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<title><![CDATA[Megan Garber - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26727.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Megan Garber]]></description><category domain="26727">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Wins Again, the Truth Won't Matter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-truth-won-t-matter/ar-AA1l57NE</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have a gut,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Donald Trump announced in 2018, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s brain can ever tell me.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gut would go on to inform him that climate change is partisan propaganda; that COVID-19 might be cured through...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George Santos, the GOP's Useful Liar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/george-santos-the-gops-useful-liar/ar-AA17gKOI</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's easy to condemn the congressman's fabrications. Maybe too easy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make America Remember Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/make-america-remember-again/ar-AAYlzko</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Caroline Edwards's testimony about the January 6 insurrection was a reminder that words can convey truths that even images cannot.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Fracturing of American Attention]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/03/americans-focus-attention-span-threat-democracy/626556/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why resisting distraction is one of the foundational challenges of this moment]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sly Sunniness of Betty White]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/01/betty-white/621144/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The actor and producer and host, who died yesterday at 99, spent eight decades poking fun at those who would underestimate her.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cuomo's Leadership Memoir Did Not Age Well]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/portrait-of-a-leader-humblebragging/ar-BB1ehBKf</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some books age poorly; others are poorly aged from the moment they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re published. American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic, Andrew Cuomo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent memoir, manages to fall into both categories.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Cynicism Has Reached a Breaking Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/american-cynicism-has-reached-a-breaking-point/ar-BB1e2KOr</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday evening, at the start of his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson shared the results of an investigation that he and his staff had conducted into a well-known agent of American disinformation. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We spent all day trying to locate the famous QAnon,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Carlson said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'which,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fandom Was Never Frivolous]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-ruth-bader-ginsburg-fandom-was-never-frivolous/ar-BB19c8FW</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2014, Kate Livingston'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' created a quirky Halloween costume'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for her 12-week-old son. It featured a black, sleeved onesie. And a white silken collar. And a pair of large, plastic-rimmed glasses. Livingston snapped a picture of the cosplaying infant'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'he provided the cool...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World That Kamala Harris Will Navigate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/kamala-harris-biden-vice-president-pop-culture/615178/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The vice-presidential candidate just made history. American culture will find new ways to see her as a threat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Disappearance of Local News Is a Threat to Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/07/ghosting-news-margaret-sullivans-alarm-bell/614011/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1945, for 17 days, the newspaper deliverers of New York City went on strike. As hundreds of thousands of city residents found themselves temporarily deprived of their daily papers, the behavioral scientist Bernard Berelson saw an opportunity:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Refusing to Wear a Mask Is an Empty Act of Defiance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/refusing-to-wear-a-mask-is-an-empty-act-of-defiance/ar-BB14Gj9s</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The woman in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the video'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' would like you to know that she is compassionate. She would like you to know that she understands '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the virus is real.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' She would also like you to know, however, that she has tried wearing a face mask while out in public during the coronavirus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Voters Punished Warren for Her Competence]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In November 2019, as the Democratic presidential candidates prepared for the primaries that had been taking place unofficially for more than a year and that would begin in earnest in February, FiveThirtyEight'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Clare Malone profiled Pete Buttigieg.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sarah Sanders Broke the News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/sarah-sanders-white-house-press-secretary-resigns/591706/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The press secretary for the Trump White House, who announced her resignation today, used her pulpit to spread the gospel of winning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Burns. Sarah Sanders Says This Is Fine.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/sarah-sanders-russia-and-the-absolution-of-chaos/565610/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House press secretary has set a new precedent: Partisanship over patriotism. Victory over truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schrodinger's Coat: The First Lady's Fashion Controversy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/06/schrodingers-coat/563474/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 20th century witnessed the rise of the media event. The 21st, with its tan suits and swatted hands and flippant Zara outerwear, is bringing a new spin to the old idea.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Slow, Awkward Death of the WH Correspondents' Dinner]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/04/what-happened-at-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner/559232/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first White House Correspondents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Dinner was held in 1921, at the Arlington Hotel in Washington, D.C., a couple blocks north of the presidential residence. The event'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s purpose was practical: to inaugurate the new officers of the group that had been formed to advocate for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Powerful Silence of the March for Our Lives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/03/the-powerful-silence-of-the-march-for-our-lives/556469/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political marches are typically meant to make noise: voices raised, anger articulated, struggles for justice made loud and unavoidable. The March for Our Lives, held on Saturday in Washington, D.C., and in satellite events across the United States, followed, in that sense, activist...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Power-Structure Oscars]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/03/the-power-structure-oscars/554837/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Academy Awards'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' began as an effort of appeasement. It was the late 1920s, and Louis B. Mayer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the studio head who was one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'was worried about the spread of unionization throughout the movie industry. Wanting to keep the studio workers in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Selective Empathy of #MeToo Backlash]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/02/the-selective-empathy-of-metoo-backlash/553022/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tweet, as so often happens, was at once shocking and deeply predictable.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ghost of Matt Lauer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/matt-lauer-and-the-today-shows-living-funeral/547001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That was Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Today Show, informing viewers on Wednesday morning that Matt Lauer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'her co-host, and a mainstay of morning television since 1994'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'had just been fired for an allegation of sexual misconduct that had been brought against him by a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anger of Samantha Bee]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/the-angers-of-samantha-bee/503612/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During an extended monologue on her TBS show Full Frontal on Monday evening, Samantha Bee described Donald Trump and Billy Bush as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'two drooling hyenas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'two leering dildos.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' She referred to the vehicle that carried the pair, in that now iconically infamous Access...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Their Bodies, Ourselves]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/their-bodies-ourselves/494951/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Okay, before we walked out, I thought I was going to vomit,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Aly Raisman announced after the conclusion of Sunday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gymnastics qualifications, in Rio. At this confession, her four teammates dissolved into giggles of agreement.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Um, in the back, I thought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Optimist's Guide to Political Correctness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/an-optimists-guide-to-political-correctness/384927/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the first widespread uses of the telegraph, when it emerged in and then transformed the 19th century, was a mundane one: the sharing of local weather information. Corn speculators in England began sending terse messages to each other, things like Derby, very dull; York, fine;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dying in Space: An American Dream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/dying-in-space-an-american-dream/275345/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you are at least 18 years of age and curious and capable and resourceful, with a capacity for self-reflection, an ability to trust other people, and a deep sense of purpose, then'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' you can to go to Mars. Maybe. The Mars One project, which is planning to send a group of people to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boston Bombers Were Muslims. So?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/the-boston-bombers-were-muslim-so/275154/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Megan Garber</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev are not simply "the Marathon bombers," or "murderers," or "Chechens," or "immigrants," or "Muslims." They might turn out to be all of those things. They might not. The one thing we know for sure is that they are not only those things. They had friends and...]]></description>
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