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            <title><![CDATA[Terror Alerts Are Useless]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What's the point of the State Department warning us about possible al Qaeda attacks in Europe? Matthew Yglesias on the dangers of blind panic-and why the government needs to tell us what these alerts really cost.
The State Department did something a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Get Off Your Butts, Dems]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As health care goes into effect and the GOP lays plans to repeal it, progressives are sitting on their hands. Matthew Yglesias on the case for going to war to help sick kids.
Thursday's New York Times features a story about a Kansas couple, Joe and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Right's Self-Inflicted Wound]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The upset in Delaware is the latest sign of a conservative civil war between work horses and show horses. Matthew Yglesias on how Palin and DeMint are destroying GOP dreams of a Senate majority. 
There's a natural ebb and flow to American politics,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Depressed Liberal Base]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The annual Netroots Network summit of progressives should be an occasion for celebrating Obama's achievements. Matthew Yglesias on why the left is slumping-and how to lift its spirits.
It's always difficult to characterize the emotional state of a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Secret to Petraeus' Success]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ America's favorite general emerged from Iraq a hero by lowering expectations. Matthew Yglesias on why that tack just might work in Afghanistan. 
The decision to replace General Stanley McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan with General David...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[It's Bush's Oil Spill]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The GOP rushed to brand the Gulf Coast disaster "Obama's Katrina." But new reports make clear the Bush administration's lax attitude toward regulation deserves much of the blame.
Ever since the great oil price spike of 2008, conservatives have been...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Slow Down, Obama!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The rush to pass financial reform might cure some of the ills that plagued health care. But even the elites don't understand this stuff. Matthew Yglesias on the ups and downs of moving too fast.
For those of us who wrote extensively about the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:37:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Confederate Madness]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Virginia Gov. McDonnell's embrace of Confederate History Month is more than just a bizarre retreat from his party's civil-rights roots. Matthew Yglesias on why it's the path to political suicide.
The observation that today's Republican Party is no...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Most Shameless Politician]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney was for health care before he was against it. And in 2012, he's headed for a double-talking disaster that would make John Kerry cringe.
I lived in Massachusetts in 2002, and Mitt Romney is the only Republican I've ever voted for.
Mostly,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the GOP Made It Happen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Many liberals were ready to compromise during health care's twisted path to passage. Matthew Yglesias on how the right's just-say-no game helped bring the left together. 
As health-care reform passes, I find myself in the unusual position of being...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Playing the History Card]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid the 11th-hour frenzy to line up the votes on health care, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Matthew Yglesias her best argument: This may be members' only shot at leaving a meaningful legacy.
Comprehensive reform of the American health-care system...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GOP Liars]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Listening to Republicans squawk about Obama's use of reconciliation for health reform, you'd never know Bush used the same route to cut taxes. Matthew Yglesias on an outrageous conservative media coup.
Thanks to the 2006 and 2008 elections,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's Really Killing Health Care]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nobody thought the health-care summit would accomplish anything. The GOP is dead set against any tax hikes, and the Democrats can't pay for new benefits without them.
Today's bipartisan health-care summit was preceded by a great deal of eye-rolling on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Public Option's Last Stand]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Senate liberals are rallying around the dead letter of the health-care reform bill. Matthew Yglesias on why it's likely too little, too late-and the Obama strategy that could have worked.
The public health-insurance option-a hypothetical element of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politically Scandalous Deficit Fixes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama's new budget threatens record debt levels, Matthew Yglesias says the only real solution is to crack down on defense, deductions-and yes, Medicare.
The release of today's budget by Barack Obama is a reminder that though everyone likes to...]]></description>
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