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6:45 PM ET, March 17, 2022

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New York Times:
Jeff Zients to Leave as Biden's Covid Czar and Be Replaced by Ashish Jha  —  The choice of Dr. Jha, an outspoken public health expert, is a sign that the White House believes the country is entering a new phase of the pandemic.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Living in red America can be life-threatening  —  It should come as no surprise that the highest rates for covid-19 deaths and murders are found mainly in red states.  A political mind-set that prioritizes racial resentment, anti-science zealotry and manufactured cultural wedge issues …
Axios:
Scoop: Biden officials fear “mass migration event” if COVID policies end  —  U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border if COVID-era policies that allow instant expulsions during the public health emergency are ended …
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
America Is Zooming Through the Pandemic Panic-Neglect Cycle
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Pelosi's Covid funding quagmire
Inside Edition:
Fearing Poisoning, Vladimir Putin Replaces 1,000 of His Personal Staff  —  Kremlin Questioned Protesting Russian TV Producer for 14 Hours After Arrest  —  Russian Speakers Make Cold Calls to Thwart Putin's Ukraine Propaganda  —  Parents of Ex-Marine Jailed in Russia Say Putin Is Using Him as a Political Pawn
Discussion: Althouse
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Yahoo News:
Russian billionaire's yacht is docked in St. Augustine  —  St. Augustine is home to a Russian billionaire's $7 million yacht.  —  Igor Makarov's 128-foot yacht, called Areti I, has been in St. Augustine at Camachee Cove for years, a spokesman for his firm, Areti International Group, said.
Discussion: Florida Times Union
Jeremy Pelzer / Plain Dealer:
Gov. Mike DeWine's suggestion to break Ohio's redistricting impasse: have mapmakers collaborate on bipartisan plan  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The morning after the Ohio Supreme Court threw out a third Republican-backed legislative redistricting plan, Gov. Mike DeWine suggested having Democratic and GOP mapmakers …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
2022 GOP showdown: New Hampshire Gov. Sununu to veto redistricting map written by Republicans
Discussion: CBS News and Associated Press
Maya King / New York Times:   Why Stacey Abrams Isn't Embracing Her Democratic Stardom (So Far)
Tim Pearce / The Daily Wire:
Biden's Supreme Court Pick Championed Advocates Of Critical Race Theory In Lectures, Speeches  —  Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick, has repeatedly embraced champions of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in lectures and speeches while nodding to the progressive idea …
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Steven Monacelli / The Daily Beast:
Prosecutors Try to Jail MAGA Fanatic After Daily Beast Report  —  Joshua Macias has been in the thick of Stop the Steal chaos since November 2020.  Now prosecutors say he is violating his bail conditions. … Philadelphia prosecutors have filed a motion seeking to revoke the bail of Joshua Macias …
CNN:
Biden calls Putin a ‘murderous dictator’ and ‘pure thug’  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden on Thursday called Vladimir Putin a “pure thug” and “murderous dictator,” his latest pointed attack against the Russian President as the war in Ukraine rages on.  —  Speaking at the annual Friends …
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Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
State investigators asked to probe Meadows' voter registration  —  The North Carolina attorney general's office has asked the State Bureau of Investigations to look into former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows' voter registration in North Carolina, an office spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
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New York Times:
Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn't Exist: Voter Fraud
Discussion: Salon and Raw Story
Kori Schake / Washington Post:
Russia's military is incompetent.  That makes it more dangerous. … Last month, Russia's position on Ukraine's borders looked promising: Moscow had amassed an invasion force with nearly as many troops as Ukraine has in its active-duty military, had spent two decades modernizing its weapons and organization …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Why Journalists Love War  —  Some press corps members are so fired up, they're almost ready to take up arms in the Ukraine fight.  —  NBC News reporter Richard Engel, a veteran foreign war correspondent, dropped a tweet a few days after the war began that appeared to lament that U.S. forces …
Discussion: The Scroll and Vanity Fair
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Invitation / The Economist:
Daniel Yergin on Russia losing its status as an “energy superpower”  —  The energy analyst and award-winning author of “The Prize” and “The New Map” says Vladimir Putin is destroying the foundation of his country's economic power  —  Vladimir putin once said that he did not like hearing Russia described as an “energy superpower”.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump White House aide was secret author of report used to push ‘big lie’  —  Report on Dominion voting machines produced after 2020 election was not the work of volunteer in Trump's post-election legal team  —  Weeks after the 2020 election, at least one Trump White House aide was named …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hannity's clownish contortions on Ukraine reveal the rot at Trumpism's core  —  Donald Trump's most slavish propagandists have a problem.  Trump withheld military aid from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an extortion scheme of unfathomable corruption and depravity.
Discussion: Insider and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Koch Industries to stay in Russia, says exiting does ‘more harm than good’  —  Koch Industries, the American manufacturing giant that employs 122,000 people across the world, said Wednesday it would not exit its operations in Russia because doing so would put its “employees there at greater risk and do more harm than good.”
Financial Times:
Russia edges closer to averting default as JPMorgan processes bond payment  —  Bank sought approval from US Treasury before passing on coupons on two dollar bonds  —  JPMorgan has processed interest payments sent by the Russian government for two of the country's bonds …
Glenn Greenwald:
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic  —  The media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Brittney Griner's detention extended until May, Russian news agency says  —  American basketball star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia has been extended until May, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region.  —  “The court granted the petition …
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Associated Press:
WNBA star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia extended to May 19
Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporting on America's longest war  —  Eight journalists who covered the war in Afghanistan over two decades  —  Last August, amid the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's swift fall to the Taliban, coverage in Western media was breathless.  For months, the writing had been on the wall.
Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:
How Putin's Oligarchs Bought London  —  From banking to boarding schools, the British establishment has long been at their service, discretion guaranteed.  —  Roman Abramovich was thirty-four years old—baby-faced, vigorous, already one of Russia's richest oligarchs—when he did something seemingly inexplicable.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
Move over Iowa.  New Jersey Democrats vie to hold early presidential primary.  —  They wrote a letter to the DNC making the request.  —  As the Democratic National Committee considers changes to its primary calendar, New Jersey Democrats are pitching themselves for consideration as one of the early presidential primary states.
Discussion: Politico
Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Negative View of State of the Union  —  Americans describe country as ‘divided,’ ‘mess,’ ‘chaos’  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Divided.  That is the most commonly mentioned description of the country today, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
Discussion: RedState
Foreign Policy:
Republican Senators Block Confirmation of Key Biden Officials, Stymying Ukraine Response  —  A Democratic lawmaker accuses Sen. Rick Scott of “single-handedly undermining” the United States' full response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  —  In recent weeks, the Biden administration …
Discussion: 19FortyFive
 
 
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Sophie Pinkham / New York Times:
Putin's War in Ukraine Is Forcing Russian Dissidents to Flee
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Marina Ovsyannikova's courage should make U.S. stop our own war against protests
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Semite on Your TV  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson's favorite foreign policy expert …
Discussion: Slate and Raw Story
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Escalating fears that Putin might do something crazy
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Chinese Officer Charged With Harassing N.Y. Congressional Candidate
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders camp quietly pushes Khanna presidential bid
Discussion: HotAir and Common Dreams