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		<title>The Politic&#8217;s VP Picks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Stern Now that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have officially dropped out of the Presidential race, former Governor Mitt Romney’s path to the nomination is all but certain.  (Ron Paul continues his quixotic trek toward the GOP convention, but he is little more than a gadfly to Romney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEB EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Jeb Bush</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Politic sits down to discuss politics and policy with the Republican power broker, former Governor and possible Vice Presidential nominee. Conducted by Jane Darby Menton The Politic: What do you think was the most important piece of legislation you passed as Governor?  I would say it was the A-Plus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For God, For Country&#8230; and for Taxes</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1391</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politic Poll Examines Yalies’ Policy Preferences Survey conducted by Eric Stern According to a survey conducted in early February, The Politic found that Yale students generally self-identify as liberal and are remarkably supportive of President Barack Obama.  As I wrote for The Politic on March 5: Yale undergraduates overwhelmingly approve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Liaisons</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1374</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how tight are our universities with authoritarian governments? By Shaun Tan &#160; For many people around the world the Arab Spring was a cause for great hope, as thousands of Arabs banded together to overthrow their corrupt and repressive governments. For the London School of Economics (LSE), however, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Gov. Brian Schweitzer</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1380</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conducted by Matthew Nussbaum Brian Schweitzer, a rancher, was elected governor of Montana in 2004. A Democrat in a Republican-leaning state, Schweitzer was re-elected in 2008 with 66 percent of the vote and, now in the final year of his second term, he has among the highest approval ratings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Free Speech Goes Too Far</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1462</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Said Nafa and the Knesset Ethics Committee By Jusin Schuster In late March 2012, the Israeli Knesset Ethics Committee rejected the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel’s complaint against Said Nafa. Nafa, an Israeli MK, had participated in a rally in support of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. While the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Immolations in Tibet</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1468</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cindy Hwang A new, completely unprecedented pattern of political resistance has swept across the Tibetan plateau. In the past year, more than 30 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule, in what amounts to one of the world’s largest waves of self-immolation in the past several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Feedback Loop</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1457</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[United States-Russia Relations By Michael Magdzik Is Russia really America’s greatest geopolitical foe? Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested as much following the Obama-Medvedev open mic faux pas at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, in which our president asked his Russian counterpart for breathing room on missile defense. Election [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why NATO Matters</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1449</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donna Horning A simple search of “NATO” in JSTOR reveals overwhelming fatalism amongst academics concerning the future of the Alliance — a sample of article titles on the first page of results include “NATO in Trouble,” “NATO — Where To?” and “Saving NATO from Europe.” Based on this sentiment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Malcolm Gladwell</title>
		<link>http://thepolitic.org/?p=1439</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric.stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Outlier’s Opinion Conducted by Jacob Effron Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist and bestselling author. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996, he has also written four New York Times Bestsellers, The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. The Politic: How do you generate such interesting ideas? [...]]]></description>
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