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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 …
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Bloomberg:
China Announces Tariff Retaliation to Take Effect on June 1  —  China announced that it will impose additional tariffs on some American goods in retaliation for the latest increase of U.S. duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports.  —  The tariffs will take effect on June 1 …
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War  —  The president falsely claims that tariffs are paid “directly” to the U.S. Treasury by China and indicates these nonexistent Chinese funds will cover the subsidy cost.  —  President Donald Trump is seeking …
Discussion: Fortune, Associated Press and Splinter
Gregory Meyer / Financial Times:   Trump tariffs on China intensify pain for US soyabean farmers
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Kudlow's admission about who pays tariffs contradicts Trump
Discussion: HillReporter.com
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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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Iowa Trump voters want Elizabeth Warren's ideas, focus group shows
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Iowa's Likely Outcome for 2020 Contenders: A Field of Broken Dreams
Discussion: Des Moines Register
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Why Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden really need each other
Discussion: Vox
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What's the Real Reason Trump Is Stonewalling Congress?  —  Maybe he wants to avoid more bad publicity.  Or maybe it's something worse.  —  If President Donald Trump thinks he's been totally exonerated, as he says, why is he stonewalling Congress?  Why wouldn't he want special counsel Robert Mueller …
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden.  Don't Buy It.  —  Real journalists want to report the truth, wherever it takes them.  Peter Schweizer wants to reelect Donald Trump.  —  Michael Tomasky  —  Are we really going to do this again, Fourth Estate?
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   Joe Biden's surprisingly controversial claim that Trump is an aberration, explained
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:   Journalism is Dead—Long Live the Media!
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
How Does Donald Trump Keep Getting Away with It?  —  Hint: From Congress to the courts, people keep treating Trump like a ‘normal’ president.  It's time to stop.  —  Every day, President Donald Trump or his minions say something stupid, wrong, or demonstrably false.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules against Apple, allowing lawsuit targeting App Store to proceed  —  Apple suffered a significant defeat at the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices ruled that consumers could forge ahead with a lawsuit against the iPhone giant over the way it manages its App Store.
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court clears way for iPhone users to sue Apple over App Store prices
Discussion: Politico
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up  —  Mayor de Blasio's NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows.
Discussion: Fox News
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 …
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 …
Anna Flagg / New York Times:
Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?  —  It's a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.  —  A lot of research has shown that there's no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States.
Discussion: Splinter and twitchy.com
The Daily Beast:
One-Time #Resistance Hero Rod Rosenstein Was Trump's Leak-Hunter-in-Chief  —  The Trump administration is on pace for a record number of leak prosecutions—thanks in part to a man hailed by the president's fiercest critics.  —  Rod Rosenstein was a #Resistance hero—and one of Donald Trump's …
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
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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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.
Gillian Edevane / Newsweek:
Senator Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to Avoid Testifying Over Russia Deal: “Call it a Day”  —  During an appearance on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures, Senator Lindsey Graham brushed off the Senate Intelligence Committee's attempts to subpoena Donald Trump Jr …
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders, a Front-Runner With Financing to Prove It, Struggles to Retain Outsider Status  —  The candidate who blasted the campaign-finance system as ‘corrupt’ has drawn support from outside groups with few restrictions and undisclosed donors  —  BURLINGTON, Vt.—Bernie Sanders …
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
One of the Most Effective Anti-Trump Groups in the Country Is Now Tackling Voter Suppression in the States  —  American Oversight uncovered Ivanka's private emails and Pruitt's calendars.  Now it wants to use its investigative methods to unearth the motivations behind voter suppression laws.
Discussion: Raw Story
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Mike Pence's advice to Christian college grads: Prepare to be ‘shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible’  —  Vice President Pence had a message for Liberty University's graduating class of 2019: “Be ready.”  —  But as Pence looked out over the sea of people dressed …
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and RedState
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 …
 
 
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Kamala Harris Lies About Truancy Laws, Defends Criminalizing Parents Whose Kids Miss School: Reason Roundup
Discussion: twitchy.com
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again.  And It Will Never End.  A bulletin from our climate future.
Discussion: New York Times
BBC:
Burkina Faso church attack: Priest among six killed
Discussion: France 24 and Daily Wire
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
How to Really Honor the Troops
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Democrat Steve Bullock Won a Red State in 2016. Can He Beat Trump in 2020?
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Obama White House Tracked FOIA Request For Hillary Emails That Was Improperly Denied
Discussion: twitchy.com
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
An Oral History of Trump's Bigotry
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Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
Trump buildings face millions in climate fines under new New York rules
Discussion: Splinter
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Two Saudi oil tankers attacked in the Persian Gulf amid rising Iran tensions
Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
American Nazis protested a Holocaust remembrance event.  A university's scholarship is part of the reason why.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Economists often don't know what they're talking about
Discussion: Althouse
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
The real reason Venezuela's Maduro survives: Dirty money
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, Justices With Much in Common, Take Different Paths
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Biden jolts Dem fight for big donors
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
How a Newspaper War in New Orleans Ended: With a Baked Alaska and Layoffs
 

 
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Financial Times:
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