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<title><![CDATA[Bethany Mandel - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24909.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bethany Mandel]]></description><category domain="24909">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Lindsay Clancy Case Isn't Complicated]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/09/03/opinion/lindsay-clancy-case-isnt-complicated-she-murdered-her-kids-there-is-only-one-logical-verdict/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately for Americans, that individual is a child killer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[El-Sayed's Latest Blunder]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/08/25/opinion/abdul-el-sayeds-are-you-circumcised-blunder-could-cost-dems-and-create-greater-party-fracture/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During a live interview on his show, Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, So you think it's OK for a parent to slash his kid's ding-a-ling off?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Is Lindsay Clancy More of a Victim Than Her Dead Kids?]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/opinion/how-has-lindsay-clancy-become-a-more-compelling-victim-than-her-three-children-who-she-brutally-killed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Outside Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts this week, Americans are witnessing something resembling a mass psychosis event.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Best Pronatalist Policy Is Usha Vance's Wardrobe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4638937/best-pronatalist-policy-isnt-economic-usha-vance-wardrobe-institute-family-studies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservative women have begun to wear clothing that shows pride in their pregnancy rather than trying to cover it up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Moving Backwards, AC Is a No-Brainer]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/opinion/why-does-europe-remain-so-stubborn-about-air-conditioning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ideology is ironically trumping science in the heat wave cooking Europe. America's progressives should take note.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cultural Problems Behind Falling Fertility Rate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4527119/fertility-crisis-cultural-problem/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's birth rate keeps falling. The real problem isn't housing costs or student debt '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it's a culture that stopped valuing family.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Gentle Parenting' Is a Delusion]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/02/26/opinion/gentle-parenting-is-a-delusion-and-now-theres-proof/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The short-term discomfort that comes with setting boundaries yields long-term stability.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Needs To Stop Gaslighting on Trans Killers]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/02/11/opinion/the-media-needs-to-stop-gaslighting-us-about-the-reality-of-trans-mass-shooters/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another mass shooting, and another devastated community.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deja Vu? Performative Outrage Untethered From Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/01/29/opinion/the-perils-of-toxic-empathy-in-minneapolis-makes-it-feel-like-2020-all-over-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anti-ICE protests are saturating Americans with emotion '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' intense, performative and increasingly untethered from reality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Human Cost of Minnesota Fraud Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4424557/human-cost-minnesota-fraud-scandal/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4424557/human-cost-minnesota-fraud-scandal/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota fraud scandal is about more than corruption in government. It is also about ordinary people who were supposed to receive care.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why CDC Revised the Childhood Vaccine Schedule]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/opinion/new-cdc-stance-on-kids-vaccines-isnt-anti-science-its-pro-parent/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stripped of partisan politics and overheated rhetoric, what's actually happening at the CDC is something far more modest and far healthier.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Repairing Marriages Is Better Than Replacing Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/4363330/when-marriage-becomes-disposable/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A culture that treats marriage as disposable shouldn't be surprised when it produces more disposability, fewer weddings, and more loneliness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoid Turning Holiday Gatherings Into a Battleground]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3920366/holiday-gatherings-battleground-liberal-media-bias/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The holiday table has always been a symbol of unity. Leftists' attempt to turn it into a battleground tells you everything about what they fear.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What I Saw Taking Our Six Kids Overseas]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/opinion/i-took-our-six-kids-overseas-and-saw-the-strength-of-a-family-friendly-nation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you've ever wanted to feel like a celebrity, turning heads everywhere you go, I recommend taking a gaggle of children to a country with a plunging birth rate]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fight To Keep Politics Out of Medicine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/the-fight-to-keep-politics-out-of-medicine/ar-AA1RLP7D</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/the-fight-to-keep-politics-out-of-medicine/ar-AA1RLP7D]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr. Stanley Goldfarb'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Doing Great Harm? isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t another'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' anti-woke broadside. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s something rarer: a first-hand dispatch from a man who spent half a century inside the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' medical establishment, watched it lose its bearings, and decided to do something about it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Viral Post Sparks a Firestorm on Motherhood]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/11/19/opinion/young-women-give-motherhood-a-hard-pass-viral-post-reveals-why/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A cultural script, backed by 13 million scolds on X, is telling women that once you have a baby, you cease to exist as a whole human being.