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Matt Welch / Reason:
The Woke Primary Is Over and Everyone Lost  —  In the run-up to tonight's Democratic presidential debate in Iowa, the last such contest before primary voting begins, one of the big storylines is about who won't be among the half-dozen candidates on stage.  —  “This debate is so white …
Discussion: Politico
Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
Warren, Sanders backers feud after ‘Pocahontas’ text message  —  A text message that referred to Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” that was sent through rival Bernie Sanders' volunteer messaging system led to social media feuding and confusion among supporters of both candidates.
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Third Rail of Calling ‘Sexism’ Warren tried not to talk about it.  —  For a year on the presidential campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren has tried very hard to not have the kind of conversation about sexism that can be messy for candidates, but this week, in a fight with her ideologically …
Discussion: Scripting News
Eric Spracklen / PVA:
Expose2020 - PART 1: Bernie 2020 Field Organizer States “F***ing Cities Will Burn” if Trump …
Melissa Gomez / Los Angeles Times:
Sanders, Biden and Warren in three-way race in California as primary nears, poll shows
Discussion: KTLA
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi may yet have the last laugh  —  Some voices in the punditocracy have insisted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “lost” in finally agreeing to send the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate.  Pelosi has responded that the delay resulted in a bunch …
Discussion: MSNBC, Raw Story, Daily Kos and CNN
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Up to 10 GOP senators consider bucking Trump on war powers  —  As many as 10 Republican senators are considering bucking President Trump on a resolution that would limit his ability to take military action against Iran.  —  The increasing number is the latest sign of growing GOP frustration …
The Daily Beast:
Senator Predicts a Dozen GOPers Might Break with Trump over Iran
Discussion: Raw Story
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump tries scripting a made-for-TV drama out of his impeachment trial
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Aaron Blake / Stamford Advocate:
Will John Bolton testify at Trump impeachment trial in Senate?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Republicans face reckoning on impeachment witnesses
New York Daily News:
Off-duty Secret Service agent shoots and kills dog on a leash in Brooklyn  —  An off-duty Secret Service agent fatally shot a dog being walked on a leash through a Brooklyn neighborhood Monday night, police sources and witnesses said.  —  The agent, whose name has not been released …
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New York Times:
Off-Duty Secret Service Agent Shoots and Kills Dog in Brooklyn
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNN
The Daily Beast:
Warren Calls for SEC Probe Into Whether Trump Tipped Off Mar-a-Lago Pals to Soleimani Attack  —  The president told Mar-a-Lago guests to expect a “big” response to Iranian provocation.  The senator wants financial regulators to see if any of those guests traded on that info.
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Did Mar-a-Lago Members Trade On Advance Knowledge Of Soleimani Attack?  —  Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) want to know whether any Mar-a-Lago members had advanced knowledge that the Trump administration would kill a top Iranian general — and whether they used that knowledge to game the stock market.
ABC News:
House to vote Wednesday on sending Trump impeachment articles to Senate  —  The House vote naming impeachment managers will trigger a Senate trial.  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday morning told Democrats that the House will take up a resolution appointing impeachment managers on Wednesday …
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Politico:   McConnell: Senate to vote on new trade deal before impeachment trial
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A modest proposal to save American democracy  —  In a democracy, neither one of these men would have their jobs.  Mark Wilson/Getty Images  —  A law journal just floated a wild idea to add 127 more states to the union.  And it's all constitutional.  —  American democracy is broken.
Discussion: Twitchy and Washingtonian
Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Lev Parnas Shown in Photo With Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner  —  HELLO  —  Lev Parnas met Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, according to a previously unreleased photo shared with The Daily Beast by Parnas' attorney Joseph Bondy.  The picture, published here for the first time …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Start Talking About the Supreme Court  —  The Democratic Presidential candidates will soon be compelled to talk about what may be the most important issue in the 2020 election: the future of both the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts.
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump: Saudi Arabia paid the US $1 billion for more troops.  Pentagon: Eh, not quite.  —  President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the College Football Playoff national championship game in New Orleans on Monday.  Alika Jenner/Getty Images  —  Trump seemingly announced …
Alyssa Vaughn / Boston Magazine:
John Lewis, Joaquin Castro, and 16 Other Dems Just Endorsed Joe Kennedy  —  The representative is ramping up his Senate campaign against Ed Markey.  —  To kick off 2020, Joe Kennedy is ramping up his campaign to unseat incumbent Senator Ed Markey—and today, the 4th district rep's campaign shared …
Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
LSU Coach Ed Orgeron Gives Props To Trump After College Football Championship Win  —  LSU head coach Ed Orgeron gave a shoutout to President Donald Trump on Monday night after his team defeated Clemson to take home the College Football National Championship.
