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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials  —  In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal.  Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Rudy Giuliani is repeating seven mistakes that brought down previous Trump advisers … THE BIG IDEA:  —  Rudy Giuliani has neither reduced Donald Trump's legal exposure nor helped him in the court of public opinion during his weeklong media blitz, but the former …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Exclusive: Two West Virginia Internal Campaign Polls Show Blankenship Narrowly Edging GOP Rivals  —  Republicans are panicking as internal polls show Don Blankenship, a coal baron who spent time in jail for a mining disaster that killed 29 workers, surging into the lead in the West Virginia Senate GOP primary …
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Hot Air:
Yikes: Two Internal Polls Show Don Blankenship Leading In WV On Eve Of Senate Primary  —  If he pulls this off tomorrow night, there's only one thing in the world that'll be able to console “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell.  You guessed it: Cocaine.  —  This endless series of interventions …
Discussion: Vox, ThinkProgress and Political Wire
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
At McConnell's Urging, Trump Asks West Virginians Not to Vote for Don Blankenship  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump intervened Monday in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary, pleading with voters a day before the election to oppose the former mine operator Don Blankenship …
Discussion: Politico
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Don Blankenship is more dangerous for the GOP than Todd Akin, Sharron Angle and Roy Moore
Discussion: ABC News and Talking Points Memo
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye  —  I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it.
Jessica Bakeman / WLRN Miami Herald News …:
Stoneman Douglas Shooter Was Assigned To Controversial Broward Discipline Program, Officials Now Say  —  Broward school district officials admitted Sunday that the confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman was assigned to a controversial disciplinary program …
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Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:
Broward Schools Lied to Sen. Rubio About Parkland Shooter's Record
Discussion: National Review
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's popularity jumps in new CNN poll  —  (CNN)First lady Melania Trump has in recent weeks experienced a significant surge in support, a new CNN poll reveals, including among women and Democrats.  —  In a poll conducted by SSRS last week, 57% say they have a favorable impression of Trump, up from 47% in January.
Discussion: IJR
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Taking a wrecking ball to Trump's defense
Discussion: CNN, USA Today and Hit & Run
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump divines his own truth without consequences
Discussion: Althouse and Washington Post
David Fontana / Washington Post:
Washington is now a cool city.  That's terrible news for American democracy.  —  Sparky's Espresso Cafe was a few blocks from my apartment off 14th Street NW, but in the years after I moved to Washington in 2006, it felt to me like home.  To get there from my apartment …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Outrageous Redactions to the Russia Report  —  The FBI and DOJ have been burying the investigators' questionable judgments and information helpful to Flynn.  —  Cute how this works: Kick off the week with some “the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted” bombast …
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
People think she's a Parkland ‘crisis actor.’ It's terrifying.  —  NEW YORK — The strangers mocked her on social media.  They called her old boss, saying she should be arrested.  Now she feared one was stalking her.  —  Emma Gonzalez became an Internet obsession after a gunman killed 17 people …
Discussion: Raw Story
Denver Newspaper Guild:
Denver Post Newsroom Statement on Resignation of Editorial Page Editor Chuck Plunkett  —  To our readers:  —  Newspapers tell the truth.  —  They must.  Always.  —  That is why we, the newsroom of The Denver Post, are outraged at the unconscionable censorship imposed on our now-former editorial page editor, Chuck Plunkett.
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Michael Roberts / Denver Westword:
Dean Singleton on Resigning From the Post: “They've Killed a Great Newspaper”
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Rejected Denver Post editorial decries ‘outright censorship’ at Digital First papers
Discussion: Splinter
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Oliver North to be NRA's new president  —  Washington (CNN)Oliver North, the Fox News contributor and central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, will be the National Rifle Association's new president, the group announced Monday.  —  “Oliver North is, hands down, the absolute best choice …
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Washington Post:   Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North slated to become president of the NRA
Katherine Mangan / Chronicle of Higher Education:
He Makes a Joke.  She Isn't Laughing: ‘Lingerie’ Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars  —  He says he was joking when he asked to be let off an elevator at the ladies' lingerie department.  A female scholar who was attending the same annual meeting of the International Studies Association …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Liberal Media Can Have Ideological Diversity Without Conservatives  —  Donald Trump's election exposed the irrelevance of conservative intellectuals — and thereby, the incoherence of many a liberal publication's mission statement.  —  During the 2016 primaries, the right-wing intelligentsia mobilized in opposition to Trump.
