Scoop: Inside a crowded border patrol tent in Donna, Texas  —  Exclusive photos from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas, reveal the crowded, makeshift conditions at the border as the government's longer-term child shelters and family detention centers fill up.

Biden Team Preparing Up to $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy  —  A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's economic advisers …

Trump predicted news ratings would 'tank if I'm not there.' He wasn't wrong.  —  Of all Donald Trump's prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn't entirely wrong.

AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 at interim analysis  —  79% vaccine efficacy at preventing symptomatic COVID-19  —  100% efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalisation  —  Comparable efficacy result across ethnicity and age,

Sovereign Writers and Substack  —  Manage your Stratechery subscription.  —  There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week; I'm not going to get into the specifics of various accusations made about various individuals, or their responses; however …

Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated  —  In case you needed another reason to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is sweetening the deal — it's giving free doughnuts to anyone with proof of vaccination, all year long.

The dumbing down of the D.C. statehood debate  —  There are valid, philosophical reasons to argue that Washington, D.C., should not be a state or have voting rights in Congress — chief among them being that it was created as a federal district.  —  But as the House held a hearing on the topic Monday …

Biden taps tech antitrust advocate Lina Khan for FTC, in yet another bad omen for Silicon Valley  —  Lina Khan will be the one of three Democratic commissioners at the agency.  —  The Federal Trade Commission building.  President Joe Biden on Monday picked prominent tech industry critic Lina Khan …

The filibuster is Kentucky's veto.  It stops radical ambitions like Yarmuth's  —  Congressman John Yarmuth likes to pretend he knows me.  He talks to reporters and writes in these pages as if he's some sort of “McConnell-whisperer.”  That's a full day's drive from reality.

Justice Dept. prepares to engage in plea talks with many Capitol riot defendants  —  Two months into one of the biggest criminal investigations in U.S. history, prosecutors are preparing to start plea discussions as early as this week with many of the more than 300 suspects charged in the U.S. Capitol riot …

Cops' posts to private Facebook group show hostility, hate  —  PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters …

The divine right of wingnuts  —  Harvard's Eric Nelson stokes a loopy monarchist movement in America.  —  2 hr ago  —  Holly Brewer is Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005).

The rioter next door: How the Dallas suburbs spawned domestic extremists  —  FRISCO, Tex. — Sunlight gleamed off the tiled roofs of the taupe mini-mansions and walkable shopping centers as March 4 dawned in this corner of North Texas.  According to specious speculations online …

Supreme Court will consider restoring the Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence  —  The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider whether to reinstate the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Hospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results  —  Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis shows  —  Hospitals that have published their previously confidential prices to comply with a new federal rule …

Betsy DeVos made at least $225 million while education secretary … Betsy DeVos reported at least $225 million — and potentially well over $414 million — in outside income while working as Donald Trump's education secretary, according to an analysis of DeVos's financial disclosures by CREW.

Richest 1% of Americans Hide a Fifth of Their Income From the IRS  —  A new study found that the IRS can miss earnings hidden in sophisticated ways.  It could support calls to give the agency more funding after years of budget cuts.  —  More than 20% of the wealthiest Americans' income …

How Kyrsten Sinema Sold Out  —  The origin story of the Senate's newest super villain.  —  In 2002, The Arizona Republic published a letter from Kyrsten Sinema, then a social worker preparing to run for a seat in the state House of Representatives, putting forth a critique of capitalism.

Federal Judge: ‘One-Party Control Of The Press And Media Is A Threat To A Viable Democracy’  —  In a blistering dissent, Judge Laurence Silberman said The New York Times and Washington Post are ‘Democratic Party broadsheets.’

How Biden quietly created a huge social program  —  Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) tapped out the longest text messages he'd ever written one night last January, urging Susan Rice, a top Biden aide and a friend, to include a full-scale anti-child poverty measure in the coronavirus rescue plan to be unveiled within days.

POLITICO Playbook: Democrats are dead serious about taking back that Iowa seat  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Big vaccine news overnight ... CNN: “AstraZeneca vaccine is 79% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, company says”  —  Just weeks after blasting DONALD TRUMP for trying to overturn …

Meet Wyoming's New Black Sheriff, the First in State History  —  The appointment is symbolic for both Wyoming and the Mountain West, which has been insulated from much of the national reckoning over race and policing.  —  LARAMIE, Wyo. — Ask Aaron Appelhans if he ever wanted to be a sheriff, and he'll say no.

Wow, We Sure Drank a Lot Last Year  —  Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business.  He was the editorial director of Harvard Business Review and wrote for Time, Fortune and American Banker.  He is the author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

A Year After Ending Her Presidential Bid, Warren Wields Soft Power in Washington  —  The progressive Democrat's proposals for taxing the rich will take center stage as talks on paying for an infrastructure bill ramp up.  —  WASHINGTON — At Adewale Adeyemo's confirmation hearing last month …

The Real Reason Republicans Couldn't Kill Obamacare  —  Adapted from The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage, St. Martin's Press 2021.  —  The Affordable Care Act, the health-care law also known as Obamacare, turns 11 years old this week.

The Saudi Expert Who Hides Foreign Funding When Testifying to Congress  —  A former Trump official sidestepped a new ethics rule.  —  Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed in 2019  —  The Biden administration has pledged to hold Saudi Arabia accountable …

Coverage of the migrant surge at the border shows how easily the media can be trolled by Republicans  —  Media can educate the public without ratcheting up the hysteria by calmly providing the historical context  —  It was inevitable that a crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico would refocus …

GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)  —  This is infuriating  —  I should be able to keep this short because these are not difficult errors to correct.  In fact, anyone who has read my work at all wouldn't have made them.

Average corporate tax rate plunged by more than half after GOP overhaul  —  The average tax rate on U.S. corporations fell by more than half, to 7.8 percent, in the wake of Republicans' 2017 tax overhaul, according to a new government analysis.  —  In a report sure to inflame the debate …

One Of The Men Charged With Assaulting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Will Stay In Jail  —  WASHINGTON — George Tanios, one of two men charged with conspiring to assault police during the Jan. 6 insurrection, including US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, will remain behind bars pending trial, a judge ruled Monday.

Vaccine mystery: Why J&J's shots aren't reaching more arms  —  Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid vaccine was supposed to be the catalyst for the country's return to normal.  Instead, it's sparking confusion and finger-pointing between the states and the Biden administration over why millions of doses are sitting unused.

Keystone XL Investor Susan Rice Has Kept Up Her Fossil Fuel Investments — And Now Oversees Tribal Relations Across The Executive Branch  —  Appointing Susan Rice to lead the Domestic Policy Council in December made no sense from a policy perspective, but perfect sense from a political perspective.

Republican Dan Crenshaw goes down in flames during debate with MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan  —  MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan went after Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Twitter this week after a Fox News appearance in which he twisted data about border crossings to score points.