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		<title><![CDATA[Helicopter parents could learn from their trad moms and dads]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Helicopter parents are getting worse. The Wall Street Journal reports
that a growing number of Gen Z parents are actively intervening in their
children’s job searches, interviews, hiring processes and even early
career issues. According to the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4267986</link>
 
    <pubDate>Aug/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump Was Never Funny]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a display of Stockholm Syndrome, the White House Correspondents'
Association invited Donald Trump to be the keynote speaker at their
annual festival of self-appreciation. Because he is who he is, he did
not take the opportunity to do the kind ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/monacharen/s-4265062</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/31/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Support for ICE Melts as Agents Find Themselves in Hot Seat Over Racial Slurs]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- The ICE raids are about race. They're fueled by racism. And
they're supported by racists.

Pro-MAGA Americans can deny these ugly truths all they want, but it
won't make them any less true.

By the way, the last thing the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4265061</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are you a wet blanket? ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Wet blanket. Spoilsport. Fuddy-duddy.
Fraidy-cat. Party pooper. Slowpoke. Penny-pincher. Buzzkill. Bob from
Accounting. At some point in your life, you’ve doubtless been on
either the giving end or receiving end of such ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dannytyree/s-4264056</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 1970s shag haircut is back — proof America is doing just fine]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note to Editors Only: A version of this column was distributed by Cagle
in 2024. According to Cosmopolitan, the shag haircut of the 1970s has
become all the rage in 2026. That makes me grumpy because I’m still
upset about the David Cassidy shag ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4264055</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump Keeps Pushing Legally Dubious Tariffs: His Latest Round of Broad Import Taxes, Like the Previous Two, Treats His Statutory Authority as an Afterthought]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[

When you start with a predetermined policy and then go looking for a
legal pretext to justify it, you are building on shaky ground. President
Donald Trump illustrated that point once again last week, when he
announced a third round of broad ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jacobsullum/s-4263724</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Political Parties Got Too Powerful, and Now They're Falling Apart]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- It's not exactly breaking news that Americans dislike
politics, distrust politicians and doubt their government.

' Twas always thus.

Thomas Jefferson saw it coming. In his book "Notes on the State of
Virginia," which was published...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4263321</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Taking our right to speak freely for granted]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I lived in the Washington, D.C., region, I enjoyed occasional
Saturday morning visits to Lafayette Square to see what the protesters
were up to. Lafayette Square sits directly across Pennsylvania Avenue
from the White House. The park is often...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4262392</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In a Tech-Heavy World, Encouraging Children to Read Is Crucial]]></title>
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As we approach the forthcoming college fall semester, much discussion
has centered on the difficulties a lot of Gen Z students are having with
reading and critical thinking. One Chronicle of Higher Education article
that many of my colleagues at...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jessicajohnson/s-4260978</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The DSA Is a Gift to MAGA]]></title>
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Should those of us who want to defeat the proto-fascists in charge of
the Republican Party be worried about a few blue districts that have
recently indulged their ids and voted for members of the Democratic
Socialists of America? Yes. If their ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/monacharen/s-4259828</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do you love 100 things about school?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “Count your blessings, name them one by
one…” – Johnson Oatman, Jr. Unless you’re the parent or
grandparent of a little chatterbox, you’ve probably gotten resigned to
the two stereotypical terse reactions to the...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dannytyree/s-4258726</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump's Threats to Yank Broadcast Licenses Are Part of a Speech-Chilling Intimidation Campaign: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Seems to Think TV Stations Are Legally Obligated to Please the President]]></title>
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Imagine how Republicans would react if a Democratic president
reflexively threatened to yank the broadcast licenses of TV stations
because he did not like their news coverage or programming decisions.
President Donald Trump has been doing that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jacobsullum/s-4258451</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[As I Was Saying, There is No 'Sanctuary' From Immigration Enforcement]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- Anyone who has written about immigration for more than 35
years, and who has the scars to prove it, has earned the right to say:
"I told you so."

Those four words rang in my head recently as I read an article in The
New York Times ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4258004</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Europeans get long paid vacations — and we don’t]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vacation season is upon us, and nobody knows how to vacation better than
our friends in Europe. Whereas many Americans settle for a weeklong
summer vacation — often supplemented with day trips — Europeans
commonly spend two to four weeks at ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4257594</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Triumphal Arch?]]></title>
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If completed as planned, Donald Trump's triumphal arch outside Arlington
National Cemetery will tower over the graceful Memorial Bridge, obstruct
the view of the Lincoln Memorial from the cemetery (and vice versa) and
offend anyone whose taste ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/monacharen/s-4254534</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reading Time is Not Over, But We Need to End the Stigma for Those Who Struggle With It]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- Here is something you didn't need a library card to figure
out.

Americans read fewer books than we used to, and the books that we do
read are shorter. We spend less time in bookstores and more time on
electronic devices. And ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4254533</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are cigarettes 'cool' again? ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “A ball of fire on one end and a fool on the
other.” That’s how my high school history teacher Mr. Holt described
cigarettes. (He also preached cigarettes make you smell like an
outhouse, which is why I hired my ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dannytyree/s-4253711</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[By Blessing Corruption, Todd Blanche Has Disqualified Himself From the Job He Wants: Trump's Nominee for Attorney General Has Repeatedly Subverted Justice to Benefit His Boss]]></title>
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"I'm guessing I'll be in line," former FBI Director James Comey quipped
after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced a "settlement
agreement" between President Donald Trump and the IRS that included $1.8
billion in taxpayer money for ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jacobsullum/s-4253248</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham's Legacy: It's Complicated]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- If you've ever written a eulogy, you already know that
human beings are complicated.

At the end of the ride, we'll be proud of some of the things we've done
but regret others. You take the good with the bad.

Most people don't want...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4252796</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The healing power of a belly laugh]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s never too late for a good belly laugh. July 1 was International
Joke Day. The origins of the day remain unclear, but one thing is for
certain: we all could use a good laugh about now. Which reminds me about
the man who walks into a library ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4252656</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/14/2026</pubDate>
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