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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Use Bullying Tactics to Defend Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2019/12/10/faced-evidence-against-trump-gop-lashes-back-bullying-tactics/4383160002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rekha Basu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As House Democrats offer strong evidence that Trump tried to bribe Ukraine's president for personal gain, House Republicans resort to bullying tactics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Grassley Put Politics First in Kavanaugh Hearings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2019/09/17/grassley-put-politics-above-regard-women-kavanaugh-hearing/2350417001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rekha Basu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Judiciary Committee chair, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley should have had the FBI complete its investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame Misogyny, Not Illegal Immigration for Tibbetts' Death]]></title>
							<link>https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/08/23/mollie-tibbetts-murder-iowa-student-body-found-immigration-immigrant-illegal-misogyny-women-safety/1064768002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rekha Basu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We know she had gone out for an evening jog. We know he followed her. And we know from history that that simple activity, which enhances women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strength and independence, can also make them vulnerable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Muslim Kid's Arrest Shows Ongoing Bias]]></title>
							<link>http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/caucus/2015/09/19/muslim-kids-arrest-clock-shows-ongoing-bias/72411188/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rekha Basu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So it has come to this. A 14-year-old kid in Irving, Texas, makes a clock and brings it to school to show his engineering teacher. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s probably thinking he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll get encouragement, maybe extra credit. Instead he gets jail. Why? Because the alarm '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it even has an alarm!...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Divided Democratic Party Is Healthy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/caucus/2015/05/14/democratic-party-left-trade-fast-track-sanders-warren/27346651/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Rekha Basu</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every election cycle, the tension between moderate and evangelical conservative voters in the Republican Party becomes the subject of hand-wringing speculation: Can a moderate who might end up president win the Iowa Republican caucuses, where evangelicals dominate? Should they even try?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Change Must Come Sincerity]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Rekha Basu</author>
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