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<title><![CDATA[Vann Newkirk - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30140.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Vann Newkirk]]></description><category domain="30140">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old--and Hanging by a Thread]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/american-democracy-is-only-55-years-old%E2%80%94and-hanging-by-a-thread/ar-BB1dAYsg</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You were born on July 9, 1964, in Greenwood, Mississippi, delivered into the cradle of white supremacy. Listening to the stories of terror and hope woven into the story of your birth used to frighten me. The year before you entered the world, white supremacists were blocking food aid to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' New Voting-Rights Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/democrats-hope-restore-key-section-voting-rights-act/583969/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The party hopes to restore and extend key provisions of the Voting Rights Act.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[VA Dems in Turmoil as Northam, Fairfax &amp; Herring Remain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/northam-herring-and-fairfax-divide-virginia-democrats/583117/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scandals reveal a party beset by infighting and whispers of conspiracies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stacey Abrams's New Strategy for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/stacey-abrams-focuses-voting-rights-her-response/582139/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her response to the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s State of the Union address, the former Georgia legislator pushed voting rights to the heart of her party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voter Suppression Is the New Old Normal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/2018-midterms-and-specter-voter-suppression/573826/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Massive purges of minority voters from state rolls will stain the 2018 elections. They won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be the last.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Protests Are Shifting the Narrative at the Border]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/a-rally-for-families-by-families/564239/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Saturday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s march against family separation grew into a much broader appeal for moral high ground.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DOJ Abandons the Most Popular Part of the Health Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/aca-preexisting-conditions-doj/562442/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t defend Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s preexisting-conditions provision in court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the latest in the administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s assault on the law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Black Voters Want]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/what-black-voters-want/559775/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the 2018 and 2020 elections on the horizon, race and racism are becoming ever-larger issues among the most marginalized communities in America, making the Democratic coalition harder and harder to hold.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Dragon Energy'? What Is Kanye Thinking?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/peter-teal/558953/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rapper and president are bros now. Here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s why.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The True Cost of Cheap Health Insurance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/short-term-insurance-trump-proposed-rule/558743/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any day now, the Trump administration is expected to release new regulations to make short-term health-insurance plans last a lot longer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of U.S. Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/white-supremacy-is-still-americas-biggest-security-threat/557591/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are a million and one threads to the chaos currently unspooling about the Trump administration and the 2016 election. One might be forgiven for giving up on trying to navigate the intricacies of congressional Russia inquiries, Special Counsel Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ever-widening...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Whitewashing of King's Assassination]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/how-to-kill-a-revolution/552518/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Woe to you,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Jesus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rebuke to the Pharisees descended upon me on a cold January morning in 2017, in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. On that Monday, the national holiday dedicated to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adding Citizenship Question Will Weaponize the Census]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-weaponized-census/556592/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So far, 2018 has been the time for passionate fights about strange things. Facebook quizzes, self-driving cars, expensive dinner tables, and porn stars have all become critical pieces of the political landscape. The weird has become the mundane, and even the most obscure and arcane...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Provocation and Power of Black Panther]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/02/the-provocation-and-power-of-black-panther/553226/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blackness invites speculation. The very idea of a global African diaspora creates the most fertile of grounds for a field of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' what-ifs. What if European enslavers and colonizers had never ventured into the African continent? More intriguing yet: What if African nations and peoples had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Decades of White Backlash]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/trump-massive-resistance-history-mlk/550544/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. In response, a week later President Lyndon B. Johnson scrambled to sign into law the Fair Housing Act, a final major civil-rights bill that had languished for years under the strain of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' white backlash to the civil-rights...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Still Missing From Trump's Opioid Crisis Plan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/trump-opioid-speech-declaration/544167/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Together, we will face this challenge as a national family.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['The Hobbit': J.R.R. Tolkien's Classic Turns 80]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/09/the-hobbit-80-years-later/540684/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' So began the legendarium that dominated a genre, changed Western literature and the field of linguistics, created a tapestry of characters and mythology that endured four generations, built an anti-war ethos that endured a World...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hurricane Harvey's Public-Health Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/hurricane-harveys-public-health-nightmare/538767/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the thousands of people traveled through Harvey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s flood waters to Houston'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s George R. Brown Convention Center, safety was not yet at hand. Although delivered from the worst of the storm, the packed masses were one of the loci of another brewing problem, one that officials...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Beat Asthma]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/532542/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day had been a grind. I flew to Denver early on a March morning, hoping to give myself a full day to acclimate to the air before I did some jogging and hiking the next day. From the moment I touched down and took a Lyft away from the Denver airport, that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' unlucky hellhorse, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Don't Know How or When to Repeal Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/nobody-knows-when-obamacare-repeal-is-happening/515955/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'day one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' goal for the Trump administration to repeal Obamacare. Vice President Mike Pence said in early January that the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'first order of business'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' was to repeal and replace Obamacare, and President Trump backed up his urgency with a storm of tweets urging...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Repeal &amp; Delay&quot; Won't Prevent Obamacare Repeal Chaos]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/repeal-and-delay-wont-prevent-obamacare-repeal-chaos/512147/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, Republicans will probably vote to repeal Obamacare. Though Republicans and vice president-elect Mike Pence are huddling to come up with replacement plans, the general framework of action over the immediate term seems clear. Republicans will likely delay its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Delayed Gratification of Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/obamacare-health-reform-public-opinion/504200/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the national rate of uninsured people at historic lows, why isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t Obamacare more popular? Over the course of the last two years, which saw around 20 million Americans gain health insurance coverage, public opinion of the Affordable Care Act nevertheless remains negative. Its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Vexing Economics of Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/obamacare-health-reform-insurance-economics/500348/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will anyone be able to figure out American health care? So far, perhaps the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most byzantine arrangement of doctors, hospitals, clinics, contractors, pharmaceutical companies, private insurers, public insurers, medical schools, nursing homes, and dozens of other stakeholders...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is Why Black Lives Matter Is Not Going Away]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/movement-black-lives-platform/494309/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, black protesters made their presence known in marches down Broad Street. After these groups mostly ignored the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and just two weeks after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare: The Less Affordable Care Act?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/obamacare-exchanges-premium-increases/486674/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A spate of news stories about the undeniable successes of the Affordable Care Act in providing insurance coverage to the vast majority of Americans also underlines one of its core failures: That coverage remains unaffordable for many of those who don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have employer or public...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The American Idea in 140 Characters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/twitter-politics-last-decade/475131/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vann Newkirk</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Thinking we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re only one signature away from ending the war in Iraq.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' With this message in April 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama began the very first Twitter campaign for president and, in the process, launched one of the first demonstrations of the power of the...]]></description>
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