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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 …
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Washington Post:
How Ketanji Brown Jackson's path to the Supreme Court differs from the current justices — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to fill an upcoming Supreme Court vacancy, faces four days of Senate hearings starting Monday that are sure to include questions about her career.
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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 …
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ABC News, Associated Press, Washington Post, NPR and New York Times
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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Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, USA Today and Raw Story
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 …
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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 …
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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.
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.
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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 …
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.
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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
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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 …
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