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:   DONALD TRUMP AND THE MEDIA'S QUEST FOR A GOLDILOCKS CONSERVATIVE
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Why Intelligence Pros Have Swung Behind the CIA's Gina Haspel  —  High-placed security officials of both parties support seasoned insider as CIA chief in face of criticism for her role in ‘enhanced interrogation’  —  Is she is the consummate intelligence professional who is supported …
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Step Up Prosecution of Border-Crossing Parents
Discussion: National Review and Jezebel
Joseph Tanfani / Los Angeles Times:
Children likely to be separated from parents under new border enforcement policy
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
No wonder there's an exodus from religion … Do you wonder why the proportion of Americans declaring themselves unaffiliated with organized religion has skyrocketed in recent decades?  —  This trend is especially pronounced among adults under 30, roughly 40 percent of whom claim …
George Bennett / Post On Politics:
Shocker: Republican candidate says ‘I was just wrong’ — and Obama was right  —  ORLANDO — Candidates rarely admit being wrong about anything.  —  It's even more rare for a candidate in a Republican primary to say he was wrong and former President Barack Obama was right.
Discussion: Raw Story
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Obama's calorie rule kicks in thanks to Trump  —  An oft-forgotten provision of Obamacare is being pushed over the finish line by Trump's FDA.  —  One of Barack Obama's top food policy rules has escaped Donald Trump's war on regulations.  —  Starting Monday, calorie counts will have to be posted …
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
This American Is A General For A Foreign Army Accused Of War Crimes In Yemen  —  “We would call him ‘Little Napoleon.’”  —  Stephen Toumajan spent most of his professional life as an officer in the US Army — but these days the country he serves is not the US but the United Arab Emirates.
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul  —  Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.  —  If I get addicted to vaping, I thought, in March, I will always remember this Texas strip mall.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Bloomberg:
Pence Demands That Venezuela Suspend ‘So-Called’ Elections  — Vice president speaks at Organization of American States  — Announces new sanctions against ‘narcotics kingpins’  —  Vice President Mike Pence called on Venezuela to suspend its presidential election later this month …
Discussion: National Review and Axios
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Save Barnes & Noble!  —  Barnes & Noble is in trouble.  You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business.  You feel it when you walk into one of the chain's stores, a cluttered mix of gifts, games, DVDs (DVDs?) and books.  And you really see the problems if you dig into the company's financial statements.
Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Roseanne doing an episode about Muslim neighbors at Roseanne Barr's urging  —  Roseanne Barr hopes to teach tolerance and compassion in the next installment of her ABC sitcom.  —  On Tuesday's episode of Roseanne, a Muslim family living next door to the Conners elicits such fear in Roseanne …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Garry Kasparov / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Mother Jones
Mark Osborne / ABC News:
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Joe Uchill / Axios:
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Ilya Shapiro / The Federalist:
What This Term's SCOTUS Decisions Reveals About Neil Gorsuch
Discussion: Instapundit
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Trump officials reject Medicaid lifetime limits in Kansas
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Christian Davies / The Guardian:
Poland's Holocaust law triggers tide of abuse against Auschwitz museum
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
MAXINE MELTDOWN: Waters shouts ‘Damn this president!’
Discussion: Sean Hannity and The Daily Caller
Katie Glueck / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP is scrambling to identify headliners who might boost enthusiasm on the 2018 trail
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
AIDS Runs Rampant in Venezuela, Putting an Ancient Culture at Risk
Circa / WJLA-TV:
Southwest Airlines plane struck by truck at BWI Airport in Maryland
David Morgan / Reuters:
Republicans in key election races turn down volume on Trump's tax cuts
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
From Bakersfield to DC, McCarthy's unlikely rise in GOP