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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Should we talk about Ariana Grande's body?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week, I’ve been inundated with requests from
journalists to talk about pop star Ariana Grande’s body. A week ago,
Grande blamed “endless,
ongoing public scrutiny” for her decision to step back from the
public eye at the end ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274969</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: In the face of Iranian 'demands,' tighten the squeeze]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump’s chief negotiating strategy consists of
keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this
pertains to Iran, the president has repeatedly threatened Tehran with
additional military action only to back ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274863</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michael Hiltzik: Trump's new orders on child vaccines are even more dangerous than they seemed at first]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one can claim to have been surprised by the executive order
President Donald Trump issued Monday calling for a radical transformation of childhood vaccination
practices in the U.S.

After all, Trump has been beating the anti-vaccination drum ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274861</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: If you're not wealthy, you're making concessions on big-ticket purchases]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[America’s affordability divide is increasingly visible in
Americans’ biggest purchases.

The wealthy may be doing just fine. It’s the Americans below them
who increasingly are recalibrating what they can afford — a divide now
showing up ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274860</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: RFK's anti-vax crusade is cause for his removal]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump and his dangerous health secretary Bobby
Kennedy Jr. struck
another blow against public health by issuing an executive
order intending to space out childhood vaccinations and to separate
out the common measles, mumps and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274859</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Should we talk about Ariana Grande's body?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week, I’ve been inundated with requests from
journalists to talk about pop star Ariana Grande’s body. A week ago,
Grande blamed “endless,
ongoing public scrutiny” for her decision to step back from the
public eye at the end ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274617</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Republicans have supercharged deficits. For what?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faced with soaring deficits, an aging population, a teetering pension
system, unsustainable health-care obligations, $1 trillion in annual
interest costs, rising long-term bond yields and net public debt at
around 100% of gross domestic product, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274610</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Our conservative and liberal Union]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[How are Americans supposed to make a more perfect union when we
can’t agree on whether we need to turn our cultural clocks forward or
backward?

This question is among the more difficult that people can pose to
their fellow countrymen. Not just ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274598</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stephen L. Carter: America's surveillance problem is much bigger than Flock]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“You are being watched” was the tagline that opened every episode
of the television series Person of Interest, which ran from 2011 to 2016
and already feels ancient. The conceit of the show was that the good
guys, aided by a friendly AI, could...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274595</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: ALS doesn't wait. Our health care system still does]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Health care innovation is built for patients who have time. ALS
patients don't.

ALS reshapes time in ways that are hard to fully appreciate from the
outside. Certain losses arrive earlier than expected, and once they
begin, they don't reverse. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274593</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: The case for intergenerational AI advocacy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Allison Baker and Maria Garcia apply for the same job against
Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, and Matthew or Joe gets the job despite
everything else being the same, that would seem to be a typical case of
gender discrimination by the employer.

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274591</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Don't military families deserve education freedom too?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you choose to serve in the U.S. military, you should also be able
to choose the best education for your children. Today, nearly 22 million
children, or 40 percent of all K-12 students in the U.S., have access to
some form of school choice. Why ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274589</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[COUNTERPOINT: Congress shrinks safety net when families need it most]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you lose even when you win. That’s what it feels like
trying to make ends meet in today’s economy — and our ever-shrinking
safety net isn’t helping.

After years on a waiting list for subsidized housing, I finally made
it to the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274588</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Answering the call, lawyers must lead the defense of democracy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year marks the 250th anniversary of our founders’ Declaration
of Independence from Great Britain. But the constitutional democracy it
enabled — designed to promote life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness — is now threatened, not by ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274587</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[POINT: OBBBA puts safety-net spending back on its pre-pandemic path]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress enacted some of the biggest reforms to two of America’s
welfare programs in decades — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps, and Medicaid, which
provides healthcare for one in four ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274582</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Boeing can turn its latest problem into its next growth spurt]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boeing’s latest figures reveal an industrial paradox. The company
ended the second quarter late last month with a record backlog of about
$715 billion in outstanding orders, including for more than 6,200
commercial aircraft. That’s not as ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4274000</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Editorial: Applause for Gen Z and their love of the moviegoing experience]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Movies are back! (Again.)

We’ve seen stories in the recent past about how going to the movies
was becoming a thing again — see “Barbenheimer” in 2023 — only
to see consumers retreat to their in-home streaming lives. But 2026 may
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4273999</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Daniel Borenstein: California taxpayer pension costs grew eightfold since 1999; new plans add billions more]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[California lawmakers are poised to raise already unaffordable public
employee retirement benefits — doubling down on a mistake
27 years ago that has helped drive up taxpayer pension costs by more
than eightfold.

This time, state legislators ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4273998</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: How Democrats can repair the broken Supreme Court]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s no secret that the Supreme Court has become an extension of
our partisan politics over the past decade. The decisions handed down in
the 2026 session prove just how broken the court has become and how
unrepresentative it is of the views of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4273767</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commentary: Just like in the film 'The Dink,' pickleball was the best medicine for my husband]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you aren’t among the millions of pickleball players, the fastest
growing sport in America, watch “The Dink” on Apple TV to get a
glimpse of what you’re missing.

Jake Johnson plays Dusty, a former tennis prodigy whose career was
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/opeds/s-4273740</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Aug/12/2026</pubDate>
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