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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Nancy Pelosi's Failure to Launch — The House speaker's hesitation on impeachment empowers a lawless president. — Elizabeth Warren on Friday evening sent out a series of tweets that, in addition to calling out Donald Trump for his criminality, rebuked Congress for enabling him.
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CNN, Breitbart, Splinter and Occupy Democrats
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The strategic case for impeaching President Trump — Welcome to some zero-sum game theory. — The facts are dribbling out about President Trump's efforts to seek official foreign assistance to take actions that would harm his domestic political rivals. Those facts are rather appalling …
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Bloomberg, The Independent, Talking Points Memo, KTLA, Althouse, The Week, Common Dreams and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
It's time, Speaker Pelosi — Let's imagine for the moment a hypothetical in which Nancy Pelosi continues along the current course, keeping it somewhat vague on her final intentions until, in the end, the drive to impeach President Trump concludes without the Speaker endorsing or allowing any full House vote on impeachment articles.
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U.S. Political News …, Daily Kos, CNN, Shareblue Media, Vanity Fair, Hot Air and New York Times
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Donald Trump vs. the United States of America — The full picture reveals a man who presents a clear and present danger to the country. — Sometimes it's worth stepping back to look at the full picture. — He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election.
Discussion:
Raw Story and Hullabaloo
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Moderate Dems eye impeachment as Ukraine furor builds — A growing number of freshman Democrats in swing districts are rethinking their stance against impeachment after President Donald Trump's alleged attempt to pressure Ukrainian officials for his own political gain …
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U.S. Political News …, The Week, Roll Call, Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, Townhall, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How we'll know if the impeachment dam starts to break
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Impeachment pressure escalates as Democrats demand release of whistleblower's Trump complaint
Impeachment pressure escalates as Democrats demand release of whistleblower's Trump complaint
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Common Dreams, Fox News and PJ Media Home
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Media Helped Trump Carry Out His Ukraine Smear — On May 1, the New York Times published a story that contained the most important facets of the Ukraine story. The Times reported that President Trump, through his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was pressing Ukraine's government to investigate Joe Biden.
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Crooked Media, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Common Dreams, Hot Air and Raw Story
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Blurts Out to Reporters That He Pressured Ukraine to Smear Biden — Over the past two days, President Trump has drained most of the remaining mystery from the world's least mysterious crime drama. In a series of comments to the media, the president casually revealed that yes …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just inched toward spilling the beans on Ukraine
Trump just inched toward spilling the beans on Ukraine
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RedState, Just Security, New York Post, Raw Story, Political Wire and Wall Street Journal
John Wagner / Washington Post:
GOP rival Bill Weld says Trump has committed ‘treason, pure and simple’
GOP rival Bill Weld says Trump has committed ‘treason, pure and simple’
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Reason, Breitbart and Alaska Public Media
Caitlin Webber / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Says He Can't Guarantee That Trump Didn't Threaten Ukraine Aid
Giuliani Says He Can't Guarantee That Trump Didn't Threaten Ukraine Aid
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Mother Jones
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
The Trump-Ukraine Story is a Stress Test
The Trump-Ukraine Story is a Stress Test
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Politico, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Washington Examiner and Accuracy in Media, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Republicans Have Four Options on Trump and Ukraine. They're All Bad.
Republicans Have Four Options on Trump and Ukraine. They're All Bad.
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Raw Story
Quint Forgey / Politico:
White House press secretary says daily briefings aren't coming back any time soon — White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Monday that she is not likely to conduct a White House press briefing anytime in the near future, deriding the once-regular sessions as an act of “theater” …
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Axios, CNBC, Bloomberg, Raw Story, Mother Jones, FiveThirtyEight, Daily Kos and Breitbart
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Graham urges Trump to release more details of call with Ukrainian president
Graham urges Trump to release more details of call with Ukrainian president
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NBC News, The Federalist, Townhall, New Republic, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Political Wire and Breitbart
Rex Huppke / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Trump pulls ‘reverse-Nixon’ over Ukraine call: ‘I AM A CROOK!’
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Pence Gave Ukraine the Message Too
Pence Gave Ukraine the Message Too
Discussion:
Hullabaloo, emptywheel and Occupy Democrats
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Elizabeth Warren's choice: ‘Medicare for All’ purity or a path to beating Donald Trump? — Medicare for All is one of the most hotly debated topics in the 2020 election. But what is it? And how will it work? We explain. … CONNECT — TWEET — LINKEDIN — COMMENT — EMAIL
Discussion:
DemCast and Iowa Starting Line
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’
Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’
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Politico
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats are stuck in a doom loop of premature polling
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
DNC raises threshold to make November debate stage — The Democratic National Committee has slightly raised the bar to qualify for the November primary debate in a move unlikely to significantly reduce the number of participating candidates. — Candidates will need to clear 3 percent …
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New York Times, Townhall, Washington Post, Axios, The Week, Splinter and Political Wire
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Fernandeza / Democrats:
DNC Announces Qualification Criteria For Fifth Presidential Primary Debate — Today, the DNC announced the qualification criteria for the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate, which will take place in November. Like the September/October debate qualification criteria …
Discussion:
The Federalist, Talking Points Memo, NBC News and Fortune
Mike Levine / ABC News:
FBI arrests Army soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb major American news network — The FBI has arrested a U.S. soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major American news network, planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with violent far-right group Azov Battalion …
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Immigrant kids fill this town's schools. Their bus driver is leading the backlash. — WORTHINGTON, Minn. — It was the first day of school, so Don Brink was behind the wheel of his bus, its yellow paint glistening in the drizzling dawn. Wearing jeans and a John Deere cap …
Discussion:
Balloon Juice
Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
The “Cancel Culture” Con — On April 1, 1964, Herbert Ruhe, an ex-CIA agent formerly stationed in Vietnam, submitted a surveillance report to the office of the Manhattan District Attorney about a person of interest to city officials. On the basis of the material Ruhe had gathered the previous night …
Brian Kahn / Earther:
It's Kids vs. the World in a Landmark Climate Complaint — UNITED NATIONS—On Monday, Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people filed a potentially world-changing climate complaint. On an abnormally steamy day in New York, when sweat built on the brows of the dark-suited diplomats funneling …
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New York Times, Glamour and The Week
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he is worthy of a Nobel Prize ‘for a lot of things’ — but isn't treated fairly — President Trump claimed Monday that he deserves a Nobel Prize for “a lot of things” but complained that the committee that hands out the awards does so unfairly. — The comment came during …
Discussion:
Political Wire, The New Neo, Breitbart and The Week
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump claims Nobel Peace Prize is rigged against him
Jennifer Maloney / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul — E-cigarette maker facing several federal, state investigations into its marketing — Federal prosecutors in California are conducting a criminal probe into e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc., according to people familiar with the matter …
Discussion:
The Week and New York Post
Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:
Pete Buttigieg: College football is ‘problematic’ — The Notre Dame fan and presidential hopeful thinks the amateur model 'isn't fair anymore' — ELKADER, IOWA — Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said he had moral qualms about being a college football fan and found it “problematic” on Monday.
Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:
Two #MeToo Books Were Just Published. One Is Great. The Other Shows You What Not To Do. — Early in She Said, the new book by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey on their investigation into Harvey Weinstein, the reporters describe the way that he-said/she-said dynamics prevent stories …
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CNSNews
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Boris Johnson Faces a New Scandal, and ‘People See Blood in the Water’ — LONDON — On Prime Minister Boris Johnson's turbulent path to Downing Street, serial philandering and ethical sloppiness became part of his schtick, blots on a career so chaotic and beguiling that the British public always seemed to forgive the mistakes.