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							<title><![CDATA[The Old Cliche About Afghanistan That Won't Die]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/28/afghanistan-graveyard-britain-us-russia-506990</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Graveyard of Empires' is an old epitaph that doesn't reflect historical reality '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or the real victims of foreign invasions over the centuries.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Cuomo's Survival (So Far) Says About New York]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/20/why-is-andrew-cuomo-holding-on-blame-new-yorks-politics-of-masochism-477220</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New Yorkers have come to overvalue toughness and aggression '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' while forgetting that the state's most legendary governors weren't actually jerks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Trump, We Will Need a Truth &amp; Reconciliation Commission]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/148270/trump-america-truth-reconciliation-commission</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The time has come to think seriously about whether, at some safer, wiser moment in the future, the United States will need a truth and reconciliation commission.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of Normal America]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/146915/american-politics-has-never-been-normal</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The remaining hope for all Americans of good sense, more than a year into Donald J. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s already interminable spin in office, was that the president and his brand of politics would turn out to be a passing aberration. That somehow, once Trump lost his reelection bid, or was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Trail of Fears]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/142985/trail-fears-trump-more-like-jackson-than-nixon</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During Watergate, to their lasting credit, conservatives in both the legislative and judicial branches of our government, loyal to something greater than the whims of their president, wielded their constitutional power to preserve the rule of law in America. When the final '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'smoking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for a Bluexit]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For more than 80 years now, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the residents of what some people like to call Blue America, but which I prefer to think of as the United States of We Pay Our Own Damn Way'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'have shelled out far more in federal tax monies than we took in. We have funded massive infrastructure...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of the Smug Liberal]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/139169/myth-smug-liberal</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most irritating media trope to emerge in the aftermath of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election is the idea that it was a rebuke to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'condescending'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' liberals who live in our own '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'bubbles.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Steve Schmidt gave us a preview on MSNBC even before the race for the White House was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Got Right About Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/138020/what-donald-trump-got-right-american-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, he blew it up, didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t he?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Grow Up, Liberals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/opinion/campaign-stops/lets-grow-up-liberals.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At last! Senator Bernie Sanders joined Hillary Clinton on a New Hampshire stage Tuesday to say two things many of us had begun to despair we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d ever hear from him. One, that he actually did lose the 2016 primary campaign to Secretary Clinton, and two, that he was endorsing her for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Party Meltdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/opinion/campaign-stops/political-party-meltdown.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Delusions of the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/opinion/sunday/delusions-of-the-democrats.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kevin Baker</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DEMOGRAPHICS is not enough.For years now, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been an article of faith among Democrats that the future belongs to them, thanks to the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s changing demographic mix. The rising percentage of voters who are women, Americans of color and especially Latinos were always about...]]></description>
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