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7:40 AM ET, February 15, 2021

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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Postcard From Peru: Why the Morality Plays Inside The Times Won't Stop  —  Other news organizations have their own personnel dramas.  But none attract the spotlight like The Times.  —  In 2012, when The New York Times was panicked about its financial future, this newspaper went into the travel business.
George Will / Washington Post:
Now begins McConnell's project to shrink Trump's GOP influence  —  One of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's many admirable traits is that he is uninterested in being admired.  He uses his demeanor to disguise the fact that he has normal feelings and so might welcome public approbation for his decisions.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CBS' Margaret Brennan: We Invited on Two Dozen Senate Republicans After Trump Acquitted — ‘No One Accepted’
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Lindsey Graham says Mitch McConnell speech slamming Trump could haunt Republicans in 2022
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   After impeachment, bipartisanship is dead — and so is the immoral Republican Party
Bill Cassidy / The Advocate:
I voted to convict former President Trump because he is guilty.  —  The Articles of Impeachment charged President Donald Trump with inciting an insurrection.  He chose not to testify, and so guilt or innocence must be inferred by the timeline of events, tweets, and his actions during the invasion of the U.S. Capitol.
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
New York Times:
'What's the Point?'  Young People's Despair Deepens as Covid-19 Crisis Drags On  —  Experts paint a grim picture of the struggle with lockdown isolation — a “mental health pandemic” that should be treated as seriously as containing the coronavirus.  —  Life seemed promising last year …
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Trump impeachment lawyer Michael van der Veen's home vandalized  —  The word “traitor” was spray-painted on the front of the attorney's driveway.  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  Tyger Williams /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP
The White House:
Statement by the President Three Years After the Parkland Shooting … Three years ago today, a lone gunman took the lives of 14 students and three educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.  In seconds, the lives of dozens of families, and the life of an American community, were changed forever.
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Calls Grow for Commission to Investigate Capitol Riot  —  Lawmakers are increasingly pushing for a 9/11-style panel that would examine failures and make recommendations.  It could also be a final chance for Congress to hold Donald J. Trump to account.  —  WASHINGTON — Lawmakers fresh off …
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Is the GOP's extremist wing now too big to fail?  —  SE Cupp: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene among Trump's awful legacies  —  (CNN)Congressional Republicans have crystallized an ominous question by rejecting consequences for Donald Trump over the January 6 riot in his impeachment trial …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Takes Center Stage With Ambitious Agenda as Trump's Trial Ends  —  The president plans to quickly press for his $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, and then move on to infrastructure, immigration, climate change and other major priorities.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's allies …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The Strategic Silence of Mike Pence  —  Complicity, cowardice, or nihilism?  —  On January 6, a horde of pro-Trump rioters breached the United States Capitol with one bloodthirsty mission in mind: to stop Vice President Mike Pence from carrying out his constitutional obligation to certify Joe Biden's 2020 presidential victory.
American Greatness:
The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story  —  Like so many fake news stories about Donald Trump and his supporters, millions of Americans believe the Sicknick story as truth; even a correction won't change their minds.  —  In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away …
Ido Efrati / Haaretz:
94 Percent Drop in Symptomatic COVID Cases Seen Among Vaccinated, Biggest Israeli Study Shows  —  The Pfizer COVID vaccine, the study found, was equally effective for all age groups, including people aged 70 and older  —  The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has produced a 94 percent drop …
Elizabeth Spiers / My New Band Is:
Slate Star Clusterfuck  —  On journalism, ideas, “ideas”, free speech, and tech.  —  2 hr ago  —  A while ago, I did a Q&A with a venture capitalist who had formerly worked in media.  The conversation took place on Clubhouse, the explosively growing audio-driven social network.
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Eric Metaxas Believes America Is Creeping Toward Nazi Germany  —  The PR pitch was brazen: Eric Metaxas, it declared, is “America's #1 Bad Christian.”  The Christian writer and radio host has been promoting doubts about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, including at a prayer rally he emceed on the National Mall in December.
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
This Republican Prosecutor Stood Up For Black Lives Matter Protests.  Haters Ran Him Out of Office.  —  An anonymous Facebook page waged war against a GOP prosecutor after he supported local anti-racism protests and explored whether armed counterprotesters could be breaking the law.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Dunetz / The Lid:
If The GOP Wins The House Should They Try For Impeachment Revenge?  —  Lindsey Graham Thinks They May Try To Impeach Harris  —  Well, the Democratic Party lost their second annual impeachment face.  The only thing they've proven is that they don't give a rat's arse about the United States …
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
Trump's Defense Was an Insult to the Impeachment Proceedings and an Assault on Reason  —  Donald Trump's second impeachment trial was an artifact of his Presidency.  It was a battle of meaning against noise, against nothing-means-anything-and-everything- is-the-same nihilism—and nihilism won.
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Puerto Rico governor: “Congress is morally obligated to respond” to island's statehood vote  —  Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi told “Axios on HBO” that “Congress is morally obligated to respond” to the island's recent vote in support of statehood, and said he expects a bill to be introduced in the House by mid-March.
Sharyl Attkisson:
Ex-FBI lawyer suspended by DC bar for forging wiretap email against ex-Trump campaign adviser Carter Page  —  The following is an excerpt from an article in The Epoch Times:  —  Ex-FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who was recently sentenced to 12 months of probation, has been temporarily suspended from practicing law in Washington.
John Binder / Breitbart:
Biden's DHS to Release 25.6K Migrants into Texas, California Communities  —  President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to release about 25,600 migrants, who have been in Mexico, into American communities in Texas and California, Breitbart News has learned.
Ali Velshi / MSNBC:
Sen. Ben Cardin on the decision to not call witnesses: ‘We were all witnesses’  —  Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) joins ‘Velshi’ to discuss the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump and the controversial decision by the managers not to call witnesses after winning a key vote.
Politico:
Schiff ponders life beyond the House as focus shifts from Trump  —  The Democratic face of Donald Trump's first impeachment trial watched the second trial unfold the same way much of America did — glued to the TV and confined to his home as the pandemic rages.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
 
 
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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Breaking the Rule of One  —  After upending a racial norm in the rural South …
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