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Trump cheered Kraft's team to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where he was busted  —  Seated at a round table littered with party favors and the paper-cutout footballs that have become tradition at his annual Super Bowl Watch Party, President Donald Trump cheered the New England Patriots …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: White House leak to House Dems on Jared and Ivanka's clearances  —  From a White House source, the House Oversight Committee has obtained documents related to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's security clearances that the Trump administration refused to provide, according …
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Fred Barnes / Washington Examiner:
None of this is normal  —  A front-page headline in the Washington Post the other day declared: “Trump keeps his grip on GOP.”  Hardly a scoop.  It's normal for a president to have a firm hold on his own party.  And President Trump, an outsider who latched onto the Republican agenda, is no exception.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions for the President  —  The White House press briefing is dead.  It was awful, but we should still mourn it.  —  The President of the United States has called the media “the enemy of the people” dozens of times since taking office.
Discussion: Variety, Roll Call and Washington Post
Alayna Treene / Axios:
House Democrats may probe Kushners' NYC real estate deal
Washington Post:
House Democrats torn over how aggressively to scrutinize Ivanka Trump, president's other children
Discussion: Althouse
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Dems to bring resolution next week to make Mueller report public
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Here's how we can break up Big Tech  —  Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist.  Now they are among the most valuable and well-known companies in the world.  It's a great story—but also one that highlights why the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is bidding to be the policy pacesetter in the Democratic presidential primary, announced another expansive idea on Friday: a regulatory plan aimed at breaking …
Discussion: The Stranger and Splinter
CNN:   Elizabeth Warren's new plan: Break up Amazon, Google and Facebook
Colin Lecher / The Verge:   Elizabeth Warren says she wants to break up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar's Microaggression  —  Her words were bad.  The reaction was worse.  —  The identity politics fiasco surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been excruciating.  Half of me is angry at her.  The other half is furious for her.  —  Among the most basic anti-Semitic tropes …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans manage to get Democrats out of a jam — by showing the GOP's true colors
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Democrats and Anti-Semitism
Discussion: Instapundit
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders seizes pro-Omar lane in 2020
Discussion: Washington Post
Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Democrats' Dilemma  —  MINNEAPOLIS—They have gathered in defiance of the freezing temperatures on a late February's night, scores of them twirling Somali flags in one hand and American flags in the other, crowding around the arrivals terminal and waiting to welcome one of their own.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops  — ‘Cost Plus 50’ plan could worsen tensions with key allies  — Frustration over spending by NATO countries behind proposal  —  For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren't paying enough.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republican leadership splits, and party splinters over hate resolution
Discussion: Washington Post
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners  —  Creators of firms that donated revealed by Guardian as Indian financier, lobbyist with links to Taiwan and Israeli real estate developer  —  Donald Trump's inauguration received tens of thousands of dollars …
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The ‘Otherwise Blameless Life’ of Paul Manafort  —  “He has lived an otherwise blameless life,” said Judge T. S. Ellis as he sentenced Paul Manafort to just 47 months in prison on Thursday.  —  In an otherwise blameless life, Paul Manafort lobbied on behalf of the tobacco industry and wangled millions in tax breaks for corporations.
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Washington Post:
Paul Manafort says at his sentencing he feels ‘humiliated and ashamed’
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Chelsea Manning sent to jail for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case  —  Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be held in jail until she testifies before a grand jury or that grand jury is no longer operating, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled Friday.
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Chelsea Manning taken into custody for refusing to testify before secret grand jury  —  Chelsea Manning, an anti-secrecy activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose release of classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010 sparked worldwide controversy over transparency in the military …
David Byler / Washington Post:
Everyone is underestimating Trump.  It could hurt Democrats and Republicans alike.  —  We live in an era of horribly misinformed political decision-making.  In 2015, the Trump-skeptical Republican elite believed that Trump would naturally fade over the course of the primary …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Case for Reparations  —  A slow convert to the cause.  —  I've been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America's divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor.  There's been a haunting sensation the whole time that is hard to define.  It is that the racial divide doesn't feel like the other divides.
Discussion: Tennessee Star
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
More bad news for President Donald Trump in latest Michigan poll  —  WASHINGTON — A new poll has more bad news for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election hopes in Michigan, showing that more than half of those surveyed either plan to vote for someone else or are considering doing so next year.
John F. Harris / Politico:
How Trump Is Like JFK  —  Why is the mainstream media so agitated about President Donald Trump's close relationship with Fox News host Sean Hannity?  A right-wing critic emails with a taunt: “Everybody loved it when Bradlee and Kennedy were in bed together.”  —  Not sure I buy the premise.
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for the Struggle Session  —  In America, and even more so on Twitter, there's a whiff of China's Cultural Revolution in the air.
Associated Press:
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.
Discussion: Splinter and Townhall
Jamie Weinstein / The Bulwark:
The Great Hungarian Snowflake  —  Don't get too close to Dr. Seb Gorka.  He might melt.  —  He calls himself Dr. G, and he's been hilariously parodied as the Dragon of Budapest, but Dr. Sebastian Gorka is perhaps best described as the Great Hungarian Snowflake.
Andrew Das / New York Times:
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Sues U.S. Soccer for Gender Discrimination  —  All 28 members of the world champion United States women's national team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation on Friday, a sudden and significant escalation of a long-running fight …
Discussion: The Atlantic
New York Times:
Endeavor Returns Money to Saudi Arabia, Protesting Khashoggi Murder  —  There was much to celebrate last spring when Ariel Emanuel, the chief executive of the talent agency Endeavor, helped throw a splashy Hollywood party for Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
 
 
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Lucy Bayly / NBC News:
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Job creation grinds to a near-halt in February; wages still on the rise
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