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12:55 PM ET, April 4, 2021

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Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law  —  South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace called the league out on Twitte  —  Beating Up on Georgia  —  Major League Baseball responded to calls to boycott the state of Georgia over a controversial …
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James Wagner / New York Times:
Baseball Joins Other Sports in Flexing Its Activist Muscles
Discussion: The Hill
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
America's Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable  —  GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY … Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time.
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why Christian voters want more politicians like Donald Trump  —  Hannah Chan is eagerly anticipating Easter Sunday, the most important date in the Christian calendar.  —  She, her husband Leo and their 16-year-old daughter plan to dress up, go to church and have an afternoon supper with friends.
Discussion: Fox News
David Cohen / Politico:
Sen. Blunt sees ‘easy win’ if infrastructure plan scaled back  —  Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Sunday the Biden White House could score “an easy win” on infrastructure if it would just reduce its new plan to focus solely on infrastructure.  —  Speaking to host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday …
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Bidenomics, explained  —  It's the end of the Age of Reagan, but it's much more than that  —  “When the formula stops working, you change the formula.”  — Arin Hanson  —  “The era of ‘big government is over’ is over.”  — James Medlock  —  I know this post has a very Vox-like title …
Hannah Beech / New York Times:
Myanmar's Military Has Killed Over 40 Children Since the Coup.  Here's One Child's Story.  —  Myanmar's security forces have killed more than 40 children since February.  Here is the story of one, Aye Myat Thu.  She was 10.  —  In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his machete.
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The Guardian:
Myanmar security forces open fire on anti-coup protesters
Discussion: CNN
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Reality catches up with propaganda channel  —  Eleven Fox programs whine about press conference treatment as Dominion lawsuit drops  —  Ask not for whom the world's tiniest violin plays — it plays for Fox News.  Three months ago the network's hosts enjoyed unprecedented political power …
New York Times:
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say  —  Declining infection rates over all masked a rise in more contagious forms of the coronavirus.  Vaccines will stop the spread, if Americans postpone celebration just a bit longer.  —  For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant.
Agence France-Presse:
China launches musical in bid to counter Uyghur abuse allegations  —  Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps  —  A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster “La La Land” …
New York Times:
Punched, Kicked, Shoved: Documenting the Anti-Asian Violence  —  Over the last year, in an unrelenting series of episodes with clear racial animus, people of Asian descent have been pushed, beaten, kicked, spit on and called slurs.  Homes and businesses have been vandalized.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
Discussion: CNN
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
These are the two key things that can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Fauci says  —  (CNN)Health experts warn the US may be on the cusp of another Covid-19 surge if Americans aren't careful — just as the country races to vaccinate more people.  —  There are two key things the US …
Discussion: CBS News, Gothamist and CNBC
Jason Farago / New York Times:
What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty  —  Images: Chitarman, “Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait,” recto: 1627-28 and verso: circa 1530-50/Metropolitan Museum of Art; “Uttaradhyayanasutra,” circa 1460/Victoria and Albert Museum; Bhairavi Ragini …
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Washington Post:
Police crackdowns on illicit massage businesses pose harms to the women they aim to help  —  Undercover officers sometimes engage in sexual contact with spa workers during stings, records show, which trafficking experts say dehumanizes the women and has spurred calls to set limits on police
Discussion: Forbes and Outside the Beltway
Glenn Greenwald:
The Enduring Terror of Violent Crime Victimhood  —  A family in Oakland just suffered a horrific crime in their home — one similar to but far worse than one I had recently — and deserves much help in recovering.  —  21 hr ago  —  A harrowing story of a violent crime in Oakland was reported …
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden ‘cooperating completely’ with federal investigators  —  Hunter Biden says he is “cooperating completely” with a federal investigation into his tax affairs.  —  The 51-year-old son of President Joe Biden, who is on a book tour for his new memoir about his struggle with drug addiction …
Discussion: Fox News
Joe Concha / The Hill:
WokeWorld comes for ‘oppressor’ Obama: Activists rip school being named after ‘deporter in chief’  —  They came for Washington.  Then Jefferson.  Then Lincoln.  Then (checks notes) Dianne Feinstein.  —  So, it's no surprise that the woke mob would eventually come for the nation's …
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
A paralyzed democracy can't protect us  —  In a period of just a few weeks, our nation has been reminded yet again of its vulnerability to mass gun violence — and the shameful paralysis of our political system in the face of such horror.  —  The killing of at least four people …
Discussion: The Hill
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Mike Huckabee Posts Anti-Asian Tweet Amid Spike in Racist Attacks  —  'AIN'T AMERICA GREAT?'  —  Mike Huckabee joked on Saturday that he would now “identify” as Chinese, mocking both LGBTQ people and Asian-Americans simultaneously.  The Fox News contributor wrote, “I've decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese.
 
 
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Questions The Media Should Ask President Biden About His Call For Economic Sanctions On Georgia
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
CDC director walks tightrope on pandemic messaging
Elizabeth Kolbert / New Yorker:
Biden's Jobs Plan Is Also a Climate Plan. Will It Make a Difference?
Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
Iran Rules Out Any Talks With U.S. in Vienna Unless Sanctions Go
Discussion: NPR and Reuters
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
‘The fuse has been lit’: union leaders hope Amazon effort will boost support across US
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022
Discussion: ArkansasTimes
Washington Post:
How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Jennifer Levitz / Wall Street Journal:
Looking for a Party? Head to Your Vaccine Site
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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Two Korean Americans in Congress pull endorsements of Sery Kim over her comments on Chinese immigrants
Discussion: Insider and CNN
Raya Jalabi / Reuters:
Kerry: U.S. ‘hopeful’ it can work with China to tackle climate change
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
BuzzFeed News:
Derek Chauvin's Lawyer Said “Angry” Bystanders Were A Threat To Cops. Here's What The Videos Actually Show.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
'The Narrative Is, “You Can't Get Ahead"'  —  Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
How Do We Stop the Parade of Gun Deaths?
Joann Muller / Axios:
Supersonic travel is about to make a comeback
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Slate
 

 
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