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		<title><![CDATA[Oh! Canada!]]></title>
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OK, so I'm a small-timer.

This column runs in some papers around the country, but I'm not the most
popular columnist this syndicate employs. I've written a few books, but
none of them have been bestsellers. I've been nominated for the Pulitzer
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4232697</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On Oil, China Is Smarter Than We Are]]></title>
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We can thank China that gasoline prices aren't higher than they are.

By last month, China had cut imports of oil by 3 million barrels a day,
the daily consumption of Italy and France combined. China's economy,
meanwhile, hums along.

Americans ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4232257</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What War?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The president wants us to put the war in the "rear view window."

Who can blame him? Thirteen American servicemen and women have given
their lives. You and I, the taxpayers, have spent upwards of $29
billion. But did we "win"? Win what? Is it a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4231689</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Please Pass the Salt and Pepper of Loss]]></title>
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I swam in the beautiful bay water three times that day. Salt on skin
does wonders. Six of us had a sundown dinner on the roof, with a
homemade almond cake a la creme and fruit for dessert, a ferry and
lighthouse in the distance.

Everyone around...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4232258</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AI Billionaires Want You to Save Them When They Need a Bailout]]></title>
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Step right up, folks! Please don't crowd! No need to shove, plenty here
for everyone!

Welcome to the Bonanza Extravaganza of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)
"BOOM." Silicon Valley billionaires are now proposing a scheme to
deliver an ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4229929</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Politician Names on Public Works Is Free Advertising]]></title>
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When workers scraped Donald Trump's name off the Donald Trump and John
F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, they should have kept going. They
should have taken Kennedy's name off as well and restored the building
to its original, simple title, the...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4228317</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apology Tour: Americans Abroad Experience Humility and Humiliation]]></title>
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For Americans traveling in Western Europe this summer, it's a time of
real humility, and some humiliation. You have to be quite the American
exceptionalist to defend America these days, when what seems truly
exceptional about our country is a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4227542</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Platner's Populist Challenge Excites Dems — Cautiously]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I heard President Donald Trump go ballistic over Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, it made me want to hear more about Graham Platner. After Platner won Maine’s Democratic primary last week, Trump trolled Platner as “thug�...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/clarencepage/s-4228225</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hundreds at Delaney Hall Join Detained People Across Country in Hunger Strike Against Inhumane Conditions]]></title>
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Conditions at Delaney Hall are so reprehensible and degrading that
detained individuals resorted to starving themselves to bring attention
to their inhumane treatment. An open letter signed by nearly 300 people
brought light to the medical ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/aclu/s-4227955</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump’s non-victory is a terrible failure]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trump again claims victory in Iran. He’s claimed victory before,
but now he has a so-called “agreement” with Iran.

That agreement, which appears to be no more than a memo of
understanding — that is, a set of principles to which Iran and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/robertbreich/s-4227780</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Putting 'Professionals' in Charge]]></title>
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I'm not one to generally quote Senate Majority Leader John Thune as my
authority on Cabinet appointees, but when it came to Bill Pulte -- the
housing chief with no national security experience who was President
Donald Trump's first choice for ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4225938</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hey, Women: A Little Help, Please?]]></title>
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Even if you haven't geeked out over the "boy problem," you're probably
aware of the well-documented evidence that boys and men are struggling.

Boys lag behind girls in school and graduate at lower rates. Women now
comprise the overwhelming ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tedrall/s-4226277</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Let the Love In]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most times when I'm invited to speak at a conference, someone introduces
me by reading the short bio provided. But this past week at the
Southeastern Writers' Association Conference, my friend, the Georgia
judge and novelist Lori Duff, introduced ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-4225573</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Self-Reliance]]></title>
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I don't fix things.

I'm a man. I don't fix things.

I pay people to fix things, is what I do.

In general, the people I pay to fix things do not fix the thing on the
first try.

Being unable to fix things on the first try doesn't hurt your
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4225143</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dems Ruminate Over an Autopsy When They Should be Making Hay]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seemed to take forever, but on Thursday the Democratic National Committee finally released their autopsy of their ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign. It's bitter medicine, my Dem friends, but, as Momma used to say, take a spoonful, it’ll do...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/billpress/s-4225461</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Platner Wants Redemption. Others Want a Refund]]></title>
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Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna conceded at a rally for the Maine senatorial
candidate that Graham Platner's actions have not been sterling. Voters
considering Platner don't like his "shameful" actions against women, the
Californian said, but "they are ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/fromaharrop/s-4224745</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Scammer]]></title>
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I woke up early to catch the latest news on the election results, only
to find that the first text message I saw was not a news alert from
Maine, but a warning from Apple Customer Support. Someone in Moscow,
Russia, was trying to access my Apple...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/susanestrich/s-4224319</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jill Biden: The True View From the East Wing]]></title>
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WASHINGTON -- June 27 is coming up, the date of the 2024 debate when
America watched Joe Biden tank the election to Donald Trump.

Remember? It would be hard to forget Democrats' pain when we saw a
ghostly Biden self-destruct and grope for words...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jamiestiehm/s-4223866</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Gilded Age of Billion-Dollar Political Bribery]]></title>
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Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back ...
maybe 10 years or so?

In those olden times, if someone or some corporations gave a million
dollars to a political candidate, the donation was scandalous news -- a
bribe!

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jimhightower/s-4223865</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In No One We Trust: Americans Grow Increasingly Cynical, With Increasingly Good Reason]]></title>
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In a 2011 Los Angeles Times column titled "When Unity Was All-American,"
writer George Skelton marked the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor by
recalling a time when Americans respected those whom they elected. "What
I remember most," he recalled ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jeffrobbins/s-4223003</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/09/2026</pubDate>
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