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<title><![CDATA[Amy Davidson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20841.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Amy Davidson]]></description><category domain="20841">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Damaged GOP So Badly It May Never Recover]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/donald-trump-roy-moore-and-the-degradation-of-the-gop</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Senate's Disastrous Health-Care Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-senates-disastrous-health-care-bill</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How much of a surprise was the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate&rsquo;s super-secret health-care bill, which Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader, finally revealed last Thursday? There had been intimations, from President Trump, among others, that it would fix some of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jeff Sessions and the Trail of Unanswered Questions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/jeff-sessions-and-the-trail-of-unanswered-questions</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there was an organizing principle in Attorney General Jeff Sessions&rsquo;s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday&mdash;which was by turns dismissive, incoherent, evasive, and shameful&mdash;it was that certain people are owed deference, and certain others are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Only Man in the Room With Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/the-only-man-in-the-room-with-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In asking to not be left alone with the President, James Comey was seeking the opposite of what so many others in Washington seem to want.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Insult of Trump's Paris Climate-Accord Withdrawal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/angela-merkel-and-the-insult-of-trumps-paris-climate-accord-withdrawal</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, at around the time that news outlets were reporting that President Donald Trump had decided to pull America out of the Paris climate accord, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was at the Berlin airport, greeting Premier Li Keqiang, of China. As their national anthems...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At NATO, Trump Again Fails to Lead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/at-nato-headquarters-trump-fails-another-leadership-test</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's world view seems to combine a distaste for Islam with a predilection for monarchs&#195;&#162;??for anyone with a decent palace, really.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Life Post-Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/obamas-life-post-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her campaign was full of confidence after that debate, but Sanders, in an upset, won the Michigan primary, and Clinton went on to lose the state, narrowly, to Trump. Many observers wondered why the candidate hadn&rsquo;t done more polling, or deployed a better field operation, or, at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Global Effort to Flatter Ivanka]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/the-global-effort-to-flatter-ivanka</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The First Daughter wanted voters to know that her father ought to be President, and now she wants the world to understand his greatness, too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Unintelligible Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/donald-trumps-unintelligible-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why are we spending so much time trying to match what Donald J. Trump says to reality? Is it because he is the President of the United States, and could start a war with words? Or because we place some sort of value on the truth, or on the meaning of words? Whatever the source of our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Questions About the Latest WikiLeaks Release]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/five-questions-about-the-latest-wikileaks-release</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-one files that it said were &ldquo;from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA&rsquo;s Center for Cyber Intelligence,&rdquo; in Langley, Virginia. The group called the collection &ldquo;Year...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Shameless Expediency of Trump's Address]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/the-shameless-expediency-of-president-trumps-address-to-congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the first sentence of President Trump&rsquo;s joint address to Congress, on Tuesday night, he noted that it was, at least for a few more hours, Black History Month, which he said was a reminder of the fight for civil rights and &ldquo;the work that still remains to be done.&rdquo; In...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump's Fear-Based Immigration Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/president-trumps-fear-based-immigration-orders</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Is one of the goals here mass deportation?&rdquo; a reporter asked Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, on Tuesday, trying to get some clarification on just how broad the scope of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s executive orders on immigration enforcement might be. Two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did GOP Approve Someone So Shameless as Pruitt?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/scott-pruitt-the-e-p-a-and-the-republicans-bargain-with-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost no one in the G.O.P. seems to question the wisdom of putting a man who doubts the reality of climate change in charge of the agency most associated with efforts to combat it. Why not?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit Rejects Trumpism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/the-ninth-circuit-rejects-trumpism</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nothing becomes Trump so much as a contradiction wrapped in a declaration of national danger and crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit and President Trump's Lies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/the-ninth-circuit-and-president-trumps-lies</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If there was a single question at the center of Tuesday afternoon&rsquo;s hearings on President Trump&rsquo;s executive order keeping people from seven Muslim-majority nations and all refugees out of the country, it was this: Do the courts, or the American people, have any recourse when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Wants Bill O'Reilly, and All of Us, to Forget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/what-trump-wants-bill-oreilly-and-all-of-us-to-forget?