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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in August 2022

 

Aug. 27

Top Headlines

 

• Washington Post, Affidavit to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate says 184 classified files found in January
• Washington Post, Analysis: Takeaways from the redacted affidavit in the Mar-a-Lago search, Amber Phillips
• Washington Post, Opinion: 3 big things we learned from the Mar-a-Lago affidavit, Greg Sargent
• New York Times, Ukraine Weighs a Risky Offensive to Break Out of a Stalemate
• New York Times, Putin Calls for Sharp Expansion of Russian Army
• Washington Post, America’s first homelessness problem: Knowing who is actually homeless

 

Trump Probes, Reactions, Riots, Supporters

• New York Times, Editorial: Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law
• New York Times, Opinion: We Knew the Justice Department Case Was Righteous. This Affidavit Confirms It, Andrew Weissmann

 

U.S. Politics, Governance, Economy

• Washington Post, Analysis: Normally quiet and unassuming, Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter
• Washington Post, ‘Semi-fascism’: Rhetoric reflects newly aggressive Biden strategy
• Associated Press, Powell: Fed could keep lifting rates sharply ‘for some time’
• New York Times, Stocks Plunge After Fed Chair Warns of ‘Pain’ From Inflation Fight
• Washington Post, Republican super PAC cuts ad buy in Arizona Senate race
• New York Times, Michigan G.O.P. Lining Up Behind Conspiracy Theorist for Attorney General

 

U.S. Educational, Loan Issues

• New York Times, Two Top Universities Say They Need Affirmative Action After It Was Banned
• New York Times, Ron DeSantis Suspends 4 Elected School Board Members After Parkland Report
• Politico, Crist to pick Miami teachers union head as his running mate
• Washington Post, Student loan forgiveness application coming in October, White House says

 

Forced Birth Laws, Privacy Rights

• Washington Post, New restrictions from major abortion funder could further limit access
• Associated Press, Michigan panel recommends abortion proposal for ballot
• Washington Post, Spain passes sexual consent bill to make only yes mean yes
• Crooks & Liars from Current Revolt, Texas Right To Life Political Director Arrested for Solicitation of a Minor
• New York Times, Judge Halts Part of Idaho’s Abortion Ban, Saying It Violates Health Law

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in August 2022

 

 

Aug. 28

Top Headlines

• New York Times, U.S. Intelligence Will Assess Security Risks From Mar-a-Lago Documents
• Proof, Investigative Commentary: The Real Scandal in Donald Trump’s Historic Theft of Classified Records Is Not What You Think, Seth Abramson 
• Daily Mail, Investigation: Trump and the NEW Inventing Anna: FBI investigating Ukrainian immigrant who posed as an heiress of the Rothschild banking dynasty, faked massive wealth and infiltrated Mar-a-Lago and the Donald’s inner circle, Nikki Schwab
• Washington Post, Inside Trump’s war on the National Archives, Jacqueline Alemany, Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey
• Washington Post, Affidavit to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate says 184 classified files found in January
• Associated Press, Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in ‘climate catastrophe 
• Washington Post, Analysis: Takeaways from the redacted affidavit in the Mar-a-Lago search, Amber Phillips
• New York Times, Russia-Ukraine War: More Strikes Reported Near Nuclear Plant as U.N. Experts Plan Visit

 

Water, Energy, Climate, Disasters

• Washington Post, Opinion: The future of America’s water cannot be won without changing America’s farms, David Von Drehle
• New York Times, Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front
• Washington Post, What it’s like to toil in India’s dangerous, unrelenting heat
• New York Times, California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars
• Associated Press, Britain to see 80% spike in energy bills as crisis deepens
• Washington Post, Record rain is hitting drought-stricken areas. That’s not good news
• Associated Press, Drought changes landscape in southwest China

 

U.S. Elections, Politics

• Washington Post, Once unthinkable, Democrats now see narrow path to keeping the House
• Washington Post, Analysis: Trump is turning the midterms from a referendum into a choice, Dan Balz
• Washington Post, Analysis: Has the political environment shifted?

