<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The New Republic TOC]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><language>en-ca</language><copyright>(c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.</copyright><managingEditor></managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:11:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><category></category><generator></generator><item><title><![CDATA[A Letter From An Anxious Israeli On The Eve Of Obama's Visit To Jerusalem]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/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:story.html?id=a6a9bbad-4eb6-4f77-b092-b96362aad330&amp;k=94105</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[The Purpose Of Sex; The Life Of Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d748ecf1-aa7d-483b-a626-1701cd9e089d</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The French director Catherine Breillat uses plentiful sex in her films. This is notable not for its candor, a quality that is nowadays general, but for its cunning purpose.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-19:story.html?id=d748ecf1-aa7d-483b-a626-1701cd9e089d&amp;k=77524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Left's New Goddess: What's Wrong With Naomi Klein's Theory Of Everything]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420b</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It seems like a very long time--though in truth only a few years have passed--since the most sinister force on the planet that the left could imagine was Nike. In 2001, 'Time' proclaimed that the anti-globalization movement had become the 'defining cause' of a new generation, and that the spokesperson for the cause was the Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420b&amp;k=787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The Catholic Vote May Hold The Key To The Election For Obama]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/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['The Dark Knight' Is An Ambitious, Frustrating Epic That Pushes Batman To The Edge Of Art]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=757af21c-1026-44f3-918b-ea35b135e350</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[How far can an idle entertainment be bent toward art without breaking? This is the question implicitly posed by Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight', the first superhero film that makes a serious bid to transcend its burgeoning genre.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-18:story.html?id=757af21c-1026-44f3-918b-ea35b135e350&amp;k=60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen Up, Democrats: Al Gore Is Showing You How To Talk About Gas]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/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[Why I Still Kinda Like John McCain]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/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[Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, And Our Golden Age Of The Pseudo-Meaningful Stunt]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8c</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In my brief but thoughtful existence, I have permitted myself only
once the confidence to coin a law of life. It is that there is no
such place as rock bottom.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8c&amp;k=89128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How McCain Gets Teddy Roosevelt All Wrong]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/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[Where Did The Dark Ages Come From? The Social Causes Of The Decline Of Ancient Civilization]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d6cb03b8-a623-4b4a-938e-e178bfc8029e</link><author>Peter N. Miller</author><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-17:story.html?id=d6cb03b8-a623-4b4a-938e-e178bfc8029e&amp;k=95162</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/toc/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/toc/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/toc/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:story.html?id=7aa401b5-f1f4-4564-921c-00f97b917605&amp;k=81433</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/toc/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/toc/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><item><title><![CDATA[What Israel--And The Rest Of The World--Can Learn From 18 Years Of War In Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=320e4ee3-e968-42d5-87b9-41cfcf93ff06</link><author>Michael Oren</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Jerusalem theater lights came on and no man between the ages of 25 and 35 moved. We had just watched 'Waltz With Bashir,' Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's animated documentary about Israel's 1982
invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent Sabra and Chatila massacre.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-15:story.html?id=320e4ee3-e968-42d5-87b9-41cfcf93ff06&amp;k=63797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can France Handle The Truth About Israel and Palestine?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=19b6e943-7866-4d39-a357-8ff98d8cdae9</link><author>Richard Landes</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On May 21, 2008, a French court of appeals in Paris came to a
remarkable verdict. Reversing an earlier decision by the (in)famous 'Chambre,' which specializes in defamation, the judges exonerated Philippe Karsenty...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-15:story.html?id=19b6e943-7866-4d39-a357-8ff98d8cdae9&amp;k=48506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Will Make Or Break Obama's Plan To Unfreeze The Electoral Map. But Without Webb On The Ticket, Can He Pull It Off?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b8555a37-01ed-476e-9990-04842d480661</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[RUTHER GLEN, Va.--If the 2008 election is destined to break up a
frozen electoral map, Virginia is one of the most likely venues for the great political thaw.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-15:story.html?id=b8555a37-01ed-476e-9990-04842d480661&amp;k=47411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cohn: Sen. Jack Reed For Obama's V.P.?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/13/veep-veep-keep-an-eye-on-jack-reed.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On "Meet the Press" this morning Andrea Mitchell name-dropped Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island as a possible vice presidential contender for Barack Obama--observing, among other things, that Reed will be joining Obama on his upcoming trip to Iraq.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-14:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/13/veep-veep-keep-an-eye-on-jack-reed.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flipping Out: Barack Obama’s Iraq Position Stays The Same. OMG! WTF?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8c687b67-bcbd-49b9-bd50-1ffe68b07993</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[So Obama will listen to his generals and consider the facts on the ground before fully withdrawing from Iraq. OMG! WTF? Rick Klein of ABC News exclaimed, "There's been lots of speculation this week about whether Barack Obama has an Iraq problem. He does now."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-14:story.html?id=8c687b67-bcbd-49b9-bd50-1ffe68b07993&amp;k=23162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispatch From Zimbabwe: Witnessing Mugabe's Wasteland]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d2bd8cf9-59be-4f5d-81cd-118ab5bbc439</link><author>Christopher Thompson</author><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Harare, Zimbabwe

Every night at around 9 p.m., in the weeks leading up to last month's
presidential election, Simon heard the sound drums coming from the
woods surrounding his paprika farm.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-14:story.html?id=d2bd8cf9-59be-4f5d-81cd-118ab5bbc439&amp;k=40696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['WALL·E' Isn't Its Politics: The Movie's A Misplaced Valentine To Apple]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7927aa33-cbee-4701-b198-bc5bd9b0d320</link><author>Ben Crair</author><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pixar's new film, 'WALL·E,' is a dystopia, and so it is surprising that conservatives find it so distasteful--they usually love the genre.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-14:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7927aa33-cbee-4701-b198-bc5bd9b0d320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Single-Minded: The Left's Overeager Health Care Reformers]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=34b6a8b8-68bf-4f39-be13-7c99cf95d8c6</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you are one of those people who believes the government, rather than for-profit corporations, should provide all Americans with health insurance, then you haven't had much trouble finding evidence to support your view.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-12:story.html?id=34b6a8b8-68bf-4f39-be13-7c99cf95d8c6&amp;k=93472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Genius Director Stuffs Too Much Weirdness Into 'Hellboy 2']]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=beeab872-d540-49f8-b094-5cf70abe739e</link><author>Christoper Orr</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Near the midpoint of 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army,' the titular demon is asked by his all-too-human girlfriend, 'Do you need everyone to love you? Or am I enough?']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-12:story.html?id=beeab872-d540-49f8-b094-5cf70abe739e&amp;k=13554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Barack Obama's Writing Style Tell Us About The Man?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d4faae88-2e0b-474f-aebe-c815fd3d21e9</link><author>Andrew Delbanco</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Le style, c'est l'homme,' a Frenchman said a long time ago. If style is indeed the man, and the man is on the verge of being nominated for the presidency of the United States, it seems the moment to ask what his style might tell us about his mind and heart.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-12:story.html?id=d4faae88-2e0b-474f-aebe-c815fd3d21e9&amp;k=23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Troubled History With Hollywood Sirens]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/environmentenergy/gallery/popup.html?topic=starlets</link><author>Barron YoungSmith</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When 'Yes We Can'--a pro-Obama music video packed with camera-friendly, idealistic celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and John Legend--became a viral internet sensation last February, it made many Democrats wince.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-12:http://www.tnr.com/environmentenergy/gallery/popup.html?topic=starlets</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flashback: LET THE GAMES BEGIN!]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=097c79db-02bc-48fc-9999-8c83a6ffd7a5</link><author>Michael Lewis</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe that the race for the Republican nomination, or any other race for that matter, could begin in Manchester, New Hampshire. On the way up, in the whirling snow, cars zipped past me on the highway as if immune to danger...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-12:story.html?id=097c79db-02bc-48fc-9999-8c83a6ffd7a5&amp;k=74086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flashback: Loathing In Las Vegas]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=2f4eb431-4ba0-4da7-90e4-4d001a209414</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On the airplane, I caught sight of someone reading the latest issue of 'U.S. News and World Report,' with a cover story on 'How to Raise a Moral Child.' It sounded like typical middlebrow sermonizing, based on the assumption that morality...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-12:story.html?id=2f4eb431-4ba0-4da7-90e4-4d001a209414&amp;k=23050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Is The American President That Americans Have Been Waiting For]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=dfe7a745-e6d0-4fed-9509-f73b4277f7b1</link><author>Bernard-Henri Lévy</author><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The persona of John McCain is already in play and it would be wrong to underestimate him. The man is remarkable, surprising in his opposition to torture and Guantanamo, audacious when he challenged the economic policies of the two Bush administrations. And isn't it said that Democrat John Kerry considered for a time asking this unconventional conservative to share the ticket with him?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-11:story.html?id=dfe7a745-e6d0-4fed-9509-f73b4277f7b1&amp;k=84362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can T.V Shows Tackle Sex Without Being Blandly Moralizing Or Porno-Lite?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=18f803f4-b69f-4b97-b535-7d66642e27ff</link><author>Sacha Zimmerman</author><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Television producers are starting to realize what publishers have long
known: Adding the word “secret” to your title makes it sure to attract
attention.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-11:story.html?id=18f803f4-b69f-4b97-b535-7d66642e27ff&amp;k=83244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are Democrats And Republicans Finally Agreeing On A New Economic Philosophy?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=fb19c21c-53c1-4a9a-b7d2-878727d87539</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--The biggest political story of 2008 is getting little
