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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump and the Wrecking-Ball Presidency]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once , when America was still very great, Presidents tended to be builders: they built things like the Interstate Highway System, which began, in 1956, under Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican, whose critics called it an &ldquo;ascent into the stratosphere of New Deal jitterbug...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Art of Irrational Provocation]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[day or so after a nuclear weapon was used during wartime, on Hiroshima, a Herald Tribune editorialist considered the &ldquo;still hardly credible fact&rdquo; that a &ldquo;small instrument,&rdquo; dropped on a &ldquo;dense population center,&rdquo; brought about &ldquo;what must without...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Keep Swimming With the Democrats?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He does keep surprising us, doesn&rsquo;t he? The quasi-alliance that sprang up between Donald Trump and Democratic leaders on issues such as hurricane aid may not last long&mdash;it&rsquo;s fraying already&mdash;but then party loyalty has never been Trump&rsquo;s thing. One need only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Falls Under the Shadow of Spiro Agnew]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-falls-under-the-shadow-of-spiro-agnew</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Under the current Administration, the Agnew case might seem the better predictor of what could come next.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Art of Confusion]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President has adopted the strategy that was recommended to the shady protagonist of Gogol's novel.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Non-Transformation of Donald J. Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since last week's air strike on Syria, it's as if a national amnesia button got pushed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Last Resorts: The Recall Option]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans, from time to time, do get very angry with their Presidents, but never, in modern memory, as fervently or as quickly as with this one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Embarrassment of President Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After little more than three weeks, Trump's behavior is no more erratic than it used to be, but in the context of the Presidency it seems so.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speechless: The Trump Effect]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's possible to view Trump's first days as an exercise in meta-bullying, as if his purpose were to torment those who voted against him]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lost Generation of the 2016 Campaign]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you look back several months, you might regret the hours you spent watching the Presidential debates, but then, some might feel that way about binge-watching a series on Netflix: the debates were irresistible. At the same time, one could regret that the inspired idea by someone at Fox...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Primaries: The Story So Far]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-primaries-the-story-so-far</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As voters go to the polls in the next round of primaries today&mdash;most importantly, in Ohio and Florida&mdash;a brief recap: almost a year ago, on April 12, 2015, Hillary Clinton announced that she was seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination and became the immediate favorite....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Paul Ryan Should Beware of Visions]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a few minutes last week, Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, sounded like someone who hoped to push the chamber closer to its role as a legislative body capable of legislating and of getting past the speed bumps (or potholes) of disruptive insiders like the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Republican Party Need a New Machine?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Martin O&rsquo;Malley, one of the back-running Democratic Presidential candidates, accused &ldquo;party bosses&rdquo; of fixing the nomination process, it was enough to bring on a wave of nostalgia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How FDR's Death Changed Vice Presidency]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seventy years ago this week, on April 12, 1945, while he was sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke what were probably his last words&mdash;&ldquo;I have a terrific headache&rdquo;&mdash;and fainted. He died two hours later, of a cerebral...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lonely Hillary Clinton Campaign]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly eight years ago, Democrats held their first televised Presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, marking the debut of a cast of characters that ranged from the plausible to the preposterous. For two hours, the candidates, some of them now remembered only by those with an unhealthy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton and the Historians]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly sixty years ago, there was trouble in Poland and more so in Hungary, both Soviet satellite states. When the Russians sent troops to Hungary, the United States was pressed to do something, or at least say something. The pressure, and the stakes, grew when what had started as street...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Midterm Mood Swings]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeffrey Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One way of looking at last week&rsquo;s midterm results is as a national mood swing, made up of irrational fear (Ebola, the terrorist next door), anxiety about the economy, and, perhaps above all, a vague, very real dissatisfaction with President Obama, stemming in part from a wish that...]]></description>
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