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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump's First Charlottesville Remarks  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The White House, under siege over President Trump's equivocal response to this weekend's bloody white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday condemned “white supremacists” for inciting the violence that led to one death.
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ProPublica:
Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville  —  State police and National Guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters.  ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson was on the scene and reports that the authorities turned …
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Why Trump Can't Say the Obvious  —  It's long past Passover, but the latest effusions from Donald Trump bring to mind the question that begins that ritual: “Why is this president different from all other presidents?”  —  Would any past president have not understood the need to read …
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends Sunday defends white supremacist Charlottesville protesters: “There's a reason those people were out there”  —  PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): I think the president nailed it.  He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Mediaite
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Hurt and Angry, Charlottesville Tries to Regroup From Violence  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of Christ, arrived in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday morning expecting that there might be violence.
Andrew Anglin / Daily Stormer:
C H A R L O T T E S V I L L E  —  It is Sunday and the event is over.  However, I'm going to leave this page up at the top for half the day.  People are interested to see what went down.  —  You can also check this forum thread for attendees only for updates from people at the event (and post in it if you're there).
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
He's One of Them  —  As we get underway today, a few thoughts on yesterday.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
gofundme.com:
I Was Beaten By White Supremacists
Discussion: The Root and The FADER
Washington Post:
Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says
New York Times:
What We Know About James Alex Fields, Driver Charged in Charlottesville Killing
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican senator: White nationalists can't be part of GOP base
Robert King / Washington Examiner:
Mike Huckabee: If Trump ‘shot’ Charlottesville crash driver ‘between the eyes,’ he'd still be criticized
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:   Syria's Assad has become an icon of the far right in America
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier  —  The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier.  —  Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside …
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Says He Will ‘Blow’ McMaster, Drudge ‘The F**k Out’ If Bannon Is Ousted  —  Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Donald Trump, warned Sunday of dire consequences for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Matt Drudge if White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is pushed out of the West Wing.
CNN:
Trump advisers signal the knives are out for Bannon  —  Bridgewater, New Jersey (CNN)Two senior Trump advisers — one inside the White House and another who recently departed — signaled Sunday that the knives are out for Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's controversial chief strategist.
Discussion: Political Wire
ABC News:
Analysis: Why won't Donald Trump condemn white nationalism?
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed  —  The alt-right movement has sought over the past two years to rebrand white nationalism, lifting it out of the obscure corners of the website Stormfront and elevating it into the mainstream political discussion.  —  In some ways the effort succeeded.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Time for Republicans to Leap From the Boat  —  President Trump made two big political decisions over past half-week, and both are already proving disasters.  —  The first decision was to cut himself loose from the Republican leadership in Congress.  Trump blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
CNN:
Father: Heather Heyer was a champion for others  —  (CNN)Mark Heyer said he didn't always agree with his daughter's viewpoints.  —  But he always admired that she stood up for what she believed in.  —  “She died trying to bring about that purpose,” he told CNN on Sunday …
Discussion: FOX6Now.com and The Week
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Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:
Paralegal killed during protest of Charlottesville white supremacist rally: ‘She died doing what was right’
Christina Caron / New York Times:
Heather Heyer, Charlottesville Victim, Is Recalled as ‘a Strong Woman’
Discussion: The Guardian and Common Dreams
Meghan Breen / KTVN-TV:
UNR Student Talks After Marching in Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally  —  Thousands gathered to protest in the streets Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday, among them was 20 year-old Reno resident Peter Cvjetanovic.  —  Cvjetanovic is an undergraduate at the university studying history and political science.
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
The Curse Of Identity Politics  —  Charlottesville is the kind of America that identity politics is calling into being.  It's time for straight talk about that.  —  On the Right, the story is fairly straightforward.  Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and their ilk have to be condemned in no uncertain terms, and marginalized.
Discussion: Instapundit
Jacob B. / twitchy.com:
SHAMEFUL: Markos Moulitsas spreads ‘dangerous lie’ about ‘NRA and American conservatives’  —  Daily Kos founder and Vox co-founder Markos Moulitsas wasted no time in using the tragedy in Charlottesville, Va. to propagate a disgusting smear about conservatives and the NRA.
Discussion: IJR and Instapundit
 
 
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
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Associated Press:
American tourist gives Nazi salute in Germany, is beaten up
Discussion: The Root
David French / National Review:
The Alt-Right's Chickens Come Home to Roost
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