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••• The Atlantic • Tim Alberta • 7 hours ago • theatlantic.com
He Voted to Impeach. Can He Survive in the GOP?
The political education of Peter Meijer
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•••••• The Washington Post • Matt Schudel • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor, dies at 66
A onetime foreign correspondent, Mr. Hiatt greatly expanded The Post's opinions department and wrote spirited columns and editorials on politics, foreign affairs and other matters.
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••• The New York Times • Maggie Haberman, Noah Weiland • 18 hours ago • nytimes.com
Trump’s Blood Oxygen Level in Covid Bout Was Dangerously Low, Former Aide Says
Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, said in his new book that the weakened president’s blood oxygen level reached 86 during a harrowing fight against the coronavirus.
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•• The Washington Post • Ashley Parker, John Hudson • 17 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ includes countries that hardly seem to qualify
The president has divided the world into those who got invited to the summit and those who did not, and the reasons behind the choices are not always clear.
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••••• The Atlantic • Barton Gellman • 1 day ago • theatlantic.com
January 6 Was Practice
Donald Trump is better positioned to subvert an election now than he was in 2020.
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••• The Washington Post • Editorial Board • 22 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Fred Hiatt was an editor of surpassing integrity, intelligence and compassion
Hiatt made it possible for The Post’s opinion writers and the content they produced to encompass a wide range of views on virtually every subject of public debate, without the rancor, personal enmity and bad faith that have become so prevalent elsewhere in Washington and the nation.
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•• Bloomberg • Madeleine Lim • 19 hours ago • bloomberg.com
Bloomberg News China Staffer Haze Fan Still Detained One Year On
Haze Fan, a member of Bloomberg News’s bureau in Beijing, has been detained since late last year, with no information forthcoming on her case. Fan was last seen on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, being escorted from her apartment building by plainclothes security officials. Chinese officials said at the time that Fan was detained by the Beijing National Security Bureau on suspicion of national security law violations.
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•• The Washington Post • Donald Graham • 18 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | I’ve never known a better editor than Fred Hiatt — or a better person
He was a fiercely independent-minded editorial page editor for an independent newspaper.
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• The Bulwark • Amanda Carpenter • 8 hours ago • thebulwark.com
Who is Jeffrey Clark and Why Does He Matter? - The Bulwark
There’s no good reason you should know Jeffrey Clark’s name. Before the 2020 election, he was just another run-of-the-mill Republican lawyer with a cushy appointment in the federal government. Post-election, he became a star in Trump’s eye as he proved that he was willing to do all the election subversion that his colleagues in the […]
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• The Washington Post • Paul Farhi • 18 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Meet the reporter who always seems to get a copy of the hottest tell-all Trump book first.
Martin Pengelly has consistently scooped the juiciest details from works by Mark Meadows, James Comey, Mary Trump and others — before they publish.
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• ProPublica • 8 hours ago • propublica.org
These Real Estate and Oil Tycoons Avoided Paying Taxes for Years
Donald Trump and other ultrarich Americans have earned billions, but they’ve also managed to repeatedly avoid paying any federal income tax by claiming huge losses on their businesses.
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••• The San Joaquin Valley Sun • Alex Tavlian • 21 hours ago • sjvsun.com
Devin Nunes announces intent to retire at end of 2021
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) will retire at the conclusion of his current and 10th term in Congress, his office told
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••••• POLITICO • Betsy Woodruff Swan, Meridith McGraw • 1 day ago • politico.com
'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6
In a 36-page memo to the Capitol riot committee, Col. Earl Matthews also slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-ridden report.
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• The Washington Post • Greg Sargent • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | A GOP lawyer issues a frantic warning to his own party about Trump and 2024
Unfortunately, that warning might go unheeded, and Trump is the reason.
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Nashville Scene • D. Patrick Rodgers • 2 hours ago • nashvillescene.com
Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Fallen
A widely mocked Nashville statue of the early KKK leader was removed Tuesday morning
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••• The Washington Post • Emma Brown, Rosalind S. Helderman, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Josh Dawsey • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Sidney Powell group raised more than $14 million spreading election falsehoods
Records also detail acrimony between Powell and her top lieutenants over how the money — now a focus of inquiries by federal prosecutors and Congress — was being handled.
