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:
ABC News, Orlando Weekly, Insider, HuffPost, Raw Story, HillReporter.com, The Intellectualist, The Daily Beast, Reason, Mother Jones, POLITICUSUSA, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, Florida Politics, Breitbart, Talking Points Memo, Forbes, HotAir, CNN, The Sun, The Week, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Crooks and Liars, New York Post, abc7NY, CBS News and The Hill
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 …
Discussion:
PRESS RUN, Bulwark+, Politico, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Patterico's Pontifications, Talking Points Memo, The Root, Electoral-vote.com, New York Post, Mock Paper Scissors, Portland Mercury, Townhall, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, HuffPost, No More Mister Nice Blog, Insider, The Hill, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite, ABC News, Butterflies and Wheels, The Intellectualist, Breaking911 and NBC News
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
These Text Messages Pointed the Feds to Matt Gaetz — Rep. Matt Gaetz, now facing a reported probe into a pay-for-sex scheme, came to investigators' attention after an alleged off-hours visit to a Florida tax agency. — In late January 2020, U.S. Secret Service agents received information …
Discussion:
How To Live BULLSHIT-FREE, The Daily Dot, Raw Story, Balloon Juice, POLITICUSUSA, HotAir, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Insider
Orlando Sentinel:
Joel Greenberg, Matt Gaetz visited closed Seminole tax office together on weekend, source says
Discussion:
CNN, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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 …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Insider, The Hill, Vanity Fair, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, CNN, Washington Post and Forbes
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, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Mediaite
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:
Fox News, Washington Examiner, HotAir, RedState, Sean Hannity, Breitbart and Twitchy
RELATED:
CBS News:
Hunter Biden opens up about family intervention and addresses laptop reports — President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is opening up in his first TV interviews since making headlines over his work in Ukraine, his finances and his struggle with addiction. In separate interviews with …
Discussion:
The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, JONATHAN TURLEY, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, Deadline and Breitbart
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border crossings in March jumped to highest level in 15 years, data show — More than 171,000 migrants were taken into custody along the U.S. southern border in March, the highest monthly total since 2006, according to preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data reviewed by The Washington Post.
Discussion:
CNN and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
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:
Mock Paper Scissors, Common Dreams and Just The News
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:
New York Daily News, Victory Girls Blog and Michigan Advance
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Woke and Weak CEOs
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Daily Mail and Grabien News
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee / The Hill:
Georgia election law prevents African American, Latinx, others from exercising the right to vote
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Vaccinated Americans are free to travel but should still take precautions, the C.D.C. says. — Americans who are fully vaccinated can travel “at low risk to themselves,” both within the United States and internationally, but they must continue to take precautions like wearing a mask in public …
Discussion:
Politico, Washington Post, Bloomberg, ABC News, National Review, Boston Herald, CNN, KTLA, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, UPI, HotAir and Political Wire
RELATED:
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:
RedState, HotAir, Mediaite, TheBlaze, New York Post, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner
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, CNN, 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.
Discussion:
Washington Post
Ruth Bloomfield / Wall Street Journal:
Scottish Castles Are Rare, Huge and Very Expensive — Owners share the ups and downs of living in, and selling, these pieces of history — PORTRAITS OF James Ramsay's forebears line the walls of his Scottish castle, and although it is 36 times the size of a typical British home, there are plenty of ancestors to fill the space.
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:
Washington Examiner, CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, Defense One, Sean Hannity, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller, The Week and KRDO
RELATED:
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. and Iran Agree to Indirect Talks on Returning to Nuclear Deal
Discussion:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Times of Israel and UPI
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, Kevin Drum, Eater NY and CBS 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
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:
Breitbart, The Week and Political Wire
RELATED:
Charles Sykes / MSNBC:
Trump immigration architect Stephen Miller wants the media to rehab his image — Stephen Miller, the arch-white nationalist of the Trump administration, has launched his post-White House career with a flurry of media interviews, cable television hits and what amounts to a full-fledged shadow war against the Biden administration.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOP lawmaker's own family wants him investigated for Capitol riot ties and then charged — Working in conjunction with the conservative Republican Accountability Project, the sibling of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are calling upon the U.S. government to investigate their brother …
Discussion:
HuffPost
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
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Promises Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence — Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, who has repeatedly promoted unfounded and disproven claims of election fraud and interference, has said he will reveal “piles” of evidence showing his ally President Donald Trump won the 2020 ballot.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner and Washington Times
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 and Climate Depot
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Will vaccine passports be biggest campaign issue of 2022? — Partisan battle lines are being drawn around coronavirus vaccine passports in what could become one of the defining issues of the 2022 midterm elections. — A growing number of the Republican Party's most conservative members …
Discussion:
HotAir, Patterico's Pontifications, CNN and Florida Politics
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, Daily Kos, Insider and Vanity Fair
Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
The Long History of Fighting Over the Term ‘Conservative’ — The postwar circle of New Conservatives tried to claim the word—but they lost and were largely forgotten. — Late in 1953 Clinton Rossiter cycled through his rolodex. The Cornell political scientist, known for his books …
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 — 
