<?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>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:55:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><category></category><generator></generator><item><title><![CDATA[Valerie Jarrett Handled Outreach To The Black Community And To Hillary Clinton Supporters. What Constituency Will She Court Next?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b128bf98-efd6-4326-97b6-cda519d8c889</link><author>Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The black Tahoe slows to a crawl as Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama's political wise woman and longtime friend, gestures toward a forlorn expanse of weeds running along State Street in the blighted Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. "It was just this wall of high-rise buildings along the expressway," she says, "And now--it's all gone."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-20:story.html?id=b128bf98-efd6-4326-97b6-cda519d8c889&amp;k=83897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush's Economy: The Invisible Hand Slaps Conservatives Again]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=27fa9019-85f3-4210-b917-d882c900219c</link><author>Jonathan Chait</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I've recently been perusing a copy of The Bush Boom: How a
'Misunderestimated' President Fixed Our Broken Economy, by
right-wing commentator and National Review< contributor Jerry
Bowyer. Ah, yes, the Bush Boom. It's a bygone era, a time of hope,
like the Kennedy years. Also like Camelot, the Bush Boom was
tragically cut short--by, um, the Bush recession. Actually, the
second Bush recession, to be precise.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-20:story.html?id=27fa9019-85f3-4210-b917-d882c900219c&amp;k=67035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fatal Flaw In Bush's Greatest Accomplishment]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=a7545675-da03-42af-b60d-23db2d32bcba</link><author>David Tuller</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even rabid Bush-haters will grudgingly grant the president one major
foreign policy accomplishment: He has spent money combating global
aids like no other world leader. Indeed, there was another round of
plaudits last month when the Senate finally passed the $48 billion
reauthorization for the President's Emergency Plan for aids Relief,
or pepfar. The bill renewed legislation, first passed in 2003, that
has allocated many billions for HIV treatment, testing, and
prevention efforts in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Senator
Joseph Biden has called pepfar "the single most significant thing
the president has done."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-20:story.html?id=a7545675-da03-42af-b60d-23db2d32bcba&amp;k=87296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama's Finally Starting To Throw Punches--But Are They Strong Enough?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/19/obama-throws-punches-but-will-they-hurt.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is getting feisty. On Monday, as Karen Tumulty reports, he went after John McCain hard on the economy...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-20:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/19/obama-throws-punches-but-will-they-hurt.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama, McCain, And America's Strange Relationship With Religion]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=e8797803-0892-464e-8321-6cee87a1ed41</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--The recent campaign forum at Saddleback Church in which
U.S. presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain answered
questions from pastor Rick Warren, the new star of the evangelical
Christian movement, could only have happened in America. The rest of
the world watched in wonder as the two candidates proclaimed their
faith before the tribunal of God, trying to persuade the jury that
their views on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research,
state-sponsored altruism and other "value" issues do not depart (too
much) from dogma.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-20:story.html?id=e8797803-0892-464e-8321-6cee87a1ed41&amp;k=34033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biden? Yeah, That Works.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/18/biden-yeah-that-works.aspx</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Well-connected Washington insider Steve Clemons has already reported that signs point to Joe Biden as Barack Obama's running mate. Now comes this tidbit, coutesy of the 'Washington Post''s Shailagh Murray: Tony Blinken, the Biden foreign policy adviser who accompanied Obama on his overseas trip, left Washington to go on vacation late last week. Destination? Hawaii.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-19:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/18/biden-yeah-that-works.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ted Stevens's Indictment And The Last Days Of Alaska's Kleptocracy]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b735b5b5-a245-4aa4-ae18-e6f66ce557dd</link><author>Charles Homans</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The windswept Aleutian Island fishing port of Dutch Harbor is
considered far-flung even by Alaska's adjusted standards, farther
from the urban hub of Anchorage than New York City is from Madison,
Wisconsin. It is, in other words, a good place to hide from the
press.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-19:story.html?id=b735b5b5-a245-4aa4-ae18-e6f66ce557dd&amp;k=81235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, If Conventions Are So Ridiculous, What's The One Thing You Would Do To Improve Them?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=00c507d6-3b34-4750-85ee-1c2c17fc8797</link><author>James Galbraith, William Galston, and Ed Kilgore</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Convention season is upon us. There will be clichés, giant flags, funny hats--and much, much whining about how these party-themed infomercials aren't worth our time. But are there ways in which we could genuinely improve the content of the conventions? We asked a few friends of the magazine to offer their suggestions.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-19:story.html?id=00c507d6-3b34-4750-85ee-1c2c17fc8797&amp;k=39566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans Can No Longer Claim That They--And They Alone--Speak For Religious Voters]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=a9ead575-129c-452c-b23e-a172534318df</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Anyone who still doubts that the evangelical Christian
world is going through a political revolution was not watching Pastor
