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							<title><![CDATA[Angus King's Warning About the Dangers of Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64304404/independent-senator-angus-king-maine-warning-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Angus King of Maine is desperate to wake people up to the fact that President Trump is putting our Constitution in the wood chipper.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Coming for Griswold, Obergefell, Lawrence, Loving]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39891780/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-samuel-alito-draft-opinion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politico says it has obtained a draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito striking down Roe v. Wade. It certainly looks like his work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Is a Party Man. But a Progressive Party?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31668812/democratic-debate-joe-biden-progressive-push/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic frontrunner's career has spanned the party's run to the center. Will he follow the new energy on its left flank?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is What Happens When Democrats Lack Imagination]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31085468/joe-biden-campaign-democrats-retreads/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party loves its retreads, even if retreads don't win.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Today's Republican Party Must Be Torn Down, Destroyed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25692550/trump-climate-damage-republican-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our new environmental reality was not inevitable. It is, in many cases, the result of public policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget Williamson's Firing. The Free Press Is in Actual Peril.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19705583/kevin-williamson-the-atlantic-free-press/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I suppose I should have something to say about the whole Kevin Williamson business, but it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard for me to see it as anything more than what has happened to too many better people you never heard of. Ever since the American media became corporatized, the deadening culture of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sam Nunberg Starts Talking. You Know Who's Listening.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19122431/sam-nunberg-robert-mueller/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[ICE Conduct Shows This Is a Crueler Country Than It Was 20 Years Ago]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a18813120/ice-arrests/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Won't Let These Idiots Ruin the Olympics for Me]]></title>
							<link>https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a17236435/i-wont-let-these-idiots-ruin-the-olympics-for-me/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Mishandling Classified Info Was a Cardinal Sin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a16868848/trump-white-house-classified-info-clearances/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now it's standard procedure in the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Obama to Join the Resistance Full Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12816114/obama-america-not-real-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is time for Barack Obama to join the Trump Resistance full-time.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Is Time for Donald Trump to Leave the White House]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a55514/end-of-trump-presidency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The government cannot pass any stress test with this president'&#'.ord('*').';' in office.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Candidacy Is a Threat to American Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a46695/donald-trump-candidacy-american-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A while back, we here at the shebeen decided that Donald J. Trump's act was no longer funny. That he no longer was a goofy guy with three wives and a ferret on his head, a freak candidate who devoured an incredible passel of unpopular lightweights on his way to a freak nomination. That...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Clintons Can't Create Their Own History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a43902/clinton-crime-bill-criminal-justice/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since we're going to be arguing about it for a while, let us stipulate that when Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime and Control Act in 1994 he did not single-handedly launch the destructive effects of mass incarceration and racial disparity in our legal system. What he did was put a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders and the Depressing Reality of Populism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42341/bernie-sanders-populism-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republicans had moved their circus on, and now it was the turn of the two Democratic candidates to woo the voters here in the home office of American sedition. Bernie Sanders was the first on the ground, fresh off a narrow loss in the chaotic Nevada caucuses, a state he nonetheless...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton &amp; Giffords Politicized the Hell Out of Gun Violence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a41678/hillary-clinton-guns-iowa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And more than a few in the audience teared up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren Is the Teacher]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/elizabeth-warren-teacher-0514?click=promo</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best teachers are the ones who remain students at heart, the ones who keep learning from their students, and from the world around them, and from their own drive to know even more about even more things, and who then are able to transmit that knowledge'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and more important, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Open Hunting Season on Blacks, Punks in Florida]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_End_Of_The_Daily_Trayvon</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some night very soon, if he so chooses, George Zimmerman can load his piece, tuck it into the back of his pants, climb into his SUV, and drive around Sanford, Florida looking for assholes and fucking punks who are walking through neighborhoods where he, George Zimmerman, defender of law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just Wait, the Clinton Haters Will Be Back Soon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-opinion-0613?click=pp</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If I had to choose, I'd say the most singularly honest moment in Hillary Clinton's singular political career was that moment on the Today show of January 27, 1998, when she suggested that "the great story here, for anybody willing to find it, and write about it, and explain it, is this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rot of Citizens United Is Universal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/citizens-united-local-elections-9479327</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a capital mistake to study the corrosive effect of the utterly corrupt Citizens United decision only in the context of the presidential contest, or in the context of other highly visible individual races, like the one for a U.S. Senate seat or last night's Wisconsin recall. The rot...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wright &amp; Race-Baiting: The GOP Goes There]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/defeat-of-barack-hussein-obama-8922338</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there is a more tiresome phrase in the modern political lexicon than the one that cautions people "not to go there," I know not what it is. I have been watching the rise of movement conservatism, and the resultant radicalization of the Republican party, for going on 30 years now, all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Must Stop the Completely Demented GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/republican-party-0512?click=pp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the course of revisiting my Catholic theology over the past few weeks, probably as a corrective to having spent several months hanging around the Republican presidential nominating process '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' which, this year, is rather like walking through an abattoir in a Speedo and flip-flops...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Love-Hate Relationship With Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/02/07/our_love_hate_relationship_with_taxes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard not to wonder about them, as they drive north to New Hampshire, blinded by plasma screens and home furnishings. As we are all painfully aware, Massachusetts -- '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Taxachusetts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to political consultants and other public people on the dodge -- raised its sales tax to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, President of a Deranged Nation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.esquire.com/features/obama-crazy-0709</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Pierce</author>
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