coverage. It involves the collapse of assumptions that have dominated
our economic debate for three decades.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-11:story.html?id=fb19c21c-53c1-4a9a-b7d2-878727d87539&amp;k=72193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think Arab Opinion Leaders Love Obama? Think Again.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9ae5fcc1-9f89-4a44-8ed9-f6deecb24884</link><author>Josie Delap and Robert Lane Greene</author><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There is no question that Barack Obama has stirred the world's imagination. Polls taken in Europe show that if Obama ran against John McCain there, he would win by anywhere between seven percentage points in Russia and 52 points in Belgium.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-10:story.html?id=9ae5fcc1-9f89-4a44-8ed9-f6deecb24884&amp;k=44128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Hope For Solving China's Environmental Catastrophe]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9ef5103b-15cf-4bd6-b7a1-34940b9edeca</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cross over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, head north for half an hour, and you'll reach Mount Tamalpais State Park, home to redwood groves and, a little ways up, panoramic views of the bay. As it turns out, though, the park is also home to large amounts of pollution from Asia--dust, sulfur, trace metals--blowing in from across the Pacific.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-10:story.html?id=9ef5103b-15cf-4bd6-b7a1-34940b9edeca&amp;k=75512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Islam And Christianity Have Dealt Differently With Their Jewish Roots--And What That Means For Anti-Semitism Today]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=717010a2-47b3-46d9-bba8-39fd77ac99cc</link><author>Avi Beker</author><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Abrahamic religions" has become a widely used term, particularly among interfaith groups, to designate the three major monotheistic religions.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-10:story.html?id=717010a2-47b3-46d9-bba8-39fd77ac99cc&amp;k=84450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Filthy, Rude, Tactless Tourists Are Ruining The World's Most Treasured Cities]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=e7277acd-6eb6-44d8-95aa-801027ada5d9</link><author>Javier Marias</author><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[During the 1980s, I lived in Venice intermittently for a couple of years. I would spend a month there, then three in Oxford, another two months in Venice, then two in Madrid, and so on.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-10:story.html?id=e7277acd-6eb6-44d8-95aa-801027ada5d9&amp;k=75611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McContradiction: What's Worse Than Flip-Flopping? Consistently Promising Two Opposing Goals At The Same Time]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f32048af-6a69-4594-8a9f-e99d213578c1</link><author>Robert Gordon and James Kvaal</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John McCain's fantastical pledge on Monday to balance the budget by
2013 through massive tax cuts and unidentified budget reductions
deserved the ...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-09:story.html?id=f32048af-6a69-4594-8a9f-e99d213578c1&amp;k=11629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have Freakonomicists Actually Revolutionized The Way We Think About Happiness?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=3bc0e959-3b4e-440d-9b99-69078429b82c</link><author>Alan Wolfe</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HAPPINESS: A REVOLUTION IN ECONOMICS (MUNICH LECTURES IN ECONOMICS)]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/Bentham.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-09:story.html?id=3bc0e959-3b4e-440d-9b99-69078429b82c&amp;k=57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Fear-Mongers Lead Europe To Misguided Immigration Policies?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=bdc2bfe4-26b1-45e4-be6c-0c7a14dff5a5</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--The European Parliament's decision to pass a new law allowing member countries to imprison undocumented aliens for up to 18 months and deport children has reignited the debate over immigration, one of the most sensitive issues of our time.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/llosa inside.JPG" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-09:story.html?id=bdc2bfe4-26b1-45e4-be6c-0c7a14dff5a5&amp;k=70857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explaining The Surprising Staying Power Of The Burmese Junta]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5495549f-8f5e-45ec-8cef-db5b6f6506d3</link><author>Joshua Kurlantzick</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Burma's ruling junta, holed up in a bunker capital built in the remote
center of the country and led by the thuggish, unworldly, and
slow-speaking Than Shwe, gets little respect from the outside world. In
private conversations, Western diplomats have snidely remarked to me
about Than Shwe’s lack of education--he reputedly never made it out of
primary school--while officials from Burma's powerful neighbors talk
about the Burmese leaders as if they were unsophisticated, wayward
children. "What can you do about them?" one Southeast Asian diplomat
asked me. "Who has any idea what they think?" He then launched into a
diatribe about how ignorant and insane the generals are.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/kurlantzick%20inside.JPG" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-09:story.html?id=5495549f-8f5e-45ec-8cef-db5b6f6506d3&amp;k=82863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Magazine Legend Clay Felker Is The Father Of Google]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=7e495b9e-2237-4afe-b7c4-c5e5b09903c2</link><author>Marc Weingarten</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We have already read much in his obits about how Clay Felker, who died last week at 82, transformed 'The New York Herald Tribune''s magazine supplement, 'New York,' into a primary outlet of what would become known as the "New Journalism."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-08:story.html?id=7e495b9e-2237-4afe-b7c4-c5e5b09903c2&amp;k=61610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Praise Of My Favorite Painter, Jean-Antoine Watteau, On The Day His Best Work Goes On The Block]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=80258530-0b95-454b-bd36-75c54ea0a7f1</link><author>Jed Perl</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I don't follow auctions. They represent a side of the art world--the financial side--that I would just as soon ignore, especially when I hear about the prices reached by contemporary art, which grow more astonishing with each passing month.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-08:story.html?id=80258530-0b95-454b-bd36-75c54ea0a7f1&amp;k=78204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Obama Can Escape The GOP Double-Bind On Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=a5c2eb56-2195-4ebf-9c37-ed62d949d004</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When a candidate calls a second news conference to say the same thing he thought he said in the first one, you know he knows he has a problem.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-08:story.html?id=a5c2eb56-2195-4ebf-9c37-ed62d949d004&amp;k=6190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Isn't Just Barack: How Bush Turned A Generation Into Liberals]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=1fc85bce-a055-4af3-88e0-c470d400913c</link><author>Alan I. Abramowitz</author><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Young voters played a crucial role in Barack Obama's successful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. In state after state, exit polls showed that Obama received his strongest support from voters under the age of 30. Now that he has clinched the Democratic nomination, Obama is counting on strong support from under-thirties to offset John McCain's expected advantage among older white voters, some of whom continue to be uneasy about the prospect of an African American president.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/youth inside.JPG" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-07:story.html?id=1fc85bce-a055-4af3-88e0-c470d400913c&amp;k=60241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Legal Scholars Debate How To Adapt The Law To A World Of 'Enemy Combatants']]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=eb818296-df7c-4cf1-a943-6db298e7ab25</link><author>Josh Patashnik</author><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week, The New Republic sat down to discuss recent legal developments in the war on terror with Benjamin Wittes, a TNR.com columnist, fellow and research director in public law at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, and with Andrew McCarthy, director of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of the recent book Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-07:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=eb818296-df7c-4cf1-a943-6db298e7ab25</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Billionaires ♥ Mao]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=e92208b2-b57e-4028-8d09-543bcdc98393</link><author>Jed Perl</author><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cai Guo-Qiang: I want to Believe -- Guggenheim Museum]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/article graphic.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-05:story.html?id=e92208b2-b57e-4028-8d09-543bcdc98393&amp;k=18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chait-Scheiber Rumble! Do Flip-Flops Matter?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=58e628d3-750f-4244-a089-1051abfa18fd</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, Obama was "Obambi"--a guy so innocent he’d struggle to cross a major intersection, much less survive a match-up against the GOP. Then Obambi opted out of the public financing system and stiff-armed McCain on some town-hall meetings, and all of a sudden he was Lee Atwater.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-04:story.html?id=58e628d3-750f-4244-a089-1051abfa18fd&amp;k=36826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Opponents--And Some Of His Friends--Won't Let Him End The Culture War]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=a001a3a1-82c1-451d-a221-3253733f0ca6</link><author>E.J. Dionne</author><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Barack Obama keeps trying to end the wars over culture and religion, and good for him. The 1960s are so 40 years ago. But Obama's opponents, as well as some of his friends, won't let him do it.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-04:story.html?id=a001a3a1-82c1-451d-a221-3253733f0ca6&amp;k=12410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside China's Illegal Fight Clubs]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=06d65840-0997-482e-a84d-b09b61a7b0e5</link><author>Mara Hvistendahl</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When the man who calls himself "Chinabounder" moved to Shanghai to
teach English and, apparently, have a little naughty fun on the
side, he probably didn't know what he was getting himself into. His
type is so common in Asia that it's almost a cliche: Bars from
Hanoi to Seoul are filled with Western men gallivanting with local
women. But this one made the mistake of blogging about his supposed
exploits--"She jumped and quivered, sighed and open- mouthed
pressed against me," he bragged at chinabounder.blogspot.com--and
mixing in criticism of China's occupation of the Xinjiang autonomous
region. After a few months of sordid entries (the blog was titled
Sex and Shanghai), China's Internet bulldogs caught on.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-03:story.html?id=06d65840-0997-482e-a84d-b09b61a7b0e5</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TNR TV: How South Bronx Environmental Activists Are Changing The Color Of Green]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9b1d0d57-7779-4226-982f-a141f462f803</link><author>Dayo Olopade</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This video marks the first of a TNR TV series that will take an issues approach to contemporary environmentalism. This episode deals with matters of class and race in the green movement, with particular focus on the South Bronx--incorporating the precepts of civil rights and social justice into a vision of a greener America.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-03:story.html?id=9b1d0d57-7779-4226-982f-a141f462f803&amp;k=68280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mugabelogue: Do Conservatives Care More About Zimbabwe Than Liberals--Or Do Westerners Just Care About White Farmers? And More.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=ee38523e-7bdf-4761-afa3-b017b6fae2ff</link><author>T.A. Frank and James Kirchick</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Who's interested in Zimbabwe, and why? How should Westerners understand the situation there? And could this all be Jimmy Carter’s fault? T.A. Frank and James Kirchick discussed the situation over IM.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-03:story.html?id=ee38523e-7bdf-4761-afa3-b017b6fae2ff&amp;k=99895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I Fear For Obama: Don't Underestimate The Flip-Flopper Label]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=19697b01-fe09-413f-b0e8-7d4c8cf0d098</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My colleague Noam Scheiber argues in his piece yesterday that John McCain's new campaign strategy of painting Barack Obama as an
unprincipled flip-flopper is bound to fail. Noam posits that painting
Obama as a "typical politician" is not a damaging enough accusation in
a year when the public overwhelmingly prefers a Democratic president.
Maybe--but I think McCain's strategy is a little more potent than Noam
gives it credit for.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-03:story.html?id=19697b01-fe09-413f-b0e8-7d4c8cf0d098&amp;k=18170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Smith's Weird, Awful Superhero Movie]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=bf4e4236-4bd9-4014-8bcf-782b17f413c9</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It briefly looked as though the 4th of July might be up for grabs again. For about a decade, this week on the cinematic calendar had been officially unofficially reserved for Will Smith, whose 1996]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-02:story.html?id=bf4e4236-4bd9-4014-8bcf-782b17f413c9&amp;k=65268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Mitt Or Not To Mitt? Jonathan Cohn and Eve Fairbanks Debate Romney: Brilliant V.P. Pick, Or Terrible?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/07/01/why-romney-doesn-t-make-sense.aspx</link><author></author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My brilliant colleague Jon Cohn is almost always dead on target, but I think Mitt Romney's shameless Michigan pandering has gone to his head. I know Romney's the flavor of the week on McCain's veep list, but I couldn't disagree more with Jon that he'd be a good choice for McCain.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-02:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/07/01/why-romney-doesn-t-make-sense.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benign Neglect: Parsing Obama's Latin American Policies]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=2cff44a2-f703-4190-aa48-73f4d6974abb</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Barack Obama recently gave a major speech on Latin America in which he sought to contrast his ideas with President Bush's record in the region. Saying that Washington has "stuck to tired blueprints on drugs and trade, on democracy and development...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-02:story.html?id=2cff44a2-f703-4190-aa48-73f4d6974abb&amp;k=75607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Caroline Kennedy Needs Barack Obama: Securing A Future For The Family Brand]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=014e86a1-c6e2-480a-aa22-5d02740c096f</link><author>Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is crazy for Barack Obama, the guy must really be something special, right?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-01:story.html?id=014e86a1-c6e2-480a-aa22-5d02740c096f&amp;k=77742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[40 Years Old Today, The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Is More Vital--And Vulnerable--Than Ever]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=90a0da02-1067-4f39-96a1-db588da40c10</link><author>J. Peter Scoblic</author><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today marks the fortieth birthday of the nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty, one of the most important pieces of paper the United States has signed in the last half century--and one of the most popular. Even Bush officials, who went on a treaty-killing spree during their first year in office, made an exception for the NPT.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-01:story.html?id=90a0da02-1067-4f39-96a1-db588da40c10&amp;k=58028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disputations: Should Barack Obama Have Known Better Than To Make A Deal With The Teamsters?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e938cd4e-9e2c-4148-8673-13d454d43226</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dear Editor: 

It is unfortunate to see John Judis recycling discredited allegations by the controversial government "watchdog," the Independent Review Board (IRB). The IRB was installed to root out mob influence in the Teamsters...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-01:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e938cd4e-9e2c-4148-8673-13d454d43226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Matter What Happens In November, There's One Place GOP Rule Will Continue. And It May Matter More Than Congress Or The Presidency.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5ebe412d-316a-49cd-af2e-19e418edb3b1</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--If the long conservative era that began with Ronald Reagan's election is over, will the judges appointed during the right's ascendancy be able to block, frustrate and undermine the efforts of a new progressive majority?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-01:story.html?id=5ebe412d-316a-49cd-af2e-19e418edb3b1&amp;k=61368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron Woman: Why The Sure-To-Be Blistering GOP Attacks On Michelle Obama Won't Work]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=bf2d6a06-68ce-4c23-a8fa-d99b97442df7</link><author>Ed Kilgore</author><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 1828, President John Quincy Adams's reelection campaign reportedly traded on innuendoes that Rachel Jackson had been imperfectly divorced from her first husband. Since her second husband, Andrew Jackson, once killed a man in a duel for the same insult to his wife's honor, Adams was perhaps lucky to lose no more than the presidency to Old Hickory.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-30:story.html?id=bf2d6a06-68ce-4c23-a8fa-d99b97442df7&amp;k=62069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six Simple Reasons The Border Fence Is A Terrible Idea]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=781dc6e0-eef4-48c3-ab7b-a73c118b271d</link><author>Melanie Mason</author><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In this political season, immigration is the issue that everyone's taking pains not to discuss. The presidential candidates are merely paying the same lip service to border security. Congress has all but abandoned comprehensive immigration reform...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-30:story.html?id=781dc6e0-eef4-48c3-ab7b-a73c118b271d&amp;k=1257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The Next President--Whoever It Is--Should Deal With Our China Problem]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=6d209d68-df9e-4540-a12d-747f901d6b3d</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When it comes to China policy, American presidents over the past generation have adhered to a relatively simple pattern: Talk tough before taking office, then, once in the White House, backpedal. As James Mann documents in this issue ("Senior Moments"), the first President Bush was something of an idealist...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-30:story.html?id=6d209d68-df9e-4540-a12d-747f901d6b3d&amp;k=90211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Hero Of Tiananmen: How An Aging Doctor Became The Conscience Of China]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=c32313c1-e6d4-4fb6-919e-ba90986eebb8</link><author>Philip P. Pan</author><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the second half of 2003, Jiang Yanyong sat down to write a letter about what he had seen during the Tiananmen Square uprising and share it with the party's new leaders. Jiang had had a unique view of the massacre, and the words came easily, in a flood of suppressed memory and emotion. "I am a surgeon at the PLA No. 301 Hospital," he wrote.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-28:story.html?id=c32313c1-e6d4-4fb6-919e-ba90986eebb8</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Wanted' May Be An Escapist Fantasy For Masculine Impotence, But At Least It Does It With Style]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d8fb5eaf-0813-41d2-8316-9feb058b99c3</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Any film that features Angelina Jolie as an international assassin is, pretty much by definition, a film that glamorizes violence. But 'Wanted,' the Hollywood debut of Kazakh-Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, does more than glamorize. It glorifies. It fetishizes. It consecrates.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-28:story.html?id=d8fb5eaf-0813-41d2-8316-9feb058b99c3&amp;k=41959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why A President Obama Would Need The Help Of John Roberts To Push A Progressive Agenda]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=08bf58e7-db39-46d9-942c-ea471ad63ea0</link><author>Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 2006, at the end of his first term on the Supreme Court, John Roberts told me and other journalists that his goal as chief justice would be to promote unanimity and collegiality by encouraging his fellow justices to converge around narrow decisions with few dissents.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-28:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=08bf58e7-db39-46d9-942c-ea471ad63ea0</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is It Even Possible Anymore For The GOP To Broaden Its Base?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/06/27/will-the-republicans-go-sam-s-club.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I whole-heartedly second David Brooks's suggestion that you buy and read 'Grand New Party,' the new book by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam. They're not just two of the smartest young conservatives I know, but two of the smartest conservatives period, and I think they're dead on (dead right?) about the GOP's problems and what should be done about them.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-28:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/06/27/will-the-republicans-go-sam-s-club.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Guns To Guantanamo, The True Significance Of The Latest Supreme Court Term]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=08bf58e7-db39-46d9-942c-ea471ad63ea0</link><author>Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In 2006, at the end of his first term on the Supreme Court, John Roberts
told me and other journalists that his goal as chief justice would be
to promote unanimity and collegiality by encouraging his fellow
justices to converge around narrow decisions with few dissents. During
his first term, Roberts succeeded impressively: More than half of the
Court's opinions were unanimous, and only 13 percent were decided by a
5-4 vote.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-27:story.html?id=08bf58e7-db39-46d9-942c-ea471ad63ea0</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's Legislating From The Bench Now, Conservatives?!]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9bd74a3e-bdc8-4da3-be81-9f98f7042d06</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--In knocking down the District of Columbia's 32-year ban on handgun possession, the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court have shown again their willingness to abandon precedent in order to do whatever is necessary to further the agenda of the contemporary political right.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-27:story.html?id=9bd74a3e-bdc8-4da3-be81-9f98f7042d06&amp;k=23556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Germany’s Record In International Soccer Confirm The Absence Of God Or Merely The Futility Of Romance?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=abf45554-07df-4988-9cb1-4ac9e4849e68</link><author>Alex Massie</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Don't try to pretend that you thought it would end any other way. Don't kid yourself--or the rest of us--and say that you thought Turkey had a chance in Wednesday's European Championship semifinal.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-27:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=abf45554-07df-4988-9cb1-4ac9e4849e68</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visually stunning and ethically loathsome, for better or worse, 'Wanted' is one of the freshest action movies in years.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d8fb5eaf-0813-41d2-8316-9feb058b99c3</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Any film that features Angelina Jolie as an international assassin is, pretty much by definition, a film that glamorizes violence. But 'Wanted,' the Hollywood debut of Kazakh-Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, does more than glamorize. It glorifies. It fetishizes. It consecrates.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-27:story.html?id=d8fb5eaf-0813-41d2-8316-9feb058b99c3&amp;k=41959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Wall-E' Is A Marvel And A Masterpiece, Possibly The Best Pixar Film Yet]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f9f4b282-a76b-4504-8791-801868c0a948</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For over a dozen years now, the best name in American film has been Pixar. No movie star, no director, no writer, producer, or studio approaches its level of consistent excellence. Even Pixar's weaker offerings (A Bug's Life, Cars, and--in my moderately heretical view--Finding Nemo) have exceptional depth and texture, moral as well as visual. And its best efforts (Toy Story, The Incredibles) are simply transcendent, rivaling the finest live-action films in sophistication and sentiment.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-27:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f9f4b282-a76b-4504-8791-801868c0a948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oPod Revolution: Barack Obama's iPod playlist is exciting, modern, and a little vague, like Obama himself.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=6ee9bb51-bc5b-4ef9-a5ba-aef930e1271a</link><author>Alex Pappademas</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A couple years ago, 'GQ' asked John Kerry if he preferred the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. Kerry, never one to let an opportunity to appear human or interesting go unblown, refused to express a preference.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-26:story.html?id=6ee9bb51-bc5b-4ef9-a5ba-aef930e1271a&amp;k=5919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Who Would Destroy The NCAA: College Basketball's Great Commercializer Reconsiders]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d0f34d09-ede4-431a-8477-e616b25f1360</link><author>Jason Zengerle</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One evening last fall, Sonny Vaccaro came to the University of Maryland to give a speech. This was not itself unusual, since he is often invited to give speeches on campuses--specifically, locker-room talks to college basketball players.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-26:story.html?id=d0f34d09-ede4-431a-8477-e616b25f1360&amp;k=85702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can The President Simply Ignore Congress? (Bush Thinks So.)]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9c6a8506-76ae-427e-975e-d8d8a11af2c5</link><author>Alan B. Morrison</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the final days of the Supreme Court's term, it is not surprising
