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		<title><![CDATA[If the Kennedy Center Stays Closed for Now, So Be It]]></title>
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Go ahead, President Donald Trump, keep the Kennedy Center closed. Don't
give it money for necessary repairs. This is low-hanging fruit for
Americans done with your extortion schemes. They don't have to submit to
small-bore intimidation like this...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4300190</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Cost of the War]]></title>
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The latest figures from the Pentagon on the war against Iran amount to
$38 billion, with future costs running at $3 billion a month. And
contrary to some of the president's earlier statements, it's not about
to be over.

And who is paying the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4299747</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump's Scenes Under the Summer Sun]]></title>
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WASHINGTON -- First came the murder of the Kennedy Rose Garden. That was
just a prelude for the killer in the Oval Office.

His next victim is likely the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, the arts heartbeat of the capital and the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4300191</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Greg's Folly: Governor Abbott Gets Hoisted on His Own Petard]]></title>
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Greg Abbott, the right-wing hack who is governor of Texas, probably
doesn't know what a "petard" is, but he's now been hoisted by a big one.
"Hoist on a petard" is a Shakespearean phrase for a bomb maker being
blown sky-high by his own creation....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4299330</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fuehrer Cult: America Bends to Strongman Worship]]></title>
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The German term "Fuehrerkult" means what it sounds like: the cult of the
leader. It refers more precisely to the cult created by, for and about
one German leader in particular, and you can probably guess who.

The cult of Adolf Hitler that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4298524</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Women Keep Politics Honest]]></title>
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This is a generalization, I know. As Mark Twain is said to have said,
"All generalizations are false, including this one." But there is
growing evidence that women tend to be more protective of our American
democracy than men. They are more ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4298518</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bans on Lifesaving Program for People Who Use Illegal Drugs Violate the Americans With Disabilities Act]]></title>
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J.A.'s life has been impacted by addiction for over two decades, and he
needed support. He didn't have access to clean syringes, so he reused
used syringes and contracted countless skin infections and as well as
hepatitis C. But he finally got ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4298011</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re now officially in the run-up to the midterm elections, with
less than two months to go before Election Day 2026.

The good news is most Americans now understand how bad Trump is. With
the exception of Nixon, he’s the most unpopular ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4297984</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clarence Page: Don’t let the war on woke lull us all to sleep]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[History is written to be argued about, I have often said. Recent efforts by the Trump administration’s culture war have offered numerous examples. In recent days, we have seen Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a break from the administration’...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4296500</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Murdering Mother]]></title>
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Lindsay Clancy deserves to spend her life in prison. She strangled her
three children, one after another. She knew what she was doing and knew
it was wrong. She did it anyway. She is a murderer and should be treated
as one.

Of course she was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4296267</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Grand Theft AI]]></title>
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Last week there occurred a watershed moment in the history of American
political cartooning. A major American newspaper, The Baltimore Sun,
published an editorial cartoon created not by a cartoonist or graphic
artist but by unidentified staffers...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4296585</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What We Never Learned From 9/11 Jeopardizes Our Future Every Day]]></title>
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To contemplate the quarter-century that has passed since the 9/11
attacks, with all the momentous change that day wrought on our society,
is to confront a disturbing fact: As a nation, we have learned almost
nothing that episode should have ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-4296269</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Our Immigrant Neighbors Disappear, Our Communities Lose]]></title>
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A man who worked in the cafeteria at my husband's workplace disappeared.
My husband talked to him each time he stopped in for lunch. One day, my
husband noted how happy the man seemed. He told my husband it was
because he had his final green ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4295922</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Don't Let the Terrorists Win]]></title>
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I was working at a medium-sized city newspaper on Sept. 11, 2001. No one
had stormed the Capitol yet, there had been no George Floyd riots, we
hadn't started the war we were going to lose in Afghanistan, and ICE
hadn't killed anyone in the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4295507</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill Press: Vote the easy, safe, American way: Mail it in!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a high school debate coach, my first rule was: Always start with the facts. So let’s start with this incontrovertible fact: There’s nothing wrong with voting by mail. Just the opposite. As I can attest, having voted by mail in every...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4295786</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Toxic Toll of 9/11]]></title>
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I'm not a big fan of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but this week, he
did something important that his predecessors had refused to do. On the
eve of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, New York City released over 170,000
pages of documents about the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4294752</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Society of Strangers]]></title>
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"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare

Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded
by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed
on our soil in 1941. That December ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4294347</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Billionaires Say America's Founding Value of Egalitarianism Is Not for Them]]></title>
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Growing up, I received a wealth of working-class values from my parents,
including this nugget about egalitarianism: "Nobody is better than you,"
they said, "and you're no better than anybody else."

That's the ethical underpinning for "We're ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4294346</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[September 11 Seems Like Yesterday in New York City]]></title>
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Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell
of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city's Muslim
neighborhoods would be attacked in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4294345</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The robbery of our shared places is an assertion of arbitrary power]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s one thing for Trump to usurp powers that belong to Congress
— quite another for him to usurp places that belong to all of us.

I’m talking about his renaming and demolishing what we share in
common.

Trump said he “decided” to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4293745</link>
 
    <pubDate>Sep/08/2026</pubDate>
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