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<title><![CDATA[Will Rahn - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24225.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Will Rahn]]></description><category domain="24225">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Tough Bastard Who Turned Baseball Into America's Game]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/great-americans-ty-cobb?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A true-blue American nutcase, Ty Cobb was the best ballplayer who ever lived and the first true antihero in sports, writes Will Rahn.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' Is a Dud]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/steven-spielberg-disclosure-day-review?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an era primed for a great UFO movie, the film arrives with impeccable timing and almost nothing interesting to say, writes Will Rahn.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sad, Wretched Reality of New York City's First Casino]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/the-sad-wretched-reality-of-new-york?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two days after Resorts World's grand opening in Queens, Will Rahn headed there to find out what gambling looks like in the financial capital of the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, the Obama Administration Wasn't Plotting Against Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-plot-against-donald-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the "deep state" conspiracy theory embraced by the president is more shocking than it looks at first glance]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Kennedy's Night in the Sun]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-joe-kennedys-night-in-the-sun/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A scion of the most storied family in American politics makes his play for the big time]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump Starts to Rack Up Wins]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-trumps-good-fortune/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As 2017 winds down, the president is having a good few weeks at his opponents' expense]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Trump Fires Mueller]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-when-trump-fires-mueller/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Given what we know about the president, is there really any doubt that he'll eventually can the man investigating him?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Impossibility of Being Jared Kushner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-impossibility-of-being-jared-kushner/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the president's son-in-law, the White House must be looking more and more like a prison of his own making]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is Trump's Way Forward?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-what-is-trumps-way-forward/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hopes for a pivot this way or that make way for the stubborn reality that Trump's presidency will just continue on its rocky path]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Is Winning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-left-is-winning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's an argument that seems unavoidable yet endlessly debatable: In American politics, progressives are winning, and have been for some time. When it comes to economic policy in particular, every day it seems the Overton Window skews a few more millimeters leftward, and there's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Awesome Luck of Bill de Blasio]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-awesome-luck-of-bill-de-blasio/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite a rocky four years, New York City's mayor is well on his way to stumbling into a second term]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schumer Has No Good Options on Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-schumer-has-no-good-options-on-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nominee/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7i&amp;linkId=34048988</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's SCOTUS nominee will be confirmed -- but can the Democratic leader ever make that loss acceptable to the base?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Coming Civil War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-gops-coming-civil-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the incoming administration and the Republican Congress are heading toward an inevitable schism]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Jim Webb Be Trump's Secretary of Defense?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-jim-webb-be-trumps-secretary-of-defense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jim Webb is, at least in a nominal sense, a Democrat. Last year, he briefly pursued the Democratic nomination for president, a run best remembered for his joke about killing the Vietnamese soldier who threw a grenade at him. Now Webb is singing Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s praises, and may have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unbearable Smugness of the Press]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mood in the Washington press corps is bleak, and deservedly so. It shouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly #WithHer, which has led to a certain anguish in the face of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory. More than that and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, Candidate of Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-donald-trump-candidate-of-change/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the left, and among Donald Trump's conservative critics, a new debate has emerged: is the media to blame for the businessman's rise, or are Republican primary voters simply "idiots," as New York Magazine's Jon Chait argued recently, and unable to recognize a con-artist when they see...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's a Big Mistake to Think Trump Can't Beat Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/yes-trump-can-beat-hillary-clinton/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How would Donald Trump fare in a general election against Hillary Clinton? The conventional wisdom is that he wouldn't stand a chance. The GOP is divided. His campaign, despite a recent spate of landslide primary wins, appears to have its own civil war going on. His favorability numbers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Party Can't Take the Nomination From Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-gop-cant-take-the-nomination-from-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it me, or does the argument that the Republican nomination can be taken from Donald Trump at a contested convention make almost no sense?It's not that it would be unfeasible for Ted Cruz or some other candidate to win a majority of delegates after the first ballot is cast at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is the Most Electable Republican. Really.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/26/trump-is-the-most-electable-republican-really.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve seen a number of headlines in recent weeks saying that given a choice between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump much of the Republican establishment will go with the latter.The National Review'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent onslaught against Trump has obscured this a bit, but it is still worth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Stop Pretending. Rubio Ain't Happening]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/14/face-it-it-s-a-two-man-race-for-the-gop-nomination.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stop pretending. Rubio ain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t happening. The other establishmentarians? Feh. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Trump vs. Cruz.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Marco Rubio Overrated All Along?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/16/was-marco-rubio-overrated-all-along.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That was a rough debate for Marco Rubio. He finally got that long-awaited challenge on his previous support for the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Gang of Eight'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' immigration-law overhaul, which he handled well enough. But any way you look at it, this puts him to the left of the field on the major animating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Get Ready for 'Brokered' GOP Convention?]]></title>
							<link>http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/15/brokered-gop-convention-get-ready-say-political-strategists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Will Rahn</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a breakaway front-runner still yet to emerge in the GOP race, political observers and senior Republican strategists are beginning to seriously contemplate what a brokered convention in Tampa Bay might look like.A candidate must win the support of 1,144 delegates to become the...]]></description>
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