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		<title><![CDATA[Life of the Party: Maine's Senate Race Tests the Democrats' Future]]></title>
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In his famous poem "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats ruminated
about what happens when "the center cannot hold," and "things fall
apart." Things have well and truly fallen apart in America and the
collapse of the political center is both...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4089600</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tucker's Somebody Days Are Nearing the End]]></title>
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Tucker Carlson's problem, it would seem, is that what he says doesn't
matter, because he has a long history of not saying what he thinks.
True, he once starred at Fox News, and even now his followers on social
media number in the millions. But ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4089594</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Justices Gut Voting Rights to Shield GOP Majority -- and Their Own Disgrace]]></title>
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What a happy coincidence for House Republicans that the Supreme Court's
conservative bloc found an excuse to help preserve their party's
congressional majority, just in time for the 2026 midterm elections.
Without the timely intervention of the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/joeconason/s-4089104</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Deaths in Detention: ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Detention Camps Into Warehouses Despite Record Deaths]]></title>
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced the death of
another person in its custody -- the 17th person so far in 2026. Deaths
inside of immigration detention centers are rising and now occur at a
rate of roughly one every six days....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4089124</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Trump Doesn't Want Congress to Vote on War Powers]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday marked 60 days since the start of Trump’s failed war in
Iran. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) gives Congress the
power “To declare War,” and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 —
enacted over Nixon’s veto — mandates...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4088934</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Voting Rights Ruling Will Promote Corrupt Electoral Maps]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a “great step forward” toward removing obstacles that kept Black Americans from voting. It was. But this week, in striking down a voter redistricting ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4086890</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Maine Senate Race]]></title>
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It was the 78 year-old two-term Governor against a 41-year-old oyster
farmer who has never held office. Chuck Schumer convinced the Governor,
Janet Mills, that she had the best chance of defeating Republican
incumbent Susan Collins. Maybe so, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4086611</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gen X to Gen Z: We Salute You]]></title>
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Thirty years and 30 pounds ago, Workman published "Revenge of the
Latchkey Kids," my bestselling entry in the Gen X manifesto genre. I
argued in snotty prose and spiky scratchboard cartoons that Americans
born in the 1960s and early 1970s faced ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4087025</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Most Practical Protest? Growing Your Own Food]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring is filled with dreams of locally grown food. Last weekend, my
family volunteered for our local community garden, helping get beds
ready and putting tomato and pepper plants in the ground. At home, we
planted zinnias and sunflowers. My ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4086305</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[$4.39 a Gallon and a $6 Breakfast]]></title>
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The kid behind the counter, a kid with strong black dreads fountaining
out of the top of his visor, says "That'll be $6.42."

I give him my debit card.

I went to bed last night with $0.65 in my checking account, but this
column pays by the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4086239</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Ballroom Amounts to Taxpayer Abuse]]></title>
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Some years ago, I was president of an organization called the
Association of Opinion Journalists. Every year we would run a convention
in a different city and end it with a celebration in the hotel's
ballroom space. Our speaker on that closing ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4086296</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The ‘Empathy Deficit’ of the Powerful]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m trying to return to the book I started writing a decade ago, and doing so has pulled my awareness of and relationship to the events of 2026 into the larger consciousness the book is struggling to address: What is power? Can we broaden and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4086197</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[86 47]]></title>
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When I was working my way through law school as a bartender, we used to
"86" drinkers who caused trouble. The term has been around that long. It
certainly didn't mean we meant to kill a problem drinker. It meant we
cut him off -- that is, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4084793</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Charles III, a Guest in Our House]]></title>
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The king came to town for tea, dinner and a little chat with Congress
and the president. By the time you read this, Charles III's state visit
may be a little piece of history.

The "special relationship" between the United States and the United
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4084293</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Immoral Have Corporate Bosses Become?]]></title>
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"Mingy" is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well
summing up the prevailing ethic of today's corporate bosses.

Take mingy CEOs of multibillion-dollar powerhouses like Amazon and
7-Eleven. They've been refusing to accommodate ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4084292</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dead Duck: Kash Patel Files a Lulu of a Lawsuit]]></title>
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For Americans who have watched FBI Director Kash Patel slosh beer with
the U.S. Olympic hockey team, proclaim that the FBI had Charlie Kirk's
murderer in custody only to have to say "Never mind," and stand
glassy-eyed at press conferences ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4083287</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shooter's Real Problem Was Mental, Not Political]]></title>
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"Shots Fired at Correspondents' Dinner" dominated TV headlines following
the gun attack at the Washington Hilton. Correction: Shots were not
fired at the dinner but in the corridor outside. That's where security
had pinned the accused gunman, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4083283</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA To Uphold Human Rights Ahead of 2026 World Cup]]></title>
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From Los Angeles to New Jersey, many of the United States' host cities
for the 2026 World Cup are home to large immigrant communities. Though
this year's slogan is "Football Unites the World," these communities now
live in daily fear of racial ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4082801</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Another Radically Underqualified Trump Appointee is About to Bite the Dust]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can be Secretary of Defense (War) and cause the mightiest
military in the world to be brought to its knees, and still keep your
job in the Trump regime.

You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge
as a major hazard to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4082625</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is the SPLC Indictment About Fraud or Something More Sinister?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the U.S. Justice Department’s stunning announcement of criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, as an old saying goes, where you stand depends on where you sit. If you sit with the broad section of Americans who...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4080357</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/27/2026</pubDate>
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