<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The New Republic Politics]]></title><link>http://thenewrepublic/politics</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><language>en-ca</language><copyright>(c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.</copyright><managingEditor></managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:01:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><category></category><generator></generator><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: Joey Cheek]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d644c5ca-fe7e-4534-8b4c-947c9caaea2b</link><author>Alex Pasternack</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just hours before Olympic gold medalist Joey Cheek was to depart for
Beijing this week, the speed skater had his visa revoked. The official
who called to notify him said China was "not required to give him a
reason." Cheek’s opinion of the Chinese government is no secret. He is
president and co-founder of <a style="" href="http://teamdarfur.org/">Team Darfur</a>,
a coalition of Olympic athletes trying to bring attention to the Sudan
crisis. China, which has strong economic and energy ties to the African
country, has been a prime target of the campaign.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=d644c5ca-fe7e-4534-8b4c-947c9caaea2b&amp;k=1742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitting Back At 'The New York Times' For Miscalculating The Trade-off Between National Security And The Public's Right To Know.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5a68f45e-c100-4850-b7fe-f99c7db36bc1</link><author>Jack Goldsmith</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice" By Eric Lichtblau(Pantheon, 384 pp., $26.95)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=5a68f45e-c100-4850-b7fe-f99c7db36bc1&amp;k=1103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside The Battle Over Abortion's Place In The Democrats' Platform]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c03e5f26-5dd3-4274-ba69-901e15bf0d8d</link><author>Eric Zimmermann</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On an oppressively hot Saturday morning last month, a handful of pro-life activists gathered outside of a Starbucks in suburban Virginia to strategize about how to influence the Democratic Party's national platform. The meeting quickly turned into a support group of sorts, as the members justified the seeming contradiction inherent in pro-life Democrats. Jesse, a white 20-something who introduced himself as an "evangelical Christian running as fast as I can from the religious right," seethed, "Republicans' command and control over people's lives hasn't changed the reality of abortion."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=c03e5f26-5dd3-4274-ba69-901e15bf0d8d&amp;k=73420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let The Games--And The Fraught Moral Dilemmas--Begin!]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=7205ba73-06c7-4d01-9eed-cf9b28247ff2</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--When you put the Olympics in the hands of a dictatorship,
the results are predictable. Yet the Chinese government still found a
way of surprising even its critics by behaving oppressively in a
foolishly unnecessary way.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=7205ba73-06c7-4d01-9eed-cf9b28247ff2&amp;k=28837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Obama Vs. Hillary Tell Us About Obama Vs. McCain?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/07/what-does-obama-v-hillary-tell-us-about-obama-v-mccain.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Short answer: Not much.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/07/what-does-obama-v-hillary-tell-us-about-obama-v-mccain.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Obama Campaign's DNA Is Changing As It Adds Political Insiders And Clintonites. Will It Still Function?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8866d124-caf1-4f9a-a012-9e2225da2088</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Earlier this summer, when the Obama campaign announced that Jason Furman was joining its staff as director of economic policy, the storyline seemed to write itself: Centrist adviser will pull Obama to the right.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8866d124-caf1-4f9a-a012-9e2225da2088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Obama's Decisions Are Made: An Interactive Tour Through Obamaland's Wonk Factory]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/geeksquad.html</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here's a loose organizational chart of Obama's domestic policy advisors, based on interviews with key advisors.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:http://www.tnr.com/geeksquad.html</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Democrats: Where Obama's Most Persuadable Voters Can Be Found]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/bushdemocrats.html</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Campaigns talk all the time about 'persuadable voters,' and few voters are more persuadable than a voter from your own party with a history of splitting the ticket.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:http://www.tnr.com/bushdemocrats.html</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How John McCain And The Republicans Became The Aggrieved Party]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=7c975910-3ce4-49fc-ad91-9db8ffeb0d34</link><author>Michael Schaffer</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Back in the languid summer of 2004, George Bush left it to a
