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		<title>The corruption of American politics</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2012/02/03/corruption-american-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Occupy to the Tea Party, the obsession with corruption is far more damaging to democracy than politicians' alleged shady dealings. 
Read my review of Throw Them All Out, by Peter Schweizer, and Republic, Lost, by Lawrence Lessig, published in spiked, here.
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		<title>This week&#8217;s articles of note</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2012/01/30/weeks-articles-note-71/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The Obama memos," The New Yorker, by Ryan Lizza
"Making it in America," The Atlantic, by Adam Davidson
"Mega-man: the fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom," Ars Technica, by Sean Gallagher
"How much is an astronaut's life worth?" Reason, by Adam Zubrin
"Do the classics have a future?" The New York Review of Books, by Mary Beard
"Unhappy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A political fiasco of historic proportions</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2012/01/24/political-fiasco-historic-proportions/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2012/01/24/political-fiasco-historic-proportions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is ailing, yet the bunch of political misfits posing as Republican presidential candidates can’t make any mileage from that.
Read my spiked article in full here.
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		<title>Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2012!</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-wishes-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-wishes-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americansituation.com/?p=2696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope you enjoy the holiday season, and see you in the new year!
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		<title>2011&#8217;s best articles</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/23/2011s-articles/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/23/2011s-articles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my top 10 articles for the year (in alphabetical order by the author's last name):
"Politics' fatal therapeutic turn," Dissent, by Zelda Bronstein
"Condemned to joy: the Western cult of happiness is a mirthless enterprise," City Journal, by Pascal Bruckner
"Health now: a provocation," The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Mark Edmundson
"The rise of the new global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming all the president&#8217;s men</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/23/blaming-presidents-men/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/23/blaming-presidents-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Ron Suskind's scintillating account of chaos and dissent in Obama's White House would be better if he had shaken off his teenage habit of blaming everything on Wall Street.
Read my review of Confidence Men, in the spiked review of books, here.
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		<title>Does Moneyball explain baseball?</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/05/moneyball/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/05/moneyball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The movie Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt, is now in cinemas. I read and thoroughly enjoyed Michael Lewis's book, but haven't had a chance to see the movie yet. But friends have asked what I think about the Moneyball premise - that is, the use of statistical analysis to improve the performance of sports teams - and here's what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week&#8217;s articles of note</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/02/weeks-articles-note-70/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/02/weeks-articles-note-70/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The path to 270: demographics versus economics in 2012 presidential election," Center for American Progress, by Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin (pdf)
"How the Euro crisis could destroy the US economy," The Atlantic, by Jim Tankersley
"Secret Fed loans helped banks net $13B," Bloomberg Markets Magazine, by Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz
"2012 = 1968?" New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frustration with democracy in the US</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/01/frustration-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2011/12/01/frustration-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://americansituation.com/?p=2658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an essay for spiked, Frank Furedi argues that the oligarchs of the European Union have turned decisively against democracy, in favor of elevating technocrats to positions of power in order to impose punitive austerity measures that do not have the backing of the electorate. Reading Furedi's article, I was struck by how there are similar trends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s out-smarts San Francisco&#8217;s toy banners</title>
		<link>http://americansituation.com/2011/11/30/mcdonalds-outsmarts-san-franciscos-toy-banners/</link>
		<comments>http://americansituation.com/2011/11/30/mcdonalds-outsmarts-san-franciscos-toy-banners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Collins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow San Francisco's "Healthy Food Incentive Ordinance" - which prohibits restaurants from providing free toys with meals unless the food meets its guidelines - comes into effect. The city government passed this law about a year ago, and  it mainly targets McDonald's, which provides a free toy with every one of its Happy Meals.
Will this mean the [...]]]></description>
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