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7:20 PM ET, August 17, 2019

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump has one playbook, and very few plays left in it  —  After a week in which the threat of recession rocked global financial markets, his trade war with China showed no signs of progress and the government of Israel got into a nasty dispute with two members of Congress …
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Anna Kaplan / The Daily Beast:
Rashida Tlaib's Grandmother on Trump: ‘May God Ruin Him’
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Beast
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:   If You Think Trump Is Helping Israel, You're a Fool
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
How Stephen Miller Rode an Anti-Immigration Wave to the White House  —  Behind Mr. Miller's singular grip on the Trump anti-immigrant agenda are forces far bigger than his own hostility toward the foreign-born.  —  WASHINGTON — When historians try to explain how opponents of immigration captured …
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Washington Post:
THE ADVISER WHO SCRIPTS TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY … At President Trump's speeches and rallies, Stephen Miller often can be found backstage, watching the teleprompter operator.  As other White House staffers chat or look at their phones, Miller's attention remains glued to the controls.
Bloomberg:
White House Mulled Ways to Block Migrant Children From Schools
Discussion: Splinter and The Week
Mary Papenfuss / Yahoo:
Shell Workers Had To Attend Trump Speech To Be Paid, Were Ordered Not To Protest: Report  —  Workers at a massive new Shell plant in  —  Pennsylvania had to attend a speech by President  —  Donald Trump there earlier this week to be paid — and were  —  ordered not to protest, reported the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump's Pittsburgh Speech Was a Paying Gig for Audience  —  Thousands of union workers at a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant being built outside Pittsburgh were given the choice of attending a speech by President Trump on Tuesday or staying away — and losing some of their pay for the week.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN and Quartz
Tara Law / TIME:
Shell Union Workers Had to Choose Between Attending President Trump's Speech or Losing Pay: Reports
Discussion: Slate, KTLA and Splinter
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Pittsburgh plant workers just revealed they had to go to Trump's rally or go without pay
Discussion: Mother Jones and Politico
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
No Wonder the Economy Has Trump Spooked  —  Despite gyrations on Wall Street this week and an associated rise in recession fears, Donald Trump is still ballyhooing the state of the U.S. economy.  In private, however, the President sounded “nervous and apprehensive” when he called a number …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Anthony Scaramucci Predicts Exact Month Donald Trump Will Abandon 2020 Race  —  The former White House communications director also turned to “Game of Thrones” to explain why Trump should be primaried.  —  Anthony Scaramucci thinks he knows when Donald Trump will decide not to run for president again.
VICE:
Militant Neo-Nazi Group Actively Recruiting Ahead of Alleged Training Camp  —  The Base, a neo-Nazi group aiming to provide military and survivalist training to fellow white supremacists, has been ramping up its activities including a massive recruitment campaign and a planned “hate camp.”
Discussion: PinkNews
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
How the Recession of 2020 Could Happen  —  The freeze-up in business confidence, caused in part by the trade war, could wind up affecting consumer confidence.  —  These three things are all true: The United States almost certainly isn't in a recession right now.  It may well avoid one for the foreseeable future.
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
The case of the missing tattoos: Altered photo lineup by Portland police draws objection  —  There's no mistaking the elaborate tattoos that cover Tyrone Lamont Allen's forehead and right cheek.  —  But when Portland police suspected Allen was involved in four bank and credit union heists …
Adam Minter / Bloomberg:
The Next Chernobyl Could Be at Sea  —  Russia and China are leading a push to put nuclear reactors on mobile floating platforms.  Rules need to catch up.  —  Later this month, a flotilla of tugboats will leave Murmansk, a port in Russia's northwest, towing the Akademik Lomonosov, a floating nuclear power plant.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CNN's Ward says intimidation effort made on Russia story  —  NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's Clarissa Ward says her story this week about Russian involvement in the Central African Republic came with a price: she was trailed during her reporting and made the subject of a 15-minute propaganda video denigrating her work.
Discussion: Political Wire
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Former vice president Dick Cheney to appear at fundraiser for Trump and RNC  —  Former vice president Richard B. Cheney and his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), are to appear at a lunch fundraiser Monday in support of President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Robert Moore / Washington Post:
'Here in El Paso, we're just a family': City turns out for widower of Walmart massacre victim  —  EL PASO — Antonio Basco, overwhelmed by loneliness and grief after his wife, Margie Reckard, was slain in a mass shooting on Aug. 3, invited the El Paso community to attend her prayer service Friday night.
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
House speaker as US emissary: Pelosi emerges as force abroad  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an American leader whose words resonate on the global stage.  Who draws attention in foreign capitals.  Who carries a message from the United States by simply arriving.  —  It's not just President Donald Trump.
Harry Enten / CNN:
Black Democrats are split along generational lines  —  (CNN)First things first: The theme song of the week is the Boy Meets World closing credits.  —  Poll of the week: A new national Fox News poll finds that among black Democratic primary voters, former Vice President Joe Biden …
Discussion: WXIA-TV and The Daily Beast
 
 
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is terrified, and he wants you to be, too
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Warning or threat? Democrats ignite controversy with Supreme Court brief in gun case
Discussion: The Mahablog and The Crime Report
John Bowden / The Hill:
Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to ‘toss up’
Asher Stockler / Newsweek:
Wyden Slams Republican FEC Commissioners for Blocking Probe of NRA, Possible Campaign Finance Violations
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bridget Phetasy / Spectator USA:
The battle cry of the politically homeless
Michael Luo / New Yorker:
America's Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of History
CNN:
Aides got Trump to delay tariffs by telling President it could ‘ruin Christmas’
Discussion: Quartz
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Adam Higginbotham / nsarchive.gwu.edu:
Top Secret Chernobyl: The Nuclear Disaster through the Eyes of the Soviet Politburo, KGB, and U.S. Intelligence
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Peace Road Map for Afghanistan Will Let Taliban Negotiate Women's Rights
Nataliya Vasilyeva / Associated Press:
Activist emerges as new leader of Moscow election protests
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
Don't waste your breath trying to convince Trump supporters he's repugnant
Discussion: Raw Story
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Warren Chips Away at Biden's Strength as The One Who Beats Trump
 

 
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