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							<title><![CDATA[Which Party Will Recover First From Its Current Self-Harm?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/05/which_party_will_recover_first_from_its_current_self-harm_154195.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections.
Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The California Dream Ends in Empty Reservoirs and Homeless Tents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/29/the_california_dream_ends_in_empty_reservoirs_and_homeless_tents_154172.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Wins the Re-Redistricted House?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/15/who_wins_the_re-redistricted_house_154126.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40% (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its narrow House majority, nor is it at serious risk of losing its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Churchillian Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/08/trumps_churchillian_foreign_policy_154105.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Knowingly or not, President Donald Trump, in his decision to attack Iran, has embarked on a foreign policy that has been, on and off, both persistent and controversial in the great English-speaking nations. You can trace it back at least to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89: the ouster...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[39 Days: Too Much or Not Enough?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025?
The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump's ceasefire announcement and,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sudden Political Star of Trump II: Marco Rubio]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA["White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner's website in the early hours of April 1, the third month of U.S. military operations against Iran, which have been taking place since Feb....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Uncertainty Remains, After 20 Days of War With Iran]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number -- 1,486 days altogether -- is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number -- just 20 days -- is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Avoiding Repeating History in Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/06/trump_avoiding_repeating_history_in_iran_153917.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History doesn't always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others'.
Example: Woodrow Wilson, a stubborn Southerner, refused to involve any Republicans, all Northerners in those days, in treaty negotiations after World War I. His treaty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Throws Out Trump Tariffs and Upholds Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/27/supreme_court_throws_out_trump_tariffs_and_upholds_constitution_153888.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. That is a frequently voiced charge by partisan Democrats, and a fear of many ambivalent voters who find many of Trump's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marco Rubio: More Than Just the Good Cop]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/20/marco_rubio_more_than_just_the_good_cop_153861.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Is Shaking Up Political Parties in Britain, Europe and the US]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/13/immigration_is_shaking_up_political_parties_in_britain_europe_and_the_us_153836.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign for his appointment of Epstein-tied Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, one is struck by the sudden instability of British governments. In the 28 years between 1979 and 2007, Britain had only three prime...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Surprises in the 2030 Census Estimates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/30/big_surprises_in_the_2030_census_estimates_153780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025.
It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Outrageous Threats Get Practical Results]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/23/trumps_outrageous_threats_get_practical_results_153747.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the international...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's the Matter With Minnesota?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/16/whats_the_matter_with_minnesota_153721.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud?
To understand what's going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was settled largely by people of Scandinavian and German ancestry.
In survey after survey, Minnesota has ranked No. 1 or No. 2...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Have Reached the Emily Litella Moment on Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/19/we_have_reached_the_emily_litella_moment_on_climate_change_153651.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America's 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It's gotten to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Threat of an Overproduced Elite]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/14/the_threat_of_an_overproduced_elite_153527.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore.
Case in point, one of the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bad News for Republicans, Warnings for Both Parties]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/11/07/bad_news_for_republicans_warnings_for_both_parties_153502.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald Trump by 52%-46% margins in 2024. Democrats ran significantly better in both states on Tuesday. One reason is that Trump Republicans, as an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Want Open Borders; Most Americans Don't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/31/democrats_want_open_borders_most_americans_dont_153477.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who said this? "If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation." The speaker went on, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it."
It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in characteristic candor. If,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trends in New Jersey and Virginia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/24/the_trends_in_new_jersey_and_virginia_153447.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year's presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year: New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump: Energy in the Executive]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/03/donald_trump_energy_in_the_executive_153362.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Party Isolation Is Getting Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/26/democratic_party_isolation_is_getting_worse_153331.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked.
One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk's Free Speech, Anti-Violence Legacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/16/charlie_kirks_free_speech_anti-violence_legacy_153288.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those of us of a certain age, the assassination of Charlie Kirk brought back memories of other momentous assassinations -- the moment of disbelief and then stomach-turning horror on first hearing the news, the sense that events were tilting wildly out of kilter, the fear that more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Recovering From the Insanity of Summer 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/12/recovering_from_the_insanity_of_summer_2020_153278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What a difference half a decade makes. This summer's prevailing ethos, zeitgeist, vibe -- call it any fancy name you want -- was sharply different from the summer, just five years ago, of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.
Such sudden changes in the moral atmosphere seem to occur every so...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Governance by Threat, Not Constitutional Order]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/29/governance_by_threat_not_constitutional_order_153235.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788.
There have been exceptions, of course. Abraham Lincoln took extraordinary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Redistricting in Historic Perspective]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/15/redistricting_in_historic_perspective_153180.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In assessing the current controversy over Texas Republicans' proposed redistricting of the state's U.S. House seats, two historic facts should be considered.
One is that the principle of equal representation by population is well established in American history. In 1787, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Learning From America's Immigrant Past]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/08/learning_from_americas_immigrant_past_153159.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When debating current issues, it's helpful to avoid inaccurate depictions of past policy, especially on immigration, in which both opponents and advocates of President Donald Trump's policies have views based on not altogether accurate renditions of the past.
Many opponents of Trump's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Heading to Midterms, Democrats Not Up Off the Floor]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3486750/midterm-elections-democratic-party-polling/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party brand has still not recovered from the policy and ethical failures of the Biden administration.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Ex-Presidents a Help or Hindrance?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/25/are_ex-presidents_a_help_or_hindrance_153096.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For a generation, Americans have had a historically large number of ex-presidents around, a possible source of counsel from one of only 45 people who have exercised the broad powers conferred by Article II of the Constitution.
You might expect former presidents to supply elements of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Higher Education in Trouble: Political Repercussions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/18/higher_education_in_trouble_political_repercussions_153067.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nine months after the 2024 election, we've been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10 years and one month ago. There's wide agreement in the analyses of the Associated Press/Fox News Vote Cast, the Democratic firm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gender Gap Grows Wider and Wider]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/07/11/the_gender_gap_grows_wider_and_wider_153026.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Barone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The gender gap, we're informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter.
That spurred political journalists to...]]></description>
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