Daylee News Nuggets

Daylee Picture: A Roseate Spoonbill in Florida.  From Smithsonian Magazine.

The FBI's Revenge (Mike Allen) from Axios "Back in December, President Trump tweeted: "After years of Comey, with the phony ...

A Democracy Disappears (Andrew Sullivan) from New York Magazine "The difference, of course, is that Orbán is an experienced politicia...

How France Cut Heroin Overdoses by 79 Percent in 4 Years ... And the United States could, too from the Atlantic "In 1995, France made...

Conservatives Will Never Get the Respect They Crave. They Don’t Deserve It. from Washington Monthly "...at a certain level, this tire...

Mulvaney: I Only Talked To Lobbyists Who Donated To My Congressional Campaign from Talking Points Memo "Mick Mulvaney, the director o...

Trump Has Been Afraid of Roger Stone ‘For Years’ from Mediaite "Haberman also quoted Stone in the story, who remarked on Trump’s trea...

American Democracy has Faced Worse Threats than Donald Trump (Ezra Klein) from Vox "The triumphant story we tell about American histo...

An Evangelical Professor Explains the Troubled Nostalgia and Racial Anxiety Behind Christians’ support for Trump from Raw Story "In F...

Trump is where the end begins (Richard Cohen) from the Washington Post "More likely, America’s political immune system will kick in a...

‘I Was Trump Before Trump Was Trump’ from the New York Times "Republican candidates all over are parroting the president, spouting hi...

The Reinvention of America (James Fallows) from the Atlantic "America is becoming more like itself again. More Americans are trying t...

There is No One Who Can Save Trump from Himself (Joe Scarborough) from the Washington Post "Given his recent history of self-defeatin...

Melania, the steely, dead-eyed trouper (Virginia Heffernan) from the Los Angeles Times "Melania Trump has become a stand-in for the n...

The Return of The Negro Motorist Green Book from Think Progress "Author Jan Miles has revived the Jim Crow-era travelers' guide f...

Daylee picture: A moonrise in the Sierra Mountains in California.  From Smithsonian Magazine.

My brother's brother-in-law, Darren, has been battling pancreatic cancer for several years.  What is so is that the cancer has been unde...

FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Is the Most Dangerous Day of Donald Trump’s Life (Rick Wilson) from the Daily Beast "Trump must know this m...

Prosecutors’ Withering Rebuttal of Cohen Shows How Hard It Will Be for Trump to Sabotage Their Investigation from Slate "That filing....

Unicorns of the Intellectual Right (Paul Krugman) from the New York Times "... while there are many conservative economists with appoi...

James Comey’s memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false from the Washington Post "Interacting with Trump, Comey...

I’m a Peeliever and You Should Be, Too (Jonathan Chait) from New York Magazine "I used to doubt that this episode really happened. I ...

After busting the deficit, the GOP's gestures toward fiscal responsibility ring hollow (John Harwood) from CNBC "Republicans keep...

Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump from Rolling Stone Magazine ""The idea of pri...

The Moscow Midterms: How Russia could steal our next election from the New York Times "Most of us can’t really picture what it would ...

The Macker readies for a second act from the Richmond Times Dispatch "Three months after leaving the Virginia governorship, the perqu...

How Trump Channels the 1970s (Julian Zelizer) from the Atlantic "The one consistent message coming out of the White House was born in...

Trapped In The White House: Many Trump Aides Are Too “Toxic” To Get Jobs from Buzzfeed "Trump administration officials looking to esc...

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/travel/a-grand-mosque-visitor/#tyoew1...

What’s the Matter With Trumpland? (Paul Krugman) from the New York Times "Moretti argues that structural changes in the economy have ...

Watch Out, Ted Cruz. Beto is Coming (Frank Bruni) from the New York Times "Count me among the swelling ranks of the infatuated. I, to...

The issue that’s poisoning democratic politics around the world from the Washington Post "The immigration issue is poisoning democrat...

The Contract With Authoritarianism (Thomas Edsall) from the New York Times "Those with a fixed worldview tend to see “American Carnag...

The Trumpification of the GOP Is Complete (Josh Kraushaar) from National Journal "Republican voters primarily care if their candidate...

‘ Democracy’ Still Matters (Jan-Werner Muller) from the New York Times "Mr. Orban has spent the past several years weakening his coun...

Third Woman Sues to Void Secrecy Pact Linked to Trump from Bloomberg "A former employee of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign tea...