shadowy 527 to rough up his opponent. Straight talker that he is, John McCain is keeping the dishonest slime in-house.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=7c975910-3ce4-49fc-ad91-9db8ffeb0d34&amp;k=97071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: 'The Dark Side' Writer Jane Mayer Reveals Cheney's Torture Machinations]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=fcc7f424-c6e8-4736-9caf-d1cb2cc69ec6</link><author>Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer, a staff writer at 'The New Yorker,' is the author of the new book 'The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.' Last week, she sat down with Jeffrey Rosen, TNR's legal affairs editor, to discuss Dick Cheney's post-9/11 transformation, George Bush's being left out of the loop, and whether the precedents set by the this administration's war-on-terror policies will endure beyond Bush's term in office. (This is an edited transcript; you can listen to the full interview here.)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=fcc7f424-c6e8-4736-9caf-d1cb2cc69ec6&amp;k=14080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should U.S. Athletes Boycott Beijing? The Object Lesson Of Hitler's Olympics (In Cartoon Form).]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/theyrefusedtogo.html</link><author>Rafael Medoff and Sal Amendola</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['They refused to go to Hitler's Olympics']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:http://tnr.com/theyrefusedtogo.html</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Karadzic Win The Bosnian War?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c8b88992-73f4-4246-9379-292308019bfb</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[VIENNA--As I look at 'The Kiss,' Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's delicate masterpiece, in one of Vienna's Belvedere palaces, my head fills with the memories of my two trips to war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s. The papers recently have been full of coverage about the capture of Radovan Karadzic, the former president of Bosnia's breakaway Serbs. He is believed to have spent part of the last year hiding in Vienna--the city from where Bosnia was governed until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=c8b88992-73f4-4246-9379-292308019bfb&amp;k=55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despots And The Lobbyists Who Love Them]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0b37d029-cdc6-4ad3-9ab8-6bf386bb5469</link><author>James Kirchick</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Joe Szlavik remembers the moment when he began to suspect that his work on behalf of the Kingdom of Swaziland was an enormous waste of time. It was 2006, and Szlavik--a lobbyist who had represented foreign governments ranging from Burundi to Gabon to Uganda, as well as the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan--was helping Swaziland, a tiny, landlocked monarchy sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique, navigate the tricky waters of Washington politics. Swaziland's King Mswati III ("a great guy, one-on-one,]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/e028eb9a-84d6-4def-93db-73f7261fb08f/pig.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:story.html?id=0b37d029-cdc6-4ad3-9ab8-6bf386bb5469&amp;k=7821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Makes Tim Kaine Better Than Kathleen Sebelius For V.P.? It's Certainly Not His Record]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/04/why-kaine-over-sebelius.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look these days it's Tim Kaine, Tim Kaine, Tim Kaine. The Virginia governor has emerged as the "change"-oriented veep choice for Obama. But if we're talking about outside-of-Washington options, why have we forgotten all about Kansas guv Kathleen Sebelius? Has the objection of some--I suspect more like a very vocal few--Hillary supporters to promoting any political woman besides Hillary really dimmed Sebelius's chances?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/04/why-kaine-over-sebelius.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OK, Race Is Now Officially Part Of The Campaign--But There's A Better Way To Do This]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d3122a09-6de0-4199-a3bd-26511a37c16d</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Will the race issue go back into the closet for the rest of the presidential campaign? Of course not, so where do we go from here?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:story.html?id=d3122a09-6de0-4199-a3bd-26511a37c16d&amp;k=23809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Screwed Is The GOP? Meet Allen West, A Desperate Candidate For Desperate Times.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=24bca34f-6a82-401d-a964-cb667b77a0c9</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Most political junkies never get the chance to protect the candidates they admire from rapacious Muslim terrorists with a yen for televised beheadings. But, just last week, Yomin Postelnik--a Pompano Beach, Florida, GOP activist--answered his own personal three a.m. call when, he wrote, a 'low-level operative' with a Middle Eastern group attempted to ferry the Republican nominee for Congress in Florida's 22nd district, Allen West, to 'an undisclosed location' and 'pull off what most certainly seems to be a heinous stunt.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:story.html?id=24bca34f-6a82-401d-a964-cb667b77a0c9&amp;k=81840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Much-Praised New Book Wants The GOP To Stand Up For Families. It's A Great Idea--And Obama's Already Doing It.