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<title><![CDATA[Olga Khazan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27412.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Olga Khazan]]></description><category domain="27412">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Married People Happier Than the Rest of Us?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the year 2000, having narrowly escaped the Y2K computer glitch, Americans should have been poised to party. The bendy riff of the Santana'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Rob Thomas joint '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Smooth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' wailed from Top 40 stations everywhere.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Survivor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' beckoned us to watch people eat grubs for a chance at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Revolt Against Homelessness in California]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-revolt-against-homelessness/ar-AAY0F5A</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Shellenberger is betting on the frustration of California voters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'even though most experts disagree with the solutions he's selling.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red Parent, Blue Parent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/red-parent-blue-parent/ar-AAU9Bkd</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to masks, vaccines, or curricula, parents are divided over which matters most: Parents' rights, or the common good?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas Is Alienating Abortion Moderates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-is-alienating-abortion-moderates/ar-AAOF76S</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since September 1, about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 6 million Texans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of childbearing age have been living under one of the strictest abortion laws in the developed world. Texas Republicans wrote the law in part to score points with the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s staunch opponents of abortion rights. But this time, they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unraveling of the Trump Era]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-shrinking-legacy/ar-AAMF9j5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As president,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t known for his mastery of the federal regulatory process. The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Muslim ban'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is perhaps the most famous example of a Trump policy that was enacted hastily,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' challenged repeatedly, and ultimately'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' undone'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by his successor; others, like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The One Area U.S. Covid Strategy Seems to Be Working]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-u-s-vaccine-strategy-is-good-actually/ar-BB1dU12e</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' COVID-19 response has been a disaster, right? The United States strategy is a four-alarm dumpster fire, sent from hell to remind Americans to never again elect a president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' who describes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the scientific method as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Now they have it, they have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Virus Is Coming From Inside the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-virus-is-coming-from-inside-the-white-house/ar-BB19IilI</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An alarming number'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of senators, presidential advisers, and Republican grandees who attended the now-infamous White House celebration of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Supreme Court nominee have since'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tested positive'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for COVID-19, including the president and his wife. At first blush, the day,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trying to Make Joe Biden Cool for Young Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/joe-biden-youth-vote-turnout/616168/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Young people aren't particularly excited about Joe Biden. One strategy to change their mind? Convince them that they're voting for a big, progressive crew.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why People Loot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-people-loot/ar-BB14WjLA</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For many Americans watching the country erupt in protests, the looting is the rub. Over the past week, thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across the United States to denounce institutional racism and police violence after a Minneapolis man named George Floyd died...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The True Cause of the Opioid Epidemic]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2015, Jennifer Silva, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Bucknell University, began interviewing people in the coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania. She was working on a project, which would become the book'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re Still Here, about how poor and working-class...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fewer Sex Partners Means a Happier Marriage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/sexual-partners-and-marital-happiness/573493/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People who have had sex with fewer people seem to be more satisfied after they tie the knot. Is there hope for promiscuous romantics?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[School Shootings: America's Unending Tragedy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/littleton-columbine/556358/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Evan Todd, then a sophomore at Columbine High School, was in the library on the day 19 years ago when Eric Harris appeared in the doorway, wielding a shotgun. Harris fired in his direction. Debris, shrapnel, and buckshot hit Todd'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lower back; he fell to the ground and ducked behind...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Stunning Blow to Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/trump-strikes-another-major-blow-to-obamacare/542853/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration will end subsidies to insurers selling plans on the Obamacare marketplaces to help cover out-of-pocket costs for low-income customers, the White House said in a statement late Thursday night.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Smile So Much]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/why-americans-smile-so-much/524967/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, I wrote about why some countries seem to smile less than average'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and mistrust those who do seem unusually peppy. A country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s level of instability, that study found, might be why people who seem happy for no reason in, say, Russia, are considered foolish. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Criticism of Paul Ryan's Health-Care Pitch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/the-biggest-criticism-of-paul-ryans-health-care-pitch/519138/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During Paul Ryan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s health-care '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'TED talk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' on Thursday, in which the House speaker attempted to sell the public on the GOP Obamacare replacement plan through Powerpoint slides, there was one moment that prompted many a double-take on Twitter. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The idea of Obamacare is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obamacare Just Bad Branding?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/is-obamacare-just-a-branding-problem/512936/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate began the process of dismantling Obamacare early Thursday morning, passing a budget blueprint that sets the stage for a formal repeal vote, potentially within a few weeks. The step is, for now, procedural, but it signals Republican lawmakers are following through on their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Not Obamacare, Then What?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/if-not-obamacare-then-what/511130/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As her hair was styled at the Grace Kelly hair salon in this quaint tourist town, a middle-aged mother told me that she wants Obamacare gone, even though her 24-year-old son is still on her plan, thanks to an Obamacare provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Childless Generation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/millenials-not-having-babies/391721/?utm_source=SFTwitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The characters of the TV show Girls have the kinds of problems only childless people complain about. A fight with a partner over whether the songs you write together sound like those of a popular indie band. A fight with a friend over how long it took them to come over. A chilly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of Obamacare?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/the-end-of-obamacare/386734/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Selling of the Avocado]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/the-selling-of-the-avocado/385047/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Male and Female Brains Really Are Different]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/male-and-female-brains-really-are-built-differently/281962/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ready your knowing smirk, because here comes a scientific gem that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sure to enliven even the dullest of holiday parties.By analyzing the MRIs of 949 people aged 8 to 22, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania found that male brains have more connections within each...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Getting Drunk in Antarctica]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/on-getting-drunk-in-antarctica/277793/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Olga Khazan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There comes a point every summer where the hot weather starts to feel less like an opportunity for outdoor fun and more like a full-body rash that won't go away. New Yorkers are flocking to an ice bar. Japanese workers ditch their suits for Hawaiian shirts. Here in D.C., the summer is so...]]></description>
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