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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Populist nationalism is on the march. No one seems to know how to stop it. — Once upon a time — in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major — I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.
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Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
This is a repudiation of Corbynism. Labour needs to ditch the politics of the sect
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden warns that Boris Johnson's victory shows dangers of parties leaning too far left
Biden warns that Boris Johnson's victory shows dangers of parties leaning too far left
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Common Dreams, The Guardian, CNN, The Hill, DNyuz and Breitbart
NBC News:
Corbyn's UK defeat was bad news for Sanders, Warren and America's left
Corbyn's UK defeat was bad news for Sanders, Warren and America's left
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BBC:
Election results 2019: Boris Johnson returns to power with big majority
Election results 2019: Boris Johnson returns to power with big majority
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Tom McTague / The Atlantic:
It's Boris Johnson's Britain Now
It's Boris Johnson's Britain Now
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Financial Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Politico and Vox
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Corbynism Can't Happen Here — Even though the polls always suggested the likelihood of Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in yesterday's British elections, his continued presence as the head of the Labour Party filled me with a great sense of foreboding. The local press excavated from Corbyn's …
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National Review, Jacobin, New York Magazine and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
How Labour Lost the Culture War
How Labour Lost the Culture War
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Noah Rothman / Commentary:
Bernie Sanders Has a Big Jeremy Corbyn Problem
Bernie Sanders Has a Big Jeremy Corbyn Problem
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New York Times, The National Interest and The Dispatch
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
All Shall Gaze Upon the Future—and Despair
Wall Street Journal:
‘Just Having Fun’: Giuliani Doubles Down on Ukraine Probes — Trump's personal attorney escalates his push for investigations—the effort that helped spark impeachment inquiry — Some of Rudy Giuliani's friends told him to keep a low profile. — Instead, Mr. Giuliani is escalating …
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Axios:
Scoop: House Dems attend Trump's holiday party amid impeachment — Half a dozen House Democrats attended the White House Congressional Ball last night while their colleagues on the Judiciary Committee worked late into the night on articles of impeachment, according to two sources familiar with the event.
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Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court will hear three cases over Trump's financial records — The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear three cases over President Donald Trump's financial records next year. — Trump asked the justices to reverse three lower court rulings that would require …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court agrees to consider whether Trump's tax records should be released — By granting review of these cases now, the justices made it possible for them to be heard during the current court term. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear President Donald Trump's appeal …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Talking Impeachment to Death — A report from the House Judiciary Committee's epic markup. — The House Judiciary Committee approved House Resolution 755, a measure “impeaching Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors,” on Friday morning. After a long, acrimonious Republican defense …
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
In unrelenting tweetstorm, Trump praises GOP anti-impeachment ‘warriors,’ hits Pelosi
In unrelenting tweetstorm, Trump praises GOP anti-impeachment ‘warriors,’ hits Pelosi
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Panel Approves Impeachment Articles and Sends Charges for a House Vote
Panel Approves Impeachment Articles and Sends Charges for a House Vote
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TalkLeft, ABC News, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast, Deseret News and DNyuz
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Democratic candidates threaten to skip debate amid labor fight — All seven Democratic candidates who have qualified for the PBS NewsHour/POLITICO Debate at Loyola Marymount University next week threatened on Friday to skip the event, asserting they would not cross the picket line of campus workers locked in a labor dispute.
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
All 7 presidential contenders might skip December debate over labor dispute, throwing matchup into turmoil
All 7 presidential contenders might skip December debate over labor dispute, throwing matchup into turmoil
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New York Times, Townhall and Common Dreams
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Democratic Candidates May Skip Presidential Debate Over Labor Dispute
Democratic Candidates May Skip Presidential Debate Over Labor Dispute
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Vox, Bloomberg, NPR, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and fox5sandiego.com
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
McConnell's awful Hannity interview shows power of Fox News's disinformation — It has often been observed that one of President Trump's biggest allies in the impeachment battle is Fox News — that if Richard Nixon had enjoyed the benefit of such a powerful purveyor of propaganda, he wouldn't have been driven from office.
