Andrew Kreig

Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and October 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for headlines and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this.

 

Oct. 1

Top Stories

• Washington Post, Congress averts shutdown with last-minute scramble
• Washington Post, How Congress managed to avert the shutdown — for now
• Washington Post, Here’s which senators voted for the stopgap bill
• New York Times, Gaetz Says He Will Move to Oust McCarthy for Working With Democrats
• Washington Post, Analysis: McCarthy, McConnell suffer setbacks over control of their caucuses, Paul Kane
• Washington Post, Retiring Milley warns of ‘wannabe dictator’ in apparent jab at Trump
• New York Times, Biden Issues a Blistering Attack on Trump

 

More On Republican Threats To Shut U.S. Government

• Politico, Shutdown averted: Senate clears stopgap bill with hours to spare
• New York Times, Ukraine Downplays Uncertainty Over U.S. Support After Funding Bill Passes With No Aid
• Palmer Report, Analysis: Senate Democrats move to keep Ukraine funding intact after budget agreement, Bill Palmer

 

Trump Court Battles, Insurrection Plot Claims

• Politico, Trump goes to trial in New York before a judge who just ruled he’s a fraud
• Washington Post, Prosecutors cite Trump’s supposed gun purchase as possible crime
• New York Times, Prosecutors Reassert Need for Gag Order on Trump in Elections Case
• Meidas Touch Network, Commentary: MISSING Trump Co-Conspirator GETS CAUGHT and His Life is OVER, Michael Popok

 

 U.S. 2024 Presidential Race

• New York Times, Opinion: One Reason the Trump Fever Won’t Break, David French
• New York Times, Opinion: Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals Must Unite or Die. (They’ll Probably Still Die.), Ross Douthat
• Washington Post, Analysis: How the right’s elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could now backfire, Aaron Blake
• New York Times, Nikki Haley Won the Debate Stage.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and September 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this.

Sept. 3

Top Stories

• New York Times, Quietly Crushing a Democracy: Millions on Trial in Bangladesh
• Washington Post, Abortion fight unites the left and rattles the right in key Wis. battleground, Danielle Paquette, Sabrina Rodriguez and Carolyn Van Houten
• Washington Post, Investigation: Rural areas sacrificed for Xi Jinping’s new city, satellite imagery shows, Lily Kuo, Meg Kelly, Vic Chiang, Nilo Tabrizy and Pei-Lin Wu
• New York Times, Bill Richardson, Champion of Americans Held Overseas, Dies at 75
• Washington Post, Republican race remains stuck as Trump dominates heading into fall

 

Prosecutions Of Trump, Allies

• Mother Jones Magazine, A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence
• Washington Post, Proud Boys leader gets 18 years, matching longest Jan. 6 punishment to date, Tom Jackman
• Politico, Proud Boy who triggered breach of Capitol building on Jan. 6 sentenced to 10 years
• Washington Post, While Trump’s other trials remain largely off-camera, Georgia offers a new level of access
• Washington Post, Appeals court won’t block Trump deposition in ex-FBI employees’ suit

 

More On Ukraine-Russian War, Russian Leadership

• New York Times, A Brutal Path Forward for Ukraine, Village by Village, Marc Santora, Photographs by Tyler Hicks
• New York Times, The Never-Ending Nightmare of Ukraine’s Dam Disaster
• World Crisis Radio, World Strategic Analysis: Ukrainian ground forces advance south towards cutting vital Russian supply line from Donetsk to Kherson and Crimea! Webster G. Tarpley
• Washington Post, Nobel Prize foundation scraps plan to invite Russia, Belarus after criticism
• New York Times, Russia said it had thwarted a Ukrainian attack on a vital bridge that links Russia to occupied Crimea
• Washington Post, Ukraine says it has manufactured and fired a long-range missile
• Politico, Russia declares Nobel Prize-winning journalist ‘foreign agent’

 

More Global Stories

• New York Times, How Xi Returned China to One-Man Rule
• New York Times, China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative August 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

Aug. 1

Top Headlines

 

JAN. 6 RIOT ‘FUELED BY LIES,’ INDICTMENT SAYS

 

• New York Times, Trump Faces 4 Counts in His Push to Overturn 2020 Election
• New York Times, Analysis: Trump’s Case Has Broad Implications for American Democracy, Peter Baker
• Washington Post, Jan. 6 grand jury probing efforts to overturn 2020 election issues indictment
• New York Times, Special Counsel Moves at High Velocity With 2 Trump Indictments
• Washington Post, Michigan Republicans charged in connection with 2020 voting machine tampering
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Wagner chief Prigozhin remains a key player in Africa and Eastern Europe, Wayne Madsen
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Wagner Group as active as ever — in Niger and St. Petersburg, Wayne Madsen
• New York Times, Judge Rejects Trump’s Effort to Short-Circuit Georgia Election Case
• Washington Post, Atlanta braces for possible indictments for Trump and his allies in 2020 election investigation
• New York Times, Former President Trump threatened Republicans who don’t pursue investigations against Democrats
• Associated Press, In Jan. 6 cases, 1 judge stands out as the toughest punisher, Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer
• New York Times, Amid the Counterattack’s Deadly Slog, a Glimmer of Success for Ukraine