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f903f247-077b-4ae7-9712-d2eb855e87ef</link><author>Robert Gordon</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In their smart and fun new book, Grand New Party, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam urge Republicans to spend trillions of dollars on policies to shore up working-class families. Several critics have pointed out that the Republican Party will likely remain much more interested in spending trillions of dollars on tax breaks for rich people. What's been less noticed is that Democrats could easily adopt the agenda Douthat and Salam propose--and that, more than his opponent, Barack Obama already has.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f903f247-077b-4ae7-9712-d2eb855e87ef</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: Walter Russell Mead Discusses Jacksonian Voters]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=633eb299-08a9-4d88-998a-0a556a6832bc</link><author>Barron YoungSmith</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ever since the primaries, when Barack Obama had trouble
picking up votes in Appalachia and Hillary Clinton posed as the candidate of 'hard-working Americans,' strategists have been worried about his ability to pick up the instinctively populist voters whom historian Walter Russell Mead dubs 'Jacksonians.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:story.html?id=633eb299-08a9-4d88-998a-0a556a6832bc&amp;k=83718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLIDESHOW:  How Desperate Is The GOP? Meet This Year's Oddest Congressional Candidates]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/gallery/popup.html?topic=GOP&amp;g=0&amp;p=1</link><author>James Martin</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Things are looking grim for the GOP's efforts to win back Congress this year. Financially, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is in big trouble: after spending]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:http://www.tnr.com/gallery/popup.html?topic=GOP&amp;g=0&amp;p=1</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing Has Gone Right For John McCain. So Why Is The Race So Close?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0e0dbc4f-000d-4d75-9f23-614ae8d06494</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week, for the first time in our history, we had an African American president. Barack Obama posed for pictures with Angela Merkel and toured the skies of Iraq with David Petraeus. Meanwhile, George W. Bush was nowhere to be seen, as if he had already handed over the keys to the White House.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=0e0dbc4f-000d-4d75-9f23-614ae8d06494&amp;k=70964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The Republican Party Stopped Dreaming About A Permanent Majority And Learned To Accept McCain Strategist Steve Schmidt]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3c33403d-a212-43db-99ae-6fe3af25fd63</link><author>Laurence Lowe</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sergeant Schmidt. The Artillery Shell. The Bullet.

Even in the hyper-competitive world of political media
strategists--a line of work that tends to reward the studied deployment of affectation and outsized personality--Steve Schmidt, the tough-talking, shaven-headed, 37-year old former high school tight end from North Plainfield, New Jersey, who recently emerged from a scrum among John McCain's inner circle to become the head of day-to-day operations, arrived on the national stage trailing more colorful nicknames than most.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=3c33403d-a212-43db-99ae-6fe3af25fd63&amp;k=80358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When American Cities Get Whiter And Richer, What Happens To The Suburbs? The Fascinating Phenomenon of Demographic Inversion.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=264510ca-2170-49cd-bad5-a0be122ac1a9</link><author>Alan Ehrenhalt</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, the mayor of Chicago was unseated by a snowstorm. A blizzard in January of 1979 dumped some 20 inches on the ground, causing, among other problems, a curtailment of transit service.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=264510ca-2170-49cd-bad5-a0be122ac1a9&amp;k=44956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serbia Is Finally Moving Past The Milosevic Era--But Is It Moving In The Right Direction?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1f6b96a6-7173-4ecb-a6f4-449bc1d8a985</link><author>Jacques Rupnik</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['I have been born to live without a grave, this human body will never die, it was not born just to smell flowers but also to set aflame, kill, and reduce to dust.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-01:story.html?id=1f6b96a6-7173-4ecb-a6f4-449bc1d8a985&amp;k=23551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What John McCain Can Learn From The Head Of The Conservative Party In Britain]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=363dc0af-8e0f-40e3-bc0f-e66aebd08331</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--It was a little-noticed episode during Barack Obama's boffo foreign trip, but it was the moment most relevant to the American presidential campaign.