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		<title><![CDATA[Sonny Rollins Knew Not to Die Young]]></title>
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How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95?
Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages?
Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed.

It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4213752</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump's Memorial Day Message]]></title>
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I don't expect very much of President Donald Trump and generally, I'm
not disappointed. In so many ways that we have come to take for granted,
he is a small man, the antithesis of what we mean by "Presidential."
Tall in stature, small in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4213150</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump and Thune: Just You Wait]]></title>
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Here in Washington, D.C., we endure slights of the president's barking,
his constant use of capital letters and his ever-present red ties. These
are forms of shouting, weapons of psychological warfare that he wields
as the master of repetition. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4212631</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AI Billionaires to Grassroots People: Shut Up!]]></title>
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Other than the fact that they are such blood-sucking greedheads, why
have today's multibillionaires, high-tech barons of artificial
intelligence (AI), become so despised by so many grassroots Americans?

By "so many," I mean they've sparked a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4212630</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ACLU Calls on Congress To Hold Federal Agents Accountable by Allowing People To Sue Them for Rights Violations]]></title>
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Teyana Gibson Brown was home with her husband, 9-year-old daughter and
11-year-old cousin in January when 10 masked and heavily armed federal
agents stormed into her house. The federal agents smashed through her
front door with a battering ram. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4212095</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thief-in-Chief, in Brief: Trump Keeps His Cash Register Ringing]]></title>
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Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of
remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives
defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a
president who defrauded the U.S....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4211538</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PTSD Nation?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was born just after the end of World War II. The first half of the
20th century marked a particularly difficult, violent era.

But the 21st century so far has been, well, one trauma after
another.

It started with 9/11, followed by the grim wars...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4210487</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Anti-Weaponization Fund' is Corruption, but it's Also an Instrument of Abuse]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the Middle American street cred he once commanded, Vice President JD Vance has turned into a disappointing tool for power. He and I were reared in the same Ohio steel town, a generation apart, and that once gave me a soft spot for him. But...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4208921</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Went Wrong for Democrats]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[For months now, Democrats have been arguing about whether to release the
"autopsy" the National Committee commissioned on what went wrong in
2024. The report was completed but then not released; under pressure,
Democratic National Committee ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4208470</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should Congress Stay or Should They Go?]]></title>
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"Should I stay," the Clash asked, "or should I go?"

When I was a kid, during and following Watergate, the tortured
politico's answer to that existential question was the latter.
Occasionally. During the 1973 "Saturday Night Massacre," Attorney
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4209035</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bison Are America's National Mammal. Why Are We Pushing Them Off Public Land?]]></title>
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My sister Erica and I returned to Montana just a few days after the
Bureau of Land Management revoked grazing permits for bison. American
Prairie, a nonprofit working to create one of the largest nature
reserves in the United States, was the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4207898</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[They're Barney Frank Hot Dogs...]]></title>
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Nobody expected Barney Frank to show up at the event. He came by because
it was in his district and he'd been in his district all day, and he had
time to come meet some people, and he'd donated a couple hundred bucks
to the event, and they'd ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4207344</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[YouThought it Couldn’t Get Any Worse? It Just Did!]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my years covering Washington, one of the most impressive politicians I encountered is Lamar Alexander. Few people have a better resume: Senate, White House and Department of Justice staffer; two-term governor of Tennessee; president of the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4207745</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Children Are Now Running Our Big Cities]]></title>
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani earned national attention in a
not-good way when he recorded himself in front of Ken Griffin's
Manhattan home revealing the billionaire's address. He tapped the lens
in a threatening manner and said guys like ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4206692</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I Couldn't Make This Up]]></title>
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You wouldn't believe me if I did.

The Treasury Department takes $1.8 billion ($1.776 billion, to be exact)
from the Judgment Fund, a fund that is used to pay settlement claims
without congressional approval, and sets it aside for partisan ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4205925</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Trump Takeover Is Almost Done]]></title>
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Are we almost at the point of no return? Let America be America again,
please, in a post-Donald Trump world.

Rebuilding our institutions, arts and trust in government is not a sure
thing. Given a global economic, environmental or medical crisis...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4206693</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Inequality Merry-Go-Round Built By Stanley Tools]]></title>
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In this day of AI smart tools, it's easy to forget that we humans once
relied on "dumb" hand tools like saws, drills, screwdrivers and
wrenches.

For decades, a major maker of these trusty instruments has been a
company in New Britain, Conn., ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4205585</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Losing Abe: A Giant Passes at a Particularly Bad Time]]></title>
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In the late 1940s, when clever-sounding defenses of Soviet
totalitarianism had overtaken certain fashionable political circles in
Britain, George Orwell publicly addressed one leftist's soft spot for
totalitarianism. He noted that the fellow did...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4201903</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's So Bad About a Stable Population?]]></title>
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Back in 1969, President Richard Nixon warned Congress against the rapid
growth of the American population: "When future generations evaluate the
record of our time, one of the most important factors in their judgment
will be the way in which we ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4201895</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Your Questions Answered: What Is Redistricting and Why Should We Care?]]></title>
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Redistricting is the process of drawing the lines of districts from
which public officials are elected. When redistricting is conducted
fairly, it accurately reflects population changes and our diverse
communities and is used by legislators to ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4201912</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/18/2026</pubDate>
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