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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - Harold Meyerson -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com)]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032500977.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><description><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson writes about politics and policy for The Washington Post's op-ed page.]]></description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?nav=rss</link><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif </url></image>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What McCain Economic Policy? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602434.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602434.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Government is not the solution to our problem," Ronald Reagan told his fellow Americans in his first inaugural address. "Government is the problem." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policy?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Gramm]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Hunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Corn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Why Were We in Vietnam? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802462.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802462.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Doing business in China is beginning to cost real money. Not that Chinese workers are buying second homes or anything like that: Their average wage is still a little short of a dollar an hour. But so many Chinese have now left their villages for the factories that the once bottomless pool of new young workers is beginning to run dry, and the wages of assembly-line employees are rising 10 percent a year. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Why]]></category><category><![CDATA[Were]]></category><category><![CDATA[We]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam?]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Bradsher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shanghai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanoi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurence Shu]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canon Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanesbrands Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Cockeyed Optimists Again ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802633.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802633.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On a deep, uncluttered stage that stretches back to suggest pristine beaches and the boundless Pacific beyond, the young sailors and Seabees encounter a world in which nothing is familiar except themselves. White sailors on one part of the stage, black on another -- the services were still segregated during World War II -- they clamorously note a deficiency in island life from which black and white suffer alike: There aren't any dames. Well, hardly any. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Cockeyed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Optimists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Again]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oscar Hammerstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Pacific]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Rodgers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Branch Rickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry S. Truman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerome Kern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelly Forbush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The L.A. Times's Human Wrecking Ball ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002529.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002529.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Oct. 1, 1910, a bomb set by James McNamara, an operative of the Iron Workers union, then embroiled in a ferocious dispute with the Los Angeles Times, blew up the Times building, killing 21 pressmen. McNamara was arrested the following April, convicted and later sentenced to life in prison. He died in San Quentin in 1941.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695744518" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695744518" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[L.A.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Times's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wrecking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Zell]]></category><category><![CDATA[James McNamara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tribune Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Quentin State Prison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Hull]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Priest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Otis Chandler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crips Street Gang]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Hartford Courant]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed Health Care System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Patching Up the Democrats ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303160.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303160.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Forty years ago tonight, I was one of a number of very young staffers on Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign crammed into a Los Angeles hotel room, where we watched on television as Robert Kennedy, a few miles down Wilshire Boulevard at the Ambassador Hotel, claimed victory in the California primary. A few minutes later, the networks reported that Kennedy had been shot. The rest of the evening was a mix of anxiety, nausea, tears, misgivings and despair. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Patching]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allard Lowenstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Daley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Two-State Two-Step ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702553.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702553.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Saturday, when the Rules Committee of the Democratic National Committee meets to determine the fate of Florida and Michigan's delegations to this summer's convention, it will have some company. A group of Hillary Clinton supporters has announced it will demonstrate outside. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Two-State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Two-Step]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[DNC Rules Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Ickes]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Gravel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patty Solis Doyle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules Committee of the Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Selma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Useful Nudge in California ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001568.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001568.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The California Supreme Court's decision striking down the law prohibiting the contentious marriages was emphatic. In a concurring opinion, Justice Jesse Carter wrote, "The statutes here involved are the product of ignorance, prejudice and intolerance. This decision is in harmony with the principles of the Declaration of Independence which are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment . . . that all human beings have equal rights . . . and that the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness is inalienable." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Useful]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nudge]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Earl Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald George]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Traynor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thurgood Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain's America ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302303.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302303.