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7:55 PM ET, December 22, 2018

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New York Times:
For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone  —  At the midpoint of his term, the president has grown more sure of his own judgment and more isolated from anyone else's than at any point since he took office.  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump grows frustrated with advisers during meetings …
Discussion: Axios, Mother Jones, Mediaite and Raw Story
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘A rogue presidency’: The era of containing Trump is over  —  For two years, they tried to tutor and confine him.  They taught him history, explained nuances and gamed out reverberations.  They urged careful deliberation, counseled restraint and prepared talking points to try …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Mike Allen / Axios:
Slat man: Trump's Christmas shutdown spooks GOP  —  President Trump's self-inflicted shutdown before Christmas has left Republicans with a debacle as their last act in control of the House.  And now the party is even more worried about the outlook beginning Jan. 3, when Democrats take over.
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Raw Story
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
You Can't Serve Both Trump and America
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Reliable Allies Refuse to Defend a President Content With Chaos
Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
Brett McGurk, top U.S. envoy in ISIS fight, resigns  —  Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, had been planning to exit his post in February 2019.  But sources tell CBS News that he informed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he will accelerate …
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US envoy to anti-IS coalition quits over Trump's Syria move  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest to President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria …
The Times of Israel:
Departing Mattis said to cancel Israel trip, as Israel feels ‘betrayed’ on Syria  —  TV report says US defense secretary was set to hold talks with in Israel next week on Iran and Syria; senior Israeli officials said to harshly criticize Syria pullout decision
Discussion: New York Times
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
White House says Erdogan promised Trump he'd finish off ISIS in Syria  —  What took place during Trump's phone call with the Turkish leader has been a central question in the debate over Trump's decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria.  —  In his phone call with President Donald Trump …
Washington Post:
U.S. envoy to coalition fighting ISIS resigns in protest of Trump's Syria decision
Discussion: Washington Press
Elise Labott / CNN:
US envoy in ISIS fight, Brett McGurk, resigns over US withdrawal from Syria
Discussion: The Week
Stephen M. Walt / Foreign Policy:
Good Riddance to America's Syria Policy
Emily Estelle / American Enterprise Institute:   The Islamic State is not defeated in Syria. Or anywhere else. Look at Africa.
Washington Post:   U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria is ‘a dream come true for the Iranians’
New York Times:
Government Shutdown to Continue for Days as Senate Adjourns Until Thursday  —  WASHINGTON — The partial government shutdown that began early Saturday will continue for the next several days, as Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, adjourned the Senate until Thursday and the White House indicated …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Plan to Win the Shutdown: A Noun, a Verb, and ‘Caravan’  —  The White House intends to send surrogates on television to hammer Democrats and to accuse them of wanting drugs, terror, and ‘trafficking’ pouring over the southern border.  —  With the latest government shutdown …
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
Shutdown to stretch on until at least Thursday as Senate adjourns with no deal over budget, Trump's border wall
The Hill:   GOP discord on wall prolongs shutdown fight
Washington Post:
Trump's shutdown stunt is an act of needless stupidity
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 …
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 …
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Brendan Murray / Bloomberg:
Fed Scholar Expects Immediate ‘Market Chaos’ If Trump Ousts Powell
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Mystery Filing Appears to Ask High Court to Act in Mueller Probe  — Grand jury dispute has been long been shrouded in mystery  — Special counsel is investigating Russian election meddling  —  A new legal filing appears to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene …
Discussion: Raw Story
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Supreme Court refuses to restore Trump's temporary asylum restrictions
Discussion: RedState, POLITICUSUSA and CNN
The Times of Israel:
Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 94  —  Rotem fought Nazis in city streets, later helped rebels flee through sewers; Netanyahu says, ‘His story will forever be with our people’  —  Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 …
Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
A reporter's dispatch from Trump country featured a ‘Mexicans Keep Out’ sign.  But he made it all up.  —  When an out-of-town journalist showed up in Fergus Falls, Minn., in February 2017, Michele Anderson couldn't help but feel skeptical.  Claas Relotius had been telling residents …
BuzzFeed News:
Cory Booker Is Building A 2020 Campaign That's Just Like Him: Vegan, Hyperactive, And Unapologetically Unconventional  —  French fries with Iowans in Newark.  Eager big donors.  A clearly defined message of “radical love.”  Cory Booker has spent a year laying the groundwork for an ambitious possible presidential bid.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans  —  In the spring of 2010, I taught a college course on the watershed moments in the American struggle for racial equality, from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision that enshrined segregation …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
It's official. We lost the Cold War.
 
 
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TMZ.com:
Parkland Leader David Hogg Enrolling at Harvard Next Fall
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HuffPost:
The GOP Ends Its One-Party Rule In Shambles
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Americans have a different view about indicting a sitting president
Timothy Burke / The Daily Beast:
Nike Posts Huge Earnings After Kaepernick Ad, Leaving Egg on These Right-Wing Pundits' Faces
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump learned nothing from the midterms. Exhibit A: the shutdown.
Lili Loofbourow / Slate:
The Year of the Old Boys
Jack Shafer / Politico:
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Student Targeted by ‘Troll Storm’ Hopes Settlement Will Send Message to White Supremacists
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
A girl in Mexico attached her Christmas list to a balloon. A man across the border found it.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Syria Fairy Tale Lives!
Discussion: Breitbart
Paul Demko / Politico:
Mississippi's Republican governor quietly considering Medicaid expansion
Heather Stewart / The Guardian:
Corbyn: Brexit would go ahead even if Labour won snap election
Discussion: Politico
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Abrupt Syria Withdrawal Thwarted ‘Major’ Operation Targeting ISIS, Sen. Bob Corker Says