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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders endorses a Californian who defends crude sex ratings of women — Bernie Sanders endorsed a California congressional candidate Thursday with a long history of making crude and degrading comments about women and provocative statements about Jews, Muslims and other groups.
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The Slot, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Fortune and Twitchy
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Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Precinct closures harm voter turnout in Georgia, AJC analysis finds — Closures accelerated after Supreme Court invalidated Voting Rights Act provision, putting thousands farther from the polls. — Until her old concrete-block precinct shut down, Maggie Coleman lived about a mile from a place to cast her ballot in rural Georgia.
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Trump has described the same conversation about Israel four times. Each time, the name of his Jewish friend changed. — Touting his accomplishments during a second Hanukkah reception at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump recalled a conversation he said he had with real estate developer Charles Kushner.
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Judge's decision may shine light on secret Trump-Putin meeting notes — WASHINGTON — A district court judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered administration lawyers to explain why, for more than two years, the White House has refused to turn over to the State Department an interpreter's notes …
Ryan Parry West / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden to be a daddy for the FIFTH time! New South African wife of VP's son is seen with a baby bump amid his messy paternity case and concerns over barrage of attacks from Trump loyalists — Hunter Biden's new wife Melissa Cohen Biden, 32, is pregnant and in her second trimester, DailyMailTV can reveal
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Matt Gaetz proves there is no bottom
Matt Gaetz proves there is no bottom
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Democracy Grief Is Real — Seeing what Trump is doing to America, many find it hard to fight off despair. — The despair felt by climate scientists and environmentalists watching helplessly as something precious and irreplaceable is destroyed is sometimes described as “climate grief.”
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Hullabaloo and DemCast
New York Times:
‘Bombshell’ Raises a Question: What's Megyn Kelly Up to Anyway? — A year after the anchor was ousted from NBC, Charlize Theron brings her back as someone who helped take on Fox News from the inside. — Megyn Kelly last appeared on NBC more than a year ago, trying to contain an uproar …
Daniel Desrochers / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Bevin pardons a KY man convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her in a barrel — It's not clear if Betty Carnes was killed by asphyxiation or by the eight blows to her head that Delmar Partin delivered with a metal pipe. The coroner couldn't tell which killed the mother of three first …
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Raw Story and Law & Crime
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Michelle Obama tells Greta Thunberg to ‘ignore the doubters’ after Trump insult — The teen climate change activist was named Time's Person of the Year on Thursday. — Former first lady Michelle Obama wrote a public note of support to Greta Thunberg overnight, following President Donald Trump's dismissal …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Cyberbullying crusader Melania Trump silent on her husband's mocking of 16-year-old Thunberg
Cyberbullying crusader Melania Trump silent on her husband's mocking of 16-year-old Thunberg
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The Hill, Occupy Democrats, Washington Times and FOX31 Denver
CNN:
White House further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls in wake of Ukraine scandal — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Raw Story and Mediaite
Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas Rep. Colin Allred, a Democrat facing tough 2020 race, will vote to impeach Trump — The freshman Democrat had been one of the few Texas Democrats to not yet announce their position on impeachment — WASHINGTON - Dallas Rep. Colin Allred on Friday announced that he will vote …
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New York Times:
China Announces Initial Trade Agreement With U.S. — The agreement includes a commitment by China to buy more agriculture products and to strengthen laws protecting foreign companies operating there. — BEIJING — China announced on Friday that it had agreed on an initial trade deal …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Facing catastrophic climate change, they still can't quit Big Oil — NUIQSUT, Alaska — The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking. Rising temperatures are thawing the once-frozen earth …
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
Exclusive: documents show Foxconn refuses to renegotiate Wisconsin deal — Why won't Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it's building? — Whatever Foxconn is building in Wisconsin, it's not the $10 billion, 22 million-square-foot Generation 10.5 LCD factory that President Trump once promised would be the “eighth wonder of the world.”