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<title><![CDATA[Christopher Rufo - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/38216.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Rufo]]></description><category domain="38216">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why We're Suing the L.A. Metro]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-metro-lawsuit-mirna-soza?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Victims of the lawless public-transit system deserve transparency.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CA's Shadow Welfare System for Illegal Aliens]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-illegal-immigrants-shadow-welfare?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California runs the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care, and other programs for the poor and downtrodden. To sustain the arrangement, the state imposes the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s highest tax rates.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How This Nigerian Chief Made Millions From Medicaid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-home-health-agency-nigeria-medicaid?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His company, California Home Health Agency, has billed the program for more than $30 million.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Did HeroCare Make $40 Million?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/herocare-medicaid-california?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fraud experts say the California-based health-care company's billing patterns raise questions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[San Franciscans Think Their City Is Turning a Corner]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-voters?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In July, we convened Manhattan Institute focus groups in Los Angeles and San Francisco to understand how Californians are thinking about their cities and state ahead of consequential elections this November. Last week, we examined'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Los Angeles, where voters expressed deep...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[L.A. Metro Is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-metro-crime-fare-enforcement?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The transit system's refusal to enforce fares has turned the trains over to criminals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Much Work Still To Do in San Francisco's Tenderloin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/tenderloin-san-francisco-drugs-gangs?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's 3 a.m. in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and an all-night, drug-fueled party has been raging for hours. The sidewalks are littered with trash and human feces. Addicts huddle in the alley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did California Award CAIR $40 Million?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/council-on-american-islamic-relations-hamas-california?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Other states are trying to shutter CAIR branches. Gavin Newsom is writing them checks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Newsom's $30 Billion Fraud Magnet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-in-home-supportive-services-program-fraud-gavin-newsom?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California's In-Home Supportive Services Program is ripe for scams, experts say.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom's Empire of Fraud]]></title>
							<link>https://christopherrufo.com/p/gavin-newsoms-empire-of-fraud</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California has lost at least $180 billion to fraud, according to officials and experts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel, Iran Fracturing GOP's Governing Coalition]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.com/article/the-rights-israel-fracture/?edition=us&amp;rcp=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The war in Iran has emerged as a proxy battle over a broader, long-simmering conflict within the right about Israel]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Foreign Fraud Gangs Ripping Off West Coast States]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/foreign-fraud-west-coast-police-detective?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve seen the Somali fraud schemes in Minnesota, but in the West Coast, there seems to be another pattern: foreign fraud rings ripping off Americans. What are the most common schemes you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re seeing here?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives in Iowa Finally Have a Voice on Campus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-of-iowa-center-for-intellectual-freedom-kim-reynolds?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The University of Iowa's new Center for Intellectual Freedom promises an end to left-wing ideological domination.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Somali Fraud Story Busts Liberal Myths]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-somali-fraud-al-shabaab-terrorists-immigration-welfare?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mass immigration, antiracism, and the welfare state lead inexorably to fraud.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not Racist To Notice Somali Fraud]]></title>
							<link>https://christopherrufo.com/p/its-not-racist-to-notice-somali-fraud</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recent scandal reveals an uncomfortable truth: different cultures lead to different outcomes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Somali Fraud Scandal Reveals Uncomfortable Truth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/fraud-minnesota-somali-immigration-debate?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recent scandal reveals an uncomfortable truth: different cultures lead to different outcomes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Vance Can Help Manage the Fractious Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/jd-vance-right-conservatives-trump-richard-nixon?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Richard Nixon demonstrated the formula for success.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of Schizo-Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/left-right-violence-conspiracy-candace-owens-charlie-kirk-assassination?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The far-Left generates violence; the far-Right fulminates conspiracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fury That Led to Nothing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/minneapolis-george-floyd-square?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The run-down intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis exposes the empty promises of the revolution of 2020.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MIT's Preposterous Reply to Trump's Compact]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-university-funding-compact-mit-president-sally-kornbluth?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She rejected the Trump administration's compact to receive funding preferences in exchange for committing to basic goals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Transgenderism Ends in Nihilism]]></title>
							<link>https://christopherrufo.com/p/transgenderism-ends-in-nihilism</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church confirms a dark truth: gender ideology can lead only to tragedy or disaster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Yorker's Racialism Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-new-yorkers-racialism-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Prestige media has turned antiracism into a farce. It's time to move beyond it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time To Stop the Hate]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1957563629680963875</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We understand that many New Yorker writers want to resign over the fact that a virulent anti-white racist and Holocaust revisionist is on their payroll, but David Remnick and the Newhouse family pay them so poorly that they cannot afford to do so.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racial Preferences at Northwestern?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/northwestern-university-president-michael-schill-race-admissions?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faculty believe that Donald Trump is Hitler, but their university allegedly oversaw a system of identity-based spoils.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jamaal Bowman Operated NYC School Without a License]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/opinion/jamaal-bowman-zohran-mamdanis-pick-for-education-operated-a-radical-nyc-school-without-a-license/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jamaal Bowman could land on the shortlist to be the city's next schools chancellor if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, sources told The Post.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Columbia Settlement Vindicates Trump's Strategy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/columbia-settlement-funds-dei-trump?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The administration has set a precedent for reforming universities as a whole.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Strikes a Blow Against 'Woke AI']]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-woke-ai-executive-order?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, President Donald Trump signed an'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' executive order'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that effectively instructs his administration to refrain from purchasing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'woke AI.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The order, issued just as artificial intelligence seems poised to dominate the technological future, creates powerful incentives...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AOC and Mamdani Engage in Political Identity Theft]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/christopher-rufo-aoc-mamdani-engage-political-identity-theft-votes</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's how socialist politicians from privileged backgrounds adopt oppression narratives to win over voters. The latest examples? Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Marathon Petroleum Prioritize DEI Over Safety?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/marathon-petroleum-dei-racial-hiring-bonus-safety?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nation's largest oil refiner added racial hiring goals to its bonus compensation formula while eliminating a safety metric.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/manhattan-statement-higher-education-universities</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Rufo</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A group of academics, intellectuals, and civic leaders call on the president to advance these principles for reform of our universities.]]></description>
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