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<title><![CDATA[Michael Specter - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25717.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Specter]]></description><category domain="25717">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Anthony Fauci Became America's Doctor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-anthony-fauci-became-americas-doctor</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An infectious-disease expert's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' long crusade against some of humanity's most virulent threats.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Humans 2.0: The Gene Hackers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-gene-hackers</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. He is also among the most accomplished. In 1999, while still a high-school student, in Des Moines, Zhang found a structural protein capable of preventing retroviruses like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood Means Less Abortion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/planned-parenthood-means-fewer-abortions</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have to be Mike Huckabee, the galactically insensitive former governor of Arkansas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'who has compared the consequences of Roe v. Wade with the Holocaust'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to believe that the United States would benefit from fewer abortions. Even Hillary Clinton, whose political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Thirsty, Violent World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/coming-water-wars</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s protests had nothing to do with freedom of expression, drone wars, or Americans. They were about access to water. When Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the Minister of Defense, Power, and Water (yes, that is one ministry), warned that the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chronic water shortages...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Cheap Oil]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trouble-cheap-oil</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just before the turn of the millennium, I met a man who had recently invested a fortune in wind power. He said he wanted to do all that he could to slow the course of climate change. He was also convinced that, as the world began to run out of oil, alternative sources of energy would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pope Francis and the GOP's Bad Science]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/pope-francis-gop-s-bad-science</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's So Bad About Gluten?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/grain</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just after Labor Day, the Gluten and Allergen Free Expo stopped for a weekend at the Meadowlands Exposition Center. Each year, the event wends its way across the country like a travelling medicine show, billing itself as the largest display of gluten-free products in the United States....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ebola &amp; the Fear Equation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/fear-equation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tech Solution to Global Warming?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/14/120514fa_fact_specter</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late in the afternoon on April 2, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo, a volcano on the Philippine island of Luzon, began to rumble with a series of the powerful steam explosions that typically precede an eruption. Pinatubo had been dormant for more than four centuries, and in the volcanological world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marco Rubio Needs Evolution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/marco-rubio-needs-evolution.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Specter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the need for a new approach to the American electorate wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t clear enough to Republicans on November 6th, it certainly has been since Mitt Romney delivered his graceless coup de grace a few days later'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'when he essentially accused President Obama of buying the election by...]]></description>
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