that other lawsuits are not receiving much attention. However, this
past Monday, there was a hearing...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-26:story.html?id=9c6a8506-76ae-427e-975e-d8d8a11af2c5&amp;k=35411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help Hillary Decide How To Deal With Her Massive Campaign Debt!]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/06/25/choose-your-own-debtventure.aspx</link><author>Nicole Allan and Bess Kalb</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After 17 months of directing Operation Hillary, the would-be commander-in-chief is confronting some serious debt. $22.5 million of it. According to an FEC report released Friday, Clinton owes $10.3 million to everyone from printers in Iowa to caterers in Pennsylvania to Mark Penn's consulting firm in D.C. She's also down the $12.2 million she personally loaned her campaign.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-26:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/06/25/choose-your-own-debtventure.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kremlin Scores! Why Russia's Ascendent Soccer Team Is Putin's Through And Through]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8103104a-3dda-47cc-9e1f-44f984f907aa</link><author>Josh Patashnik</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Among the four teams that advanced to this week's semifinal round of
the Euro 2008 soccer tournament, three aren't particularly portentous. No one is surprised to see pre-tournament favorite Germany still alive. Nor is it particularly shocking that talent-rich Spain has survived, although most expected the team to uphold the time-honored Spanish tradition of flaming out in the quarterfinals. It <i style="">is</i> a surprise to see Turkey in the semis, but the Turks are a talented group that made it to a World Cup semifinal just six years ago, and in any case they have advanced thanks only to a <a style="" ref="http://www.euro2008.digsvid.com/2008/06/euro-2008-turkey-3-2-czech-republic-highlights/">string</a> of freakishly lucky <a style="" href="http://footyblog.net/2008/06/20/croatia-vs-turkey-highlights-euro-2008-quarter-final-highlights/">breaks</a>.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-26:story.html?id=8103104a-3dda-47cc-9e1f-44f984f907aa&amp;k=15147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Internships In Journalism Are Bad For Young People, And Bad For The Industry]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=32c1f37c-587d-44c6-937c-fc392cdab6ff</link><author>Adelle Waldman</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Beware the intern you just sent on a coffee run. And not just because
she may use the yellow sweetener instead of the pink. No, beware the
intern because as easy as it is to punk her around now, this pleasure, like smoking or drinking, is likely to come back to bite you later, when she rises to a position of power.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-25:story.html?id=32c1f37c-587d-44c6-937c-fc392cdab6ff&amp;k=64446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey, Liberal Justices! Want To Move The Supreme Court Left? Pick Easier Cases.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8679a330-e553-4a13-9f8a-c6a58b27eec9</link><author>Nicholas Stephanopoulos</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Though this court term wasn't as disastrous as it could have been, these are not particularly happy days for the Supreme Court's left-leaning justices.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-25:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=8679a330-e553-4a13-9f8a-c6a58b27eec9</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Celluloid Capture True Love?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=6f6a7edd-967d-46cf-88e0-85c4b5f36100</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Chris & Don: A Love Story' (Zeitgeist)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-25:story.html?id=6f6a7edd-967d-46cf-88e0-85c4b5f36100&amp;k=78832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeding The Beast: Why Food Prices Are Skyrocketing]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=3454f134-ed0b-4eca-a472-671da858b116</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--We tend to judge this year's food crisis, marked by seemingly indomitable prices, from the point of view of those who are suffering. It might be useful to judge the crisis also from the point of view of those who are causing it. That's where the real lessons will be learned.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-25:story.html?id=3454f134-ed0b-4eca-a472-671da858b116&amp;k=55000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticisms Of China Have Only Made It Stronger]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f48d8fb7-6db3-4279-98a4-0be7964e5909</link><author>Andrew J. Nathan</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[By Lillian M. Li, Alison J. Dray-Novey, and Haili Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 321 pp., $27.95)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-24:story.html?id=f48d8fb7-6db3-4279-98a4-0be7964e5909&amp;k=12907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Israel's Latest Negotiation Spree Is Doomed To Fail]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0daa9f48-7b5c-488b-98c9-b23dbf8606da</link><author>Martin Peretz</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Middle Eastern wars, the United Nations is almost always hectoring Israel for being reluctant to seek peace. So it was a stunner when Terje Rød- Larsen--U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's "special coordinator" in the occupied territories, Kofi Annan's "personal representative" to Yasir Arafat, Ban Ki-moon's "special representative" for overseeing the cease-fire agreement ending the second Lebanon war, and in his next posting "envoy to the personal representative of the special coordinator for planetary salvation"--lambasted Israel for its recent negotiations with Syria: "Israel has given Syria a huge gift, without thus far receiving anything in return."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-24:story.html?id=0daa9f48-7b5c-488b-98c9-b23dbf8606da&amp;k=32529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Didn't Kill Campaign Finance Reform. He Reminded Us That Even Good Ideas Need Fixing.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b928279a-e3df-4cf2-b29c-43a28082bfa0</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Barack Obama's decision to forgo public funds will bring
joy to opponents of campaign finance reform. But to say that Obama has
killed public financing is to miss the point.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/somber bho 32.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-24:story.html?id=b928279a-e3df-4cf2-b29c-43a28082bfa0&amp;k=56644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain's Campaign Has Badly Damaged Obama Recently--No Matter What The Pundits Tell You]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/06/23/mccain-s-good-week.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chait]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-24:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/06/23/mccain-s-good-week.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Effort To Make This Campaign About Voters' Unconscious Fears Of Obama Has Already Begun]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8536aa6e-9df0-4e2d-aef3-0acb42807caf</link><author>Drew Westen</author><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Seldom has a presidential candidate faced such long odds. John McCain has repeatedly allied himself with the most unpopular president since the history of modern polling. He has embraced the most unpopular war since Vietnam. The U.S. economy continues its downward slide. Polls show generic Democratic candidates leading by double digits at all levels of government.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-23:story.html?id=8536aa6e-9df0-4e2d-aef3-0acb42807caf&amp;k=1239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part Two Of Our Nixonland Vs. The Age Of Reagan: What Did Dutch Steal From Tricky Dick?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0e395dde-316e-43bf-9772-8fa8c4688232</link><author>Rick Perlstein and Sean Wilentz</author><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In this TNR debate, two powerhouse political historians--Sean Wilentz, the author of The Age Of Reagan and contributing editor for The New Republic, and Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland--try to figure out which president continues to have the stronger hold over our political culture.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-23:story.html?id=0e395dde-316e-43bf-9772-8fa8c4688232&amp;k=87092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Secret China History of George H.W. Bush]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=688b172b-bcc2-47f6-a736-e046946b83ab</link><author>James Mann</author><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While visiting his family in Asia after he graduated from Harvard Business School more than three decades ago, George W. Bush discovered the joys of Chinese dentistry. "George got his tooth fixed the day he left for 60 cents, " recorded his father, George H.W. Bush, then America's top diplomat in Beijing. "He is now a great admirer of the Chinese medicine, and he is struggling, as a lot of us are, as to whether this universal health care--how it should work, etc. etc."]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/bushrickshaw.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-23:story.html?id=688b172b-bcc2-47f6-a736-e046946b83ab&amp;k=34576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Opens His Mouth, And The Oil Crisis Gets Worse]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=72015b3d-163e-4aa5-abfe-4b351db5958b</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This past Wednesday, President Bush called for ending a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, two days after John McCain flip-flopped to take the same position. The idea may or may not have merit in the long run, but what it won't do is lower gas prices in the short term: The Department of Energy estimates that it would take more than 20 years for either production levels or prices to be affected by a repeal of the ban on offshore drilling. Because the amount of oil at stake is so tiny (about 19 billion barrels, equivalent to around seven months of global consumption), it won't do much at all to ease jitters or help deflate a bubble in oil markets.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-23:story.html?id=72015b3d-163e-4aa5-abfe-4b351db5958b&amp;k=24715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Obama Have A September 10th Mindset?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b1d1c274-a59b-475f-9703-2e26d02ce650</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week, the terrorism "issue" made its campaign debut. I use scare quotes not because terrorism is not a threat, but because it's unclear precisely what issue is at stake. John McCain's campaign has been determined to have a debate about terrorism, which polls have shown to be the only issue where he has any meaningful edge over Barack Obama. The problem is that on the only terrorism-related positions where Obama has staked out ground to the left of the Bush administration--torture, closing Guantánamo--McCain has, too.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/8137d59a-9e08-4da3-bbed-0619af48403b/0620obama_waving.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-20:story.html?id=b1d1c274-a59b-475f-9703-2e26d02ce650&amp;k=24589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nihilism and Capitalism In The Art World: U.S. Museums Are Now Fully-Owned Subsidiaries Of The Market]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b24ee3a8-6d78-478f-9b95-a5b031d003c5</link><author>Jed Perl</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Broad Contemporary Art Museum -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/Koons.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-20:story.html?id=b24ee3a8-6d78-478f-9b95-a5b031d003c5&amp;k=65931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning! Mike Myers, International Man Of Mysticism, Is Now Desperately Unfunny.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=73a91246-d248-48c6-8152-370e9906f134</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The velvet suit has been swapped for silk robes. The mop-top has been replaced by Medusan curls of beard and moustache, the artificial overbite by a prosthetic nose. Yes, Mike Myers is back.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-20:story.html?id=73a91246-d248-48c6-8152-370e9906f134&amp;k=85774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's The Battle Of The Straight Talkers In New Hampshire! And Even Though McCain's A Local Favorite, Obama Still Has The Edge.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5379c1a9-27ba-4eae-b95c-271183b44f3c</link><author>E.J. Dionne</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HANOVER, N.H.--The race for electoral votes could be so close in November that small states may well pick the next president. Among the diminutive states, New Hampshire is by far the most interesting.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/mcain NH.JPG" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-20:story.html?id=5379c1a9-27ba-4eae-b95c-271183b44f3c&amp;k=59982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. Won't Prosecute The Torture Policymakers For War Crimes. But Other Countries Probably Will.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=597957fd-6bbf-4d02-b29f-3dbd35176038</link><author>Scott Horton</author><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing provided the latest evidence that top Bush administration officials directed the use of torture techniques on detained suspected terrorists.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/915b5b7f-c314-48f7-8a03-9fe84502b5e0/bush cover 4.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-19:story.html?id=597957fd-6bbf-4d02-b29f-3dbd35176038&amp;k=79199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Obama And McCain, Mike Bloomberg Is The Ultimate Vanity Veep. Too Bad He'd Stink At The Job.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=cc97b3b7-7e4a-44cf-901c-bf1e98e83e46</link><author>Ben Wasserstein</author><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Though he's never been involved in national politics, the one man with the odd distinction of appearing on both Barack Obama's and John McCain's vice-presidential shortlists has more name recognition than any contender shy of Hillary Clinton. His surname festoons more than 126 offices worldwide, adorns a 24-hour cable news network, is cited in newspapers around the globe, and is credited as a producer on each night's episode of "Charlie Rose."]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/bloomberg online.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-19:story.html?id=cc97b3b7-7e4a-44cf-901c-bf1e98e83e46&amp;k=81474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are We Living In Nixonland Or The Age Of Reagan? Two Powerhouse Historians Debate.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=a4d25def-15ff-406c-a3e2-ef5874983cf2</link><author>Sean Wilentz and Rick Perlstein</author><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In this TNR debate, two powerhouse political
