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<title><![CDATA[Bill McKibben - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19523.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></description><category domain="19523">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Can Progressive Mayors Redeem Democratic Party?]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/nkXNq</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the only candidate challenging the status quo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and having fun doing it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can Run the World Without Fossil Fuels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/we-can-run-the-world-without-fossil-fuels/ar-AA1DU9E4</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boston is an inspiring place to be in the face of the wannabe authoritarianism of Trump 2.0. Particularly in the older parts of the city, one comes across sign after sign to remind you that this is where Americans rose up 250 years ago to reject the very idea of rule by a king in favor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's a Climate Election Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/its-a-climate-election-now</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's reported billion-dollar offer to fossil-fuel executives shows that this is the key year to save the planet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden's Age Is His Superpower]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-age-matters-which-is-why-bidens-age-is-his-superpower/ar-BB1i1C5e</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden is old. Like each of us, he comes from a particular place in history, in his case the LBJ years. And that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s one big reason why his first term has been so full of accomplishment: His age, often cited as the greatest obstacle to his reelection, is actually his superpower.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biden Administration's Next Big Climate Decision]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-biden-administrations-next-big-climate-decision</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The liquefied-natural-gas buildout'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and fossil-fuel exports'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'challenge progress on global warming.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Save the Planet, Should We Be Moving Slower?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes once observed that dating from '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'say, to two thousand years before Christ'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'down to the beginning of the 18th century, there was no very great change in the standard of life of the average man living in the civilised centres of the earth. Ups and downs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes in Our Backyards: The Green Building Boom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/04/yimby-nimby-progressives-clean-energy-infrastructure-housing-development-wind-solar-bill-mckibben/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m an environmentalist, which means I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got some practice in saying no. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what we do: John Muir saying no to the destruction of Yosemite helped kick off environmentalism; Rachel Carson said no to DDT; the Sierra Club said no to the damming of the Grand Canyon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/from-climate-exhortation-to-climate-execution</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Inflation Reduction Act finally offers a chance for widespread change.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Old, We're Progressive and We Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-were-old-were-100051647.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP has been flailing a little in recent weeks, as an election once expected to be a typical midterm blowout has tightened considerably. If the GOP expects that older voters will bail them out as in elections past, our advice is, think again.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Looks Set To Pass Historic Climate Legislation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/congress-looks-set-to-finally-pass-historic-climate-legislation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bill, now supported by Joe Manchin,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reflects the growing strength of the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' environmental'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' movement, but also the lingering'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' influence'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of the fossil-fuel industry.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Punts on Serious Climate Legislation Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/for-the-third-time-in-three-decades-congress-punts-on-serious-climate-legislation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Manchin tanks Congress's big chance to cut the heat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happens in Vermont Shouldn't Stay in Vermont]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/vermont-congress-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'especially now'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is not noted for its graciousness. But last week something happened in Vermont that deserves notice, if only because the example it sets could help other progressives in other places consolidate power.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Autocracies and Fossil Fuels Go Hand in Hand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/mckibben-democracy-climate-change/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The extraction of hydrocarbons tends to support despotism, whereas sun and wind are much closer to being democratic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Have the Technology To Rapidly Ditch Fossil Fuels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The truth is new and counterintuitive: we have the technology necessary to rapidly ditch fossil fuels.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Year in Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/XVRejw</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A summer that really scared scientists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trust Is Hard to Find at U.N. Climate Summit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trust-is-hard-to-find-at-the-un-climate-summit-in-glasgow</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Young activists are right to doubt the pledges of governments, financial firms, and the fossil-fuel industry.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2 Big Reasons to Feel Optimistic About Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/15/climate-crisis-cop26-bill-mckibben</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One is the astonishing fall in the cost of renewable energy. The other is the huge growth in the citizens' movements demanding action, says academic and climate campaigner Bill McKibben]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Climate Week Again, But the Calendar Is Running Out]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/yXaDEa</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Climate Week in New York City, an event that, as it has every autumn since 2009, features a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' series'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of speeches, awards, presentations, and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' protests'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that coincide roughly with the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m glad that it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s happening,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Earth Day Climate Pledge Will Define Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/M3qdtf</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Meeting the goal of halving greenhouse-gas emissions means that every action between now and then will have to be weighed against it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Are No Borders in a Climate Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/there-are-no-borders-in-a-climate-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Greenhouse gases will still sail right across even the biggest, most beautiful wall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There Anything Funny About the Climate Crisis?]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/zvhjMT</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Norfolk, Virginia, is one of seven cities in the region known as Hampton Roads, which is among the metropolitan areas most vulnerable to coastal flooding in the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Landmark Day in the Fight for the Climate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-biden-administrations-landmark-day-in-the-fight-for-the-climate</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The newly announced actions may well mark the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel era.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden and the Possibility of a Remarkable Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/qPKh56</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s really nothing in Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s character or his record to suggest that he would be anything more than a sound, capable, regular President, which would obviously be both a great advance and a relief.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Now or Never to Avert Climate Change Catastrophe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/20/climate-crisis-its-now-or-never-to-avert-catastrophe</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Disastrous global heating will soon become irrevocable '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' but despite politicians' inaction millions are taking to the streets to fight the planet's fever]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Climate Crisis Made CA Too Dangerous to Live In?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/29/has-the-climate-crisis-made-california-too-dangerous-to-live-in</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As with so many things, Californians are going first where the rest of us will follow]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2050: How Earth Survived the Worst of Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/5669022/climate-change-2050/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://time.com/5669022/climate-change-2050/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s imagine for a moment that we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve reached the middle of the century. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2050, and we have a moment to reflect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the climate fight remains the consuming battle of our age, but its most intense phase may be in our rearview mirror. And so we can look back to see how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Future Without Fossil Fuels?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/04/future-without-fossil-fuels/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At what point does a new technology cause an existing industry to start losing significant value? This may turn out to be the most important economic and political question of the first half of this century, and the answer might tell us much about our chances of getting through the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Beto for Real? Ask Him About Natural Gas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-to-tell-if-beto-orourke-is-for-real-a-green-new-deal-and-natural-gas</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one is calling for immediately shutting down natural-gas-fired power plants, but if you're for a Green New Deal, you probably should make clear that you're against building new plants and the pipelines that feed them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Key to Winning Victories Against Big Oil? Perseverance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/30/the-key-to-winning-victories-against-big-oil-perseverance</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vermont'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Middlebury College has reversed its course on fossil fuel companies and is leading the way on renewable energy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal a Stroke of Policy Genius]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-ocasio-cortezs-climate-genius-stroke-20190110-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill McKibben</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Call her Ocasio-Cortex; where it matters, she seems to understand issues at a deeper level than most pols.]]></description>
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