Rick Warren's presidential forum over the weekend.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-19:story.html?id=a9ead575-129c-452c-b23e-a172534318df&amp;k=91389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WITNESSING MUSHARRAF'S END AT BHUTTO'S HOUSE]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=58099c67-f495-4f22-a925-aee8dd8549f8</link><author>Nicholas Schmidle</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This afternoon, not long after Pervez Musharraf announced that he'd had his fill after almost nine years of ruling Pakistan, I wandered across Islamabad, to the headquarters of the Pakistan People's Party.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-18:story.html?id=58099c67-f495-4f22-a925-aee8dd8549f8&amp;k=57639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Downside Of Barack Obama's Cool]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5607f0de-44eb-4606-af0e-99029525ebb2</link><author>Michelle Cottle</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a way arguably unlike any previous presidential contender (yes, okay, fine: JFK, maybe), Barack Obama personifies cool.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-18:story.html?id=5607f0de-44eb-4606-af0e-99029525ebb2&amp;k=38338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What The Platform Says About Health Care--And What That Says About Barack Obama]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=ac31460a-c818-4e58-bb4c-20b75b82960c</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The typical voter may not pay much attention to partly platforms these days, but activists certainly do. And at the Democratic Party platform hearings held in Pittsburgh just over a week ago, advocates for health care reform made their presence felt, proposing--and obtaining--revisions to the platform proposed by Obama and the party. The final platform proposal, which the full party will consider in Denver next week, now states that “every American man, woman, and child [should] be guaranteed affordable, comprehensive health care. ... with everyone in and no one left out.” The word “guarantee” didn’t appear in the previous draft; that was the activists’ doing. The phrase “everyone in and no one left out” is also significant: It’s a slogan liberal health care activists frequently use, and they’re hoping that its adoption signals that Obama is serious about reform.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/8137d59a-9e08-4da3-bbed-0619af48403b/BHO-Cover.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-18:story.html?id=ac31460a-c818-4e58-bb4c-20b75b82960c&amp;k=22145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Defense Of Looseness: The Supreme Court's Wrongheaded Gun Control Decision]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d2f38db8-3c8a-477e-bd0a-5bd56de0e7c0</link><author>Richard A. Posner</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At the end of June, the Supreme Court, in a case called 'District of
Columbia v. Heller,' invalidated the District's ban on the private
ownership of pistols. It did so in the name of the Second Amendment
to the Constitution. The decision was the most noteworthy of the
Court's recent term. It is questionable in both method and result,
and it is evidence that the Supreme Court, in deciding
constitutional cases, exercises a freewheeling discretion strongly
flavored with ideology.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-18:story.html?id=d2f38db8-3c8a-477e-bd0a-5bd56de0e7c0&amp;k=39014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, The Chinese People Are Not All Proud Of The Olympics. In Fact, The Games Are Hurting A Lot Of Them.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=6309be4c-f906-407a-8ca0-6dab97a20536</link><author>Joshua Kurlantzick</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Western press has been awash in coverage of all the negative
aspects of China's Games. The horrendous pollution in Beijing, which
has forced entire teams to skip parts of the Games, or wear masks for
much of their stay. China's continuing ethnic unrest, which exploded
last week in the western province of Xinjiang in an attack by a group
of Uighurs, an ethnic minority, on a Chinese police post. The heavy
hand of the regime, which is still blocking many Internet sites during
the Games, and has cracked down on dissidents in the run-up to the
events.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-18:story.html?id=6309be4c-f906-407a-8ca0-6dab97a20536&amp;k=39261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The Saddleback Face-Off Is Good News For Obama--And An Antidote To The Poison The Religious Right Has Injected Into Politics]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/weekend-preview-obama-and-mccain-at-saddleback-church.aspx</link><author>Alan Wolfe</author><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This Saturday, August 16th, Barack Obama and John McCain will make a joint appearance at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Orange County, California. Religion can have that kind of impact. During the Democratic primaries, at that point where Obama and Hillary Clinton were barely on speaking terms, both appeared at Messiah College, an evangelical school in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-16:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/weekend-preview-obama-and-mccain-at-saddleback-church.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence In Silken Lives; The Man Who Danced Between The Towers]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=59f569ce-37a9-499c-b65d-8d3ada0ff6f9</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Man On Wire' (Magnolia),
'Frozen River' (Sony Pictures Classics),
'A Girl Cut In Two' (IFC)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-16:story.html?id=59f569ce-37a9-499c-b65d-8d3ada0ff6f9&amp;k=86414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John McCain's Abortion Flop-Flop-Fest. He Was For A Pro-Choice Running Mate, Then Against It, Now For It!]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/15/mccain-for-against-then-for-a-pro-choice-running-mate.aspx</link><author>Sarah Blustain</author><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[He was for a pro-choice running mate before he was against it before he was for it.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-16:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/15/mccain-for-against-then-for-a-pro-choice-running-mate.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Will Happen When America Can't Afford To Fly?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=78260c55-a850-478f-9ffd-b8023fd89459</link><author>Bradford Plumer</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the age of cheap oil comes to a close, it's springtime for gloomy futurists. Visions of a brutish world marked by violent squabbles over dwindling reserves, of junkyards littered with abandoned cars, of suburban slums overrun by weeds, of the collapse of industrial agriculture--none of this sounds as outlandish as it once did. Still, most of these horror stories are likely overstated: Energy experts tend to agree that, with a little ingenuity and a generous helping of political will, we could transition away from fossil fuels without being forced to give up our modern lifestyles.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-15:story.html?id=78260c55-a850-478f-9ffd-b8023fd89459&amp;k=56534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Hasn't The Muslim World Lifted A Finger For Darfur?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=1a4e0246-f2b6-4780-9bf8-57d1f1c46bd3</link><author>Martin Peretz</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are so many more important issues in the world today than
