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<title><![CDATA[Virginia Heffernan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27423.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Virginia Heffernan]]></description><category domain="27423">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[NH Senate Race Leans Dem, But It's Not in the Bag]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/new-hampshire-s-senate-race-leans-dem-but-the-state-is-well-you-know/ar-AA2bavYw?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the American political traditions we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve lost in Trump times, one of them never got its moment of silence: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'As New Hampshire goes, so goes the nation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Happiness Just Hit a New Low]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/opinion-american-happiness-just-hit-a-new-low-dont-blame-your-parents/ar-BB1kGsVG</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lately I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been looking forward to turning 60 and celebrating with a slug of strong black coffee, the way I once aspired to turn 21 with a rum and Coke. Why? Because I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m retiring? I wish.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Twitter I Love Doesn't Exist Anymore]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-twitter-i-love-doesnt-exist-anymore/ar-AA19lACb</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At its best, the platform was a reminder that there are quick-witted and even wise people in the world with ideas to share.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Tweet or Not To Tweet, Now That Musk's the Boss]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-tweet-not-tweet-205851781.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Twitter changed hands Thursday, the question before a swath of its 400 million users was: Should I stay or should I go?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Don't Need 'Messaging,' Just Better Candidates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/op-ed-democrats-don-t-need-messaging-just-more-candidates-who-act-like-john-fetterman/ar-AAZHoTf?cvid=a0a13391c8ce45a1a1c4057b589eb4cd</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No photoshop or autotune mars Democrat John Fetterman's doghair-festooned jacket, raggedy goatee or guttural voice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Twitter Survive Musk? I'm Sticking Around To Find Out]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-twitter-survive-elon-100005627.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Musk is not a benevolent actor, but he probably can't wreck Twitter without wrecking what he really cares about: $TWTR.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Signs of Light Amid the Gloom as 2022 Begins]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-end-nigh-maybe-110019070.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's be impressed: There are true signs of light amid the gloom as 2022 begins.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[70 Years of Chicken-Little Stories About Higher Ed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/70-years-of-chicken-little-stories-about-higher-education/ar-AARil27</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seventy years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. published his keening lament for American higher education, God and Man at Yale. Chagrin pervaded GAMAY, as Buckley later branded the book, but it also stung in a satisfying way'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a high-handed swat at the Ivy League by a debonair twerp...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Stop Worrying That CRT Corrupts Your Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-stop-worrying-crt-corrupt-140124554.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't ban critical race theory, but don't discount parents' concerns either.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's 'Build Back Better' Beats Trump All Over Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2553617</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump lost and Biden won on the $1-trillion infrastructure bill, thanks to a big, beautiful bipartisan agreement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Must-See, Must-Listen Capitol Riot Hearings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/heffernan-the-must-see-must-listen-jan-6-hearings/ar-AAMJZGb</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Let that sink in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is among the most persistent refrains on political Twitter.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Just Won't Go Away]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/heffernan-donald-trump-just-wont-100024079.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Wolff delivers the dark-arts inside story of the end of Donald Trump's wrecking ball presidency. Or is it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Inanity of Trump's Campaign to Overturn the Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-inanity-of-trump-s-campaign-to-overturn-the-election/ar-AALiV4M</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In October 2006, just as bankers all over Wall Street were realizing that maybe, just maybe, they should be a little more circumspect about their adventures in subprime-mortgage bundling, some financiers at Goldman Sachs dreamed up a code for use in email: LDL. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s discuss...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cancelation Keeps Us on Our Toes--Where We Belong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/virginia-heffernan-cancelation-keeps-us-on-our-toes-e2-80-94where-we-belong/ar-AAL9LhU</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm going to push in the direction of the linguistic philosophy that I want to bring to the conversation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'so from the beginning, get the edge on definition. I'm with Ludwig Wittgenstein, who thought we don't need to bother with definitions: We know cancel culture when we see it. We...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Hivemind Keeps Doubling Down on Biggest Loser]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/heffernan-gop-hivemind-keeps-doubling-100045516.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dumping Liz Cheney is throwing good resources after bad for the sake of twice-impeached, one-term Donald Trump, the most disgraced and disliked president in history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden, President Elbow Grease]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-joe-biden-president-elbow-212405894.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At Joe Biden's 100-day mark, the U.S. once again has a president who makes a robust case for democracy, and for orderly, line-by-line governing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WH's Big Spend Is Big Bet on Modern Economic Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-bidens-1-9-trillion-110024696.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden's trillion-dollar largesse could signal a sea change in the government's approach to spending.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Can You Do About the Trumpites Next Door?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-trumpites-next-door-110012354.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My neighbors kept President Trump in business with their support. They also just plowed my driveway, gratis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Quiet Joe Be as Compelling as Outrageous Donald?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/column-quiet-joe-just-compelling-110015241.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As it turns out, disciplined governing for the greater good is way more riveting than we remembered.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schiff's 'I Don't Think It's OK' Sums Up Trump Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/heffernan-adam-schiffs-dont-think-110050547.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What can explain congressional Republicans' enabling of our cheating president? Simple cowardice, says their colleague.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is It a Coup, or Just Trump Smashing More Norms?]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/heffernan-coup-just-trump-smashing-110027488.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe as we choose a position between nonchalance and terror, we can set the dial to realism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Call Trump's Supporters What They Are: A Cult]]></title>
							<link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-10/donald-trump-cult-steven-hassan-moonie</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cult diagnosis was confirmed once the president called himself 'the chosen one' and his acolytes agreed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget What Barr Wrote. Listen to Schiff Instead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-schiff-barr-20190329-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Adam Schiff patiently spelled out the state of play between Trumpworld and the Russians, with none of Barr's fuzziness or torque.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump &amp; His Voters Are Racked With Status Anxiety]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-college-education-and-voting-20181028-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A component of the paranoid resentment that many Trumpites have for libs may be part and parcel of the grudge kindled by the fear that they must always prove themselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Close Is #MeToo to Full Riot Mode?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-kavanaugh-20180922-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If alleged sexual assailant Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed it will serve as a recruitment video for an activated feminist base.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Donald Trump Made Me Love Privileged Men]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-mueller-20180819-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I see now that we need people like Robert Mueller.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Becoming Clear: Trump Is an Illegitimate President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-trump-illegitimate-20180728-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fear of facing the legitimacy issue has not stopped Americans from harboring profound doubts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cohen Tapes Might Be Kompromat We've Been Waiting For]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-michael-cohen-tapes-20180719-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cohen reportedly has lifelong ties to the Russian mafia, and he's showing a KGB-level knack for betrayal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Manafort Is in the Klink. It's OK to Be Pleased]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-manafort-jailed-20180616-story.html#nt=oft-Triple%20Chain'&#'.ord('~').';'Feed-Driven%20Flex%20Feature'&#'.ord('~').';'topic-chain-1'&#'.ord('~').';'1-feed-primary-medium-vert-hide-art'&#'.ord('~').';''&#'.ord('~').';'1'&#'.ord('~').';'no-art'&#'.ord('~').';'automated'&#'.ord('~').';'curatedpage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Manafort is one of the most malevolent, cunning and predatory figures yet indicted in l'Affaire Russe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump Is His Own Wiretap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-tv-types-20180518-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Virginia Heffernan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump is wrecking himself with his own medium, his own form of speech and his own dramatic genre.]]></description>
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