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12:40 PM ET, March 20, 2022

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Jessica Grose / New York Times:
Who's Unhappy With Schools?  The Answer Surprised Me.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Tucked into a New Yorker article by Jill Lepore about the spate of school board fights over just about everything was a statistic that caught my eye.  Despite all the ink spilled lately …
David Siders / Politico:
How the GOP's dirtiest slur got a new life  —  In speeches, ads and on social media, it is fast becoming the defining smear of the 2022 primary campaign season: RINO.  —  The acronym — short for ‘Republican-In-Name-Only’ — is hardly new.  But former President Donald Trump's frequent use …
Discussion: Raw Story
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 19  —  Frederick W. Kagan, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko  —  March 19, 3 pm ET  —  Ukrainian forces have defeated the initial Russian campaign of this war.  That campaign aimed to conduct airborne and mechanized operations to seize Kyiv …
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Politico:
The Senate's Supreme Court peacekeeper prepares for his moment  —  Dick Durbin is a patient senator.  And his restraint will be tested during this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.  —  Republicans telegraphed for weeks that they wouldn't put …
Sharon Weinberger / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon's Work With Ukraine's Biological Facilities Becomes Flashpoint in Russia's Information War  —  Moscow falsely accuses U.S. of funding biowarfare in Ukraine despite Kremlin once benefiting from Pentagon program  —  On his first official visit abroad, the new senator from Illinois …
Discussion: Euractiv
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
A legacy of ‘secrecy and deception’: Why Russia clings to an outlawed chemical arsenal
Ben Tobias / BBC:
War in Ukraine: Anti-war opinions can cost Russians their jobs  —  For 28-year-old geography teacher Kamran Manafly, it all began with an Instagram post.  —  “I don't want to be a reflection of state propaganda,” he wrote on the social media site, just a few days before it was restricted in Russia.
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
The Russians Fleeing Putin's Wartime Crackdown  —  Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes. … In the world as it existed before Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24th …
Sierra Rains / Northwest Florida Daily News:
'It's choose your fighter time': Rep. Matt Gaetz announces reelection campaign  —  FORT WALTON BEACH — Rep. Matt Gaetz announced Saturday that he will be running for reelection this year.  —  Gaetz confirmed that he will be fighting to keep his seat in the U.S. House as he met with a crowd …
The Economic Times:
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suspends parties with Russian links  —  Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered to suspend activities of 11 political parties with links to Russia.  The largest of them is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country's parliament.
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
Russia's war for Ukraine could be headed toward stalemate … Russia's attempt to conquer Ukraine could be headed to a stalemate as heavy casualties and equipment losses take a toll on unprepared Russian forces that have failed so far to achieve any of their initial objectives, Western officials and military experts say.
Discussion: CBS News, 19FortyFive and The Guardian
Nick Cohen / The Guardian:
Those on the right who loudly praised Putin have now fallen strangely silent  —  Most collaborators in the west are at least coming up with excuses after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  That's not the case in Britain  —  cross the west, institutions that collaborated with Vladimir Putin's Russia are having a moment of revelation.
Detroit Free Press:
Informant: Whitmer kidnap suspect wanted to blow up COVID-19 vaccine plants, kill doctors  —  The masks and shutdowns were one thing.  —  But it was the COVID-19 vaccines, and the thought of them becoming mandatory, that really pushed the alleged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plotters over the edge …
Discussion: Althouse
Jane Harper / Virginian-Pilot:
Virginian-Pilot reporter among those killed in Granby Street shooting in downtown Norfolk  —  Saturday would have been Sierra Jenkins' turn to cover the breaking news shift for The Virginian-Pilot.  —  When an editor learned early Saturday that several people had been shot in downtown Norfolk …
 
 
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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Nearly half the country requires no permit to carry a concealed weapon — and it's a growing trend
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
A General Fights to Destigmatize Mental Health Issues: 'There's a Shame if You Show Weakness'
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich Races to Outpace Western Sanctions
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Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It?
Sonam Sheth / Insider:
Marie Yovanovitch says Rudy Giuliani was Trump's ‘personal dirt-digger’ and corrupt Ukrainians used him to spread ‘lies and half-truths’ in the US
Discussion: Daily Kos
Allan Little / BBC:
Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others

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