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<title><![CDATA[Alexis Madrigal - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23854.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alexis Madrigal]]></description><category domain="23854">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Going Back to Normal Only Possible Until You Test Positive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/getting-back-to-normal-is-only-possible-until-you-test-positive/ar-AAQuEjS</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I first received the invitation to the wedding where I would eventually get COVID, I was on the fence about attending at all. My best friend had gone through a tough divorce and was remarrying. I was thrilled for him. His wedding had been put off repeatedly because of COVID, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pandemic Is Entering a 'Tornado' Phase in America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/04/fourth-surge-covid-19-unequal/618493/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After more than a year of pandemic, after months of an aggressive vaccination campaign, the United States should finally be better positioned to protect itself against the coronavirus. Nearly all of our'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' long-term-care residents are vaccinated. Tens of millions of other people have been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Know When the Pandemic Is Over]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/how-know-when-pandemic-over/618122/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At some point'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'maybe even soon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the emergency phase of the pandemic will end. But what, exactly, is that magic threshold?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/how-politicians-and-scholars-turned-against-big-tech/591052/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With enemies like these, the industry is going to need some friends.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Sundar Pichai Couldn't Explain to Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/what-sundar-pichai-couldnt-explain-to-congress/577903/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Google'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s CEO struggled to explain the reality of his company'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s power to a House committee convinced of liberal conspiracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With Kim Kardashian's Private Firefighters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-history-private-firefighting/575887/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Rich people don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get their own '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'better'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' firefighters, or at least they aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t supposed to.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gadgets for the Climate Hellscape]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/california-wildfires-climate-change-and-disaster-capitalism/575794/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What will climate adaptation look like? A million individual products, each precisely targeted on social media to the intersection of a consumer culture and a catastrophe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Google Doesn't Rank Right-Wing Outlets Highly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/why-google-doesnt-rank-right-wing-outlets-highly/568831/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mainstream media organizations are better-resourced and do far more reporting than smaller, explicitly politicized outlets.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does the Alex Jones Ban Mean for Online Speech?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/what-does-it-mean-to-ban-alex-jones/566960/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The inconsistent embargo on Infowars demonstrates the breadth of tools tech companies have to police speech.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disposable America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/disposable-america/563204/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw. Seriously.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Evidence Is Not With Joy Reid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/the-evidence-is-not-with-joy-reid/558935/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The anchor's claim that her blog was hacked to include homophobic posts looks implausible.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Facebook, Twitter, &amp; Google American Companies?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/are-facebook-twitter-and-google-american-companies/544670/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s technology-executive hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a key tension at the heart of the internet emerged: Do American tech companies, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google, operate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as American companies? Or are they in some other global realm, maybe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Facebook Did to American Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/what-facebook-did/542502/?utm_source=twb</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The False Dream of a Neutral Facebook]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/the-false-dream-of-a-neutral-facebook/541404/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg each told partial truths yesterday.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nerds Who Helped Re-Elect Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/265325/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama campaign's technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong.Josh Thayer, the lead engineer of Narwhal, had just been informed that they'd lost another one of the services powering their software. That was bad: Narwhal was the code name for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How U.S. Spy Satellite Mapped Soviet Union]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/top-secret-your-briefing-on-the-cias-cold-war-spy-satellite-big-bird/250629/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alexis Madrigal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's your mission, should you choose to accept it: build a camera that can take high-resolution photographs of the Earth from orbit and return them to the Central Intelligence Agency. There's only one catch: you don't get to use a computer or a single kilobyte of network...]]></description>
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