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in August 2022

 

Aug. 31

Top Headlines

• New York Times, F.D.A. Authorizes Updated Covid Booster Shots, Targeting Omicron
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Trump’s cache of stolen classified files resembles those of America’s most notorious spies, Wayne Madsen
• Associated Press, Feds cite efforts to obstruct probe of docs at Trump estate
• Washington Post, Justice Dept. says Trump team may have hidden, moved classified papers
• New York Times, Read the Justice Department’s Response to Trump’s Request for a Special Master
• Washington Post, Analysis: The photo of classified documents from Trump’s resort, annotated, Philip Bump
• Politico, Trump team makes its 11th hour plea for independent review 
• Washington Post, Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, is dead
• Washington Post, Biden, Putin and other leaders react to Mikhail Gorbachev’s death
• Washington Post, Biden slams GOP again as he touts gun control in Pennsylvania
• New York Times, Ukraine claims to have broken through Russian defenses at multiple points in the Kherson region
• Poynter, After weeks of silence, Gannett revealed that it laid off 400 employees and cut 400 open positions
• Business Insider, Inside the crisis at ‘Reveal’ and the Center for Investigaive Reporting after a turbelent summer, Steven Perlberg

Trump Probes, Reactions, Riot Threats

• Politico, Eastman appears before Atlanta-area grand jury probing Trump election scheme
• Washington Post, Opinion: Trump’s loony rants should remind the GOP his nomination would be disastrous, Jennifer Rubin
• Palmer Report, Analysis: Donald Trump has unhinged meltdown about “terrible” DOJ filing, Bill Palmer
• Washington Post, Opinion: Trump wants to be treated like Hillary Clinton? By all means, Dana Milbank

 

Water, Space, Energy, Climate, Disasters

• Washington Post, Bible demands action on climate change, evangelicals say in new report
• Washington Post, Damaging storms kill at least four from Texas to Michigan
• New York Times, Mississippi’s Capital Loses Water as Troubled System Faces Fresh Crisis
• Washington Post, A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate chief says
• Washington Post, Pakistan seeks flood aid, but U.S.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in August 2022

 

 

 

Aug. 1

Top Headlines

 

• Politico, U.S. kills Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in drone strike
• Washington Post, Major legal fights loom over abortion pills, travel out of state
• New York Times, Russians Use Nuclear Plant as Shield, Complicating Ukraine’s Strategy, Andrew E. Kramer
• Politico, Manchin to Sinema: Believe in this bill, Burgess Everett
• New York Times, The Wind Is at Biden’s Back for a Change. Will Voters Care?
• Washington Post, Millions will be affected if Inflation Reduction Act becomes a reality. Here’s what it would do
• New York Times, As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short Honeymoon
• Washington Post, Exclusive: Hot mic captured Gaetz assuring Stone of pardon, discussing Mueller redactions, Jon Swaine and Dalton Bennett

Jan. 6 Hearings, Radical Violence, Election Probes, Missing DHS Messages

• Politico, Texas militia member gets most serious Jan 6. sentence yet: Just over 7 years: Judge rejects terrorism sentencing penalty in Jan. 6 case
• Washington Post, U.S. seeks 15-year sentence for Guy Reffitt, citing terrorism
• Washington Post, The status of key investigations involving former president Donald Trump, Matt Zapotosky, Matthew Brown, Shayna Jacobs, Devlin Barrett and Jacqueline Alemany
• Washington Post, Opinion: The Jan. 6 committee showed Congress how to run a blockbuster hearing, Jennifer Rubin

 

Ukraine War

• Washington Post, First ship carrying grain leaves Odessa in deal to ease global food crisis
• Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Black Sea port Mykolaiv hit in ‘brutal’ shelling

 

Bill Russell Dies

• CelticsBlog, Commentary: Bill Russell dies at 88, Keith P. Smith
• Washington Post, Perspective: Bill Russell made America better by demanding better from America, Jerry Brewer

 

U.S. Politics, Governance, Elections

• Politico, Toomey defends delay of veterans health bill, says he will back it if amendment passes
• New York Times, In Races for Governor, Democrats See a Silver Lining
• New York Times, Midterms Updates: Nancy Pelosi Backs Mondaire Jones in New York Race
• New York Times, Opinion: Liz Cheney Is Prepared to Lose Power, and It Shows, Katherine Miller
• Washington Post, 3 more GOP impeachers face their primary juries, Paul Kane
• Washington Post, Analysis: Trump vs.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in August 2022

 

Aug. 26

Top Headlines

 

