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		<title>How Syria’s Rebels Aren’t Winning the War: The Anatomy of a Battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Republicans Seem to Be Out of Economic Ideas — Here Are Two Suggestions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<title>Turkey’s Erdogan Visits the US: 4 Problems That Won’t Be Solved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Roots of Sexual Abuse in the Military</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 17</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Will: Obama&#8217;s tapped out trust Peggy Noonan: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: What&#8217;s at stake if Obamacare is repealed Syria begins to break apart under war&#8217;s pressure House Republicans opened a hearing on the IRS&#8217;s targeting of conservative groups with harsh words. FBI seeks source of prostitution, corruption allegations against Sen. Robert Menendez Debating the legal basis for the War on Terror Obama and the Nixonian Umbrella Rep. Michele Bachmann is back<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95955&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America the Isolated?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fareed Zakaria</dc:creator>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take the money and run: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew asked IRS Commissioner Steve Miller to resign after it was revealed that the IRS Cincinnati office targeted conservative groups for additional scrutiny. Obama Administration releases 100 pages of Benghazi emails  Prettier in Print Cover: &#8220;The Angelina Effect&#8220; Joe Klein: &#8220;Sorting Out the Scandals&#8220; Alex Altman: Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley may be to blame if immigration reform doesn&#8217;t pass Fareed Zakaria: &#8220;America the Isolated?&#8220; Michael Grunwald on the failure of Fisker Automotive and the green revolution Michael Scherer: &#8220;Auditing the IRS&#8220; Mitch McConnell&#8216;s legacy will be his defeat The Economist debates breaking up big banks The Fix in defense of fun journalism National Review: Scandal is not an agenda Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Attorney General Eric Holder battle it out at yesterday&#8217;s hearing.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95796&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read: Newly Released Benghazi Emails</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the Obama administration&#8217;s emails regarding the Benghazi talking points. The emails were first released to CNN.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95752&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Sexual-Assault Investigation Likely to Spur Congressional Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 15</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/15/morning-must-reads-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FBI launches a criminal probe of IRS for its treatment of Tea Party groups Attorney General Eric Holder will face a barrage of questions Wednesday on Capitol Hill in the wake of his decision to recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation that has targeted media phone records. The deficit is poised to shrink to its lowest level since 2008, and the projected growth in Medicare spending has fallen by $500 billion since August Economic output contracted in the Euro zone for a sixth-straight quarter, as a slight recovery in Germany failed to offset recessions in France and Italy Dana Milbank: Obama attempts to defeat AP and IRS scandals by doing nothing By the Numbers: The Boston Marathon Bombings, one month later Pentagon employees will be ordered to take unpaid furloughs of up to 11 days between July 8 and the end of September In May the Texas House of Representatives passed twelve bills in a single day designed to soften gun laws The government wants to drop the blood alcohol limit for being legally drunk to .05 BAC in order to avoid drunk driving fatalities. David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; performed in space<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95676&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Administration Looks to Latin America After Years of Neglect</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/13/has-washington-finally-discovered-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<title>Obama-Friendly Think Tank Ponders a Nuclear-Armed Iran</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/05/14/obama-friendly-think-tank-ponders-a-nuclear-armed-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron Visits U.S., but the Real Action Is Across the Pond</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/13/u-k-prime-minister-david-cameron-visits-u-s-but-the-real-action-is-across-the-pond/#ixzz2TGgqe5Tb</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 14</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/14/morning-must-reads-may-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting conservative groups JFK, Nixon, and Clinton administrations used the IRS for political harassment Justice Department obtained phone records for several Associated Press reporters as part of a national security leak probe U.S. shale oil will help meet most of the world&#8217;s new oil demand in the next five years, even if the global economy picks up steam David Brooks: Victoria Nuland shouldn&#8217;t be the Benghazi scapegoat 5 Obamacare anxieties Why women went to Kermit Gosnell Time to ask Obama about Gosnell Frank Bruni: Our ceaseless political circus Angelina Jolie: Why I got a double mastectomy The US drone economy will primarily be agricultural The Daily Show features TIME health care exposé<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95584&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 13</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/13/morning-must-reads-may-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221;—The IRS field office in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status also decided to focus on groups making statements that “criticize how the country is being run” and those that were involved in educating Americans “on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.” Joe Klein: Obama &#8220;on same page&#8221; as Richard Nixon China&#8216;s growth weakens What to take away from the Heritage Foundation&#8216;s $6.3 trillion immigration reform paper debacle Nearly 20,000 service members are raped or sexually assaulted each year by predators who often evade punishment. How can the Pentagon stop them? Projected Pakistan Prime Minister winner Nawaz Sharif must quickly resolve accusations of vote rigging and focus on three crucial tasks: economic stability, rural politics, and the army. South Korea’s leader Park Geun-hye apologizes for aide’s sexual misconduct in Washington UK Prime Minister David Cameron is meeting with Obama ahead of next month&#8217;s G-8 trade summit Seth Myers to take over for Jimmy Fallon as host of Late Night<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95440&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 10</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/10/morning-must-reads-may-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On jobs tour in Texas, Obama offers little new hope for jobs progress In Washington Benghazi talking points underwent 12 revisions, scrubbed of terror reference Senate takes step forward on immigration reform Woman rescued from Bangladesh rubble two weeks after collapse Paul Krugman: Does Bernake blow bubbles? Charles Krauthammer: Pink line over Syria Hispanic voter turnout is weak What Wall St. and Europe&#8217;s banks have learned five years after the fall Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced her first piece of legislation this week, a proposal that would allow students to take out government educational loans at the same rate that big banks pay to borrow from the federal government. Some small businesses rip E-Bay for opposing online sales tax legislation Prince Harry tours the U.S.