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Emily Clark / The Cavalier Daily:
A letter from a friend: Jackie's story is not a hoax — My name is Emily, and I was Jackie's suitemate first year. I am writing to you in regards to Rolling Stone's recent statement of “misplaced trust” in Jackie. I feel this statement is backwards, as it seems it was Jackie who misplaced her trust in Rolling Stone.
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Hanna Rosin / Slate:
Trolls Are Outing UVA's “Jackie.” That's Rolling Stone's Fault Too. — It's probably inevitable that the name of the victim from Rolling Stone's story about gang rape at the University of Virginia would come out. Once again, we have Rolling Stone to blame for that.
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Tina Daunt / Hollywood Reporter:
Street Artist Sabo Blasts Lena Dunham, Bill Clinton in Fake Rolling Stone Covers — The controversial artist papered L.A. early Monday with posters featuring a photo of Dunham and the headline “Rape Fantasies and Why We Perpetuate Them” — Los Angeles' most controversial street artist …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Friend of UVA/Rolling Stone rape accuser: It's not a hoax — Worth noting mainly because of the timeline. There are two theories about what happened with Rolling Stone. One is that Jackie made up the story whole cloth, whether for attention or because she decided that “rape culture” awareness needed all the help it could get.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
UVA Rape Victim's Roommate Says Her Story Is Not A ‘Hoax’
UVA Rape Victim's Roommate Says Her Story Is Not A ‘Hoax’
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Dems, It's Time to Dump Dixie — With Mary Landrieu's ignominious exit, the Democrats will have lost their last senator in the Deep South. And that's a good thing. They should write it off—because they don't need it. — I don't remember a much sadder sight in domestic politics …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Democratic Party's long term problem is worse than you think
The Democratic Party's long term problem is worse than you think
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Greg Giroux / Bloomberg Politics:
By the Numbers: Half of the Senators Who Voted for Obamacare Will be Gone in 2015
By the Numbers: Half of the Senators Who Voted for Obamacare Will be Gone in 2015
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Scott Bland / National Journal:
White Flight From Southern Democrats Doomed Landrieu
White Flight From Southern Democrats Doomed Landrieu
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Michael R. Crittenden / Wall Street Journal:
The South Is Now Almost a Democrat-Free Zone
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
G.O.P. Donors Seek to Narrow Field of Presidential Candidates to One — Dozens of the Republican Party's leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party's banner in 2016 …
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Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg Politics:
Clinton Trumps Republican Rivals on Leadership, Vision for 2016
Clinton Trumps Republican Rivals on Leadership, Vision for 2016
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Can GOP Donors Clear '16 Field?
Can GOP Donors Clear '16 Field?
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Eric Garner is the turning point Ferguson never was — Ferguson, Mo., has captured the nation's attention for the better part of the past four months. But in just a few short days in the national news, Eric Garner has become the political rallying point that Ferguson never has.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
No comments. An experiment in elevating the conversation — For the next two months, we are turning off the comment function on all editorials, columns and letters in the opinion section. — Why? — Ferguson. — Last Sunday, we challenged our region to have the serious discussion …
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Emily Yoffe / Slate:
The College Rape Overcorrection — Sexual assault on campus is a serious problem. But efforts to protect women from a putative epidemic of violence have led to misguided policies that infringe on the civil rights of men. — An Accusation — Drew Sterrett couldn't know that when his friend slipped …
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Los Angeles Times:
Massive downtown L.A. fire burns 3 towers; freeways begin to reopen — A massive fire in downtown Los Angeles early Monday engulfed an apartment tower under construction, damaged two other buildings and left freeways and roads closed. — The northbound 110 Freeway remained closed as of 5 a.m. …
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Politico:
The Kochs eclipse the RNC — Meet the guys behind the right's best data shop. — The Koch brothers and their allies are pumping tens of millions of dollars into a data company that's developing detailed, state-of-the-art profiles of 250 million Americans, giving the brothers' political operation all the earmarks of a national party.
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Jonathan Tepper / New York Times:
Why I'm Giving Up My Passport — LONDON — THE mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who was born in New York and holds both American and British passports, recently said that he would not pay a tax bill from the United States on capital gains from the sale of his home in the London borough of Islington.
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Politico:
Warren criticizes Obama pick for Treasury in session with donors — During a meeting with nearly 50 of her top Boston-area donors Sunday night, Sen. Elizabeth Warren strongly criticized President Barack Obama's Treasury Department pick Antonio Weiss and said Hispanic and African-American families were …
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
CBC Member: Ben Carson Supporters Have “Vein Of Ignorance,” Are “Like A Lynch Mob” — “...when we have blacks like that trying to tap into the ignorance of people who have been whipped into a frenzy, like a lynch mob, and you go to try to garner support from those folks …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bush and C.I.A. Ex-Officials Rebut Torture Report — WASHINGTON — A long-awaited Senate report condemning torture by the Central Intelligence Agency has not even been made public yet, but former President George W. Bush's team has decided to link arms with former intelligence officials and challenge its conclusions.
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