• Politico, Trump Mar–a-Lago affidavit reveals ‘handwritten notes,’ highly classified material led to warrant request
• Associated Press, Biden rallies for Democrats, slams ‘semi-fascism’ in GOP
• Associated Press, Powell: Fed could keep lifting rates sharply ‘for some time’
• New York Times, Putin Calls for Sharp Expansion of Russian Army
• New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: As Russia Seeks More Troops, Both Sides Dig In for War of Attrition
• New York Times, With Attacks and Mockery, Ukraine Pokes the Russian Bear, Andrew E. Kramer

 

Trump Probes, Reactions, Riots, Supporters

• New York Times, Editorial: Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law
• New York Times, Redacted Affidavit Used in Trump Search to Be Unsealed
• Washington Post, Analysis: Georgia judge skeptical of claims of political bias in 2020 election probe, Matthew Brown, Tom Hamburger and Ann E. Marimow
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: The point of no return with fascism in America, Wayne Madsen
• Politico, How Trump has spent his days since the feds searched his home

 

U.S. Political Violence, Gun Laws, Dirty Tricks

• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: The point of no return with fascism in America, Wayne Madsen
• Detroit Free Press, Jury convicts Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr. in Whitmer kidnapping plot
• Pro Publica, Investigation: Why Outlawing Ghost Guns Didn’t Stop America’s Largest Maker of Ghost Gun Parts, Anjeanette Damon
• Politico, Two plead guilty to trafficking Ashley Biden’s diary, property,

 

More On Student Loans

• New York Times, Opinion: The Two Big Questions About Student Debt Relief, Paul Krugman
• Associated Press, Student loan relief highlights burden on Black borrower
• Washington Post, Biden’s student loan dilemma and the crucial meetings that swayed him
• Associated Press, Legality of student loan plan relies on pandemic, 2003 law
• Washington Post, Here’s who qualifies for the student loan forgiveness policy — and other questions about Biden’s plan, answered
• New York Times, Analysis: Biden Student Loan Plan Squarely Targets the Middle Class, Jim Tankersley
• Time Magazine, Some of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Critics Went to College for Less Than $400 per Year, Charlotte Alter
• Washington Post, Biden to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for most borrowers and $20,000 for Pell recipients

 

Forced Birth Laws, Privacy Rights

• Washington Post, New restrictions from major abortion funder could further limit access
• Associated Press, Michigan panel recommends abortion proposal for ballot
• Washington Post, Spain passes sexual consent bill to make only yes mean yes
• Crooks & Liars from Current Revolt, Texas Right To Life Political Director Arrested for Solicitation of a Minor
• New York Times, Judge Halts Part of Idaho’s Abortion Ban, Saying It Violates Health Law

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in July 2022

 

 

 

July 2

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, With sweep and speed, Supreme Court’s conservatives ignite new era, Robert Barnes
• Washington Post, Democracy advocates raise alarm after Supreme Court takes election case
• New York Times, Spurred by the Supreme Court, a Nation Divides Along a Red-Blue Axis
• Washington Post, Editorial: We can no longer avoid a criminal investigation into Donald Trump
• Washington Post, Investigation: How Trump World pressures witnesses to deny his possible wrongdoing, Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany
• Washington Post, ‘Take me up to the Capitol now’: How close Trump came to joining rioters, Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig
• Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Kyiv accuses Moscow of ‘deliberate terror,’ asks Turkey to detain grain ship
• New York Times, Advanced U.S. Arms Make a Mark in Ukraine War, Officials Say
• Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: At least 18 dead in Odessa region after Russian attack

 

More On U.S. Courts’ Radical Activism

• New York Times, Gridlock in Congress Has Amplified the Power of the Supreme Court
• Washington Post, Voting patterns in major rulings of 2022 reflect conservative ascendance
• New York Times, As Federal Climate-Fighting Tools Are Taken Away, Cities and States Step Up

 

New Threats To U.S. Abortion Rights, Privacy

• Washington Post, Opinion: As abortion rights collapse, Black and Brown women will suffer most
• Washington Post, Texas Supreme Court blocks order that allowed abortions to resume
• New York Times, Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion
• Washington Post, Opinion: Et tu, Alito? Murder of stare decisis creates legal circus maximus, Dana Milbank
• Washington Post, Texas lunges into center of battles over personal freedom, starting with abortion and sodomy

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in June 2022

 

 