Palestine that I wonder why I am so obsessed with it. Well, of course,
what I am obsessed with is Israel, and it's a personal obsession
relating to the catastrophe that befell my people in a way that no
catastrophe had previously befallen any other people. This fact alone
brings the fate of the Jews into the consciousness and conscience of
others. It also provokes in a demonic way a wish for the end of the
insistent Jewish problem, even if that means the end of the Jewish
nation, a goal that not a few Arabs and their sympathizers hope.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-15:story.html?id=1a4e0246-f2b6-4780-9bf8-57d1f1c46bd3&amp;k=16304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Obama And McCain Visiting His Church This Weekend, Can Rick Warren Take On The Christian Right?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/weekend-preview-obama-and-mccain-at-saddleback-church.aspx</link><author>Alan Wolfe</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This Saturday, August 16th, Barack Obama and John McCain will make a joint appearance at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, California. Religion can have that kind of impact. During the Democratic primaries, at that point where Obama and Hillary Clinton were barely on speaking terms, both appeared at Messiah College, an evangelical school in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-15:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/weekend-preview-obama-and-mccain-at-saddleback-church.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Party Platforms--And Then Some]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1d4bb926-89cf-4734-9e71-09483fee4e5e</link><author>Seyward Darby</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party's platform committee approved a whopping 54-page draft document last Saturday in Pittsburgh. (That's up 15 pages from the 2004 platform). The Republicans won't draft their platform until just prior to the GOP convention in Minneapolis, so it stands to be seen how the new platform will stack up to the 2004 document, which topped 41,000 words and began with a triple homage to Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and George W. Bush.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-15:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1d4bb926-89cf-4734-9e71-09483fee4e5e</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Pro-Lifers Are Claiming Victory In The Democratic Platform Battle]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/finding-the-right-words-for-abortion.aspx</link><author>Eric Zimmermann</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about pro-life Democrats’ efforts to add abortion reduction language to the party’s platform. On Saturday, the platform committee released a draft...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-15:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/finding-the-right-words-for-abortion.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tropic Thunder': No, It Isn't Offensive. Yes, It's Hilarious. And Yes, Tom Cruise Really Is Funny]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/the-mini-review-tropic-thunder.aspx</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I'm on break this week and next, so readers will be (mostly) spared my cinematic exhortations until the end of the month. But I did want to weigh in briefly on Tropic Thunder, which opened yesterday.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-15:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/14/the-mini-review-tropic-thunder.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's The Gas Prices, Stupid. Barack Obama Needs To Win The Battle With John McCain Over The Economy--And Here's How He Can.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b3c46522-a137-43df-9d3d-d36df9cd81c9</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's the economy again, stupid. In a Pew Research Center poll
released last month, 61 percent of Americans cited an economic concern
as the most important issue facing the country. That is up from 34
percent in January, and 20 percent in September 2007.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=b3c46522-a137-43df-9d3d-d36df9cd81c9&amp;k=63498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, Everything Is Not Changing For The Better, And To Believe Otherwise Is Marketing Propaganda: Google Progressivism]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=06e305a5-5ea7-4e97-b283-fb2016460cfd</link><author>Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, before the panicked society-wide attempt to expel
contingency from American life, existence was organized, or left
sufficiently unorganized, for the refreshments of serendipity.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=06e305a5-5ea7-4e97-b283-fb2016460cfd&amp;k=86292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're Baa-aaack! Will The Clintons Poison The Democrats' Convention?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=92b9c6c1-655a-4246-b75c-f987e333c7e2</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Will the Party of Clinton ever become the Party of Obama? It has now been more than two months since Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination yet here we are, still fascinated with Bill and Hillary Clinton and what they're up to. Why?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=92b9c6c1-655a-4246-b75c-f987e333c7e2&amp;k=96325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jean Nouvel: Finally, A Deserving Starchitect]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=6dec85c6-7fc0-45ce-89b9-f634f919f964</link><author>Sarah Williams Goldhagen</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Pritzker Architecture Prize is commonly described as 'the Nobel
Prize of architecture.' It was indeed modeled on the Nobel, and its
winners, like Nobel laureates, receive a bronze medal and a cash
