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<title><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20257.xml</link><description><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne]]></description><category domain="20257">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bill Barr and the Art of the Smokescreen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/17/bill_barr_and_the_art_of_the_smokescreen_139199.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Warning lights should have been flashing early on during William Barr's confirmation hearings on Tuesday. But our nation's political class is so eager to think that an establishment figure would never capitulate to President Trump that the moment went by with barely a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In the Kavanaugh Fight, Politics Is Not the Most Important Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/27/in_the_kavanaugh_fight_politics_is_not_the_most_important_thing_138183.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who says politicians think only about the next election? In the battle over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the outcome each party respectively wants may hurt them in November's elections.
But the stakes are so high that neither side can afford to focus on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Let Politics Dumb You Down]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/13/dont_let_politics_dumb_you_down_137784.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- In the era of President Trump, politics is reduced to a fatuous, debilitating spectacle. We screech, we weep, we laugh bitterly. We don't seem to think much.
Yet there is an underground. I speak not of some political resistance movement but of quiet, intellectually serious...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Listening to History's Echoes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/09/listening_to_historys_echoes_137759.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- How do democratic countries get to the point where they give up on self-rule? Under what circumstances do demagogues capture large audiences through irrational, emotional appeals unmoored from fact, logic or morality? When do politicians responsible for maintaining a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Isn't Fighting the Bots]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/02/why_trump_isnt_fighting_the_bots_137693.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Here is the issue raised by Facebook's revelations this week about disinformation that we need to face squarely: The political interests of the president of the United States coincide with the purposes of foreign forces using social media to divide us along the lines of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Resilient Christianity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/rediscovering_the_true_calling.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Are we witnessing this Easter season the decline of Christianity in America, or is this rather a moment of reform and renewal, a time when the deterioration that has been under way is arrested?     The death and resurrection of religion, if not of Jesus Christ, has been a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Praise of Nancy Pelosi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/pelosis_balancing_act.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- "I give Republicans credit for this: They vote the way they believe. ... I think that they vote with more integrity than they get credit for."     That review of Republican motivations and commitments comes not courtesy of a partisan blog but from Nancy Pelosi, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care's Year (Really)]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/health_cares_year_really.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Yes, this is the year Congress will finally give every American access to health insurance.      Getting there won't be pretty. But for the first time since the passage of Medicare in the 1960s, the forces favoring action on health care reform are stronger than the forces...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Enigma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/the_obama_enigma_1.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The great mystery of the Obama administration's economic agenda is whether its signature marriage of boldness and caution will prove to be a Goldilocks recipe that gets things just right, or a Rube Goldberg approach of unimaginable complexity and uncertain purpose.    ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hybrid in the Making]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/a_hybrid_in_the_making.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Just a few weeks ago, the vogue was to declare that "we are all socialists now," and to speak of how capitalist theory and practice were being toppled by an economic catastrophe that proved how profoundly flawed the old system was.     There is something to this, especially...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Anyone Admit That Taxes Have to Rise?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/the_real_deficit_truth.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The debate on the budget is phony, the howling on deficits a charade. Few politicians want to acknowledge that if you really are concerned about long-term deficits, you have to support tax increases.     That's why the most significant moment of President Obama's news...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama vs. the Dodgers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/fighting_the_politics_of_evasi.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- President Obama's biggest task at his Tuesday news conference will not be to defend Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner or to push aside the administration's bungling of the AIG bonus imbroglio. It will be to challenge Washington's habit of evading substantive issues by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Populism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/in_defense_of_populism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Conservatives have argued for decades that the sins most dangerous to our society were rooted in lust when in fact the most damaging transgressions involved greed.     We are at the beginning of a great popular rebellion against those who showed no self-restraint when it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coming Together on Service]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/at_your_service.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Every politician speaks glowingly about service to country, but few see national service as an important political issue. The temptation is to dismiss service proposals made by someone in the other political party as trivial or part of some hidden agenda.      When the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crisis Makes Americans Open to Gov't]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/is_pragmatism_pragmatic.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Maybe pragmatism isn't enough after all.     President Obama regularly speaks disdainfully of "ideology," says he is focused only on "what works," and loves to be described as "pragmatic."     