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Washington Post:
Ukraine's Zelensky is making headway against corruption. But the fight risks angering Trump.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Lisa Page Speaks: 'There's No Fathomable Way I Have Committed Any Crime at All'  —  STRIKING BACK  —  The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview.  And she has quite a lot to say.  —  It's not often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock drops out of presidential race  —  Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who pitched himself to Democratic voters as a campaign finance reformer who could win in red states, is ending his bid for the party's presidential nomination.  —  “While there were many obstacles …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:   The Memo: Trump faces uphill 2020 climb
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has dropped out of the 2020 race, and says he won't run for Senate
Discussion: New York Times
Liz Peek / Fox News:
Trump is gaining black voters — that's terrible news for Democrats  —  Democrats are frantic.  For decades, they have taken the black vote for granted.  Today, there are signs that empty promises and radical leftist social policies are leaving black voters behind.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Buttigieg targets black voters with new South Carolina ad
Discussion: Associated Press
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Young voter asks Elizabeth Warren emotional question about acceptance
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Blue Virginia
Associated Press:
The Latest: Justices weighing dismissal of guns case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court arguments about a New York City gun ordinance (all times local):  —  The Supreme Court is trying to figure out whether to dismiss its first case about guns rights in nearly 10 years.
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Leah Litman / The Atlantic:   The Guns Case Is About Much More Than Guns
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:   Will John Roberts Constrain Trump?
Rachel M. Cohen / The Intercept:
Nancy Pelosi Pushes the House to Pass USMCA, but Neglects a Bill With Broad Support to Strengthen Unions  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made no secret of her desire to pass the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement by the end of the year, telling reporters recently that it would be her goal for the House to vote on it before Christmas.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The bad-faith impeachment  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are trying to remove President Trump from office “prayerfully,” and “sadly,” and “with a heavy heart.”  In fact, as anyone who has been watching knows, many Democrats have been itching to impeach Trump since the day he took office.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What to do about the Kremlin's propagandists  —  Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) once before walked back an assertion that maybe Ukraine was responsible for meddling in the 2016 election.  That has not deterred him from repeating the Kremlin's propaganda.  Appearing on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, he was at it again.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Not enough Pinocchios for Trump's CrowdStrike obsession
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and Axios
CBS News:
300+ Trump ads taken down by Google, YouTube  —  60 Minutes finds over 300 video ads for President Trump were taken down, mostly over the summer, for violating company policy  —  How to handle political ads on social media has become a growing concern as the 2020 U.S. presidential election approaches.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
State lawmakers acknowledge lobbyists helped craft their op-eds attacking Medicare-for-all  —  Emails show opponents are mobilizing at local level to try turn Americans away from big health care changes.  —  Lobbyists either helped draft or made extensive revisions to opinion columns published …
Discussion: Political Wire
Politico:
Georgia governor set to buck Trump on Senate appointment  —  In defiance of Trump, Brian Kemp has begun informing fellow Republicans that he will appoint business exec Kelly Loeffler to the soon-to-be-vacant seat.  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been getting pressure about his prospective Senate pick.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Washington's December nightmare
Discussion: New York Times
Mike Allen / Axios:
The House GOP's next impeachment move
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and Raw Story
Angus King / USA Today:
Ukraine scandal: I know why Trump top dogs — Mulvaney, Pompeo, Perry & Bolton — won't bark  —  Because it would be so easy for these people to clear the president, it's hard to escape the conclusion that their silence is part of a cover-up.  —  One of Sherlock Holmes' most famous cases …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years  —  A big tax cut, unprecedented environmental degradation, Wall Street unleashed, and a whole lot of judges.  —  The scandals, the leaks, the outrages, and the bizarre tweets of the last three years can distract from an important fact …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
‘Free, Melania’ offers new details about the life of a private first lady  —  Adapted from Kate Bennett's “Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography” set for release Tuesday.  —  Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump, like those before her, has battled the vast juxtaposition between public perception and private citizen.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Elisabeth Egan / New York Times:
6 Takeaways From Melania Trump's Unauthorized Biography
Discussion: The Root
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
Newsweek Demotes Editor After Firing Reporter for Inaccurate Trump Thanksgiving Story  —  A second employee has been penalized for a story suggesting the president spent Thanksgiving tweeting and playing golf  —  A Newsweek editor has been demoted following the publication of a story published …
R.J. Lyman / The Bulwark:
This Is the Single Best Argument For Why Trump Should Be Impeached and Removed  —  He tried to meddle in the 2020 election.  It's crazy to say that you have to let him participate in the 2020 election in order to render a verdict on his attempt to cheat in it.
Chris Kobiella / Rolling Stone:
False Idol — Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump  —  On the morning of September 29th, six weeks before the 2016 election, Donald Trump was in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York talking to leaders of the religious right about sex-reassignment surgery.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump campaign to blacklist Bloomberg News  —  President Trump's 2020 campaign announced Monday it will no longer allow reporters from Bloomberg News to obtain credentials to cover Trump campaign events.  —  The big picture: Campaign manager Brad Parscale described the decision …
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi's India  —  The Prime Minister's Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.  —  On August 11th, two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent soldiers in to pacify the Indian state of Kashmir …
Bob Bauer / New York Times:
Trump Is the Founders' Worst Nightmare  —  The very conduct that necessitates presidential impeachment also supplies the means for the demagogue to escape it.  —  Mr. Bauer served as a White House counsel under President Barack Obama.  —  Donald Trump's Republican congressional allies …
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux / FiveThirtyEight:
Do Democrats Have Enough ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence For Impeachment?  —  The first round of hearings is over.  More than a dozen closed-door depositions are out in the open.  The impeachment inquiry is headed into its next phase.  —  After weeks of laying out their evidence …
Discussion: HuffPost
David Freedlander / Politico:
How Bloomberg Could Win.  Again.  —  Michael Bloomberg has begun his improbable bid for the presidency with a rollout you could call unconventional, to be charitable.  The big splash was news of his $37 million television ad buy; then there was an overstuffed campaign bio-spot …
Associated Press:
Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost church over $4B  —  1 of 9  —  NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazes out the window of his high-rise Manhattan office …
Dave Merritt / The Guardian:
‘Jack would be livid his death has been used to further an agenda of hate’  —  The father of Jack Merritt, who died on Friday at London Bridge, writes that the attack has been used to reinforce the worldview his son fought against  —  Jack was proud.  Jack was absorbingly intelligent.
Michael Calderone / Politico:
New York Times overhauls its presidential endorsement process  —  The New York Times's editorial board is veering sharply away from its traditional closed-door endorsement process for Democratic presidential aspirants, conducting interviews with the 2020 Democratic contenders on the record …
 
 
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Johan Ahlander / Reuters:
Two members leave Nobel literature committee, criticizing Swedish Academy
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Washington Post:
Far-right voters don't dislike government.  They just want to keep its benefits for their own ethnic group.
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
If You Can't Have Wealth Taxes, You Don't Have a Country
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Noa Landau / Haaretz:
Netanyahu Calls Off Visit to NATO Summit After U.K. Cites ‘Logistical Problems’
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
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Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog