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4:55 PM ET, March 15, 2022

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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the '70s.  People Hated It  —  The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974.  Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis …
Discussion: HuffPost and Insider
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Politico:
Here comes the sun: Senate agrees on permanent daylight saving time  —  A bipartisan group of senators has tried and failed, for Congress after Congress, to keep America on daylight saving time permanently.  Until Tuesday, when their bright idea finally cleared the chamber.
Politico:
Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously)  —  It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working.  —  After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden's signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform …
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Herschel Walker Skeptical Of Evolution: ‘Why Are There Still Apes?  Think About It’  —  The former NFL player, who is now running for Senate in Georgia, gets some basic facts wrong.  —  Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker cast doubt on the theory of evolution in recent remarks …
Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio jailed pending trial in Jan. 6 Capitol attack  —  MIAMI — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a longtime leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, to remain jailed pending trial on charges that he conspired with followers who planned …
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Film Crew Recorded Illicit Pre-Insurrection Meeting Between Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: Court Document
Discussion: Insider and Politico
Washington Post:
Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election
Discussion: Raw Story
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination to the Federal Reserve Board  —  Biden's nominee had publicly encouraged measures to mitigate climate change, including a transition to cleaner energy, which triggered a backlash from America's powerful oil, gas, and coal industries.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence's second script rewrite  —  It turns out Mike Pence made more than one major change to the vice presidential script for presiding over the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes.  —  Pence's decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales  —  Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington  —  Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings.  Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …
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Washington Post:
Producer who crashed Russian TV broadcast with antiwar message can't be found, lawyers say  —  A day after she burst onto a live news broadcast on Russian state television holding a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine, lawyers with human rights groups told The Washington Post they are unable …
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Gov. Reeves Claims Critical Race Theory ‘Humiliates’ White People At Bill Signing  —  Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a victory today as he signed a bill into law that he and other Republican lawmakers have falsely claimed would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the state's public schools and community colleges.
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Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
Mississippi governor signs bill banning critical race theory in public schools
Discussion: ABC News and The Root
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Russia hits Biden, Blinken and other top U.S. officials with sanctions  —  Washington — The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday it is imposing sanctions on more than a dozen Americans, including President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden to travel to Brussels for NATO summit amid Russia's war on Ukraine  —  Biden will join the ‘extraordinary’ NATO summit that will convene March 24  —  Putin is ready to seize Kyiv the ‘ugly way’: Rebecca Grant  —  President Biden is expected to travel to Brussels, Belgium …
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Jacob Bacharach / New Republic:
Why Is David Leonhardt So Happy?  —  I have been reading David Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide—the relentless crackpot optimist or the disappointed student …
Discussion: The Present Age
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint  —  Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe from meltdown are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief  —  It was 10 a.m., 16 days into Russia's war on Ukraine …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Biggest Lie About Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill Erases One Crucial Word  —  In the week since Florida lawmakers passed H.B. 1557, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” bill, the law's most prominent supporters have refused to publicly tell the truth about what the measure actually says.
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Think of Trump as one of Putin's ‘oligarchs.’ It just makes sense  —  Practical gangsterism is the key to understanding.  —  The former president keeps telling on himself.  During an appearance Sunday on Jeanine Pirro's radio show on WABC, Donald Trump expressed, yet again, his sympathy for Russia's reigning kleptocrat.
Discussion: CNN
Ben Hodges / CEPA:
The Next 10 Days Will Decide This War  —  Russia's effort to conquer Ukraine may culminate within the next 10 days.  —  The Russians are in trouble, and they know it.  That's why they have reached out to China for help and why they are now recruiting Syrians.
John Ismay / New York Times:
Russia Deploys a Mystery Munition in Ukraine  —  Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles are releasing a previously unknown decoy designed to evade air-defense systems, an American official said.  —  American intelligence officials have discovered that the barrage of ballistic missiles Russia …
Kurt Volker / CEPA:
Desperate and Dangerous: Managing Putin  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime is showing a growing desperation as its war against Ukraine falls further into disarray.  —  Putin knows he is losing, and is doubling down on aggressive actions even as his strategic position weakens.
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Ukrainian Special Forces Have Plans for an Insurgency Against Russia  —  “Ukraine has a long history of national resistance against occupation,” a special forces soldier told VICE World News.  —  Ben Makuch  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Even if Russia succeeds in its invasion of Ukraine and achieves …
Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post and ABC News
Jennifer C. Berkshire / The Nation:
How Progressives Won the School Culture War—in New Hampshire!  —  An upset victory last week in a red state suggests that the Republican Party's game plan for attacking public education may not be a winning strategy.  —  It wasn't supposed to turn out this way.
Discussion: Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Half of Americans Doubt Biden Will Run in 2024, WSJ Poll Shows  —  The president says he is planning for another campaign; some fellow Democrats worry about his age and energy level  —  President Biden enters this year's midterm elections with roughly half of Americans doubting …
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Former Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn enters Oklahoma Senate race to succeed GOP's Inhofe … Former Oklahoma Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn is mounting a bid for the Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. James M. Inhofe.  —  Horn's candidacy, first reported by the Oklahoman newspaper …
CNN:
Veteran Fox News cameraman and Ukrainian journalist killed while reporting  —  New York (CNN Business)Two journalists were killed while reporting in Ukraine on Monday, including Pierre Zakrzewski, a longtime Fox News photojournalist.  —  Zakrzewski's death was announced on Tuesday …
Kathryn Joyce / Salon:
How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools  —  Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge  —  The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb …
Josh Israel / The American Independent:
Marco Rubio isn't posing as a gay ally anymore  —  The Florida Republican is defending his party's harmful 'Don't Say Gay' legislation.  —  In 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) advised his fellow Christian conservatives to show tolerance toward LGBTQ people.  Six years later …
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Trump is so clearly running for president that people are complaining to the FEC about it  —  Here are the clips that prompted American Bridge to accuse Trump of violating the law.  —  For the better part of a year, Donald Trump has been traveling the country telling anybody who will listen that he plans to run for president in 2024.
 
 
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
‘Russia is the global enemy’: Fallout from Ukraine invasion could last for years
Wall Street Journal:
Stocks Rise as Oil Prices Slide Below $100
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
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Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Diplomats, Some in War Zones, Struggle to Get Paid
Discussion: The Hill
Suzette Hackney / USA Today:
‘Be true to yourself’: A message from the nation's highest-ranking openly transgender official
Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local:
SF is now boycotting most of the United States
Discussion: Instapundit
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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