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-01:story.html?id=363dc0af-8e0f-40e3-bc0f-e66aebd08331&amp;k=81997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Reason Kathleen Sebelius May Be A More Dangerous V.P. Choice Than Tim Kaine]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5858a2eb-695f-44cd-b4e1-b9e933571986</link><author>Michael Sean Winters</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and Kansas Governor ...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-31:story.html?id=5858a2eb-695f-44cd-b4e1-b9e933571986&amp;k=49610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life After Olmert: Can Israel Recover From Two Years Of War, Corruption, And Ineptitude?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/30/yossi-klein-halevi-on-the-nine-lives-of-ehud-olmert.aspx</link><author>Yossi Klein Halevi</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Is it really time for eulogies? Is the abyss known as the 'Olmert era' closing? Ehud Olmert has been eulogized so often that, even now, after announcing his intention to resign as Israeli prime minister when the Kadima party holds primaries for a new leader in mid-September, some Israelis don't quite believe it. What's the catch, they wonder?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-31:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/30/yossi-klein-halevi-on-the-nine-lives-of-ehud-olmert.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Praise Of Dr. Michael Debakey, The Greatest Surgeon Ever]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6a647504-1859-4f57-a421-a263278d1838</link><author>Sherwin B. Nuland</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Among Dr. Michael DeBakey's approximately 30 visits to various parts of the former Soviet Union, there seems little doubt that one in November 1996 had the greatest potential for influencing the course of world history. The Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, was in dire need of a coronary artery bypass graft, and DeBakey was chosen by Yeltsin's physicians to judge whether to operate on their high-risk patient. "I took one hard look at him and saw that he had hyperthyroid heart disease, which they'd apparently missed, in addition to his coronary occlusive process," DeBakey told me one evening ten years later, while we were having dinner together in Houston. "He needed to have his thyroid function brought under control before it was safe to operate--or even administer an anesthetic." Following pharmacologic treatment of the overactive gland, the operation was accomplished without complication, and Yeltsin once again took his larger-than-life place on the world stage.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-31:story.html?id=6a647504-1859-4f57-a421-a263278d1838&amp;k=55445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama: All Flip-Floppers! Why the GOP narrative always works.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=bb1c215b-5350-42a5-84a3-c60059716009</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Do you remember when conservatives used to speak warmly, and sometimes rapturously, about Barack Obama? That was back when they were certain that the Clinton voodoo magic would make Hillary the nominee, and Obama her sympathetic roadkill.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-30:story.html?id=bb1c215b-5350-42a5-84a3-c60059716009&amp;k=20631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Political Virtues of Mitt Romney's Shamelessness]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/29/if-only-romney-were-more-intellectually-dishonest-oh-wait.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two of the smartest writers on health care issues, the 'Wall Street Journal''s Laura Meckler and consultant Robert Laszewski, raise a really good question about Mitt Romney's ability to serve as John McCain's running mate.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-30:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/29/if-only-romney-were-more-intellectually-dishonest-oh-wait.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Cuba Have Another Revolution?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=56c3a9c8-3193-4ec2-9c8a-73a832f9cf59</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[PRAGUE--A few days before I arrived in Prague, I participated in a
Web conference with the Ladies in White, the relatives of Cuba's
prisoners of conscience. I am not at liberty to disclose the logistics, but they were represented by the best-known members of the group, including Laura Pollan and Miriam Leyva, and accompanied by former political prisoners such as economist Oscar Espinosa Chepe.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-30:story.html?id=56c3a9c8-3193-4ec2-9c8a-73a832f9cf59&amp;k=76345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Boxing Explains John McCain]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8adb26e1-5e0b-48f7-9587-55d3cf9a365f</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John McCain has made plenty of political enemies in his day, but among the most surprising is Eddie Goldman. The New York resident doesn't fixate on McCain's position on campaign finance, or his religious views, or his support for the Iraq war. What upsets Goldman is the way John McCain treated ultimate fighting.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-29:story.html?id=8adb26e1-5e0b-48f7-9587-55d3cf9a365f&amp;k=91752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why That 'New Yorker' Cover Wasn't As Bad As 'Newsweek''s Obama-Praying Cover]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9f0a9643-9db8-4e04-8ad7-904f38d9f07d</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The problem with 'The New Yorker''s Obama bin Laden cover was owed to a certain confusion about the moral status of wit. The image was the creation of people for whom there is almost nothing more mortifying than not being in on the joke. That is the bridge and tunnel of the soul. So it is worth interjecting that the duty to get a joke is always followed by the duty to judge a joke.