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<title><![CDATA[Sen. Chris Murphy - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/34699.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sen. Chris Murphy]]></description><category domain="34699">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Hidden Divide That Shapes Our Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/09/16/hidden-divide-that-shapes-our-politics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I believe that public policy should be directed toward the common good. Others think that impinges on people's freedom. We need to be honest about this dispute.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Strikes on Iran Were Illegal and Ineffective]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chrismurphyct.com/p/8-things-you-should-know-about-trumps</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it's heartbreaking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If We Work With GOP, We'll Lose Our Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/16/sen_chris_murphy_american_wants_democrats_to_fight_trump_even_harder.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy explained why he opposed several Senate Democrats voting to pass a Republican continuing spending resolution during an interview Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Biggest Corruption Is Flying Under the Radar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-biggest-corruption-is-flying</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The scale of corruption in Trump's White House has been stunning and unprecedented.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Vowed He'd Help Workers. He's Betraying Them]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/donald-trump-claimed-he-would-help-american-workers-now-hes-betraying-them</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget candidate Trump. He ran as a friend to the working man. President Donald Trump is a friend to Elon Musk and other billionaires who are implementing Project 2025.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why U.S. Is No Longer One of the Happiest Countries]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/us-world-happiness-report-2024-chris-murphy-rcna145108</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Government does need to be in the happiness business, but the current public policy trajectory clearly isn't accomplishing that objective.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Leisure Time Is Cure for America's Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/americans-paid-time-off-work-burnout-rcna128645</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To return to a time when work matters less and leisure matters more, we need to build a new economy where a full-time job provides a living wage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Needs a Spiritual Renaissance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-left-needs-a-spiritual-renaissance-so-does-america/ar-AA1bqLvS?ocid=Peregrine&amp;cvid=4dc07ad206004b738958c6e208cd602f&amp;ei=8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Throw a rock down a busy street and chances are you won't hit a single American who feels good about the state of American political dialogue. Those of us on the left can choose to take comfort in a sense of relative innocence, as the demagoguery and divisiveness on the right rise to a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['As the Slaughter Increases, What Are We Doing?']]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/as-the-slaughter-increases-as-our-kids-run-for-their-lives-we-do-nothing-what-are-we-doing/ar-AAXGpd1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Murphy: Why are we here if not to try to make sure that fewer schools ... go through what Sandy Hook (went through and) Uvalde is going through?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Facts About Russia's Interference to Hurt Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/opinions/russian-interference-election-murphy/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senator Chris Murphy writes that the American public deserves to know how Russia is interfering in the election -- and the Trump administration must act to put a stop to it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Civil Rights Movement Is a Foreign Policy Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-06-12/new-civil-rights-movement-foreign-policy-win</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This moment of reckoning could end up becoming a defining advertisement for the American model.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Been Great for China. USA, Not So Much]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/15/trump-left-american-leadership-vacuum-for-china-to-fill-column/5191108002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't buy Trump's tough act. Another term and he'd likely help Beijing rise to a position of global prominence from which it may never be dislodged.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most of the Democrats running for president have been reluctant to outline any detailed foreign-policy vision. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s understandable given how domestic issues tend to dominate presidential primaries, and how difficult and nuanced the answers are to today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most pressing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Insecurity Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-insecurity-budget_us_58b585b4e4b0658fc20f9a0a?32zm3nm8q68u3ul3di&amp;ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, President Trump released the outline of what he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s calling a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'security budget'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' - one that increases defense spending by $54 billion dollars and cuts funding for diplomacy, crisis prevention, and humanitarian relief by nearly a third. Gutting our nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marshall Plans, Not Martial Plans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/opinion/marshall-plans-not-martial-plans.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Chris Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The carnage of the Syrian government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s assault on Aleppo, enabled by Russia and Iran, was unbearable to watch. Just as unbearable was the realization that the United States could not save the Syrian people from this horror. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to admit, and harder for those in the...]]></description>
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