June 2

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Putin’s Threats Highlight the Dangers of a New, Riskier Nuclear Era, David E. Sanger and William J. Broad
• New York Times, Opinion: President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine, President Joe Biden
• Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Street battles in Severodonetsk; Russia holds 20 percent of nation, Zelensky says
• New York Times, Racist and Violent Ideas Jump From Web’s Fringes to Mainstream Sites
• Washington Post, Live updates: At least four people killed at Tulsa hospital; gunman had ‘intent,’ police say
• New York Times, Jury Finds Both Depp and Heard Were Defamed, but Awards More Money to Him

 

Next Week’s House Hearings On Jan. 6 Insurrection

• Axios Sneak Peek, Scoop: Blockbuster witness for Jan. 6 hearings, Sophia Cai
• Politico, Pa. GOP gubernatorial nominee shares documents with Jan. 6 panel, agrees to interview

 

More On Mass Shootings

• Washington Post, Uvalde mayor recounts frantic attempt to call gunman during massacre
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: The X factor in the Uvalde massacre, Wayne Madsen

 

More On Ukraine War

• New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: Russia Pounds Forces in the East; Ukraine Battles to Regain Land in South
• Washington Post, Ukraine Updates: Russia slams Biden’s pledge of advanced weapons; Severodonetsk on the brink
• New York Times, Ukraine Updates: Europe Seeks New Ways to Aid Ukraine as Fight Rages in East
• New York Times, Opinion: I Thought Putin Invaded Only Ukraine. I Was Wrong, Thomas L. Friedman

 

More On Special Counsel’s Courtroom Defeat

• Mother Jones, How John Durham’s Probe Has Exposed Trump’s Russia Con, David Corn
• New York Times, Michael Sussmann Is Acquitted in Case Brought by Trump-Era Prosecutor

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in May 2022

 

 

May 2

Top Headlines

 

• Politico, Exclusive, Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows, Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward
• MSNBC, Politico Reporter On Obtaining Leaked SCOTUS Draft Opinion Overturning ‘Roe V. Wade

 

• New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: Desperate Civilians Gather for Evacuation From Mariupol
• Washington Post, Ukraine Updates: Russia-Ukraine war live updates Nancy Pelosi met Zelensky in Kyiv; Mariupol evacuation push resumes
• New York Times, Ukraine Updates: After Ukraine Visit, Pelosi Pledges U.S. Support ‘Until Victory Is Won
• New York Times, The West Works to Put Its Ukraine Pledges Into Action 
• Washington Post, Poll: Majority of Americans back Russia sanctions, aid to Ukraine
• Washington Post, Evacuations begin from Mariupol plant as shelling in east continues
• Washington Post, Post-ABC poll: Biden ticks up, but GOP holds advantage on economy

 

Investigations: Challenges To Democratic Norms

• New York Times, Part 1: Tucker Carlson, once a failed pundit, stoked white fear to conquer cable, Nicholas Confessore
• New York Times, Part 2: How Tucker Carlson reshaped Fox News — and became Trump’s heir, Nicholas Confessore
• New York Times, American Nationalist: Part 3, Nicholas Confessore
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary, Russian femmes fatales and Republican Party politics haunt Florida Panhandle race, Wayne Madsen

 

Pro-Trump Capitol Insurrection, Elections Claims

• Washington Post, Former NYPD officer Thomas Webster guilty in first Jan. 6 police assault trial
• Washington Post, Analysis: The status of key investigations involving Donald Trump, Matt Zapotosky
• New York Times, Georgia Jury to Consider Whether Trump Illegally Interfered in 2020 Election
• Politico, Jan. 6 committee asks three pro-Trump GOP lawmakers for testimony
• Washington Post, Editorial: Congress must act to prevent an election coup in 2024
• Washington Post, Judge rejects RNC bid to block fundraising, email data from Jan.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in March, 2022

 

 

April 2

Top Headlines

 

• New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: Russian Troops Pull Back From Around Kyiv as Focus Shifts to East
• New York Times, Ukraine accuses Russian forces of executing civilians in the town of Bucha, Cassandra Vinograd and Andrew E. Kramer
• New York Times, Russia in Broad Retreat From Kyiv, Seeking to Regroup From Battering
• New York Times, Garland Faces Growing Pressure as Jan. 6 Investigation Widens, Katie Benner, Katie Rogers and Michael S. Schmidt
• Washington Post, U.S. to send drones, machine guns, other military aid to Ukraine
• New York Times, Trial in Alleged Plot to Kidnap Michigan’s Governor Nears End