historiansSean Wilentz, contributing editor for The New Republic and the author of The Age of Reagan, and Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland--try to figure out which president continues to have the stronger hold over our political culture.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-19:story.html?id=a4d25def-15ff-406c-a3e2-ef5874983cf2&amp;k=86499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Critic On Music And The Internet (And Why Radiohead Shouldn't Trick You Into Thinking You Can Rock)]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=2b354d15-f127-4893-8788-f76f4e3c8d9d</link><author>David Hajdu</author><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The urge to make the work our own is elemental to the act of
encountering art, and we try to satisfy it in many ways. We look at
a painting or listen to a piece of music and take it in, hoping
that it will prove to be not only an expression of human feeling
but also a stimulus to it; we expect art to move us in a personal
way. Or we buy the artwork or a copy of it, making our ownership
literal (if not always legal, in case of downloading bootleg
digital files). Or we wear our esteem for the work like a fashion
label, for the social or professional status it confers. Or we draw
inspiration from the work and apply it to things we make ourselves,
using whatever of it serves our needs. In one way or another, to
experience art of any kind is to appropriate it, and to be a
devotee of any art or artist is to be a claimant.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-19:story.html?id=2b354d15-f127-4893-8788-f76f4e3c8d9d&amp;k=68172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bar-Hopping With Tim Pawlenty, McCain's V.P. Front-Runner]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=79878032-5b33-4bbe-8245-4704930345dc</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Among the many ironclad rules for serious vice-presidential contenders are the following: First, always demonstrate the requisite humility by studiously avoiding profiles by Washington journalists. Second, if a reporter does land an interview, resist leading him into a seedy drinking establishment on a Sunday afternoon. Finally, as a corollary to this point, refrain from placing the clientele of such establishments in headlocks--however affectionate the headlocks may be.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/pawlenty online.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-18:story.html?id=79878032-5b33-4bbe-8245-4704930345dc&amp;k=89199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Kathleen Sebelius Is The iPod Of Obama's Veep Candidates]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b2280f10-7bd0-478d-9f18-ae5e5d184b66</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have seen plenty of obsessing over whom
Barack Obama and John McCain ought to pick as their running mates. But for all the debate over which candidates would best bolster Obama's message or help McCain carry Ohio, the actual electoral implications of any given veep pick are, as my colleague Josh Patashnik has argued, greatly overrated.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-18:story.html?id=b2280f10-7bd0-478d-9f18-ae5e5d184b66&amp;k=63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call "Sesame Street" Racist, And Five Other Rules For White Politicians Who Want To Be The Next "Black President"]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=e5f2c44e-7ee1-4d1e-8997-be71a9e43683</link><author>Cinque Henderson</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Now that "the first black President" and his wife have been
proven to be evil racists, it's gonna be much harder for white politicians to win the trust of black voters in election seasons to come. Playing the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-18:story.html?id=e5f2c44e-7ee1-4d1e-8997-be71a9e43683&amp;k=62998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain's Absurd Backpedaling On The Environment]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=16784547-6657-42f2-911b-0259df88bf4b</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are certain streaks that have become etched in American lore:
Joe DiMaggio's 56 straight games with a hit, UCLA's 88-game unbeaten
run in men's basketball. Slightly less famous, but still
impressive, is this feat: Between April 12 and May 24 of last year,
John McCain missed 46 consecutive votes in the U.S. Senate. In
fact, McCain missed more than half of all Senate votes last year,
enough to disqualify him from the infamous <i>National Journal</i>
rankings that purported to find Barack Obama the most liberal
senator.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-18:story.html?id=16784547-6657-42f2-911b-0259df88bf4b&amp;k=25659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU Can Learn From Jefferson]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4deb1cd5-77b0-4c93-b7a9-adf7d4a401e9</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--European governments are aghast at the decision by Irish voters to reject the Treaty of Lisbon, the new attempt--three years after the collapse of the European Union's Constitution--to move decisively toward political integration. The only country out of 27 in which ratification was put to a vote has left Eurocrats desperate to find a way to bypass their own rules and move ahead.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-17:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4deb1cd5-77b0-4c93-b7a9-adf7d4a401e9</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unraveling Of Joe Lieberman]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8e5f757e-7c24-4ff1-81ff-0902b35ab3ef</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[McCain's best friend thinks Democrats have lost faith in America. No, Joe, they've just lost faith in you.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-17:story.html?id=8e5f757e-7c24-4ff1-81ff-0902b35ab3ef&amp;k=79049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Porn To Politics: The Strange Life Of Taylor Marsh, Hillary's Number-One Fan]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=267744a9-8fcc-46b6-9eb2-a2850a8936de</link><author>Joe Mathews</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS--I ask Taylor Marsh whether she really keeps a gun to protect herself from her detractors, as she claims on her website, and she escorts me into her bedroom to show the proof: an HK 9
mm handgun.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-17:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=267744a9-8fcc-46b6-9eb2-a2850a8936de</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Genetic History Of The Jews, And What It Says About Jews Today]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9406a32b-8dd2-4d0f-9c85-ac9beed5f206</link><author>Jerome Groopman</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Early in my career as a specialist in blood diseases and
cancer, I cared for a middle-aged man who had melanoma. The cancer had spread from an early lesion on his trunk to his lungs, liver, and
bones. He was a successful businessman, intelligent and outgoing, with a sharp sense of humor. Through the course of his treatment, we
developed a warm relationship, and he made it clear that, when the end came, he wanted to be at home. As that time approached, he asked if I might see him one last time.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-17:story.html?id=9406a32b-8dd2-4d0f-9c85-ac9beed5f206&amp;k=64115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Father's Day Speech Is Far From Just A Political Ploy]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=1431084f-df27-4d76-aef9-4f988ffab0a7</link><author>E.J. Dionne</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Will everyone dismiss Barack Obama's Father's Day call to responsible parenting as a simple political ploy?]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/obamasasha.JPG" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-17:story.html?id=1431084f-df27-4d76-aef9-4f988ffab0a7&amp;k=38889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching For Ron Paul: Witnessing The Tragicomic Demise Of The Libertarian Party]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5e5abfbb-46eb-464b-9095-4df1d1f8159e</link><author>Michael Idov</author><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's May 23, 2008, and eleven presidential candidates are crowding the dais on a tiny stage in the Columbine Meeting Room. We're in the bowels of a Sheraton in downtown Denver, at the Libertarian National Convention some 70 miles from the party's birthplace in Colorado Springs. Many delegates expect that Colorado is about to become the location of the party's demise as well--in, oh, about 48 hours.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/libertarians online.JPG" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-16:story.html?id=5e5abfbb-46eb-464b-9095-4df1d1f8159e&amp;k=17243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Burma's Ad Hoc Civil Society Challenge The Junta's Army?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=63e03ec1-7324-4c4f-80b1-d64171b68dda</link><author>Suzy Khimm</author><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Over a month after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma's southern coast, the country's ruling junta continues to restrict international
efforts to assist the disaster's victims, so domestic ad-hoc groups are taking the lead in funneling aid through the regime's back channels. The organization of these impromptu relief efforts speaks to the surprising resilience of civil society in a brutally repressive environment, showing how, despite the junta's
stranglehold on Burmese society, grassroots networks and alliances have emerged
within the country.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/915b5b7f-c314-48f7-8a03-9fe84502b5e0/burmarelief.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-16:story.html?id=63e03ec1-7324-4c4f-80b1-d64171b68dda&amp;k=48137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Years Ago, Tom Daschle Was Pilloried By Left And Right Alike. Now He's Seen As A Martyr--And A Strong V.P. Candidate.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=034e6116-4a8c-47a6-9a80-52d200838bab</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tom Daschle is a lucky guy. Today the former Senate Democratic leader sits in Barack Obama's inner circle--along with several former members of his staff--and is reportedly a potential Obama running mate. But not so long ago, Daschle appeared washed up and finished in Washington politics, a guy who couldn't catch a break from the left or the right. In 2004, South Dakota voters threw him out of office, evidently feeling that he had become too much of a Washington liberal. At the same time, liberal Democrats disdained him for caving to the Bush regime. After the 2000 Florida recount, Daschle was quick to call for unity and recognition of George Bush’s legitimacy. As <I>de facto</I> leader of the opposition during Bush’s first term, Daschle struggled to keep his Senate caucus united, and failed to stop Bush’s huge tax cuts. He voted to authorize the war in Iraq. And, perhaps most famously, Daschle publicly hugged Bush just after the president’s speech a few days after September 11. For many liberals the moment symbolized a capitulation by Washington Democrats to the Bush-DeLay-Fox News machine. It’s no wonder Daschle was a target of mockery in Michael Moore’s <I>Fahrenheit 9/11</I>.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-16:story.html?id=034e6116-4a8c-47a6-9a80-52d200838bab&amp;k=13368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How McCain Should Pick His Running Mate ... And Why It Should Be Rudy]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=769e49eb-696d-4894-9aa9-3c4937a24f08</link><author>David Frum</author><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some years ago, C-SPAN's Brian Lamb played a dirty trick on a journalist friend of mine. My friend was appearing on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to discuss recent events. If I remember right, my friend was expanding on the future of East Timor when Lamb abruptly shifted the conversation. It was, Lamb announced, "vice-presidents week," at C-SPAN: surely one of the network's most successful ratings stunts--and, more importantly, an opportunity for Lamb to deploy his notorious deadpan humor.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/rudy veep online.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-15:story.html?id=769e49eb-696d-4894-9aa9-3c4937a24f08&amp;k=81865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genghis Khan, Sensitive Soul: The Poetic Masculinity Of 'Mongol']]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b670cd88-635f-4436-b15c-9617a7809ecc</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mongol -- Picturehouse]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-14:story.html?id=b670cd88-635f-4436-b15c-9617a7809ecc&amp;k=91547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone Seems To Be Falling For Jim Webb. They Shouldn't.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=831e71f6-708f-4833-a1cb-1f8352c8c7bf</link><author>Richard Just</author><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I am amazed at how many Democrats have fallen for Jim Webb.