John Bolton, cyber warrior from Politico "Trump’s incoming adviser has said the U.S. should launch a ‘retaliatory cyber campaign agai...

Is Putin a C.I.A. Agent? (Thomas Friedman) from the New York Times "Because Putin has undertaken so many actions in recent years that...

Republicans rigged our democracy. Here's how Democrats can fight back (David Faris) from the Guardian (of the UK) "Republicans h...

We’ve Fought the NRA for Decades—We’ve Never Seen It as Panicked as It Is Now from the Daily Beast "In the immediate aftermath of the...

Farmers and business groups warn trade war with China will wreck Trump country: ‘This has to stop’ from Raw Story "“The last thing th...

Behind The Wave Of Red-State Teacher Walkouts from the National Memo "“We have the worst pay in the nation for our teachers,” he cont...

There’s no good reason to stop felons from voting (George Will) from the Washington Post "Meade is one of 1.6 million disenfranchised...

Daylee Picture: Batanes province in the Philippines.  From Smithsonian Magazine.

Hey everyone!  For my Pittsburgh fans, I wanted to let you all know that I will be on Lynn Cullen's program on Wednesday, April 4 from 1...

Michael Cohen’s Attorney May Be an Even Worse Lawyer Than He Is (Margaret Hartmann) from New York Magazine "Later in the interview Sc...

Trump Is Defenseless Against Robert Mueller (Lithwick and Stern) from Slate "Trump desperately needs a crack legal team. But his lawy...

The second-most dangerous American (George Will) from the Washington Post "Bolton will soon be the second-most dangerous American. On...

Globalization’s Backlash Is Here, at Just the Wrong Time from the New York Times "[Backlash] is coming after the major costs of globa...

Dear Democrats, Don’t Despair (Charles Kenny) from the Washington Monthly "Even in the age of Donald Trump, at least in some ways, th...

In America, Endangered By Trump And Bolton, The Young Bring Hope (Gene Lyons) from National Memo "Bolton was memorably described as a...

After Another Week of Chaos, Trump Repairs to Palm Beach. No One Knows What Comes Next. from the New York Times "The decisions attest...

Putin Has Overplayed His Hand (William Burns) from the New York Times "Mr. Putin’s muscular revanchism can camouflage his weakness, b...

Gun reform activists demand town halls. Many Republicans have ducked them since 2017 from McClatchy News Service "“This is not an unr...

The Barely-Beating Heart Of Christendom (Rod Dreher) from the American Conservative "The report’s findings aren’t surprising, exactly...

The Republicans Are Clinging Frantically to Power (Joy-Ann Reid) from the Daily Beast "The GOP is desperately seeking to build a wall...

This madness will pass. Conservatives can’t give up (Michael Gerson) from the Washington Post "So how do we split the political diffe...

Rep. Mary Franson compares 'March for Our Lives' kids to Hitler Youth from City Pages "Back in December, the state representa...

Waves as they approach the coast of California.  From Smithsonian Magazine

Karen McDougal is the woman with the best chance of bringing down Trump from Think Progress ".... Daniels and McDougal have sued, ask...

The Stormy Daniels Saga Shows How Vulnerable Trump Is To Blackmail from the Huffington Post "I mention the nitty-gritty, behind-the-s...

Trump would love to fire Mueller. But here’s why he’s been afraid to so far . from Vox "It is certainly possible that Trump could chan...

Trump’s presidency is unravelling. But he won’t fall without a push (Gary Younge) from the Guardian (of the UK) "Witnessing Trump’s ...

White House shakeup shows Trump tired of hearing 'no' for an answer from Reuters " Almost 14 months into Donald Trump’s turbu...

Trump is systematically removing the guardrails in his cabinet from the New Republic "These changes suggest a president who is convin...

Trump's maximal tribalism (Damon Linker) from The Week "Without fully grasping the consequences of his words and deeds, President...

Insiders See Democratic House Gains of 30-45 seats from Roll Call "Seven and a half months before the midterm elections, the combinat...

Poisoning of Russian ex-spy puts spotlight on Moscow’s secret military labs from the Washington Post "During his last run for the pre...

I stand with Andrew McCabe  (Ronald Klain) from the Washington Post "A president who doesn’t respect the rule of law will always have ...

Is it still worth trying to come to America as an asylum seeker? I don't think so (Luis Mancheno) from the Guardian (of the UK) ...

Maher panel proposes a new way of taking down the NRA — and the gun organization should be afraid from Raw Story "“Why does the NRA g...