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Biden's Trump Apology Tour Moves On to Test With Putin
Susan Crabtree, RCP
Putin Has Nothing to Fear From Biden
Elena Chernenko, New York Times
White House Digs Deeper on Border Crisis
Amber Athey, Spectator World
Let's Give Dreamers the Lives They Deserve
Alejandro Mayorkas, USA Today
Dems Turning Own Failures Into Political Power
Scott McKay, American Spectator
We're Beginning to See the Real Kamala Harris
Roxanne Jones, CNN
Heck of a Job on Border Security, Kamala
Gary Anderson, Washington Times
The Legal Minefield That Trump Left for Merrick Garland
David Rohde, New Yorker
Who Let Capitol Protesters Into the Building on January 6?
Julie Kelly, Am. Greatness
Safety, Quality of Life Top Concerns in N.Y. Mayoral Race
Charles F. McElwee, RCP
Worried Parents Push Back Against Critical Race Theory
Betsy McCaughey, NY Post
CRT Critics Whitewashing America's Racist Past
Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue
Children's TV Doing the Wokey Pokey
Christian Toto, RealClearInvestigations
The Best Anyone Can Hope for With Iran Is Pretty Bad
Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Israel's Message to Iran: 'The Era of Lies Is Over' 
Benny Avni, New York Sun
Why the Biden Administration Must Protect the Press
Austin Sarat, The Hill
A Decade Later, Citizens United Yields Election Benefits
Matthew Petersen, RCP
Biden Approval: Monmouth 49% | YouGov 48% | Rasmussen 50% | Politico 53%

Editorials

Biden, China and Europe: America Is Back--For Now
The Guardian
A Hesitant, Half-Hearted Stand Against China
National Review
How Biden Should Deal With Putin
Bloomberg
Biden's Deserved, Humiliating Loss at the Supreme Court
DC Examiner

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Sen. Rick Scott: Biden Doesn't Have The Backbone To Stand Up To Putin
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Former CDC Director Redfield: WHO "Highly Compromised," Let China Decide Who Would Be Allowed To Investigate
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Jon Stewart Argues For Wuhan Lab Leak Theory: "The Disease Is The Same Name As The Lab!"
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Hillary Clinton: Putin Is The Great Disruptor; He Has A Clear Mission To Undermine Democracies

RealClearPolitics Tuesday

How Biden Should Deal With Putin
Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs
Biden Must Stand Up to Putin on Cyberattacks, Energy
Mike Pompeo, FOX News
Mitch McConnell Plays His Supreme Court Card
Chris Cillizza, CNN
Ilhan Omar and Contempt for America
Charles Lipson, RealClearPolitics
Omar's Only Offense Was Telling the Truth About U.S.
Hadas Thier, In These Times
Dems Trapped in Progressive Echo Chamber
Byron York, Washington Examiner
The Capitol Riot Was Prologue
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Double Standards & False Narratives About Jan. 6
Sen. Ron Johnson, FOX News
The Right's War on History and Truth
Ben Jealous, The Nation
Fighting Critical Race Theory, One Door at a Time
Ross Hunt, The American Mind
Trump Spied on Journalists. So Did Obama. It's Wrong
Trevor Timm, The Guardian
Manchin Saved the Senate - and Our Republic (for Now)
Adam Brandon, RCP
The Dems Aren't Powerless to Flip Joe Manchin
Branko Marcetic, Jacobin Magazine
Welcome to Wokespeak and Logic Making Heads Spin
John Murawski, RCI
Samantha Power Still Believes America Can Save the World
Michelle Goldberg, NYT
Bring Back Trump to Call Out China & Globalists
Charles Hurt, Washington Times
The Enduring False Narrative About PULSE Massacre
Glenn Greenwald, Substack

PM Update
The Culture War Is Real and It’s Getting Worse
Frank Furedi, Spiked
The GOP Has Become an Authoritarian Party
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Bad-Faith Democrat Attacks on Election Integrity Are Failing
Kyle Hupfer, RCP
What Ilhan Omar Actually Said
Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic
What Omar's Latest Scandal Reveals About Dems
Melissa Braunstein, DC Examiner
Biden's Historic Opportunity With Putin
Jim Langevin & Michael McCaul, CNN
Biden's Bumbling on World Stage Is Boosting Our Foes
Jonathan Tobin, NY Post
GOP Will Never Confirm Another Dem-Appointed Justice
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
Exposing Biden's Exploitive Record on Race
Deneen Borelli, Washington Times
Senate Dems Bracing for Long Summer of Sadness
Hayes Brown, MSNBC
Lessons From the 2020 Fight Over Lockdowns
Jeffrey Tucker, RealClearMarkets
The Disease Is the Same Name as the Lab!
Jon Stewart, The Late Show

Biden Administration

On Infrastructure, WH Sticks to Slow, Messy 'Sausage Making'

It is an unlovely and overused expression, but “sausage making” may soon be the defining cliché of the Biden administration, at least insofar as infrastructure is concerned.Reporters always press for the latest developments in the slow-moving bipartisan negotiations to fix roads and bridges (and fund other things that Republicans complain have nothing to do with the traditional definition of Read More

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Analysis & Commentary

Lipson: Ilhan Omar and Contempt for America

“We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,” Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota tweeted last week to her 1.2 million followers. They responded with warm support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cooler. Although the speaker lives in San Francisco’s progressive echo chamber, she heads a national party and understands that most voters do not Read More

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Political Landscape

McAuliffe Win Sets Up Virginia Clash With Outsider Youngkin

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture of Democratic politics, handily won his party’s nomination for Virginia governor in his quest for a second term, setting up what’s expected to be a hotly contested general election against a wealthy businessman and political newcomer, GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin.In his victory speech Tuesday night, McAuliffe made the case that Youngkin Read More

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