 

More On 2024 Presidential Race

• New York Times, Biden Shores Up Democratic Support, but Faces Tight Race Against Trump
• New York Times, More Republicans say former President Trump committed “serious federal crimes.” But they still support him
• Washington Post, Analysis: Trump committee is nearly broke, plus other key takeaways from campaign filings
• New York Times, After Paying Lawyers, Trump’s PAC Is Nearly Broke
• New York Times, DeSantis’s Super PAC Burned Through $34 Million as He Slid in Polls
• New York Times, Ron DeSantis invoked Donald Trump’s legal trouble, suggesting he might step up his attacks on his rival
• Washington Post, Trailing in polls, Ron DeSantis unveils economic plans echoing Trump’s
• New York Times, A super PAC supporting Nikki Haley said it’s planning a $13 million ad push in Iowa and New Hampshire
• Washington Post, Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024

 

More On Trump Watch

• New York Times, Trump Crushing DeSantis and G.O.P.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

July 1

Top Headlines

 

• Washington Post, Supreme Court rejects Biden student loan forgiveness plan
• Washington Post, Supreme Court protects web designer who won’t do gay wedding websites
• New York Times, Dangerous Temperatures Stretch Across the South
• New York Times, An Early Heat Wave Upsets the Rhythm of Life in the South
• New York Times, Robert Kennedy Jr. Reports Income of $7.8 Million 
• OpEd News, Whistleblower Summit & Film Festival Announces Slate of Films and Screenplays for 11th Annual Film & Writing Competition

 

More On U.S. Supreme Court

• New York Times, Affirmative Action Ruling May Upend Hiring Policies, Too
• New York Times, See how the Supreme Court ruled on major cases from this term
• New York Times, The ‘Unseen’ Students in the Affirmative Action Debate
• New York Times, With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective
• New York Times, These are the key cases the Supreme Court has yet to decide this term
• New York Times, In Affirmative Action Ruling, Fierce Disagreements Between Black Justices
• New York Times, Five Ways College Admissions Could Change
• New York Times, Supreme Court Curtails Affirmative Action at U.S. Colleges, Adam Liptak
• Washington Post, State affirmative action bans helped White, Asian students, hurt others
• New York Times, The Supreme Court Turns ‘Equal Protection’ Upside Down, July 1, 2023.
• New York Times, Supreme Court Rejects Theory That Would Have Transformed American Elections, Adam Liptak

 

U.S. Economy, Jobs, Budgets, Poiitics

• Washington Post, Embracing ‘Bidenomics,’ president seeks to turn insult into strength
• Washington Post, Opinion: Bidenomics is transformative. Biden needs to ensure voters know it, Jennifer Rubin

 

Global Stories

• New York Times, Analysis: Why Bolsonaro Was Barred in Brazil but Trump Can Run in the U.S.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative May 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

June 2

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Senate passes debt ceiling bill, sending it to Biden to sign into law
• New York Times, The Calm Man in the Capital: Biden Lets Others Spike the Ball but Notches a Win
• New York Times, The Debt-Limit Deal Suggests Debt Will Keep Growing, Fast, Jim Tankersley
• New York Times, U.S. Job Growth Remains Strong: Live Updates
• Washington Post, Investigation: Georgia probe of Trump broadens to activities in other states, Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey
• Politico, DOJ closes Pence classified documents probe  
• New York Times, Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles
• Washington Post, End of Title 42 changes calculus of migrants at U.S.-Mexico border
• Washington Post, By arming Ukraine, Biden shows growing appetite to cross Putin’s red lines

 

More On U.S. Courts, Crime, Immigration

• New York Times, Opinion: The Supreme Court Has Earned a Little Contempt, Josh Chafetz
• New York Times, Prosecutors Scrutinize Political Nonprofit Groups for Fund-Raising Fraud, David A. Fahrenthold, William K. Rashbaum and Tiff Fehr
• Associated Press, New details of Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP
• New York Times, 8-Year-Old Migrant Who Died in C.B.P. Custody Was Seen by Medical Staff 11 Times
• ew York Times, Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Murdering Letter Carrier
• New York Times, Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Cite Landmark Gun Ruling in Bid to Stave Off Charges
• Washington Post, FBI director Chris Wray to face contempt of Congress vote, Comer says
• New York Times, Florida Art Scammer Sentenced to Over 2 Years in Federal Prison

