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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Seth Moulton Ends 2020 Presidential Campaign With a Warning  —  Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a candidacy that emphasized Mr. Moulton's centrist politics and military service but gained no traction with Democratic primary voters.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Seth Moulton to end 2020 presidential campaign
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts drops out of presidential race after failing to break through …
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79  —  He and his brother, Charles Koch, helped to build a massive conservative network of donors to support libertarian-leaning economic policies.  —  David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, has died.
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Wall Street Journal:
Billionaire David Koch, Who Spent Heavily to Back Conservative Causes, Dies  —  He also donated more than $1.3 billion of his fortune to charity  —  David Koch, the billionaire libertarian who gave more than $1 billion to charitable causes but was better known for using his money to reshape U.S. politics, has died.
Discussion: Townhall
Quint Forgey / Politico:
David Koch, billionaire conservative donor, dies at 79
Discussion: Axios
Emily Tillett / CBS News:
David Koch, conservative donor and philanthropist, has died at age 79
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A Penn Law Professor Wants to Make America White Again  —  Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is the academic who perhaps best represents the ideology of the Trump Administration's immigration restrictionists.  Wax, who began her professional life as a neurologist …
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Justice Department Sent Immigration Judges A White Nationalist Blog Post With Anti-Semitic Attacks  —  An email sent from the Justice Department to all immigration court employees this week included a link to an article posted on a white nationalist website that “directly attacks sitting immigration judges …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:   Justice Department says it mistakenly emailed link to white nationalist website
Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Federal judges received a link to an anti-Semitic blog post. It came from the Justice Department.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
France tries to orchestrate a no-drama G-7 summit, but Trump is the X factor  —  Like an annual holiday gathering where the main goal is to get through the day without a family explosion, one of France's main objectives as host of this weekend's Group of Seven summit is to minimize the chances that President Trump will blow it up.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Yun Li / CNBC:
China will retaliate with tariffs on $75 billion more of US goods and resume auto tariffs  —  KEY POINTS  — The Chinese State Council says it's slapping tariffs ranging from 5% to 10% on $75 billion U.S. goods in two batches effective on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15.
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Sherman Smith / Topeka Capital-Journal:
U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins ducks reporters amid speculation he could resign  —  Sherman Smith sherman_newsTim Carpenter TimVCarpenter  —  FORT SCOTT — Kansas Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins declined to answer news reporters' questions at a campaign event Thursday amid a flurry …
Discussion: Political Wire
Susan Davis / NPR:
Meltdown On Main Street: Inside The Breakdown Of The GOP's Moderate Wing  —  Three weeks after Democrats took control of the U.S. House in the 2018 midterm elections, about 40 reelected and recently defeated lawmakers in the centrist Republican Main Street Caucus gathered at the Capitol Hill Club to sift through the electoral wreckage.
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Lynh Bui / Washington Post:
Innocent man spent months in jail for bringing honey back to United States  —  Leon Haughton likes honey in his tea.  Which is why during his Christmas visit to relatives in Jamaica, he made his regular stop and bought three bottles from a favorite roadside stand before heading home to Maryland.
Emily Yoffe / Reason:
'I'm Radioactive'  —  Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times.  Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest.  There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call.
New York Times:
With Amazon Rain Forest Ablaze, Brazil Faces Global Backlash  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — As dozens of fires scorched large swaths of the Amazon, the Brazilian government on Thursday struggled to contain growing global outrage over its environmental policies, which have paved the way for runaway deforestation …
Discussion: Politico, The Guardian and NPR
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Jackie Smith / The Times Herald:
Racist comment shocks Marysville forum amid message of growth, momentum … Capitalizing on Marysville's current momentum — from redeveloping the old Mighty Marysville property to improvements at city parks — quickly became a common theme for city election candidates during a forum Thursday night.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Trump presidency is not just unfolding, it is unraveling  —  Historians studying the Trump presidency will have a prodigious amount of digital material that demands examination but defies explanation.  The president's Aug. 21, half-hour, South Lawn media availability deserves to be at the top of that list.
