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		<title><![CDATA[Ending the Backlash]]></title>
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"Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues" is the title of the report out
this week from the respected liberal think tank The Center for American
Progress. As you might expect, the Center report urges Democrats to
stand firm in supporting ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4260644</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Red Scare. Why?]]></title>
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If Republicans get their way, McCarthyism will be back -- and here to
stay.

Leading the race to the soggiest pits of ethical crud, as usual,
President Donald Trump repeatedly calls Democratic Socialists of
America-affiliated primary winners "...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4260979</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clarence Page: Is the Smithsonian racist? MAGA makes a case in Newspeak]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven't heard that the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is a hotbed of "anti-White activism," "illegal alien activism," and "transgender activism," the Trump administration and its MAGA allies in Congress have some news for...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4260888</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Braving the Deep End: Growth Begins Where Our Comfort Zone Ends]]></title>
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My son was furious when I picked him up from day camp, slamming the door
when he got in the car. He had been downgraded from a "yellow" swimmer
to a "red" swimmer. He hadn't forgotten how to swim. The YMCA had simply
changed its policy.

My son ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4260295</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[He Looks a Little Moldy, but He's All Right]]></title>
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My cat, Jack the Cat, is looking a little worn.

He's 11 years old, and he's diabetic, and he was getting two shots of
insulin a day, but he went into remission and there was great joy in the
house.

Still, we keep an eye on him. In the last few...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4259639</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill Press: Line up for your free testosterone shot]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood was in trouble, after a steady stream of mindless movies, many of them violent and animated, nobody wanted to see. Things got so bad analysts were predicting the entire studio industry might collapse. But now Hollywood’s back! With a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4260171</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nebraska's Osborn Is Really Real]]></title>
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"A Face in the Crowd" is the prophetic 1957 movie about a charismatic
drifter "discovered" in an Arkansas jail. The face belongs to "Lonesome"
Rhodes, a scoundrel whose folksy act catapults him to national
prominence. "Lonesome" (Andy Griffith) ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4259347</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth's War]]></title>
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So far, the number is $37.5 billion. That's how much we've spent so far
on the war against Iran.

What have we got to show for it, other than lost American lives?

What could we do with that money at home?

I'm not even up to those questions yet...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4258892</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A City on a Hill -- No More]]></title>
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Since the Fourth of July celebration of the nation's 250 years was a
bust, let's look at the next anniversary, noting when a Puritan governor
declared that we would be as "a city upon a hill" in 1630.

Almost 400 years later, in our summer of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4259348</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corporate Stupidity Sidetracked By Mad-as-Hell Farm Rebels]]></title>
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Executives climbing the corporate ladder to the top seem to lose IQ the
higher up they get.

That might explain why John Deere's top corporate bosses have imposed an
astonishingly stupid policy on America's farmers. For years, they've
decreed ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4258457</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dark Season: The Oldest Hatred Deepens and Spreads]]></title>
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Time-honored wisdom holds that if it looks like a duck, waddles like a
duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. The explosion of venom,
vitriol, vandalism and violence against Jews since Israel was attacked
by genocidal killers on Oct. 7, 2023,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4257584</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Free to Be Suckers]]></title>
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Many of today's consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and
used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely
understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable
cash flow to siphon off, are ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4257579</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What the Latest Wave of Neo-Nazis Says About Us]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — On July 4, the nation’s 250th anniversary, a mysterious group of young men in khaki pants, navy blue shirts, logoed baseball caps and white face masks surfaced in the capital, marching out of a downtown Metro subway station and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4257497</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We Documented More Than 1,200 Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found.]]></title>
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Just last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot and killed a
man in Houston who had lived in the country for 35 years; he was a
father to three sons and a business owner. ICE didn't even allege that
he posed a danger at the time or had ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4257196</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is It Possible to Be Loyal to Trump and Preserve One’s Integrity?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a lot of discussion this past week about the meaning
of integrity.

You didn’t hear the word used directly; it was alluded to
indirectly — in wondering whether Lindsey Graham was an immoral
opportunist or clever pragmatist; in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4257027</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Limits of Merit]]></title>
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The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic. At its
eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are
Asian or White. Wait -- what's considered the most selective of the
city's schools, Stuyvesant High...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4255180</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[McConnell, Graham and Epistemic Nihilism]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right-wing Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, former Senate
majority leader and key senior legislator, went missing for weeks. No
one -- including President Donald Trump and the governor of his home
state -- knew whether he was sick, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4255665</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Muhammad Ali Knew His Worth. We Can Still Grow From That Lesson.]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing Mariel Gardner mentioned was the sound.

Cicadas and katydids buzzed while butterflies and bees drifted among
bright yellow blooms in Louisville's Chickasaw Park.

Gardner smiled. "This is what I wanted to hear," she said.

A new ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4254944</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The End of Dreams]]></title>
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Writers are weird people, and we start out as weird kids.

I was a weird kid. Worse yet, my family moved quite a bit, so I was
often the weird new kid.

Our last long jump of a move was from Baltimore to a suburb of Kansas
City, Missouri. Before...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4254535</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[No Tears Shed for Lindsey Graham]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since last Saturday, when news broke about the sudden death of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, tributes poured in from his Senate colleagues, both Republican and Democrat. Whether or not they agreed with him on any given issue, they said, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4254827</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jul/16/2026</pubDate>
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