Suddenly, everywhere you look, people are touting Webb as the perfect
running mate for Barack Obama.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-13:story.html?id=831e71f6-708f-4833-a1cb-1f8352c8c7bf&amp;k=55156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel's Chaotic Search For A National Bird--And Its Own Identity]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=ae879dc8-d8fe-4606-a421-409c17867047</link><author>Stephen Marche</author><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Israel has been rather busy over the past 60 years establishing the basics of a nation-state, so it's understandable that the country has taken until May 29 of this year to indulge in one of nation-statehood's finest luxuries: Choosing a national bird.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-13:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=ae879dc8-d8fe-4606-a421-409c17867047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['The Happening' Is So Bad, Instead Of A Review I've Made A Spoiler-Laden List Of Its Most Hilariously Terrible Parts]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=75893f9a-3391-4ab5-88c8-cf7e74bcd835</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, 'The Happening,' is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-13:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=75893f9a-3391-4ab5-88c8-cf7e74bcd835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Is Obama Losing Ground Among Democrats But Still Winning The Election?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8fa44c88-1e14-40fb-835a-555ae138a08f</link><author>E.J. Dionne</author><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--At the moment, Barack Obama is winning a smaller share of Democrats than John Kerry did on Election Day four years ago. Yet Obama is beating John McCain by six points in the latest Gallup Poll. How can this be?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-13:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8fa44c88-1e14-40fb-835a-555ae138a08f</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huck Yeah!: John McCain could Use A Little Of Mike Huckabee's Gonzo Conservatism]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=83abd879-2d6c-41f4-afea-4009d82b0be6</link><author>Ross Douthat</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If the first rule of picking a running mate is to risk as little harm to the ticket as possible, then Mike Huckabee shouldn't be John McCain's first choice for veep--or his second, third, or fourth, for that matter.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-12:story.html?id=83abd879-2d6c-41f4-afea-4009d82b0be6&amp;k=50389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lights! Camera! Attack Ads! A Complete Guide To The Key 527s Of 2008.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=fbb03feb-7d2a-4a80-b001-4e8d157f502a</link><author>Cara Parks</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Remember the swiftboat commercials against John Kerry? Or the anti-Obama "Willie Horton" ad that ran in North Carolina during April? They're all funded by a shadowy cadre of organizations know as "527s."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-12:story.html?id=fbb03feb-7d2a-4a80-b001-4e8d157f502a&amp;k=13777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bush Apostate Matrix: The Mud-Slingers, Opportunists, And Whistleblowers Selling Out The Bush Administration.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=fffceb71-84be-45ba-ab31-fd9e352ef225</link><author>Josh Patashnik</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[McClellan was not the first...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-12:story.html?id=fffceb71-84be-45ba-ab31-fd9e352ef225&amp;k=76459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing The Asian Super-Elite. The West Will Have To Work With Them. But Will It?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f4a2a547-958e-4408-9e62-194e8c7d8df7</link><author>David Rothkopf</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The winter meetings in Davos, Switzerland--where Bono ruminates on panels about the great issues of the day with the likes of Bill Gates and Angela Merkel--are at the heart of nearly every current conspiracy theory about the global elite. But, even if you don't buy those wild narratives--and believe that the confab is really just an over-programmed business boondoggle with a tony guest list (which happens to be the truth)--you would still have to concede that the gathering has, for the last several decades, played a pretty influential role in setting the conventional wisdom of the global elite. So why, then, are the folks who plan Davos such an anxious bunch these days?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-12:story.html?id=f4a2a547-958e-4408-9e62-194e8c7d8df7&amp;k=15312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rise Of The Obamacons: A Growing Number Of Conservatives Think Barack Is Mr. Right]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=46a816dc-f843-41ec-9fe4-fbeac17bcfca</link><author>Bruce Bartlett</author><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The New Yorker is hardly the optimal vehicle for reaching the
conservative intelligentsia. But, last year, Barack Obama cooperated
with a profile for that magazine where he seemed to be speaking
directly to the right. Because he paid obeisance to the virtues of
stability and continuity, his interlocutor, Larissa MacFarquhar,
came away with the impression that the Illinois senator was an
adherent of Edmund Burke: "In his view of history, in his respect
for tradition, in his skepticism that the world can be changed any
way but very, very slowly, Obama is deeply conservative."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-11:story.html?id=46a816dc-f843-41ec-9fe4-fbeac17bcfca&amp;k=39847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veep Week! The Case For Sam Nunn: The Boring, Perennial Potential V.P.'s Time Has Come]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=07217019-6004-4d7b-b05c-d8270a8c9cd9</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It has become a quadrennial political ritual that, when a Democratic nominee needs a running mate, Sam Nunn's name shall be mentioned. It was thus in 1988, when Margaret Carlson opined in 'Time' that "[t]o many Democratic Party leaders, Michael Dukakis and Sam Nunn would make such a perfect pair in the fall election that the big question has become not whether Dukakis will offer the taciturn Georgia Senator the second spot on the ticket but whether Nunn will accept it." It was thus in 1992, when Paul Gigot mused of Bill Clinton, "If you're going to play to the center, why not name Sam Nunn?" It was thus in 2000, when the 'Chicago Tribune' reported that Al Gore's rumored "mystery candidate [for veep] is retired U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia." And it was thus four years later, when 'National Journal' declared that "[t]he choice of Nunn would be a very interesting one."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-11:story.html?id=07217019-6004-4d7b-b05c-d8270a8c9cd9&amp;k=17670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Greens Are Glad The Climate Bill Tanked]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b4005701-4e56-46c8-9320-6942c49a6e73</link><author>Dayo Olopade</author><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[From a distance, it might seem that environmentalists should be
crestfallen that the 2008 Climate Security Act--shorthanded as
Lieberman-Warner after its lead sponsors in the Senate--went down in
flames on the Senate floor on Friday. The bill, which would cap fossil
fuel emissions in the United States above a certain level and ask
industry to pay more for any excesses, was easily the most aggressive
and comprehensive environmental reform ever to hit Congress. But the
bipartisan plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than
two-thirds by 2050 came up 12 votes short of cloture.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-11:story.html?id=b4005701-4e56-46c8-9320-6942c49a6e73&amp;k=71855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's To Blame For Our Ballooning Gas Prices?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=28aec9e2-9889-4a53-85c1-e06776c66a33</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Who is responsible for the astronomical price of oil? Most of the blame, as exemplified by the recent shenanigans in Congress with oil executives defending their paychecks under questioning by sanctimonious, eyebrow-raising legislators, is being put on petroleum companies. In European countries, protesters are denouncing the government for not taking immediate action to protect consumers. In newspapers from Hong Kong and Australia to Buenos Aires, traders responsible for the $260 billion currently invested in commodities funds are being condemned as "speculators."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-11:story.html?id=28aec9e2-9889-4a53-85c1-e06776c66a33&amp;k=19742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ed Rendell, One Of The Loudest, Frankest, And Most Effective Pols In The Country, Could Never Be VP. That's A Pity]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f3923ad3-cea5-4dbe-ade0-49c6b42f357a</link><author>Buzz Bissinger</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Roughly a decade ago, when Ed Rendell was the mayor of Philadelphia,
he made a controversial decision to appear with Nation of Islam
minister Louis Farrakhan at a rally. Farrakhan was in town in the
aftermath of an assault by a gang of whites on an African American
woman and her son and nephew in a notoriously gritty and racist
part of the city. Many politicians, especially Jewish ones, would
have kept far away from the incendiary Farrakhan. Portions of
Rendell's liberal base were outraged. Protesters marched outside his
home. But he went ahead anyway.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-10:story.html?id=f3923ad3-cea5-4dbe-ade0-49c6b42f357a&amp;k=80153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let The Just Times Roll! A Pause To Appreciate The Marvelousness Of A Black Presidential Nominee]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=4d796374-f929-41ce-81f8-30b67892b714</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Whether or not this is the Lord's doing, it is certainly marvelous
in our eyes. An African American is the Democratic candidate for
president of the United States. The United States! If ever there
was an occasion for soaring language, this is it; but the man of
the hour has somewhat ruined soaring language. One is left mainly
with a gulp, and a tear, and an unfamiliar sensation of the
sweetness of history. When is history sweet? Truly this is an
American benediction. So hyperbole may be forgiven--as when John
Hope Franklin declared to The Washington Post that Obama's
candidacy is "the most radical, far-reaching, significant
[undertaking] by any individual or group in our history." Perhaps
not, but the historian has earned his hour of ecstasy. The great
American counterfactual is now a fact. By the standard of where we
are, Obama's victory may not be surprising; but by the standard of
where we were, it is shocking. Complacence about this turn of
events is a form of forgetting. So for a moment I will not care who
Barack Obama is. I will care only what he is. The complexities will
soon rush in--as they must, because the office that Obama seeks is
too powerful to be regarded only sentimentally, or as a symbol--but
for now I will pause to savor the simplicity of a fact. Even more,
to savor the color of the man's skin: to enjoy (shame on me!) a
fleeting racialist thrill. I do not give daps, but when he dapped
her on the stage in St. Paul the other night I was happy for them
in their particularity. Let the just times roll!]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-10:story.html?id=4d796374-f929-41ce-81f8-30b67892b714&amp;k=10823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VEEP WEEK: Can Joe Biden Be 2008's Great Equalizer?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d77aa498-c1bc-4abb-b34d-260c564f737f</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--The scene has stayed with me for six years: Democrat Jill Long Thompson, in the midst of a fiercely competitive race in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District, was being pressed by supporters to criticize what they saw as President Bush's rush to war in Iraq.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-10:story.html?id=d77aa498-c1bc-4abb-b34d-260c564f737f&amp;k=27156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style Versus Ideas: What Matters More In Literature?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=7393fb8c-fc32-4397-b151-e95b3be164a7</link><author>Robert Alter</author><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Delighted States: A book of Novels, Romances, Their
Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, a Variety of Helpful Indexes -- By Adam Thirlwell]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-10:story.html?id=7393fb8c-fc32-4397-b151-e95b3be164a7&amp;k=60208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sometimes Brilliant, Always Violent Modernism of Allen Tate]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=69117a23-fc5e-4efd-be05-7cc6a032116d</link><author>Adam Kirsch</author><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Collected Poems 1919-1976 By Allen Tate]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-09:story.html?id=69117a23-fc5e-4efd-be05-7cc6a032116d&amp;k=39090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Knew James Frey Would Be So Bad At Writing Fiction?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45b1b143-a8a1-4d2e-9a17-179b7793b443</link><author>Ruth Franklin</author><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Who Knew James Frey Would Be So Bad At Writing Fiction?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-09:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45b1b143-a8a1-4d2e-9a17-179b7793b443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Final Argument Against The Obama-Clinton "Dream" Ticket]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5e4e75f6-d5e9-4bbf-93e2-b6ee15b303b7</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The race for the Democratic presidential nomination may be over and
Barack Obama may be its winner. But the Clinton family drama goes
on. Early this week, as the final primaries took place and the
mathematical reality of delegate counts became impossible to deny,
Hillary Clinton let it be known that, yes, she'd consider accepting
the vice-presidential nomination if Obama offered it to her. The
statement gave instant political credibility to an idea already
popular in some quarters...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-09:story.html?id=5e4e75f6-d5e9-4bbf-93e2-b6ee15b303b7&amp;k=31393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Upside of Anger: Should Jim Webb Be Barack Obama's VP?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=ca3b5e18-b50f-4f8b-a132-9ed0b4771d6d</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2006, Jim Webb was not yet a rising superstar. In
fact, he was late getting started and low on cash in his effort to
win the Virginia Democratic primary, so an admiring Roanoke circuit
clerk named Steve McGraw took pity on him and agreed to put him up
when he came to southwestern Virginia to campaign. Webb quickly
established himself as the model houseguest, washing everybody's
chili bowls and shooting pool with McGraw over a bottle of Maker's
Mark bourbon. But a worry gnawed at McGraw: The rumor about Webb
was that behind the noble-war-hero facade lay a man who harbored a
volatile, prideful, and possibly unmanageable anger. "I kept
looking for it," confides McGraw. "He started late, with no money.
