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			<title><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt on parallels between the Iraq, Afghanistan troop surges]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ No wonder conservatives are unhappy with the president. Imagine undermining an announced escalation of troops by simultaneously laying out a schedule for them to step back -- and suggesting that the mission will end if the government that America is trying to help doesn't shape up. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt: Will health reform signal progress or paralysis?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Is American democracy in paralysis? That question emerged at a conference of big thinkers and experts in various fields organized last week by Foreign Policy magazine, our sister publication. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt on stepping closer to universal health care -- and bankruptcy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The House passage of health-care reform Saturday night should be a moment of celebration. In a country as wealthy as America, no one should have to go without medical care. As in other developed nations, everyone should have access to doctors, to medicine, to preventive services. The House bill would take America a giant step closer to that goal. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hiatt on the public option -- Talk cloaks political inaction]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The "public option" is dangerous not for what it might do but for what it allows the politicians not to do.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114448079" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114448079" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Policies Risk Bolstering Tyrants]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Our concern is that the Obama administration is perceived to be softening on human rights." <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Does Russia Get It on Iran?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "I think Russia has begun to see many more indications that Iran is engaging in threatening behavior. Certainly these last incidents seem to confirm that. And, finally, the Russians were very supportive of our sanctions against North Korea. President Medvedev said in this room that sanctions may not be preferable, but they may be inevitable." <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Change in Japan Won't Be Easy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Just as the health-care debate was showing how hard it is to translate the slogan of change into reality, newly inaugurated Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama swept into New York, branding himself as the Barack Obama of Japan. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Alternative for Accountability on Torture: A Presidential Commission]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ If President Obama has been frustrated in his desire not to look back at Bush-era detention practices, it is because he is caught between two fundamental but seemingly irreconcilable American principles.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114451751" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114451751" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[None of Health Reform's Competing Visions Find a Clear Majority]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ One unusual feature of the congressional debate on health care helps explain why the August meetings with voters may be generating more heat than light: Broadly speaking, there are three sides to the debate -- and none, on first look, is obviously attractive to a majority of voters. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Deficit Plan Can Be Read Two Ways]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Here are two versions of the summer sizzler "President Obama and the Exploding Deficit," playing in a cineplex near you: <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Needs Long-Term Plan for Deficit]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Since the Reagan era, some conservatives have hoped to shrink government by "starving the beast." Refuse to raise taxes, they figured, and eventually spending would have to fall. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Universal Coverage Demands Real Savings]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ If you listened to President Obama addressing the American Medical Association last week, you might think that the primary purpose of health-care reform is, as he said, "to control the spiraling cost of health care in America."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114457462" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114457462" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[One-Party Rule in Washington -- It's Not Gridlock, but . . .]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ For moderate voters clinging to some faith in government, the question over the past two decades of mostly two-party rule was: Can't Washington do anything? <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Souter's 'Safe Place']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ On those rare occasions when someone in Washington voluntarily cedes power, the normal reaction from everyone else -- perhaps to avoid any potentially dangerous moments of self-reflection -- is to assume that the departee must be not quite well. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Human Rights Work in Putin and Medvedev's Russia]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Tanya Lokshina did not set out to put her life in danger as a human rights campaigner in Russia. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Federal Government's Broken Hiring System]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ When I ask political appointees of either party what surprises them about government service, one answer consistently comes back: the talent and dedication of the civil servants they are working with.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114502060" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114502060" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Bipartisan Budget Commission is a Bad Idea -- but It May Be Necessary]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ No one would ever accuse of Rep. Frank Wolf of being slick. He is not, he would probably be the first to admit, especially eloquent. He doesn't get by on charisma. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Bill Gates Would Repair Our Schools]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ You might call it the Obama-Duncan-Gates-Rhee philosophy of education reform. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Breaking the Gridlock on How We Pay for Roads]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ America's failure to build and repair the roads and rails it needs, says Robert D. Atkinson, is "emblematic" of the larger mess we're in: "We're a generation that has been irresponsible, and we're passing on a degraded capital asset to our children." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt: Obama's War and the Risks of Realism]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Even while sending 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan last week, the Obama administration was signaling a new modesty of American intentions there.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114506357" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114506357" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Russia Reality Check]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MUNICH -- As European leaders listened joyfully here to the Obama administration's first expressions of foreign policy, nothing pleased them more than Vice President Biden's vow "to press the reset button" in relations with Russia. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[De-emphasizing Democracy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Martin Luther King Jr., born 80 years ago, would not have taken kindly to any suggestion that blacks should delay their push for voting rights while tending to other concerns: low wages, say, or police brutality. Civil rights leaders understood that political power was a prerequisite to fixing income disparities, ending unequal justice and curing other ills. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[One Rap Sheet in Singapore]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Chee Soon Juan spent much of Friday in court. Nothing unusual in that. An opposition leader in Singapore, Chee spends quite a few days in prison and, when he's not in prison, quite a few more in court, as a defendant. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Help Rhee?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A principal recently was defending a teacher whom D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee had observed in the classroom and found wanting.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114513565" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114513565" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[On Burma, A Phony Realism]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Almost a year ago, a Buddhist monk on the run from authorities published an op-ed in The Post advocating democracy for his Southeast Asian nation of Burma. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[What McCain Hasn't Tried]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ John McCain likes Barack Obama. He admires and respects Obama. He believes Obama is "very impressive, he's thoughtful, he's centrist." Obama has "probably got a great future." He is "a very honest and fine person" -- "absolutely" qualified to be president. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Battle For Hope In Iraq]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ It's easy to forget the utter hopelessness that had settled on Washington with regard to Iraq less than two years ago. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[One Voice on Georgia]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Despite their sharp jabs at each other's reaction to Russia's invasion of Georgia, Barack Obama and John McCain agree about the most fundamental question it poses. Yet both campaigns know that the issue could define their differences for voters in critical if unpredictable ways. <br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114518726" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=506114518726" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who Made Russia Attack?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ As Russian forces loot and occupy a neighboring state, conscripting Georgian civilians at gunpoint to sweep their city streets, it's not uncommon, in Moscow or in Washington, to find America at fault. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Answering McCain's Attacks]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ As a week of name-calling and rapid responses faded into history, political practitioners seemed to agree that John McCain had diminished himself and his straight-talk brand with negative ads and petty misrepresentations. Yet, surprisingly, a consensus also seemed to be forming that Barack Obama, at least tactically, had not come out on top. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Hiatt]]></dc:creator>
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