award. This year the Pritzker committee got it right. It awarded its prize to Jean Nouvel, a sixty-three-year-old French architect based in Paris.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-14:story.html?id=6dec85c6-7fc0-45ce-89b9-f634f919f964&amp;k=83585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: Former Bush Diplomat Charles Fairbanks On War In Georgia]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d1e62787-53d3-4b09-bc57-5c489d8d2fc7</link><author>Seyward Darby</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Russia agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, saying its invasion of Georgia has “punished” the country enough, TNR's Seyward Darby spoke with Charles Fairbanks, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former deputy assistant secretary in the Department of State (as well as being the father of our Associate Editor, Eve Fairbanks), who spends six months of the year teaching at Ilia Chavchavadze State University in Georgia. Fairbanks describes the war as “deeply, deeply depressing,” with far-reaching implications that will influence policy in the last months of President George W. Bush’s administration and all future relations between Russia and the West.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-13:story.html?id=d1e62787-53d3-4b09-bc57-5c489d8d2fc7&amp;k=65151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The West Botched Georgia: A Top Diplomat's First-Hand Account Of The Missteps By The U.S. And Its Allies That Helped Lead To War In The Black Sea]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9da1fd2d-1701-470b-b734-3fc365571e0d</link><author>Ronald D. Asmus</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The guns around Tbilisi have now fallen silent. Efforts are underway to finalize a truce between Russia and Georgia to end Moscow's bloody invasion. It is time for the West to look in the mirror and ask: What went wrong? How did this disaster happen? Make no mistake. While this is first and foremost a disaster for the people and government of Georgia, it is also a disaster for the West--and for the U.S. in particular.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-13:story.html?id=9da1fd2d-1701-470b-b734-3fc365571e0d&amp;k=41521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Obama And The Democrats Got Bulldozed On Energy]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=1961d390-71cb-414f-9366-c040f1fa236b</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Representative John Shadegg was very proud of his Republican
colleagues in the House. They had, after all, wrestled down rising
gas prices. "The market is responding to the fact that we are here
talking," he told reporters. And, even if he wasn't right about the
technical workings of the petroleum market--which, strangely
enough, responded to a decrease in consumer demand and not the
posturing of conservative congressmen--he had a point: By showing
up and making their case for drilling for oil, Republicans were
indeed moving the needle.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-13:story.html?id=1961d390-71cb-414f-9366-c040f1fa236b&amp;k=89833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DISPUTATIONS: 'NYT' Reporter Eric Lichtblau Defends Himself Against Charges Of Reckless Reporting From Former DOJ Attorney Jack Goldsmith--And Goldsmith Responds]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f85640e0-7492-45f5-ab8d-e42c95993066</link><author>Eric Lichtblau</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nothing good can ever come from responding to a book review, I'm told. Still, Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith is too smart a man to simply ignore.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-13:story.html?id=f85640e0-7492-45f5-ab8d-e42c95993066&amp;k=7576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin The Terrible And The Dangerous Rebirth Of Russian Nationalism]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=c7ce0977-817a-425f-b82b-6a8f2caa0587</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--In "Rebuilding Russia," published as the Soviet Union was
on the verge of collapse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that the
"awakening Russian national self-awareness has to a large extent been
unable to free itself of great-power thinking and of imperial delusions]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-13:story.html?id=c7ce0977-817a-425f-b82b-6a8f2caa0587&amp;k=27301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John McCain Is A Pro-Life Zealot. Surprised? You Shouldn't Be.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=3483eb20-9228-4700-9557-57a47a676e0b</link><author>Sarah Blustain</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John McCain was mad. Fuming mad. It was then the early days of his political career, and he had paid an unscheduled visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Mesa, which was within his Arizona congressional district. That's when Gloria Feldt, then the CEO of the group's local chapter, got a phone call. 'Congressman McCain is here,' a staffer told her, 'and he is screaming and it is upsetting the patients.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-12:story.html?id=3483eb20-9228-4700-9557-57a47a676e0b&amp;k=18121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A TNR DEBATE: John B. Judis And Leon Wieseltier On The Right Way To View The Crisis In Georgia]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/12/the-cold-war-continued.aspx</link><author>John B. Judis and Leon Wieseltier</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I have to say that I agree with a good deal of Leon Wieseltier's rejoinder to me, and I'll keep it in mind the next time I am asked to write a blog post about something about which I have not fully made up my mind.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-12:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/12/the-cold-war-continued.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLIDESHOW: George W. Bush Goes to the Olympics]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/gallery/popup.html?topic=bushandolympics</link><author>James Martin</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SLIDESHOW: George W. Bush Goes to the Olympics]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-12:http://www.tnr.com/gallery/popup.html?topic=bushandolympics</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Gas Prices Won't Stop Globalization--They'll Help It]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0c11c572-7597-4ad6-ad6f-b7d14171d17d</link><author>Clay Risen</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One morning in May, Governor Tim Kaine stood in a Danville, Virginia,
parking lot, sawing a log in half with Ikea executive Bruno Winborg.
