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9:30 AM ET, May 13, 2019

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Washington Post:
Trump's trade approach under attack as China readies retaliation; markets poised for big sell-off  —  Beijing plans steep tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods in response to White House action … President Trump's efforts to calm investors while he launches a full-scale trade war …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump disputes impact of tariffs on American consumers, but warns China not to retaliate  —  President Donald Trump warned China on Monday of dire consequences if it does not agree to a deal to end an escalating trade war, making a personal appeal to President Xi Jinping and accusing Beijing of backing out of a “great deal” last week.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Townhall and Breitbart
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Kudlow's admission about who pays tariffs contradicts Trump
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Washington Post:
Trump's go-it-alone approach on trade, immigration poses economic risks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
What Joe Biden Is Teaching Democrats About Democrats  —  Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has seemed to race leftward so fast that its recent standard-bearers are considered no longer qualified to lead it.  Bill Clinton?  An embarrassment not welcome on the campaign trail.  Barack Obama?
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Why Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden really need each other  —  Having a foil benefits both 70-something candidates and spells potential bad news for the rest of a large field that could get left behind.  —  WASHINGTON — If New Hampshire Democrats voted today, and the most recent polling is correct …
The Guardian:   The Guardian view on a Green New Deal: we need it now
Mike Allen / Axios:
Democrats' fear: 2020 race killing chances to win Senate  —  Democrats have more than beating President Trump to fret in 2020: They face an uphill battle to win the Senate, and the possibility of losing House seats, too.  —  Reality check: The Senate looks tough to win back for Democrats …
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
House GOP focusing on women, minorities for 2020 challengers
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:   Democrats Don't Want to Run for the Senate—and It Will Screw Them
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel  —  House Republican leaders took aim at Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Sunday for a podcast interview in which she discussed her support for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Rashida Tlaib says thinking of the Holocaust provides her a ‘calming feeling,’ …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap  —  (CNN)It seems a crazy idea that any president would actually want to be impeached.  —  But Donald Trump has so subverted Washington logic with his wild, norm-crushing presidency that there is now a serious conversation …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: How money flows from Amazon to 8chan  —  Follow the money from the world's most valuable company to a racist troll haven  —  You may or may not know about the 8chan website—but you are familiar with its work.  The rudimentary message board is a wellspring of racism, violence …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Inside Jared Kushner's two missions impossible  —  As President Donald Trump launches his re-election bid, his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is waging dual campaigns of his own, preparing to sell ambitious fixes to two of the most stubborn problems of the past 50 years.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
The real reason Venezuela's Maduro survives: Dirty money  —  When asked to explain why their efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have fallen short, Trump administration officials typically cite the sinister influence of Cuba and Russia, which they say has stiffened the regime's resistance.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon will pull money from ballistic missile and surveillance plane programs to fund border wall  —  The Pentagon will shift $1.5 billion for President Trump's border wall from programs that include the military's next nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile and a plane that provides surveillance …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Week and Slate
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
An Imperial Presidency?  —  President Trump's free rein from political norms puts the United States at risk.  —  We watch daily as the constitutional and conventional fabric of this country is clawed at and unraveled by Donald Trump, while those with any power to prevent or punish his actions …
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:
Trump tariffs on China intensify pain for US soyabean farmers  —  In late February, with American and Chinese diplomats enmeshed in trade talks a week before a since-extended deadline, a top US agriculture official explained what he hoped would result from a deal.
New York Sun:
Prime Minister Nigel Farage?  —  Could Britain end up with Prime Minister Nigel Farage?  On the one hand, we wouldn't put any more money on it than, say, the New York Times was prepared, on election eve in 2016, to put on Donald Trump.  On the other hand, feature what's happening …
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
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Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
Keir Starmer: Brexit deal unlikely to pass without confirmatory poll
Discussion: Politico, Financial Times and Bloomberg
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
How a Newspaper War in New Orleans Ended: With a Baked Alaska and Layoffs  —  NEW ORLEANS — The announcement came via the baked alaska.  —  On May 2, senior staff members at The Advocate newspaper gathered in a room at Antoine's, one of the white-linen dining palaces in the French Quarter of New Orleans …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, Justices With Much in Common, Take Different Paths  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's two Supreme Court appointees went to the same Jesuit high school in the Washington suburbs — at the same time.  After attending Ivy League colleges and law schools …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Iowa's Likely Outcome for 2020 Contenders: A Field of Broken Dreams  —  The nation's first presidential caucus is always important, but with more than 20 Democrats running this time, the need for a strong showing is far more urgent.  —  IOWA CITY — It may be nearly nine months until …
Discussion: Des Moines Register
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Media Wounded  —  There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events.  But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news.  Journalism is now dead.  The media lives on.  —  Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas …
Megan Specia / New York Times:
Sweden Reopens Rape Case Against Julian Assange  —  The Swedish authorities announced on Monday that they would reopen an investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who is serving a prison term in Britain for jumping bail as the United States seeks …
Discussion: The Wrap and Political Wire
Washington Post:
'Who's going to take care of these people?'  —  As emergencies rise across rural America, a hospital fights for its life  —  The hospital had already transferred out most of its patients and lost half its staff when the CEO called a meeting to take inventory of what was left.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Economists often don't know what they're talking about  —  The most intriguing and indisputable thing we have learned about economists in recent decades is that they don't know nearly as much as they thought they knew.  We see evidence of this all the time.
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
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Discussion: Raw Story and The Moderate Voice
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Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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