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<title><![CDATA[Paul Glastris - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23416.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Paul Glastris]]></description><category domain="23416">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Different Kind of College Ranking]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/30/a-different-kind-of-college-ranking-5/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you stop grading by snob appeal, the truly excellent ones shine. Plus, our new ranking of the best colleges for rural America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S.-Led World Order Is Only Mostly Dead]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/04/why-the-u-s-led-liberal-world-order-is-only-mostly-dead/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite warnings of collapse, the U.S.-led international order still offers allies a better deal than any realistic alternative.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roots of Trump's One Good Education Reform]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/01/the-bipartisan-roots-of-trumps-one-good-education-reform/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An unheralded provision in the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'big beautiful'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' tax act creates a beachhead for quality control in higher education that both parties have worked towards for three-quarters of a century. Will it survive?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let the Affordability Bidding War Begin]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/03/affordability-bidding-war-democrats-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Trump falters, Democrats have a chance to outbid him with bolder solutions on prices, power, groceries, and health care.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democrats Can Play Offense]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/02/editors-note-november-december-issue-how-the-democrats-can-go-on-offense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[f you think that elections are won by vibes, not vision, the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, out today, is not for you.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Berea: The Little College That Could]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/27/berea-the-little-college-that-could/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Berea College: no tuition and minimal debt have made this small Kentucky school #1 in the Washington Monthly's 2025 College Rankings.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rules To Win By]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/01/rules-to-win-by/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats can reap a windfall if they can connect policies to language that speaks to the working class's hunger for economic liberty.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/17/the-meager-agenda-of-abundance-liberals/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What the Abundance Liberals and the Democratic Party's most buzzed-about policy movement get right'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering Kevin Drum]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/11/remembering-kevin-drum/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague, who died this month, was not only a pioneer blogger but also a journalist who should have won the Pulitzer Prize.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/05/the-democrats-next-agenda/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This package of essays is not an exercise in political messaging. It is an effort to provide the policy scaffolding of a new liberalism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Will Biden Pass the Baton at the DNC?]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/08/16/how-will-biden-pass-the-baton-at-the-democratic-convention/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How Will Biden Pass the Baton at the Democratic Convention? I helped write Bill Clinton's 2000 convention speech for Al Gore. Here's how the president can make his ode to Harris sing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Economic Headwinds]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/16/joe-bidens-economic-headwinds/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking at Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s negative job approval ratings, especially on the economy, brings to mind a metaphor. Imagine a cross-country airline flight. The skies are clear during most of the trip, but then the weather turns rough. The plane starts pitching to and fro.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Give 'Em Hell, Joe]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/give-em-hell-joe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden has been compared, and has compared himself, to FDR. But the real similarity is to Harry S. Truman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Vote-by-Mail Switcheroo]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/the-vote-by-mail-switcheroo/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to imagine, given the right wing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s freak-out about vote by mail, but when the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Washington Monthly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' first championed the idea a decade ago, the biggest pushback we got was from the left. Democratic operatives assumed that mailing every registered voter a ballot would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Best and Worst Colleges for Vocational Certificates]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/08/28/2022-college-guide-americas-best-and-worst-colleges-for-vocational-certificates/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Finally, a ranking of the programs where millions of Americans seek job skills.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debate Over: Vote by Mail Boosts Turnout]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/08/23/debate-over-vote-by-mail-boosts-turnout/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The results from this year's primaries, combined with recent studies, show that voting from home drives up participation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and could affect the midterms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Regulations Make Us Free]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/regulations-make-us-free/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years ago, in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' U.S. News &amp; World Report, I wrote this:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The mildly dangerous tradition of setting off firecrackers on the Fourth of July thrives across America, despite well-meaning efforts to stamp it out. This week, local news outlets will no doubt feature horrifying...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Joe Biden Should Say]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/what-joe-biden-should-say/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A transcript of President Joe Biden's 2022 State of the Union address'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if he'd let me write it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Memo to AOC: Only You Can Save the Government]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2021/memo-to-aoc-only-you-can-fix-the-federal-government/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a way to stop privatization of the civil service and help working Americans. Here's how.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Needs Bigger Ideas. But First He Has to Win]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/biden-needs-bigger-smarter-ideas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden enters the final two months of the 2020 campaign about as well positioned ideologically as any Democratic presidential nominee in decades. Over the summer he and Bernie Sanders negotiated a set of policy positions in which the former vice president moved to the left on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Not to Screw Up the Coming Vote-by-Mail Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/04/04/how-not-to-screw-up-the-coming-vote-by-mail-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An interview with voting expert Amber McReynolds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Save Our Democracy, Dems Need to Win Big]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/winning-is-not-enough/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are focused on taking back power'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but our democracy depends on them keeping it. To do that, they have to start thinking differently.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voter Registration Won't Save the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2018/voter-registration-wont-save-the-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Freedom Riders risked their lives to register black voters in the South, increasing voter registration has been an abiding liberal cause. The first great victory was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which eliminated blatantly racist barriers such as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' poll taxes and literacy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recapturing the Soul of the Democratic Party]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchaprilmay-2017/charles-peters-on-recapturing-the-soul-of-the-democratic-party/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal elites are less civic-minded than they once were. What happened?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Press Turning Clinton Foundation Into the New Benghazi]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/09/02/how-the-press-is-making-the-clinton-foundation-into-the-new-benghazi/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The media won't take no for an answer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race, History &amp; Obama's Second Term]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january_february_2013/features/introduction_race_history_and042044.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2011, under siege from both the left and the right for his efforts to broker a budget deal to avoid a debt default, Barack Obama defended his leadership with a telling historical analogy. He noted that the Emancipation Proclamation, a copy of which hangs on his Oval...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How We Could Blow the Energy Boom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_11/how_we_could_blow_the_energy_b041136.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Get our FREE Newsletters delivered straight to your inbox.By Paul GlastrisTropical Storm Sandy left hundreds of thousands of people without power for days longer than necessary for a simple, frustrating reason: America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s power grid is old, decrepit, poorly maintained, and vulnerable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Incomplete Greatness of Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/march_april_2012/features/the_incomplete_greatness_of_ba035754.php?page=1#</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In mid-January, pollsters for the Washington Post and ABC News asked a representative sampling of Americans the following question: '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Obama has been president for about three years. Would you say he has accomplished a great deal during that time, a good amount, not very much, or little...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2012: The Press Begins Digging]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember_2011/editors_note/what_happens_in_the_campaign_stays_in_the_campaign032940.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 2012 presidential race is entering what might be called the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'full public colonoscopy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' phase, when the press really begins digging into every nook and cranny of the leading candidates'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' public and private lives looking for scandal material. Rick Perry, the new guy, has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Better Way to Rank Our Schools]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/19/rcp_education_special_report_111363.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Glastris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1990s, when the American economy last bestrode the globe, many smart people observed that the secret to our success was our system of higher education, said to be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the finest in the world.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' These people weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t exactly wrong. America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s colleges and...]]></description>
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