The log-cutting, a Swedish good-luck tradition, was part of the opening
ceremony for the Scandinavian furniture giant’s first North American
plant, a 930,000-square-foot facility that will keep Americans
well-supplied with BILLY bookcases and BESTA entertainment centers for
years to come.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-12:story.html?id=0c11c572-7597-4ad6-ad6f-b7d14171d17d&amp;k=66387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond Georgia: The Ripple Effects Of Russia's Attack. PLUS, TNR's Guide To The Conflict.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/11/beyond-georgia-the-ripple-effects-of-russia-s-attack.aspx</link><author>Martha Brill Olcott</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senators McCain and Obama are both trying to demonstrate their leadership capacities in their strong statements on the conflict between Russia and Georgia. But the man who takes power as president of the United States in January will have to confront circumstances quite unlike those upon which he is now commenting on. The current conflict in the Georgia shows just how difficult it is for the U.S. to maintain a strategic position in the Caspian, as well as how tough a competitor Russia is.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-12:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/11/beyond-georgia-the-ripple-effects-of-russia-s-attack.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It Happened While We Watched: Why We Didn't Save Darfur]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=36975a7c-224c-438a-9538-130b9e5cdd91</link><author>Richard Just</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-11:story.html?id=36975a7c-224c-438a-9538-130b9e5cdd91&amp;k=50245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's Shameful Record On AIDS In America--And How To Fix It]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=13c34996-b205-4d6b-aa81-388d120f794a</link><author>Harold Pollack</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released
its long-awaited estimate that 56,300 Americans are infected with the
HIV virus every year. This supplants CDC's longstanding official
estimate of 40,000, which had been in place for many years.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-11:story.html?id=13c34996-b205-4d6b-aa81-388d120f794a&amp;k=11438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radical Cheek: Why China's Snubbing Of Joey Cheek Matters]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=f17afa36-5f90-47d8-a3dd-8ffda463a072</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even before the opening ceremonies, the Olympics got off to a bad
start for the United States: The U.S. women's soccer team, ranked
number one in the world, looked uninspired in an upset loss to
Norway. At least the American soccer players were allowed to enter
China, though. The same cannot be said of Joey Cheek, the American
speed-skating gold medalist who planned on attending the Olympics
as a spectator and co-founder of Team Darfur, an international
coalition of athletes that promotes awareness of the Darfur
genocide. The day before he was set to leave for Beijing, Cheek was
notified by Chinese authorities that his visa had been revoked.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-11:story.html?id=f17afa36-5f90-47d8-a3dd-8ffda463a072&amp;k=18285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John McCain May Have Made The Race About Obama So Far--But What Happens When Obama Turns The Spotlight Off?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d8d01a8c-d53e-4edf-ab2a-2a0f4555a8bc</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The core strategy of John McCain's campaign is to turn
Barack Obama into the incumbent, the man who is too familiar yet still
mysterious.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-11:story.html?id=d8d01a8c-d53e-4edf-ab2a-2a0f4555a8bc&amp;k=7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Obama Playing Too Nice? TNR Editors Pick Through The Lessons He Should Have Learned From His Primary Battle With Hillary.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/07/what-does-obama-v-hillary-tell-us-about-obama-v-mccain.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber and Michael Crowley</author><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Prior to this week, a lot of pundits wondered why Obama was holding his fire while McCain roughed him up on a near-daily basis. The argument against firing back was the analogy to the Democratic primaries: Around this time last year, we all wondered why Obama wasn't knee-capping Hillary. But Obama more or less stuck to his no knee-capping policy (at least up to Iowa), and it worked out pretty well for him. No one could be sure it wouldn't work the same way in the general.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-09:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/07/what-does-obama-v-hillary-tell-us-about-obama-v-mccain.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympic Madness! Bush Wimps Out On Human Rights. Plus, On-The-Ground Dispatches From Beijing.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/08/bush-wimps-out-in-china.aspx</link><author>Perry Link</author><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Several reports say that President Bush will not speak publicly about human rights during his stay in Beijing. He will not visit a dissident or attend a non-state-controlled church. He will convey his views about freedom of belief and expression in private, to the leaders of the system that imposes the controls. He is like a man who, worried about the chicken coop, decides to seek out the fox for a hard-hitting, confidential talk.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-09:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/08/bush-wimps-out-in-china.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Pineapple Express' Replicates The Experience Of Being High: There's Hilarity, Tedium, Paranoia, And It All Ends In A Diner]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/06/the-mini-review-pineapple-express.aspx</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Call it the Summer of the Hybrid--and, no, I'm not talking about Priuses, for which the waiting lists are now reportedly as long as six months. No, this is the summer that 'The Dark Knight' tried semi-successfully to combine a superhero flick with a philosophical inquiry, 'Hancock' tried rather less successfully to combine the same with a substance-abuse melodrama (among other things), and 'The Happening' tried, with complete success, to combine a horror movie with the thrill of watching paint dry.