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kelsea Ballerini and the Loneliness Feminism Forgot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/kelsea-ballerinis-haunting-new-song-exposes-the-loneliness-feminism-forgot/ar-AA1Qxi8A</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Singer Kelsea Ballerini's new viral hit, 'I sit in parks,' exposes generational regret among women who prioritized career and independence over family.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Faithless Progressive Rabbis of New York]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3881841/faithless-rabbis-progressive-new-york-city/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3881841/faithless-rabbis-progressive-new-york-city/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A group of self-proclaimed rabbis supporting Zohran Mamdani highlight the Left's drive to prop up dissidents in an effort to control Judaism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Wikipedia Bias Influences Perception of Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/opinion/wikipedia-bias-influences-how-ones-perception-of-reality-is-perceived/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/opinion/wikipedia-bias-influences-how-ones-perception-of-reality-is-perceived/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Republicans' decision to launch an investigation into bad actors manipulating Wikipedia entries is such welcome news.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One of the Biggest Shifts in Education in Decades]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3759077/big-beautiful-bill-significant-shift-education-school-choice/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3759077/big-beautiful-bill-significant-shift-education-school-choice/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This isn't about dismantling public education but about finally acknowledging that children are not all the same.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maryland's Energy Price Explosion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3497754/maryland-energy-price-increases-wes-moore-rebates/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Energy prices are skyrocketing in Maryland due to poor energy policies by Gov. Wes Moore and increasing demand.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Jersey's Electric Bills Tripled This Summer]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/08/10/opinion/new-jerseys-insane-electric-bills-could-cost-dems-the-state/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://nypost.com/2025/08/10/opinion/new-jerseys-insane-electric-bills-could-cost-dems-the-state/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once voters realize that Gov. Phil Murphy and the Democrats' bungled energy policies are to blame for their exploding utility bills, it could blow November's election wide open.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DC Crime Must Be Brought Under Control]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/opinion/dc-crime-is-out-of-control-a-federal-takeover-could-be-the-only-solution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the pandemic and the 2020 protests, Washington, DC has been spiraling. Police were demoralized. Prosecutions declined. Repeat offenders walked free.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opting Kids Out of the Leftist Cult]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/opinion/the-left-is-a-cult-and-parents-can-fight-it-with-supreme-courts-blessing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Armed with the Mahmoud decision, parents now have a legal foundation to resist when schools impose teachings that violate their most deeply held beliefs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Political Bias Infects the Doctor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3465827/when-the-culture-war-infects-the-doctor/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3465827/when-the-culture-war-infects-the-doctor/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the culture war comes to the Doctor's office, as with Dr. Propst in Texas, we all suffer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Major Museums Pushing Climate Change?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-major-museums-pushing-climate-change-instead-celebrating-spirit-america</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-major-museums-pushing-climate-change-instead-celebrating-spirit-america]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Major museums face scrutiny as the Smithsonian undergoes review to eliminate political bias. But climate change messaging and ideological content remain.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Cry Wolf Over Medicaid Cuts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3461544/democrats-cry-wolf-over-medicaid-cuts/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3461544/democrats-cry-wolf-over-medicaid-cuts/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'll never forget the dentist appointment I had when I was 18. It was supposed to be a routine cleaning, the kind of thing you do every six months without a second thought. After my teeth were polished, the dental assistant took me to get X-rays. As I sat in the chair, I couldn't help]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Targets Public School Disorder]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3391339/trump-public-schools-executive-order/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3391339/trump-public-schools-executive-order/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the heart of this policy shift is a simple but powerful message: schools cannot be places of learning if they are not first places of order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYT Played a Key Role in Misleading Us About Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/new-york-times-comes-clean-about-covid-zeynep-tufekci-apoorva-mandavilli/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://thespectator.com/topic/new-york-times-comes-clean-about-covid-zeynep-tufekci-apoorva-mandavilli/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It turns out the lab that was experimenting with the viruses unsafely may be the more likely culprit instead of bats]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DEI &amp; Deviancy: Wealth Doesn't Always Buy Protection]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3311108/dei-and-deviancy-wealth-doesnt-always-buy-protection/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3311108/dei-and-deviancy-wealth-doesnt-always-buy-protection/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bethany Mandel</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The heavy emphasis on Pride Month, to the exclusion of every other holiday, sent a message to these young students: The celebration of sexuality is sacred.]]></description>
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