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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!

...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<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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		<title><![CDATA[America's Bleak 250th]]></title>
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Not least because I was 12 years old, the Bicentennial festivities felt
very different from this year's 250th birthday celebrations for the
United States. This being America, commercialization was inevitable --
everything was red, white and blue...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4220869</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's Story Is Resilience. Martina McBride Has Been Singing It for Years.]]></title>
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When artists canceled their performances for President Donald Trump's
June 25 Great American State Fair, one stood out for me: Martina
McBride. The first time I saw Martina live in concert was at the Taste
of Cincinnati festival in Cincinnati, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4220078</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Right Thing Costs You]]></title>
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"If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices,
do the thing that's hardest," my pop used to tell me. "The right thing
is always the hardest thing."

Which is how Scott Pelley got canned off "60 Minutes," a television news...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4219687</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[‘No Kings’ is Why Trump’s Face Should Bot 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/billpress/s-4219988</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Price Gouging Is Whose Problem?]]></title>
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Horrors. The profiteers running this year's World Cup are forcing fans
to shell out thousands for a single ticket.

But they're not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer
tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4219234</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Man at the Corner with the Bucket]]></title>
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I was stopped at a red light when I noticed a man on the sidewalk
pouring water over his head. He had a big bucket and a cup that he
filled with water from the bucket to dump over his head. At first, I
thought he might be trying to cool off, but...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4218671</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Present Breaks the Past's Heart]]></title>
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Change is not my best friend. Not since the day my family moved from
Wisconsin to California when I was eight.

Leaving the land of my grandmother, the skating rink and snowballs in
winter, Lake Mendota and the tennis courts in summer, the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4218398</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shouldn't Public Protection Be for, You Know, the Public?]]></title>
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A core role of the U.S. Department of Justice is to protect people from
abuse by giant corporations.

But DOJ's present inhabitants have twisted that mission backwards --
using the agency to protect corporate abusers from people seeking
justice....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4218397</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rocket Men: Hezbollah Demands Impunity and Democrats Say 'Sure!']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen recently claimed that the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee was "un-American," an announcement that
surely surprised the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American
citizens who have supported ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4217546</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Platners Are in Therapy. They Really Need It]]></title>
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The Democrats' apparent choice to replace Maine Republican Susan Collins
in the U.S. Senate has built a rap sheet of dazzling disqualifiers.

It wasn't enough that Graham Platner's impersonation of a blue-collar
oysterman has been exposed. Turns...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4217543</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Trump’s Birthday Bash]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of my recent Substack post about Trump’s plans for a
Trump rally on the mall to celebrate the start of America’s 250th
birthday festivities — designed, in his words, for “patriots” and
promising to be “wild” — several of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4216870</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/01/2026</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/clarencepage/s-4215311</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/01/2026</pubDate>
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