memeorandum: No more liberal apologies as Elizabeth Warren takes the offensive (E.J. Dionne Jr./Washington Post)

10:55 AM ET, May 19, 2014

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:

U.S. to Charge Chinese Army Personnel With Cyberspying — WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice on Monday will announce charges it has filed against several individuals in China's People's Liberation Army, accusing them of stealing trade secrets from American companies and marking …

Discussion: The Verge, Wall Street Journal and NPR

Michael Falcone / ABC News:

Cyber Monday — NOTABLES — U.S. TO ANNOUNCE HACKING CHARGES AGAINST CHINA: The United States government is set to file charges against government officials in China for allegedly hacking U.S. business interests, marking the first time ever that the U.S. government has formally accused another nation …

Discussion: Lexington Herald-Leader and ABC News

ABC News:
US to Announce Hacking Charges Against China

Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, Gawker and NBC News

CNN:
Political Chatter: Hillary Clinton is talk of the town

Discussion: Shakesville, Washington Post, Politico and Pat Dollard

Alexander Burns / Politico:

POLITICO poll shows mounting danger for Dems — President Barack Obama's job approval slump and voters' entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year's most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.

Discussion: Hit & Run, Business Insider, Washington Post, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …

Jacob Siegel / The Daily Beast:

Exclusive: VA Scandal Hits New Hospital — Veterans with serious heart conditions, gangrene, and even brain tumors waited months for care at the Albuquerque VA hospital, a whistleblowing doctor tells The Daily Beast. — Add Albuquerque, New Mexico's to the growing list of VA hospitals accused …

Discussion: Fox News and susiemadrak.com

John Fund / National Review:
Lessons of the VA Scandal

Discussion: Betsy's Page and The Lonely Conservative

Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
Obama warned about VA wait-time problems during 2008 transition

Discussion: Right Wing News and Independent Journal Review

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Springtime for Bankers — By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure. It's true that we avoided a full replay of the Great Depression. But employment has taken more than six years to claw its way back to pre-crisis levels …

Discussion: Mediaite

Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Geithner, Staying on Script

Discussion: Bloomberg View and Marginal REVOLUTION

Susan Snyder / Philly.com:

Haverford College commencement speaker lambastes students — In a surprising move, a commencement speaker at Haverford College on Sunday used the celebratory occasion to deliver a sharp rebuke to students who had mounted a campaign against another speaker who had been scheduled to appear but withdrew amid the controversy.

Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Caller

Associated Press:
Graduation speaker blasts students

Discussion: Politico and Progressives Today

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:

No more liberal apologies as Elizabeth Warren takes the offensive — BOSTON — Elizabeth Warren is cast as many things: a populist, a left-winger, the paladin against the bankers and the rich, the Democrats' alternative to Hillary Clinton, the policy wonk with a heart.

Discussion: Shakesville and Daily Kos

David Carr / New York Times:

Abramson's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display — Back in 2010, before she became executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson sent me a handwritten attaboy note about a big story. It still hangs in my cubicle: “You wrote a story about the trashing of a once great American institution and people never tire of that.”

Discussion: Ed Driscoll, Althouse, The New York Times Company, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »

Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:

Higher ed becoming a joke: Column — American colleges are fraught with petty politics and bad economics. — As college graduates around the country fling their caps into the air, college and university administrators are ending the year in a less positive state.

Discussion: Power Line and Hit & Run

New York Times:

Workers at N.Y.U.'s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions — ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The strike had entered its second day when construction workers at Labor Camp 42 got word that their bosses from the BK Gulf corporation had come to negotiate. Mohammed Amir Waheed Sirkar …

Discussion: Business Insider and Capital New York

Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:

In Arkansas, Obama is a Four-letter Word Hampering Democrats — What Bill Clinton's home state says about racial politics, control of the Senate, and Hillary Clinton in 2016. — Jerry Hood gives Richard Wyatt a trim while talking politics at his Little Rock barbershop. (Ron Fournier)

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:

Is This the Democrats' War on Women? — In 2013, an ex-boyfriend called the cops on Monica Wehby—and four days before her GOP primary, the police report resurfaced. To blame for the leak? A Democratic attack, say Republicans. — Republicans are crying foul over an eleventh-hour flurry …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Jethro Mullen / CNN:

Chinese ships reach Vietnam to extract thousands of citizens after deadly attacks — Hong Kong (CNN) — Two Chinese ships arrived at the coast of Vietnam on Monday to begin efforts to collect thousands of Chinese citizens who are fleeing the country after deadly attacks last week.

Discussion: Bloomberg and Simply Left BehindThe …

Jethro Mullen / CNN:
China evacuates thousands of citizens from Vietnam after deadly attacks

Discussion: NPR

Susan Edelman / New York Post:

The 9/11 museum's absurd gift shop — The museum at Ground Zero tells the dark story of the 9/11 terror attacks with spectacular artifacts and exhibits. It pays heart-wrenching tribute to the innocents and heroes killed that day. — It also has a gift shop.

Discussion: susiemadrak.com, Mediaite, Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler and Liberaland

Russell Berman / The Hill:

Boehner's big reform decision — It's up to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). — Republican and Democratic advocates see one final, long-shot chance to pass immigration reform this summer, and its fate rests with a Speaker stuck between his party's resistance and his search for a career-defining legacy.