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2:00 PM ET, September 18, 2018

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Anita Hill / New York Times:
How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.  —  Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University.  —  There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better.
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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump: If We Ditch Kavanaugh, We're Signing Our Own ‘Death Warrant’  —  It's Judge Kavanaugh or bust.  —  For Donald Trump's White House, Brett Kavanaugh is increasingly irrelevant to the politics of his own Supreme Court nomination.  Instead, those close to the president view …
Julia Prodis Sulek / Mercury News:
MeToo spurred Christine Blasey Ford to open up about alleged attack year before Kavanaugh nomination, friends say  —  'I've been trying to forget this all my life,' she told friend, 'and now I'm supposed to remember every little detail'  —  PALO ALTO — The fog was just lifting at Capitola beach …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality  —  A quote from a playwright runs alongside the family photos on Mark Judge's page in his high school yearbook: “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.”
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
I Believe Her  —  “Dear Caitlin,” an inscription in my 12th-grade yearbook begins.  “I'm really very sorry that our friendship plummeted straight downhill after the first few months of school.  Really, the blame rests totally on my shoulders.  To tell you the truth, I've wanted to say this all year.
Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
A former sex-crimes prosecutor analyzed Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh.  Here's her take.  —  Soon after Christine Blasey Ford was revealed as the author of a letter alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her decades ago, the responses ran along predictable lines.
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:   Senators Not Sure How to Evaluate Accusation Against Kavanaugh
John Wagner / Washington Post:
No. 2 Senate Republican sharply questions credibility of Kavanaugh accuser
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Democrats Want FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Allegations. It Very Likely Won't
Discussion: National Review, Axios and The Week
Russ Feingold / HuffPost:   We Know Brett Kavanaugh Has Lied Already
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Stormy Daniels' tell-all book on Trump: salacious detail and claims of cheating  —  Exclusive: pornographic actor says Trump 'didn't want to be president' in her book Full Disclosure  —  In a tell-all memoir, the pornographic actor Stormy Daniels details salacious descriptions of her time with Donald Trump …
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Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Hope you aren't eating when you read this, because Stormy Daniels went there
Discussion: The Root and The Guardian
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Penis Looks Like Toad From Mario Kart, Says Stormy Daniels
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Perez Hilton
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Internal RNC Poll: Complacent Trump Voters May Cost GOP Control of Congress  —  A private survey shows many Republican voters “don't believe there is anything at stake” in the midterm elections.  —  A private survey conducted for the Republican National Committee and obtained …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ted Cruz and the Death of Conservatism  —  Ted Cruz is running for reelection in Texas trying to humanize himself by talking about basketball, and accusing his opponent, Beto O'Rourke, of liking tofu, hating the national anthem, and plotting to ban barbecue.
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
RNC internal poll finds GOP in danger due to complacent Trump voters: report
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Trump's Growing Legal Team Has a Problem: It's Operating Partly in the Dark  —  The president's lawyers are struggling to understand where the investigations surrounding him are going, and the extent of his legal exposure.  —  2018 EMMY AWARDS  —  ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Win Top Awards
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
GOP stalwart Nancy Kassebaum picks Democrat Laura Kelly over Kris Kobach  —  A titan of Kansas Republican politics is shunning Kris Kobach, her party's nominee, in his run for governor.  —  Nancy Kassebaum, who represented Kansas for three terms in the U.S. Senate, said Tuesday …
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
China raises tariffs on $60B of US goods in technology fight  —  BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday announced a tariff hike on $60 billion of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's latest duty increase in a dispute over Beijing's technology policy.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump could play Scrooge this holiday season
Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
Man caught shaving on train in viral video says don't judge  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was mocked online after he was recorded shaving at his seat on a commuter train headed out of New York City said he was just trying to clean up after days spent in a homeless shelter.
Discussion: CBS New York and Daily Wire
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Leaked NPR Emails: Don't Call Kermit Gosnell an ‘Abortion Doctor’  —  National Public Radio's own past reporting called Kermit Gosnell an ‘abortion doctor.’ But when the makers of a new documentary wanted to pay to use the phrase on air, no dice.  —  Early last month, John Sullivan …
Carlos Frías / miamiherald:
First he praised Castro.  Now ‘Salt Bae’ chef lavishes Venezuela's Maduro with steak dinner  —  First the chef known as Salt Bae riled Cuban Americans by dressing up in honor of the late dictator Fidel Castro.  —  Now Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, the man who became a meme …
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Ethan Epstein / Weekly Standard:
Senators Shouldn't Harass Their Constituents on Twitter
Discussion: Raw Story and twitchy.com
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers  —  Robert Mueller seems to have built in safeguards to discourage the president from pardoning Manafort.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's plea agreement with Paul Manafort on Friday took unusual and possibly unprecedented steps …
Bloomberg:
Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements  —  Tesla is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News' Tom Schoenberg and Matt Robinson report.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Edge in CD39  —  Kim seen as more in touch, better liked than Cisneros  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Young Kim holds a slight edge over Democrat Gil Cisneros in the open seat contest for California's 39th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Jesse Barron / GQ:
How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich  —  A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman.  The only catch?  They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).
 
 
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The Hill:
Senate approves $854B spending bill
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The $40 trillion question Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn't answer
Discussion: Townhall
Emma Anderson / Politico:
German domestic intelligence chief removed from post
Daniel Krauthammer / Weekly Standard:
The Point of It All  —  Charles Krauthammer was my father.
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
If You See Disinformation Ahead of the Midterms, We Want to Hear From You
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Radley Balko / Washington Post:
There's overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here's the proof.
Max Smith / WTOP:
Why college students don't vote absentee? They don't know where to buy a postage stamp
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
WATCH: Ex-GOP chair reports Republicans are discussing ‘how they withdraw this nomination’ after Kavanaugh allegations
 

 
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Financial Times:
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