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Axios:
J.D. Vance's Trump-like effect  —  If J.D. Vance follows his Tuesday night victory in Ohio's Senate primary with a general election win in November he'll arrive in a Washington filled with enemies and be seen as arguably the hardest-edged populist nationalist in the Senate GOP.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary  —  Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary — but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
J.D. Vance Is a Dangerous Authoritarian … The GOP Establishment is shocked and appalled that J.D. Vance won the race to the bottom that was the Ohio Republican Senate primary.  A Senate Republican leadership source had previously said “that of all the Ohio Senate candidates …
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Farewell to the dumbest Senate primary ever  —  Nearly every politician commits an occasional gaffe, and nearly every election features at least one news cycle about something stupid that a candidate did or said.  —  Even so, the recently concluded Ohio Republican Senate primary was uniquely stupid, by almost any standard.
Discussion: Reason
Sarah Longwell / New York Times:
J.D. Vance Is More Proof That Trump Is King of the Republican Party
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The key to Vance's primary win: Uniformity
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Politico:
Trump flexes and the center shrinks: 5 takeaways from a key primary night
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Democratic Leaders Are Getting the Abortion Story Wrong — Again  —  With Roe at death's door, will the party finally change its tune?  —  The news of Samuel Alito's draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade on Monday didn't just break — it shattered.  It was the unexpected timing, yes.
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Redistricting proved to be much ado about not very much
Discussion: Politico
Elise Foley / HuffPost:
Newsmax Host Suggests Ketanji Brown Jackson, Who Isn't On Supreme Court Yet, Leaked Draft  —  A host on the right-wing network has no actual evidence that the future justice has anything to do with the leak.  But he's still directing ire her way.  —  Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield suggested on Tuesday …
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Washington Examiner:
Roe will not be missed  —  The leaked draft opinion that would overturn the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision remains a mystery in some respects.  But two things are certain.  First, the leak has damaged the court's credibility.  Chief Justice John Roberts is right to initiate a full investigation by the marshal of the court.
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Cut
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Actually, It's Perfectly Rational for Republicans to Be Furious About That Supreme Court Leak
Associated Press:
AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike  —  LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — She stood in just her bathrobe in the freezing basement of the Mariupol theater, coated in white plaster dust shaken loose by the explosion.  Her husband tugged at her to leave and begged her to cover her eyes.
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Reuben Johnson / You searched for:
Russian troops held me captive at gunpoint for two weeks in Ukraine.  Here's what I learned.  —  On March 4, Breaking Defense correspondent Reuben Johnson was captured by Russian soldiers outside of Kyiv and taken prisoner.  This is the story of what happened next.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Journalists from multiple news outlets test positive after White House Correspondents Dinner weekend  —  New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.  You can sign up for free right here.  —  Trevor Noah joked about the event becoming …
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Juliette Kayyem / The Atlantic:   Biden Is Rightsizing the COVID Crisis
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion An upset win over the ‘enjoy rape’ MAGA candidate speaks volumes  —  “Hate Won't Win.”  —  That hashtag went viral last month after Mallory McMorrow, an obscure Democratic state senator from Michigan, delivered a blistering takedown of a GOP colleague who'd falsely labeled her a “groomer.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Boing Boing
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Wall Street Journal:
Latest Developments  —  The Federal Reserve approved a rare half-percentage-point interest rate increase and announced plans to shrink its $9 trillion asset portfolio starting next month in a double-barreled effort to reduce inflation that is running at a four-decade high.
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
The Right to Move Is Under Attack  —  For much of American history, freedom from an oppressive legal system could be found by picking up and leaving.  During the Great Migration, millions of Black Americans abandoned the Jim Crow South for the North, Midwest, and West; at a smaller scale …
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Putin preparing to “officially” declare war on Ukraine  —  From the beginning of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has forbidden the use of words such as “invasion” or “war” in his country.  Journalists have disappeared from their on-air roles for slipping up and saying those words.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement  —  Although overall economic activity edged down in the first quarter, household spending and business fixed investment remained strong.  Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has declined substantially.
Discussion: Politico
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Taxpayers Sue DeSantis to Block Repeal of Reedy Creek that Would Stick Counties With $1 Billion Bond Debt; More Lawsuits Expected Soon  —  The first of multiple expected lawsuits challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) repeal of the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) was filed in a federal court in Central Florida on Tuesday.
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Crime Overshadows All Other Issues As The Most Urgent In NYC, Quinnipiac University New York City Poll Finds; But Half Of Voters Say They Expect Tourism To Increase  — mail_outline  —  Crime tops the list as the most urgent issue facing New York City say voters of all political parties …
Associated Press:
Sinn Fein eyes historic win in Northern Ireland election  —  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Ever since Northern Ireland was founded as a Protestant-majority state a century ago, its governments have been led by unionist politicians who defined themselves as British.
 
 
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
U.S. House nominee J.R. Majewski lied about having “never read any QAnon drop”
Ciara Nugent / TIME:
Brazil's Most Popular President Returns From Political Exile With a Promise to Save the Nation
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The Post Millennial:
The Post Millennial acquired by Human Events Media Group to form ‘new media powerhouse’
Discussion: Human Events
Matthew Duss / Foreign Affairs:
The War in Ukraine Calls for a Reset of Biden's Foreign Policy
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Times
Washington Post:
G20 invitation for Putin shows limits of his ‘pariah’ status
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Opinion Russia is losing on the electronic battlefield
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ABC News:
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I Am a Crimson Editor and I Stand with Israel
KFF:
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Axios:
Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Ron DeSantis and the Unlearned Lessons of the G.O.P.'s Culture War
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