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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
Politico:
GOP preps for battle after Election Day — Republicans are hoarding money in a key race that could determine control of the Senate, leaving themselves vulnerable to being outgunned by Democrats ahead of Election Day. — But it could be worth it. — Top Republican strategists …
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Washington Post and National Review
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.
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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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Liberal Values and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
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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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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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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Hot Air, TIME and Business Insider
New York Times:
Eric Holder's Legacy
Eric Holder's Legacy
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Techdirt, Lawfare, CNN, Daily Kos, The New Republic, Scared Monkeys, Politico, Washington Post, The Mahablog and The Daily Banter
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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Mashable, PJ Media and Bleeding Heartland
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, Gawker, KMOV-TV, Business Insider, Truthdig and CNN
CNN:
Tensions ease in Ferguson after scuffle breaks out near police chief
Tensions ease in Ferguson after scuffle breaks out near police chief
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PoliticusUSA, RT, KMOV-TV and Mashable
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
WPXI-TV:
Infant hit by bullet more seriously injured than first thought — SALTSBURG, Pa. — The 5-day-old boy who was accidentally shot by hunters near Saltsburg Thursday night is more seriously injured than authorities first thought, according to Indiana County District Attorney Pat Dougherty.
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Karen Zraick / New York Times:
Arab Woman Led Airstrikes Over Syria — When fighter jets from the United Arab Emirates took part in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Monday night, the mission was led by a woman, the country's ambassador to the United States said Thursday morning.
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Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh, ABC News and ThinkProgress
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John F. Kerry / The Boston Globe:
Under US leadership, world will defeat ISIS
Under US leadership, world will defeat ISIS
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Weekly Standard and Hit & Run
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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The Mahablog and Hullabaloo
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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Washington Monthly
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 …
Bill in a Box — Hillary Clinton's biggest asset is also her …
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National Review
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: Media Should Refer To Jumper As ‘Undocumented White House Visitor’ — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joked that media outlets should refer to the man who jumped the White House fence, made it across the lawn, and got inside as an “undocumented White House visitor.
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