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3:40 PM ET, March 15, 2022

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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings.  Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …
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Tom Cotton / Fox News:
Biden's timid leadership in Ukraine on full display in Poland MiG fiasco
Discussion: Washington Times and IJR
Alexandra Brzozowski / Euractiv:
Polish, Czech, Slovenian PMs pay surprise visit to besieged Kyiv
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Herschel Walker Skeptical Of Evolution: ‘Why Are There Still Apes?  Think About It’  —  The former NFL player, who is now running for Senate in Georgia, gets some basic facts wrong.  —  Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker cast doubt on the theory of evolution in recent remarks …
Discussion: Raw Story and YouTube
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence's second script rewrite  —  It turns out Mike Pence made more than one major change to the vice presidential script for presiding over the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes.  —  Pence's decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record  —  Republicans looking to run in 2024 once lived in fear of crossing former President Donald Trump.  —  That's starting to change.  —  Over the past few weeks, three would-be presidential candidates who hail …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Producer who crashed Russian TV broadcast with antiwar message can't be found, lawyers say  —  A day after she burst onto a live news broadcast on Russian state television holding a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine, lawyers with human rights groups told The Washington Post they are unable …
Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio jailed pending trial in Jan. 6 Capitol attack  —  MIAMI — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a longtime leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, to remain jailed pending trial on charges that he conspired with followers who planned …
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Film Crew Recorded Illicit Pre-Insurrection Meeting Between Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: Court Document
Discussion: Insider and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales  —  Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington  —  Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan …
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Gov. Reeves Claims Critical Race Theory ‘Humiliates’ White People At Bill Signing  —  Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a victory today as he signed a bill into law that he and other Republican lawmakers have falsely claimed would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the state's public schools and community colleges.
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Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
Mississippi governor signs bill banning critical race theory in public schools
Discussion: ABC News and The Root
Politico:
Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously)  —  It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working.  —  After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden's signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform …
Jacob Bacharach / New Republic:
Why Is David Leonhardt So Happy?  —  I have been reading David Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide—the relentless crackpot optimist or the disappointed student …
Discussion: The Present Age
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Biggest Lie About Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill Erases One Crucial Word  —  In the week since Florida lawmakers passed H.B. 1557, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” bill, the law's most prominent supporters have refused to publicly tell the truth about what the measure actually says.
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint  —  Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe from meltdown are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief  —  It was 10 a.m., 16 days into Russia's war on Ukraine …
John Ismay / New York Times:
Russia Deploys a Mystery Munition in Ukraine  —  Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles are releasing a previously unknown decoy designed to evade air-defense systems, an American official said.  —  American intelligence officials have discovered that the barrage of ballistic missiles Russia …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination to the Federal Reserve Board  —  Biden's nominee had publicly encouraged measures to mitigate climate change, including a transition to cleaner energy, which triggered a backlash from America's powerful oil, gas, and coal industries.
CNN:
Biden to join NATO leaders in Brussels and attend European Council summit next week amid Ukraine war  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden is set to travel to Europe next week for meetings with allies in a show of US support for Ukraine, the White House has confirmed.  —  Biden will join NATO world leaders in person in Brussels on March 24.
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Kathryn Joyce / Salon:
How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools  —  Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge  —  The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Ukrainian Special Forces Have Plans for an Insurgency Against Russia  —  “Ukraine has a long history of national resistance against occupation,” a special forces soldier told VICE World News.  —  Ben Makuch  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Even if Russia succeeds in its invasion of Ukraine and achieves …
Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post and ABC News
Wall Street Journal:
Half of Americans Doubt Biden Will Run in 2024, WSJ Poll Shows  —  The president says he is planning for another campaign; some fellow Democrats worry about his age and energy level  —  President Biden enters this year's midterm elections with roughly half of Americans doubting …
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Think of Trump as one of Putin's ‘oligarchs.’ It just makes sense  —  Practical gangsterism is the key to understanding.  —  The former president keeps telling on himself.  During an appearance Sunday on Jeanine Pirro's radio show on WABC, Donald Trump expressed, yet again, his sympathy for Russia's reigning kleptocrat.
