Top Items:
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Inquiry Into Matt Gaetz Said to Be Focused on Cash Paid to Women — The congressman and a former official in Florida sent money to the women using cash apps, receipts showed. — WASHINGTON — A Justice Department investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz …
Discussion:
HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Forbes, HotAir, Florida Politics, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, CNN, The Week, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, New York Post, The Sun, Insider, New York Magazine, Crooks and Liars, Mediaite, NBC News, The Hill, Orlando Sentinel, MSNBC, Washington Examiner and Discourse Blog
RELATED:
CNN:
Gaetz showed nude photos of women he said he'd slept with to lawmakers, sources tell CNN — (CNN)Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican being investigated by the Justice Department over sex trafficking allegations, made a name for himself when he arrived on Capitol Hill as a conservative firebrand …
Orlando Sentinel:
Joel Greenberg, Matt Gaetz visited closed Seminole tax office together on weekend, source says — Joel Greenberg and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz on at least one occasion several years ago were recorded together entering the Seminole County Tax Collector's Office when it was closed on a weekend night …
Discussion:
Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Insider
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Matt Gaetz paid prostitutes using Cash App and Apple Pay — and there are receipts: NYT bombshell
Discussion:
HotAir, The Daily Beast and The Daily Caller
John Boehner / Politico:
Panic Rooms, Birth Certificates and the Birth of GOP Paranoia — In the 2010 midterm election, voters from all over the place gave President Obama what he himself called “a shellacking.” And oh boy, was it ever. You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name …
RELATED:
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Boehner unloads — DRIVING THE DAY — The absolute must-read of the day is POLITICO Mag's 2,300-word exclusive excerpt of JOHN BOEHNER'S scorching new book, “ON THE HOUSE,” which will be out April 13 from St. Martin's Press. — We knew this was going to be juicy ever since we saw the cover last month.
Discussion:
The Hill, Mediaite, Washington Post and Raw Story
Noah Bookbinder / USA Today:
I'm finally done with the Senate filibuster. We're running out of time to save democracy. — This sounds apocalyptic and maybe a little crazy. It is not. The Trump presidency showed how quickly and completely our foundations can be shaken. — I worked as a counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight years.
Discussion:
Michigan Advance, Raw Story and Ms. Magazine
RELATED:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee / The Hill:
Georgia election law prevents African American, Latinx, others from exercising the right to vote
New York Times:
Virginia, the Old Confederacy's Heart, Becomes a Voting Rights Bastion
Discussion:
Mississippi Free Press
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Jim Clyburn ‘Insulted’ By Joe Manchin's Position On Voting Rights Bill
Discussion:
Victory Girls Blog, POLITICUSUSA and Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
Woke and Weak CEOs — They're denouncing Georgia's election law, but have they read it? — By The Editorial Board — The public debate on Georgia's new voting law has become a stew of falsehood, propaganda and panic. Part of the blame lies with the partisan distortion of Democrats …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Daily Mail and Grabien News
RELATED:
Sean Davis / New York Post:
Liberals pressure corporations into Georgia boycotts — it's time to ignore the mobs
Discussion:
IndieWire and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Iran Nuclear Deal Participants to Meet in Vienna Next Week — President Biden has said he wants the U.S. to return to the deal that U.S. exited in 2018 — Negotiations to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will take place among all parties in Vienna next week, senior western diplomats said Friday …
Discussion:
CNN
RELATED:
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. and Iran Agree to Indirect Talks on Returning to Nuclear Deal — The two countries will negotiate through intermediaries next week in Vienna to try to bring both back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement. — BRUSSELS — Negotiations on how to bring both the United States …
Discussion:
The Times of Israel and UPI
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is Biden Really the Second Coming of F.D.R. and L.B.J.? — Proposing historic legislation is not transformative; passing it is. — Early in their Presidencies, when their Administrations are all about potential and the disappointments of political reality have not yet set in …
Discussion:
The Week and Political Wire
RELATED:
New York Times:
What Georgia's Voting Law Really Does — The New York Times analyzed the state's new 98-page voting law and identified 16 key provisions that will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers. — Go page by page through Georgia's new voting law …
Discussion:
CBS News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Letters from an American and Election Law Blog
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Fresh data reveal how Trump made inroads with Latinos — A new analysis of U.S. voters suggests — counterintuitively — that the coronavirus pandemic may have helped drive former President Donald Trump's surprising increase in support from Latinos last November.
