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10:40 AM ET, November 12, 2015

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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP on Economics  —  The good, the bad, and the ugly at the fourth presidential debate.  —  Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate wasn't the most entertaining, but it was by far the most educational.  The two-hour session gave the candidates a chance to critique the Obama record …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Populism on the Rise in GOP Race for President  —  Candidates bash big banks, the Fed, corporations and international trade deals in their latest debate  —  The latest presidential debate vividly captured how the 2008 financial crisis has reshaped the Republican Party by unleashing …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Power Line
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
Why GOP elites are totally ignoring a political reality that could destroy their party  —  For months now, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has actually been split into two races.  —  In the one that gets talked about the most by the professional political press …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Fight Now a Battle Over What Defines a Conservative
Bill Scher / Politico:
Jeb Bush Is 2016's John Kerry
Peter Hasson / Campus Reform:
Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam  — “If you don't feel safe coming to class, then don't come to class,” Dr. Brigham told his students.  “I will be there, and there will be an exam administered in our class.”  —  Dr. Dale Brigham, considered …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Mizzou, Yale and Free Speech  —  On university campuses across the country, from Mizzou to Yale, we have two noble forces colliding with explosive force.  —  One is a concern for minority or marginalized students and faculty members, who are often left feeling as outsiders in ways that damage everyone's education.
Discussion: TIME, Shakesville, Mediaite and Instapundit
Myles Artis / USA Today:
Suspect arrested over social media threats at U. of Missouri
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Race and the Free-Speech Diversion
Discussion: Washington Post and Here & Now
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
As death threats spread fear at Mizzou, professor asks students to defeat ‘bullies’ and attend class
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Charles Koch: We are doling out welfare for the wealthy  —  Billionaire Charles Koch said Wednesday that the federal government is widening the gap between America's rich and poor.  —  “For most of this nation's history, our country has been characterized by opportunity …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:   How the Kochs created Joni Ernst
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Promised Bipartisanship, Obama Adviser Found Disappointment  —  WASHINGTON — When President Obama first won the White House, he recruited Ray LaHood, a Republican congressman, to join his cabinet.  The appointment, Mr. Obama declared, “reflects that bipartisan spirit” that would distinguish his presidency.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ray LaHood: Obama Was Unable To Execute Bipartisan Approach
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Maintaining Lead Over Bernie Sanders  —  Despite a month of sharpened attacks, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has failed to significantly dent Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Thursday.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Postal workers union backs Bernie Sanders  —  Bernie Sanders snagged a major union endorsement on Thursday, with the American Postal Workers' Union announcing its backing of the Democratic presidential candidate.  Sanders' largest union pickup comes as his chief rival, Hillary Clinton …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Rand Paul is right: The most economically unequal states are Democratic  —  During Tuesday night's Republican debate, Gerard Baker, editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, posed a question to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.): “Does it matter at all that the gap between the rich and everyone else is widening?”
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
FBI expands probe of Clinton emails, launches independent classification review  —  The FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary Clinton's emails, with agents exploring whether multiple statements violate a federal false statements statute, according to intelligence sources familiar with the ongoing case.
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Offers a Chest Bump ‘for Every Convert’  —  WAUKEE, Iowa — After his final event of the day here, Jeb Bush posed for selfies, shook hands with voters and — wait, was that just a chest bump?  —  Yes, yes, it was.  —  Asked to explain why Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor …
Agence France-Presse:
EU flag burned as tens of thousands join Warsaw nationalist demo  —  Organisers said that up to 50,000 were on the march which marked the anniversary of Poland's independence after the First World War  —  Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Warsaw's streets on Wednesday …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Chateau Heartiste
Rafael Romo / CNN:
Human trafficking survivor: I was raped 43,200 times  —  Mexico City (CNN)Karla Jacinto is sitting in a serene garden.  She looks at the ordinary sights of flowers and can hear people beyond the garden walls, walking and talking in Mexico City.  —  She looks straight into my eyes …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Driven to hospital, Virginia man tased, shackled and dies in police custody  —  When three Virginia police officers put Linwood Lambert in a squad car around 5 a.m. on May 4, 2013, they said they were taking him to the ER for medical attention because he was speaking delusionally.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump talks Clinton's ‘massive’ new hairdo  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Wednesday he was shocked to see Hillary Clinton's latest hairdo, calling it “massive” in an interview on conservative talk radio.  —  Asked by host Mark Levin what Clinton's appeal to voters is, Trump simply said …
Discussion: Liberaland, The Frisky and The Week
 
 
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Chris Christie: College unrest a product of ‘lawlessness’ that Obama allows
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Geoff Manaugh / New York Times:
The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
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New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's bought-and-paid-for betrayal of charter schools
Mireya Navarro / New York Times:
Public Housing Nationwide May Be Subject to Smoking Ban
Discussion: Hit & Run, Washington Post and The Week
Washington Post:
Mr. Trump praises a grotesquely inhumane immigration plan from the 1950s
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The First Amendment Is Dying  —  Congress shall make no law respecting …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and The PJ Tatler
Devin Henry / The Hill:
EPA seeks to block chief's deposition in coal lawsuit
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Progressive infighting breaks out in Maryland Senate primary
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