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<title><![CDATA[Sean Illing - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/31345.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sean Illing]]></description><category domain="31345">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Katie Porter Thinks Dems Have a Confidence Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/2023/4/16/23680245/katie-porter-democrats-confidence</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The populist Congress member from California talked with The Gray Area about some solutions to it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Profound Pessimism of Justice Thomas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2022/9/20/23342639/vox-conversations-clarence-thomas-supreme-court-black-nationalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the sense of defeat over the Black freedom struggle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' shaped the Supreme Court justice'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s thinking.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of History Is History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2022/6/6/23060685/vox-conversations-francis-fukuyama-liberalism-and-its-discontents</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama is easily one of the most influential political thinkers of the last several decades. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s best known for his 1992 book'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The End of History and the Last Man, which arrived on the scene as the Cold War was ending. Fukuyama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s central claim was that liberal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Moscow Journalist on the New Russian Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22967223/ukraine-russia-war-putin-propaganda-reallity</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An independent journalist describes what life is like inside Russia's parallel universe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Story of 'Don't Look Up']]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22922423/vox-conversations-dont-look-up-oscars-david-sirota</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Co-writer (and Academy Award nominee) David Sirota on what the movie is really about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Better Messaging Save Democrats?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2022/1/31/22869091/democrats-messaging-dan-pfeiffer-midterms-2022</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wrong with the Democratic brand? To be sure, the country has lots of problems right now. There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inflation, a supply chain crisis, and a pandemic that just won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t go away. And on top of all that, Democrats have seen huge chunks of their agenda stall out in Congress....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for a More Radical Climate Movement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22691428/vox-conversations-climate-change-andreas-malm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Author Andreas Malm on the failures of climate activism and the need for escalation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marty Baron on Truth, Democracy &amp; the Press in an Age of Distrust]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/2021/8/9/22605855/vox-conversations-martin-baron-washington-post-media-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former executive editor of the Washington Post on what worries him about America's future '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and why defeatism is not an option.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Optimism About American Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22586955/vox-conversations-fareed-zakaria-the-state-of-global-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria on the challenges to global democracy and whether America is still a model for the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unavoidable Discomfort Around Anti-Racist Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22464746/critical-race-theory-anti-racism-jarvis-givens</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James Carville: Wokeness Is a Problem &amp; Everybody Knows It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[James Carville on the state of Democratic politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Martin Gurri on Why the Elites Have Failed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22301496/martin-gurri-the-revolt-of-the-public-global-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have lost faith in elites and public institutions. The problem is nothing has taken their place.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Republican Party Be Saved?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22220645/trump-capitol-attack-republican-party</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why de-radicalizing the GOP is both urgent and extremely difficult.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We Entering a New Era of Political Violence?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/are-we-entering-a-new-era-of-political-violence/ar-BB1cz3ca</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, leading to evacuations of lawmakers and at least'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' four deaths'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a surreal, embarrassing scene that felt like a predictable finale to this whole sordid era.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21473579/millennials-great-recession-burnout-anne-helen-petersen</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21473579/millennials-great-recession-burnout-anne-helen-petersen]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Author Anne Helen Petersen on why millennials have internalized the worst parts of their condition.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Ideologue Meets Grifter:' How Bill Barr Made Trumpism Possible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/%e2%80%9cits-ideologue-meets-grifter%e2%80%9d-how-bill-barr-made-trumpism-possible/ar-BB17knDA</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On July 28, Attorney General Bill Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to face questions from lawmakers over the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' use of force in nationwide protests'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and his'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' intervention in cases involving the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s former advisers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Obamagate' Is Bullsh'&#'.ord('*').';'t and the Media Shouldn't Cover It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/16/21258788/obamagate-trump-flynn-bannon-flood-the-zone</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no point in unpacking this theory here because it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bullshit and everyone knows it. (If you need an explainer, my'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Vox colleague Jen Kirby'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has you covered.) But for the sake of a reference point, here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the simplest version possible: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Deep state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why James Carville Thinks the Democratic Party Just Saved Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/6/21164705/2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/6/21164705/2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why James Carville thinks the Democratic Party saved itself on Tuesday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['I Don't Like What I See': Carville Unloads on Dem 2020 Field]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/7/21123518/trump-2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/7/21123518/trump-2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the longtime Democratic strategist is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'scared to death'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of the 2020 election.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Misinformation Is Overwhelming Our Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The impeachment trial probably won't change any minds. Here's why.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Decade of Revolt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/26/21004797/2010s-review-a-decade-of-revolt-martin-gurri</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Meet the author who predicted the upheavals of the 2010s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bored and Lonely? Blame Your Phone]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18510958/social-media-addiction-boredom-loneliness-society-technology-smart-phones]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our emotions today are radically different from what 19th-century Americans felt. That's partly due to technology.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Millennials Burned Out? Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2019/2/4/18185383/millennials-capitalism-burned-out-malcolm-harris</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/2019/2/4/18185383/millennials-capitalism-burned-out-malcolm-harris]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Author Malcolm Harris on why millennials need a revolution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facebook Turns 15. Has It Been Good for the World?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/technology/2019/2/4/18205138/facebook-15-anniversary-social-network-founded-date-2004</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/technology/2019/2/4/18205138/facebook-15-anniversary-social-network-founded-date-2004]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[15 influencers weigh in on the company'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 15th birthday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Steven Pinker and the Case for Optimism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/2/12/16975760/steven-pinker-technology-ai-enlightenment-now</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/2/12/16975760/steven-pinker-technology-ai-enlightenment-now]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[We're Becoming Numb to Terrorism. That Might Be a Good Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/2/16591706/terror-attack-new-york-city-terrorism</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/2/16591706/terror-attack-new-york-city-terrorism]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The point of terrorism is to terrify.Whether it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 9/11 or the 2015'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' attack in Paris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' or the 2017'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' subway attack'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in London or the most'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' recent attack'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in New York City, the goal is always to create an omnipresent sense of danger.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Trans Military Ban, Like Don't Ask Don't Tell, Won't Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2017/9/15/16301306/trump-trans-ban-military-dont-ask-dont-tell</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/2017/9/15/16301306/trump-trans-ban-military-dont-ask-dont-tell]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joined with a Republican counterpart, Maine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Susan Collins, to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' introduce'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an amendment designed to reverse President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s controversial ban on transgender service people.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Faces a Non-Trump-Related Electoral Disaster in November]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/05/03/republicans_are_facing_an_electoral_disaster_in_november_and_its_not_donald_trumps_fault/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.salon.com/2016/05/03/republicans_are_facing_an_electoral_disaster_in_november_and_its_not_donald_trumps_fault/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is facing a crisis in November. If you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re thinking that crisis has a face, an orange and bulbous face, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re half right. Donald Trump is surely a problem for Republicans, both in the short and long-term, but the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s issues go well beyond the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Need to Be Worried About Hillary Clinton's FBI Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/03/28/democrats_need_to_be_worried_about_hillarys_fbi_problem_the_looming_political_fight_could_cause_real_damage_in_november/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A specter is haunting the Hillary Clinton campaign '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the specter of an FBI investigation. The possibility of an indictment for her use of a private email system as secretary of state has been looming for months now, but the story hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t engulfed Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inevitability...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Convention Destined for Chaos, Exactly as Dems Want]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2016/01/11/imploding_the_gop_republican_convention_is_destined_for_chaos_and_thats_exactly_what_democrats_want/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sean Illing</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A brokered convention would be a nightmare for the GOP. It would upend an already fractured party and it would marginalize key Republican constituencies. Under any plausible scenario, a brokered convention would pit the establishment wing of the party against practically everyone else...]]></description>
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