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							<title><![CDATA[The Conservative Attack on Empathy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, Elon Musk told Joe Rogan during a podcast taping that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' By that time, the idea that people in the West are too concerned with the pain of others to adequately advocate for their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now I Know What My Mother Was Saying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/now-i-know-what-my-mother-was-saying/ar-AA1EykQY?ocid=BingNewsVerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The kids'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' folders come home from school fat with dead-stock papers: permission slips, notices, idle doodles, art projects, completed packets of classwork.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Season in Hell in Uvalde, Texas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-season-in-hell/ar-AAZzF9e</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Summer in Texas is a tense, precarious time, and it always seems to build inevitably toward a catharsis that doesn't arrive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coming Undone in the Age of Mass Shootings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coming-undone-in-the-age-of-mass-shootings/ar-AAZkiOF</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You develop certain psychological reflexes to get you through the initial shock of the first push alert: Some number dead, others wounded in a mass shooting someplace in America. At this point we all know that the earliest reports are typically flawed, so you can suspend belief a degree...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-culture-that-kills-its-children-has-no-future/ar-AAXKpxs</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An America vacillating between violent struggle and idle nihilism is shuddering toward its end.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing Beautiful Survives the Culture War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/american-kids-no-rights-culture-war-roe/629791/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Parenthood itself seems poised to become a victim of America's toxic politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Child Soldiers in the Culture Wars]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/jd-vance-childless-left-culture-wars/619705/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives like J. D. Vance have drafted kids into their battles'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as pawns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Ilhan Omar Actually Said]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/what-ilhan-omar-actually-said/619196/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one should believe that Omar thinks the United States is identical to the Taliban.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats, It's Time to Consider a Plan B]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/opinion/joe-biden-tara-reade.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tara Reade's allegations against Joe Biden demand action.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why This Progressive Texan Can't Get Excited About Beto]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-this-progressive-texan-cant-get-excited-about-beto-orourke/2018/12/05/641c7f0e-f8b9-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?noredirect=on</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If only the electric chill in the air were an augur of fast-approaching holidays and not the static generated by so many Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls jockeying for the attention of party leaders and donors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Family Leave Plan Would Punish Those With Kids]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-paid-family-leave-plan-would-punish-those-who-choose-to-have-kids/2018/02/07/dc612c0c-0b85-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html?utm_term=.8f1c89880819</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early in the fifth century, the theologian Saint Augustine of Hippo noted something about families and society that, in his era, was simply'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' conventional wisdom: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'After the city, or political community, comes the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' world,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' following the convention that treats the household, city,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Democrats: Shut It Down]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-should-shut-down-the-government-to-protect-innocent-people/2018/01/11/bc992c0c-f6ff-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html?utm_term=.13cc14b19a8e</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Congress cannot agree on a budget plan by Jan. 19,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the government will shut down. This isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the outcome anyone wants. But Democrats ought to start steeling themselves now: If the Republican majority'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s budget plan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' leaves the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'dreamers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in limbo, fails to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Understand the 2nd Amendment Anymore?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2017/11/10/dd6c994a-c505-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html?utm_term=.009eb597c123</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the mass shooting before last, conservative pundit Bill O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Reilly articulated what anti-gun-control politics seem to presume but rarely admit: that blood is the cost of the right to bear arms. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'This is the price of freedom,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Reilly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on his blog,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Evangelical Left Rise Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122716/can-evangelical-left-rise-again</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ast week, after President Jimmy Carter announced that he will undergo treatment for brain cancer, admirers traveled for miles to attend his Sunday school class in Plains, Georgia. The former president and long-time Southern Baptist taught about forgiveness and peace in his class, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Teaching Shakespeare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122040/progressive-case-teaching-shakespeare</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Elizabeth Bruenig</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, high school English teacher Dana Dusbiber took to the pages of The Washington Post to explain why she is reluctant to assign Shakespeare to her students.]]></description>
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