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		<title>Did Haley Stevens Endorse Abdul El-Sayed? Yes — and She Deserves Credit for Following Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Haley Stevens endorsed Abdul El-Sayed after losing Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. That does not vindicate “vote blue no matter who” — but it does deserve some respect.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hillary Clinton Should Retire From Politics. The Democratic Party Needs to Move On.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton’s latest comments about Abdul El-Sayed reveal a larger problem: Democrats need to stop relitigating 2016 and move beyond establishment politics.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Abdul El-Sayed Won. What Happened to “Vote Blue No Matter Who”?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Progressives spent years being told that primary grievances ended when Democratic voters chose a nominee. Now Abdul El-Sayed has won—and some of the same political faction that demanded unity is contemplating voting Republican. So was “vote blue no matter who” ever a principle, or only a rule for progressives?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Abdul El-Sayed Won the Michigan Primary. His Opponents Do Not Get to Rewrite His Campaign Afterward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed openly campaigned against AIPAC’s political influence, survived approximately $32 million in spending by its super PAC, and won the Democratic nomination. The losing faction may seek dialogue, but it does not get to redefine his winning argument as an attack on Jewish civic identity.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Is Solarpunk? America’s Future Beyond the Overton Window</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Solarpunk imagines a democratic, renewable, repairable future. Much of its technology already exists. The harder transition is political: moving that future into America’s Overton window.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Trees Outgrow the Tents: Khan Younis and Gaza’s Permanent Humanitarian Limbo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda returned to Khan Younis to find that supposedly temporary tent communities had existed long enough for newly planted trees to grow around them. Her reporting raises the question the world has avoided: when, and under what plan, will Gaza’s displaced families be allowed to live in real homes again?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jeffrey Miller Wants to Show Zohran Mamdani What Genocide Looks Like. He Should Be Willing to Look at Gaza.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Miller, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, reportedly offered New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a personal tour of the Holocaust Museum so that he could “truly understand” what genocide looks like. Mamdani should accept. He should walk through the museum, study the evidence, listen to the testimony and honor the Jewish [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Your Phone Is Not a Border Agent’s Playground: Why the Samuel Tunick Prosecution Should Be Dismissed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors charged Samuel Tunick after a duress password wiped his phone. Here is why the case threatens privacy and constitutional rights.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Propaganda of Apathy: Why Geopolitics Is Never Someone Else’s Problem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When people discuss Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, global shipping, military alliances, sanctions, or international trade, a familiar response often appears: Why do you care so much? What does any of this have to do with your life? There are problems here at home. Politics is all corrupt anyway. AI is going to replace everyone, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Bird That Outsourced Its Problems (And Accidentally Invented a Human Partnership)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherafgan Khan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative & Personal Writing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you about a bird. Not a majestic bird. Not an eagle carving circles into a copper sky. Not a falcon, folding itself into a blade and falling at two hundred miles an hour like a feathered act of God. No. I want to talk about a bird that looked at the entire [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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