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Mitch McConnell / Foreign Affairs:
The Price of American Retreat  —  Why Washington Must Reject Isolationism and Embrace Primacy  —  Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell is a Senator from Kentucky and served as U.S. Senate Republican Leader from 2007 through 2024.  —  When he begins his second term as president …
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Joshua Keating / Vox:
How China could try to strangle Taiwan without firing a shot  —  TAIPEI, Taiwan — When most people imagine what war in the Taiwan Strait might look like, scenes out of eastern Ukraine in 2022 or even Normandy in 1944 tend to come to mind.  —  Picture transport ships from China facing …
Politico:
Playbook: What the GOP's new Big 3 discussed this weekend
Discussion: HuffPost and New York Magazine
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
ABC bends the knee  —  📝 Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one, please click the button below to sign up and support our independent journalism.  📝  —  🎄 Subscribe to Public Notice 🎄  —  Since the election …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Journalists anticipate a renewed hostility toward their work under the incoming Trump administration
Discussion: Breitbart
David Enrich / New York Times:
Trump and His Picks Threaten More Lawsuits Over Critical Coverage
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Maybe Democrats Didn't Do So Badly After All  —  The party's debate about reinventing itself after the election has gotten more complicated.  —  Five days after last month's election, Senator Chris Murphy rendered a damning verdict on his party's performance.  “That was a cataclysm,” the Connecticut Democrat wrote on X.
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg runs for Democratic committee post: 'We can't win without young voters'
Discussion: ABC News
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Adviser Collapses On Stage At New York Young Republican Gala  —  The president-elect called into the event and addressed the incident, saying Alex Bruesewitz is “a very special guy.”  —  LOADING  —  Alex Bruesewitz, a consultant who helped President-elect Donald Trump cut through to young …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump, SoftBank CEO to Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S.  —  The president-elect is set to appear with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at Mar-a-Lago on Monday  —  PALM BEACH, Fla.—Donald Trump and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son are set to jointly announce on Monday that the company …
Discussion: Associated Press, WNYW-TV and CNBC
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Fear Watered Down Deportation Efforts
Phillip Nieto / Mediaite:
New House Repub Tells Audience ‘We Need a Lot More Daniel Pennys’ Because There Are ‘Far Too Many Jordan Neelys’ In This Country  —  Congressman-elect Brandon Gill (R-TX) on Sunday opened his remarks at the New York Young Republican Club annual gala with praise for Daniel Penny …
Discussion: The Hill
Andrea Hsu / NPR:
The Biden overtime rule was struck down.  Now, some workers are losing pay raises  —  Imagine getting a pay raise, only to be told weeks later: Sorry, we're taking it back.  —  That's what's happening to 306 employees at The Ohio State University now that a federal court has struck down the Biden administration's overtime rule.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Kamala Harris' digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’  —  Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty turned his attention to sports.  —  The campaign needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren't obsessed with politics.
Wall Street Journal:
Why Musk Doesn't Have Access to SpaceX's Biggest Government Secrets  —  Executives haven't sought higher security clearance for the CEO to avoid questions about his drug use and contact with foreign officials; the answers might no longer matter  —  The payloads SpaceX launches into the heavens …
Curt Devine / CNN:
Trump vows to ‘hire American.’ His businesses keep hiring foreign guest workers  —  President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to do everything in his power to benefit American workers.  “We will build American, buy American and hire American,” he said during a rally in August.
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump transition team to roll back Biden EV, emissions policies  —  Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's transition team is recommending sweeping changes to cut off support for electric vehicles and charging stations and to strengthen measures blocking cars …
Discussion: Heatmap News
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Attacks on Biden's CARES Act commutations are misguided, on many fronts  —  Like clockwork, any criticism of action is used by supporters of the status quo to derail efforts to fix our criminal legal system.  Also, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.  —  ∙ Paid
Discussion: PJ Media
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Is Already Claiming Trump Can Run Again in 2028  —  WHO'S GONNA STOP ME?  —  The political strategist says the Constitution doesn't count in this case.
Washington Post:
Kamala Harris grapples with her future in a wounded Democratic Party  —  As questions loom about a run for president or governor, many Democrats do not blame Harris for her loss, but that doesn't mean they want her to run again  —  When Mitt Romney lost his 2012 presidential race …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Twitchy
Wall Street Journal:
RFK Jr. Has a Battle Plan to Get Senate Confirmation  —  Health secretary nominee, after meeting resistance in some corners, plans to play down vaccine skepticism, pro-abortion stances  —  WASHINGTON—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s attempt to win over Capitol Hill starts this week with a strategy …
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Brian Platt / Bloomberg:
Canada Finance Minister Freeland Abruptly Quits Amid Trump Rift  — Departure of PM's deputy shakes Trudeau administration  — She stressed need to keep fiscal powder dry, avoid ‘gimmicks’  —  Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet …
Discussion: Reuters, Global News and True North
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
Crypto is for Criming  —  It's not digital gold — it's digital Benjamins  —  The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee crypto players the right to a checking account …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Sun
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Amazon Disregarded Internal Warnings on Injuries, Senate Investigation Claims  —  A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.  —  For years, worker advocates and some government officials …
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Supreme Court stays out of Peter Navarro's fight to keep emails from first Trump administration  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won't get involved in Trump advisor Peter Navarro's fight to keep his emails from his tenure during the first Trump administration.
Discussion: The Hill
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Spurns Ex-NY Lieutenant Governor on Bribery Counts  —  Former New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin must stand trial on bribery charges after the US Supreme Court refused to dismiss three counts alleging he took corrupt campaign donations from a real estate developer.
Discussion: Reuters
 
 
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Are the Years of Madness Ending?
CNN:
State of the Union  —  JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST (voice-over): Exit stage right.  —  Over three decades in politics...
Discussion: Althouse
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Trump claims a ‘massive’ mandate, but presidents often overread their victories
Discussion: Raw Story
Popular Information:
Zuckerberg, once a champion for the undocumented, embraces Trump
Discussion: El País
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Senate Republicans Could Still Deny Trump His Worst Picks
Discussion: Alternet.org
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
How Pam Bondi boosted Trump's election fraud claims in a key swing state
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Sam Sutton / Politico:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump girds for battle with Democrats, Supreme Court over birthright citizenship
The Hill:
Speaker Johnson faces ‘complicated’ decision on crucial Rules Committee chair
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