In his new memoir, Michael Fanone directs his scorn at the bigwigs who he says have sought to sweep Jan. 6 under the rug, including Kevin McCarthy, national Fraternal Order of Police President Patrick Yoes and Lindsey Graham. has more:
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A new book by and shows how Democrats hobbled their own case to convict Trump after Jan. 6 by shooting down a last-minute bid for witnesses.
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Elon Musk isn’t about to light $44 billion on fire. via
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Opinion: Putin’s atrocious war on Ukraine deserves a strong response. But designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism would be a huge mistake. via
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Florida is better understood as a place of constant reimagining, its new dream almost always born of disaster. via
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Lured with false promises of high pay and decent labor conditions, immigrants are held against their will by outlaw farmers who withhold their wages, report and .
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes at least one thing clear: It’s time for us to update how we think about nuclear weapons. via
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Maggie Haberman on the curse of covering Donald Trump: “Even if I did move on, I don’t get to move on, because at this point I am so publicly associated with this story — so, until he stops being a story, I think I’m stuck.”
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Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump Are Ready for the Saudi Cash, via
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Oh you think Putin's sloppy mobilization has been horrific? It has actually been quite tame and orderly by comparisons with Russian war mobilizations past...
My latest piece at
Putin’s Military Draft Is Unpopular. So What?
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“The bill has come due. Soon, elite colleges are going to have to answer two simple questions. Why are they exempt from taxes? And what has America gotten in return?” via
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With its leadership in jail or facing charges after Jan. 6, many wrote the extremist group off. But that’s a dangerous mistake, according to a new book. Via .
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Yuuuge hyperbole has been Donald Trump's MO for years, but now it might be his greatest vulnerability. Trump biographer examines how exaggeration brought Trump up — and how it could bring him down.
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Yoga moms, stoners, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, God — the Internet has a lot of ideas for what could put the Democratic Party on a winning streak.
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Pushing FDR to intervene, Henry Morgenthau Jr. exposed rampant antisemitism at the State Department, which had deliberately tried to stop news of the mass murder of Jews from reaching anyone in the United States, writes in his new book.
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NPR's Nina Totenberg had a beautiful friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her book about it is an embarrassment, writes .
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New York AG Leticia James is taking a very hard line against Donald Trump.
That’s because Trump dealt her a winning hand.
My column in :
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Janet Yellen may have torpedoed her chance to be reappointed Fed chair by Trump when she stuck up for tough financial regulations. “And I, frankly, thought, ‘Over my dead body.’ I wasn’t going to be a part of that.”
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The marching green at Space Force headquarters must be booby-trapped with thousands of lawn rakes because the branch’s decision-makers seem to step on one every six months. via
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Most Republicans say the Constitution prohibits declaring the United States a Christian nation — but would still support doing so anyway. via new polling from
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How the Fed helped create the parts of the economy that are most likely to spiral in the coming months, by :
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If Josh Shapiro can fend off the far-right Doug Mastriano, he would catapult into the position of one of the most prominent Jewish elected officials in the country — and be talked about within political circles as a future presidential or VP candidate.
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His goal is to create not only a “laboratory” for progressive policy but “a real-life Wakanda”
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When Republicans Tried to Impeach a Supreme Court Justice
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Michael may be the greatest example (or at least the one whose living room backdrop has the highest score) of a contemporary Washington phenomenon: The radicalized establishmentarian. via
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The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority has quietly embraced a new way of annulling long-established legal rules — a tactic 's Jeffrey Fisher calls "barricading precedent"
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The North Carolina legislators’ case in Moore v. Harper relies in part on a piece of paper from 1818. But there’s a problem: The document they quote in their brief is a well-known fake. via & Brian Palmer of
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One January morning in 1997, he hurried over to my desk and said, “Blitzstein’s been murdered. Let’s go.” remembers the tenacious Jeff German
Domestic violence has long been thought of as a criminal justice problem. But doctors are starting to put themselves on the front lines of treating and, ultimately, reducing it. A report from :
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Democrats’ recent legislative victories have some in Washington asking: Are these new policies harbingers of a more fundamental change to America’s prevailing economic order?
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Some of the most crucial weapons in the Ukraine war are made in a small town called Camden, Arkansas. But a shortage of skilled workers risks slowing the production lines.
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Three congresspeople who voted to overturn the 2020 election have since died. But the coverage of their deaths didn't make much of that vote, if it was mentioned at all. Why is that? Via
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Cannon’s order underscores the deep fragility of judicial independence and the extraordinary strains it’s of late experienced. via
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Given this fondness for America, the Queen’s death doesn’t just mean that Britain has lost a diplomatic and soft-power trump card, but also the guardian angel of the special relationship. Will her son, King Charles III, be able to fill that gap?
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Republicans aren’t the only ones who can play culture warrior, via
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Provocative stuff from , who says the Fed should *cut* interest rates, not raise them.
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