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<title><![CDATA[David Atkins - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/37914.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Atkins]]></description><category domain="37914">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How To Make AI Work for Everyone's Benefit]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/10/01/taming-the-ai-monster/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some of the collective action we need to ensure that artificial intelligence is developed cautiously, responsibly, and for everyone's benefit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DNC Isn't Broken, It's Recent Meeting Was Success]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/26/the-recent-dnc-meeting-was-a-success-despite-the-naysayers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recent meeting was a success despite the naysayers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Must Make GOP Fear Consequences of Trying Dictatorship]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/23/democrats-need-to-make-republicans-fear-the-consequences-of-attempting-a-dictatorship/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A serious threat of prosecution must hang over those who break the law in the second Trump administration.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Need From the Next DNC Chair]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/13/were-dnc-members-heres-what-we-need-from-the-next-party-chair/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The DNC votes this winter for a new chair. After a bruising election, two California Members explain their hopes for the party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Both Moderates and Progressives Got Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/11/29/what-both-moderates-and-progressives-got-wrong-and-right-about-the-democratic-electoral-defeat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is nothing like an electoral defeat to provoke infighting and finger-pointing. But losing twice to a character like Donald Trump should be cause not just for argument but for deep introspection by all wings of the Democratic Party. That party progressives and centrists continue to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Should Run Against the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/07/democrats-should-run-against-the-supreme-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats Should Run Against the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' They ought to campaign against the whole Trump-enabled, rights-stealing, gift-taking conservative supermajority.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Have Lost the Culture War]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/12/13/conservatives-have-lost-the-culture-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives are losing the culture war, big time. Americans favor Taylor Swift over Elon Musk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Assault on Democracy Won't Stop with Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/07/26/the-assault-on-democracy-wont-stop-with-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A massive conservative effort to politicize federal agencies and law enforcement bodes ill no matter who wins the Republican presidential nomination or when the GOP retakes power, which they eventually will.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rabid Conservatives the Tail Wagging Very Sick GOP Dog]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/06/26/whos-really-in-charge-of-the-gop-hint-its-not-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is facing an unprecedented crisis. Its leading 2024 presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, is going on trial for serious federal crimes involving threats to national security and lies to the FBI.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Judges Have Become Politicians]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/05/01/conservative-judges-have-become-politicians/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to admit it and act accordingly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk's Latest Delusion About Twitter]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/12/19/elon-musks-latest-delusion-he-thinks-twitter-can-replace-journalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the billionaire welcomes authoritarians back to the platform and cavorts with them, his pseudo-scientific ideas are an even bigger threat to us all.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Can't &amp; Won't Make Pain at the Pump Go Away]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/21/republicans-cannot-and-will-not-reduce-gasoline-prices/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pain at the pump isn't going away, despite their drill-baby-drill talk. The good news is that the electric revolution has arrived.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Losing the Culture Wars, GOP Is Desperate]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/12/losing-the-culture-wars-republicans-are-desperate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Herschel Walker scandal underscores the GOP's main problem: Long-term trends are against them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court's Term Underscores Minority Rule]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/07/01/the-supreme-courts-term-underscores-minority-rule/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Blue states are being crushed by gerrymandering, a skewed Senate, and filibustering. The result is the nation's unraveling.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Latest Plan to Subvert Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/07/forget-january-6-republicans-have-another-plan-to-subvert-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By leveraging their Senate power and the Supreme Court, the GOP can rule the nation as a predominantly rural, older, whiter party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Don't Manchin &amp; Sinema See What's at Stake?]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/11/01/democrats-need-something-big-to-run-on-why-dont-manchin-and-sinema-get-that/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The close Virginia governor's race is a warning: If the Dems want to hold on to power, they have to deliver.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Could the End of the Filibuster Finally Be in Sight?]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/05/22/could-the-end-of-the-filibuster-finally-be-in-sight/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer seems to have lost his patience.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Facebook Is Killing Journalism &amp; Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/13/facebook-is-killing-journalism-and-democracy-we-should-do-something-about-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the political world feels increasingly off kilter, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a probably a good reason. Numerous forces are combining to rollick not only the United States but the entire world. These include increasing inequality, rising housing costs, wage declines and job destabilization as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White Supremacists Invading Cities to Incite Civil War]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/30/white-supremacists-are-invading-american-cities-to-incite-a-civil-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' said: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'There is not a liberal America and a conservative America '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Must Resist, Even If It Costs Them the Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/10/13/resistance-is-the-right-strategy-for-democrats-even-if-it-costs-the-senate-in-2018/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reason for the disparity between the House and Senate situation is pretty simple: despite the gerrymandering of districts, a House election comprises the entire American electorate while the one-third of Senators currently up for a vote does not.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Conservatives Will Never Get the Respect They Crave]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/04/28/conservatives-will-never-get-the-respect-they-crave-they-dont-deserve-it/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Atkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite holding nearly every lever of power in America, conservatives are still very upset that no one likes them.]]></description>
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