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Adam White / The Independent:   Vince Vaughn faces backlash after shaking Trump's hand at football game
CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren says her plan to eliminate student loan debt can bypass Congress  — Presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Tuesday that she would begin to eliminate student loan debt on the first day of her administration, using legal tools that would allow her to bypass Congress.
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
James Murdoch Slams Fox News and News Corp Over Climate-Change Denial  —  Rupert Murdoch's younger son and his wife issued a rare public rebuke of the family's media empire and its promotion of climate-change skeptics during Australia's bushfire crisis.  —  In a long-simmering rift between factions …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
He thought his U.S. passport and letters to Trump would save him from dying in an Egyptian prison.  He was wrong.  —  CAIRO — As an American imprisoned in Egypt, Mustafa Kassem thought his government would come to his rescue from what he saw as his unjust incarceration.
Discussion: HuffPost, New York Times, Fox News and NPR
Bloomberg:
U.S. Seeks Biggest Change to Economic Releases in Decades  — Labor Department plans to remove computers from media lockups  — Move could spur arms race among traders for access to numbers  —  The Trump administration plans to restrict the news media's ability to prepare advance stories …
Matt Ford / New Republic:
The Plot to Level the Administrative State  —  The nondelegation doctrine, unlike most legal concepts, is less boring than it sounds.  After the 1930s, it became constitutional esoterica, a relic of a bygone age in which the Supreme Court resisted efforts by Americans to regulate their own economic affairs.
New York Times:
Who Controls Trump's Environmental Policy?  —  Among 20 of the most powerful people in government environment jobs, most have ties to the fossil fuel industry or have fought against the regulations they now are supposed to enforce.  —  A small number of people at a few federal agencies …
The Daily Beast:
The Untold Story of How Trump's Fixers Silenced Stormy Daniels Just Days Before the 2016 Election  —  A new book exposes for the first time the extraordinary efforts by Michael Cohen, David Pecker, and others to hush up a porn star about her sexual fling with the future president.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kate Payne / NPR:
Despite Election Security Fears, Iowa Caucuses Will Use New Smartphone App  —  Iowa's Democratic Party plans to use a new internet-connected smartphone app to help calculate and transmit results during the state's caucuses next month, Iowa Public Radio and NPR have confirmed.
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
Questions of racism linger as Harry, Meghan step back  —  LONDON (AP) — When accomplished, glamorous American actress Meghan Markle married Prince Harry in 2018, she was hailed as a breath of fresh air for Britain's fusty royal family.  That honeymoon didn't last.
Charles Sykes / Politico:
Dear Dems, Don't Walk Into Trump's Foreign Policy Trap  —  The president is trying to box his opponents into playing familiar roles in the debate over Iran.  —  President Trump has stepped back from the brink of his own war with Iran, but the incoherence of his foreign policy remains on full display.
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Miller Dismisses DACA in Emails, Mirroring Anti-Immigrant Extremists' Views  —  White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller went against many Republicans when siding with white nationalists and other extremists on the issue of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, more commonly known as DACA, emails show.
Nick Squires / Yahoo News:
Catholic Church criticises The New Pope for scene of nuns in nighties dancing beneath crucifix  —  A scene in The New Pope, a mini-series starring Jude Law and John Malkovich, in which sexy young nuns dance in their nighties beneath a giant fluorescent crucifix, has incurred the wrath of the Catholic Church.
Issues & Insights:
Hillary Clinton Vindicated On Corruption Charges?  Hardly  —  Last week, the Washington Post reported that the Justice Department had wound down a Hillary Clinton-related inquiry after finding “nothing of consequence.”  That set off a series of Hosannas from the allegedly non-partisan press …
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
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CBS Denver:
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John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Homeland’ star accuses Trump of trying to ‘have it both ways’ on intelligence
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Ian Sample / The Guardian:
Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots
Discussion: globalnews.ca and ScienceAlert
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“Like, I'll Tune In When There's Two Weeks Left”: Why Trump Has a Huge Advantage Over Dems With Low-Information Voters