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		<title>Slow Down, Holbrooke!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The late American diplomat Richard Holbrooke (1941–2010) had a knack, that is to say a weakness, for self-promotion. He lobbied for the Nobel Peace Prize. He hinted broadly that he could serve as secretary of state. When one of his old friends died, Holbrooke petitioned the man’s widow to be included among the eulogists. During ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s Long Fight for Equality</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[After earning admission to Harvard Law School but before starting classes, Ruth Bader got married and became Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In light of her new status, the law school asked to see the financial statements of her husband’s father, as if in some pantomime of a dowry negotiation. He was wealthy. Harvard decided not to ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ready to Blow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How times change. One of the most alarming features of daily life in the United States just a generation ago has seemingly disappeared. Between 1945 and 1991, as Americans went to work, took their children to school, watched ball games, and napped on the beach, the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union hummed ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Founding Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to give his first address as general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985, listeners could be forgiven their low expectations. The previous three Soviet premiers were walking fossils. Their mumbling speeches inspired no one. Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev’s immediate predecessor, wheezed and coughed and was as yellow as old fingernails; a ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Worst Job in the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1981, the Atlantic Monthly published a devastating critique of supply-side economics called “The Education of David Stockman.” The article was a major embarrassment for the Reagan administration: Stockman was the president’s budget director, and had publicly undermined the theory and numbers behind Reagan’s entire economic program. The cover of the magazine even featured a ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shoot the Hippies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When does harsh political rhetoric lead to violence? We live in an age of dangerously hot-blooded talking points, especially on the far right. The Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz described President Obama as the world’s leading sponsor of Islamic terrorism. Donald Trump recently said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Restoring Henry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1940 the young Henry Kissinger, caught in a love quadrangle, drafted a letter to the object of his affections. Her name was Edith. He and his friends Oppus and Kurt admired her attractiveness and had feelings for her, the letter said. But a “solicitude for your welfare” is what prompted him to write—“to caution ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On Not Canonizing the Gipper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 22:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I think of Ronald Reagan, I am reminded of a car salesman named Mo who once put me in a used Nissan. The car I wanted had a sticker price that seemed a little steep. Seeking to negotiate, I made an offer. Mo—who I should mention was irrepressibly pleasant and impossible to dislike—proved unwilling ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SCOTUS Heads Toward the Cliff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is the difference between judicial conservatives and judicial libertarians? You will not hear many libertarians protest the Roberts Court’s recent trend to give corporations First Amendment rights, such as the right to donate to political campaigns (<em>Citizens United</em>) and the right to oppose contraceptive coverage on religious grounds (<em>Hobby Lobby</em>). Conservatives and libertarians sparred ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scalia in Sweden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael O'Donnell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The cover of this book says it all. There he is, grinning complacently, his black judges’ robes fading into black. The hair has thinned and the jaw is heavier than it used to be. He is an old bull now instead of a young buck. No one is there on the cover with him: he ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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