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<title><![CDATA[Garance Franke-Ruta - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20211.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Garance Franke-Ruta]]></description><category domain="20211">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Americans in Need Will Save Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/americans-in-need-will-save-obamacare-from-itself/280683/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much of the debate about the Obamacare rollout has centered on whether or not its early troubles will turn people off the idea that government can do big things well. But people do not turn to government programs because they believe in them. They turn to them because they need them, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Republicans Fix Woman Problem?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/can-the-gop-fix-its-woman-problem/278736/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you knew nothing else about the Republican Party, two days at the Republican National Committee's Summer Meeting would convince you that it's a party taking its recovery seriously, having bottomed out with embarrassing polling and technological failures in the fall of 2012, along with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Do You Solve a Problem Like Bob Filner?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-bob-filner/278675/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party of San Diego needs better lawyers. Or rather, it should have used the lawyers it has.In 2011, at least three women warned the head of the San Diego County Democratic Party of stories in the community about then-Rep. Bob Filner making inappropriate advances toward...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The &quot;Fixation&quot; With Obamacare Repeal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/obama-on-the-ideological-fixation-at-the-heart-of-the-congressional-gop/278557/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Perry, Mansplainer in Chief]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/rick-perry-mansplainer-in-chief/277308/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oh Rick Perry, how we've missed you.The Texas governor who drew national attention for his "oops" moment during the last GOP presidential primary has been thrust back into the national spotlight, thanks to the 11-hour filibuster of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis. And so has his awkward...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Scandals Aren't That Big of a Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/why-the-clinton-scandals-were-a-bigger-deal-than-the-obama-ones/276105/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama visited the Jersey Shore Tuesday, where Gov. Chris Christie presented him with a stuffed bear at an arcade and the two declared the shore open for business after seven months of post-Hurricane Sandy repairs. It played as a nice respite for the president after a couple of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New York City's TMI Primary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/weiner-vs-quinn-new-york-citys-tmi-primary/275886/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New Yorkers -- they all have such interesting lives. This year, some of those lives are going to be on extraordinary display in the political arena.Between newly announced mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's extra-marital sexting and the impending June 11 release of City Council Speaker...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Don't Care About Gosnell]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/americans-arent-really-paying-attention-to-the-gosnell-case/275756/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite conservative outcry over the extent of coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell (the physician charged in the death of one adult and four infants at his Philadelphia abortion clinic) and a subsequent spike in coverage of the dangerous and dirty conditions at his now-shuttered...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Big Cities Make Media Liberal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/why-big-cities-make-media-liberal-and-why-the-koch-brothers-cant-do-anything-about-it/275170/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Koch brothers -- yes, those Koch brothers, of dumping mad cash into elections fame -- are considering buying the Tribune network of newspapers in a bid to establish a pro-business conservative media chain.I say, good luck with that.There...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could Gosnell Have Been Stopped Sooner?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/kermit-gosnell-and-the-anti-abortion-movements-intelligence-failure/275011/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a March piece for the Huffington Post, Kate Michelman, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Carol E. Tracy, the executive director of the Women's Law Project, wrote that one reason that poor minority women went to Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors was that they were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Gay '90s: Forgive &amp; Forget?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/how-america-got-past-the-anti-gay-politics-of-the-90s/266976/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nineteen ninety-eight was a watershed year in the battle for gay rights in America -- in a bad way. Bill Clinton had in 1997 nominated James C. Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg. But his nomination as the first openly gay U.S. ambassador stalled the following summer. Hormel, born during...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's &quot;Best-Looking&quot; Gaffe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/why-obamas-best-looking-attorney-general-comment-was-a-gaffe/274701/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Harvey: &quot;So God Made a Farmer&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/paul-harveys-1978-so-god-made-a-farmer-speech/272816/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she won the 2007 Hillman Prize awarded to its group blog, "Tapped." In 2006,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Campaign Changed the Electorate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/kevin-madden-credits-the-obama-campaign-for-changing-the-electorate/265221/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Garance Franke-Ruta			
			 -  Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Politics Channel.
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	She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Snippy Obama, Whose Heart's Not in It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/snippy-obama-whose-hearts-not-in-it/263229/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the most tweeted about political event of the year, and for once the insider tweets matched the television insta-polls: Mitt Romney was the decisive victor in the first presidential debate of this most contested and close of elections.It was not so much that Romney was great,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Palin's Cheat-Sheet Steals Show]]></title>
							<link>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/sarah-palins-palm-cheat-sheet.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Garance Franke-Ruta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville on Feb. 6, 2010. (Ed Reinke/Associated Press)Updated 2:37 p.m.
Has there been a more talked about stolen glance since George H.W. Bush looked at his wristwatch during a...]]></description>
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