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-09:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/06/the-mini-review-pineapple-express.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitting Back At 'The New York Times' For Miscalculating The Trade-off Between National Security And The Public's Right To Know.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5a68f45e-c100-4850-b7fe-f99c7db36bc1</link><author>Jack Goldsmith</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice' By Eric Lichtblau(Pantheon, 384 pp., $26.95)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=5a68f45e-c100-4850-b7fe-f99c7db36bc1&amp;k=1103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside The Battle Over Abortion's Place In The Democrats' Platform]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=c03e5f26-5dd3-4274-ba69-901e15bf0d8d</link><author>Eric Zimmermann</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On an oppressively hot Saturday morning last month, a handful of pro-life activists gathered outside of a Starbucks in suburban Virginia to strategize about how to influence the Democratic Party's national platform. The meeting quickly turned into a support group of sorts, as the members justified the seeming contradiction inherent in pro-life Democrats. Jesse, a white 20-something who introduced himself as an "evangelical Christian running as fast as I can from the religious right," seethed, "Republicans' command and control over people's lives hasn't changed the reality of abortion."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=c03e5f26-5dd3-4274-ba69-901e15bf0d8d&amp;k=73420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Man On Wire" And The Thrill Of Watching Someone Dance Between The Twin Towers]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=46c98fc9-fad6-496f-8dd1-d1978f6c8bc3</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['There is no 'why,'' Philippe Petit says he told the Port Authority
policemen who questioned him following his 45-minute promenade on a
high wire suspended between the towers of the World Trade Center on the
morning of August 7, 1974.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=46c98fc9-fad6-496f-8dd1-d1978f6c8bc3&amp;k=35181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let The Games--And The Fraught Moral Dilemmas--Begin!]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=7205ba73-06c7-4d01-9eed-cf9b28247ff2</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--When you put the Olympics in the hands of a dictatorship,
the results are predictable. Yet the Chinese government still found a
way of surprising even its critics by behaving oppressively in a
foolishly unnecessary way.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-08:story.html?id=7205ba73-06c7-4d01-9eed-cf9b28247ff2&amp;k=28837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Obama Vs. Hillary Tell Us About Obama Vs. McCain?]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/07/what-does-obama-v-hillary-tell-us-about-obama-v-mccain.aspx</link><author>Noam Scheiber</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:10:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Short answer: Not much.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/07/what-does-obama-v-hillary-tell-us-about-obama-v-mccain.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Obama Campaign's DNA Is Changing As It Adds Political Insiders And Clintonites. Will It Still Function?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8866d124-caf1-4f9a-a012-9e2225da2088</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Earlier this summer, when the Obama campaign announced that Jason Furman was joining its staff as director of economic policy, the storyline seemed to write itself: Centrist adviser will pull Obama to the right.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:story.html?id=8866d124-caf1-4f9a-a012-9e2225da2088&amp;k=58018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Obama's Decisions Are Made: An Interactive Tour Through Obamaland's Wonk Factory]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=922de32a-88d3-418b-88d2-95485100ecb0</link><author>Jonathan Cohn</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[How Obama's Decisions Are Made: An Interactive Tour Through Obamaland's Wonk Factory]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=922de32a-88d3-418b-88d2-95485100ecb0</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: 'Stuff White People Like' Author Thinks White People Wouldn't Know A Herd Mentality If It Trampled Them]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=ddd701ea-b6fc-4f72-baa8-350b46179301</link><author>James Martin</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last month, Christian Lander, creator of the hugely popular satirical website Stuff White People Like traveled to Washington D.C. to promote his best-selling new book. Since going online in January, his site has generated an insane amount of traffic...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:story.html?id=ddd701ea-b6fc-4f72-baa8-350b46179301&amp;k=88785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Democrats: Where Obama’s Most Persuadable Voters Can Be Found]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/bushdemocrats.html</link><author>Nate Silver</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Campaigns talk all the time aobut 'persuadable voters,' and few voters are more persuadable than a voter from your own party with a history of splitting the ticket.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-07:http://www.tnr.com/bushdemocrats.html</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Republicans Became The Aggrieved Party]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=7c975910-3ce4-49fc-ad91-9db8ffeb0d34</link><author>Michael Schaffer</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Back in the languid summer of 2004, George Bush left it to a
shadowy 527 group to rough up his opponent. Straight talker that he is, John McCain is keeping the dishonest slime in-house.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=7c975910-3ce4-49fc-ad91-9db8ffeb0d34&amp;k=97071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traffic, The Meaning Of Life, And Why The Car Will Never Die]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5acdbca9-b49b-43fd-b180-b8abb0c68675</link><author>Edward L. Glaeser</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)'