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Is there any validity to the criticism of you that you say things you can&rsquo;t back up factually?&rdquo; Bill O&rsquo;Reilly asked President Donald Trump, in a pre-Super Bowl interview in the White House. The President had said, for example, that there were &ldquo;three million...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neil Gorsuch and Justices Past]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/neil-gorsuch-and-justices-past</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were several ghosts present at the ceremony on Tuesday night, in the East Room of the White House, at which President Donald Trump introduced Judge Neil Gorsuch, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, as his nominee for Supreme Court Justice. Some were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama and Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/michelle-obama-and-us</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The reason why I said yes was because I am tired of being afraid,&rdquo; Michelle Obama told a crowd in Council Bluffs, Iowa, during the State Fair, in August of 2007, explaining why she had signed on to a long-shot campaign to elect her husband, Barack Obama, President of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Sanity-Affirming Press Conference]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/barack-obamas-sanity-affirming-press-conference</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I guess part of my over-all message here as I leave for the holidays is that, if we look for one explanation or one silver bullet or one easy fix for our politics, then we&rsquo;re probably going to be disappointed,&rdquo; President Obama said in a press conference on Friday. He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Recount Road to Nowhere]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/another-call-for-a-recount</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jill Stein's choice to file for a recount has not brought out the best in anybody, and in Trump it has brought out the worst.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Concerns of the Trump Transition]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/the-real-concerns-of-the-trump-transition</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Presidential transition can be a disconcerting stretch of time, even in quieter days than these. The transition to the Presidency of Donald J. Trump has at its center a man who has never served in public office, has spoken disdainfully of constitutional norms, and was either too...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[12 Debate Questions Clinton Should Be Ready For]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/twelve-debate-questions-that-hillary-clinton-should-be-ready-for?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is tonight. It comes at a time when the polls are close and there&rsquo;s a sense that almost anything can happen. Given that uncertainty, here are twelve questions that Clinton should be ready to parry, whether from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Extreme Trump, From Mexico to Phoenix]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/extreme-trump-from-mexico-to-phoenix</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I just landed, having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico,&rdquo; Donald Trump told a crowd in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday night, as he began what he promised would be a very important and special policy address on illegal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders's Post-California Choice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/bernie-sanders-post-california</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;You all know it is more than Bernie,&rdquo; Senator Bernie Sanders said late on Tuesday night, in Santa Monica, to thousands of supporters who were shouting his name. It would be unfair to suggest that they didn&rsquo;t know that: for one thing, they cheered even louder when...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary's Bill Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/hillarys-bill-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Donald Trump attacks both Clintons, it&#195;&#162;??s like 1992 all over again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Money-in-Politics Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/clinton-sanders-and-the-money-question</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Bernie&rsquo;s gone. You know that, don&rsquo;t you?&rdquo; Donald Trump asked at a rally in Indianapolis last Wednesday, the day after he had won New York&rsquo;s Republican Presidential primary, and, on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton had beaten Bernie Sanders. &ldquo;I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Leading Demagogues of the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/04/trump-and-cruz-the-demagogues-of-the-g-o-p</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, the morning after ISIS suicide bombers in Brussels killed more than thirty people, Ted Cruz was on &ldquo;Fox &amp; Friends,&rdquo; claiming that &ldquo;the weakness and appeasement&rdquo; of the Obama Administration had fuelled the growth of the Islamic State. It&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton and Sanders Battle for Black Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/clinton-and-sanders-court-black-voters</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March, 1988, Bernie Sanders, the democratic-socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, held a press conference to say that, for the first time, he would be attending his state&rsquo;s Presidential caucus, in order to support the &ldquo;historic&rdquo; candidacy of the Reverend Jesse...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton Feels the Bern]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/radical-measures</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t consider yourself a capitalist?&rdquo; Anderson Cooper, of CNN, asked Senator Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, in October, at the first Democratic Presidential debate. Sanders gave a look suggesting that Cooper had just asked him to put on a black-silk top hat and play...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sexual Violence and Germany's Refugee Debate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/three-demonstrations-in-cologne</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Davidson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, at least three groups of marchers assembled outside the main train station in Cologne, Germany. They had each come to offer their response to the attacks on women who had gathered in that spot a week earlier, to celebrate New Year&rsquo;s Eve. The first march was organized...]]></description>
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