Well, sure. No one ever admits to being an ideologue, and as historian Arthur...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Must Be Bold]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/no_choice_but_not_to_fear.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama faces three overlapping questions: When will middle-of-the-road voters start blaming him for the sick economy? When will he act decisively to deal with the mess that is our banking system? And can he keep managing his political two-step of appealing simultaneously to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cultural Peacemaker?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/cultural_peacemaker.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Will ending the culture wars be as difficult as repairing a broken economy?     If President Obama's primary task is to restore economic growth, he has also been waging a quiet, long-term campaign to ease the nation's divisions around religious and moral questions.     That...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Want a More Equal Society?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/are_we_interested_in_equal_pay.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Our political system adjusts badly when the familiar landmarks erected during controversies of the past are swept away and prepackaged arguments become obsolete.     Starting with this week's congressional budget hearings, it will be imperative to recognize the extent to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama is Rebuilding American Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/obama_is_rebuilding_american_l.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- President Obama's message to the nation Tuesday night was plain and unequivocal: The era of bashing government is over. So, too, is the folklore of a marketplace capable of producing abundance without regulation, government oversight or public intervention. Addressing the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's FDR Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/outsider_appeal_key_to.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AKRON, Ohio -- When President Obama addresses the nation on Tuesday, he should not be distracted by Washington's obsessions over partisanship and ideology. He needs, above all, to speak to the country's raw fear.     In our battered industrial heartland, there is also a strong sentiment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Easy Way to Solve the Auto Mess]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/no_easy_way_to_solve_the_auto.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It was a terrible omen: At the end of November, just as the American car industry was hitting a wall, my dear Saturn was totaled, around midnight, in front of my house.     Fortunately, no one was hurt. But it was the end of my 15-year relationship with "a different kind of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Eye of the Storm]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/obama_knows_the_tough_work_is.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Barack Obama senses that he's in the middle of a hurricane whose gale-force winds could blow history his way.     He doesn't mind acknowledging that he is learning as he goes along, and he is not bitter about how little help he is getting from Republicans. But he will never...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lost in the Middle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/centrism_should_work.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration keeps having to learn that bland centrism is not pragmatic, it's not helpful in resolving a big crisis, and it certainly doesn't buy you any love.     Oddly, this week's good news for the president -- in Wednesday's agreement on a stimulus package...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fighting Conciliator]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/the_two_sides_of_obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- It took less than three weeks for the real Barack Obama to come into view. He turns out to be both a conciliator and a fighter.     These are not contradictions in his character. They represent different sides of a politician who sees some issues as more susceptible to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Losing Stimulus Fight to Defeated GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/obama_losing_stimulus_fight_to.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The irony of President Barack Obama's Blue Tuesday is that the wall-to-wall television interviews he granted were designed not to apologize for Tom Daschle's fall from grace but to fight back against the Republicans' success in tarnishing his stimulus package.      Obama's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not Worth Compromising for GOP Votes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/how_much_will_obama_sacrifice.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The coming week will test the strength of President Obama and the Democrats: Will they lose their nerve, or will they face down a rapidly forming conventional wisdom that will allow them to claim "victory" only if their economic stimulus package passes with substantial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leave the Debate to Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/with_gop_irrelevant_dems_debat.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- President Obama's visit with House and Senate Republicans this week was useful for setting a new tone and a refreshing break from the Bush administration's habit of consulting almost no one. But it was a sideshow to the main battle over how to improve the economy, which is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ready-for-Disaster Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/the_gops_strategy_hopes_for_ob.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Beneath the warm pledges of bipartisanship and the earnest calls for cooperation in the midst of a grave crisis lurks an unpleasant fact: From the moment it loses power, the opposition party turns immediately to the task of getting it back.      Party politics has not been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Aims to Overturn the Reagan Revolution, Quietly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/obamas_target_extreme_individu.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama intends to use conservative values for progressive ends. He will cast extreme individualism as an infantile approach to politics that must be supplanted by a more adult sense of personal and collective responsibility. He will honor government's role...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Uniter Divided Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/bush_the_divider_obama_the_uni.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>E. J. Dionne</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- For many of us, the end of George W. Bush's presidency could not come quickly enough. But as power changes hands peacefully, the result of a decisive democratic verdict, the most important question is: What can our new president learn from the one heading back to Texas?    ...]]></description>
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