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<title><![CDATA[Shadi Hamid - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22146.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Shadi Hamid]]></description><category domain="22146">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why People Stopped Having Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/02/smartphones-isolation-are-driving-global-fertility-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fertility crisis is also a religion crisis.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Right About DC Crime - But Still Dangerously Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/Oam68</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When something big and potentially frightening happens in American politics, I have a ritual of waiting. First, I decide not to read or listen to anyone else'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s opinion on the topic, at least not right away. I try to sit with the news for a couple of hours, avoiding any rush to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sometimes, Consensus Can Be Ruinous]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/sometimes-consensus-can-be-ruinous/ar-AA18MPzc</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. invasion of Iraq was the most consequential political event of the past two decades. But it doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t feel that way. It has the faint whiff of youthful indiscretion, an episode that many Americans would rather forget. I was 19. The tenor of that time in American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Should Not Be Tempted by China's COVID Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/americans-should-not-be-tempted-by-china-s-covid-policies/ar-AA159iZ2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Authoritarian competence might seem appealing for a time. But the costs are too high.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem for Trump&rsquo;s Intellectual Heirs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-problem-for-trump-s-intellectual-heirs/ar-AA11VUaE?ocid=EMMX&amp;cvid=ca4c18a67183451490d58100b4fac476</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump will be remembered as one of the most consequential presidents in American history. On a political level, he attempted to overturn an election'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'an unusual enterprise for a president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and popularized the idea that democratic outcomes can be rejected outright if you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Refusing To Admit Crime Problem Won't Make It Go Away]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-liberals-who-wont-acknowledge-the-crime-problem/ar-AAYHawV</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Refusing to admit the gravity of the problem won't make it go away.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race-Based Rationing Is Real--and Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/race-based-rationing-is-real%E2%80%94and-dangerous/ar-AATiati</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stock market has plummeted, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in household wealth in the span of weeks. War in Ukraine is a distinct possibility and not merely a worst-case scenario.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Forever Culture War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/republicans-democrats-forever-culture-war/621184/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Republicans lurch leftward on economics and reposition themselves as the protectors of the working class, every dispute becomes a matter of identity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to the detriment of American politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Politics Replacing Religion in America?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-without-god/ar-BB1erDSI</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States had long been a holdout among Western democracies, uniquely and perhaps even suspiciously devout. From 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about 70 percent. Then something happened.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Have Lost Sight of What Fascism Means]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/americans-have-lost-sight-what-fascism-means/616846/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans who brand Trump and his allies as fascists are paying too little attention to abuses in Hong Kong and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats May Not Be Able to Concede If Trump Wins]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/democrats-may-not-be-able-concede/616321/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Trump wins, especially after losing the popular vote, the left may draw the wrong conclusions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Evidence of China's Coverup a Matter of Public Record]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/china-is-avoiding-blame-by-trolling-the-world/ar-BB11pEWL?li=AAggNb9</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beijing is successfully avoiding culpability for its role in spreading the coronavirus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Made Socialism Great Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trump-made-socialism-great-again/567245/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president has disrupted democratic complacency, and that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good thing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left-Wing Infatuation With Taking Offense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/bari-weiss-immigrants/553550/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Center-Left Became Immoderate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-center-left-became-immoderate-1518479151</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democracy dies when one side loses respect for electoral outcomes and comes to consider the other illegitimate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Jerusalem Move Won't Really Hurt U.S.-Arab Alliances]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/jerusalem-israel-trump/547610/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most Arab countries won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t care much about Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital, which might seem counterintuitive. The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' official announcement, though, comes at an important and peculiar time, when Arab regimes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'particularly Saudi Arabia, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Your Alarmism Over Trump Is Dangerous for Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-your-alarmism-over-trump-is-dangerous-for-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We live in an era of alarmism. Everyone, or at least Trump opponents, seems alarmed nearly all the time. Even when we can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t quite summon the energy, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re expected to be outraged. Our outrage is then presented as a badge of honor, evidence of virtue at a time of historic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Much Can One Strongman Change a Country?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/erdogan-turkey-islamist/531609/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politicians'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'especially ideological ones'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'have to eventually deal with the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'then what?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' question. With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s narrow victory in a tense April referendum granting him sweeping new powers (amid opposition allegations of voter fraud),...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the End of History]]></title>
							<link>http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/15/the-end-of-the-end-of-history/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has restored American politics to its default setting '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? a fight over identity, morality, and religion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does ISIS Really Have Nothing to Do With Islam?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/11/18/does-isis-really-have-nothing-to-do-with-islam-islamic-apologetics-carry-serious-risks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every time the Islamic State commits yet another attack or atrocity, Muslims, particularly Western Muslims, shudder. Attacks like the ones in Paris mean another round of demands that Muslims condemn the acts, as if we should presume guilt, or perhaps some indirect taint.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The impulse to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Syria Policy Makes No Sense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/18/obamas_syria_policy_makes_no_sense_118856.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's decision to arm Syrian rebels -- after resisting such a course for nearly two years -- has come under some withering criticism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Marc Lynch, who has long opposed military intervention in Syria, calls it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' "probably his worst foreign policy decision since taking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Give Up on Arab Spring Yet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/12/dont_give_up_on_the_arab_spring</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cruel irony of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens's death will not be lost on Americans. If it wasn't for President Barack Obama's decision, however belated and reluctant, to intervene in Libya, the brutal dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi would very likely still be in power...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arab Spring Shakes Up the Persian Gulf]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/from-the-arab-spring-comes-a-more-unified-gcc</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the Gulf countries, the ongoing Arab spring has meant a difficult  period of adjustment. In recent weeks, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE  have grown increasingly assertive in the foreign policy arena,  developing muscular responses to regional unrest.Qatar has long charted an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moral Imperative to Intervene]]></title>
							<link>http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2011/03/libya-the-us-and-moral-imperative-to-intervene-militarily.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Finally, after much "dithering" - which seems to be the consensus word choice for Obama's sputtering Mideast policy - the US has finally suggested that it can, sometimes, do the right thing, even if it does it three weeks later (I looked back to see when I had written my Slate article...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Islamist Dilemma]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Shadi Hamid</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's  promise on Tuesday that he will not stand for reelection in September  was too little, too late. The Egyptian regime is fatally wounded, with  protesters demanding nothing less than a complete break with the past.  Mubarak may not relinquish power...]]></description>
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