Top Items:
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: McCarthy told Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach Trump — Kevin McCarthy tried to get Liz Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach former President Trump before last week's highly anticipated House GOP conference meeting — a request she refused, two people with direct knowledge told Axios.
Discussion:
Rolling Stone, No More Mister Nice Blog, HuffPost, New York Times, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, LGBTQ Nation, The Hill, NPR, Raw Story and Forbes
RELATED:
David Smith / The Guardian:
Never Trumpers' Republican revolt failed but they could still play key role … The Republican rebellion failed: Donald Trump won. — “I was disappointed over the last few weeks to see what seemed like the Republican party waking up,” the Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger observed …
Discussion:
Vox, NBC News, Boston Herald, Associated Press and Forbes
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Breaking With G.O.P., Top Conservative Lawyer Says Trump Can Stand Trial — Charles J. Cooper, a stalwart of the conservative legal establishment, said that Republicans were wrong to assert that it is unconstitutional for a former president to be tried for impeachable offenses.
Discussion:
InsideSources, New York Post and Political Wire
RELATED:
Chuck Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
The Constitution Doesn't Bar Trump's Impeachment Trial — Removal from office is best understood as akin to a ‘mandatory minimum’ sentence for a crime. — During the impeachment of Bill Clinton, his defenders argued that his misconduct was ultimately private and didn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Majority of Americans say Trump should be convicted, barred from holding federal office in impeachment trial: POLL — The Senate is set to begin Trump's second impeachment trial on Tuesday. — 2nd Impeachment Trial: What this could mean for Trump — Donald Trump will be the first president …
Discussion:
POLITICUSUSA, New York Magazine, Fox News, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Vox, Ipsos, Slate, Hackwhackers and Political Wire
RELATED:
Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:
Majority of Americans approve of Biden's coronavirus response, poll finds
Majority of Americans approve of Biden's coronavirus response, poll finds
Discussion:
Washington Examiner and ABC News
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Virus Variant First Found in Britain Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S. — A new study bolsters the prediction by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the so-called B.1.1.7 variant will dominate Covid-19 cases by March. — A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first found …
Discussion:
medRxiv, Gothamist, New York Post and Mother Jones
RELATED:
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
How Donald Trump's hand-holding led to panicky call home by Theresa May — A remarkable BBC documentary reveals the startling reality of meeting the president — For the former prime minister Theresa May, one of the most pressing matters she confronted during her encounter with Donald Trump …
Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Trump ‘happier’ now that he's off social media: former aide — Former President Trump “feels happier” since leaving the White House — partly because he's off social media, his former campaign aide says. — “The president has said he feels happier now than he's been in some time,” …
Discussion:
The Sunday Times, The Sun, Insider and Gothamist
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
George P. Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100 — George P. Shultz, one of only two people to serve the United States in four Cabinet-level posts and a major force in economic and foreign policy in two Republican administrations, died Feb. 6 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 100.
RELATED:
Hoover Institution:
Distinguished American Statesman, 60th US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Dies at 100
Distinguished American Statesman, 60th US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Dies at 100
Discussion:
New Republic, Stanford News, Washington Post, NPR, National Review, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, TMZ.com, The Daily Caller, Politico, The Wrap, Townhall, KRON4, Jacobin, Instapundit, Washington Examiner and New York Post
Glenn Greenwald:
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows — The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Big Publishing Pushes Out Trump's Last Fan — Top editors at Hachette have told employees that they've learned the lessons of the Capitol siege of Jan. 6: no hate speech, no incitement to violence, no false narratives. — If you were a certain kind of distinctly Trumpy public figure …
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Sheryl Sandberg Downplayed Facebook's Role In The Capitol Hill Siege—Justice Department Files Tell A Very Different Story — Just after the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer admitted the company's ability to enforce its own rules was “never perfect.”
