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<title><![CDATA[Eric Felten - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21491.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Eric Felten]]></description><category domain="21491">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[New Hampshire Still Wants To Be First]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/11/new_hampshire_still_wants_to_be_first_149610.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MANCHESTER, N.H.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'New Hampshire has long punched above its weight. The 10th smallest state '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the 2020 Census counted its population as less than Hawaii'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' it continues to have an outsized effect on American politics. Every four years the state hosts the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Strange Death of Warren G. Harding]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/02/the_strange_death_of_warren_g_harding_149542.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was 100 years ago today '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' August 2, 1923 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' when President Warren G. Harding suddenly died. He was in San Francisco, on the tail end of a cross-country promotional tour that had taken him as far as Alaska. It would have been an exhausting trip even for a younger man without a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and Attorney-Client Privilege]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/28/trump_and_attorney-client_privilege_149416.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Curious complications come up when the attorney-client privilege is breached. When Donald Trump was arraigned in Florida on federal charges, a condition of the former president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bail was that he not discuss the case with anyone who might be a witness. But did that mean Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Durham Report Finds FBI Failures, No Russian Collusion With Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/17/durham_report_finds_fbi_failures_no_russian_collusion_with_trump_149240.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The report from Special Counsel John Durham found that the FBI raced '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' in spite of an absence of evidence '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' to investigate allegations Donald Trump was in cahoots with Russia. By contrast, when the bureau found evidence that a Russian who was working at the Brookings...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Long Shots Part 2: Why Do They Do It?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/15/longshots_part_2_why_do_they_do_it_149227.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a very old joke, says Michael Genovese, author of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Modern Presidency'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';':'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Every morning, Senators wake up, look in the mirror and see a President.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Politics attracts people of ambition who have large egos and who believe that they have special...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Long Shots Part 1: You Gotta Have a Gimmick]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/14/long_shots_part_1_you_gotta_have_a_gimmick_149226.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faith Dane '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' or just plain '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Faith,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the moniker she legally adopted late in life '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' was a candidate as relentless as she was unlikely. Noisy too. A perennial hopeful to be mayor of Washington, D.C., Faith was a regular participant in the Fourth of July parade in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Takeaways From CNN Town Hall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/05/11/takeaways_from_trumps_cnn_townhall_investigating_bidens_family_business_and_the_popes_dilemma_in_china.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Eric Felten join Andrew Walworth to discuss the political repercussions of Donald Trump's appearance on CNN. Also, the latest chapter in House Republicans' continuing investigation into the Biden family's business activities, and the Vatican's efforts to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Confronting China's War on Religion Part IV: The Catholic Church]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/11/confronting_chinas_war_on_religion_part_iv_the_catholic_church.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thanksgiving Day, 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, a Hong Kong priest, was convicted, along with five others, of failing to register a defunct charitable organization that tried to help pro-democracy demonstrators targeted by the regime.
Ostensibly, the charges stemmed from the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jan. 6 Rioters Fight To Await Trial at Home]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/04/06/jan_6_rioters_fight_to_await_trial_at_home_149075.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the government had had its way, Eric Munchel and his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, would already have been in jail for two years. Arrested in February 2021 for participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, they finally are scheduled to go on trial next week in the Washington courtroom of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tensions Rise in Virginia Schools Over Racial Issues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/07/tensions_rise_in_virginia_schools_over_racial_issues.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In January 2022, on his first day in office, Virginia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, showed race antagonists the schoolhouse door. During the campaign, Youngkin had promised voters he would end what he called the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Inherently Divisive Policies, Programs, Training, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tim Scott Heads to Iowa]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/22/tim_scott_heads_to_iowa_148894.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an open question whether the Iowa Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' abysmal job of counting votes in recent caucuses has cost the state the honor of going first in the presidential nominating process, but Sen. Tim Scott is scheduled to kick off a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'listening tour'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' at Drake University in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Indictment of Charles McGonigal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/26/the_indictment_of_charles_mcgonigal_148780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One evening in May 2017, Charles '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Charlie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' McGonigal was about to take the stage to give a talk to the Foreign Policy Association when he learned that less than four months into his presidency, Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey.
At the time, McGonigal was one of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Battle for Speaker of the House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/04/the_battle_for_speaker_of_the_house_148682.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House adjourned Tuesday afternoon after'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' three tries at electing a new speaker of the House. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I still think McCarthy has the upper hand and will squeak through in a day or two, because the House can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do what the right really want to do without the House being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Tech Look Ahead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/27/big_tech_look_ahead_148648.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A fortnight ago, political handicappers expected that if any legislation passed regulating Big Tech before the end of the 117th Congress, it would likely be safety and privacy language designed to protect minors. Supporters of the Children and Teens'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Online Privacy Protection Act,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whose Montpelier Is It Anyway?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/06/whose_montpelier_is_it_anyway_148563.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a bright autumn day at Montpelier, the Virginia home of James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution. A guide had led a troop of tourists from the visitors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' center to the mansion, using the architecture and furnishings of James and Dolley Madison'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s home as metaphors...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abortion and the 2022 Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/18/abortion_and_the_2022_elections_148492.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Across the ideological spectrum, there was agreement on abortion and the elections.