He told me that during the campaign he was sleeping about four
hours a night for five months, and he said, 'I just can't turn my
brain off.' ... I kept saying, 'Sooner or later, something's gonna
happen.'"]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-09:story.html?id=ca3b5e18-b50f-4f8b-a132-9ed0b4771d6d&amp;k=43309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plotting The Way Forward For Obama]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=07815a4b-10cd-4369-81c4-2d4fbcf77c5a</link><author>Jonathan Chait, Lakshmi Chaudhry, William Galston, and Ed Kilgore</author><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the primary race finally wrapped up, we asked a few people to consider the type of campaign Barack Obama should run against
John McCain...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-07:story.html?id=07815a4b-10cd-4369-81c4-2d4fbcf77c5a&amp;k=82731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton Dead-Enders And The Crisis In The Women's Movement]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2c2ec3a8-e813-4d4e-b566-510e0f19eced</link><author>Michelle Goldberg</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Clinton Dead-Enders And The Crisis In The Women's Movement]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-06:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2c2ec3a8-e813-4d4e-b566-510e0f19eced</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does Robert Walser Deserve To Join Joyce, Proust, And Kafka In The Modernist Pantheon?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8feac830-e5e4-4358-8b6e-df8f4f4f99d1</link><author>Michael André Bernstein</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['The Assistant'--By Robert Walser]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/e028eb9a-84d6-4def-93db-73f7261fb08f/Walser.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-06:story.html?id=8feac830-e5e4-4358-8b6e-df8f4f4f99d1&amp;k=63549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Woman In Full: A Tribute To Simone de Beauvoir]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8102090c-dd86-4eed-8888-827e3fd04635</link><author>Bernard-Henri Levy</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It is time that we pay tribute to Simone de Beauvoir. 

Posterity being what it is--unjust, capricious, confusing and chaotic,
making a great deal out of very little, force-feeding us May '68
nostalgia and treating the dead as if they have not lost any of their
formidable, vibrant virulence (not that this is, in this case, such a
terrible thing)--it is time we celebrate Simone de Beauvoir on a scale
commensurate with the 100th anniversary of her birth, which passed
nearly unnoticed on Jan. 9.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-06:story.html?id=8102090c-dd86-4eed-8888-827e3fd04635&amp;k=92305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If You Think Hummus Is Hilarious, You'll Love The New Adam Sandler Movie. Otherwise...Oy!]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=6c1edb57-322e-4906-b3d8-175da6e2651a</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hummus is funny. Scratch that: Hummus is hilarious. It's got a weird name. It's gooey. It's foreign...]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/Sandler.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-06:story.html?id=6c1edb57-322e-4906-b3d8-175da6e2651a&amp;k=66199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Is Muqtada al-Sadr?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0dc0d5bc-4690-4872-b3b6-0f33e8751797</link><author>Dexter Filkins</author><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Understanding the least-understood and most important figure in Iraq.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-05:story.html?id=0dc0d5bc-4690-4872-b3b6-0f33e8751797&amp;k=85172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Global Warming Is Helping Democrats Win The Heartland]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=15543463-51c5-4549-a26d-1823b4ee2c14</link><author>Marisa Mazria-Katz</author><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Andrew Rice is an unlikely candidate to represent Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate. A 35-year-old Democrat elected to the state senate in 2006, he favors abortion rights and civil unions in one of the most socially conservative states in the country. He is up against two-and-a-third-term Republican incumbent James Inhofe, in a state with a 44-year history of voting for Republican presidents, and where no Democratic opponent has climbed above 41 percent since 1990. Inhofe’s campaign has already out-raised Rice by more than double.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-05:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=15543463-51c5-4549-a26d-1823b4ee2c14</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton, Graceless Under Fire]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=54851f0e-11f2-45b7-9bf4-8829b298cd33</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Hillary Clinton talked her way out of the vice presidency on Tuesday night.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-05:story.html?id=54851f0e-11f2-45b7-9bf4-8829b298cd33&amp;k=43141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside Hillary's Bunker: The Parallel Universe That Is Convincing Her To Stay In The Race]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/06/04/in-the-clinton-bunker.aspx</link><author>Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[How fitting that, on the night Barack Obama finally claimed the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton delivered her non-concession speech from a concrete bunker. To reach the Baruch College gymnasium where Hillary spoke with such surprising defiance her supporters had to descend two flights below street level. The thick subterranean walls blocked out cell phone and BlackBerry signals, and no televisions were provided in the main event hall, thereby insulating Hillary’s cheering supporters (intentionally, some theorized) from the dispiriting events unfolding at the Xcel Center in Minneapolis.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/06/04/in-the-clinton-bunker.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Outrageous, Delusional Clinton Speech]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/06/03/that-outrageous-delusional-clinton-speech.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm sure plenty of people had strong reactions to that speech Hillary just gave. For my money, the two most outragerous sentiments expressed were (and this is from my rough contemporaneous notes):]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/06/03/that-outrageous-delusional-clinton-speech.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Farewell to Hillary]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/06/03/a-farewell-to-hillary.aspx</link><author>Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Right up until the end, a part of me really wanted her to pull it off. Oh sure, I grant the Obamaniacs everything: Hillary's divisiveness, her baggage, her "likeability issue"-all fueled by her special blend of moral flexibility and arch moralism]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-04:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/06/03/a-farewell-to-hillary.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Obama Al Smith or John F. Kennedy?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=66e16e0d-572f-4a38-9ed8-340a4f602341</link><author>John B. Judis</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;that he has clinched the Democratic nomination, pundits will mostly gauge Barack Obama’s prospects in the general election by looking at states he can win or constituencies he can carry. But there is another dimension to his candidacy: He represents a social group that was once on the margins of American politics, but now aspires to put one of its own in the highest office. This has happened once before in U.S. politics: when American Catholics saw one of their own nominated to be president.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/8137d59a-9e08-4da3-bbed-0619af48403b/0604obama.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-04:story.html?id=66e16e0d-572f-4a38-9ed8-340a4f602341&amp;k=98159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were Herodotus And Thucydides The World's First Journalists?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=c0c23dea-f39d-43e9-a6bd-29435335a6a4</link><author>Anthony Grafton</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances, and Inquiries
from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-04:story.html?id=c0c23dea-f39d-43e9-a6bd-29435335a6a4&amp;k=41662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real Legacy Of '60s Student Protests]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=03225f74-a2b2-4c08-a018-fa1e689add6a</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--In recent weeks, France has been swamped with events commemorating the student uprising of May 1968--which actually started in March and finished in June. Less attention has been paid to the 40th anniversary of the student revolts in other countries, including the United States.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-04:story.html?id=03225f74-a2b2-4c08-a018-fa1e689add6a&amp;k=29650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Israel Be Normal?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=84d9acc4-2523-4f19-a2d6-31b0051d4845</link><author>David Hazony</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Is such a thing desirable? Is it actually possible?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-03:story.html?id=84d9acc4-2523-4f19-a2d6-31b0051d4845&amp;k=32784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Has Israel Succeeded Where The Arab States Have Failed?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=06ec1db2-14af-4e14-ab5d-5d07dd4fd476</link><author>Martin Peretz</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Theodor Herzl actually prophesied, it would take half a century for the Jewish state to be created. Toward the end of that period, the people for whose very lives it was being formed lost one-third of its number to Nazism, an organic expression from the history of Western civilization. But to the Zionists belonged the credit for grasping that Europe--liberal, enlightened, increasingly bourgeois--was doomed territory for the Jews.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-03:story.html?id=06ec1db2-14af-4e14-ab5d-5d07dd4fd476&amp;k=43986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is It OK To Deny Obama Supporters Communion?]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0a0171e7-e5a8-45a1-9f2b-a039ce5685f7</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Word spread like wildfire in Catholic circles: Douglas Kmiec, a staunch Republican, firm foe of abortion and veteran of the Reagan Justice Department, had been denied communion.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-03:story.html?id=0a0171e7-e5a8-45a1-9f2b-a039ce5685f7&amp;k=3372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The California Gay Marriage Ruling: The Definition Of A Pyrrhic Victory]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=42a71567-0769-4dac-a43d-d78810411f1d</link><author>Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The California Supreme Court's expansive decision last week to legalize gay marriage has presented its opponents with an unfortunate opportunity. If the legal merits of the decision had been clear, the court's boldness could have been justified as a triumph of shining principle over pragmatic politics. Unfortunately, the legal merits are extremely murky, giving ammunition to those who are mobilizing to overturn the decision by initiative this fall. In addition, the California decision may trigger a backlash that hurts Democratic chances in November and guarantees a conservative U.S. Supreme Court for decades to come. For all of their noble intentions, therefore, the California justices may have handed supporters of gay marriage a Pyrrhic victory.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-03:story.html?id=42a71567-0769-4dac-a43d-d78810411f1d&amp;k=34126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Court Got It Right, Because Waiting For The Perfect Process Would Be Waiting Too Long]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=abad9af4-4ff2-4862-a7b6-99b192352a55</link><author>Richard Just</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It wasn't exactly a shock when conservatives greeted last week's decision by the California Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage with their usual denunciations of "activist judges" and the "imperial judiciary." And it's easy to understand why conservatives dislike court-imposed progress on gay rights, since most would prefer that progress on gay rights didn't happen at all. More interesting has been the reaction of liberals who <I>do </I>support gay rights but who have nevertheless sharply criticized the decision. <I>The Washington Post</I> editorial page, for instance, called the ruling "an unnecessary bout of judicial micromanagement," while, in this issue of <I>The New Republic</I>, my colleague Jeffrey Rosen questions "the wisdom of imposing gay marriage by judicial fiat." According to this view, progress on gay rights should take place through state legislatures and governors, not through the courts.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/GayMarriage.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-03:story.html?id=abad9af4-4ff2-4862-a7b6-99b192352a55&amp;k=21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain's Tax Fraud]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f5a811b8-a7e3-4615-8677-7f349950a9c7</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you accuse John McCain of agreeing with George W. Bush on economics, he'll come back at you with the one big issue where he and Bush disagree: spending. McCain may (now) approve of the Bush tax cuts, but he lacerates the president for his spendthrift ways. This, McCain says, is a "fundamental" difference between him and Bush.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-02:story.html?id=f5a811b8-a7e3-4615-8677-7f349950a9c7&amp;k=91184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle Of The Blogs: Inside The MyDD Vs. Daily Kos Showdown]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=7293e5ab-7a08-4b05-8f23-b1ee16e392c5</link><author>Dana Goldstein</author><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As anybody with high-speed Internet knows, MyDD and Daily Kos sit at the top of the liberal Netroots movement, which over the last five years has made astonishing strides in its campaign to transform the Democratic Party into a hard-fighting, proudly liberal, and, most importantly, victorious entity.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-02:story.html?id=7293e5ab-7a08-4b05-8f23-b1ee16e392c5&amp;k=99614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Case For Violating Burma's Sovereignty To Save The Burmese People]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=22fed64f-5389-4daa-b56e-4147ad10e3fc</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On May 5, as the winds of Cyclone Nargis were dissipating to the north of Burma, the U.S. government took its best shot at saving the day. A grand total of $250,000--the price of a condo in Dallas, or a lecture from Bill Clinton--would be sent to help the storm's victims. The amount of aid offered by the United States would grow in the days to come, but the pattern was set: America was not going to do nearly enough to help the Burmese people.