Discussion: CNN
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Former Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn enters Oklahoma Senate race to succeed GOP's Inhofe … Former Oklahoma Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn is mounting a bid for the Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. James M. Inhofe.  —  Horn's candidacy, first reported by the Oklahoman newspaper …
Jennifer C. Berkshire / The Nation:
How Progressives Won the School Culture War—in New Hampshire!  —  An upset victory last week in a red state suggests that the Republican Party's game plan for attacking public education may not be a winning strategy.  —  It wasn't supposed to turn out this way.
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
Veteran Fox News cameraman and Ukrainian journalist killed while reporting  —  New York (CNN Business)Two journalists were killed while reporting in Ukraine on Monday, including Pierre Zakrzewski, a longtime Fox News photojournalist.  —  Zakrzewski's death was announced on Tuesday …
Josh Israel / The American Independent:
Marco Rubio isn't posing as a gay ally anymore  —  The Florida Republican is defending his party's harmful 'Don't Say Gay' legislation.  —  In 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) advised his fellow Christian conservatives to show tolerance toward LGBTQ people.  Six years later …
Julie Creswell / New York Times:
He's American, He Oversees Papa John's in Russia and He's Staying  —  Christopher Wynne's company controls the franchise agreements for the 190 Papa John's locations in the country.  “At the end of the day, they appreciate a good pizza,” he said.  —  Papa John's International said last week …
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Russia hits Biden, Blinken and other top U.S. officials with sanctions  —  Washington — The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday it is imposing sanctions on more than a dozen Americans, including President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
A key concession: Zelensky says Ukraine understands that it can never join NATO  —  Formal neutrality by Ukraine towards NATO was one of the demands made by Russia eight days ago, after it stepped back from Putin's pledge to settle for nothing less than “denazification” and demilitarization of the country.
Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local:
SF is now boycotting most of the United States  —  Gavin Newsom likes to say that San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.  Well, okay then.  In reality, he's actually ripping off a line from Jefferson Airplane's Paul [...]  —  SF is now boycotting most of the United States
Discussion: Instapundit
Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Diplomats, Some in War Zones, Struggle to Get Paid  —  New State Department accounting system has resulted in missing payments for Foreign Service employees  —  WASHINGTON—A new payroll system at the State Department introduced last year is causing thousands of U.S. diplomats …
Discussion: The Hill
Robert Costa / CBS News:
In private speech, Romney warns of “extraordinary challenge” to preserve American democracy  —  McLean, Virginia — Senator Mitt Romney, of Utah, offered more than 200 Republican donors a stark message on the fragility of American democracy during private remarks on Monday night at a fundraiser in Northern Virginia.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
CBP Releases February 2022 Monthly Operational Update  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today released operational statistics for February 2022, which can be viewed online here.  —  “CBP's February Monthly Operational Update reflects the continued economic rebound …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Iain Rogers / Bloomberg:
Ukraine Update: EU Sanctions Abramovich; Biden Plans Europe Trip  —  President Joe Biden will travel to Europe to take part in NATO and European Union summits to discuss the latest on Russia's war in Ukraine with key allies on March 24.  —  Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Stocks Rise as Oil Prices Slide Below $100
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Harvest Prude / The Dispatch:
Jaime Herrera Beutler's Issues-Based Bet
Discussion: Insider
New York Times:
Global Economy Sinks Deeper into Turmoil as Fed Prepares to Raise Rates
Washington Post:
Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
Poll: Americans warm to Biden's approach on Russia and Ukraine
Kyle Shideler / The American Mind:
“Here Be Monsters”  —  A remedial look at American interests  —  Since the beginning …
Discussion: Drops in the Ocean
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
'There's more work to do': Lawmakers push pandemic probe modeled on 9/11 Commission
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
From 15 Days to Two Years  —  The date of March 16, 2020 isn't just a day that will live in infamy …
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Wild Kremlin TV Hosts Threaten the U.S. With Nuclear Strikes Unless Sanctions End and Reparations Are Paid
Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post and Politico
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Putin Killed Trump's ‘America First’ Movement
NBC New York:
NY Woman Punched 125 Times, Foot-Stomped in Brutal Hate Crime Beating: Police