memeorandum: This is the year humans finally got serious about saving themselves from themselves. (Jonathan Chait/New York Magazine)

9:30 AM ET, September 8, 2015

Top Items:

Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:

Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton's Email — WASHINGTON — A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea's nuclear weapons program …

Discussion: NBC News, Hot Air, Mediaite, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The PJ Tatler and Twitchy

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say — There will be no more flip jokes about her private email server. There will be no rope lines to wall off crowds, which added to an impression of aloofness. And there will be new efforts to bring spontaneity to a candidacy that sometimes seems wooden and overly cautious.

Discussion: NBC News, Business Insider, Hot Air, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon, Politico, OnPolitics, Associated Press and Twitchy

Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Clinton says no email apology: ‘What I did was allowed’

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Liberal Values, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo

John Bresnahan / Politico:

Boehner's future as speaker in doubt — Something has changed for John Boehner.Figures in his close-knit circle of allies are starting to privately wonder whether he can survive an all-but-certain floor vote this fall to remain speaker of the House.

Discussion: Washington Post, The PJ Tatler and Political Wire

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

Countdown to shutdown begins — Congress returns from its long summer vacation Tuesday to an all-out, three-week sprint to avert a government shutdown - and no apparent plan yet to quell the conservative rebellion over Planned Parenthood that has dramatically increased the odds …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, Tampa Bay Times, Associated Press and Political Wire

Michael Falcone / ABC News:

The Note: Hillary In The Hot Seat — NOTABLES —ABC's DAVID MUIR TO INTERVIEW HILLARY CLINTON: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clintons sits down for an interview today with ABC's DAVID MUIR to discuss the Iran deal, her private e-mail server and the state of the race.

Discussion: Political Wire and Democratic Strategist

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico: Joe Biden's hope-and-pray South Carolina strategy

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
PITTSBURGH — The calls of encouragement could be heard …

Discussion: Addicting Info

Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Labor unions hold back on endorsements for Hillary

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, Guardian and RedState

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

Kentucky Guv Won't Respond To Kim Davis' Latest Motion To Leave Jail — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (R) said on Monday that he won't respond to clerk Kim Davis' recent motion asking the governor to release her from jail while she appeals the contempt of court ruling that landed her behind bars.

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox News panel concludes that Kim Davis' lawyer is ‘ridiculously stupid’

Discussion: Addicting Info, Friendly Atheist and Mediaite

CNN:
Kim Davis asks Kentucky governor to free her in same-sex marriage case

Discussion: The Daily Caller, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and NPR

Ryan T. Anderson / New York Times:
We Don't Need Kim Davis to Be in Jail

Discussion: Slantpoint and BizzyBlog

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

How Donald Trump rewired the 2016 campaign — This is not the race Jeb Bush expected to run. The plan was to craft a policy-focused campaign, with scores of policy aides hired to help him articulate meaty ideas on the trail and distinguish himself as a policy-oriented candidate.

Discussion: Political Wire

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

Get ready for a second GOP debate with even more fireworks — The rapidly shifting dynamic of the 2016 presidential campaign will probably turn the second Republican debate into a far more contentious event than the first. — The month since the first debate in early August has seen …

Geoffrey Skelley / Politico:
The Truth About the 2016 Race — The rise of Donald Trump …

Discussion: New York Times

Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:

Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican — VATICAN CITY — On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City. Pristinely dressed in the black robes and scarlet sash of the princes …

Discussion: Political Wire

Owen Boss / Boston Herald:

Marco Rubio ‘open to’ U.S. taking in refugees... with safeguards — GOP prez hopeful wants to ensure no terrorism ties — Photo by: — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says he's “open to” the United States taking in some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been flooding into Europe …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico

Washington Post:
In migrant crisis, German generosity comes under fire

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and New York Times

Aaron Brown / Daily Express:
‘Just wait...’ Islamic State reveals it has smuggled THOUSANDS of extremists into Europe

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit and Pamela Geller

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Democrats pin hopes on Hillary for winning back the Senate — The battle for control of the Senate rests on the outcome of the presidential race, strategists in both parties say. — Since 1860, no party has been able to climb out of the minority to capture the Senate during …

Discussion: Political Wire

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:

Donald Trump Likens His Schooling to Military Service in Book — Donald J. Trump, who received draft deferments through much of the Vietnam War, told the author of a forthcoming biography that he nevertheless “always felt that I was in the military” because of his education at a military-themed boarding school.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Betsy's Page

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

This is the year humans finally got serious about saving themselves from themselves. — Here on planet Earth, things could be going better. The rise in atmospheric temperatures from greenhouse gases poses the most dire threat to humanity, measured on a scale of potential suffering …

Hans Bader / Liberty Unyielding:

Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX — The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, is gradually turning Title IX into a license to lie about sexual harassment and assault. And it is thumbing its nose at federal court rulings in doing so.