memeorandum: The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors (Olga Khazan/The Atlantic Online)

10:55 AM ET, December 7, 2014

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James Hohmann / Politico:

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

GOP Senate majority grows as Cassidy crushes Landrieu — Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) easily ousted incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in their Senate runoff on Saturday, capping off a dominating midterm election for Republicans. — The GOP's victory in the final race of the 2014 cycle cements …

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Julia Horowitz / Politico:

Why we believed Jackie's rape story — Because it rang true for so many of us on the University of Virginia campus. — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.— It was a near-unanimous reaction: shock, but not surprise. Disgust, but not doubt. Those were the feelings that characterized the endless conversations …

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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:

The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors — For the sake of Rolling Stone's reputation, wrote Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple in a recent column, reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of an explosive piece about a rape that allegedly took place at the University …

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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:

If You Were An Early Reader Of the WaPo UVA Rape Expose... Jackie UP, Rolling Stone further DOWN. If you were an early reader of the Washington Post UVA rape expose exonerating Phi Kappa Psi I am begging you to go back and re-read it; despite the absence of any hints such as"UPDATED" …

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Zerlina Maxwell / Washington Post:
No matter what Jackie said, we should generally believe rape claims.

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:

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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

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Bernie Becker / The Hill:

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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan as violence spikes

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San Francisco Chronicle:

IMAGE 1 OF 72 — Demonstrators toss out smoke bombs during a march in Berkeley, California on Saturday, December 6, 2014. Demonstrators were responding to the grand jury verdicts in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City …

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Eric Lipton / New York Times:

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Donna Cassata / Associated Press:

GOP Gains Largest House Majority Since Truman Administration — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will hold at least 246 House seats come January, according to election results Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.

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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:

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