Discussion: The White House
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking  —  The most important political book of the past year just might be a grammatically challenged manifesto in favor of nude sunbathing written under the pen name Bronze Age Pervert.  —  Where Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged” …
Discussion: Eschaton and American Greatness
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site.  The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products  —  Just like tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Facebook learned about Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015, new documents show  —  KEY POINTS  — Communication between Facebook employees from 2015 illustrate early actions the company took to investigate third-party use of their data.  — Facebook released the emails …
Discussion: TechCrunch, The Verge and Facebook
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NBC News:   Scoop: Facebook's internal Cambridge Analytica document
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A Dead Cat, A Lawyer's Call And A 5-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On Epstein  —  Toggle more options  —  Hear Part 1  —  Toggle more options  —  Hear Part 2  —  Toggle more options  —  A coterie of intimidating lawyers.  A deployment of charm.  An aura of invincibility.
NBC News:
The Epoch Times begins hiding its connection to a huge pro-Trump ad buy on Facebook  —  By hiding its multimillion-dollar dark money ad spend, the organization is bypassing Facebook's political advertising transparency rules.  —  The Epoch Times, a conservative news outlet that has spent …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Challenges for Monetary Policy  —  Chair Jerome H. Powell  —  At the “Challenges for Monetary Policy” symposium, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming  —  This year's symposium topic is “Challenges for Monetary Policy,” and for the Federal Reserve …
Discussion: Politico, Vox and NPR
Washington Post:
The month a shadow fell on Trump's economy  —  Top White House advisers notified President Trump earlier this month that some internal forecasts showed that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, stopping short of a recession but complicating his path to reelection in 2020.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump and the GOP want you to know they're really, seriously thinking about budget-cutting ... in a few years  —  We learned this week that the deficit is rising faster than the Congressional Budget Office previously predicted and that it could hit $1 trillion as soon as this year.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Times
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump Has Told Friends That Gutting Medicare Could Be a Fun “Second-Term Project”
Discussion: Hot Air
Pete For America:
Healing and Belonging in America  —  A Plan to Improve Mental Health Care and Combat Addiction  —  We are in the midst of a devastating opioid overdose and addiction epidemic that is harming communities across the country.  —  In the past two decades alone, almost 450,000 people have died due to opioid overdose.
Discussion: Teen Vogue and Breitbart
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:   How Pete Buttigieg would tackle the mental health and addiction crisis
New York Times:
Israeli Airstrike Hits Weapons Depot in Iraq  —  Israel has carried out an airstrike on a weapons depot in Iraq that officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria, an attack that could destabilize Iraq and thrust it deeper into the conflict between the United States and Iran.
 
 
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Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Proud Boys Leader Admits Their Rallies Are For Fighting And Wasting Money
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Bernie Sanders wins labor love — and frustrates foes — with Medicare for All play
Ian Frazier / New Yorker:
When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist
Monica Showalter / American Thinker:
Payback: Democrats rig Tulsi Gabbard right out of their next debate
Discussion: RedState
Libby Emmons / The Post Millennial:
Why does our culture want us to stop having babies?
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters' Wishes, Court Rules
Associated Press:
Making a case to women: Trump female defenders go on offense
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Steven Hsieh / Phoenix New Times:
Mesa College English Professor Showed QAnon Video in Class, Students Say
Discussion: Splinter
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's tendency to double down on bad ideas doesn't bode well for the economy
Discussion: LifeZette and Reason
Jimmie E. Gates / The Clarion Ledger:
Mississippi prof, who went to Georgetown Prep with Brett Kavanaugh, sues HuffPost
Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Ignore It at Your Peril  —  Earlier this week, my colleague …
Discussion: Elder Of Ziyon
Jay Lowder / Washington Post:
I'm an evangelist and a Trump voter. But Trump as the ‘second coming of God’ is blasphemous.
John Solomon / The Hill:
The road not taken: Another FBI failure involving the Clintons surfaces
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Speak up, April Ryan. Speak up, CNN.
Discussion: Mediaite and NB Blog
Katie Schwartzmann / ACLU:
A Louisiana Parish Jailed a U.S. Citizen for Being Latinx. We're Suing.
 

 
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