 

2024 U.S.…

Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative May 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

May 2

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, U.S. could default ‘as early as June 1’ if debt limit is not raised, Treasury warns
• New York Times, Is the Debt Limit Constitutional? Biden Aides Are Debating It, Jim Tankersley
• New York Times, Democrats who were planning a strategy to force a debt ceiling increase began taking steps to deploy their secret weapon, Carl Hulse
• Washington Post, With debt bill adopted, far-right House Republicans ready for fiscal war
• Washington Post, Senate to hold hearings to highlight ‘reckless’ House GOP debt limit bill
• New York Times, Day 4 of the Trump Rape Case: Carroll’s Cross-Examination Is Complete
• New York Times, More Than 100,000 Have Fled Sudan to Neighboring Countries
• New York Times, As Signs Point to Counteroffensive, Russia and Ukraine Step Up Attacks

 

 U.S. Supreme Court Ethics Scandals

• Washington Post, Congress can impose a code of conduct on Supreme Court, experts say at hearing
• New York Times, Prominent Retired Judge Calls for Ethics Rules for Supreme Court Justices
• Politico, Investigation: Leonard Leo used Federalist Society contact to obtain $1.6 billion donation, Heidi Przybyla
• Washington Post, Opinion: The aggrieved Justice Alito points fingers but offers no proof, Ruth Marcus
• New York Times, Investigation: How Scalia Law School Became a Key Friend of the Supreme Court, Steve Eder and Jo Becker
• Washington Post, Analysis: What’s next after today’s Supreme Court ethics hearing?  Tobi Raji, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer
• Alliance for Justice (AFJ), Advocacy: How To Police a Court That Won’t Police Itself, Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
• Alliance for Justice (AFJ), AFJ Joining Senators for Tuesday Supreme Court Ethics Press Conference

 

U.S.…

Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative April 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

 

 

New York Daily News, Guilty verdict for pro-Trump troll who tried to trick voters out of casting Hillary Clinton ballots in 2016

 

 

April 1

Trump Indictment Update

• New York Times, As Trump Awaits Charges, U.S. Legal System Enters Uncharted Territory
• Washington Post, Preparations underway for Trump’s arraignment in N.Y. court on Tuesday
• New York Times, Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals, Shielding Him, Reveal Their 2024 Predicament, Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman
• New York Times, The Manhattan district attorney’s office criticized top Republicans for trying to interfere in the investigation
• Washington Post, Trump lashes out against judge who will hear his criminal case
• World Crisis Radio, Trump indicted, showing justice still exists in US after all! Webster G. Tarpley

 

Other Top Headlines

• New York Times, President Biden surveyed the damage from a tornado that killed 26 in a small town in Mississippi last week
• New York Times, Kushner Firm Got Hundreds of Millions From 2 Persian Gulf Nations
• New York Times, Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Defamation Case
• Washington Post, Judge rules that Dominion, Fox News lawsuit will go to trial
• The Guardian, Finland to formally join Nato within days, Jens Stoltenberg says
• Washington Post, Millions poised to lose Medicaid as pandemic coverage protections end, starting tomorrow‘

U.S. Mass Shootings, Gun Control

• Going Deep with Russ Baker, Investigative Commentary: In Guns We Trust? Russ Baker
• New York Times, Protesters Against Gun Violence Confront Tennessee Lawmakers
• New York Times, Opinion: The Republican Party Says It Wants to ‘Protect Children,’ but Not All Children, Jamelle Bouie
• New York Times, Opinion: We’re About to Find Out How Far the Supreme Court Will Go to Arm America, Linda Greenhouse
• Washington Post, Deadly weapon, divided nation: How a change in law could provide crucial seconds to survive a mass shooting
• New York Times, Nashville Shooting Prompts Shrug in Washington, as G.O.P.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative March 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

March 1

Top Headlines

 

• Washington Post, Investigation: Hundreds massacred in Ethiopia even as peace deal was being reached, Katharine Houreld and Meg Kelly
• New York Times, Chicago’s Choice Points to a Democratic Divide the G.O.P. Hopes to Exploit
• Washington Post, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fails to advance to runoff
• Washington Post, On student loan forgiveness, conservative justices skeptical of Biden plan
• New York Times, Scrounging for Tanks for Ukraine, Europe’s Armies Come Up Short
• New York Times, After Slashing Its Staff, Twitter Faces More Glitches and Outages
• New York Times, Eli Lilly Says It Will Cut the Price of Insulin
• Washington Post, Bola Tinubu of Nigeria’s ruling party wins presidential election
• New York Times, Opposition Parties in Nigeria Call for Election Rerun, Citing Fraud