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If the McCain campaign is still trying out songs, there's one by a couple of Brits, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, that it should consider. We have to change the words "an Englishman" to "American" to get it to work, but, that done, the song expresses succinctly and entirely the case for John McCain and, by implication, against Barack Obama:<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695744981" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695744981" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain's]]></category><category><![CDATA[America]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Knox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arthur Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[W.S. Gilbert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alfred Landon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Schmitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilbert & Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The American Prospect Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Titans on the Mat ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703186.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703186.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We put too much stock in the Oedipal theory of history, my late polymath friend Jim Chapin, the most generous of mentors to historians and journalists, used to argue. More common than children overthrowing their parents, Chapin said, was parents stamping out their children's revolts. More revolutions fail than succeed. Chapin called this the Cronus theory, after the Titan in Greek mythology who, on hearing that one of his children would overthrow him, swallowed them whole (except, unfortunately for Cronus, Zeus, who, sure enough, overthrew him). ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Titans]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Chapin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Penn]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[Research Triangle]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Landing the White Whale ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902397.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902397.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The relationship between Barack Obama and the white working class is beginning to resemble that between Ahab and the white whale. In state after state (Ohio, Pennsylvania and now Indiana), Obama sets out to reel in his working-class quarry, and, in state after state, it eludes him. As Obama is still the likely nominee, many Democrats fear that come November, working-class whites will pull Obama and their party down to defeat. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Landing]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Whale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Abramowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruy Teixeira]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emory University]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sweeney's AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Back to The '60s ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302979.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302979.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Throughout American history, the Democratic Party has had one unhappy distinction: It has been home to more of the major fault lines dividing the United States than any other institution. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA['60s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scoop Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Tsongas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Gephardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Harkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Enemy No. 3 in Iraq ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602902.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602902.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Why is the Iraq war different from all other American wars? (Passover is upon us, so I've posed the question in correct Passover-ese.)<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695745503" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695745503" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Enemy]]></category><category><![CDATA[No.]]></category><category><![CDATA[3]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Crocker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muqtada al-Sadr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Basra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Macarthur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mosul]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Missing: Our Trade Strategy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903401.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903401.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush has sent his trade pact with Colombia to Capitol Hill, and suddenly Washington is not only ablaze with cherry blossoms but cluttered by chestnuts. Every old argument for the virtues of free trade is being recycled by the league of American editorialists, whose all-but-universal commitment to a failed policy will surely excite the wonder of future historians. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Missing:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Our]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Electric Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The American Prospect Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Phillips]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bailing Out the Reaganites ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102189.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102189.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Would that the Republican contest for the presidential nomination were still going on! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bailing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reaganites]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Gramm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa Lerer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Mellon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herbert Hoover's Treasury]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain on the Red Phone ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032502294.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032502294.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It is 3 a.m., and the stillness of the White House night is shattered by the ringing of the red phone. President John McCain, rousing himself from a deep sleep, turns on the light and picks up the receiver. A U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country, he is told, has been blown up, and al-Qaeda is taking credit. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phone]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hugh Hewitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A New New Deal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031902779.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031902779.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Putting together everything we've learned over the past 10 days about high finance in Manhattan, one thing is clear: If Eliot Spitzer had saved all the money he apparently paid"Kristen" and her co-workers at the Emperors Club, he could have bought Bear Stearns.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695746019" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695746019" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[JP Morgan Chase & Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[J.P. Morgans]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What $5,500 an Hour Buys ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102463.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102463.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace (and very soon, it seems, from power) raises a host of serious concerns, not least our ongoing and often ludicrous conflation of the personal and the political in matters of morals. But flawed mortal that I am, I confess I keep coming back to one detail as this gloomy tale unfolds: $5,500. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[$5,500]]></category><category><![CDATA[an]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buys]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Siegelman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush-Rove Justice Department]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Where's the Exit Strategy? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030502891.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030502891.