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-29:story.html?id=9f0a9643-9db8-4e04-8ad7-904f38d9f07d&amp;k=44218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens When An Israel Staffer Takes Arabic Classes At The U.N.?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d60d2092-197c-4993-b0d7-70a73e6af158</link><author>Gregory Levey</author><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I was 25 years old and single, downtown-bound on the number four train, when I recognized a girl further down the subway car. It's hard to say why--it wasn't romantic, and I'm not a big subway talker--but I found myself walking towards her. I had a secret.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-29:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d60d2092-197c-4993-b0d7-70a73e6af158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The 'Most Liberal' Rankings Are A Crock]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=08c25e0a-9b88-49a6-97f5-45114f3fff28</link><author>Josh Patashnik</author><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Is Barack Obama a socialist? Well, let's see. His campaign platform makes no mention of proletarian revolution or nationalization of industry...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-28:story.html?id=08c25e0a-9b88-49a6-97f5-45114f3fff28&amp;k=56075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Will Not Be Truly Served In Bosnia Until We Apply Its Lessons To Darfur]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e3b62d96-8d1e-4c0d-80ee-08a0e3b63f66</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Now we know what the mark of Cain must have looked like. It was a tuft of black atop the wild white hair of a wandering old killer who called himself a healer.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-28:story.html?id=e3b62d96-8d1e-4c0d-80ee-08a0e3b63f66&amp;k=34575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Romney Myth: Why Is McCain So Close To Picking A VP Who Won't Actually Help Him Win Swing Voters?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/07/25/romney-as-swing-voter-bait-hmmm.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In honor of today's 'Washington Post' front-pager suggesting a McCain VP announcement is imminent, let me just scratch my head again at the case for Mitt Romney. It's not so much that Romney lacks selling points. He'd obviously add financial firepower to the ticket, for example.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-26:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/07/25/romney-as-swing-voter-bait-hmmm.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The End Of The Press's Love Affair With Obama]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=22bce6f2-d835-4bd6-96c5-6b1da0b334dd</link><author>Gabriel Sherman</author><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Around midnight on July 16, 'New York Times' chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama’s press office.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-26:story.html?id=22bce6f2-d835-4bd6-96c5-6b1da0b334dd&amp;k=94966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard Simmons Descends On Capitol Hill To Whip Washington Into Shape]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f3c24d35-2a8a-48a1-9af9-777462f7eacf</link><author>Bess Kalb</author><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Richard Simmons prances up the steps of the Cannon House Office Building, he bypasses the assembled congressman and their aides stationed at a podium and marches straight toward the swarm of news cameras at the far end of the veranda. With a sudden, two-armed wave that could, it seems plausible, lead to a backbend, Simmons wails out 'Hi everybody, how are we feeling today?']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-26:story.html?id=f3c24d35-2a8a-48a1-9af9-777462f7eacf&amp;k=1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Reading List: 'Trading Places']]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4de55227-7e74-4bf4-913d-663c34600809</link><author>Alan Ehrenhalt</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[What to read if you want to learn more about the changing nature of American cities.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-25:story.html?id=4de55227-7e74-4bf4-913d-663c34600809&amp;k=52910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weight of the World]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f3c24d35-2a8a-48a1-9af9-777462f7eacf</link><author>Bess Kalb</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Richard Simmons prances up the steps of the Cannon House Office
Building, he bypasses the assembled congressman and their aides
stationed at a podium and marches straight toward the swarm of news
cameras at the far end of the veranda. With a sudden, two-armed wave
that could, it seems plausible, lead to a backbend, Simmons wails out
