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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Partiers' Phony Populism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At their convention this weekend, Sarah Palin and her fans bashed big banks-and the idea of regulating them. Peter Beinart on how Team Tea is giving populism a bad name.
If there's one thing the media knows about the Tea Partiers, it is that they are...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Outsmarts the Terrorists]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama isn't nearly as scared of the terrorists as Bush was-and that's precisely why al Qaeda is falling apart.
Republicans think about terrorism the way Democrats think about poverty. Democrats know their anti-poverty policies don't always...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Republicans' Reagan Amnesia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The resurgent GOP wants a Gipper purity test. Does the party faithful know he raised taxes, grew the federal government, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants?
Republicans love hallowing Ronald Reagan's name. Too bad they know so little about the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dream Deferred]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama used bipartisan appeals to help sell liberal causes. But he seemed to abandon some of his most important fights.
It was a very good, and very painful, speech. Very good because Barack Obama recaptured the spirit that animated his presidential...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Democrats, Don't Despair]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things look bad now, and the party will lose seats this fall. But the economy will bounce back, Democrats will be united-and faith in government can be restored. 
Democrats win elections by convincing Americans that government can work. Republicans...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Health Care or Bust!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's win has Democrats spooked about health reform, and Obama warned the Senate Wednesday not to "jam" the legislation through until Brown is seated. But Peter Beinart says enacting it is essential to jump-starting the party. Plus, Benjamin...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Doing Disaster Relief Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ There's a reason President Obama's response to catastrophe has been so much better than Bush's. It helps to believe in the power of government to aid lives.
Here's something you're not supposed to say: Barack Obama has responded to the earthquake in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:08:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Harold Ford Implodes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New York's would-be senator admits he gets regular pedicures, avoids the subway, and visits the five boroughs by chopper. Peter Beinart on how not to run for office. Plus, John Branston on the making of Harold Ford.
It was the most embarrassing...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop the Terror Hysteria]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Don't believe Scott Brown-terrorism is not the defining issue of our time.  Peter Beinart on how liberals can take back the foreign policy mantle.
Imagine you're Barack Obama. In Massachusetts, Scott Brown slammed you again and again for giving...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Harry Reid Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Yes, the Senate leader's "light-skinned" comments about Obama were uncomfortable. But that's because he spoke the truth about white attitudes-a truth even Colin Powell concedes. 
There's nothing Americans love more than demanding "honest talk" about...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Profiling Will Never Work]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Christmas bomb attempt has spurred fresh calls for religious, national and racial profiling. Peter Beinart on the mass murderers who'd get through those nets.
Remember when conservatives believed in color blindness? Before 9/11, when affirmative...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:37:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Obama isn't at war with jihadist terrorism-and that's a good thing. Peter Beinart on why the left needs to stop the linguistic dithering-and win the only battle that can vanquish al Qaeda.
It was your garden-variety partisan smackdown. After the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Think Small]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama got his big victory with health-care reform. Now it's time to lower everybody's expectations.
Ronald Reagan once compared the flow of a presidency to the flow of a movie: Grab their attention at the beginning, coast for a while; then a big...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The White House Ignores the South]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If Obama wins health care, Northerners will get him over the finish line. Peter Beinart on the reversal in Washington's power structure-and how Dixie lost its power again. 
Since everyone else is doing it, let me propose a person of the decade:...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Bush-Bashing Speech]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  In Oslo, Obama declared that America is as capable of evil as anyone else. Peter Beinart on his sharp break with Bush-and his call for a new world order. Plus, watch his speech below and read the full transcript here.
Harry Truman, who George W....]]></description>
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