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In "The Exterminating Angel," a 1962 film by Luis Buñuel, the great Spanish anarcho-surrealist director, the guests at a dinner party find that, mysteriously, they cannot leave. Though there are no external constraints to their exiting, none can cross the threshold of the music room to which they've adjourned. For days and days they stay, some growing to hate one another, some lapsing into despair and most eventually determining to sacrifice their host in the hope that killing him will set them free. (They manage to get out before the host has been dispatched.) ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Where's]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Winter of the Patriarchs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602650.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602650.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Looks like Havana's fabled Hotel Nacional won't be reverting to Meyer Lansky anytime soon. After 49 years, Fidel Castro has stepped down as Cuba's president, and his younger brother Ra¿l, a callow 76-year-old, succeeded him on Sunday, pledging in his inaugural address to consult Fidel on every important question. (Big Brother is watching.) The National Assembly selected 77-year-old Jos¿ Ram¿n Machado Ventura, who fought with the Castros in the revolution of the 1950s, to be the new first vice president. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Winter]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patriarchs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deng Xiao-Ping]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Havana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ho Chi Minh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Machado Ventura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mao Tse-tung]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meyer Lansky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saul Alinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sierra Maestra Mountains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Mall of America ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002269.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002269.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the 20th century, American production was the marvel of the world. In the 21st century, American consumption is the marvel of the world. As news goes, this is both big and bad.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695747073" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695747073" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mall]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[America]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Motors Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shanghai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Shades of Chicago ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021201997.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021201997.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In popular memory, Chicago '68 evokes images of police and demonstrators clashing -- and cops swinging nightsticks at anyone who chanced by -- in Grant Park and the old Conrad Hilton Hotel, while the Democratic National Convention proceeded apace. But take it from someone who was there (I was an 18-year-old working for Eugene McCarthy's campaign): The rage inside the convention hall was every bit as great as the anger without. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Shades]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conrad Hilton Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[The American Prospect Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hilton Hotels Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Repudiation of Rove ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502878.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020502878.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John McCain had a surprising but pleasant evening last night -- watching Mitt Romney go down to defeat in nearly every contest and encountering a newly victorious but ultimately unnominatable Mike Huckabee all across the Bible Belt. McCain's successes so far reflect not only his appeal as a candidate but also the bankruptcy of the conservative agenda and political strategy that have steered the Republicans for many years. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Repudiation]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Goldwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Democrats Out of the Desert ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012902215.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012902215.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For the better part of a year, I have been bumping into Michael Walzer, our nation's preeminent living political philosopher and my colleague at Dissent magazine, with inexplicable regularity, and having the same conversation with him every time. The discussion began last summer, when Michael asked me which presidential candidate I liked. Since the political differences among the leading Democrats were small, I said, I'd probably back the candidate who had the best shot at winning the White House and bringing in a filibuster-proof Senate. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Desert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Walzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maimonides]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The GOP's Security Gap  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012202618.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012202618.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The conventional wisdom on this year's election is that John McCain would be the strongest candidate the Republicans could send against the Democrats come November. I believe it myself. And yet, as the economy continues to deflate, the prospects for a McCain presidency are deflating as well.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695749061" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695749061" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[GOP's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gap]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shenzhen]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Different Recession ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011502861.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011502861.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a normal recession, the to-do list is clear. Copies of Keynes are dusted off, the Fed lowers interest rates, the president and Congress cut taxes and hike spending. In time, purchasing, production and loans perk up, and Keynes is placed back on the shelf. No larger alterations to the economy are made, because our economy, but for the occasional bump in the road, is fundamentally sound. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Different]]></category><category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louis Uchitelle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Barbaro]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ An Old Democratic Fault Line ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/09/AR2008010902901.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/09/AR2008010902901.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MANCHESTER, N.H. -- All 50 states hold elections, but only New Hampshire raises the dead. John McCain and Hillary Clinton, like Bill before her, have now been saved from political extinction by Granite State voters, who have managed in the process to set up a protracted contest for the Democratic presidential nod. (The Republicans were never going to avoid one.) ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fault]]></category><category><![CDATA[Line]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gene McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manchester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scoop Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Farm Workers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Parties Trading Places ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/01/AR2008010101300.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/01/AR2008010101300.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the first actual voting in this year's presidential contest is finally about to begin, the two parties have swapped places. The Democrats, by tradition the party of irreconcilable factions, are, for all their election-eve squabbling, more united than they've been in decades. The Republicans, by tradition the party that submerges its differences to rally 'round the front-runner, have become a collection of distinct, disconsolate camps. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Parties]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trading]]></category><category><![CDATA[Places]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hard-liners for Jesus ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121801634.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/18/AR2007121801634.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As Christians across the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's a fitting moment to contemplate the mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695749473" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695749473" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hard-liners]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Labor's Global Push ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121101837.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/11/AR2007121101837.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "We haven't been reacting quickly enough," says Guy Ryder, who heads a newly merged global union federation, the International Trade Union Conference. "That's a fair criticism." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Labor's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Global]]></category><category><![CDATA[Push]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deutsche Telekom AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Communications Workers of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ver.Di Labor Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guy Ryder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Steelworkers of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arcelor SA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Stern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sweeney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leo Gerard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Gompers]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of Global Unions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Trade Union Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service Employees International Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Obama Newness ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701776.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701776.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The economy may be slowing, but the stock of newness is on the rise. The crises that the administration found and made and exploited for political advantage do not loom quite so large; the public's eagerness to move past the Bush wars, both foreign and domestic, is palpable. In this election cycle, newness, I think, will have its own distinct appeal, and advantage goes to the candidate who can most clearly signal a break from those controversies and idiocies of our public life of which most of the public has wearied. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonio Villaraigosa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Yorty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Hahn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christie Todd Whitman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush's Next Preemptive Strike ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112802050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112802050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ George W. Bush is focusing now on his legacy. Duck. Run. Hide. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Next]]></category><category><![CDATA[Preemptive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strike]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Lute]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ National Labor Ruination Board ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/20/AR2007112001647.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/20/AR2007112001647.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last Thursday, a band of roughly 1,000 demonstrators assembled by the AFL-CIO paraded past the White House, in a driving rain, to the headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board. They asked the board, which was established 72 years ago to protect workers' right to bargain, to cease and desist. No more rulings. And no more new members (the terms of three of the board's five members are due to expire shortly) who see their mission as destroying the right of employees to bargain with their bosses.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695750024" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=291695750024" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruination]]></category><category><![CDATA[Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Labor Relations Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Walsh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orlando (Florida)]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What's on the Line In the Writers' Strike ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/13/AR2007111301833.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/13/AR2007111301833.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In its initial stages, the strike of television and screenwriters has generated so much lighthearted copy you could conclude, wrongly, that it's fun for the whole family. On one entertainment news Web site, 3,000 "Battlestar Galactica" cultists, in Los Angeles for their convention, have pledged to join the picket line at Universal Studios on Friday. And on a site for striking writers for David Letterman's show, I read that before talks broke down "both sides briefly agreed that Marie Osmond is fabulous in this season's 'Dancing with the Stars.' " Samuel Gompers, meet Shecky Greene. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What's]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Line]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Writers']]></category><category><![CDATA[Strike]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Letterman]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Segall]]></category><category><![CDATA[America West Holdings Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paramount Pictures Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Walt Disney Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Universal Studios Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marie Osmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Gompers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shecky Greene]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.E. Lawrence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Battlestar Galactica]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dancing with the Stars]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Why the Rush on Trade? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110601809.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110601809.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The House is set to vote today on a free-trade pact with Peru. What's not clear is why. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Why]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rush]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trade?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sander Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Rangel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcy Kaptur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toledo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[DR-CAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Global Trade Watch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Citizen Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On Shaky Ground in California ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103001820.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103001820.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How do Californians lose their homes? Let me count the ways. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shaky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ground]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Bernardino]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Citigroup Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[DataQuick Information Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[DataQuick Information Systems Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Bowman]]></category><category><![CDATA[La Jolla]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rube Goldberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Santa Ana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ventura]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center on Policy Initiatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orange County]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
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