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Can We Still Govern? • Don Moynihan • 5 hours ago • donmoynihan.substack.com
Fox News is Killing Us: Here are the Receipts
Causal evidence of the deadly influence of Fox News on COVID
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• The Washington Post • Amy B Wang, David Weigel • 19 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Rep. Devin Nunes to leave Congress to become Trump media company CEO
Nunes will step down from his seat at the end of December, according to an announcement Monday.
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Intelligencer • Shawn McCreesh • 19 hours ago • nymag.com
Party Like It’s January 6
A night out with Rudy Giuliani, Paul Gosar, and New York’s Young Republicans.
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POLITICO • Holly Otterbein • 9 hours ago • politico.com
Manchin and Sinema get star billing in Pa. Senate race
The Pennsylvania contest could determine the party’s new swing state playbook.
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The New York Times • Elizabeth A. Harris • 8 hours ago • nytimes.com
Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’
Social-media fandom can help authors score book deals and bigger advances, but does it translate to how a new title will sell? Publishers are increasingly skeptical.
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Slate • Robert McCoy • 1 day ago • slate.com
I’m the TikTok Couch Guy. Here’s What It Was Like Being Investigated on the Internet.
The invasive TikTok sleuthing I experienced was not an isolated instance, but rather the latest manifestation of a large-scale sleuthing culture.
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• The New York Times • Katharine Q. Seelye • 17 hours ago • nytimes.com
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post Editorial Page Editor, Dies at 66
He used his powerful platform to champion human rights, caution against a Trump presidency and condemn the killing of a Saudi columnist for the paper.
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POLITICO • Burgess Everett, Marianne LeVine • 9 hours ago • politico.com
Dems weigh forcing Manchin's hand on their $1.7T megabill
Some Democrats, eager to pass their social spending bill before Christmas, want to move forward on a vote before they get a firm commitment from the West Virginia centrist.
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The Washington Post • Amy Gardner, Josh Dawsey • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Trump spurs on GOP fight for Georgia governor, thrusting his false election claims to center stage
David Perdue’s decision to challenge incumbent Brian Kemp guarantees a bitter intraparty fight and keeps at the forefront Trump’s false claims that the 2020 vote was stolen.
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San Francisco Chronicle • Janelle Bitker • 20 hours ago • sfchronicle.com
S.F. made parklets permanent — but added so many rules that many restaurants plan to tear them down
San Francisco made parklets permanent earlier this year, part of the popular Shared...
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The Washington Post • Rick Noack, Sarah Dadouch • 1 hour ago • washingtonpost.com
France detains suspect in murder of Jamal Khashoggi at Paris airport
Khaled al-Otaibi has been identified as part of the team believed to behind the columnist’s murder at the Saudi consulate.
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• The New York Times • Lynsey Chutel, Richard Pérez-Peña, Emily Anthes • 19 hours ago • nytimes.com
Omicron Is Fast Moving, but Perhaps Less Severe, Early Reports Suggest
Researchers in South Africa, where the variant is spreading quickly, say it may cause less serious Covid cases than other forms of the virus, but it is unclear whether that will hold true.
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The Daily Beast • Roger Sollenberger • 17 hours ago • thedailybeast.com
Inside Dr. Oz’s Shameless Flip-Flop on Abortion
Dr. Oz claims to have seen up close what happens when women are forced to get unsafe abortions. But now that's he's running for Senate, he's fine with overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Variety • Brian Steinberg • 3 hours ago • variety.com
Yamiche Alcindor Joins NBC News as Washington Correspondent (EXCLUSIVE)
Yamiche Alcindor, whose journalistic profile has expanded during a recent tenure with PBS, is joining NBC News’ Washington team. Alcindor, who is expected to start with NBC in March, will cov…
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The 19th • eramshaw • 5 hours ago • 19thnews.org
The 19th hires Julia B. Chan as its next editor-in-chief
As editor-in-chief, Julia B. Chan will lead the The 19th newsroom in reimagining politics and policy news to better serve women, women of color and the LGBTQ+ community.
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POLITICO • Kyle Cheney • 3 hours ago • politico.com
Meadows pulls out of tentative cooperation deal with Jan. 6 investigators
The move comes as he takes heat from Donald Trump allies for writing a book that addresses the former president's vulnerability while battling Covid.
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The Washington Post • Jennifer Rubin • 3 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | The media has given Republicans a free pass on assaulting democracy
Democrats need to take the gloves off.
