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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
Politico:
Playbook: What the GOP's new Big 3 discussed this weekend
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.
Discussion: NOTUS
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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'  —  Gun safety activist bidding for a DNC vice-chair post says party defends institutions when it needs to reform them  —  David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting turned gun safety …
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
New York Times:
A Constitutional Convention?  Some Democrats Fear It's Coming.  —  Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue.  Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same.
Discussion: New Republic
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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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
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
The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden Designates Frances Perkins National Monument  —  Action Uplifts Women's History by Honoring the First Woman Cabinet Secretary, Longest-Serving Secretary of Labor, and a Key Architect of the New Deal  —  Today President Biden will sign a proclamation establishing …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill, UPI and New York Post
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Biden establishing Frances Perkins National Monument in Maine
Discussion: Washington Times
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: The Independent and Raw Story
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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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 …
CBS News:
Armed man with Glock switch in his underwear arrested outside Pentagon  —  A man with a loaded gun in his car and a device in his underwear that would enable the firearm to act like a machine gun was arrested outside the Pentagon last week after attempting to speed off with Pentagon police officers clinging …
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 …
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.
Politico:
New York City mayor's campaign denied millions in public matching funds  —  The decision deals a body blow to the beleaguered mayor's reelection effort.  —  Election officials on Monday denied a request from New York City Mayor Eric Adams' 2025 campaign for millions in public matching dollars.
Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
Here's what we WON'T do when Trump takes over  —  As democracy defenders, we're facing hard times when authoritarian Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20.  But what will we do about it?  For now, I'm focusing on what we won't do:  —  We won't shut up.  —  We won't retreat from the news.
Coleman Hughes / The Free Press:
My Mom—and the Case for Assisted Death  —  My dying mother chose to end terrible suffering.  I want others to have that choice, too. … I was 11 or 12 years old when my father called me into the kitchen to break the news.  My mother was by his side weeping.  “I feel like my body has betrayed me,” she said.
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda, says CNBC survey  —  Americans say they are ready to support President-elect Donald Trump in his second term and majorities give a green light to some of his controversial promises on the campaign trial.
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: Electrek and Heatmap News
Andrea Hsu / NPR:
Some workers are losing pay raises after overtime rule was struck down  —  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.
Daniel Schuman / The Bulwark:
Open-Government Nonprofits Are Dying Off Just When They're Needed Most  —  OPENSECRETS, THE NONPROFIT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION dedicated to disclosing the role of money in politics, laid off one-third of its staff last month due to financial difficulties.  This sparked understandable concern in newsrooms …
 
 
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Stephen Rodrick / Rolling Stone:
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Spurns Ex-NY Lieutenant Governor on Bribery Counts
Discussion: The Hill and Reuters
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Supreme Court stays out of Peter Navarro's fight to keep emails from first Trump administration
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Hill
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