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The Daily Beast:
Bolton's Hawkish Syria Plan Backfired, Pushing Trump to Get Out  —  The national security adviser expanded U.S. goals in Syria to challenge Iran.  But Trump wasn't on board, senior officials say, and Turkey took an opportunity to push the U.S. out.  —  A fateful decision by national security …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Dear Anonymous Inside the Trump Administration  —  The problem with the president isn't that he's an empty vessel.  It's that he's a malignant one.  —  Dear Anonymous,  —  It's time we revisit that famous op-ed of yours.  —  In September, you acknowledged that you were a member of the …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump sees dangerous cracks in Hill GOP support  —  President Donald Trump faces a dangerous erosion of support among rank-and-file Republicans thanks to a series of jarring recent moves that have alienated even some close GOP allies.  —  From his defense of Saudi Arabia's crown prince …
New York Times:
Trump Policy Gyrations Threaten Fragile Republican Coalition  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's near-simultaneous decisions this week to force a government shutdown over his demand to fund a border wall and withdraw American troops from Syria and Afghanistan have imperiled the fragile Republican coalition …
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:   Trump's Abrupt Syria Withdrawal Thwarted ‘Major’ Operation Targeting ISIS, Sen. Bob Corker Says
Washington Post:
A tumultuous week began with a phone call between Trump and the Turkish president
Bloomberg:
Trump Discusses Firing Fed's Powell After Latest Rate Hike, Sources Say  — Advisers warn ousting Fed chairman would lead to market rout  — President's legal authority to remove Powell is unclear  —  President Donald Trump has discussed firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell …
CNN:
Trump lashed out at Whitaker after explosive Cohen revelations  —  Cohen says he lied about project in Moscow  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has at least twice in the past few weeks vented to his acting attorney general, angered by federal prosecutors who referenced …
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Aaron Rodriguez / CREW:
CREW Files IG Complaint Against Matthew Whitaker
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Marty Lederman / Just Security:
What's Noticeably Missing from the Whitaker Nonrecusal Explanation
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Trump's shutdown stunt is an act of needless stupidity  —  “IT'S ACTUALLY part of what you do when you sign up for any public service position.”  So said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) when asked about the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who will have to work without pay …
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CNN:
Government partially shuts down for third time in a year after Congress adjourns for the night
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:   Trump Doubles Down on Campaign Promises in Turbulent Week
Robert Windrem / NBC News:
Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say  —  Building support for Stein was one of a “roster of themes” the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls “turned to repeatedly,” report says.  —  Two days before the 2016 presidential election …
Discussion: Hill Reporter, Raw Story and Contemptor
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Syria Fairy Tale Lives!  —  Americans will no longer support Washington's incoherent Middle East adventurism.  —  Unlike my colleagues, I've been a bemused spectator during this week's Syria follies.  As readers of these columns know (see, e.g., here, here, here, here, and here) …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Washington Post:   U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria is ‘a dream come true for the Iranians’
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
You Can't Serve Both Trump and America  —  The story is told of Jim Mattis, when he was the commanding general at Quantico, relieving a young lance corporal on Christmas.  The rest of that wintry day, those entering the front gate of the Marine base were startled to see that the sentry was a general …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Guardian
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
It's official.  We lost the Cold War.  —  Perhaps the timing of George H.W. Bush's death last month was merciful.  This way he didn't have to see America lose the Cold War.  —  Bush presided over the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.  But the triumph he and others earned with American blood …
Discussion: Hot Air and CNN
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:   Glee in Russia Over Trump's Foreign Policy Largess
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Mick Mulvaney in 2015: Trump's views on border wall ‘simplistic,’ ‘absurd and almost childish’  —  (CNN)Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once called President Donald Trump's views on a border wall and immigration “simplistic” and “absurd and almost childish.”
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Some Reverse Wag-the-Dog Bulls—t": Boxed in and Fighting for Survival, Trump Is Flailing, Fuming, and Wondering Why Jared Is Getting All the Good Press  —  His base is revolting, his staff are rolling their eyes, and Ann Coulter called him “a joke.”  But, says a self-pitying president, Macron is worse.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Monthly
John Bowden / The Hill:
Supreme Court refuses to restore Trump's temporary asylum restrictions  —  The Supreme Court on Friday refused a request from the Trump administration to restore newly implemented restrictions that would prevent some migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from applying for asylum.
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:   Violence Against Women Act to expire with government shutdown
New York Times:
As Markets Tumble, Tech Stocks Hit a Rare and Ominous Milestone  —  When it comes to the stock market, America's technology giants have become a harbinger of more pain to come.  —  If Facebook, Apple or Google looked shaky this year — as investors worried about growth, regulation or mismanagement — the rest of the market felt it.
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Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
How Russian Money Helped Save Trump's Business  —  After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him.  Then foreign money began flowing in.  —  In the fall of 1992, after he cut a deal with U.S. banks to work off nearly a billion dollars in personal debt …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Conservative Facts  —  The problem conservatism faces these days is that many of the loudest voices have decided to embrace the meanness while throwing away the facts. … D  —  ear Reader (including all you mole-rat monarchists),  —  One or two times a year I wake up in a Japanese family's living room …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
A girl in Mexico attached her Christmas list to a balloon.  A man across the border found it.  —  The spot of red was what first caught Randy Heiss's attention last Sunday as he hiked the remote expanse of land behind his ranch in Patagonia, Ariz., a town near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Paul Demko / Politico:
Mississippi's Republican governor quietly considering Medicaid expansion  —  JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's Republican governor is considering Medicaid expansion, the first sign that long-held GOP opposition could be wilting in the Deep South after an election that was a big winner for the Obamacare program.
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
Taliban greets Pentagon's withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan with cries of victory  —  “The 17-year long struggle and sacrifices of thousands of our people finally yielded fruit,” said a senior commander in Helmand.  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — News that the White House had ordered the Pentagon …
Discussion: Vox
New York Times:
Bill Barr Just Argued Himself Out of a Job  —  His recent memo to President Trump seriously damages his credibility and raises questions about his fitness for the Justice Department's top position.  —  Mr. Hemel and Mr. Posner are professors of law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Karen Zraick / New York Times:
Student Targeted by ‘Troll Storm’ Hopes Settlement Will Send Message to White Supremacists  —  An African-American student leader who was targeted by a racist “troll storm” says she hopes an unusual legal settlement with one of her harassers will send a strong message to white supremacists …
 
 
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
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