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		<title><![CDATA[Cutting Off a Parent Can Be Self-Preservation, Not Cruelty]]></title>
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An in-law, age 95 and on her deathbed, was having some final
conversations. She brought up a memory of her own mother, who had lost a
2-year-old daughter to a childhood disease. When she misbehaved as a
child, the elderly woman recalled, "My ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4309945</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Stumbling Stones]]></title>
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They are known as "stumbling stones" -- little brass tiles that for the
last 30 years have been installed in the sidewalks outside the homes of
Jews murdered in the Holocaust. More than 116,000 stones have been
installed across Europe. It is a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4309569</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Let the Word Go Forth: The Trump About Trump]]></title>
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WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump is not just a bad president. "King" is too
good a word for the likes of him. What Trump truly is shall be written
in the end.

Andrew Johnson was the worst president we've had until now. A Southerner
who was Abraham ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4309161</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Montana Proposes a Way to Stop "Dark Money" Corruption of Our Democracy]]></title>
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It's the fall harvest season, when many farm stands and homes decorate
with pumpkins, cornstalks and maybe even a straw man.

How to make a straw man? Easy -- stuff a couple of burlap bags with hay
and dress your "man" in an old flannel shirt, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4309160</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Time With Teddy: It's Good to Share a Dog's Life]]></title>
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"Everyone thinks they have the best dog," wrote W. R. Pursche, "and none
of them are wrong." Those who've never had a dog don't get it, and you
can't blame them. People who've never had a Toll House cookie likewise
have every right to be ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4308362</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stop Buying Votes. Everybody!]]></title>
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It would be hard to find a more insulting offer than to exchange money
for your vote. That's exactly what President Donald Trump did in
announcing that if voters keep Republicans in power come the midterms,
he'll send every adult citizen a $5,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4308360</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Trump Administration Is Disappearing Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in Growing Third Country Removal Campaign]]></title>
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The Trump administration has deported over 23,000 people over the last
year and a half to countries they have no relationship with, where they
may not speak the language, and where they generally have no legal
status. Sometimes, it deports ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4308017</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The MAGA factor: What separates Trump voters who consider themselves MAGA from Trump voters who do not?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, with just over five weeks to go before the midterm elections,
I want to point out a critical distinction that’s not being picked up
in the media — between people who voted for Trump in 2024 but do
not identify as part of the MAGA ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4307874</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump Loses Two More -- and Does It Matter?]]></title>
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This week, President Donald Trump lost twice in his war against a free
press. Will it stop him? Almost certainly not.

The first solid loss came on Wednesday, in a suit

Trump has brought twice against the Des Moines Register and its
pollster. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4306162</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Death of Sarcasm]]></title>
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In 2002, I drew a six-panel political cartoon titled "Israel vs.
Palestine: Where Do You Stand?" Each panel shows a different speaker
making a statement about the conflict, with a bold label underneath that
sarcastically identifies the speaker's...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4306515</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell Got the Healthcare He Needed. Charles Booker Wants That for Everyone.]]></title>
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Last week, America watched as Sen. Mitch McConnell was wheeled onto the
Senate floor after being absent for nearly three months following his
June 14 hospitalization. Whether or not McConnell is fit to do his job
is debatable. What isn't ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4305861</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sloppiness and ICE]]></title>
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The guy on the trash truck haws a face like an Inca god in a half-ruined
temple a long way south of Tiverton, Rhode Island, where I'm writing
this and watching him through the window of my home office.

Is he in the country legally?

The only ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4305475</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill Press: Banning truth from the White House]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere, Roy Cohn must be smiling. Because his apprentice Donald Trump has mastered every dirty trick Cohn ever taught him. In “American Scoundrel,” their masterful new biography of Cohn, Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark reveal three rules Cohn ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4305756</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Many Influencers Are Money-Grubbing Con Artists]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all of them. Some influencers simply want to persuade and perhaps
help others better their lives or their community. Their subject could
be politics, economics, music, health or fashion. But social media has
become inundated with influencers ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4305058</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Confrontations at the U.N.]]></title>
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There were at least two notable confrontations at the U.N. this week.
One was to be expected: Trump versus Iran:

"I have a big decision to make," President Donald Trump told world
leaders. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4304472</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A President of Personal Revenge: Pray, People]]></title>
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Atone, America.

The high holiday Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, just passed us
by at sundown on Sept. 21. Our country, thanks to Donald Trump, has
become the scourge of the world. Nowhere was that clearer than in the
United Nations ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4304204</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GOP Leaders Want to Take America Back ... to McCarthyism]]></title>
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It's one thing for someone like me to say that the Republican Party has
dived into the abyss of political delirium.

But it's another thing when the party itself confirms its collective
delirium for two whole days in a made-for-TV political talk...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4304203</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mum's the Word: Maintaining Secrecy, Qatar Floods the Zone with Cash]]></title>
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Topping the chart of the truly brilliant propaganda successes those
wishing Israel to disappear have achieved since Oct. 7, 2023 has been
their skill in establishing the fashionable line that Israel, the victim
of a genocidal invasion by those ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4303447</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Closed Primaries Are a Curse on Our Democracy]]></title>
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I didn't leave my political party; my party left me. Both of them.

I've been a Democrat, and I've been a Republican. What I am now doesn't
matter. The point is that a lot of American voters feel perpetually
frustrated by the choices they find ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4303441</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The rise of AI populism]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon
keynoted a Washington conference to demand a stop to AI, its data
centers, and the risks AI poses to jobs and even to the human
species.

Notably, both lambasted the corporate ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4302943</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/21/2026</pubDate>
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