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<title><![CDATA[Daniel DiSalvo - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19940.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Daniel DiSalvo]]></description><category domain="19940">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Destructiveness of Ideological Thinking]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/daniel-j-mahoney-persistence-ideological-lie?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A scholar of European thought offers timely insights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should We End the Two-Party System?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/disputed_questions/should-we-end-the-two-party-system.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is America headed for a second civil war? To judge from recent columns, books, and polls on the topic, we might be. If violence is the alternative to politics, and our democracy is fracturing under the strain of two competing parties, each viewing the other as illegitimate, then maybe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Judgment Day for Public Unions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/judgment-day-public-unions-15646.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What's at stake in the Supreme Court's Janus case]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Michael Madigan Helped Ruin Illinois]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/html/madiganistan-14789.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[n Illinois in late June, the state legislature passed, and the governor signed, a makeshift budget to fund essential state operations for six months. The deal came after the state had gone a year and a half without a budget. The impasse resulted from an ongoing battle between Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Public Sector Unions Divide the Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/29/how-public-sector-unions-divide-the-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paying for all those pensions inevitably means less money for parks and schools. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a conundrum Democrats can no longer ignore.In the wake of the midterm elections, the Democratic Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s centrist and populist factions have been locked in a bitter family feud. Public employee...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Revealing New History of Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/17/book-review-the-revolt-against-the-masses/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American liberalism has long been a source of fascination, especially for liberals themselves. Because its history has been the subject of countless books, one might think that there is little left to say on the subject. Yet Fred Siegel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rich new history of liberalism, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Detroit and the American Urban Future]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/manhattan-moment-detroit-and-the-american-urban-future/article/2534356</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since Detroit declared bankruptcy two weeks ago, the question on many people's lips has been, who's next? Chicago? New York? Los Angeles?The reality is that it is unlikely that America's biggest cities will declare bankruptcy in the immediate future. But that doesn't mean that there...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unfunded: The State &amp; Local Pension Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/bc0226dd.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Prior to the Great Recession, only actuaries, finance types, politicians, and a few policy wonks got into heated arguments about pensions for state and local government workers. No longer. The economic downturn sent funding ratios'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the proportion of assets to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Unions Bring Back Tammany Hall]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/04/manhattan-moment-public-sector-unions-bring-back-tammany-hall/533921?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2004/26/2012&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[James Madison believed that constitutional government was a matter of balance. As he put it: "You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." Today, few people worry about government's ability to control the governed. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Unions: Storm Clouds Ahead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ib_13.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ohio'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent referendum (Issue 2) overturning Governor John Kasich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s signature law that eliminated collective bargaining with unions representing state workers is the latest in a series of heated battles between governors and public-employee unions in a host of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Union Fight Isn't Over in Wisconsin]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/05/why-bureaucrat-unions-are-so-hard-beat</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin's public employee unions evened the score with Gov. Scott Walker last week.Based on the claim that Republican legislators  violated the Badger State's open meeting laws, a county judge struck  down restrictions on collective bargaining, elimination of the state's  collection of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Populist Wave]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/17/riding_the_populist_wave_108269.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's agreement to extend the "Bush tax cuts for the wealthy" needs to be seen through the lens of contemporary populism.  Populism divides the world between a small number of oppressors and a much larger number of the oppressed.  The two parties have distinct populist...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Must Confront Public Unions]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-trouble-with-public-sector-unions</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Daniel DiSalvo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Chris Christie became New Jersey's governor in January, he wasted no time in identifying the chief perpetrators of his state's fiscal catastrophe. Facing a nearly $11 billion budget gap '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' as well as voters fed up with the sky-high taxes imposed on them to finance the state...]]></description>
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