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<title><![CDATA[David Wallace-Wells - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/34589.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Wallace-Wells]]></description><category domain="34589">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Campus Protests Signal End of an Era for Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/08/the-campus-protests-signal-the-end-of-an-era-for-the-democrats/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Each college had a choice; in most places, they chose to escalate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fauci Looks Back: Something Clearly Went Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/24/magazine/dr-fauci-pandemic.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his most extensive interview yet, Anthony Fauci wrestles with the hard lessons of the pandemic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and the decisions that will define his legacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Has Decided It Went Overboard on Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/17/america-has-decided-it-went-overboard-on-covid-19/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In both the United States and Britain, there is suddenly a front-and-center debate about the very earliest days of the pandemic and how each country responded. Did mitigation measures imposed in the spring of 2020, amid great anxiety and uncertainty, actually work? And considering the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Omicron, Pandemic Will Be What We Make of It]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/covid-omicron-pandemic-vibe.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Omicron is in retreat,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' declared the January 19 headline of the New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Morning Newsletter, by David Leonhardt, which reaches millions of inboxes each weekday. That same Wednesday, according to Our World in Data, 3,830 new deaths were reported in the country...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Paths for Omicron]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/two-paths-for-omicron/ar-AASKJeE</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s always dangerous, in a fast-moving pandemic, to take a freeze-frame of the present tense and trust that you can see the future in it all that clearly. In the last few days, there has been a wave of good news about Omicron: Cases appear to have peaked in New York and Boston,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Omicron a New Wave or a Parallel Pandemic?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/is-omicron-a-new-wave-or-a-parallel-pandemic.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the new variant is spreading preferentially among the vaccinated, it may not mean much for the future course of the pandemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[South Africa's Omicron Wave Is Already Peaking. Why?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/south-africas-omicron-wave-looks-like-its-already-peaking-why/ar-AARWSqF</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Virologist Trevor Bedford helps make sense of what is happening with the new variant in South Africa, and what it might mean for other countries.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[And Now for the Good News About Omicron]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/and-now-for-the-good-news-about-omicron/ar-AART8Oo</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Omicron panic swept across the internet, and through the city, as informed Americans started belatedly reckoning with what terms and phrases like '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'doubling every two days,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Rt of six,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'two to three times as infectious as Delta'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' really meant:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Anything Stop the Omicron Wave?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/can-anything-stop-the-omicron-wave/ar-AARLqWk</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At this point, America has limited options.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Politics of Climate Change Hyperbole]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-new-politics-of-climate-hyperbole/ar-AAQDb6G</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s now 12 days down for COP26, the climate conference in Glasgow long called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'make or break'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for humanity, with one more to go. If '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'make or break'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' sounds hyperbolic, rhetoric at the conference itself has set the bar just as high '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' which is to say, perhaps,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Finally a Visible Way Out of the Pandemic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/there-is-finally-a-visible-way-out-of-the-covid-pandemic/ar-AAQonYO?ocid=uxbndlbing</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Probably we were always going to have to decide ourselves when the pandemic was over. Once it became impossible to eliminate the disease entirely, sometime in the early spring of 2020, it also became a lot harder to imagine that the course of the disease itself would tell us in any...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Underestimate Covid's Age Discrimination]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-public-continues-to-underestimate-covids-age-discrimination/ar-AAOSvNp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In mid-September, King County, Washington, in which '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'Seattle is located, released an eye-popping slide about vaccine efficacy and breakthrough prevalence: Vaccines had reduced the risk of infection from COVID sevenfold,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' county data showed, and reduced the risk of hospitalization and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bad Could the Delta Variant Get?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/how-bad-could-the-delta-variant-get.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The scientist Eric Topol explains why we can expect a dangerous wave of cases this fall.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kids Were Safe From Covid the Whole Time]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-kids-were-safe-from-covid-the-whole-time.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why we should rethink COVID safety protocols for children '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and everyone else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Implications of the Lab-Leak Hypothesis]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/is-china-to-blame-for-a-hypothetical-lab-leak.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch explains the risks of the virus research done at the Wuhan Institute.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Invisible Dead of Covid Colonialism]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/invisible-dead-covid-19-colonialism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the global north vaccinates, the rest of the world is in a grimly familiar place.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If the Pandemic Never Really Ends?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-if-the-covid-pandemic-never-really-ends/ar-BB1dq1LD</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are, at the moment, a number of encouraging signs about the near-term course of the pandemic: Caseloads and hospitalizations are falling dramatically, perhaps as a sign of seasonal effects turning a corner; vaccine deployment, while still suboptimal, is improved from a month ago;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Failing at Fighting the Coronavirus]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/coronavirus-case-numbers-surge-in-texas-and-arizona.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pandemic is surging again in the Southwest, where hospitals are reaching capacity. And it's probably going to get worse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Don't Americans Trust the Public-Health Experts?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/american-public-health-experts-coronavirus-masks.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe because the public-health experts don't trust them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has the Pandemic Peaked?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/has-the-pandemic-peaked.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking at a broad cohort of nations, and especially at the U.S., it appears, at the moment, as though the answer may be yes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Is a Preview of Climate-Change Future]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/the-coronavirus-is-a-preview-of-our-climate-change-future.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The warming of the planet will lead to pandemics that are far more dangerous and disruptive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No Plan For End of Coronavirus Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/there-is-no-plan-for-the-end-of-the-coronavirus-crisis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On top of Trump's ongoing mismanagement, there is a shocking lack of a strategy, at any level of government, for what the country will do next.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UN Climate Talks Collapsed. What's the Way Forward?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/cop25-ended-in-failure-whats-the-way-forward.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You could see the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' failure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of the United Nations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' COP25 climate conference, which just concluded in Madrid, coming from months away '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' if not years or decades.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Extinction Rebellion &amp; the Birth of a New Climate Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/extinction-rebellion-and-the-birth-of-a-new-climate-politics.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.K. movement's claims might be exaggerated, but it shows us how the world is ready to grapple with the depth of the problem.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Greta Thunberg's World--But It's Still Burning]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/greta-thunberg-climate-change-movement.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But it's still burning. The extraordinary rise of a 16-year-old, and her Hail Mary climate movement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Glimmer of a Climate New World Order]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/climate-at-the-g-7-glimmers-of-a-new-world-order.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until the G-7, the nations of the world had never before chosen to punish bad behavior on climate change. That may not change all that much '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' yet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cold Logic of Climate NIMBYism]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/we-may-be-dooming-ourselves-with-climate-nimbyism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The uneven incentives of climate action are driving the world to inaction. There may be no way to escape the trap.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Dems Should Embrace the Green New Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/democrats-should-embrace-flawed-ambitious-green-new-deal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Green New Deal is the first American attempt to deal with climate change that takes the depth of the challenge seriously.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[8 Predictions--What World Will Look Like in 2039]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/2038-podcast-predictions.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Less sex, two dueling internets, and more expert predictions for life in 2039.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Courts Save Earth From Climate Change?]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/julianna-v-united-states-how-courts-could-save-the-climate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Wallace-Wells</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Juliana v. the United States is a long shot, but it may not be as far-fetched as it seems.]]></description>
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