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2:45 PM ET, March 29, 2021

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century  —  On a leaked conference call, leaders of dark-money groups and an aide to Mitch McConnell expressed frustration with the popularity of the legislation—even among Republican voters.
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
A Leaked Call Catches Mitch McConnell And The Kochs Freaking Out Over Election Reform  —  A leaked phone call featuring Mitch McConnell's policy adviser and the Kochs revealed that they are freaking out over the popularity of election reform.  —  Jane Mayer reported in The New Yorker:
Vianney Gomez / Pew Research Center:
A partisan chasm in views of Trump's legacy  —  Two months after President Donald Trump left office, 38% of Americans say he made progress toward solving major problems facing the country during his administration - while a nearly identical share (37%) say he made these problems worse.
Discussion: Washington Post and Fox News
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump is losing the war over his legacy  —  On Sunday evening, CNN aired a special featuring interviews with the senior officials involved in the early coronavirus pandemic response under President Donald Trump.  No longer operating under the Trump political umbrella, they offered assessments …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Lara Trump joins Fox News as a paid contributor.
Discussion: Political Wire
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Feuds, fibs and finger-pointing: Trump officials say coronavirus response was worse than known  —  'That's what bothers me every day': Birx and others admit failures that hampered the White House response  —  Several top doctors in the Trump administration offered their most pointed …
Discussion: CNN and Mother Jones
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Shame on Deborah Birx  —  She wasn't doing her best in a bad situation.  She was aiding and abetting the federal government's COVID disaster.  —  1. Culpability  —  Doctor Deborah Birx is out trying to rehabilitate herself.  Most recently she sat down with CNN for an interview.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, KRDO and CNN
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:   Trump's former pandemic coordinator suggests a restrained response may have cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines are 90% effective after two doses in study of real-life conditions, CDC confirms  —  Report on essential workers is one of the first to estimate protection against any infection, regardless of symptoms  —  The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines being deployed …
Discussion: UPI and HotAir
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
How mRNA Technology Could Change the World
Discussion: STAT
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend.  In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House dramatically increased tax proposal as it sought to address tensions over next big spending plan  —  Biden aides see next major legislative effort as comparable to LBJ's Great Society but face divisions among key allies  —  When President Biden's team began putting together …
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David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
How Larry Summers went from Obama's top economic adviser to one of Biden's loudest critics
Discussion: Political Wire
The Bulwark:
The State Assault on Voting Rights Hurts All of Us  —  Republicans are cynically supporting anti-voting measures that will ultimately hurt both parties—and our country.  —  When John F. Kennedy squared off against Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, 64 percent …
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USA Today:
We need a voting rights champion like Vanita Gupta at Justice, and fast: GOP ex-officials
Bloomberg:
CDC Chief Warns of ‘Impending Doom’ as Covid Cases, Deaths Rise  — Walensky says she's scared by uptick that hints at fourth wave  — U.S. doesn't have ‘luxury of inaction’ amid spike, she says  —  The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pleaded with Americans …
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Cassidy Morrison / Washington Examiner:
CDC director warns of ‘impending doom’ as daily case rates and hospitalizations tick up
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg
Washington Post:
Biden administration launches major push to expand offshore wind power  —  Initiative by Commerce, Energy, Interior and Transportation departments aims to tackle climate change while boosting union jobs  —  The White House announced on Monday an ambitious plan to expand wind farms along …
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New York Times:   The Biden administration makes a swath of ocean between New York and New Jersey an offshore wind zone.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Chuck Schumer's 51-vote gambit  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING OVERNIGHT — EVER GONE? ...  “Aided by Moon and Tide, Giant Ship Is Partially Refloated,” NYT  —  SPOTTED: MIKE and KAREN PENCE car shopping at Ourisman Honda in Tysons Corner.
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Massive container ship freed from Suez Canal  —  Rescuers fully dislodged the “Ever Given” from the banks of the Suez Canal on Monday, sending the skyscraper-sized container ship on its way after six days of drama that paralyzed the vital shipping route, according to canal authorities.
