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4:45 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 …
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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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
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 …
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: The Guardian
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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.
New York Times:
New Details Flesh Out How Project Veritas Acquired Ashley Biden's Diary  —  The right-wing group placed a deceptive call to the president's daughter a month before Election Day, weeks after her stolen diary was shown around at a Trump fund-raiser.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Political Wire
Financial Times:
Fierce fighting engulfs Mariupol as Russian forces tighten grip on devastated city  —  Kyiv and western allies sceptical of Moscow's motives for engaging in peace talks  —  Fierce fighting engulfed Mariupol on Sunday as Russian forces tightened their grip on the besieged Ukrainian city …
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.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America has a New York Times-doesn't-get-the-First Amendment problem  —  It may be the most classic bit during the nine-season run of the iconic TV sitcom Seinfeld: The time that Jerry shows up at the airport car rental place with his reservation, only to be told there aren't any cars.
Washington Post:
No entry: Ukrainian Americans struggle to get fleeing relatives into United States  —  Every morning and every night, from her home in Falls Church, Va., Nadiia Khomaziuk messages her sister Lidiia in her hideaway in western Ukraine.  —  Is Lidiia still okay?  How about her kids, who are 7 and 11?
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Demand for This Toad's Psychedelic Venom Is Booming.  Some Warn That's Bad for the Toad.  —  In a sign of unintended consequences of the psychedelic resurgence, scientists say that the Sonoran desert toad is at risk of population collapse.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Elon Musk's Business Ties to China Create Unease in Washington
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The Lies Putin Tells to Justify Russia's War on Ukraine
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Anna P. Kambhampaty / New York Times:
How Candidates Are Using TikTok to Secure Younger Voters
Discussion: Mercury News
Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Nearly half the country requires no permit to carry a concealed weapon — and it's a growing trend
The Economic Times:
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suspends parties with Russian links
Discussion: RedState
Nick Cohen / The Guardian:
Those on the right who loudly praised Putin have now fallen strangely silent
Sierra Rains / Northwest Florida Daily News:
'It's choose your fighter time': Rep. Matt Gaetz announces reelection campaign
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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
Detroit Free Press:
Informant: Whitmer kidnap suspect wanted to blow up COVID-19 vaccine plants, kill doctors
Discussion: Althouse
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It?
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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