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							<title><![CDATA[What Would My Father Say to America?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Katrina Lantos Swett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many of my fellow Americans, I have spent much of this year contemplating the meaning of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 250th'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' birthday. I have'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' participated'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' fantastic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' events'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to mark this momentous occasion, and I have read dozens of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' reflections'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that range from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Not Accept Beijing&rsquo;s Grip on Hong Kong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/13/us_must_not_accept_beijings_grip_hong_kong_151601.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Katrina Lantos Swett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a blue-sky September day almost exactly five years ago, I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and shook the hand of a young man I had been eagerly waiting to meet. He was slight, bespectacled, with a boyish face. But despite his youth and unassuming appearance, an undeniable power...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I&rsquo;m Skipping My 50th Reunion at Yale]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/18/why_im_skipping_my_50th_reunion_at_yale_150966.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Katrina Lantos Swett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I graduated from Yale University in 1974. As a first-generation American, the child of Holocaust survivors, and among the first women admitted to this incredible school, it is hard to adequately express how grateful I was for this opportunity. I have enjoyed returning to campus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[75 Years On, Stop Viewing Religious Freedom as Second-Class Human Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/24/75_years_on_stop_viewing_religious_freedom_as_second-class_human_right_150242.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Katrina Lantos Swett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This month marks 75 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the document that has become the blueprint for our international architecture of rights.
The UDHR references '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the equal and inalienable rights of all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracies in Asia Risk Failing on Religious Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/26/democracies_in_asia_risk_failing_on_religious_freedom__149805.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Katrina Lantos Swett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, an important regional summit about International Religious Freedom took place in Taipei, Taiwan. Holding the summit there sent a powerful message; Taiwan exists in the shadow of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most infamous abuser of freedom of religion, conscience, and belief...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nigeria Should Release Prisoner Accused of Blasphemy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/27/nigeria_should_release_prisoner_accused_of_blasphemy_149283.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Katrina Lantos Swett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As controversies and turmoil surround the Nigerian presidential transition, with the inauguration set for May 29, a young musician named Yahaya Sharif-Aminu sits quietly in prison where he has been for the last three years. In 2020, he was charged with blasphemy because he shared two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China&rsquo;s Forced Organ Harvesting Demands U.S. Response]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/01/chinas_forced_organ_harvesting_demands_a_us_response_148131.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Katrina Lantos Swett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American doctors go to great lengths to maintain the highest ethical standards as they work to save thousands of desperately ill patients waiting for an organ match, as underscored in recent reporting of innovative transplant experiments using genetically modified pig hearts....]]></description>
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