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<title><![CDATA[Lydia DePillis - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19390.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Lydia DePillis]]></description><category domain="19390">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What China's Economic Woes May Mean for the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/china-economic-woes-may-mean-151413427.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news about China's economy over the past few weeks has been daunting, to put it mildly. The country's growth has fallen from its usual brisk 8% annual pace to more like 3%. Real estate companies are imploding after a decade of overbuilding. And China's citizens, frustrated by lengthy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Just the Facts for J. Russell George]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113254/irs-inspector-general-j-russell-george-explains-limits-his-job</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you've tried and failed to avoid taxes over the past decade or so, blame J. Russell George. President George W. Bush nominated him as the Treasury inspector general for tax administration in 2004, just six years after President Bill Clinton created the position. Every year, his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Internet Sales Tax Will Not Destroy Your Freedom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113014/marketplace-fairness-act-2013-internet-sales-tax-not-about-freedom</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[f there's one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days, it's that the Internet ought to be free. Both parties included an "internet freedom" plank in their 2012 platforms. Just last week, a House committee passed another resolution to head off international control of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Close Tech Industry's Gender Gap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112784/tech-industry-gender-gap-closing-it-starts-classroom</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every week, it seems, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s another gender-related dustup in the technology world. The leader of a hacker movement quits over misogyny. A person in charge of recruiting Web developers is fired after publicly calling out sexual comments at a conference. Silicon Valley gets outed,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt Just Likes Playing Diplomat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111792/eric-schmidt-north-korea-google</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No corporate executive's movements are tracked with as much rumor and fanfare as those of Google chairman Eric Schmidt. When he travels, it carries the import of a state visit; commentators scrutinize his intentions, and how world leaders will react. Such was the case with Schmidt's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Can't Afford to Ignore Cities Anymore]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/110074/the-gop-can%E2%80%99t-afford-ignore-cities-anymore</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a week of election postmortems, one thing is clear: Mitt Romney'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s failure to understand America'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s changing demographics led to his undoing. But there was another killer: Geography. Deep blue cities and their inner suburbs came out for Barack Obama, pulling the president through...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Can Fix Voting Lines]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109919/obama-doesnt-need-tech-wizardry-fix-voting</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During his acceptance speech early Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama promised that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fix'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the absurdly long lines we saw at polling places in states like Ohio, Virginia, and Florida'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'up to seven hours, in some cases. As they are wont to do, tech evangelists...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Isn't Serious About Rural Broadband]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106602/why-republicans-arent-serious-about-getting-rural-areas-online</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Spectrum policy isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the most incendiary or outlandish of the planks in the now-public Republican platform. But for pure disingenuousness, it ranks pretty near the top.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' To put this as simply as possible: The U.S. is running out of the airwaves that transmit TV, radio, and phone...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scenes From the Great American Scream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/tead</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lydia DePillis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, September 12, America threw a gigantic temper tantrum in Washington D.C. Organizers called it the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'largest gathering of fiscal conservatives in history,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re probably right. But for an angry, anti-government fit, the march was remarkably civil. They...]]></description>
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