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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
How will Hillary announce? — It's no longer a question of will Hillary Clinton run for president. It's a question of how she'll do it. — Clinton is widely expected to announce her second bid for the White House in the next two weeks, which overnight will thrust her nascent political operation into the spotlight.
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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
No, Jeb Bush Does Not Have an Electoral College Advantage — Eric Ham, author of The GOP Civil War, argues in The Hill that Jeb Bush has an advantage over Hillary Clinton in the electoral college: … His evidence for this theory is weak at best. His arguments are that 1) …
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Jeffrey Frank / New Yorker:
The Lonely Clinton Campaign — Nearly eight years ago, Democrats held their first televised Presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, marking the debut of a cast of characters that ranged from the plausible to the preposterous. For two hours, the candidates, some of them now remembered …
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Eric Ham / The Hill:
Clinton has inevitability, but Bush has the Electoral College — As the 2016 presidential field slowly takes shape, the race — even with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announcing his candidacy — centers on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.).
Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida not a given for Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio
Florida not a given for Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Special Editorial: Kill the Deal — Commentators have exposed how bad the Iran deal is in various ways; the point, however, is to kill it. — Why? Because the deal can't be fixed. Even if sanctions relief were somewhat more gradual, even if the number of centrifuges were somewhat lower …
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Wesley Juhl / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada's ‘religious freedom’ legislation declared dead — Nevada legislation criticized as giving businesses and corporations a license to discriminate against gay customers appears to have fizzled in light of nationwide outrage over similar “religious freedom” bills in Arkansas and Indiana.
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Carl Gibson / ThinkProgress:
This City Could Become The Next Detroit — Carl Gibson is an independent journalist and activist. He co-founded anti-austerity group US Uncut in 2011 and is featured in the Sundance-selected documentary “We're Not Broke.” He has been published in Salon, Washington Post, and Occupy.com.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Ted Cruz's passion play — The Texas senator telegraphs how he plans to win the GOP nomination. — Ted Cruz's aggressive pursuit of the evangelical vote began with a deliberate choice of venue for his presidential announcement two weeks ago: Liberty University, which bills itself as the largest Christian university in the world.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Charles Barkley: America has ‘a homophobic problem’ — Outspoken NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said Thursday that the debate over Indiana's religious freedom law exposed Americans' fears towards the gay community. — “America's always had a racial problem,” Barkley told CNN's Chris Cuomo late Thursday evening.
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Yuval Levin / National Review:
The Church of the Left — Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act …
The Church of the Left — Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act …
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Daily Mail:
Tea party groups win Round 1 in court as federal judge demands IRS's list of all 298 conservative nonprofits it targeted — Right-wing groups want court to let them sue the IRS in a class-action lawsuit for violating their constitutional right to equal treatment
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Cracks Appear in Democratic-Jewish Alliance Over Iran Deal, Netanyahu — Nuclear pact and White House spat with Israeli prime minister unnerve many Jewish leaders — Many U.S. Jewish leaders are unnerved both by the new Iran nuclear agreement and the public falling out between President Barack Obama …
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Edith Honan / Reuters:
Somali militants vow to turn Kenyan cities ‘red with blood’ — (Reuters) - Somali militants vowed on Saturday to wage a long war against Kenya and run its cities “red with blood” after the group's fighters killed nearly 150 people during an assault on a Kenyan university.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
A U.S. Concession to Reality in the Battle Against Islamic State — WASHINGTON — In the battle to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, from the Islamic State, the United States and Iran have found a template for fighting the Sunni militancy in other parts of Iraq …
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New York Times:
An Iran Nuclear Deal Built on Coffee, All-Nighters and Compromise — LAUSANNE, Switzerland — It was just one of hundreds of arguments between American and Iranian officials as they tried to hash out what may prove to be one of the hardest-to-negotiate arms control agreements in history.
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
AP Analysis: Holes, Questions Remain for Iran's Nuclear Deal
AP Analysis: Holes, Questions Remain for Iran's Nuclear Deal
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