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							<title><![CDATA[If Election Is 'Capitalism vs. Socialism', GOP Wins]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/capitalism-midterm-socialism/2026/08/26/id/1267365/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With just over nine weeks remaining before the midterm elections, Republicans face a difficult political environment as they seek to retain their majorities in the House and Senate.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Racial Terrorism Strategy Will Backfire Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/27/democrats-racial-terrorism-strategy-will-backfire-/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2016 we were crazy enough to predict President Donald J. Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton when the conventional wisdom was that it was going to be a Clinton landslide. We have been asked many times, how did you know?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Irony: Near-Rock-Bottom Ratings With Women]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433596/hillary-clintons-low-ratings-among-women</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steven Shepard of Politico wrote an important article last week about Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??rock bottom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? ratings with women. And his low standing with women has certainly become a much-discussed topic among pundits analyzing the Donald Trump candidacy.#ad#An overlooked story,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the New Patriot Act Making People Safer?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ozy.com/pov/is-the-new-patriot-act-making-us-safer/61224</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The long-running dispute is over: Congress has passed a new incarnation of the Patriot Act. So what has changed in the new version? And what does it say about the place of intelligence in our society, and about the future of counterterrorism?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Islamic State Could Win]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-islamic-state-could-win/2015/05/27/d33af750-03f1-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s think the unthinkable: Could the Islamic State win?I say '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'unthinkable'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' because, discouraged as everyone has become, most commentary stops short of imagining what an Islamic State victory in the Middle East would look like. The common conviction is that the group is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Interrogation Program Worked]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/senate-interrogation-report-distorts-the-cias-success-foiling-terrorist-plots/2014/12/09/de5b72ca-7e1f-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most incredible and false claim in the Senate intelligence committee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s report on the CIA interrogation program is that the program was neither necessary nor effective in the agency'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s post-9/11 pursuit of al-Qaeda. The report, written by the committee'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Midterm Tsunami on Its Way?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378815/midterm-tsunami-its-way-john-mclaughlin-jim-mclaughlin</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For months pundits have speculated about the potential for a six-year backlash against the incumbent president in this fall'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s midterms, similar to 2006 and 1986. Or will it be a wash like 1998 and flatten into a mere ripple?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason You're Mad at the NSA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/18/the_real_reason_youre_mad_at_the_nsa_118858.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John McLaughlin</author>
							<description><![CDATA["What's really going on here?" That's the question I typically ask students to kick-start a discussion about some aspect of American intelligence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where I teach a graduate course on the subject.
This same question might fairly...]]></description>
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