“Hi everybody, how are we feeling today?”]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-25:story.html?id=f3c24d35-2a8a-48a1-9af9-777462f7eacf&amp;k=1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Obama And The Press Break Up]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6e9f4a42-9540-4d99-aba2-25adc276c25d</link><author>Gabriel Sherman</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Around midnight on July 16, 'New York Times' chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-25:story.html?id=6e9f4a42-9540-4d99-aba2-25adc276c25d&amp;k=89445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live From The Obama Mosh Pit In Berlin! Bratwurst, Beer, And Bravura]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/24/live-from-the-obama-mosh-pit-in-berlin-bratwurst-beer-and-bravura.aspx</link><author>A.J. Goldmann</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today none of the quotidian annoyances of Berlin life seemed to matter. Not the open ended strike by Berlin's public service, nor the maddening traffic changes brought upon by the never ending construction. All attention was focused squarely on Barack Obama's visit today.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-25:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/24/live-from-the-obama-mosh-pit-in-berlin-bratwurst-beer-and-bravura.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can We Now Retire The Myth That Young People Aren't Politically Engaged Enough To Vote?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=dfc9c3cf-b47e-408e-b72f-4b818e4390b2</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The conventional wisdom on certain subjects is so deeply rooted that no amount of evidence disturbs its hold. That's how it is with those dreary predictions that young Americans just won't vote.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-25:story.html?id=dfc9c3cf-b47e-408e-b72f-4b818e4390b2&amp;k=40227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The European Infatuation With Barack Is Bound To Be Short-Lived]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=572973ad-b3aa-4c8c-9881-4d6640ea7eb4</link><author>Josef Joffe</author><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This author, a so-called expert on Europe and trans-Atlantic relations, has had more hits from big-time U.S. media in the last five days than in the last five years: 'Newsweek,' CNN, NPR, Lehrer, Reuters, even Al-Jazeera English. They all wanted me to explain Germany's Obama fervor, of course, particularly as it related to his speech in the heart of Berlin, at the 'Victory Column' that celebrates the military triumphs that launched Bismarck's Prussia-Germany on the road to Continental primacy.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-24:story.html?id=572973ad-b3aa-4c8c-9881-4d6640ea7eb4&amp;k=75624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Is Lincoln! No, He's Carter! No, He's Reagan! On The Meaninglessness Of Political Analogies.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=7bbdd873-17d7-49ad-a460-5b6736fcaa6f</link><author>Michael Schaffer</author><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There's a challenge in writing about the overuse of analogy in contemporary political journalism: There's no perfect analogy for the device. Are analogies the new adjectives?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-24:story.html?id=7bbdd873-17d7-49ad-a460-5b6736fcaa6f&amp;k=59948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Do So Many Israeli Politicians Believe In Bombing Iran?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=b52693a1-20b9-4b7b-b617-c387eb7b3a6d</link><author>Shmuel Rosner</author><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Israeli politicians have suggested for years that they might attack Iran, but, lately, they seem to be dropping more hints than usual. At the beginning of June, Israel's deputy prime minister, Shaul Mofaz, flatly told the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth that, if Iran continues its nuclear program, Israel 'will attack it.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-24:story.html?id=b52693a1-20b9-4b7b-b617-c387eb7b3a6d&amp;k=37007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What University Of Chicago Conservatives Think Of Barack Obama]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=86dd0277-c6ee-4e3c-83e9-0bb468c5c40d</link><author>Jason Zengerle</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2000, not long after Barack Obama was trounced in the Democratic primary for a South Side Chicago congressional seat, Daniel Fischel staged an intervention.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-23:story.html?id=86dd0277-c6ee-4e3c-83e9-0bb468c5c40d&amp;k=62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Obama's Seemingly Quixotic Effort To Turn Alaska Blue May Not Be So Hopeless After All]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5a43f2f1-0c94-49ee-a46f-4d239145eb80</link><author>Charles Wohlforth</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vic Fischer's history as a Democrat in Alaska reaches back to before
Alaskans could vote for president, when he was a delegate to the
state's Constitutional Convention in 1955 and 1956. It's been a hard
slog since then. In 1964, Alaska went for Lyndon Johnson, who won all
