<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>



<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Richard Cohen - ArcaMax Publishing</title>
	<link>/politics/richardcohen/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Richard Cohen  Channel Feed]]></description>
	<language>en-us</language>
	<copyright>Copyright 2013 ArcaMax Publishing</copyright>
	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[A Dog-Bites-Man Story]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old journalism saw goes like this: Dog bites man, no story. Man bites
dog, story. Allow me to update it. Government monitors email and
telephone calls for national security, no story. Government doesn't do
anything of the kind -- now, that's a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1339495</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[Agonizing Over a Slippery Slope]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A letter to the editor of The New York Times Book Review says it all. It
mentions the situation in Syria and says "the crisis continues." The
"crisis," you should know, is not the continuing slaughter of civilians
nor the river of miserable ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1335604</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/04/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[The Richness of Learning]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Jones, members of the faculty, assorted notables, proud
parents and financially indebted graduates. I come before you on this
auspicious day to say something about the degree you have just been
awarded. You have been told it is not worth...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1330671</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/28/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[How Mitzie Got Her Gate]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was only when they put the cuffs on her and led her out of the
Cincinnati Federal Office Building that she finally realized how much
trouble she was in. Her husband, in one of his rare sober moments, had
urged her to get a lawyer, and her ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1328452</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[Symptoms of 'Benghazi Syndrome']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Psychiatric Association's latest handbook -- the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) -- is about to be
published. It is the handbook of mental health and if you're not in it
you are among the fortunate few. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1324814</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[At a Loss for Words on Syria]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that President Obama did not mean to say "red line" after
all. The New York Times tells us the president misspoke. Maybe like a
lot of people new to Washington, he got confused by the Metro system.
Maybe he meant to warn Syria not to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1321322</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/07/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[The Serenity of George W. Bush]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I envy few people -- maybe Nelson Mandela for his indomitable courage,
maybe Philip Roth for his abundant talent, maybe even George Clooney for
how much he seems to enjoy being George Clooney. I add, tentatively and
for different reasons, George W...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1314073</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[Abracadabra on Guns]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington is one big magic show. In black tie and tails, the Senate
points to the bereaved parents of Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and
six adults were shot to death. Then, while the audience is focused on
the Newtown horror, senators vote to...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1310367</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[Vengeance, Not Justice]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the death penalty, the only thing the United States can
do is plead the insanity defense. The rest of the advanced world has
moved on, but America resolutely remains among the top five executioners
-- behind China, Iran and Iraq, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1306763</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/09/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	
  <item>
 
		<title><![CDATA[Our Sordid History on Gay Marriage]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all become political hacks. We are all engaged in the back and
forth of politics, the jot or tittle of the process, the meaningless
cable chatter of it all, the sameness of it all, be it conservative or
liberal, so we lose sight of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen/s-1303132</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/02/2013</pubDate>
  </item>

	
	<item>
	  <title>More from Richard Cohen on ArcaMax »</title>
	  <link>http://www.arcamax.com/richardcohen</link>
	</item>
  </channel>
</rss>

