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<title><![CDATA[Jay Michaelson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/28853.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jay Michaelson]]></description><category domain="28853">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[We Need To Talk More About Trans People, Not Less]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trans-people-science-facts-trump-1235168833/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk's X Is a Poison. We Don't Need To Keep Taking It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-twitter-x-collective-leaving-rcna169608</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not enough for some journalists and influencers to boycott the social media site formerly known as Twitter. Everyone needs to bail on it at once.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is Your Father's Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/your-fathers-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Old-school justices advance the right's agenda while discarding much of Trump's.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Vile Bid to Rope Israel Into His War With the Squad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-vile-plan-to-rope-israel-into-his-war-with-the-squad-will-backfire?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why banning members of Congress from entering Israel helps Netanyahu but will low-key backfire on Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Finally Calls BS on Trump Administration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/census-decision-supreme-court-finally-calls-bs-on-the-trump-administration</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Court votes 5-4 to delay'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and perhaps doom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'adding a citizenship question to the census because Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied about the real reason for doing it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Reaffirms  Christian Privilege]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-cross-case-liberals-join-conservatives-to-say-40-foot-monument-is-secular?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the 7-2 result was not as broad as progressives had feared, it still tells every non-Christian they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re living in someone else'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s country.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Up to Chief Justice Roberts to Stop Trump's Wall]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-up-to-chief-justice-john-roberts-to-stop-trumps-border-wall?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The national emergency order is headed to the highest court, one way or the other. This will put American democratic institutions to their greatest test of the 21st century.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh Just Showed How He'd Roll Back Abortion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/kavanaugh-just-showed-how-hed-roll-back-abortion-without-overturning-roe-v-wade?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court freezes Louisiana law, but the newest justice would let it take effect by finding a bizarre way around a case decided two years ago.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Brett Kavanaugh Wins, the Supreme Court Loses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-brett-kavanaugh-wins-the-supreme-court-loses</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His confirmation threatens to severely undermine the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s legitimacy for three reasons: Russia, Roe, and the redaction of his records.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scott Pruitt Is Too Crooked to Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/too-crooked-to-fail-why-scott-pruitt-still-has-his-job-for-now?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Scott Pruitt been fired?His scandals are worse than those of already-ousted Trump administration officials. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s even committed the cardinal sin of directly contravening a White House demand. So how come Pruitt still has his job, when David Shulkin, Tom Price, Gary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[10 Worst Things Scott Pruitt's EPA Has Already Done]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ten-worst-things-scott-pruitts-epa-has-already-done?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No part of the government has been untouched by the Trump revolution. Multiple Cabinet departments are headed by people opposed to their core missions, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' judiciary'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is being transformed at an unprecedented rate, and thanks to the new tax cut, even the sacred cows of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Medicare and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NFL Is Right: Dissenting Players Are Patriotic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nfl-is-right-trump-is-wrong-dissenting-players-are-patriotic</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To protest'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for whatever cause, left or right wing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is to make real the best ideals of America: freedom of speech, democracy, the rule of law. Protesting brings those ideals into reality. It is the opposite of disrespect and despair: It is to call our country to account, and to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's War on the Unborn]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-war-on-the-unborn</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump Trying to Kill the EPA, or Just Starve It?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/16/is-trump-trying-to-kill-the-epa-or-just-starve-it.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s internal battle over the environment is shaping up, with some surprising combatants on both sides'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and a giant question mark in the middle, in the shape of the president himself, who this morning proposed a 30 percent cut in the Environmental...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate-Denying EPA Pick Is Worse Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/08/scott-pruitt-trump-s-climate-denying-epa-pick-is-worse-than-you-think.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every scientist not on the corporate dole is upset about Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Like Betsy DeVos, who wants to destroy public education, and Jeff Sessions, who wants to destroy the Voting Rights Act, Pruitt is against the very...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Save the Courts to Save U.S. From Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/26/obama-must-save-the-courts-to-save-america-from-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint judges in the upcoming congressional recess. Here's why he needs to use it, but not on the Supreme Court.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Caitlyn, Ted Cruz Is Not a Friend]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/08/dear-caitlyn-jenner-please-reconsider-your-support-of-ted-cruz.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As you probably expected, most the LGBT community cannot understand how you could support Ted Cruz, a fundamentalist Christian whose opposition to LGBT equality is at the center of his platform.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' To this you have responded, on I am Cait, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'None of the Republicans are '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'I hate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Sanders Fans: A Vote for Bernie Is a Vote for Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/16/why-a-vote-for-bernie-sanders-is-a-vote-for-donald-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear Bernie Voter,Unlike many Clinton supporters, I am not writing to you because I think you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re na'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¯').';'ve, or misguided, or sexist, or dumb, or any of the other patronizing and condescending crap that Hillary voters often say. In fact, I probably agree with you on most issues. I am...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Francis Unite American Catholics?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/21/can-pope-francis-unite-american-catholics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis, with his message of economic equality and environmental sustainability, is coming to America. But is anyone paying attention?A report issued a week before the pope'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first visit to the United States says the answer is yes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but the differences in Catholic responses...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did the Dissenting Justices Suggest Treason?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/27/did-dissenting-justices-suggest-treason.html?source=socialflow&amp;via=twitter_page&amp;account=thedailybeast&amp;medium=twitter</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In controversial cases, is the role of jurist to inflame controversy, or quell it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Religious Right in Knots Over 50 Shades]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/15/religious-right-in-knots-over-50-shades.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Christians Get Gay Marriage Right?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/27/did-christians-get-gay-marriage-right.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jay Michaelson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is becoming a national inevitability. A cascade of court opinions, significant public support, not to mention increasingly sympathetic gay couples and increasingly implausible opposition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'all these and more point to an emerging national consensus that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'gay...]]></description>
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