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		<title><![CDATA[We're Chasing Significance in the Wrong Places]]></title>
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It seems like everyone wants to be a social media influencer these days.
Researcher Matthew Simoneau surveyed middle and high school students
from 2021 to 2024 and more than 60% of them said they wanted to be
social media influencers. People ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4315141</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Menu]]></title>
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Politics, restaurant menus and porn are the quickest ways to learn that
someone likes things you find disgusting.

Good examples of that are Donald Trump, escargot and gang rape, three
things that disgust me, but are keenly desired by some ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4314730</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mary Sanchez: Missouri GOP is giving a master class on how to disrespect voters]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those familiar with the uber-popular book “What’s the Matter with Kansas” might be asking the same of the state’s neighbor to the east, Missouri. Daily, sometimes even hourly, the news becomes more topsy turvy with Midwest politics. Legal ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4315016</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stop the Hysteria Over Flock Cameras]]></title>
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In the bad old crime days of New York City, I spent a Christmas Eve
waiting outside an emergency room. Our foursome had been violently
robbed in a subway station, and I was eager for the doctor's report on
one member who'd suffered a concussion ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4314372</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Republican Rhetoric]]></title>
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At a campaign rally this week in Nebraska, President Donald Trump made
what can most generously be described as a tasteless joke. In his
flailing effort to justify a war that most Americans oppose, and that
Trump himself has been unable to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4313870</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Americas]]></title>
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"The rich are different from you and me." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I read two books in one weekend: "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson on
Saturday, "Strangers" by Belle Burden on Sunday. They're true stories,
told well, about two countries, both ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4313575</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[You Betcha the GOP 'Loves' Small Business -- Loves It to Death]]></title>
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I've got to hand it to Washington's Republican policymakers. They've
come up with a truly remarkable way that, they promise, will vastly
expand the number of small businesses in America. Great!

This is personal for me, for I grew up in a family...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4313574</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Genocide Poppycock: The Targets of Genocide Get Accused of Committing One]]></title>
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The attempt to massacre Israelis that played out on a flydubai flight
from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week was both extraordinary and more of the
same. The Omani co-pilot stabbed the pilot and tried to seize control of
the plane, telling ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4312862</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[If Hegseth Wants to Strip the Military of Weirdos, He Should Resign]]></title>
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Where did this guy come from? How did a TV personality end up leading
America's defense department, especially in a time of war?

Donald Trump put Pete Hegseth in charge of the Department of Defense.
It's now officially called the War Department...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4312855</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Trump Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding.]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a cloudy Saturday in March 2025, a federal judge in Washington, D.C.,
called an emergency hearing over the fate of more than 100 Venezuelans.
The U.S. government had invoked the Alien Enemies Act against them, a
wartime law used only three ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4312869</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The central question of power in America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind this election’s dominant issue of affordability lies the
record concentration of wealth at the top of America. The richest 0.001%
of Americans — a handful of extraordinarily wealthy men — now
control more of the nation’s wealth than...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4312351</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clarence Page: Trump’s 'truth' betrayed by White House chatbot]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since President Donald Trump displays a ferocious disdain for any suggestion that he could be wrong about anything, I hope he will not try to consult the AI fact-checker he has unleashed against himself. Last week, the White House unveiled America...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4311235</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Predicting Breast Cancer]]></title>
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Imagine there were a simple test, using AI, that could accurately
predict a man's chance of developing prostate cancer in the next five
years.

Would insurance pay the $249 for the test?

You bet they would. "Men fund what they fear," then Rep. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4311066</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's Pete Buttigieg's Nomination to Lose]]></title>
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It's that time again, and I know you're excited: time to start
handicapping the 2028 presidential campaign.

First, for my left-of-the-Democrats readers -- in other words, my fellow
travelers -- a disclaimer: handicapping the dancing bears of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4311299</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[His Student Was Detained by ICE. Now He's Fighting To Bring Her Home.]]></title>
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"I'm being taken, please fight for me."

This is the text that came through on Ryan Davis' phone on Aug. 12 from
his former student Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw.

Armelle and her husband Terrance had gone to their final marriage-based
green card ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4310844</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hooray for Death!]]></title>
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As a reporter, I wasn't the guy who caught the big cases.

If I was covering the trial of someone who'd killed or injured someone,
the alleged perpetrator was almost always a poor, drug-abusing member of
a widely despised minority group. Usually...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4310399</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill Press: Trump’s mental health: worse than you thought]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since he first came down the golden escalator in June 2015, there have been questions raised about Donald Trump’s mental health. Many psychologists and psychiatrists have suggested that his behavior is consistent with signs of narcissistic ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4310663</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/01/2026</pubDate>
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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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