 

U.S. Courts, Crime, Immigration

• New York Times, Many Undocumented Immigrants Are Departing After Decades in the U.S.
• Washington Post, Garland faces Senate panel amid multiple controversies, including Mar-a-Lago search
• New York Times, New York Will Pay Millions to Protesters Violently Corralled by Police
• Washington Post, Vanessa Bryant settles dispute over helicopter crash photos for $28.85 million
• New York Times, Abbe Lowell Built Ties to Trump World. Now He’s One of Hunter Biden’s Lawyers
  

 

U.S. Politics, Elections, Governance

• New York Times, ‘Different From the Other Southerners’: Jimmy Carter and Black America
• Politico, Almost out of La La Land: Garcetti nom hits a make or break moment 
• Washington Post, From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump’s turf
• New York Times, For Republicans’ Rising Stars, CPAC Is Losing Its Pull

 

Trump, Allies, GOP Probes, Prospects

• Washington Post, McCarthy defends giving Tucker Carlson access to Jan.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and February 2023 news and views

Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

 

Feb. 2

Top Headlines

• New York Times, The Death of Tyre Nichols: ‘We Mourn With You,’ Kamala Harris Says as Tyre Nichols Is Laid to Rest
• Washington Post- Las Vegas Review-Journal, Investigative Report: Alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire, Lizzie Johnson
• Washington Post, With a million people, an ecstatic Kinshasa hears Pope Francis’s Mass
• New York Times, Russian Troop Buildup May Signal New Assault, Ukraine Says

 

Biden Document Probe

• Washington Post, Justice Dept. searches Biden’s Rehoboth, Del., home as part of classified documents probe
• Palmer Report, Analysis and Advocacy: President Joe Biden scored a huge victory today while most of you were busy complaining about Donald Trump, Bill Palmer

 

Trump Probes

• New York Times, Trump’s Well-Worn Legal Playbook Starts to Look Frayed
• Washington Post, Opinion: Trump has yet another legal threat to worry about, Jennifer Rubin
• New York Times, Manhattan Prosecutors Will Begin Presenting Trump Case to Grand Jury

 

U.S. Politics, Elections, Economy, Governance

• Washington Post, Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics
• Washington Post, Fact Checker Analysis: Laptop email suggests Hunter Biden read newspapers, not classified documents, Glenn Kessler
• New York Times, President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy met to discuss the debt limit, but didn’t appear to reach a breakthrough
• Washington Post, Pelosi to back Schiff for California Senate seat if Feinstein doesn’t run
• Politico, Trump big money machine prepares for battle with DeSantis, other rivals
• Washington Post, House GOP moves to oust Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee
• Washington Post, U.S. military poised to secure new access to key Philippine bases

 

More On U.S.…

 

Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and views in January 2023.

 Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. 

 

Jan. 1

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Lula Becomes Brazil’s President, With Bolsonaro in Florida
• New York Times, U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits
• New York Times, Benedict XVI, First Modern Pope to Resign, Dies at 95
• Washington Post, Analysis: How Benedict’s death could reshape the Catholic Church
• New York Times, Through his nightly addresses, Volodymyr Zelensky has shaped the narrative of the war in Ukraine and rallied its allies
• Washington Post, A gruesome murder case in India pits traditional values against modern love

 

U.S. Politics, Elections, Economy, Governance

• New York Times, The ‘Red Wave’ Washout: How Skewed Polls Fed a False Election Narrative, Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger and Steve Eder
• New York Times, The Invention of Elise Stefanik
• Washington Post, The talented Mr. Santos: A congressman-elect’s unraveling web of deception
• Washington Post, The Past, Rediscovered: When the House needed two months and 133 votes to elect a speaker
• World Crisis Radio, Commentary and Advocacy: McCarthy still lacks the votes to be elected Speaker, so Democrats must pre-empt MAGA chaos and subversion with a Coalition Speaker! Webster G. Tarpley

 

U.S. Courts, Crime, Regulation

• New York Times, Investigation: A Charity Tied to the Supreme Court Offers Donors Access to the Justices, Jo Becker and Julie Tate
• Washington Post, Chief justice ignores one of the most controversial Supreme Court terms in his annual report, Robert Barnes
• Washington Post, Suspect in killings of Idaho students expects to be ‘exonerated,’ lawyer says
• Washington Post, ‘You’re a slave’: Inside Louisiana’s forced prison labor and a failed overhaul attempt

 

More On Pope’s Passing and Potential Church Transitions

• New York Times, Pope Benedict XVI Dies, Live Updates: Benedict Will Be Buried at St.

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