 
U.S. Governance, Economy

• New York Times, House Passes Bill to Limit Cost of Insulin to $35 a Month
• Washington Post, Job creation, openings at near-record levels as jobless claims approach historic lows
• New York Times, ‘I’m in Hot Demand, Baby’: Nebraska Thrives (and Copes) With Low Unemployment
• Washington Post, Opinion: Biden’s budget reflects his party’s challenges, E.J. Dionne Jr.
• New York Times, As Earmarks Return to Congress, Lawmakers Rush to Steer Money Home
• New York Times, As Biden Pleads for More Covid Aid, States Are Awash in Federal Dollars

 

Health, Climate, Environment

• Washington Post, Health: Sorry, wine lovers. No amount of alcohol is good for you, study says
• Washington Post, New cars and light trucks to be required to average 49 MPG
• Washington Post, Biden unveils plan to release a million barrels of oil per day
• New York Times, President Biden’s climate goals have stalled amid high gas prices, the Ukraine war and an emboldened fossil fuel industry
• Washington Post, California snowpack vastly depleted after record dry start to year

 

More On Ukraine War Horrors, Hardships, Prospects

• New York Times, Shaken at First, Many Russians Now Rally Behind Putin’s Invasion
• Washington Post, Russian businesses struggle to operate without Western products
• Washington Post, Some young Russian men fear ending up in battle as military launches conscription push
• Washington Post, Opinion: Painful choices lie in the path to peace in Ukraine, David Ignatius
• Washington Post, A race to get children with cancer out of Ukraine
• Washington Post, Putin’s Ukraine quagmire carries echoes of Soviet failure in Afghanistan
• New York Times, Russia’s War Lacks a Battlefield Commander, U.S.

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March 2

Top Headlines

 

• The Telegraph, A mass slaughter of civilians? Mariupol surrounded and under heavy shelling as electricity cut off
• Associated Press, As Russia batters Ukraine, both sides ready for more talks 
• Washington Post, Assassination plot against Zelensky foiled and unit sent to kill him ‘destroyed,’ Ukraine says
• Washington Post, U.S. prepares to expand financial attack, aiming to seize billions held by Putin allies
• Washington Post, Live Reports: Moscow intensifies attacks on key Ukrainian cities; Russia ‘more isolated’ than ever, Biden says
• New York Times, Live Reports: Russian Forces Move to Encircle Key Ukrainian Cities; As Russia Surrounds a Port City, the Mayor Is ‘Waiting for a Miracle’
• Washington Post, Russia unleashes greater firepower as convoy approaching Ukrainian capital appears stalled

 

U.S. State of the Union Address

• Washington Post, Biden condemns Russia, seeks unity beyond war in Ukraine
• New York Times, Analysis: Biden Hails Achieving Unity in Crisis, but Questions Remain, David E. Sanger
• New York Times, Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa delivered a scathing Republican rebuke, foreshadowing G.O.P. arguments ahead of the midterms
• Associated Press via HuffPost, Auditor: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Must Return $450K In COVID-19 Funds
• TheHill.com, Boebert shocks Democrats with Biden State of the Union interruption

 

More On Ukraine, Russia

• Washington Post, In Putin, intelligence analysts see an isolated leader who underestimated the West but could lash out if cornered,
• Washington Post, U.S. prepares to expand financial attack on Russian oligarchs, aiming to seize billions held by Putin allies
• Washington Post, Putin’s war is drawing battle lines within Russia
• Washington Post, Convoy near Kyiv stalls but forces close in on Kharkiv, other cities
• New York Times, Eastern European countries fear catastrophe as Vladimir Putin seeks to reclaim Russia’s lost sphere of influence
• New York Times, EXPLOSION SHAKES CENTRAL KHARKIV
• Washington Post, Live Updates: Massive Russian convoy nears Kyiv; Kharkiv is ‘surrounded,’ Ukraine’s capital braces for all-out assault
• Washington Post, In a Kyiv under siege, neighbors dig trenches and raise barriers to prepare for Russian attack
• Washington Post, What to know about Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s TV president turned wartime leade
• Washington Post, No breakthrough in talks; West increases financial pressure on Russia
• New York Times, Analysis: After a Fumbled Start, Russian Forces Hit Harder in Ukraine, Steven Erlanger
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Unrecognized state propped up by Moscow refuses to participate in invasion of Ukraine, Wayne Madsen

 

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