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<title><![CDATA[Joshua Zeitz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/31628.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Joshua Zeitz]]></description><category domain="31628">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Could Stage a Comeback, According to History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/05/where-do-democrats-go-from-here-history-class-would-be-a-good-start-00580736</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats could learn something from studying how wounded political parties returned to power in the past.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's More to Trump's Panama Canal Talk Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/11/trumps-bluster-panama-canal-00197624</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History shows that, while voters may not care about the canal itself, they may care about what it represents.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kissinger and Nixon One of History's Weirdest Partnerships]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/kissinger-nixon-relationship-00129446</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The two mens' legacies are forever intertwined. But that didn't mean they always got along.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Jews Won&rsquo;t Abandon the Left. Will It Abandon Us?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/23/anti-israel-left-jewish-politics-00122848</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The liberal left alienated Jewish allies in the past. Has anything changed?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's 'Weaponization Committee' Is Misfiring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/gop-church-committee-00083835</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP has compared their new committee to the Church Committee, which uncovered rampant crimes in the '70s. Really?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Founders Intended To Check Supreme Court's Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/03/dont-expand-the-supreme-court-shrink-it-00043863</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president and Congress can check SCOTUS' power when they believe the justices have exceeded their mandate. This might be the best way to save the court from itself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the School Wars Are Really About]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/22/history-school-wars-religion-00034188</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 1925 Scopes trial was presented as a conflict between secularism vs. religion. But the fight also went deeper, hitting at the very meaning of freedom in a democracy. And that same debate rages on today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Has Never Been Apolitical]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/03/the-supreme-court-has-never-been-apolitical-00022482</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many today fear the court is becoming just another partisan institution. But, in the past, justices sought elective office and counseled partisan allies. Some even coveted the White House themselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Did Americans Do at First Thanksgiving? Argue About It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/25/first-thanksgiving-political-fight-523357</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving might seem like a fairly uncontroversial national holiday. That wasn't the case in Abraham Lincoln's day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why This Crime Boom May Not Hurt the Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/25/pandemic-crime-politics-1970s-election-500653</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pandemic-related rise in crime could play differently in electoral politics now compared to the 1970s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has America Outgrown the Pilgrims?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/25/how-america-outgrew-the-pilgrims-440603</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 400th anniversary of the first Puritans landing at Plymouth is passing with little fanfare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and that's OK.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If This Is Like 1968, Then Trump Is in Big Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/02/trump-1968-lyndon-johnson-297346</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump campaigns like Richard Nixon and George Wallace, but in reality, he is Lyndon Johnson: a man who has lost control of the machine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Presidency Can't Just Go Back to 'Normal' After Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/15/why-presidency-cant-go-back-normal-trump-115362</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'norms and traditions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' that Trump has incinerated aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t timeless features of American democracy; they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re actually quite new'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and brittle.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Progressives: Read History, So You Don't Blow 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/01/progressives-history-227037</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The original Progressive reform movement was flexible and broad. That's why it worked.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Aren't Moving Left. They're Returning to Their Roots.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/04/elections-2018-democrats-history-liberal-progressive-socialist-222187</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many on both sides are worried about the party's leftward swing. They say it's a deviation from the mainstream. It's not.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bobby Kennedy Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/05/rfk-bobby-kennedy-myth-legend-history-218593</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many on the left have learned the wrong lessons from his ill-fated presidential bid.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Identity Politics Is an American Tradition. Because It Works.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/17/identity-politics-history-mark-lilla-215607</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Abraham Lincoln was running for reelection in 1864, a typical Democratic Party newspaper warned that should Lincoln earn a second term in office, his administration would bring about the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'blending of the white and the black'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'an epidemic of black men and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened in Charlottesville Is All Too American]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/13/what-happened-in-charlottesville-is-all-too-american-215482</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joshua Zeitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'These people are not from here,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Rep. Thomas Garrettaffirmed in the wake of an American Nazi and Klan rally that descended into smoke and violence in his Virginia congressional district on Saturday. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It blows my mind that this many racist bigots actually exist in this...]]></description>
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