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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
For Obama, loss of the Senate could be freeing  —  The walls seem to be closing in on the Obama presidency.  —  Iraq and Syria are overrun with terrorists.  Violence is flaring in Ukraine and on Israel's borders.  A humanitarian crisis is developing on our own southern border …
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New York Times:
Obama Weighs Steps to Cover Contraception  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, reeling from back-to-back blows from the Supreme Court this week, is weighing options that would provide contraceptive coverage to thousands of women who are about to lose it or never had it because of their employers' religious objections.
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Andrew Koppelman / The New Republic:
The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby Decision Just Got a Whole Lot Worse  —  In an order Thursday prompted by Wheaton College, the Court abandoned its concern for women impacted by the ruling  —  When the Supreme Court decided Burwell v. Hobby Lobby on Monday, I was one of the few commentators …
Dean Obeidallah / The Daily Beast:
The Daily Show President: Obama's Edgy Humor  —  Obama's approval numbers may be not so great, but his funny bone is well-honed, and different from his predecessors'.  —  While President Obama's approval ratings may be in the tank, there's still one arena in which he's riding high …
John Harwood / New York Times:
Shut Out of White House, G.O.P. Looks to Democrats of 1992  —  WASHINGTON — It took 24 years for Democrats to end the last period of Republican presidential advantage, in which issues and the makeup of the Electoral College helped Republicans win five of six elections, and to start their own behind Bill Clinton.
Khaled Abu Toameh / Gatestone Institute:
ISIS Already in Gaza Strip … Despite denials by Hamas, there is growing evidence that the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] — also known as “The Islamic State” — has begun operating in the Gaza Strip.  —  Palestinian Authority [PA] and Israeli security sources …
Uri Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
What If America Had Lost the Revolutionary War?  —  The Fourth of July—a time we Americans set aside to celebrate our independence and mark the war we waged to achieve it, along with the battles that followed.  There was the War of 1812, the War of 1833, the First Ohio-Virginia War …
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Anna Clark / New York Times:
Going Without Water in Detroit  —  DETROIT — A FAMILY of five with no water for two weeks who were embarrassed to ask friends if they could bathe at their house.  A woman excited about purchasing a home who learned she would be held responsible for the previous owner's delinquent water bill: all $8,000 of it.
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Says She's Donated All University Speaking Fees  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Edmund Fusco Contemporary Issues Forum at the University of Connecticut, April 23, 2014, in Storrs, Conn.  —  Hillary Clinton continued to justify …
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Power Line:
CRACKS APPEARING IN DEMOCRATIC COALITION  —  The population of Mogadishu is moving to Minneapolis, through the miracle of chain immigration.  I don't know whether there is any limiting principle to this or whether all of Mogadishu will one day reside along the Mississippi, but in any event …
Discussion: RedState
asunews.asu.edu:
ASU professor encourages students to defy body hair norms  —  To shave or not to shave?  —  That's the question confronting students in classes taught by Breanne Fahs, associate professor of women and gender studies in ASU's New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.
Brook Wilensky-Lanford / The New Republic:
The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America's Founding  —  Myths may comfort us, but facts are our best weapon against Tea Party perversions  —  When it comes to the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution, we can tell a lie—and we have been, ever since before the musket-fire stopped.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Richard Mellon Scaife, Influential U.S. Conservative, Dies at 82  —  Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh philanthropist and reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, whose support for right-wing causes laid the foundations for America's modern conservative movement and fueled …
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Ali Khedery / Washington Post:
Why we stuck with Maliki — and lost Iraq
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Build We Won't  —  You often find people talking about our …
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Robert Redford / The Huffington Post:
Addressing Climate Change Should Inspire Patriotism, Not Gridlock
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