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		<title><![CDATA[Children Are Now Running Our Big Cities]]></title>
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani earned national attention in a
not-good way when he recorded himself in front of Ken Griffin's
Manhattan home revealing the billionaire's address. He tapped the lens
in a threatening manner and said guys like ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4206692</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I Couldn't Make This Up]]></title>
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You wouldn't believe me if I did.

The Treasury Department takes $1.8 billion ($1.776 billion, to be exact)
from the Judgment Fund, a fund that is used to pay settlement claims
without congressional approval, and sets it aside for partisan ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4205925</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Trump Takeover Is Almost Done]]></title>
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Are we almost at the point of no return? Let America be America again,
please, in a post-Donald Trump world.

Rebuilding our institutions, arts and trust in government is not a sure
thing. Given a global economic, environmental or medical crisis...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4206693</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Inequality Merry-Go-Round Built By Stanley Tools]]></title>
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In this day of AI smart tools, it's easy to forget that we humans once
relied on "dumb" hand tools like saws, drills, screwdrivers and
wrenches.

For decades, a major maker of these trusty instruments has been a
company in New Britain, Conn., ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4205585</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Losing Abe: A Giant Passes at a Particularly Bad Time]]></title>
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In the late 1940s, when clever-sounding defenses of Soviet
totalitarianism had overtaken certain fashionable political circles in
Britain, George Orwell publicly addressed one leftist's soft spot for
totalitarianism. He noted that the fellow did...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4201903</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's So Bad About a Stable Population?]]></title>
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Back in 1969, President Richard Nixon warned Congress against the rapid
growth of the American population: "When future generations evaluate the
record of our time, one of the most important factors in their judgment
will be the way in which we ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4201895</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Your Questions Answered: What Is Redistricting and Why Should We Care?]]></title>
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Redistricting is the process of drawing the lines of districts from
which public officials are elected. When redistricting is conducted
fairly, it accurately reflects population changes and our diverse
communities and is used by legislators to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4201912</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Feeling 'Under-Babied'? More Like Underpaid and Overburdened]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was just my luck last week that as my column on the fertility crisis was being laid out in newspaper pages and posted to websites, the sharpest minds of the Trump administration were gathered in the Oval Office to hold forth ... on the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4201773</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Has Trump’s Republican Party Become a Criminal Enterprise?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for
Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second
impeachment, for instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4201091</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MAGA's Idea Factory Has Closed]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's three presidential campaigns were contests between
establishment and insurgent, steadfastness versus change, "if it ain't
broke, don't fix it" against "burn it all down."

Trump did not offer new ideas. Rather, the vagueness of MAGA...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4198975</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Police Failed Katelyn Hall. So Did America's Health Care System.]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 27, the Louisville Metro Police Department in Louisville,
Kentucky, responded to a 911 call requesting help for someone
experiencing a mental health emergency. When police arrived, Katelyn
Hall had locked herself in the bathroom with the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4166752</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digging to China]]></title>
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My ancestors, and by that I mean one or two generations ago, intersected
with Chinese culture in three ways.

One was Chinese food.

One was the Chinese laundry.

The last was fireworks.

My father was a tenement kid in a Massachusetts cotton ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4162039</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It’s a Good Thing Trump is So Incompetent]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Negative adjectives to describe Donald Trump could fill a dictionary. He is gross, disgusting, loathsome, shady, deceitful, amoral, crooked, cruel, mean, obnoxious, rude, disrespectful, selfish, heartless, uncaring, paranoid, arrogant, abhorrent, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4164105</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Decluttering Till Death Do We Part]]></title>
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Margareta Magnusson was an artist in Stockholm who wrote a bestselling
book, "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning." Decluttering, the
removal of unnecessary items from our living spaces, had already become
an international obsession. That ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4150438</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Do You Do?]]></title>
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When the war is not going well?

You assassinate more leaders.

They replace those leaders with equally bad/worse leaders?

You threaten to destroy the civilization!

That does not go over well.

Back down on that one.

Declare Victory.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4138604</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Could Trump Care Less About You and Me?]]></title>
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WASHINGTON -- Camelot, it's not. King Arthur, not even close. Donald
Trump is a pretender president who doesn't even pretend to do right by
the people.

In all candor, this city, graced by garden squares, memorials and
museums, feels like a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4150439</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Democrats: Don't Forget That You're Supposed to Be a Party!]]></title>
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Washington's Democratic Party establishment keeps demanding that
progressive members tone down their criticism of billionaire oligarchs
and corporate autocrats. Why? Because the insiders want to rebrand the
party as ideologically moderate. "Time...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4125219</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['My Child Is Now a Political Debate': Immigrant Families Respond as Arguments Wrap in Landmark Challenge Against Trump's Birthright Citizenship Threats]]></title>
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*Some names have been changed to protect identities.

When Jane* learned about President Donald Trump's executive order to end
birthright citizenship, she immediately panicked. The order was slated
to take effect July 27. Jane's first child was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4097024</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Laughingstock: Bluster and Gibberish Turn Us Into a Joke]]></title>
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When the sorry history of the President Donald Trump Era is written,
historians will note the irony that the television reality star elected
twice to the presidency, assuring us that he would "make America great
again," has turned the country ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4096278</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[There's a Reason Some Populist Views Are Popular]]></title>
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The British election should serve as a warning to Democrats who let
their left fringe run riot with scant criticism. Too many Democratic
strategists and friends in the progressive media read the noise coming
from the far left as evidence of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4096270</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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