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							<title><![CDATA[How Did We End Up With a Fascist Dictator Like Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2025/08/09/how-did-we-get-from-the-60s-to-trumps-kitsch-white-house/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Lofgren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Quite apart from the fact that 20 years ago, almost none of our supposed thought leaders foresaw that the United States would slide into a fascist-style dictatorship by 2025, there have been surprisingly few retrospective analyses that seek to describe how and why our country lurched...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Ukraine Can Still Survive]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/06/how-ukraine-can-survive-without-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Lofgren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The European Union has the means to help Ukraine to stop Russian aggression without America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if it has the will.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Can't America Build Enough Weapons?]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/23/why-cant-america-build-enough-weapons/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Lofgren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debasement of the U.S. defense industrial base began, ironically, under Ronald Reagan, and won't be reversed until we abandon the free-market fundamentalism he introduced.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Approve the Nippon-U.S. Steel Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/22/approve-the-nippon-u-s-steel-deal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Lofgren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Far from erasing a historic American company, as the senators fret, Nippon's acquisition may rescue It.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Aiding Ukraine Does Not Embolden China]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/07/14/no-aiding-ukraine-does-not-embolden-china/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Lofgren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a recycled isolationist talking point from World War II, and it's just as wrong now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Democrats, It Was the Dunkirk Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2022/11/22/for-democrats-it-was-the-dunkirk-election-they-escaped-disaster-but-the-road-ahead-is-hard/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Lofgren</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats learned important lessons and developed crucial new strategies. They survived but they didn't win]]></description>
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