By Tom Vanderbilt (Knopf, 403 pp., $24.95)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=5acdbca9-b49b-43fd-b180-b8abb0c68675&amp;k=6785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: 'The Dark Side' Writer Jane Mayer Reveals Cheney's Torture Machinations]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=fcc7f424-c6e8-4736-9caf-d1cb2cc69ec6</link><author>Jeffrey Rosen</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer, a staff writer at 'The New Yorker,' is the author of the new book 'he Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.' Last week, she sat down with Jeffrey Rosen, TNR's legal affairs editor, to discuss Dick Cheney's post-9/11 transformation, George Bush's being left out of the loop, and whether the precedents set by the this administration's war-on-terror policies will endure beyond Bush's term in office. (This is an edited transcript; you can listen to the full interview here.)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=fcc7f424-c6e8-4736-9caf-d1cb2cc69ec6&amp;k=14080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should U.S. Athletes Boycott Beijing? The Object Lesson Of Hitler's Olympics (In Cartoon Form).]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/theyrefusedtogo.html</link><author>Rafael Medoff and Sal Amendola</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['They refused to go to Hitler's Olympics']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:http://tnr.com/theyrefusedtogo.html</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Karadzic Win The Bosnian War?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=c8b88992-73f4-4246-9379-292308019bfb</link><author>Alvaro Vargas Llosa</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[VIENNA--As I look at "The Kiss," Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's delicate masterpiece, in one of Vienna's Belvedere palaces, my head fills with the memories of my two trips to war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s. The papers recently have been full of coverage about the capture of Radovan Karadzic, the former president of Bosnia's breakaway Serbs. He is believed to have spent part of the last year hiding in Vienna--the city from where Bosnia was governed until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-06:story.html?id=c8b88992-73f4-4246-9379-292308019bfb&amp;k=55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despots And The Lobbyists Who Love Them]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0b37d029-cdc6-4ad3-9ab8-6bf386bb5469</link><author>James Kirchick</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Joe Szlavik remembers the moment when he began to suspect that his work on behalf of the Kingdom of Swaziland was an enormous waste of time. It was 2006, and Szlavik--a lobbyist who had represented foreign governments ranging from Burundi to Gabon to Uganda, as well as the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan--was helping Swaziland, a tiny, landlocked monarchy sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/e028eb9a-84d6-4def-93db-73f7261fb08f/pig.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:story.html?id=0b37d029-cdc6-4ad3-9ab8-6bf386bb5469&amp;k=7821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Makes Tim Kaine Better Than Kathleen Sebelius For V.P.? It’s Certainly Not His Record.]]></title><link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/04/why-kaine-over-sebelius.aspx</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look these days it's Tim Kaine, Tim Kaine, Tim Kaine. The Virginia governor has emerged as the "change"-oriented veep choice for Obama. But if we're talking about outside-of-Washington options, why have we forgotten all about Kansas guv Kathleen Sebelius? Has the objection of some--I suspect more like a very vocal few--Hillary supporters to promoting any political woman besides Hillary really dimmed Sebelius's chances?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/08/04/why-kaine-over-sebelius.aspx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanskrit Comes Alive! On The Wonders Of Ancient Indian Literature]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=9c627c2b-8763-4bf2-8614-f92496313773</link><author>David Shulman</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[CLAY SANSKRIT LIBRARY -- New York University Press]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/sanskrit inside.jpg" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:story.html?id=9c627c2b-8763-4bf2-8614-f92496313773&amp;k=78865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OK, Race Is Now Officially Part Of The Campaign--But There's A Better Way To Do This]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=d3122a09-6de0-4199-a3bd-26511a37c16d</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Will the race issue go back into the closet for the rest of the presidential campaign? Of course not, so where do we go from here?]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-05:story.html?id=d3122a09-6de0-4199-a3bd-26511a37c16d&amp;k=23809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Screwed Is The GOP? Meet Allen West, A Desperate Candidate For Desperate Times.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=24bca34f-6a82-401d-a964-cb667b77a0c9</link><author>Eve Fairbanks</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Most political junkies never get the chance to protect the candidates they admire from rapacious Muslim terrorists with a yen for televised beheadings. But, just last week, Yomin Postelnik--a Pompano Beach, Florida, GOP activist--answered his own personal three a.m. call when, he wrote, a 'low-level operative' with a Middle Eastern group attempted to ferry the Republican nominee for Congress in Florida's 22nd district, Allen West, to 'an undisclosed location' and 'pull off what most certainly seems to be a heinous stunt.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:story.html?id=24bca34f-6a82-401d-a964-cb667b77a0c9&amp;k=81840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Much-Praised New Book Wants The GOP To Stand Up For Families. It's A Great Idea--And Obama's Already Doing It.]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f903f247-077b-4ae7-9712-d2eb855e87ef</link><author>Robert Gordon</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In their smart and fun new book, 'Grand New Party,' Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam urge Republicans to spend trillions of dollars on policies to shore up working-class families.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f903f247-077b-4ae7-9712-d2eb855e87ef</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TNR Q&A: Walter Russell Mead Discusses Jacksonian Voters]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=633eb299-08a9-4d88-998a-0a556a6832bc</link><author>Barron YoungSmith</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ever since the primaries, when Barack Obama had trouble
