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<title><![CDATA[Ben McGrath - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20141.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ben McGrath]]></description><category domain="20141">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The NFL: A Beleaguered League]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/beleaguered-league</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben McGrath</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For several years now, sports fans of a certain cast of mind have been declaring their intention to quit watching professional football, on moral grounds. What cast of mind is this? A rare or, perhaps, hypocritical one, to judge by the numbers, which show ever-higher TV ratings for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fallout at the New York Times]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2014/05/26/140526ta_talk_mcgrath</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben McGrath</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Max Frankel, the former executive editor of the Times, once said of his old boss&#194;&#146;s son, the future publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., &#194;&#147;He&#194;&#146;ll never make the same mistake three times.&#194;&#148; Depending on who&#194;&#146;s counting, that may or may not spell good news for Dean Baquet, the paper&#194;&#146;s new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kobe Bryant's Trayvon Martin Controversy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2014/04/whom-does-kobe-bryant-represent.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ben McGrath</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had no particular expectation of controversy when I asked Kobe Bryant about the Miami Heat players&rsquo; Twitter activism in the wake of Trayvon Martin&rsquo;s death, posing in hoodies as a protest against racial profiling. It was, if anything, a so-called softball question, meant to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Among the Tea Partiers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben McGrath</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My first immersion in the social movement that helped take Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Massachusetts Senate seat away from the Democrats, and may have derailed the President&#8217;s chief domestic initiative, occurred last fall, in Burlington, Kentucky, at a Take Back America rally. My escort...]]></description>
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