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<title><![CDATA[Amy Sorkin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/36023.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Amy Sorkin]]></description><category domain="36023">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Guns, Trump, and the GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/guns-trump-and-the-gop</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right's push to loosen restrictions is resulting in a judicial and legislative free-for-all that is intersecting, disastrously, with the 2024 Presidential race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Will Trump's Trial Play on the Campaign Trail?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/17/how-will-donald-trumps-trial-play-on-the-campaign-trail</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump must now operate with two calendars in mind'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the court's and the campaign's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and so must much of the machinery of American politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New GOP Takes Country Hostage With Debt Ceiling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/the-new-gop-takes-the-country-hostage-with-the-debt-ceiling</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the Republicans' routine threat to wreck the economy, rather than raise the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' borrowing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' limit, could end differently this time.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ugly Jackson Hearings May Be Only the Beginning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/18/the-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearings-may-be-only-the-beginning</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The final Senate confirmation vote of 53'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'47 sparked joy and relief that the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ugly part'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' was over, at least for Jackson. The rest of the country may not be so lucky.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breyer's Decision to Retire Is in Keeping With His Tenure]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the Democratic Presidential primary debate in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 25, 2020, before Joe Biden had a hold on the race, Gayle King, of CBS News, asked each candidate for his or her personal motto.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's Vexing Mixed Message]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the Supreme Court, in a 5'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'4 decision in the case of Biden v. Missouri, allowed the Department of Health and Human Services to begin implementing a COVID-19-vaccine mandate for workers at health-care facilities that accept Medicare and Medicaid funds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vaccine Mandates Have a Bad Day at the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/vaccine-mandates-have-a-bad-day-at-the-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tenor of the conservative Justices' questions suggested that the OSHA mandate, which would apply to about eighty million people, has little chance of going into effect in its present form.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meadows and the GOP's Response to Capitol Riot Probe]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's tempting to dismiss the vitriol of some House Republicans as overblown,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' but their'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' rhetoric points to a potentially dangerous shift within the Congress.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Looks Ready to Overturn Roe v. Wade]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-looks-ready-to-overturn-roe</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lawyers and Justices on both sides'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with the possible exception of John Roberts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'appeared to be past pretending that the Mississippi case is about anything less.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Vaccine-Mandate Battle]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/the-vaccine-mandate-battle</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vaccines work, and so do mandates'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but Aaron Rodgers and Republican politicians are among those who are muddying the message.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will January 6th Be Over?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/when-will-january-6th-be-over</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump, in trying to obstruct the investigation into the Capitol riot, is fighting not only to impose his view of the past but to insure his political future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Race to Out-Trump the Trumpists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/the-gops-race-to-out-trump-the-trumpists</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The midterm elections are approaching, and the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republican Party is heading into them with the former President as its leader.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supply-Chain Mystery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/the-supply-chain-mystery</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why, more than a year and a half into the pandemic, do strange shortages keep popping up in so many corners of American life?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Forever Trial at Guantanamo]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/20/the-forever-trial-at-guantanamo</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden moved to end the war in Afghanistan, but the proceedings against the remaining war-on-terror detainees, including the 9/11 suspects, drag on.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Race to Leave Planet Earth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-race-to-leave-planet-earth</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not just billionaires but private companies and a growing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' number of nations are, somewhat'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' abruptly, competing to get into space.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Battle Over the Coronavirus Lab-Leak Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/the-battle-over-the-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debate about the origin of the pandemic has become loud, contentious, and infused with politics.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We need to find real answers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangers of the Court's Decision to Hear Abortion Case]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most pressing question now may be not whether Roe and Casey can survive but how reproductive rights can be sustained without them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Look for New Ways to Ignore January 6]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a House vote on a bipartisan commission to study the Capitol insurrection made clear, it's Trumpists vs. the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Children Poised To Be at the Forefront of Biden&rsquo;s Agenda]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/joe-biden-the-republicans-and-kids-stuff</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the new Administration enters its next hundred days,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the child wars are likely to grow more intense and, in some quarters, more detached from reality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Meghan and Harry's Oprah Interview Clarifies]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early in a remarkable interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, n'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'e Markle, tried to explain how she had been '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'confused'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' about what it meant to marry a prince. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I grew up in L.A., you see celebrities all the time'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'this is not the same.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republicans Finally Face Merrick Garland]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The gracelessness of Senator Ted Cruz has become all too familiar, but there are still moments when it is worth noting. One of them came on Monday, in the confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who is President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nominee for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's at Stake in Trump's Second Impeachment Trial]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As President, Donald Trump often seemed surprised to discover what was and was not constitutional. His lawyers now seem intent on perpetuating that confusion at his impeachment trial. Last week, one of them, David Schoen, said in an interview with Fox News that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fair-minded...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rioters Are Gone, But Republicans' Crisis Has Only Begun]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just after 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Representative Conor Lamb, Democrat of western Pennsylvania, rose on the floor of the House to defend the franchise of the people in his state. Even at that late hour, and even after a Trumpist mob urged on by the President had attacked the Capitol, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[First Ladies and Second Gentlemen]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Hey, Dr. Biden, how are you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'how'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re you doing?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the driver of a Teamsters Local 633 pickup truck called out cheerfully to Jill Biden, Ed.D., one day this fall when she was campaigning for her husband in New Hampshire. The other occupants of the truck offered similar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Must Be a Reckoning After Texas Lawsuit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-rejects-texass-shameful-lawsuit-but-there-has-to-be-a-reckoning</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If prominent Republicans don't renounce Trump's campaign to overturn the election, they will do lasting harm to the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the early signs are not good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Getting Through the Covid Winter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/14/getting-through-the-covid-winter</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're in a strange limbo. Real empowered national leadership won't arrive until Inauguration Day, and the next wave of infections is already here.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Covid-19 Mission]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/30/bidens-covid-19-mission</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Donald Trump continues to find new ways to make things worse, Joe Biden is preparing to take immediate action on an escalating crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Kavanaugh's Vote May Save Obamacare This Time]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the strongest signs that the Affordable Care Act will survive the latest attempt to kill it in the Supreme Court came on Tuesday, in oral arguments in California v. Texas, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh began questioning Kyle Hawkins, the solicitor general of Texas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Brief Speech Made America's Troubles Worse]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' came out to speak just before 2:30'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' A.M.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on Wednesday, votes were still being counted in enough states'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'notably Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to make it impossible to say whether he or'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' had won the Presidency. But, whichever...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amy Coney Barrett's Silence Is an Expression of Extremism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/amy-coney-barretts-silence-is-an-expression-of-extremism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amy Sorkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative judge's refusal to answer fundamental questions at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings demonstrated just how far Trump has moved the margins of our political culture.]]></description>
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