but six states. That's it in 49 years of statehood.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-23:story.html?id=5a43f2f1-0c94-49ee-a46f-4d239145eb80&amp;k=11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Steps That Can Help Push Out Mugabe]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d389eab8-23ca-4175-8f81-3cbadb32d7a5</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On June 27, Robert Mugabe got exactly what he wanted: another term as president of Zimbabwe.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-23:story.html?id=d389eab8-23ca-4175-8f81-3cbadb32d7a5&amp;k=8810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What States Will Decide The Election, Really? A Vital New Way Of Looking At Swing States]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a913cc1b-7427-4439-ab4c-ace1e66e663a</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 'FiveThirtyEight.com' election simulator identifies 'Tipping-Point States': states that would be most likely to alter the outcome of a close election. More specifically, they are the closest states--alone or in combination--that would give the losing candidate at least 270 electoral votes if transferred from the winner's column.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-23:story.html?id=a913cc1b-7427-4439-ab4c-ace1e66e663a&amp;k=47647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is The High Priest Of The McCain Cult Leading His Idol On A Kamikaze Mission?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=bb70e50e-58fb-4893-ac00-62b92a515161</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On September 27, 1999, as John McCain traveled to Nashua, New Hampshire, to announce his first campaign for the presidency, one of his top aides was nervous. The speech McCain was set to deliver was mostly standard fare, filled with promises of reform and assertions of America's greatness, but its closing passages struck a more somber note. "I have passed from a young man to an old one in the service of my country," the text read. "When my time is over, I want only the satisfaction of knowing I was true to the faith of our fathers." Another line referred to McCain's determination to protect the United States "until my life's end." "If you read those words on paper they sound eloquent but really gloomy," recalls Dan Schnur, who was the campaign's communications director. Schnur sought out Mark Salter, the author of the speech, to discuss his reservations.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-22:story.html?id=bb70e50e-58fb-4893-ac00-62b92a515161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Is Betting Everything On Voter Mobilization. But Will It Work?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d653093b-9f19-4b92-a863-83626dcce2b5</link><author>Alan Abramowitz</author><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[By turning down nearly $85 million in public financing for the 2008 general election, Barack Obama's campaign has put itself in a position to spend at least $200 million between the Democratic convention and Election Day. Much of that money, and millions more from state and national Democratic Party organizations, labor unions, and other allied groups will be devoted to voter mobilization: registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts aimed at substantially increasing turnout among African Americans, Hispanics, and younger Americans, all of whom are expected to strongly support the Democratic candidate--if they vote. Hundreds of paid organizers have already been dispatched to key states such as Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio to prepare for a massive voter registration drive in the late summer and fall. Some three hundred paid organizers have reportedly been assigned to Ohio alone.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-22:story.html?id=d653093b-9f19-4b92-a863-83626dcce2b5</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Test Obama Must Pass To Win The Presidency]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=28bbf3da-f51d-4502-9839-e7cfdbb4b2f2</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- To win the presidency, Barack Obama needs only to battle John McCain to a tie on foreign policy and national security. That means Obama has no need for a great triumph during his trip this week to the Middle East and Europe. His goal is to look safe, sound and competent, and that's how he's playing things.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-22:story.html?id=28bbf3da-f51d-4502-9839-e7cfdbb4b2f2</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama's Trip Is A Farce: We Should All Admit That Moving A Campaign Overseas Does Not Add Any Substance To It]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2017dfed-0ad7-4dbe-951e-e184c96b66ef</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[So is Barack Obama's foreign trip this week a critical addition to his presidential résumé? Or is it a farce? You'd never know from listening to the GOP.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-21:story.html?id=2017dfed-0ad7-4dbe-951e-e184c96b66ef&amp;k=12223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Letter From An Anxious Israeli On The Eve Of Obama's Visit To Jerusalem]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a6a9bbad-4eb6-4f77-b092-b96362aad330</link><author>Yossi Klein Halevi</author><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dear Senator Obama--Welcome to Israel. When you arrive here on July 22, you will encounter a people intrigued by your candidacy and, given the current crisis of Israeli leadership, envious of your capacity to inspire.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-19:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a6a9bbad-4eb6-4f77-b092-b96362aad330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining The Obama Doctrine: 'Talk To Anyone, But Live Up To American Values In What You Say']]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/18/anne-marie-slaughter-on-the-obama-doctrine.aspx</link><author>Anne-Marie Slaughter</author><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We asked Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton and Co-Director of the Princeton Project on National Security, to respond to Eli Lake's cover story on what an Obama Doctrine would look like if he were to become president.