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3:40 PM ET, August 15, 2017

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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Not Planning on Charlottesville Trip; ‘Why The Hell Would We Do That?’  Aides Say … President Donald Trump does not have plans to visit Charlottesville, Virginia in the wake of the the white-supremacist and neo-Nazi gathering that took place in the city over the weekend.
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Fifth leader resigns from Trump's manufacturing council  —  The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, making him the fifth business leader to do so.  —  “I'm resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative …
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Policy@Intel:
Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council
Tony Romm / Recode:
Here are the business leaders who are — and aren't — officially advising Trump
CBO's Publications:
The Effects of Terminating Payments for Cost-Sharing Reductions  —  CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the effects on the federal budget, health insurance coverage, market stability, and premiums if payments for cost-sharing reductions would end after December 2017.  —  430.71 KB
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New York Times:
Trump Threat to Obamacare Would Send Premiums and Deficit Skyward
Discussion: CNBC
Emily Smith / CNN:
Holocaust Memorial in Boston vandalized  —  (CNN)A 17-year-old has been charged with willful and malicious destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial in Boston Monday, according to the Boston Police Department.  —  Photos from the memorial showed shattered glass lying …
Discussion: TheBlaze
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Some Thoughts on Public Memory  —  Debates over public memory and the valorization of history are often complicated and politically vexed.  But on the margins, in extreme cases, they are often pretty straightforward.  For any subject of controversy, the first question we should ask is: What is the person known for?
Discussion: IJR
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
Discussion: Business Insider
Chris Kenning / Reuters:
Undeterred, U.S. cities ramp up removal of Confederate statues
Discussion: Daily Kos
Elliot Kaufman / National Review:
Campus Conservatives Gave the Alt-Right a Platform  —  They deserve their fair share of the blame for the entirely predictable consequences of that choice.  —  Why did so many otherwise respectable conservative groups host Milo Yiannopoulos, an apologist for the alt-right, on college campuses across America?
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David French / National Review:
Fire Steve Bannon
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion  —  Regarding last week's events in Charlottesville, Va., consider the following propositions:  —  (1) James Alex Fields Jr., the young man who on Saturday, police say, rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd in Charlottesville …
Discussion: Daily Kos
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
From Trump Aide to Single Mom  —  A.J. Delgado and Jason Miller stood in the New York Hilton ballroom on the night of the 2016 election, watching the man they helped elect president deliver the unlikeliest of victory speeches.  It was a heady moment for the small band of aides and operatives …
Discussion: The Slot, Mediaite and The Week
The Daily Beast:
Trump Retweets Cartoon of Train Killing CNN Reporter  —  President Trump has retweeted a cartoon of a train bearing the Trump logo killing a CNN reporter, just days after a protester at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was fatally run down by a driver who participated in that rally.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Political Wire
Julian Quinones / CBS News:
“What kind of society do you want to live in?”:  Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing  —  “CBSN: On Assignment” airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and on our streaming network, CBSN.  Explore more on this topic in our “Behind the Lens” report.
Fr. Mark Hodges / LifeSiteNews:
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The Guardian:
US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website  —  Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional ‘fishing expedition’ … The US government is seeking to unmask every person …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kansas Democrat Paul Davis announces congressional bid, says he won't vote for Pelosi  —  The man who many thought would make another run for Kansas governor is officially running for Congress instead.  —  Democrat Paul Davis announced his entrance into the race for the 2nd District congressional seat Tuesday morning.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real.  Here's What They Think.  —  The story of the 2016 presidential election is simple.  Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white voters without a college degree.  His gains were large enough to cancel out considerable losses among well-educated white voters and a decade of demographic shifts.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Danielle Ryan / Salon:
What if the DNC Russian “hack” was really a leak after all?  A new report raises questions media and Democrats would rather ignore  —  A group of intelligence pros and forensic investigators tell The Nation there was no hack— the media ignores it  —  Last week the respected left-liberal magazine …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump acts like the president of the Red States of America  —  THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump often behaves as if he's first and foremost the president of the states and the people who voted for him.  —  That's at odds with the American tradition, and it's problematic as a governing philosophy …
Sarah Wildman / Vox:
“You will not replace us”: a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant  —  American white nationalists may not realize it, but the fear of replacement is essential to the work of a controversial French writer named Renaud Camus.  —  Tiki torch-wielding white supremacists marched …
Media Matters for America:
Fox guest: Confederate flag and LGBTQ pride flag “represent the exact same thing”  —  STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): What do you think about [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi [(D-CA)], who made this statement yesterday: “It shouldn't take the president of the United States two days to summon …
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Two top Hogan officials OK'd participation in Trump voter fraud commission, emails show  —  Two top aides to Gov. Larry Hogan approved of a Maryland official joining a controversial Trump administration panel probing alleged voter fraud — a greater level of involvement by the Hogan administration than previously known.
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Domestic hate groups elude feds  —  When an alleged white supremacist rammed a car into a crowd of people Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and members of Congress from both parties were quick to call it an act of terrorism.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Michelle Fortunato / The College Fix:
University of San Francisco to host blacks-only student orientation
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Laura Ingraham is in line for a talk show on Fox News
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Anti-Trump Bourbons: Learning and Forgetting Nothing in Time for 2020
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
An Ohio officer beat a black man during a traffic stop. A town wants to know why.
Discussion: The Root
Dianne Feinstein / USA Today:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Keep Iran nuclear deal and apply lessons to North Korea
Discussion: New York Times
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt?
N. D. B. Connolly / Associated Press:
Charlottesville showed that liberalism can't defeat white supremacy. Only direct action can.
 Earlier Items: 
Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Even Think About Being Evil
Discussion: Instapundit and USA Today
Taylor Cromwell / Bloomberg:
Americans Love Ordering Pizza on Facebook
Discussion: The Daily Caller and AOL
USA Today:
Case for climate change grows ever stronger
Discussion: Climate Depot
Washington Post:
After Charlottesville, Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter
Brooke Cain / Raleigh News & Observer:
He's the Raleigh man behind the Twitter account outing racists - and 'I'm not going away'
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval Rating Now at 34%, New Low
Discussion: Mediaite and RedState
 

 
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