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March as recovery gains steam again — The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March, the highest level in months, as vaccine distribution and declining caseloads helped accelerate a recovery in the labor market. — The unemployment rate edged …
Discussion:
New York Times and CBS News
Emily Jacobs / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says laptop at center of Post exposé could ‘absolutely’ belong to him — Hunter Biden said the laptop at the center of The Post's explosive exposé last year “absolutely” could belong to him, he revealed in an interview Friday. — In a sit-down with CBS This Morning …
Discussion:
CBS News, Breitbart, Twitchy and Washington Examiner
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don't Know, Scientists Say. — Researchers pushed back after the C.D.C. director asserted that vaccinated people “do not carry the virus.” — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday walked back controversial comments made by its director …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and RedState
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump Calls On Biden to Let Global Capital Dictate U.S. Tax Policy — Donald Trump believes that tailoring U.S. tax policy to the preferences of the American people — rather than to those of multinational corporations and their lobbyists — constitutes a “globalist betrayal” …
Discussion:
CNN, Climate Depot and Boston Herald
San Diego Union-Tribune:
A USD law professor is under investigation. Instead, his right to free speech must be protected. — Volokh is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law. He lives in Los Angeles. Goldstein is a lawyer at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. He lives in Virginia.
Discussion:
Instapundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, FIRE, TaxProf Blog and Reason
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz / The Cut:
Catching Up With NYC's “Vaccine Daddy” Huge Ma helped thousands of New Yorkers get vaccinated. Now he's using his platform to combat anti-Asian racism. — It's the first warm day of the year in New York, one of those where the air smells of daffodils and everything feels stickier and a bit sexier than it ought to.
Discussion:
VTDigger
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
No Federal Taxes for Dozens of Big, Profitable Companies — FedEx and Nike are among those found to have avoided U.S. tax liability for three straight years. — Just as the Biden administration is pushing to raise taxes on corporations, a new study finds that at least 55 of America's largest paid …
Discussion:
Just The News
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
My Kids' School Closed Again. So I Started Calling Experts. — Many New York City public schools have been repeatedly closed because of two positive COVID-19 tests, even without evidence of in-school spread. Experts call it “crazy.” And it's driving me nuts. … Coronavirus
Eric Morath / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Added 916,000 Jobs in March as Economy Recovers — Unemployment rate fell to 6%; jobs growth appears set to take off — Hiring accelerated last month to the best pace since August, signaling a stronger rebound is under way that could deliver jobs to the industries …
Discussion:
Associated Press and The Daily Caller
Will Wilkinson / Model Citizen:
Vaccine Passports and the Categorical Impermissibility of Inconveniencing Republicans — On the GOP's principled incoherence about freedom of association — Conservatives have been freaking out about the mere possibility of vaccine passports, government-issued documents certifying the bearer's Covid jabs.
Discussion:
Michael-In-Norfolk and HotAir
Marty Makary / Wall Street Journal:
U.K. Vaccination Puts U.S. to Shame — American authorities rejected advice to delay the second dose. Britain shows that approach's wisdom. — The U.S. will soon achieve herd immunity against the novel coronavirus, but the U.K. will get there sooner. That's because medical leaders across …
Discussion:
Cafe Hayek
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
A global aid program championed by Ivanka Trump has serious problems, a report finds. — One of Ivanka Trump's top initiatives — a legislative overhaul of programs assisting small businesses run by women around the world — was so haphazardly managed by a federal agency that an independent watchdog …
Discussion:
Breitbart, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos and Insider
THE CITY:
Embattled Cuomo Pushes Skyline-Altering Penn Station Real Estate Plan as Critics Mobilize — Even amid multiple scandals, a weakened Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to railroad through a city-changing land deal that would reshape Manhattan's skyline. And the project's detractors, until very recently, were few and relatively muted.
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder, associates exchanged 19 calls from start of Jan. 6 riot through breach, prosecutors allege — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, his deputy and three members who guarded Roger Stone exchanged nearly 20 phone calls over three hours on Jan. 6, coinciding with the first assault …
Burgess Everett / thedispatch.com:
The Morning Dispatch: Understanding Georgia's New Elections Law — Plus: The Supreme Court considers a case over NCAA amateurism. — Happy Friday! Wishing a blessed Good Friday and happy Easter to all celebrating this weekend. — Quick Hits: Today's Top Stories
Discussion:
Real Clear Politics, USA Today and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — 
Energy Markets Reporter, London — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
