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		<title><![CDATA[What Are These Politicians Thinking?]]></title>
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Democrat Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzales were both accused of
sexual misconduct involving staffers. Californian Swalwell said he'd
resign from his House seat after giving up on his run for governor.
Texan Gonzales said he was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4071797</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Have We Won Yet?]]></title>
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Usually, when you're talking about winning a war, it helps to know what
you were fighting for. What was the goal of the war? If you don't know
that, how do you know the difference between winning and walking away?

In a way, the Trump ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4071307</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The President and the Pope]]></title>
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Call him the "antisocial" media president.

When a president attacks the Pope, he telegraphs: "There's nothing I
won't do or say." That is a profoundly troubling message.

There are no lines I won't cross, no rules I won't break, President
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4071798</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rising Progressive Populist Revolt Stuns AI Profiteers]]></title>
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There's a clique of plutocratic, high-tech billionaires who think
they're entitled to turn America's farmlands and rural communities into
their personal domain of predatory AI "data centers." But a little
bookstore in Tulsa, Okla., recently hit ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4070637</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ACLU Leads Fight To Limit Overbroad Digital Search Warrants]]></title>
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As a surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for the ACLU, I spearheaded
an ACLU project beginning in 2020 to strengthen warrants in the digital
age, so that law enforcement does not conduct overbroad searches of our
cellphones, computers and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4070073</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Suddenly Accountable: For Social Media Giants, the Party May Be Over]]></title>
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There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe,
author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," -- the influential novel about slavery --
and former President Abraham Lincoln. "So," President Lincoln is
reported to have greeted her, "you're ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4069394</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Subsidies Keep America on Top]]></title>
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That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a
"grotesque misallocation of federal spending." It was a form of
"rent-seeking," whereby companies seek "to dominate the bureaucracy
instead of the marketplace."

Thus wrote Kyle ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4069388</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Impeach Trump, for Real]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking at a Jan. 6 retreat for House Republicans, Trump stated,
“You gotta win the midterms ’cause, if we don’t win the midterms,
it’s just gonna be — I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me.
I’ll get impeached.”

This was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4068698</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hegseth’s Holy War Has Become a Disaster]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lead us to war against Iran reminds me, as war stories often do, of a scene in one of my favorite war movies. I’m talking about the unforgettable Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, brilliantly played by Robert ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4067390</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Long Covid: Waiting for a Cure]]></title>
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My daughter is suffering from long COVID. I have written about it
before. I wish I had good news. I don't.

It is a nightmare you should do everything you can to avoid.

Most people who get COVID get well and move on. That's what we want to
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4067726</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[America Knows How to Kill, Not How to Win a War]]></title>
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"You can kill 10 of our men for every one we kill of yours," resistance
leader Ho Chi Minh told the French who ruled Vietnam as a colony in
1946. "But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
Historians who describe this remark as ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4067497</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In a World of War and Wonder, Attention Is Your Greatest Power]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching the Artemis II space flight has filled my days with awe and
wonder. From pilot Victor Glover's poignant Easter message and mission
specialist Christina Koch's "space plumber" story to the crew naming a
moon crater for commander Reid ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4066663</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Gets the Keys to the Car?]]></title>
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When I was younger, it was pretty easy to believe that only white
countries should have a nuclear bomb.

When you looked at the white countries, the guy (and it was always a
guy) in charge wore a nice suit, and he'd been to college, and there
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4066209</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[No Kings, One Planet]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The glow of the recent No Kings rally still pulsates in my heart. Some 8 million people across the planet took part in more than 3,000 separate events – people carrying signs that said things like “Power of Love, not Love of Power,” and “...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4066554</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Tech's Ugly Data Centers Finally Meet the Opposition]]></title>
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It appears that folks living in the gently rolling farmland of
southwestern Ohio don't want a 2-million-square-foot data center plopped
down the road from their front porches. What's wrong with them? Are they
snotty not-in-my-backyard liberals?
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4065659</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Did He Say?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Easter, for many a sacred day. The President of the United States
had a message to send:

"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one,
in Iran. There will be nothing like it!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you
crazy ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4064664</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's Bright and Dark Side, All in a Day]]></title>
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The seventh of April: Put it down as the most schizophrenic day in
United States history.

While the nation waited with bated breath to see if Donald Trump would
keep his threat to destroy the ancient Iranian "civilization" by 8 p.m.
ET, we also...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4065660</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[My Message to Billionaires: Money is Like Manure]]></title>
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Given the increasing dominance of right-wing politics by arrogant,
super-rich Tech Bros, here's a question about wealth inequality for your
barroom philosophers to ponder: Does one have to be born a jackass to
become a billionaire, or does ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4064343</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[States Have the Power To Hold Federal Agents Accountable by Allowing People To Sue Them for Rights Violations]]></title>
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Over the past year, federal agents have arrested U.S. citizens, dragged
children from their beds in the middle of the night, smashed car windows
and shot, sometimes fatally, those they encounter. As these agents
advance President Donald Trump's ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4063311</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Restless Dynamo: Rahm Emanuel Ponders the Plunge]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA["If they ever make a sequel to 'Dumb and Dumber'," Rahm Emanuel mused to
a packed hall at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire last
week, "there's a lot of competition in this administration for who gets
to play the lead." If there's ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4063302</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/07/2026</pubDate>
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