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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Elizabeth Warren's plan to cancel student loan debt would be a slap in the face to all those who struggled to pay off their loans  —  In the escalating battle of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to see who can offer the most free stuff, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
I'm calling for something truly transformational: Universal free public college and cancellation of student loan debt  —  Growing up, my dream was to become a teacher.  And I knew that if I wanted to teach, I had to get a college degree.  —  I managed to get a college scholarship, but then things turned upside down.
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren's Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has structured her presidential campaign around a steady unveiling of disruptive policy ideas, on Monday proposed her biggest one yet: a $1.25 trillion plan …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:   Elizabeth Warren's list of proposals to be paid for by ultra-millionaires keeps expanding
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Warren's plan to wipe out student debt (and how she'd pay for it)
Discussion: VICE News
Washington Post:
Trump is accused of gross abuse of his office.  We're not talking about the Mueller report.  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP is accused of a gross abuse of his office, and his administration has not provided Congress the information it needs to reach the truth of the matter.
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Republican lawmaker sees less-redacted Mueller report  —  Nadler: Barr waging media campaign on behalf of Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Democrats have rebuffed the Justice Department's offer to see a less-redacted — but not fully unredacted — version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report …
Rachael Bade / Washington Post:
Pelosi says Democrats can hold Trump accountable without impeachment hearings  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday appeared to tap the brakes on impeachment discussions, arguing in a letter to her colleagues that while Democrats would hold President Trump accountable following the release …
Rex Huppke / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Definitely impeach Trump — just don't call it ‘impeachment’
Discussion: Raw Story
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
Impeachment Is Not the Answer. At Least Not Yet.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:   Mark Levin Unleashes Wild Rant on ‘Smear Job’ of Trump From Mueller and His ‘Cabal’
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Impeach or not impeach? Dems wrestle with Mueller report
CNN:
Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore called it a ‘travesty’ that women ‘feel free’ to play sports with men  —  (CNN)One of President Donald Trump's picks to serve on the Federal Reserve Board has written that women should be banned from refereeing, announcing or beer vending at men's college basketball games …
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:   Stephen Moore, Trump's pick for the Fed, just got a key immigration program dead wrong
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump says he won't nominate Herman Cain for Fed seat
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN and Roll Call
Washington Post:
Trump and his business sue House Oversight chairman to block congressional subpoena of financial records  —  President Trump is seeking a court order to prevent his accounting firm from complying with what his lawyers say is an illegitimate use of congressional subpoena power by congressional Democrats.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
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Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
What would Republicans do with a Mueller report?  Build an impeachment case.  —  The Trump administration is driving us toward a constitutional showdown that threatens the very checks and balances Republicans used to champion.  —  CONNECT  —  Imagine for a second that it's 2014.
Discussion: Commentary and Raw Story
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump sues in bid to block congressional subpoena of financial records  —  In a federal filing, the president claims the House Oversight Committee is abusing its powers to damage him politically.  — David A. Fahrenthold, Rachael Bade, John Wagner -  · - 54 minutes ago -  ·
CNN:
Trump, sons sue to block House Democrats from obtaining his financial records
Discussion: Fox News and RedState
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:   Trump sues Cummings, says he's ignored “constitutional limits on Congress' power to investigate”
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a ‘Useful Idiot’  —  BACK IN JANUARY, approximately 1,000 Robert Mueller news cycles ago, I argued that given the arc of the special counsel Russia probe, it'd be embarrassing for Donald Trump if he weren't an agent of the Russian intelligence:
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
No bottom: Republicans show they'll defend just about anything Trump does  —  There's a pattern that Donald Trump has followed many times when accused of wrongdoing.  First, deny it.  Then, when irrefutable proof emerges that you did it and your denials were lies, insist that there was nothing wrong with it in the first place.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed
Discussion: New Republic and Vox
Max Boot / Washington Post:
My former party's reaction to the Mueller report fills me with disgust  —  Having declared the Republican Party to be morally bankrupt last month — after 90 percent of GOP lawmakers voted to approve President Trump's unconstitutional state of emergency — I am not remotely surprised …
Washington Post:
Christianity under attack?  Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West.  —  Sunday's bombings in Sri Lanka marked the country's deadliest violence in a decade, leaving 290 dead and more than 500 injured.  But the attacks, which targeted a religious minority …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Discussion: Power Line, Splinter and Axios
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Nitasha Tiku / Wired:
Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation  —  TWO EMPLOYEE ACTIVISTS at Google say they have been retaliated against for helping to organize a walkout among thousands of Google employees in November, and are planning a “town hall” meeting on Friday for others to discuss alleged instances of retaliation.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump plausibly committed impeachable offenses.  A leading expert explains how.  —  After botching their initial response to the Mueller report, top Democrats are now seriously engaging the debate over whether the shocking scale of corruption, wrongdoing, contempt for our democracy …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Rossomando / Sara A. Carter:
Ilhan Omar Slammed U.S. Soldiers Involved in ‘Black Hawk Down’ Incident  —  Investigative Journalist John Rossomando works with the Investigative Project on Terrorism.  IPT gave SaraACarter.com permission to reprint the article in full.  For more on Rossomando's work please visit here.
Sacha Pfeiffer / NPR:
Inside The Mueller Report, This Man Saw A Photo Of His Dad Being Used By Russians  —  When a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election was released to the public and Congress on Thursday, the effects of Russian influence efforts through social media became clearer.
Discussion: Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump wins over big donors who snubbed him in 2016  —  Deep-pocketed Republicans who snubbed Donald Trump in 2016 are going all in for him in 2020, throwing their weight behind a newly created fundraising drive that's expected to dump tens of millions into his reelection coffers.
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Why Having a Gun in New Jersey Could Soon Cost 20 Times as Much  —  Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey wants to put the state at the forefront of a movement to raise fees on gun permits in order to expand efforts to tackle gun violence and reduce the flow of illegal firearms.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Calls Bernie Sanders Crazy, Praises Him in Private  —  The president tells confidants that the Vermont independent is a smart pol, with a formidable base and fundraising acumen.  But he still thinks he'll beat him.  —  To his rally-goers, Donald Trump openly craves a 2020 showdown …
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
 
 
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Janie Har / Associated Press:
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Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: DCReport.org
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘nobody disobeys my orders.’ Here are 15 recorded instances of exactly that.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
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Dave Levinthal / Center for Public Integrity:
Mum's the word: Some Democratic presidential hopefuls won't discuss their big-dollar ‘bundlers’
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Medicare, Social Security face shaky fiscal futures
Steve Lopez / Los Angeles Times:
He got into a great college the old-fashioned way. He dreamed big, worked hard
NBC News:
The Mueller report makes a damning case about Trump's dishonesty
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
How Stephen Miller made immigration personal
Discussion: Daily Kos
Seth Masket / FiveThirtyEight:
We Asked Democratic Activists Who They're Backing — And Who They'd Hate To See Win
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
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