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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump makes the coup-deniers look silly again  —  Key members of the Republican Party have spent the better part of six years pretending Donald Trump wasn't really doing that.  This is often followed by Trump himself confirming that's precisely what he was doing.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump's Grip on G.O.P. Faces New Strains  —  Shifts in polls of Republicans, disagreements on endorsements and jeers over vaccines hint at daylight between the former president and the right-wing movement he spawned.  —  About halfway into his Texas rally on Saturday evening …
Discussion: Raw Story, Vanity Fair and Townhall
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trumpworld adjusts to the growing influence of vaccine skeptics within its ranks  —  A few weeks ago, Donald Trump decried politicians who did not share their Covid-19 vaccine booster status as “gutless”—a seeming swipe at other Republicans with presidential ambitions, mainly Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
Discussion: CNN and Constant Commoner
Politico:
The Jan. 6 panel's on a hot streak against Trump World.  Now what?  —  The Jan. 6 select committee is on a winning streak.  Now comes the hard part.  —  In the past few weeks, the panel has prevailed against Donald Trump at the Supreme Court, obtained pivotal documents related …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The question for the GOP: Trump or American democracy?
Discussion: CNN and Insider
Sarah Fortinsky / CNN:
Trump says he wanted Pence to overturn the 2020 election and falsely claims it was vice president's ‘right’
Baltimore Sun:
Sherrilyn Ifill should be Biden's Supreme Court pick; here's why  —  A Black woman has never served on the U.S. Supreme Court, but there is no shortage of well-qualified individuals available to break that shameful barrier.  This was made clear enough last week with the announcement …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Time to Accept Covid and Move On?  —  Americans still concerned about virus, but lose faith in federal measures  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Americans continue to be concerned about the spread of Covid, but the vast majority say it is time to accept it as part of life.
FIRE:
FIRE statement on Georgetown's suspension and investigation of Ilya Shapiro  —  FIRE strongly condemns Georgetown Law's suspension and investigation of Ilya Shapiro for tweets about potential replacements for Justice Breyer that some found offensive.  In response to online outrage stoked …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A GOP proposal targeting ‘negative’ U.S. history is cause for renewed alarm  —  In recent weeks, it has become inescapably obvious: The mania for muzzling how teachers address race and other topics is only accelerating.  —  We're seeing dozens of GOP proposals to bar whole concepts from classrooms outright.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
North Carolina superintendent abruptly removes MLK-themed novel from 10th grade class  —  An acclaimed MLK-themed novel was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina.  Haywood County Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte told Popular Information that he pulled the book …
Washington Post:
White House frustrations grow over health chief Becerra's handling of pandemic  —  Critics blame him for health officials' conflicting messages; defenders say administration gave him an unclear role  —  White House officials have grown so frustrated with top health official Xavier Becerra …
George Packer / The Atlantic:
The Betrayal  —  I.  —  The End  —  It took four presidencies for America to finish abandoning Afghanistan.  George W. Bush's attention wandered off soon after American Special Forces rode horseback through the northern mountains and the first schoolgirls gathered in freezing classrooms.
Discussion: HotAir
Philip Klein / National Review:
Trump's Continuing Disgrace  —  President Trump has already inflicted more than enough damage on the country simply because his fragile ego prevented him from acknowledging that he lost the 2020 election.  But the January 6 Capitol riot, which followed months of him whipping supporters …
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
American Prospect:
How We Broke the Supply Chain  —  Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits. … Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War is familiar with a scene routinely depicted on U.S. television at the time: the Soviet breadline.
Discussion: Washington Post
Chris Blattman:
Why I do not expect a civil war in America (and what does worry me)  —  It began a few years ago, when prominent democracy rating organizations started downgrading the United States, putting its institutions on par with Panama, Argentina, or Romania.  —  In retrospect, that seems like the good news.
Robby Soave / Reason:
Hispanic Students Were Forced To Learn Critical Race Theory.  They Hated It.  —  During the 2020 fall semester, Kali Fontanilla—a high school English language teacher working in the Salinas, California, school district—noticed that many of her students were failing one of their other classes: ethnic studies.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Ghostface Trump Lives and Susan Collins Keeps Letting Him  —  The Good Republican won't rule out Trump 2024.  —  Donald Trump can't be killed because the rest of the Republican party is unwilling to take on the political pain required to kill him.  —  This has been the fundamental …
Washington Post:
U.S., Russia clash sharply over Ukraine at U.N. meeting  —  Russia angrily denounced the United States Monday for “whipping up hysteria” over Ukraine, saying it had brought “pure Nazis” to power on Russia's border and wanted to make “heroes out of those peoples who fought on the side of Hitler.”
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Rep. Liz Cheney breaks her campaign's quarterly fundraising record  —  Rep. Liz Cheney reported her highest fundraising quarter yet, raising $2.05 million in the fourth quarter of last year, according to figures first shared Monday with the Star-Tribune.  —  The haul exceeds amounts raised earlier in the year.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
What we talk about when we talk about a return to normal  —  The Biden White House thinks they're doing it, but they're not — yet  —  Last week Joanne Kenen in Politico ran a hit piece on David Leonhardt on behalf of the public health community.  This seems like a good opportunity to address …
Discussion: Power Line and The Federalist
Joe Trippi / The Lincoln Project:
Op-Ed: Five Reasons for Optimism in 2022  —  They're wrong.  —  The Political Media Industrial Complex convened their annual Crystal Ball Convention - hosted, no doubt, by the Illuminati at an undisclosed location - and concluded that Democrats in 2022 were doomed.
Nardine Saad / Los Angeles Times:
‘Maus’ ban makes Art Spiegelman's Holocaust graphic novel an Amazon bestseller  —  Two editions of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel “Maus,” about his parents' experiences during the Holocaust, have become bestsellers after being banned by a Tennessee school board earlier this month.
Discussion: Slate and The A.V. Club
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Power of Boosters  —  New C.D.C. data shows their effectiveness.  —  The C.D.C. has begun to publish data on Covid outcomes among people who have received booster shots, and the numbers are striking:  —  As you can see, vaccination without a booster provides a lot of protection.
Discussion: HotAir
Scott Powers / Florida Politics:
Gov. Ron DeSantis' Press Secretary's tweet suggests denial of Nazi protest  —  The Press Secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared Sunday night to question whether a Nazi flag hung from an Orange County bridge was in fact the effort of Nazis.  —  In a tweet she posted Sunday night and later deleted …
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump requests FBI protection after former president targets her at rally  —  Ms Willis is investigating former president Donald Trump's efforts to pressure Georgia election officials into throwing out 2020 election results  —  The Georgia prosecutor …
 
 
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
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Discussion: Common Dreams
Peter Beinart / Jewish Currents:
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Guidebook aims to help communities tap infrastructure funds
Discussion: WTOP News and The White House
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Critics say Ginni Thomas's activism is a Supreme Court conflict. Under court rules, only her husband can decide if that's true.
Discussion: Raw Story
Neil Irwin / Axios:
White House braces for bad Omicron jobs numbers
Discussion: New York Post and Twitchy
Jane Kitchen / Common Sense:
Last Year, I Was a Bryn Mawr Girl. Now I'm at Hillsdale.
Discussion: The New Neo