Caitlin Dickerson / The Atlantic:
America's Immigration Amnesia  —  In the early 2000s, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas were accustomed to encountering a few hundred children attempting to cross the American border alone each month.  Some hoped to sneak into the country unnoticed …
Discussion: Common Dreams and Washington Post
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Peter Boogaard / USA Today:
Cruelty at the border is not the same as strength or an effective immigration strategy
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Remote Work Is Here to Stay.  Manhattan May Never Be the Same.  —  New York City, long buoyed by the flow of commuters into its towering office buildings, faces a cataclysmic challenge, even when the pandemic ends.  —  Spotify's headquarters in the United States fills 16 floors of 4 World Trade Center …
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Dumbest Tweet I Have Ever Seen  —  Not Really, but C'mon  —  I usually defend a high degree of license verging on irresponsibility when it comes to Tweets—I think its fine for them to be half-baked, ironical, whimsical, the first drafts of ideas, or one's most cranky and maybe not most-well-informed opinions.
Glenn Greenwald:
Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves  —  Powerful media figures now invoke sexist and racist tropes to cast themselves as so fragile and marginalized that critiques of their work constitute bullying and assault.
Discussion: USA Today and Twitchy
Axios:
Scoop: Moderate Democrats buck Biden tax hikes  —  President Biden's plan to pay for his coming infrastructure package with big tax hikes already is meeting some resistance from moderate Democrats, a stumbling block for his progressive ambitions.  —  Why it matters: If this discomfort turns …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Millennials, forged by recession and ridicule, are ascendant in Washington  —  WASHINGTON — When the Senate's first millennial, Jon Ossoff, heads to a vote, he skips the golden, senators-only elevator and takes the back stairs, two at a time — maybe because he's a young man in a hurry or maybe because he needs the steps.
Alan Suderman / Associated Press:
AP sources: SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials  —  Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration's head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department's cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats …
James David Dickson / Detroit News:
Judge tosses terrorism threat charge against 3 accused in alleged Whitmer plot  —  Three men accused in an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will not face false report or threat of terrorism charges, a Jackson County judge ruled Monday.  —  Judge Michael Klaeren of 12th District Court …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Inside America's Most Interesting Magazine, and Media's Oddest Workplace  —  The publication of the “Harper's letter” attracted huge attention.  Most people had stopped reading the magazine, which is stranger and better than you might expect.  —  Last August, when the pandemic seemed endless …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Did Something Happen In Boulder?  —  I'm not as old as Grandpa Badfinger, nor as manifestly senile, but I still have only the vaguest notion that something bad happened last week in Colorado, and I can't quite put my trigger finger on exactly what it was.  It's just a hazy recollection …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
The Biden administration will investigate Trump-era attacks on science.  —  The Biden administration will investigate Trump-era political interference in science across the government, the first step in what White House officials described as a sweeping effort to rebuild a demoralized federal work force and prevent future abuses.
Discussion: CNN and KRDO
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. tries to break Iran nuclear deadlock with a new proposal for Tehran  —  If President Joe Biden is serious about rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, then the next few weeks could prove make-or-break as the politics in both Washington and Tehran appear poised to intensify.
Discussion: Jacobin
 
 
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Bernie Becker / Politico:
Get ready for the rollout  —  Editor's Note: Weekly Tax is a weekly version …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump pollster: Greitens leads big in Missouri GOP Senate primary
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Supreme Court agrees to hear first abortion case with 6-3 conservative majority
Discussion: Vox and Political Wire
Associated Press:
The Latest: Johnson & Johnson to give Africa 400M vaccines
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Mark Judge / The Stream:
Defending ‘Risky Business’ From Feminist Revisionists
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Dion Rabouin / Axios:
Economists bullish on Biden's $3 trillion infrastructure plan
Washington Post:
For racially biased conservative Whites, owning a gun is just part of being a good citizen
Discussion: TheBlaze and Raw Story
Erin Banco / Politico:
Biden admin remakes vaccine strategy after mass vaccination sites fizzle
Discussion: The Capitolist
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Former CDC director says Sec. Alex Azar pressured them to falsify COVID-19 data doctors needed
Politico:
Pete Buttigieg has a bridge to sell you
Discussion: Vox
John Woodrow Cox / Washington Post:
He said he was going to watch cartoons. Instead, he opened his dad's gun safe.