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-19:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/18/anne-marie-slaughter-on-the-obama-doctrine.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The Catholic Vote May Hold The Key To The Election For Obama]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f1c95dd6-6569-461e-a372-4b4e7f960dd3</link><author>Michael Sean Winters</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has a Catholic problem. While Catholics constitute only 23 percent of the nation's population, their numbers are higher in such critical states as Nevada, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=f1c95dd6-6569-461e-a372-4b4e7f960dd3&amp;k=66381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen Up, Democrats: Al Gore Is Showing You How To Talk About Gas]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=7d042bd3-d2e4-4c3e-a3d7-a1c31295cbe8</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On the issue of gasoline prices, Republicans think they
have a winner in their call for new drilling and Democrats are playing defense. Democrats need--this is a technical term--a lot more oomph. Al Gore wants to help them.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=7d042bd3-d2e4-4c3e-a3d7-a1c31295cbe8&amp;k=39476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How McCain Gets Teddy Roosevelt All Wrong]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=38a5ae60-9b53-42a2-a7aa-6e16e5c1f6bc</link><author>Eric Rauchway</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["I count myself as a conservative Republican, yet I view it to a large degree in the Theodore Roosevelt mold," John McCain told The New York Times last Friday.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=38a5ae60-9b53-42a2-a7aa-6e16e5c1f6bc&amp;k=41549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I Still Kinda Like John McCain]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5cb3eef3-11b5-4ab2-baf4-f5f78b26a889</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The presidential election has an oddly placid feel to it. Four years
ago, the notion that George W. Bush would get another four years in
office, actually ratified by a plurality of the voters, was more
than any liberal could bear...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=5cb3eef3-11b5-4ab2-baf4-f5f78b26a889&amp;k=7517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John McCain's Approach To Terrorism Is Almost As Old As He Is, A True Relic Of The Cold War]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=220a2dab-3d4b-45e4-9355-b03d44b6b844</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John McCain likes to compare himself to Theodore Roosevelt, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan. But, if he were to become president, could he more closely resemble Richard Nixon?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-16:story.html?id=220a2dab-3d4b-45e4-9355-b03d44b6b844&amp;k=57782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Latest Arugula-Fueled Controversy From Obama's Chicago Neighborhood]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=05eee5cc-7068-41d4-8370-0ce1c2c9594c</link><author>Gabriel Sherman</author><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Supermarket politics have always posed perilous risks for presidential candidates. Sure, voters want a candidate with a firm hand on foreign policy and a keen grasp of economics. But, in electoral contests, "you are what you eat" trumps all.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-16:story.html?id=05eee5cc-7068-41d4-8370-0ce1c2c9594c&amp;k=17150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Split-The-Difference Reform Won't Work For Health Care]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/environmentenergy/story.html?id=7aa401b5-f1f4-4564-921c-00f97b917605</link><author>Don McCanne</author><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Let's begin with the basic premise that our health care financing
system should ensure that everyone receives the health care that they
need without having to face a financial hardship. Everyone agrees that
we have a very expensive system that falls far short of this goal, so
it needs to be reformed.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-16:http://www.tnr.com/environmentenergy/story.html?id=7aa401b5-f1f4-4564-921c-00f97b917605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez Promised Much For His Country's Poor. He Has Delivered Next To Nothing.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5b96e972-b1a1-4ef0-8cb9-a89d86fda9ac</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For years, supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
have touted his social programs known as "missions" as a model of
social justice. But this narrative is a myth, according to a
comprehensive study by the Latin American Institute of Social Research.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-16:story.html?id=5b96e972-b1a1-4ef0-8cb9-a89d86fda9ac&amp;k=44023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Isn't Jimmy Carter--He's Ronald Reagan]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0e0846cd-694f-40d1-a6d9-55e20de176cf</link><author>Eli Lake</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On his first day in office, President Barack Obama will head to the situation room for a video conference with his most important commander, General David Petraeus. If the conversation is chilly, it is not just the awkwardness of virtual chatting.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-15:story.html?id=0e0846cd-694f-40d1-a6d9-55e20de176cf&amp;k=50437</guid></item></channel></rss>