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95323&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: May 9</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/09/morning-must-reads-may-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama to talk about jobs in Texas What you need to know from yesterday&#8217;s Benghazi congressional hearing The Fact Checker&#8216;s take  Prettier in Print: Joel Stein&#8217;s cover story on &#8220;The New Greatest Generation&#8220; &#8220;Strong Safety&#8221; by Michael Scherer. The new White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough, has beer for his rivals, doughnuts for the press and big plans for D.C. Online teaser here. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Sen. John McCain duel in the pages of TIME Magazine (and here and here) on whether or not the US should intervene in Syria. &#8220;Long Live the Lightbulb&#8221; by Michael Grunwald. Government regulation has sparked competition to make more efficient, cheaper lightbulbs &#8220;Chris Christie&#8217;s Secret Surgery&#8221; by Alice Park David von Drehle&#8217;s &#8220;The Prison Next Door&#8221; on the rescue of Amanda Berry, her daughter, and two other women from years of captivity. TIME Warner and other spinoffs Wall Street hires Washington Big banks push back against tighter rules George Will on Obama&#8217;s 2014 hopes TIME matched up with Google to make Timelapse pictures. From Dubai to Alberta they tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95252&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria: Intervention Will Only Make it Worse</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/08/syria-intervention-will-only-make-it-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zbigniew Brzezinski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article appears in this week&#8217;s magazine under the title, &#8220;Intervention Will Only Make it Worse.&#8221; Brzezinski rebuts Sen. John McCain, who argues in his article that Syrian intervention is in the U.S. interest. The Syrian conflict is a sectarian war in a volatile region whose potential to spread and directly threaten American interests would only be increased by U.S. intervention. The struggle is between forces funded and armed by outside sponsors, notably Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran. Also participating are foreign religious groups not directly controlled by the sponsors, namely the Sunni Salafists and Iranian-aligned militias, not to mention intensely anti-Western al-Qaeda fighters. American involvement would simply mobilize the most extreme elements of these factions against the U.S. and pose the danger that the conflict would spill over into the neighborhood and set Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon on fire. That risk has been compounded by the recent Israeli bombing of weapons sites inside Syria. Whatever their justification, the attacks convey to some Arabs the sense that there is an external plot against them. That impression would be solidified if the U.S. were now to enter the fight, suggesting a de facto American-Israeli-Saudi alliance, which would play into the hands of the extremists. (PHOTOS: Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War) Broader regional fighting could bring the U.S. and Iran into direct conflict, a potentially major military undertaking for the U.S. A U.S.-Iran confrontation linked to the Syrian crisis could spread the area of conflict even to Afghanistan. Russia would benefit from America’s being bogged down again in the Middle East. China would resent U.S. destabilization of the region because Beijing needs stable access to energy from the Middle East. To minimize these potential consequences, U.S. military intervention would have to achieve a decisive outcome relatively quickly through the application of overwhelming force. That would require direct Turkish involvement, which seems unlikely given Turkey’s internal difficulties, particularly its tenuous relations with its substantial Kurdish minority. The various schemes that have been proposed for a kind of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95192&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syria: Intervention is in Our Interest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article appears in this week&#8217;s magazine. McCain rebuts Zbigniew Brzezinski, who argues in his article that Syrian intervention will only make the situation worse. The strategic and humanitarian costs of the conflict in Syria continue to rise, not just for Syrians but also for vital U.S. interests. Chemical weapons have likely been used by President Bashar Assad’s regime against civilians, and more than 70,000 people have been slaughtered. The -al-Qaeda-aligned al-Nusra Front has gained unprecedented strength on the ground. Iran and its proxy Hizballah are building a network of militias inside Syria. A staggering 5 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes. Meanwhile, cross-border spillover threatens the security and stability of our allies and partners Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Lebanon. I know Americans are war-weary and eager to focus on our domestic and economic problems, not foreign affairs. I also know the situation in Syria is complex and there are no ideal options. But the basic choice we face is not complicated: Do the costs of inaction outweigh the costs of action? The events of the past 26 months have convinced me that they do. All of the terrible consequences those against intervening predicted would happen in Syria if we intervened happened because we did not. This conflict will grind on with all of its worsening effects until the military balance of power shifts more decisively against Assad and his Iranian, Russian and Hizballah backers. (PHOTOS: Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War) The U.S. does not have to act alone, put boots on the ground or destroy every Syrian air-defense system to make a difference. We could train and arm well-vetted Syrian opposition forces, as recommended last year by President Obama’s national-security team. We could strike Assad’s aircraft and Scud-missile launchers. We could destroy artillery and drive Assad’s forces from their posts. We could station Patriot-missile batteries just outside Syria to create safe zones across the border. Taking these steps would save innocent lives, give the moderate opposition a better chance to succeed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=95183&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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