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Gershom Gorenberg / American Prospect:
Bibi's Agreement Anxiety Disorder — To explain Benjamin Netanyahu's frenzied reaction to the Geneva agreement on Iran's nuclear program, let me begin with the stack of brown cardboard boxes under my wife's desk. — Each of the five cartons contains a gas mask and related paraphernalia …
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Alex Kane / Mondoweiss:
(Updated) Senator Chuck Schumer promises more Iran sanctions, vows to ‘defeat’ Arab world and Palestinians — New York Senator Chuck Schumer was his usual hawkish self on Sunday evening. In an address to the OHEL Children's Home and Family Services gala, Schumer railed against the deal …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Deal or No Deal — The final details of a nuclear agreement signed over the weekend between Iran and Western nations will not actually go into effect until further negotiations take place at a later date, according to a senior administration official and sources on Capitol Hill.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans mindlessly oppose Iran nuclear deal
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Matthew Kroenig / Foreign Policy:
Now for the Hard Part — The Iran deal is a good first step.
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Noah Millman / The American Conservative:
The Obama Legacy: Iran vs. Healthcare.gov
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Hosts: Was Iran Deal's ‘Curious Timing’ Meant to Change Subject From Obamacare?
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The Times of Israel:
Shifting gears, Israeli team heading to US to try to shape final nuclear pact
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
HealthCare.gov won't be perfect on Dec. 1, administration says — Administration officials said Monday that some visitors to ObamaCare's federal enrollment site would experience outages, slow response times or messages to try again later during the month of December.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
USA Today won't publish handout photos from White House — In a memo to staff Sunday, USA Today Deputy Director of Multimedia Andrew P. Scott said the news organization will not use “handout photos originating from the White House Press Office, except in very extraordinary circumstances.”
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Dems worry leaders in denial on Obamacare
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Filibuster's end imperils Sebelius
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Right-wing extremists face new moral conundrum — When Healthcare.gov actually starts working, GOP will have to choose between politics or their constituents' health — The confluence of two pieces of news last week will place Republicans at a moral crossroads — either by this weekend …
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Top U.S. hospital laying off staff due to Obamacare
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Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Four Adults Charged With Helping Cover Up The Steubenville Rape Case — CREDIT: AP Photo/Steubenville Herald-Star, Michael D. McElwain — On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that the grand jury investigating the Steubenville rape case has charged four adults in the community …
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Tracy Connor / NBCNews:
Steubenville case: Four more charged, including superintendent, volunteer coach
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
No, the Failure of Obamacare Would Not Lead to Single-Payer — More than a few conservatives are of the opinion that should the Affordable Care Act fail to achieve its goals, it would make the adoption of single-payer health insurance in the United States more likely.
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Economics Policies for the 21st Century:
No Grounds for Claim that Obamacare Lowers Healthcare Costs — Public support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has plummeted now that the oft-repeated claim that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” is widely understood to be untrue. Despite previous assurances …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid: Senate will consider stronger sanctions against Iran after break — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Monday the Senate might pursue stronger sanctions against Iran, after lawmakers criticized a nuclear accord that would ease sanctions. — Reid called the pact negotiated …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid: Iran nuclear deal an ‘important first step’
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ProPublica:
New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove's Group Spent Even More On Politics Than It Said — On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove's dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants of $35 million to other similarly aligned nonprofits.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Crossroads GPS Spent More On Politics Than It Reported To IRS
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Politico:
Chilling new details in Sandy Hook shooting — With no co-conspirators identified, Sedensky said no criminal charges will be filed. AP Photo — Close — The 48-page report lays out the horror of Sandy Hook Elementary School in methodical detail. It's all there: The sound of crashing glass …
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The dirty secrets behind Boehner's ‘spiking’ Obamacare premiums — Speaker John Boehner, grappling with Obamacare. (House of Representatives) — Perhaps in an effort to defuse reports that House Speaker John Boehner is making out pretty well as a first-time insurance customer under …
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Yahoo:
Welcome aboard, Katie. Anchors aweigh! — Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that Katie Couric is joining Yahoo as our Global Anchor. Starting in early 2014, Katie will lead a growing team of correspondents at Yahoo News who will cover the world's most interesting stories and newsmakers.
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Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
New Warning: Morning-After Pill Doesn't Work for Women Over 176 Pounds — The European manufacturer of a pill identical to Plan B says its product won't work for women who weigh more than 176 pounds. Will American pharma companies warn women of weight limits? — Maybe not as effective as you think.
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Noam Chomsky slaps down 9/11 truther: People spend an hour on the Internet and think they know physics — MIT professor Noam Chomsky doesn't know what happened to “Building 7″ of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. — But he is convinced that so-called “9/11 Truthers” don't have the answer.
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Ryan Cooper / Washington Monthly:
What If There Simply Aren't More Antibiotics to be Discovered? — Antibiotic resistance, like climate change, is one of those issues that has been blinking red on the world's dashboard for decades. Everyone agrees it's potentially disastrous—in fact, has already reached crisis stage in some areas …
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