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<title><![CDATA[Paul Vallas - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/46638.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Paul Vallas]]></description><category domain="46638">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Brandon Johnson's Agenda Hurts Black Chicagoans]]></title>
							<link>https://johnkassnews.com/brandon-johnsons-so-called-progressive-equity-agenda-is-a-potemkin-village-thats-hurting-the-black-community/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By Paul Vallas September 20th, 2026 Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to rehabilitate his image with Chicago's Black community through divisive rhetoric and actions that demonize the White community. While Whites have a right to be offended by his antics, the real tragedy is that in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How New Orleans Turned Around Its Failing Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-orleans-charter-schools-education?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years after Katrina, the city's nearly all-charter district has transformed one of America's worst school systems into a model of academic improvement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago Must Enact a Nuisance Ordinance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/restore-public-order-chicago-nuisance-ordinance</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Chicago had managed to navigate the Memorial Day weekend and suffer only 23 shot, Mayor Brandon Johnson could easily have claimed another victory over crime in comparison to last year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Memorial Day tally of five killed and 25 shot. However, what occurred in the Windy City in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago's Criminal Industrial Complex Meets Real Check]]></title>
							<link>https://johnkassnews.com/chicagos-criminal-industrial-complex-meets-its-first-real-check/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By Paul Vallas March 20th, 2026 Chicago has spent years paying hundreds of millions of dollars in wrongful-conviction civil settlements. Now, for the first time in a decade, the system that produced those payouts is facing real resistance in Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Radical Left's Moral Inversion]]></title>
							<link>https://johnkassnews.com/the-radical-lefts-moral-inversion-from-class-politics-to-identity-dogma-is-a-trojan-horse-with-dangerous-consequences/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By Paul Vallas January 18th, 2026 The contemporary far left has abandoned class-based politics in favor of a rigid moral framework that divides society into permanent victims and villains, with white supremacy cast as the root of nearly every injustice. This oppressed vs. oppressor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Chicago Lawyers, Exonerations Are a Cash Cow]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/chicago-exonerations-criminal-justice?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The city has paid over $700 million in settlements to criminal defendants since 2000.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Winding Down the Department of Education Is Overdue]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-department-of-education-reform?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They will support local control and accountability.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago Has Become a Sanctuary City for Criminals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-sanctuary-city-for-criminals</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On any given day, over 90 percent of those who have committed violent crimes are walking the streets.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How USAID Squandered Billions in Haiti and Around the Globe]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/opinion/how-usaid-squandered-billions-in-haiti-and-around-the-globe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The story of USAID in Haiti reveals a relief organization answering to no one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Chicago Mayor's Policies Hurt the Black Community]]></title>
							<link>https://johnkassnews.com/reparations-its-time-to-realize-the-damage-that-the-mayor-is-doing-not-only-to-the-city-but-the-black-community-he-claims-to-be-serving/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's be clear, addressing the injustices of and remnants of slavery is a serious issue. But using race and racism to explain away every problem, respond to every criticism and justify every failure only serves to cheapen the argument for any type of reparations. That's exactly what...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago's Criminal Complex Denies Our Right to Safety]]></title>
							<link>https://johnkassnews.com/chicagos-criminal-industrial-complex-denies-the-people-their-right-to-safety/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You want to know why violent crime is surging in the nation's urban centers? Look no further than the radical left's efforts to reform the criminal justice system by pretending that criminals are just a new class of victims whose violence is a product of our systemically racist society.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Back to the Bad Old Days]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-chicago-teachers-unions-war-on-standards-and-choice</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Paul Vallas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The group wants to return schools to the bad old days of zero accountability.]]></description>
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