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Fox News • Ronn Blitzer • 5 hours ago • foxnews.com
Former WH chief of staff Mark Meadows will cease cooperation with Jan. 6 committee
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will no longer be cooperating with a committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, despite previous efforts to work with them.
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CNN • Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Jim Sciutto and Kylie Atwood, CNN • 4 hours ago • cnn.com
Biden administration considering options for possibly evacuating US citizens from Ukraine if Russia invades
The Biden administration is exploring options for a potential evacuation of US citizens from Ukraine if Russia were to invade the country and create a dire security situation, half a dozen sources tell CNN.
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The Dispatch • Scott Reed • 7 hours ago • thedispatch.com
Not With Rhetoric, but With Deeds
Bob Dole’s efforts and achievements spoke to what we love about America.
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The New York Times • David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt • 1 day ago • nytimes.com
Biden Expected to Offer Warnings and Alternatives in Call With Putin
The conflict in Ukraine will be a major topic during a high-stakes video call between President Biden and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday.
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WSJ • Warren P. Strobel • 14 hours ago • wsj.com
CIA Chief Says Intelligence Agencies Haven’t Concluded Russia Will Invade Ukraine
Russian President Putin is assembling a potent military force and may see a chance to act this winter, William Burns says.
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The Atlantic • Katherine J. Wu • 6 hours ago • theatlantic.com
Our COVID Isolation Policies Are Stuck in the Past
If vaccinated people are less likely to transmit the virus, maybe they should be able to test out of isolation.
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The New York Times • Talmon Joseph Smith • 8 hours ago • nytimes.com
Americans’ Pandemic-Era ‘Excess Savings’ Are Dwindling for Many
The drop in cash reserves has vast implications for the working class and could dampen consumer spending, a large share of economic activity.
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The American Prospect • Rachel M. Cohen • 13 hours ago • prospect.org
Interrogating a Critical Race Theory Critic
Providence, Rhode Island, English teacher Ramona Bessinger gained notoriety for calling out a ‘racially divisive’ curriculum. The reality is more complex.
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The New York Times • Dionne Searcey, Eric Lipton, Michael Forsythe, Ashley Gilbertson • 8 hours ago • nytimes.com
On the Banks of the Furious Congo River, a 5-Star Emporium of Ambition
As the clean energy revolution upends the centuries-long lock of fossil fuels on the global economy, dealmakers and hustlers converge on the Fleuve Congo Hotel.
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••• The Washington Post • Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey • 1 day ago • washingtonpost.com
Seven days: Following Trump’s reckless coronavirus trail
From the day of his first positive test until his hospitalization last year, the former president came in contact with more than 500 people in proximity to him or at crowded events, according to a Washington Post analysis.
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Axios • Lachlan Markay,Stef W. Kight • 17 hours ago • axios.com
Letter comparing parent protests to domestic terrorism triggers funding fallout
At least 17 state affiliates have severed ties with the group.
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Associated Press • Aamer Madhani • 13 hours ago • apnews.com
Biden to warn Putin of economic pain if he invades Ukraine | AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to warn Vladimir Putin during a video call Tuesday that Russia will face economy-jarring sanctions if it invades neighboring Ukraine as the U.S. president seeks a diplomatic solution to deal with the tens of thousands of Russian troops massed near the Ukraine border .
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• CNN • Jamie Gangel, Michael Warren and Ryan Nobles, CNN • 19 hours ago • cnn.com
CNN Exclusive: Top Pence aide cooperating with January 6 committee
Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6 committee, a significant development that will give investigators insight from one of the highest-ranking Trump officials, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee's activities.
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BuzzFeed News • Hamed Aleaziz • 19 hours ago • buzzfeednews.com
An Internal Document Shows DHS Officials Advised Against Haitian Deportations, Fearing They Could Violate Human Rights Obligations
The internal warning sheds new light into how some within the department had deep concerns about the safety of Haitians being returned to their home country.
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• The New Yorker • Michael Schulman • 3 days ago • newyorker.com
On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke
“I take him as seriously as I take my own life,” he says of his character, Kendall Roy.
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POLITICO • Alex Thompson • 19 hours ago • politico.com
Kamala Harris is Bluetooth-phobic
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Commentary Magazine • Christine Rosen • Last hour • commentary.org
Teaching Leftist Bigotry in Public Schools
Why was an anti-Semitic activist group invited to a public school to recruit children to its cause? The group in question, Sunrise Movement, is a “full-fledged advocacy organization with a
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