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		<title><![CDATA[Politician Names on Public Works Is Free Advertising]]></title>
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When workers scraped Donald Trump's name off the Donald Trump and John
F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, they should have kept going. They
should have taken Kennedy's name off as well and restored the building
to its original, simple title, the...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4228317</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apology Tour: Americans Abroad Experience Humility and Humiliation]]></title>
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For Americans traveling in Western Europe this summer, it's a time of
real humility, and some humiliation. You have to be quite the American
exceptionalist to defend America these days, when what seems truly
exceptional about our country is a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4227542</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Platner's Populist Challenge Excites Dems — Cautiously]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I heard President Donald Trump go ballistic over Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, it made me want to hear more about Graham Platner. After Platner won Maine’s Democratic primary last week, Trump trolled Platner as “thug�...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4228225</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hundreds at Delaney Hall Join Detained People Across Country in Hunger Strike Against Inhumane Conditions]]></title>
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Conditions at Delaney Hall are so reprehensible and degrading that
detained individuals resorted to starving themselves to bring attention
to their inhumane treatment. An open letter signed by nearly 300 people
brought light to the medical ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4227955</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump’s non-victory is a terrible failure]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trump again claims victory in Iran. He’s claimed victory before,
but now he has a so-called “agreement” with Iran.

That agreement, which appears to be no more than a memo of
understanding — that is, a set of principles to which Iran and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4227780</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Putting 'Professionals' in Charge]]></title>
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I'm not one to generally quote Senate Majority Leader John Thune as my
authority on Cabinet appointees, but when it came to Bill Pulte -- the
housing chief with no national security experience who was President
Donald Trump's first choice for ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4225938</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hey, Women: A Little Help, Please?]]></title>
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Even if you haven't geeked out over the "boy problem," you're probably
aware of the well-documented evidence that boys and men are struggling.

Boys lag behind girls in school and graduate at lower rates. Women now
comprise the overwhelming ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4226277</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Let the Love In]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most times when I'm invited to speak at a conference, someone introduces
me by reading the short bio provided. But this past week at the
Southeastern Writers' Association Conference, my friend, the Georgia
judge and novelist Lori Duff, introduced ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4225573</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Self-Reliance]]></title>
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I don't fix things.

I'm a man. I don't fix things.

I pay people to fix things, is what I do.

In general, the people I pay to fix things do not fix the thing on the
first try.

Being unable to fix things on the first try doesn't hurt your
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4225143</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dems Ruminate Over an Autopsy When They Should be Making Hay]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seemed to take forever, but on Thursday the Democratic National Committee finally released their autopsy of their ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign. It's bitter medicine, my Dem friends, but, as Momma used to say, take a spoonful, it’ll do...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4225461</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Platner Wants Redemption. Others Want a Refund]]></title>
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Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna conceded at a rally for the Maine senatorial
candidate that Graham Platner's actions have not been sterling. Voters
considering Platner don't like his "shameful" actions against women, the
Californian said, but "they are ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4224745</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Scammer]]></title>
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I woke up early to catch the latest news on the election results, only
to find that the first text message I saw was not a news alert from
Maine, but a warning from Apple Customer Support. Someone in Moscow,
Russia, was trying to access my Apple...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4224319</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jill Biden: The True View From the East Wing]]></title>
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WASHINGTON -- June 27 is coming up, the date of the 2024 debate when
America watched Joe Biden tank the election to Donald Trump.

Remember? It would be hard to forget Democrats' pain when we saw a
ghostly Biden self-destruct and grope for words...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4223866</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Gilded Age of Billion-Dollar Political Bribery]]></title>
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Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back ...
maybe 10 years or so?

In those olden times, if someone or some corporations gave a million
dollars to a political candidate, the donation was scandalous news -- a
bribe!

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4223865</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In No One We Trust: Americans Grow Increasingly Cynical, With Increasingly Good Reason]]></title>
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In a 2011 Los Angeles Times column titled "When Unity Was All-American,"
writer George Skelton marked the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor by
recalling a time when Americans respected those whom they elected. "What
I remember most," he recalled ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4223003</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Loneliness: People Do Need People]]></title>
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Ashley, North Dakota, is a small farming town where the local diet leans
hard on sausage, deep-fried chicken and strudel. It has something of a
medical center, but the nearest trauma hospital able to handle the most
serious injuries is almost ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4222990</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[‘No Kings’ is Why Trump’s Face Should Not Be on a $250 Bill]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump’s latest scheme is to print his mug on a proposed $250 bill. The idea is eye roll inducing, for sure. There are so many other pressing issues for the nation; it’s tempting to stay out of this dog fight. On the surface, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4222895</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Attack on Southern Poverty Law Center Puts Democracy at Risk]]></title>
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent years fighting hate, racism
and injustice in the American South and has played a critical role in
strengthening the civil rights of millions of Americans. It has even
worked closely with the FBI in that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4222580</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Coming Revival of America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I detest him and everything he does or says. Ditto his despicable
aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.

But it’s possible that someday we’ll look back on this horrendous
era and say we needed Trump. We needed to...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4222348</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Counting Votes in California]]></title>
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There he goes again. As Democrats predicted before the first votes were
in, President Donald Trump is, as is his way, challenging the results of
the elections in California. With absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing,
he took to Truth Social ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4220540</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/06/2026</pubDate>
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