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		<title><![CDATA[Family Separation Causes Real and Lasting Harm for Children and Parents]]></title>
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A grieving mother had her children ripped away without warning in the
wake of a family tragedy in Georgia in July 2024. After her son died by
suicide, the state obtained an emergency order to immediately remove her
surviving children -- with no ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4325972</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big money vs. the people]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[America makes its choice two weeks from tomorrow.

It’s not really a choice between two parties. After all, a record
45%t of American voters now call themselves “independent” and
don’t align with either party. And most of us who still ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4325807</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clarence Page: Beware the charm of our rising chatbots]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to a comedian with a national TV platform to express what troubles a lot of us, even if we hesitate to talk about it — for fear of being ridiculed as backward-looking worry warts. "When the people who are making AI are scared of AI, it'...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4324271</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What a Losing Campaign Looks Like]]></title>
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If you want a one-word answer to how the president is approaching this
election, I'll give you my favorite. Kentucky. That's it. He has exactly
one public event scheduled on Saturday -- a rally in Kentucky. Kentucky,
a state that President ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4324026</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Missed Chance to Look Terrible]]></title>
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Trump's decision to back out of his planned public execution of the Fort
Hood mass shooter is sad for America. Not because it wouldn't have been
a gruesome spectacle that eroded whatever is left of the country's
international standing -- it ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4324347</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Public Parks Aren't Development Opportunities. A Historic Park Serves as a Warning.]]></title>
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I thought the University of Louisville had listened.

Two years ago, the university hosted public meetings about the prospect
of developing Stansbury Park, a historic Olmsted-designed park at the
edge of campus. The community pushed back, and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4323667</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dreading What I've Got To Watch]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[<i>Please note: This column was written before the cancellation of the
livestream. But they're bound to try it again.</i>

"'What makes you look so white, so white?' said Files-on-Parade.

"'I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch,' the Colour-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4323244</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our attitudes toward the death penalty]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost a week after receiving a double shot of a lethal execution drug, Christa Pike woke up in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital, handcuffed to a bed and, according to one of her lawyers, “angry and confused.” Indeed, anger and confusion is ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4323542</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Guilfoyle Never Mastered the Art of the Shakedown]]></title>
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About three weeks before Republicans expect an electoral beating, Donald
Trump had to get rid of Kimberly Guilfoyle, his ambassador to Greece. He
simply had to.

Trump's money-grabbing corruption was wearing thin even on devoted fans,
but the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4322828</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Having it All]]></title>
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It was Katie Zacharia's first day as White House Press Secretary and it
may be the only time I'll defend her. Not for just reading a prepared
eight-minute homage to her perfect King, or only taking three questions
(from Breitbart, Fox News and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4322475</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[My Kingdom for Another Golf Course!]]></title>
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WASHINGTON -- Something told me to get me over to East Potomac Park
before Donald Trump destroyed it.

Sure enough, I did, on a rainy Sunday morning, for a rally to protect
the waterfront parkland from his axe. On the next weekend, he cut down
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4321118</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do You Suspect the System Is Rigged? Here's Proof]]></title>
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Years ago, a Texas lawmaker got caught using his official position to
enrich himself by taking money from special interests, in exchange for
voting their way. The culprit did not deem this as corrupt, but just the
normal ethic of an enterprising...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4321117</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pumping Up Putin: Moscow's Little Helper Lends a Hand]]></title>
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America has been disgraced by the Oval Office's current occupant in ways
so numerous as to bring sands on the seashore to mind, but warranting
special recognition is his relentless effort to sell Ukraine down the
river. Since it invaded Crimea ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4317710</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MAGA Masculinity: Protesting Too Much]]></title>
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We've seen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lifting weights in snug Levis, sweat
pouring down his naked muscled chest. Last February, the secretary of
health and human services was "giving body" in the "Rock Out Workout"
video. A jeans-clad Kennedy flexes ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4317703</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here's How It's Impacting Democracy.]]></title>
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The cattle rancher industry, Republicans in battleground states and
United Nations human rights experts have little in common. But like
millions of Americans, they've all expressed concern that the Trump
administration's mass deportation ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4317352</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m allowing myself to believe that sane people may be in charge of
Congress starting next Jan. 20. I know, I know: Polls have gotten our
hopes up before only to have them dashed on the rocky shores of
political reality.

But this time it does ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4317206</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our attitudes toward the death penalty]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost a week after receiving a double shot of a lethal execution drug, Christa Pike woke up in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital, handcuffed to a bed and, according to one of her lawyers, “angry and confused.” Indeed, anger and confusion is ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4315718</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Love Stays]]></title>
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The one thing you can't make when you get old is old friends.

Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest friends. We met more than 40 years
ago as two young political activists. She commuted from Oklahoma City to
help run the Democratic Platform ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4315329</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Is the Death Penalty For?]]></title>
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Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the
staggering incompetence of Tennessee's would-be prison executioners, who
have repeatedly failed to kill Christa Pike for a murder she committed
30 years ago, and by Defense ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4315812</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We're Chasing Significance in the Wrong Places]]></title>
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It seems like everyone wants to be a social media influencer these days.
Researcher Matthew Simoneau surveyed middle and high school students
from 2021 to 2024 and more than 60% of them said they wanted to be
social media influencers. People ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4315141</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/09/2026</pubDate>
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