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		<title><![CDATA[Decluttering Till Death Do We Part]]></title>
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Margareta Magnusson was an artist in Stockholm who wrote a bestselling
book, "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning." Decluttering, the
removal of unnecessary items from our living spaces, had already become
an international obsession. That ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4150438</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Do You Do?]]></title>
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When the war is not going well?

You assassinate more leaders.

They replace those leaders with equally bad/worse leaders?

You threaten to destroy the civilization!

That does not go over well.

Back down on that one.

Declare Victory.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4138604</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Could Trump Care Less About You and Me?]]></title>
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WASHINGTON -- Camelot, it's not. King Arthur, not even close. Donald
Trump is a pretender president who doesn't even pretend to do right by
the people.

In all candor, this city, graced by garden squares, memorials and
museums, feels like a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4150439</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Democrats: Don't Forget That You're Supposed to Be a Party!]]></title>
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Washington's Democratic Party establishment keeps demanding that
progressive members tone down their criticism of billionaire oligarchs
and corporate autocrats. Why? Because the insiders want to rebrand the
party as ideologically moderate. "Time...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4125219</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['My Child Is Now a Political Debate': Immigrant Families Respond as Arguments Wrap in Landmark Challenge Against Trump's Birthright Citizenship Threats]]></title>
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*Some names have been changed to protect identities.

When Jane* learned about President Donald Trump's executive order to end
birthright citizenship, she immediately panicked. The order was slated
to take effect July 27. Jane's first child was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4097024</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Laughingstock: Bluster and Gibberish Turn Us Into a Joke]]></title>
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When the sorry history of the President Donald Trump Era is written,
historians will note the irony that the television reality star elected
twice to the presidency, assuring us that he would "make America great
again," has turned the country ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4096278</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[There's a Reason Some Populist Views Are Popular]]></title>
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The British election should serve as a warning to Democrats who let
their left fringe run riot with scant criticism. Too many Democratic
strategists and friends in the progressive media read the noise coming
from the far left as evidence of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4096270</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Family Planning in An Age of Anxiety]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Why so few babies?” asked a New York Times essay that sounded oddly familiar to me. In my college days, it seemed that everybody was talking about “The Population Bomb,” the 1968 best-seller in which Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4096187</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What No One Will Tell You Qbout the National Debt (But I Will)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. national debt just crossed a once-unthinkable threshold on
the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II: It
now exceeds 100% of America’s gross domestic product.

As of March 31, our publicly held debt was $31.27 ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4095629</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Long COVID: Waiting for a Cure]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter is suffering from long COVID. I have written about it
before. I wish I had good news. I don't.

It is a nightmare you should do everything you can to avoid.

Most people who get COVID get well and move on. That's what we want to
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4067726</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Barney Frank Speaks]]></title>
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Republicans are dancing on the grave. They really were afraid of losing
the House and with reason. Their leader, the president, is sinking like
a rock. That should hurt them, but only so much.

The decision of the Virginia Supreme Court to throw...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4093367</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scandal at the Pulitzers]]></title>
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The Pulitzer Prizes, administered annually by Columbia University, are
the most famous prizes awarded to American journalists, authors,
playwrights and others in the world of letters. A win can elevate an
obscure book to bestseller status, turn ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4093720</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In a World That Keeps Telling Us No, Resilience Becomes Resistance]]></title>
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Sometimes life lets us set the record straight. It happens in big and
small ways and reminds us to stay true to who we are, to believe in our
talents, pursue our interests and develop our skill sets. The world is
filled with people who will tell...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4092866</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What the Heart Wants]]></title>
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I come from a long line of medical surprise artists. The men in the Dion
family are winning fistfights into their early 60s. Somewhere between
the ages of 68 and 72, we go to St. Anne's Hospital. Shortly after that,
we go to Notre Dame Cemetery ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4092388</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[They Don’t hate Us, They Feel Sorry for Us]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of the most famous, and funniest, lines of English poetry, Robert Burns draws a powerful lesson about a woman sporting a fancy hat in church one morning, ignoring the laughter prompted among those behind her by the sight of a louse crawling...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4092759</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FDA Has Spoken on the Abortion Pill. Case Closed.]]></title>
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The Supreme Court has just restored a woman's ability to obtain the
abortion pill by mail without first seeing a medical provider, at least
for now. A lower court had tried to tighten that easy access by
requiring patients to consult with a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4091768</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Separation of Powers]]></title>
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What distinguishes us from a monarchy? The fact that all power is not
lodged in one man or one department. The fact that no one is above the
law. Even the president, even one like Donald Trump, who believes in
extensive Executive Power, must ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4091089</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/07/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump: A Cruel Joke for Our 250th Birthday]]></title>
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When the history of this benighted era is written, people will wonder
about the madman president. They will ask what we did to try to resist
his rampages against our federal government.

For Donald J. Trump, "mad" can be taken in both ways.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4090554</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Goofy Billionaires Cult Is Planning Our Post-Human Future]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, Ray Charles sang: "Them that's got is them that gets, and I
ain't got nothin' yet."

Millions of workaday Americans today are wailing that blues refrain,
thanks to price increases caused by President Donald Trump's slap-happy
tariff ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4090553</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/06/2026</pubDate>
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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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