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-02:story.html?id=22fed64f-5389-4daa-b56e-4147ad10e3fc&amp;k=4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joseph Conrad's Inscrutable (And Sometimes Dark) Heart]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=97ded381-73fb-4886-91b0-455f760770e3</link><author>William Deresiewicz</author><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad--By John Stape]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-06-02:story.html?id=97ded381-73fb-4886-91b0-455f760770e3&amp;k=76725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fedora Aside, Why Indiana Jones Is An Emblem Of Americanism]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f3cd5954-f01a-4c94-9250-ca7a86125c6e</link><author>Eric Rauchway</author><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After the first big action sequence in the new 'Indiana Jones' movie, the camera stares from behind Jones as he regards, helplessly, one of the monstrous icons of the 1950s; after the last big action sequence in the film, the camera stares from behind Jones as he regards, helplessly, another. These parallel images bookend this presumably last episode of the hero’s career, and help us put him in his place as an example of lost American virtues, as well as an embodiment of fundamentally American archetypes. Now, a warning: in the column that follows, spoilers will pop out like so many booby-traps in one of Dr. Jones’s excavations.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-31:story.html?id=f3cd5954-f01a-4c94-9250-ca7a86125c6e&amp;k=37144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unexpected Extravagance Of 'Savage Grace.' Plus, Mexican Drug Hustlers And Recreating Haditha.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d4c87dcb-f63e-4bfd-97d6-e5fdfe305b36</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Savage Grace -- IFC]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-31:story.html?id=d4c87dcb-f63e-4bfd-97d6-e5fdfe305b36&amp;k=13801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi, Badass]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=869a5b6e-b4db-4205-8e88-63e0e02e2543</link><author>Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi believes in being direct. With the Democratic presidential contest running hot, in March a reporter with Boston TV station necn asked the House speaker about the possibility of a dream ticket uniting Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Doe eyes wide, the nation's highest-ranking Democrat flashed her trademark smile ominously.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/pelosifinal.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-30:story.html?id=869a5b6e-b4db-4205-8e88-63e0e02e2543&amp;k=8596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not So Fast: Hezbollah's Takeover Of Lebanon Will Lead To Its Downfall]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0167bb3d-56de-4354-89f7-bc885f0e7f00</link><author>David Kenner</author><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[BEIRUT--Ali Fayyad is trying to contain his excitement. The senior member of Hezbollah's Executive Committee, a key strategist for the group who generally favors staid proclamations and sober analysis, lapses into a rare moment of bluster: "We are the resistance. We fight against Israel," he exclaims. "We are the sign of liberation in the Arab world, and especially among the Sunni population."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-30:story.html?id=0167bb3d-56de-4354-89f7-bc885f0e7f00&amp;k=31216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["It's A Campaign, Someone Wins, Someone Doesn't Win, That's Life. But Women Don't Want To Be Totally Dissed."]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=42416f47-ca61-4015-bddc-6b6f6bcbc094</link><author>E.J. Dionne</author><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--How much anger is there among women about how Hillary Clinton has been treated during this campaign? Some of the nation's leading female politicians will tell you: quite a lot.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-30:story.html?id=42416f47-ca61-4015-bddc-6b6f6bcbc094&amp;k=90831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Ashcroft's Wrong Wrong Wrong Executive Privilege Claims]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=3586b455-d7cb-4374-96fa-735c7c1cec67</link><author>Emily Berman</author><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week's report by the Justice Department's Inspector General reveals that working in the Bush administration really does mean never having to say you're sorry--or, indeed, anything else you don't want to for that matter. And this applies even when it's your executive branch colleagues who are trying to get you to talk.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-30:story.html?id=3586b455-d7cb-4374-96fa-735c7c1cec67&amp;k=62727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exposing The Two Biggest '08 Myths]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=e00f01cc-3e6a-47ce-8012-8f9e9538f723</link><author>Josh Patashnik</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[No, the electoral college won't doom Obama. And no, the V.P. pick won't matter in November.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/915b5b7f-c314-48f7-8a03-9fe84502b5e0/obamarendell.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-29:story.html?id=e00f01cc-3e6a-47ce-8012-8f9e9538f723&amp;k=12545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olmert And Israel's Corrupt-Politician Generation]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=26d7ae9f-947e-4662-a546-ed60000e8d8e</link><author>Yossi Klein Halevi</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM--Forget the envelopes stuffed with dollars being passed to Ehud Olmert by American businessman Morris Talansky.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-29:story.html?id=26d7ae9f-947e-4662-a546-ed60000e8d8e&amp;k=94417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Survivalists: How Burma's Junta Hangs On]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=86e7ecda-3197-49c6-928a-1f5da72a8770</link><author>Joshua Kurlantzick</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the death toll from the cyclone that hit Burma earlier this month spirals past 100,000, the country's ruling junta continues its intransigence. Holed up in its new bunker capital in the middle of the country, the regime has gone from initially welcoming aid, to blocking U.S. and French assistance, to simply seizing relief supplies--before, finally, relenting and allowing some aid in. All the while, the chance for effective relief has grown slimmer.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/Myanmar final.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-29:story.html?id=86e7ecda-3197-49c6-928a-1f5da72a8770&amp;k=68783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graceful In Victory, Magnaminous In Defeat: Roman Lessons On How To Win (And Lose)]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e79c20f2-12be-40f5-96fe-79cfdbfd228c</link><author>Emily Wilson</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Roman Triumph -- By Mary Beard]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-29:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e79c20f2-12be-40f5-96fe-79cfdbfd228c</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott McClellan's 'What Didn't Happen': News Accounts From A Parallel (And More Just) Universe]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d1d50eb4-f65c-4410-baad-2519913d5666</link><author>Michael Currie Schaffer</author><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2006--White House spokesman Scott McClellan abruptly resigned yesterday, accusing senior administration officials of misleading him about the CIA leak investigation.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-29:story.html?id=d1d50eb4-f65c-4410-baad-2519913d5666&amp;k=74743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olmert And Assad Are Negotiating To Save Themselves, Not Their Countries]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=97fe7d63-f6cc-41e6-a6ea-7c01562dd98b</link><author>Michael Oren</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM--At first glance, Ehud Olmert and Bashar Al Assad have nothing in common. The first is a slick, media-savvy politico, while the second is an awkward, anti-charismatic, unloved and unlovable dictator. But Israel's prime minister and Syria's ruler alike have concluded that the best way to beat the rap, respectively, on corruption and murder charges is to make peace with one another.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-28:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=97fe7d63-f6cc-41e6-a6ea-7c01562dd98b</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How South America Can Pull Itself Out Of The Doldrums]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=c027589a-2e25-4338-b9b9-fd8a68097e16</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--It is fortunate that the narco-guerrillas known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have a weakness for the written word. Without it, the Colombian government would not have confiscated almost 40 million pages contained on laptop computers during their attack on a terrorist camp inside Ecuadoran territory, and Latin Americans would not know the extent of the ties between the FARC and the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-28:story.html?id=c027589a-2e25-4338-b9b9-fd8a68097e16&amp;k=92955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussing The Clinton Campaign's Effect On Sexism, Feminism, And The Possibility Of A Female President]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4931894e-0738-467e-bb27-8fc073fdde40</link><author>Michelle Cottle and Amanda Fortini</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign approaches its end, the country has already started chewing over the implications of the first major presidential campaign by a woman. We asked New Republic senior editor Michelle Cottle, who has been covering the Clinton campaign, and Amanda Fortini, a New Republic contributor who recently wrote about Clinton and feminism for New York magazine, to discuss her historic run.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-28:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4931894e-0738-467e-bb27-8fc073fdde40</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I Am In The Mood Not To Be Smart": The Limits Of Punditry]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=619f510e-78dd-4358-b088-2401a7ee8011</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm empty. No, not really empty; I was trained not to be that. The battle of ideas is never over, is it? The responsible citizen, the responsible critic: they are sleepless creatures.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-28:story.html?id=619f510e-78dd-4358-b088-2401a7ee8011&amp;k=10535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jihadist Revolt Against Bin Laden]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=702bf6d5-a37a-4e3e-a491-fd72bf6a9da1</link><author>Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Within a few minutes of Noman Benotman's arrival at the Kandahar
guest house, Osama bin Laden came to welcome him. The journey from
Kabul had been hard, 17 hours in a Toyota pickup truck bumping
along what passed as the main highway to southern Afghanistan. It
was the summer of 2000, and Benotman, then a leader of a group
trying to overthrow the Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, had been
invited by bin Laden to a conference of jihadists from around the
Arab world, the first of its kind since Al Qaeda had moved to
Afghanistan in 1996. Benotman, the scion of an aristocratic family
marginalized by Qaddafi, had known bin Laden from their days
fighting the Afghan communist government in the early '90s, a
period when Benotman established himself as a leader of the
militant Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-27:story.html?id=702bf6d5-a37a-4e3e-a491-fd72bf6a9da1&amp;k=31014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pro-Obama Case Against MSNBC's Pro-Obama Coverage]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b48a6936-fb3c-42b0-83c1-f91d1cb3a3dc</link><author>Isaac Chotiner</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago, on the night of Barack Obama’s big win and narrow loss in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, respectively, I turned my television set to MSNBC, as I normally do on election nights. It was early in the evening, and Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann were discussing the first exit polls that were trickling in. Considering that the exit polls in these contests have been--to say the least--a bit unreliable, I assumed that they weren’t going to put much stock in the numbers. Just two weeks earlier, I had watched MSNBC’s coverage of the Pennsylvania primary, where an excited Matthews practically gave the state to Obama, only to acknowledge later that Clinton had easily won. Surely, Matthews and company were not going to make the same mistake again.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-27:story.html?id=b48a6936-fb3c-42b0-83c1-f91d1cb3a3dc&amp;k=27016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama And The New Patriotism]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=7a2454ae-efd7-4777-a589-b56cb6dbe61b</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- If the 2008 election is to be a debate about the true meaning of patriotism, then bring it on.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/8137d59a-9e08-4da3-bbed-0619af48403b/obama_0206_cover.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-27:story.html?id=7a2454ae-efd7-4777-a589-b56cb6dbe61b&amp;k=45474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recount II: Return to the Swamp]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=fb7880f3-b22b-4f89-b7d9-16e699a59af0</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It is usually a mistake to read too deeply into the character of a
presidential candidate on the basis of some tactical maneuver or
grubby compromise. Anybody who was a saint wouldn't be in the
position of running for the White House. And yet, Hillary Clinton's
speech last week in Florida was so audacious, so divorced from
reality, that it begs characterological questions.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-26:story.html?id=fb7880f3-b22b-4f89-b7d9-16e699a59af0&amp;k=41954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Films Worth Seeing]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=803a74ee-a550-4267-8d66-51d511859a7a</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Films]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-05-24:http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=803a74ee-a550-4267-8d66-51d511859a7a</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jon Chait And The Writer And Director Of 'Recount' On How The GOP Turned Florida Into A Theater Of The Absurd (Part 2)]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=db1f76b0-0b81-46bd-b