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<title><![CDATA[J.D. Tuccille - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25666.xml</link><description><![CDATA[J.D. Tuccille]]></description><category domain="25666">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[As Public Schools Disappoint, Other Options Gain Favor]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2025/09/03/as-public-school-enrollment-drops-alternative-options-gain-traction/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[School days will come go, but they're better when families can choose their schools and not just be assigned by default.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whatever the Department of Education Is Doing Isn't Working]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2025/02/10/kill-the-federal-department-of-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We could decentralize education, improve outcomes, and help reduce the size of the federal Leviathan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Numbers Keep Economic Concerns Front and Center]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/03/13/new-inflation-numbers-keep-economic-concerns-front-and-center/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The eroding value of the dollar inflicts pain, and Americans resent politicians who cause it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Jump Highlights Biden's Vulnerability on Energy]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2023/09/15/inflation-jump-highlights-bidens-vulnerability-on-energy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politics aside, the biggest question is how the eroding dollar affects people's lives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Punishing Riots Is Wise. 'Seditious Conspiracy' Charges Aren't]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2023/05/08/punishing-rioters-is-wise-bogus-seditious-conspiracy-charges-are-not/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The problem with convicting members of the "western chauvinist" Proud Boys on seditious conspiracy charges is that it wrongly elevates a violent tantrum by a bunch of thugs to the level of an insurrection, and it lets officials who prosecute them puff themselves up as saviors of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget Russia--Censorious U.S. Officials a Bigger Threat]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2023/01/11/forget-russias-twitter-trolls-americas-censorious-officials-are-a-bigger-threat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia's attempts to meddle in U.S. politics on social media was a wash. We should be more concerned about what our own officials are doing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mandated Statement Drives Haidt To Quit Academic Society]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2022/09/30/mandated-diversity-statement-drives-jonathan-haidt-to-quit-academic-society/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NYU professor Jonathan Haidt is resigning an academic association after attempts to force diversity statements into his work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Are Done With Covid &amp; Pandemic-Powered Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/11/05/voters-are-done-with-covid-19-and-pandemic-powered-officials/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Panicked Americans surrendered a lot of authority during the pandemic. Now they want their country back.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Democrats' Covid Control Freaks Ever Be Satisfied?]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/08/06/ignore-pandemic-panic-and-return-to-normal-life/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Schools Are Losing Their Captive Audience of Children]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2020/12/18/public-schools-are-losing-their-captive-audience-of-children/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pandemic chaos is driving families to flee government institutions in search of education that better suits their needs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are in Full Revolt Against Pandemic Lockdowns]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2020/12/16/americans-are-in-full-revolt-against-pandemic-lockdowns/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Individually and in organized groups, people are pushing back against lockdown orders.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pandemic Rules Are Only for the Little People&nbsp;]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2020/11/28/pandemic-rules-are-only-for-the-little-people/?fbclid=IwAR0qH5ORLY6jDZygFtVchcH8x8jB0EhAHieY6Lri09hp_nqogALMyjlrf4Q</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're expected to suffer discomfort, economic pain, and emotional distress or else pay fines or serve jail time. Government officials, meanwhile, take offense when called out for violating the standards they created.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberty Makes Us Unfree, Says the ACLU]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2018/07/26/liberty-makes-us-unfree-says-the-aclu</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The government wouldn't abuse us if we'd stop making it upset, according to the one-time civil liberties advocacy group.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vilifying Gun Owners Doesn't Lead to a Better Society]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2018/03/05/vilifying-gun-owners-doesnt-lead-to-a-be</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives push their luck with their totalitarian insistence that everybody is with them or against them on guns and so much else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Control Was in Place at Washington Navy Yard]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/17/navy-yard-already-suffered-the-restricti</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yet another mass shooting, and flags fly across the country at half-mast to mourn the 13 dead at the Washington Navy Yard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'well, 12 of them, anyway, since one of the bodies was that of the murderer. Gun control advocates wasted no time in demanding new restrictions on the means of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's War Against the Free Press Gets Creepier]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/20/obamas-war-against-the-free-press-gets-c</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the U.S. Department of Justice "investigation" of Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen isn't the intrusive tracking of his movements and contacts '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' although that's disturbing enough '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but the basis for the criminal charges he may...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Political Posturing on Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/11/joe-bidens-political-posturing-on-gun-ba</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'll have to wait until Tuesday to see the details of Vice President Joe Biden's 2016 presidential campaign platform gun control recommendations, but already we know that it's likely be heavy on pandering to the gun-averse political base, and light on anything that might leave the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Unhealthy Dose of ObamaCare Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/04/2013-introduces-an-unhealthy-dose-of-oba</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In what was already an eventful year, Obamacare generated lots of buzz in 2012, first in the lead-up to the Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, and then in the chatter-heavy aftermath of the surprise decision upholding the law....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Restrictions Have Always Bred Black Markets]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/22/gun-restrictions-have-always-bred-defian</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I doubt I ever would have gone to the black market to purchase an illegal assault weapon if it wasn't for New York's annoyingly restrictive gun control laws. Wait. Let me back up a bit. New York State passed the Sullivan Act back in 1911. The law required people to get a government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Canada, Now More Economically Free Than U.S.?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/08/conservatives-threaten-to-move-to-canada</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>J.D. Tuccille</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among the perennial traditions of American politics are post-results, generally hot-air threats to flee the country if the "wrong" side wins "'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' usually to Canada. Politico has a round-up of tweets by disappointed Republicans threatening to do just that. Leave aside, for now, that Canada...]]></description>
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