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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Somebody's Taking a Huge Risk on Biden's Bill.  It's Not Biden.  —  Try to imagine we are living in the following hypothetical world: A popular Republican president quickly passes emergency legislation that has the support of two-thirds of the country, while Democrats in Congress refuse to vote for it.
Scott Wong / The Hill:
40 Republicans vote against Greene motion  —  Forty House Republicans on Wednesday voted against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest motion to adjourn, yet another sign her party is growing increasingly frustrated with the Georgia Republican's procedural delay tactics.
Discussion: Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
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NBC News:
Biden to announce deal for additional 100 million Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine doses  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce plans Wednesday to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, giving the U.S. more than enough supply to vaccinate the entire U.S. population.
Discussion: Forbes and MSNBC
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NBC News:   Susan Collins fires back at ‘bizarre’ Schumer remarks blaming her for 2009 stimulus
Bari Weiss / City Journal:
The Miseducation of America's Elites  —  Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret.  —  Education  —  The Social Order  —  The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Arrested journalist pleaded with officer: ‘This is my job’  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa journalist recounted getting pepper-sprayed and arrested while covering a protest for racial justice last year, testifying in her own defense Tuesday at her trial on charges stemming from the incident.
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William Morris / Des Moines Register:
‘This is my job!’: Register reporter Andrea Sahouri testifies in her own defense in her second day on trial
Discussion: FOREIGN PRESS USA and Techdirt
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Piers Morgan's Meghan Markle Comments Being Investigated by U.K. Media Regulator Ofcom … U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people wrote in to complain about ITV's “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest explosion of rage against the GOP bodes badly for our future  —  Opinion by  —  In recent days, a few die-hard Republicans have struggled to concoct a way for the GOP to purge itself of Trumpism's worst excesses while retaining its political benefits.
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Joseph Spector / USA Today:
Gillibrand: Calling for Cuomo to resign 'isn't the conversation we should be having'  —  ALBANY - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand continued this week to urge for an investigation to be concluded before making any decision on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo should stay in office amid sexual harassment allegations.
Discussion: Yahoo Finance and Political Wire
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Democrats Are Rapidly Evolving On The Filibuster
Discussion: National Review, Raw Story and ABC News
CNN:
Biden and his Covid-relief bill prove popular in new CNN poll  —  (CNN)The economic relief bill moving rapidly through Congress is broadly popular, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.  —  The popularity of the bill comes as President Joe Biden's approval rating tilts positive around 50 days after he took the oath of office.
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
US far-right extremists making millions via social media and cryptocurrency  —  Experts describe as ‘terrifying’ revelation that extremists, including some involved in Capitol attack, took in $1.5m in past year  —  Dozens of extremist groups and individuals, including some involved in the Capitol attack …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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Associated Press:   US narrows in on organized extremists in Capitol siege probe
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House set for final passage Wednesday of Biden's $1.9T Covid aid plan  —  Still, conservatives escalated their objections by snarling floor consideration Wednesday morning.  —  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, joined from left by Rep. Katherine Clark, Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal …
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
For Creators, Everything Is for Sale  —  Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money.  Yet fans still hold the power.  —  A rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life — down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Manhattan Prosecutors Advance Probe Into Trump's Seven Springs Estate  —  Subpoenas center on Trump Organization's failed efforts to develop the 213-acre property into a luxury subdivision  —  Manhattan prosecutors are intensifying their investigation into Donald Trump's businesses …
Biba Adams / Yahoo News:
Sen. Scott: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy’  —  The South Carolina Senator is falling in line with his Republican counterparts by taking aim at “cancel culture.”  —  Republican Senator Tim Scott told Fox News host Trey Gowdy that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout Humming, With Trump's Help  —  Trump administration officials grumble that they laid the groundwork for surging vaccinations, but some hard work in the trenches has helped pick up the pace of production.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Biden pledged last week …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.  —  As Republicans in the Georgia state legislature passed a series …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Court Dismisses Trump Campaign's Defamation Suit Against New York Times  —  A New York State judge ruled that the opinion essay at the center of the suit was constitutionally protected speech.  —  A New York State court on Tuesday dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by the re-election campaign …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Are Anxious About 2022 — and 2024  —  The fretting starts with the party's declining share of the Hispanic vote, but it doesn't end there.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.
Discussion: Townhall
Bloomberg:
Wall Street A-Listers Fled to Florida.  Many Are Eyeing a Return  — USPS data shows few New Yorkers moved to Miami, Palm Beach  — New Jersey, California and Connecticut were most popular moves  —  The “Upper East Side” cocktail at Sant Ambroeus is just the same as in Manhattan …
Associated Press:
Governor Newsom says 'we're not going back to normal' after pandemic  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will say during his State of the State address that the pandemic will end soon.  But when it does, Newsom will say that “we're not going back to normal” because “normal accepts inequity.”
Daniel Drezner / Washington Post:
What is the point of Josh Hawley?  —  What to make of media interest in the junior senator from Missouri.  —  Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Hawaii declares emergency due to floods, orders evacuations  —  (Reuters) - Hawaii Governor David Ige declared an emergency in the U.S. state after heavy rains brought floods, landslides and fear of dam failures, and authorities ordered the evacuation of several thousand people from communities threatened by rising waters.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, CNN and The Hill
Bill Baxley / Washington Post:
As a former Alabama attorney general, I do not say this lightly: An innocent man is on our death row  —  Opinion by Bill Baxley  —  Bill Baxley, attorney general of Alabama from 1971 to 1979, is a signatory to an amicus brief filed March 9 requesting the Jefferson County Circuit Court grant Toforest Johnson a new trial.
Joshua Nelson / Fox News:
Homan says Biden should be ‘embarrassed’ after inheriting most secure border in decades  —  Homan said ‘actions speak louder than words’ as border descends into crisis situation  —  Tom Homan slams the Biden administration's ‘open border agenda’  —  The Biden administration should be …
Discussion: National Review
Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
Arkansas Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban As Lawmakers Push For Supreme Court Case  —  Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday signed into law one of the country's most restrictive abortion bans, a measure supporters hope will force the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its 1973 decision sanctioning the procedure.
Urban Institute:
2021 Poverty Projections: Assessing Four American Rescue Plan Policies  —  Abstract  —  Four key elements of the American Rescue Plan Act would reduce the projected poverty rate for 2021 by more than one-third.  In an earlier analysis, we projected that without this legislation, the 2021 annual poverty rate would be 13.7 percent.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bob Smietana / Washington Post:
Bible teacher Beth Moore, Trump critic and advocate for sexual abuse victims, splits with Southern Baptist Convention  —  NASHVILLE (RNS) — For nearly three decades, Beth Moore has been the very model of a modern Southern Baptist.  —  She loves Jesus and the Bible and has dedicated her life …
 
 
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John Murawski / RealClearInvestigations:
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Discussion: Real Clear Politics
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Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Latest Stimulus Package Could Jolt U.S. Growth, Revive Inflation in 2021
Discussion: The Week
Batya Ungar-Sargon / Persuasion:
The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism”
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Alicia Robinson / Orange County Register:
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Biden administration confirms some but not all of Trump's Wuhan lab claims
Discussion: HotAir and Althouse