withdrawal-from-the-paris-climate-agreement-the-koch-brothers-campaign-becomes-overt</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump Administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord is, perhaps, the most astounding example of influence-buying in modern American political history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Money Man]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month, when President Donald Trump toured a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, he saw a familiar face in the crowd that greeted him: Patrick Caddell, a former Democratic political operative and pollster who, for forty-five years, has been prodding insurgent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, American Oligarch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-american-oligarch</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' summer, when Donald Trump dumped his campaign manager Paul Manafort in the midst of revelations about Manfort'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' financial ties to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Russian oligarchs, Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, wrote that the real problem wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s big news: Donald J. Trump had declared his candidacy for President. As Schwartz watched a video of the speech, he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James O'Keefe Accidentally Stings Himself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A failed attack on George Soros is part of a new era of secretly funded political hit jobs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the End of Big-Money Politics?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-this-the-end-of-big-money-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Has the power of big money in politics suddenly shrunk? There are many reasons to think so. Despite having spent surprisingly little on his Presidential campaign, and running in opposition to the Republican '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'lite, Donald Trump is now the undisputed G.O.P. front-runner, after picking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unidentified Queen of Torture]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/unidentified-queen-torture</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the past eight months, there has been a furious battle raging behind closed doors at the White House, the C.I.A., and in Congress. The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a means of identifying characters in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Torture and the Truth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/torture-truth</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to describe it as a positive development when a branch of the federal government releases a four-hundred-and-ninety-nine-page report that explains, in meticulous detail, how unthinkable cruelty became official U.S. policy. But last Tuesday, in releasing the long-awaited...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan's Benghazi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/05/ronald-reagans-benghazi.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late Saturday night, at the Vanity Fair party celebrating the White House Correspondents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Association Dinner, Darrell Issa, the Republican congressman from San Diego, California, was chatting amiably with Governor Chris Christie, of New Jersey, leaning in to swap gossip and looking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With Metadata]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/06/verizon-nsa-metadata-surveillance-problem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from liberal Northern California and the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, assured the public earlier today that the government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s secret snooping into the phone records of Americans was perfectly fine, because the information it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Charles Murray's Gay Marriage Surprise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/03/charles-murrays-gay-marriage-surprise.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political scientist Charles Murray has never backed away from controversy, but usually his opponents have been liberals. Friday, however, he managed to upset conservatives at the annual conference known as CPAC, where thousands of bewildered Republicans gathered to figure out the way...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Petraeus Puzzle: Were Politics Involved?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/david-petraeus-paula-broadwell-were-politics-involved.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The director of the C.I.A. has resigned over an extra-marital affair two days after a Presidential election in which the Agency'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s role in Libya was of burning concern'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'what is really going on here?There seem to be some potentially fascinating political aspects of this story that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens: Supernova]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/12/hitch.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jane Mayer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens was a supernova in Washington. Amidst the dreary, self-editing power-seekers, he was a wild and beautiful boy, out to seduce, provoke, and dazzle. The thirty or so years that we were friends are studded with indelible memories. Here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just one that can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be...]]></description>
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