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12:20 PM ET, May 3, 2019

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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
For Fear of William Barr  —  The attorney general gets attacked because his probe endangers many powerful people.  —  The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington.  And fear is what's driving this week's blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.
Discussion: Power Line and twitchy.com
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump, Wrecker of Reputations  —  On Attorney General William Barr's testimony and the coming constitutional crisis.  —  In the first year of the Trump Presidency, White House advisers often promised reporters that this would be the week when they would unveil Trump's plans for a massive investment in American infrastructure.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
In Barr, Trump has found someone who licks his boots out of principle  —  In the normal course of events, the successful demagogue demands and receives cringing deference.  But how about a little empathy now and then?  —  Everyone loves heroic dissidents such as Sir Thomas More, at least when canonizing them has no cost.
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump is already set to use the government to destroy the Democratic nominee  —  The 2020 election is going to be ugly in many different ways.  If you thought Donald Trump ran a rancid campaign when he was trying to make it to the White House, just you wait until he's fighting to preserve his power.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr's 2 strangest defenses of Trump haven't gotten enough attention  —  Democrats have accused Attorney General William P. Barr of shilling for President Trump and effectively acting like his defense lawyer.  The Post reports Friday morning on the question of whether that is really what is going on …
CNN:
Nadler threatens to hold Barr in contempt if DOJ doesn't comply with new Democratic offer on Mueller report
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Adam Schiff / USA Today:
William Barr lied to Congress about the Mueller report. He should resign
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
CNN:
Pressure grows for Mueller to speak
Discussion: Power Line and Mashable
Barbara Allen / Poynter:
Letter from the Editor  —  Dear readers:  —  On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites, built from pre-existing databases compiled by journalists, fact-checkers and researchers around the country.  Our aim was to provide a useful tool for readers to gauge …
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Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After the Recession  —  For years it was the central question in an otherwise impressive recovery by the American job market: Why aren't wages rising faster?  —  Unemployment was low.  Hiring was strong.  Corporate executives were complaining …
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Associated Press:
U.S. jobless rate drops to 49-year low
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Added 263,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 3.6%
Megan Henney / Fox Business:   US job growth surges in April, beating expectations with 263,000 added
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Watergate had the Nixon tapes.  Mueller had Annie Donaldson's notes.  —  The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director who led it: “Is this the beginning of the end?”
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Bernie Sanders's 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union  —  Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988.  —  The just-married socialist mayor …
Discussion: Shakesville, Althouse and Dispatches
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’  What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders's Long-Lost TV Show.  —  Dozens of children scurry on the screen across Ethan Allen Park in Burlington, Vermont, bobbing for apples and running three-legged races.  It is a beaming July day, and they're at a summer camp …
Discussion: The Week
Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:
On Twitter, news outlets amplify Trump's false statements: study  —  When a president speaks, what he says is, by journalistic norms, inherently newsworthy.  But when a president lies—on social media, at press conferences, and in speeches—news organizations have to reconsider old rules …
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Media Matters for America:
Study: Major media outlets' Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on average 19 times a day
Discussion: Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
Mark Halperin Enlists Pals Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Michael Smerconish to Rehab His Career After Sexual Misconduct Scandal  —  The disgraced pundit has re-emerged from #MeToo hiding and has met with media friends for new punditry work—including a scrapped gig with the hosts of MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe.’
The New York Times Company:
Sarah Kliff of Vox to Join Investigations  —  Sarah Kliff, a versatile journalist who has used a variety of media to explain complex health legislation, will be based in Washington.  Read more in this note from Rebecca Corbett, Dean Murphy and Carolyn Ryan.
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
California Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns  —  The California state Senate on Thursday approved a bill to require candidates appearing on the presidential primary ballot — including President Trump — to release five years' worth of income tax returns.
Discussion: The Stranger
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Coming Subpoena Fights Between Trump and Congress, Explained  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr defied on Thursday a deadline imposed by a congressional subpoena to provide lawmakers with the full-text Mueller report.  —  President Trump, meanwhile, has vowed to resist …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
William Barr's Justice Department Just Filed the Most Nakedly Political Brief in the Agency's History
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
‘Bigger than WATERGATE’: Trump hails NYT report on FBI meeting with Papadopoulos  —  The White House on Friday seized on revelations that the FBI during the 2016 campaign sent an undercover investigator to meet with an aide to then-candidate Donald Trump, with the president calling the news “bigger than Watergate.”
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The 2019 governor's race that has Trump's team sweating  —  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is a presidential phone-buddy and White House regular who's become one of President Donald Trump's loudest surrogates.  —  He's also one of the most unpopular governors in the country, facing a treacherous reelection in November.
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Economy and the Election  —  For as long as I've covered politics, the conventional wisdom has been that presidents win re-election in good economic times and they lose when the economy stinks.  Ronald Reagan won re-election when the economy was booming.  Jimmy Carter lost when we sunk into economic “malaise.”
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
Kellyanne Conway Broke the Law Attacking Joe Biden in White House Driveway and Should Be Fired: Bush Ethics Chief  —  A chief ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush accused Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway of breaking federal law yet again for bashing former Vice President …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Press
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Biden brags about his time in ‘the hood’
Discussion: twitchy.com
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats ask NRA execs, PR firm for documents related to alleged self-dealing  —  Three Senate Democrats have asked current and former National Rifle Association executives and the organization's public relations firm to turn over letters, third-party audits, memos and other materials …
Discussion: The Trace
Associated Press:
Cohen's prison reality: ‘The Situation’ and Shabbat services  —  NEW YORK (AP) — “The Situation” and the Fyre Festival fraudster are already there.  President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is up next.  —  It's not reality TV.  It's a federal prison 70 miles …
Discussion: Mediaite
Angie Martoccio / Rolling Stone:
John Lewis Looks Ahead  —  The civil rights icon on Selma, impeachment and the art of making “good trouble”  —  Congressman John Lewis' Washington, D.C., office is filled from floor to ceiling with photographs and souvenirs from a lifetime of activism: the Freedom Rides he risked his life …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Dying Is No Reason to Stop Fighting
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Biden wins endorsement of Florida Democrats in early show of force
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Sasha Pezenik / ABC News:
Gov. Jay Inslee unveils sweeping initiative to combat climate change
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CFPB moves to limit home loan data
Christopher Jacobs / The Federalist:
The CBO Report On Single Payer Isn't The One We Deserve To See
Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Voter registration groups sue to block Tennessee law with tough penalties for signup mistakes
Discussion: Mother Jones and Joe.My.God.
CNN:
Allegations remain in forefront for Kavanaugh, 7 months after his confirmation
 Earlier Items: 
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The White House wants Maduro gone. But it may be helping him stay in power.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
She's Asian and female. But she's not me.
Bloomberg:
Trump Hails Steel Tariffs in Defiance of GOP Request to End Them
Discussion: The Last Refuge and Politico
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Democrats' Most Liberal Wing Is Struggling To Gain Power
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Barr Unable to Give Honest Answer to Drive-Thru Window at Arby's
Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Mayor Pugh resigns after month on leave amid investigation into her business deals
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