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<title><![CDATA[Jelani Cobb - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25216.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jelani Cobb]]></description><category domain="25216">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Battles African American AP Course, History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/ron-desantis-battles-the-african-american-ap-course-and-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The state's intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' history'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it's true.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Quit Elon Musk's Twitter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-i-quit-elon-musks-twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A platform that once represented the new frontier of digital democracy is being used by the world's richest man to troll us all.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Herschel Walker's Many Causes for Concern]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/herschel-walkers-deficits-are-not-the-only-cause-for-concern</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His Senate candidacy is a clear example of the warping effect that Donald Trump has had on the Republican Party nationally.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Importance of Black History Month]]></title>
							<link>https://www.deseret.com/2022/1/31/22905747/perspective-the-importance-of-black-history-month-racism-american-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Questions raised by Black History Month celebrations can help America become a better country]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s History Lessons]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/martin-luther-king-jrs-history-lessons</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[King understood the nation's challenges as part of a continuous narrative. Today, a narrow view of America's past could imperil its future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Republicans Are Still Recounting Votes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/why-republicans-are-still-recounting-votes</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The point of the so-called audits is not so much to delegitimize the past election as it is to normalize unnecessary reviews of future ones'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'including, perhaps, a 2024 race in which Trump's name may be on the ballot.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Man Behind Critical Race Theory]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The town of Harmony, Mississippi, which owes its origins to a small number of formerly enslaved Black people who bought land from former slaveholders after the Civil War, is nestled in Leake County, a perfectly square allotment in the center of the state. According to local lore,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party, Racial Hypocrisy &amp; the 1619 Project]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late last month, when Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first major address to a joint session of Congress, the subtext could scarcely have been closer to the surface: the sole Black Republican in the Senate was speaking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wright's Shooting and the Meaning of George Floyd's Death]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George Floyd Square, the intersection in Minneapolis where Floyd died, last May, features a mural that says '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You Changed the World, George.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' And, in the eleven months since Floyd'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agonizing death, captured on video, we have seen changes ranging from mercenary corporate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The High Cost of Georgia's Restrictive Voting Bills]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/the-high-cost-of-georgias-restrictive-voting-bills</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Racist policies are bad for business, as the state's own history can attest.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is Happening to the Republicans?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/what-is-happening-to-the-republicans</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Georgia, Trump's Insurrectionists, and Lost Causes]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any hopes that the New Year might mark a sharp detour from the malaise of 2020 were dashed in a twelve-hour period between 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6th, when we saw'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as we had throughout the year just concluded'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'glimpses of respite immediately offset by moments of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Black Americans May Not Trust the Covid Vaccine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/african-american-resistance-to-the-covid-19-vaccine-reflects-a-broader-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Notably, Republicans are another group voicing significant skepticism about the vaccine, albeit for very different reasons.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The High Stakes of GA's Loeffler-Warnock Senate Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/the-high-stakes-of-georgias-loeffler-warnock-senate-race</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debate between the two candidates showed how Republicans are approaching close races in a state where they've grown accustomed to winning with ease.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/our-long-forgotten-history-of-election-related-violence</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has sparked dangerous lawlessness, but killing and destruction linked to political antagonisms are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' nothing new for this country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/juneteenth-and-the-meaning-of-freedom</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An American Spring of Reckoning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/an-american-spring-of-reckoning</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In death, George Floyd'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s name has become a metaphor for the stacked inequities of the society that produced them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Administration&rsquo;s Failure to Learn]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/minneapolis-the-coronavirus-and-trumps-failure-to-see-a-crisis-coming</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There, yet again, were the flames. Before the furious conflagrations erupted in Minneapolis, the final weeks of May had already seemed like the answer to a grim math problem: What is the product of a crisis multiplied by a crisis?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Death of George Floyd, in Context]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two incidents separated by twelve hours and twelve hundred miles have taken on the appearance of the control and the variable in a grotesque experiment about race in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Stacey Abrams Would Like to Be Vice-President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-stacey-abrams-would-like-to-be-vice-president</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Abrams, who narrowly lost the Georgia gubernatorial race in 2018, talks about the importance of speaking up and not being afraid to ask for what you want.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's SC Win, Black Voters &amp; Democrats' Way Forward]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/ZLdj2X</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Representative Jim Clyburn stepped onto the stage at Trident Technical College, in North Charleston, last Wednesday, to endorse Joe Biden in South Carolina'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic Presidential primary, he wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t simply throwing his influence as the highest-ranking African-American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Did the Democratic Party End Up Here?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early in last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic Presidential debate, in Las Vegas, just before it began to seem as if Michael Bloomberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cutman might rush onto the stage during a commercial break, carrying a spit bucket and an ice pack, the former mayor of New York made an observation about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeachment and the Short-Term Thinking of the GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/trump-impeachment-and-the-short-term-thinking-of-the-gop</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From its relinquishing of executive oversight in the Senate to its embrace of inflammatory nativism, the Party has been perilously shortsighted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Clarifying Week in the Impeachment Inquiry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/a-clarifying-upending-week-in-the-impeachment-inquiry</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans can protest all they want, but the facts increasingly indicate that the President committed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' impeachable violations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump, Facing Impeachment, Warns of Civil War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-trump-facing-impeachment-warns-of-civil-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President made a breathtakingly irresponsible and foolish comment that could reasonably provoke violence among his most devout followers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stacey Abrams's Fight for a Fair Vote]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/19/stacey-abrams-fight-for-a-fair-vote</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the 2020 elections approach, Abrams is leading the battle against voter suppression.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Trail of White Supremacy Led to El Paso]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-the-trail-of-american-white-supremacy-led-to-el-paso</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The past has climbed out from its shallow grave to place its claim on the present.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's Idea of Selective Citizenship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/donald-trumps-idea-of-selective-citizenship</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, the President wasn't just attacking four congresswomen of color; he was reanimating ideas whose prevalence wreaked havoc in the nation's past.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crucial Significance of McBath's Win in Georgia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-crucial-significance-of-lucy-mcbaths-win-in-georgias-sixth-congressional-district</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six years after her son was shot to death, the Georgia congressional candidate Lucy McBath pulled off a surprise victory that has sent a signal about the evolving politics of gun violence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kanye, Trump, and the Truth About Chicago]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kanye-west-donald-trump-and-the-truth-about-chicago</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jelani Cobb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s visit to the Oval Office, Kanye West said that he saw Trump as a reference point for his own masculinity, and that he derived superpowers from his Make America Great Again hat.]]></description>
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