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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Why Holder Quit — The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’ — The Holder-Napolitano rivalry was legendary: Once, after the former Arizona governor asked Holder about his future plans, the AG joked to a friend, “Sometimes I feel like Janet is touching me just to see if I'm still warm.”
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New York Times:
Eric Holder's Legacy — By any measure, the nearly-six-year tenure of Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has been one of the most consequential in United States history. His decision to resign, which he announced on Thursday, was long anticipated; he has said he will stay on through his successor's confirmation.
Joshua DuBois / The Daily Beast:
Eric Holder: ‘We Finally Started to Turn This Aircraft Carrier Around.’ — The outgoing AG talks to The Daily Beast about his ‘signature achievement,’ his vicious opponents, and why he isn't done yet: 'I don't just want to give speeches.' — In an exit interview today …
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
From Good to Great — When it came to civil rights …
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Nick Gillespie / TIME:
Eric Holder's Legacy: Duplicity, Incompetence, and Obliviousness
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Why Holder quit — The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’
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Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ferguson police chief apologizes to Michael Brown's family in video — • By Joel Currier jcurrier@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8256 and Koran Addo kaddo@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8305 — FERGUSON • Police Chief Thomas Jackson apologized to the family of Michael Brown and to protesters in a video released Thursday.
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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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Adam McDonald / KMOV-TV:
Ferguson representative fired for deadly past
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Daily RFT and Talking Points Memo
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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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Why We're Talking About Mitt Romney — I've been mostly ignoring the various “Romney 2016!” trial balloons floated by various parties over the last six months or so (including by some of my dear friends, alas), but now that someone as sober and well-informed as Byron York has weighed in with a …
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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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 …
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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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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Probably Be Confirmed Today
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Jim O'Sullivan / The Boston Globe:
Martha Coakley dragged down by national trends — As White House Democrats prepare to stump in Massachusetts for Attorney General Martha Coakley in the governor's race, a new Globe poll shows that national political conditions may be hobbling her chances for victory.
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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 …
Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
U.S. second-quarter GDP growth revised up to 4.6% from 4.2% — WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. economy grew at a 4.6% annual pace in the second quarter, matching the best performance since the recession ended in mid-2009. The increase in real gross domestic product was revised up from 4.2% …
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Washington Post:
450,000 in Va. may lack proper ID needed to vote — About 450,000 voters in Virginia may lack the proper identification needed to cast a ballot in the November midterm elections, the Virginia State Board of Elections said Thursday. — Under a state law that took effect this year …
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Politico:
Sources: Milton Wolf weighs Greg Orman endorsement — Milton Wolf, the tea party candidate who battled Sen. Pat Roberts in a bitter Republican primary fight, is considering some political payback: Endorsing Kansas independent Greg Orman, sources said Thursday night.
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Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
THE UN'S RISIBLE #HEFORSHE CAMPAIGN: POINTLESS SELF-FLAGELLATION FOR SEX-STARVED BETA MALES — Some men will do literally anything to get laid. Witness the outpouring of support among sexually-frustrated dickless wonders for #HeForShe, an attempt by the United Nations to get men on board with feminism.
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Heather Wilhelm / The Federalist:
Emma Watson And The Chamber Of Feminist Conundrums
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Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones:
What's the Matter With Sam Brownback? — How the Kansas governor's red-state experiment could turn Kansas purple. — ONE WEDNESDAY afternoon in mid-August, Govs. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Chris Christie of New Jersey stopped for a photo op—and $54 worth of pork ribs and sausages …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Beating Brownback Would Redeem 2014
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