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John Dean | I Testified Against Nixon. Here's My Advice for Michael Cohen.
John Dean, The New York Times
Dean writes: "There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973, about President Richard Nixon and his White House, and Michael Cohen's testimony this week about President Trump and his business practices."
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John Dean, The New York Times
Dean writes: "There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973, about President Richard Nixon and his White House, and Michael Cohen's testimony this week about President Trump and his business practices."
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David Pecker. (photo: Mark Peterson/Redux)
How David Pecker Built His Tabloid Empire on Fear
Rene Chun, The Daily Beast
Chun writes: "Talk to employees who have passed through the grist mill of the tabloid publisher American Media Inc., and the portrait of CEO David Pecker that emerges is a man who governs in part by fear and will do just about anything to make quarterly projections. Other character traits frequently mentioned: workaholic, paranoid, vain, dishonest, bully."
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Rene Chun, The Daily Beast
Chun writes: "Talk to employees who have passed through the grist mill of the tabloid publisher American Media Inc., and the portrait of CEO David Pecker that emerges is a man who governs in part by fear and will do just about anything to make quarterly projections. Other character traits frequently mentioned: workaholic, paranoid, vain, dishonest, bully."
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Lawmakers Exploring Possible Pardon Talks Involving Michael Cohen
Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger and Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Lawmakers are investigating whether President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was involved in any discussions about possible pardons - which they view as a potentially ripe area of inquiry into whether anyone sought to obstruct justice, people familiar with the matter said."
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Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger and Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Lawmakers are investigating whether President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was involved in any discussions about possible pardons - which they view as a potentially ripe area of inquiry into whether anyone sought to obstruct justice, people familiar with the matter said."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Michael Cohen hearing. (photo: Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez Scolds Fellow Democrats for 'Gotcha Amendment' in Gun Bill
Amanda Michelle Gomez, ThinkProgress
Amanda Michelle Gomez, ThinkProgress
EXCERPT:
On Wednesday, the House voted, 240-190, to pass legislation that requires background checks on all commercial gun sales after decades of inaction on gun control. But there’s a catch.
Prior to the vote, Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) successfully added a provision that would require the FBI to alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when an undocumented immigrant tries to buy a gun.
The Republican-backed provision pit progressives against moderates in the Democrat-run chamber.
The measure is premised on the false notion pushed by President Donald Trump that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than U.S. citizens. Even so, 26 Democrats helped Republicans tack the provision onto a gun-control package, approving it by a voice vote. Twenty-two of the 26 Democrats were from districts previously held by Republicans.
Gomez writes: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Twitter on Saturday to criticize an anti-immigrant amendment attached to historic gun control legislation approved this week in the House of Representatives."
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An 'I voted' sticker featuring local Louisiana artist George Rodrigue's Blue Dog is worn by a voter in New Orleans. (photo: Getty Images)
New Legislation Re-Enfranchised Thousands in Louisiana, but They're Struggling to Register to Vote
Addy Baird, ThinkProgress
Baird writes: "An estimated 35,000 people are newly eligible to vote in Louisiana Friday, after a law passed last year restored the right to vote to people who have been out of prison for at least five years but who remain on probation and parole."
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Addy Baird, ThinkProgress
Baird writes: "An estimated 35,000 people are newly eligible to vote in Louisiana Friday, after a law passed last year restored the right to vote to people who have been out of prison for at least five years but who remain on probation and parole."
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Trump's Global Gag Rule: 'This Policy Has Led to Reduced Access to Critical Health Services'
Janine Jackson, FAIR
Jackson writes: "But it's better known as the 'global gag rule,' because it does more: preventing funding for agencies that 'counsel, refer or advocate' for abortion, forcing NGOs and healthcare providers to choose between crucial resources and their ability to provide the best care for their patients, including speaking freely about the full range of safe, legal options."
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Janine Jackson, FAIR
Jackson writes: "But it's better known as the 'global gag rule,' because it does more: preventing funding for agencies that 'counsel, refer or advocate' for abortion, forcing NGOs and healthcare providers to choose between crucial resources and their ability to provide the best care for their patients, including speaking freely about the full range of safe, legal options."
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Adrienne Hollis; Leslie Fields; Mary Annaïse Heglar; Jacqueline Patterson (photo: Grist)
4 Black Women Leaders on Climate, Justice, and the Green 'Promised Land'
Justine Calma and Paola Rosa-Aquino, Grist
Excerpt: "Black leaders have long been pioneers in protecting communities and the environment - from Harriet Tubman, who in the mid-1800s used her knowledge of the natural world to guide escaped slaves north, to landfill protesters in Warren County, North Carolina in 1982 who galvanized the modern environmental justice movement."
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Justine Calma and Paola Rosa-Aquino, Grist
Excerpt: "Black leaders have long been pioneers in protecting communities and the environment - from Harriet Tubman, who in the mid-1800s used her knowledge of the natural world to guide escaped slaves north, to landfill protesters in Warren County, North Carolina in 1982 who galvanized the modern environmental justice movement."
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