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Support for abortion rights now appears to be one of the big reasons Democrats defied history and staved off deep midterm losses,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' stated the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal declared...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smack Dab in the Middle: On the Evenly Divided Electorate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/10/27/smack_dab_in_the_middle_on_the_evenly_divided_electorate_148376.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our politics may be bitterly divided, but the electorate is also narrowly divided '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' remarkably and consistently so. The last two decades have seen extraordinary changes in society, politics, culture, technology, demographics, and more. Yet for all that, neither of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Comedic Showdown in the Keystone State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/27/a_comedic_showdown_in_the_keystone_state_148243.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a dead serious election that may determine which party controls the Senate come 2023, the contest in Pennsylvania between hulking Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and slender celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz has its share of comic relief.
Some of it is self-aware: Walking into a Philadelphia rec...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DOJ Internal Misconduct Shrouded in Veil of Secrecy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/18/doj_internal_misconduct_shrouded_in_veil_of_secrecy_148200.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz was busy this week, releasing three separate reports on Monday alone. Each detailed misconduct by a different assistant United States attorney: One finds a federal lawyer trying to use his position to avoid a drunk driving charge;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cloudy With a Chance of Fraud: Federal Weatherization's Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/08/30/cloudy_with_a_chance_of_porkballs_federal_weatherizations_back_850334.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alarm bells are sounding at the Department of Energy as the Biden administration has moved to triple the budget for the Weatherization Assistance Program, which provides low-income applicants with free home and apartment renovations, such as insulation, duct-sealing, new heating systems,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[E-Car Drivers' Privacy Faces a Jolt From Mileage Taxes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/08/02/electric_car_drivers_why_you_might_not_be_pumped_over_privacy-jolting_mileage_taxes_845286.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The environmental impact of electric cars may still be unknown, but leaders are growing concerned about the threat they pose to the financing of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s highway system. Because freeways and bridges are funded, in large part, through federal and state taxes on gasoline and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's 'Whole of Government' Climate Spending Spree]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/07/06/president_bidens_whole_of_government_climate_spending_extravaganza_840460.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just two years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts made only one grant to an art project that promised to address the issue of climate change, awarding $25,000 to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to commission work informed by "research on the Earth's dissolving...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despite Rising Crime, DC at Forefront of Push for Leniency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/05/11/despite_rising_crime_nations_capital_is_at_forefront_of_cities_pushing_leniency_829949.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Above, 2020 George Floyd unrest in Washington, D.C., which treated the mass lawlessness with kid gloves. Now more leniency lies ahead in a new criminal code, not just for rioting but sex with minors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If 'Blue Shift' to Dems Late in Elections Is Legal?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/24/what_if_the_fishy_big_blue_shift_to_democrats_late_in_elections_is_legal_822661.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To question the legitimacy and fairness of recent U.S. elections is to be attacked as a probable '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Russian asset'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' out to undermine democracy or, at best, a kook. But many voters notice something strange happening. Scholars who study elections have noticed a peculiar trend...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thomas Schelling&rsquo;s MAD MAD World]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Russian invasion of Ukraine has politicians and policymakers talking about something that would have been almost unimaginable as recently as a month ago: the specter that a ground war in Eastern Europe could escalate into a nuclear conflict. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fame &amp; Fraud of Newly Knighted Alzheimer's Scientist]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/02/08/famed_alzheimers_researcher_john_hardy_is_a_knight__but_not_in_shining_armor_813737.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The celebrated Alzheimer's Disease researcher John Hardy was among the British doctors and medical researchers honored by Queen Elizabeth II with knighthoods at the dawn of the new year.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Fights Fannie/Freddie Battle From Outside the WH]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/30/trump_fights_fanniefreddie_battle_from_outside_the_wh_146802.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One battle born of the 2008 financial crisis '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' is still being fought by the mortgage giants'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' private shareholders. Former President Donald Trump waded into the fray this month, making the case that if the law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Rogue Juror, Opioid Plaintiffs Face New Setback Most Foul]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/11/18/latest_opioid_trial_augurs_reversals_most_frequent_804088.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[High-stakes lawsuits accusing drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies of stoking the national opioid scourge have suffered two major recent setbacks, and now it looks like plaintiffs could be headed f]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Durham Twists: FBI Danchenko Audio, Perjury Suspicions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/11/09/new_twists_in_durham_probe_fbi_danchenko_recordings_and_suspicions_fiona_hill_lied_802878.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The indictment of Igor Danchenko, the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'primary sub-source'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of Christopher Steele'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s infamous dossier, reveals that the FBI electronically recorded several previously undisclosed interviews with the Brookings Institution researcher. Separately, it raises suspicions,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now Playing to Your Left: America's 'Paranoid Style']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/11/09/now_playing_to_your_left_americas_paranoid_style_801367.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Felten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These are anxious times. Peril stalks the nation. Focused on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the left warns that the institutions of government are under assault by shadowy, treasonous forces. Not that it necessarily matters: As environmental activists assure us, imminent cataclysm...]]></description>
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