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<title><![CDATA[Nancy Jacobson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29764.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nancy Jacobson]]></description><category domain="29764">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Nicholas Kristof and the Collapse of Journalistic Standards]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/16/media_malpractice_at_the_new_york_times_154129.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How can the American people know what to believe anymore? They'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re supposed to be able to turn to the New York Times and other legacy newspapers for impartial facts. Although that aspirational view was never as true as many of us supposed it to be, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s become scandalously...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Bipartisan Coalition--Just Not the One We Wanted]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5747730-burn-it-down-coalition-emerges/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether in the showdown over Department of Homeland Security funding, the ongoing debate over striking Iran, or the endless fighting over the Epstein files, a strange new coalition is emerging between the extreme left and the extreme right. Call it the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Burn-It-Down...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Should Oppose Mamdani, Not Help Rebrand Him]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5495127-political-extremism-threat-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is there anything more dangerous to America than political extremism? The answer is yes '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and that would be extremism disguised as moderation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&lsquo;America Party&rsquo; Can Change Congress. &lsquo;America Caucus&rsquo; Can Change It Faster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/12/america_party_can_change_congress_america_caucus_can_change_it_faster_153035.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s greatest innovator has set his sights on America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest problem: the two-party system that is ripping our social fabric, bankrupting our nation, and failing to solve our most basic problems.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Elon Musk'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'America Party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is one of those ideas that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Democrats Can Learn From Ruben Gallego]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5220988-gallego-arizona-senate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Arizona was supposed to be a narrowly contested swing state in 2024, but President Trump carried it by a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' comfortable 5.5 percent margin. How, then, did Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' triumph in the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s open Senate race'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' against his Trump-aligned opponent?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressives Won't Allow Democratic Party To Be Saved]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5142433-democratic-party-reforms-fail/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What has been clear to some of us for years is finally common knowledge: the Democratic Party is lost in the wilderness.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Labels Is Down But Not Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-labels-is-down-but-not-out-lieberman-no-labels-2024-rematch-1e7b69be?mod=opinion_lead_pos8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll continue to search for and support candidates who can fill America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leadership vacuum.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems &amp; GOP Try To Subvert 3rd Party Option]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-democrats-and-republicans-met-to-subvert-a-third-party-option-so-much-for-caring-about-what-voters-want/ar-AA1cD7Z6</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' it was reported'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that a group of leading Democratic strategists and former officials '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' including President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s former chief of staff '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' met recently with anti-Trump Republicans to hatch a plan to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'subvert'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a third option for the 2024 presidential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t Eliminate the Filibuster. Raise the Bar.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/09/dont_eliminate_the_filibuster_raise_the_bar_144391.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The filibuster was once an entirely different animal. It was, in and of itself, the Senate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'nuclear option.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Members inclined to use it had to talk ceaselessly on the Senate floor without interruption. Amid the Great Depression, at a moment when a majority of both houses...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Congress Fail Again, or Do its Job and Compromise?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/19/will_congress_fail_again_or_do_its_job_and_compromise.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An extraordinary example of Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s partisan dysfunction has been playing out this summer. The Republican-led Senate and Democratic-led House have been pushing their own COVID-19 relief packages with virtually no consideration of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' whether they could actually become law. All this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Simple Idea to Help Reopen America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/22/a_simple_idea_to_help_reopen_america_143004.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This pandemic has changed so much about America, but at least one thing unfortunately remains the same. Our national political dialogue is still dominated by denizens of the right and left directing blame at someone on the other side. Democrats accuse the president of incompetence. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Needs to Explain How This Ends]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/27/washington_needs_to_explain_how_this_ends_142780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Across America people are consumed by dread, and not only by fear that someone they love will contract COVID-19. Yes, contracting the virus is scary. But many wonder when and if the terrible economic catastrophe will end. What will the world look like after the nationwide shutdown? Will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Constitutional Nightmare Looms]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/13/a_constitutional_nightmare_looms.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twice in the last two decades the contender inaugurated as president of the United States prevailed, even while losing the popular vote. But given the ongoing vicious cycle of political recrimination'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a phenomenon put on display during the State of the Union, when the president...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Want Politicians to Fix Problems, Not Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/29/americans_want_politicians_to_fix_problems_not_fight.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For as long as there have been conversations about women in politics, the question has always been: How would things be different if women were'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' really'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in charge? Well, of course, not all women are the same. But my hunch is that if more of us took positions of leadership --...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About No Labels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/07/the_truth_about_no_labels_138856.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Manichean dichotomy that separates America into red and blue partisan camps may be easy to understand. But the most salient schism in our politics isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t between Democrats and Republicans. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s between the pragmatists in both parties who want to engage across the aisle, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pelosi's New Rules: A Much-Needed Step]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/30/pelosis_new_rules_a_much-needed_step__138789.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, a group of congressmen worked with the likely next speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to establish some new ways for Congress to conduct its business. You would have guessed, based on some of the reporting of their efforts, that this was some kind of personal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Exit Strategy for Our Careening, Caustic Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/06/the_exit_strategy_for_our_careening_caustic_politics__138277.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every parent has had one of those days where you can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t catch your breath. One kid skins a knee, and another'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s in a bad mood. The babysitter calls in sick right when a crisis hits at the office. It feels as though things are falling apart '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and by the time you get to bed,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Residue of Ramrod Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/04/the_residue_of_ramrod_politics_130767.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration will be known for its many initiatives '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' between the Affordable Care Act, the Iran deal, and his immigration executive actions, the president will leave office with an ambitious array of policy undertakings.
But what the administration lacks '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' public...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Rides With the Ghost of Eisenhower]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/07/22/highways_finally_funded_in_mcconnell-boxer_bill.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Eisenhower had a long-term vision for American transportation: to connect people and ideas across the nation. This vision manifested in a federally funded infrastructure, the Highway Trust Fund, uniting cities and towns across America. With this plan, Eisenhower's vision became...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voters Know What They Want; Are Candidates Listening?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/09/voters_know_what_they_want_candidates_are_you_listening.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The easiest job in politics has always been that of the critic. In today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s political environment in particular, critics take up most of the oxygen, while the optimistic are branded as foolish, unrealistic or out of touch.
Out of touch with whom, exactly, we wonder? Because if the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for a National Strategic Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/09/16/its_time_for_a_national_strategic_agenda__123962.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Jacobson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you wanted to distill the dysfunction in Washington down to one simple phrase, you could do a lot worse than this:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'All tactics, no strategy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
In Congress, there are plenty of hearings being held and laws being proposed. In government agencies, there are countless...]]></description>
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