picking up votes in Appalachia and Hillary Clinton posed as the candidate of 'hard-working Americans,' strategists have been worried about his ability to pick up the instinctively populist voters whom historian Walter Russell Mead dubs 'Jacksonians.']]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:story.html?id=633eb299-08a9-4d88-998a-0a556a6832bc&amp;k=83718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SLIDESHOW: How Desperate Is The GOP? Meet This Year's Oddest Congressional Candidates]]></title><link>http://www.tnr.com/gallery/popup.html?topic=GOP&amp;g=0&amp;p=1</link><author>James Martin</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Things are looking grim for the GOP's efforts to win back Congress this year. Financially, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is in big trouble: after spending...]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-04:http://www.tnr.com/gallery/popup.html?topic=GOP&amp;g=0&amp;p=1</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing Has Gone Right For John McCain. So Why Is The Race So Close?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=0e0dbc4f-000d-4d75-9f23-614ae8d06494</link><author>The Editors</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week, for the first time in our history, we had an African American president. Barack Obama posed for pictures with Angela Merkel and toured the skies of Iraq with David Petraeus. Meanwhile, George W. Bush was nowhere to be seen, as if he had already handed over the keys to the White House.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=0e0dbc4f-000d-4d75-9f23-614ae8d06494&amp;k=70964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living Vicariously Through A Gay, British Gangster]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=6a2e119e-1bd3-4400-bcf2-abff7dfae593</link><author>Stanley Kauffmann</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['A Very British Gangster' (Anywhere Road)

'Boy A' (The Weinstein Company)]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=6a2e119e-1bd3-4400-bcf2-abff7dfae593&amp;k=1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How The Republican Party Stopped Dreaming About A Permanent Majority And Learned To Think Like McCain Strategist Steve Schmidt]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=3c33403d-a212-43db-99ae-6fe3af25fd63</link><author>Laurence Lowe</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sergeant Schmidt. The Artillery Shell. The Bullet.

Even in the hyper-competitive world of political media
strategists--a line of work that tends to reward the studied deployment of affectation and outsized personality--Steve Schmidt, the tough-talking, shaven-headed, 37-year old former high school tight end from North Plainfield, New Jersey, who recently emerged from a scrum among John McCain's inner circle to become the head of day-to-day operations, arrived on the national stage trailing more colorful nicknames than most.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=3c33403d-a212-43db-99ae-6fe3af25fd63&amp;k=80358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When American Cities Get Whiter And Richer, What Happens To The Suburbs? The Fascinating Phenomenon of Demographic Inversion.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=264510ca-2170-49cd-bad5-a0be122ac1a9</link><author>Alan Ehrenhalt</author><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, the mayor of Chicago was unseated by a snowstorm. A blizzard in January of 1979 dumped some 20 inches on the ground, causing, among other problems, a curtailment of transit service.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-02:story.html?id=264510ca-2170-49cd-bad5-a0be122ac1a9&amp;k=44956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Swing Vote': Kevin Costner's Aggressively Mediocre Satire Is Too Chicken To Pick A Target]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=14beefbc-e3a9-4432-8706-cecf3225e312</link><author>Christopher Orr</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Swing Vote' stars Kevin Costner as a drunken loser who,
thanks to a voting glitch, gets singlehandedly to decide the
presidential election. Based on that brief description, you can
probably determine whether or not this is a movie you'd like to see, as it is neither appreciably better nor dramatically worse than its hokey, please-describe-me-as-'Capraesque' premise.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-01:story.html?id=14beefbc-e3a9-4432-8706-cecf3225e312&amp;k=92940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serbia Is Finally Moving Past The Milosevic Era--But Is It Moving In The Right Direction?]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=1f6b96a6-7173-4ecb-a6f4-449bc1d8a985</link><author>Jacques Rupnik</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["I have been born to live without a grave, this human body will never die, it was not born just to smell flowers but also to set aflame, kill, and reduce to dust."]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-01:story.html?id=1f6b96a6-7173-4ecb-a6f4-449bc1d8a985&amp;k=23551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What John McCain Can Learn From The Head Of The Conservative Party In Britain]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=363dc0af-8e0f-40e3-bc0f-e66aebd08331</link><author>E.J. Dionne, Jr.</author><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--It was a little-noticed episode during Barack Obama's boffo foreign trip, but it was the moment most relevant to the American presidential campaign.]]></description><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-08-01:story.html?id=363dc0af-8e0f-40e3-bc0f-e66aebd08331&amp;k=81997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Heavier Cross To Bear: One Reason Kathleen Sebelius May be a More Dangerous V.P. Choice Than Tim Kaine.]]></title><link>http://tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5858a2eb-695f-44cd-b4e1-b9e933571986</link><author>Michael Sean Winters</author><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius reportedly sit on top of Barack Obama's vice presidential short list.]]></description><enclosure url="http://media.canada.com/24be34eb-ecfe-4969-88c2-5aa898db4139/COVERSIBELIUSKAINE.JPG" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure><guid>tag:canada.com,2008-07-31:story.html?id=5858a2eb-695f-44cd-b4e1-b9e933571986&amp;k=49610</guid></item></channel></rss>