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Michael Lewis / Bloomberg View:
The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes — Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties. Most people would probably also agree on two reasons those difficulties seem only to be growing: an ever-more complex financial system …
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This American Life Updates:
536: The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra — An unprecedented look inside one of the most powerful, secretive institutions in the country. The NY Federal Reserve is supposed to monitor big banks and prevent another financial crisis. But when Carmen Segarra was hired …
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Guardian, Techdirt, Bloomberg View, Firedoglake and Capitol Report
ProPublica:
Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash — Barely a year removed from the devastation of the 2008 financial crisis, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York faced a crossroads. Congress had set its sights on reform. The biggest banks in the nation …
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HBR.org, National Review, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg View and Hullabaloo
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Democrats' ‘war on women’ falling flat in Colo. Senate race — Colorado Democrats are fretting that Sen. Mark Udall's (D-Colo.) “war on women” battle cry against Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is starting to sound like a broken record. — After a series of polls this past month have shown …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: A Troubling Trend For Democrats In Colorado — The battle for Senate control has been close all year, but also remarkably consistent. Way back in March, we described Republicans as slight favorites to pick up the chamber. And since FiveThirtyEight officially launched …
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Guardian and VodkaPundit
KFOR-TV:
Police: FBI looking into Moore beheading after suspect tried to convert others to Islam … MOORE, Okla. - Officials with the Moore Police Department say the FBI is now involved in the investigation related to a brutal attack of workers at a food distribution plant.
Ilya Shapiro / Cato Institute:
Eric Holder's Tenure — Eric Holder's tenure marked one of the most divisive and partisan eras of the Justice Department. From his involvement in the bizarre guns-to-gangs operation ("Fast & Furious"), for which he has been cited for contempt by the House and referred to a federal prosecutor …
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Why Holder Quit — The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’
Why Holder Quit — The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’
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TIME, Hot Air and Business Insider
Joshua DuBois / The Daily Beast:
Eric Holder: ‘We Finally Started to Turn This Aircraft Carrier Around.’
Eric Holder: ‘We Finally Started to Turn This Aircraft Carrier Around.’
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Washington Post:
Attorney general confirmation process is fractious even before it's begun
Attorney general confirmation process is fractious even before it's begun
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Hot Air and New York Times
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
From Good to Great — When it came to civil rights …
From Good to Great — When it came to civil rights …
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Bleeding Heartland, PJ Media and Mashable
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Why You Can't Trust The Supreme Court, In Three Quotes — Lawyers who are hoping to bring a case to the Supreme Court typically claim that the law is on their side, and they generally rely on citations to legal authorities and doctrines to prove this point.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Why This Conservative Lawyer Thinks He Can Still Cripple Obamacare — The top lawyer arguing a case to overturn Obamacare subsidies believes he can succeed at crippling the law even if it's upheld in every district and appellate court. — A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit invalidated the federal exchange subsidies in June.
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Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ferguson public relations representative was convicted of reckless homicide — • By Stephen Deere sdeere@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8116 and Steve Giegerich sgiegerich@post-dispatch.com 314.725.6758 — Devin Sean James, who is overseeing public relations for Ferguson after the Michael Brown shooting …
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Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ferguson police chief apologizes to Michael Brown's family in video
Ferguson police chief apologizes to Michael Brown's family in video
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Guardian, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, Shakesville, RT, Business Insider, KMOV-TV, Gawker, Truthdig and CNN
Adam McDonald / KMOV-TV:
Ferguson representative fired for deadly past
Ferguson representative fired for deadly past
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Daily RFT and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones — FBI Director James B. Comey sharply criticized Apple and Google on Thursday for developing forms of smartphone encryption so secure that law enforcement officials cannot easily gain access to information stored on the devices — even when they have valid search warrants.
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New York Times, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Hit & Run, Prairie Weather, Business Insider and ABC News
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Salon:
“American dream” is now a myth: How bad policies and worse ideology ruined us — Over the past few years of economic torpor and social despair there's been a lot of discussion about the death of the American dream. This shouldn't be surprising. In a time when people feel they can't keep …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Show-Off Society — Liberals talk about circumstances; conservatives talk about character. — This intellectual divide is most obvious when the subject is the persistence of poverty in a wealthy nation. Liberals focus on the stagnation of real wages and the disappearance …
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John F. Kerry / The Boston Globe:
Under US leadership, world will defeat ISIS — THE UNITED STATES has long faced threats from a lethal brand of terrorism that perverts one of world's great religions. We have been relentless in targeting Al Qaeda and its affiliates, but the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Golden Bowl — Amy Chozick covers Hillary Clinton for the New York Times. She is an enterprising and dedicated reporter, and many of her stories have annoyed the 2016 presidential frontrunner. This week Chozick covered a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. It was her turn to be annoyed.
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Bill in a Box — Hillary Clinton's biggest asset is also her …
Bill in a Box — Hillary Clinton's biggest asset is also her …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Prospective Republican presidential candidates are promoting religious liberty at home and abroad at a gathering of evangelical conservatives, rebuking an unpopular President Barack Obama while skirting divisive social issues that have tripped up the GOP. — The annual Values Voter Summit opened Friday …
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