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<title><![CDATA[Markos Kounalakis - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/40018.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Markos Kounalakis]]></description><category domain="40018">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Feminist Was a Spy]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/03/the-feminist-was-a-spy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Markos Kounalakis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The late, great Gloria Steinem did a stint with the CIA. Would today's CIA have a place for someone like her?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tip Is a Distraction, Wage Is the Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/21/the-tip-is-the-distraction-and-the-wage-is-the-scandal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Markos Kounalakis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's tipped workers still earn as little as $2.13 an hour. The needed reform isn't tax-free tips'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it's ending the subminimum wage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dawn of a New Era in Hemispheric Relations]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/03/trump-venezuela-the-don-roe-doctrine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Markos Kounalakis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. assault on Venezuela and ouster of its president was a military success. But now for the hard part.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Venezuela's Best Chance To Topple Maduro]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/17/venezuela-trump-maduro/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Markos Kounalakis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump and the U.S. should keep pressuring Maduro of Venezuela, but not use blunderbuss tactics that will backfire]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Up to Venezuelans to Fight for Their Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article229939659.html#</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Markos Kounalakis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump is stuck with the Trump Doctrine that recognizes the sanctity of sovereignty: What happens domestically in any nation is that country's business.]]></description>
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