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<title><![CDATA[Monica Potts - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20273.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Monica Potts]]></description><category domain="20273">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Term Working Class Is Useless]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/215525/working-class-useless-term-polls-pundits</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Too many political analysts and pollsters are relying on education to define the working class, and it's leading us to the wrong conclusions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maine's New Senate Candidates Sound a Lot Like Platner]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maine-s-new-senate-candidates-sound-a-lot-like-graham-platner/ar-AA288Swc</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever distinctions may exist between the eight candidates to replace Graham Platner as Maine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic nominee for the Senate, they weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t on display in the first and likely only debate on Thursday night.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're in a Wage Crisis Too]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/we-re-in-a-wage-crisis-too/ar-AA282zR0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not just an affordability crisis. While inflation has been a national story for years and President Trump's sporadic tariffs and war against Iran have only made matters worse, there's another big stress on household budgets: Wages aren't keeping up with rising costs. Advocates and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Moved to New York To Pay More Taxes--and I'm Glad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-moved-to-new-york-to-pay-more-in-taxes-and-i-m-glad-i-did/ar-AA25sRMo</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s WelcomeFest, Matt Yglesias, the longtime blogger turned centrist Substacker, moderated a panel with two Democratic members of Congress from big blue states'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Tom Suozzi, who represents part of Long Island, New York, and Adam Gray, who hails from California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Minneapolis Is Making Social Media More Political]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/minneapolis-making-social-media-more-110000124.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Taylor, an Iowa-based artist, had been sharing political posts and information on social media long before January 7, when they posted about ICE agents shooting Renee Good in Minneapolis. They mainly use their social media accounts to sell mugs and support their small business, and after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Only Has 'Concepts of a Plan' for Health Reform]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-still-only-has-concepts-of-a-plan-for-health-care-reform/ar-AA1UmFjA</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just 17 GOP members of the House of Representatives joined Democrats last week in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' passing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a three-year extension of the enhanced subsidies, and negotiations on the bill have'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' stalled'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the Senate. And on Thursday, President Donald Trump pretended to take action by'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' unveiling'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Look for a Villain: The Groups or the Billionaires]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-look-for-a-new-villain-the-groups-or-the-billionaires/ar-AA1N3wbg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even as authoritarianism rages on, thinkers, writers, and strategists on the left have turned their eyes to the next presidential election. How can Democrats win back the House, maybe even the Senate, and hopefully the presidency?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fight To Ban Abortion Rooted in 'Great Replacement' Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-fight-to-ban-abortion-is-rooted-in-the-great-replacement-theory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It may not be immediately obvious how the fight over abortion rights is tied to the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'great replacement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' theory'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the debunked conspiracy theory'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' promoted by some Republican politicians'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' who claim that Democrats support more immigration to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'replace'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' white...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Northam's Cluelessness Is About Southern Whiteness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/ralph-northams-cluelessness-isnt-just-about-him-its-about-southern-whiteness-going-back-generations?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Virginia governor obviously hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t come close to processing his own experience with race. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d be nice to say this makes him unusual in the South.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Behavior Is Bad for Women, Even If Some Don't Mind It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/18/donald-trumps-boorish-behavior-is-bad-for-all-women-even-if-some-dont-mind-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the New York Times detailed Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s misogynistic treatment of numerous women.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The push-back was immediate.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defenders got a boost Monday from Rowanne Brewer Lane, whose story about meeting Trump at a pool party at his Palm Beach, Fla., resort was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 30-Year Conservative Lie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/08/the-big-long-30-year-conservative-lie.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First came Occupy Wall Street, and its pitch-perfect slogan on inequality: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We are the 99 percent.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' After that movement fizzled, Thomas Piketty, the handsomely ruffled French professor, released a 685-page book explaining that we really were living in a new Gilded Age in which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's New Image: Cool Grandma]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/hillary-clintons-new-image-cool-grandma-can-she-maintain-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her attitude'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'unabashedly feminist, casually in charge'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'was captured most effectively toward the end of her stint as secretary of state. Can she keep it as a candidate?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Killing Poor White Women?]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/whats-killing-poor-white-women</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Collapse of Black Wealth]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/rising-tide-2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Joe Parker was a young, newly married public-school administrator who wanted to buy a home in 1974, he didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t even think about leaving Prince George'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s County, Maryland. It was where he and his parents had grown up. But when Parker first tried to bid on a house in a new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Education of Elizabeth Warren]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/political-education-elizabeth-warren</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supporters of the Massachusetts Democrat thought she had a lock on Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat. But the campaign has proved that's far from true.In early October 2011, Shannon Sherman, a pregnant nurse who was two weeks from her due date, met Elizabeth Warren, though she didn't know it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Government Does Better Than You]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/five-things-government-does-better-you-do</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan and other hard-line conservatives talk about cutting the government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s budget, their primary rationale is that individuals can make better decisions with their own money than the government can. As Ryan himself said to an audience at Georgetown...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Farm Bill on Life Support as Drought Worsens]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/farm-bill-life-support-drought-worsens</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Login or RegisterDonate        Monica Potts  July 31, 2012This month, the House agriculture committee finished its work on the farm bill"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'a massive piece of legislation that sets policy on everything from government subsidies to food stamps. Even though the Senate had passed its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calculating BP's Liability]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=calculating_bps_liability</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010. (Flickr/U.S. Coast Guard)The figure most frequently discussed in the news is $75 million -- the cap on BP's liability under a 1990 law passed after the Exxon Valdez disaster...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Federal Wages Really 'Lavish'?]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=how_much_should_a_government_employee_make</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Monica Potts</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Wethersfield, Connecticut, Department of Motor Vehicles. (AP Photo/Bob Child)The obsession with government-employee pay is surfacing at the state and city levels as well. Colorado Springs is cutting services in the face of mounting budget deficits. Tax increases can only be approved...]]></description>
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