PEN America:
PEN America Responds to Resignation of New York Times Reporter McNeil — The word McNeil uttered has uniquely cruel, painful, and dangerous associations; still, Times' reversal in this instance sends worrying signal — (New York, NY) — New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. resigned Friday …
RELATED:
John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:
The N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and the criminal conspiracy case of U.S. v. Donald Trump — Roger Stone has been here before. Exactly two decades earlier, when a Florida recount threatened to undo Republican George W. Bush's less-than-1,000-vote lead in the Sunshine State and hand …
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
‘Intimidation measure’: Louisiana AG criticized for suing reporter over records request — At first, Andrea Gallo's quest for sexual harassment complaints against a top state justice official seemed like a typical public records battle. The reporter heard a common refrain …
Washington Post:
‘An easy choice’: Inside Biden's decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief … Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have finally reached a breakthrough.
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Insider, CNN, Washington Examiner and Boston Herald
RELATED:
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘The Democratic version of John McCain’
‘The Democratic version of John McCain’
Discussion:
The Week, HuffPost, National Review and Washington Examiner
Ronald G. Shafer / Washington Post:
He became the nation's ninth vice president. She was his enslaved wife. — Her name was Julia Chinn — She was born enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after she became Richard Mentor Johnson's “bride.” — Johnson, a Kentucky congressman who eventually became …
Harry Enten / CNN:
Less than 10% of Americans like QAnon — (CNN)QAnon has been in the news a lot in recent weeks. Polling shows that many people at least partially blame it for the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, and it's a scary and dangerous conspiracy theory. — But we should be clear that it truly is a fringe movement.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
How Bruce Springsteen Agreed To Do a Super Bowl Commercial for Jeep … After driving “Thunder Road” for decades, Bruce Springsteen is taking a detour on Madison Avenue. — The musician known as “The Boss” will command two minutes of commercial time in Super Bowl LV Sunday night …
Discussion:
CNBC, Detroit News, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Vanity Fair, Althouse, Fox News and Rolling Stone
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US moves to rejoin UN rights council, reversing Trump anew — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is set to announce this week that it will reengage with the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council that former President Donald Trump withdrew from almost three years ago, U.S. officials said Sunday.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Marcy Kaptur's warning — Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress. — She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any woman has served there, in all of U.S. history. — She came to the Congress in 1983. — She is 74 and has been a Democrat her entire voting life.
Discussion:
Instapundit
EEAS:
My visit to Moscow and the future of EU-Russia relations — 07/02/2021 - HR/VP Blog - I went to Moscow this week to test, through principled diplomacy, whether the Russian government was interested in addressing differences and reversing the negative trend in our relations.
Discussion:
Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Michael J. Stern / USA Today:
Impeachment trial: The Senate is unlikely to convict Trump. Can we count on the courts? — The Justice Department may decide to prosecute Trump, but it's a tough call. Whatever the evidence, one Trump fan on a jury could prevent a conviction. — Ask any die-hard Democrat …
Discussion:
New York Times, Raw Story and HotAir
Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Trump's DC hotel is hiking prices for March 4 - the day QAnon followers think the former president will be sworn in … - QAnon followers believe that Trump will be sworn in on March 4, 2021. — This belief is rooted in a conspiracy theory that all presidents post-1871 are illegitimate.
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Says U.S. Won't Lift Iran Sanctions to Bring Tehran Back to Negotiating Table — Iran must stop enriching uranium before sanctions will be lifted, president says in CBS News interview — President Biden said the U.S. won't lift sanctions on Iran in order to get the country …
Discussion:
Breitbart and Washington Times
RELATED:
Cassidy McDonald / CBS News:
Biden says U.S. won't lift sanctions until Iran halts uranium enrichment
Biden says U.S. won't lift sanctions until Iran halts uranium enrichment
Discussion:
ABC News, CNBC, The Guardian, NPR, Forbes, CNN, Washington Post, National Review, Axios, Bloomberg and USA Today