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Selected June 2020 news and commentary. Excerpts are from the authors' words except for subheads and occasional "Editor's notes.
July 14
Top Stories
Washington Post, Opinion: In op-ed, ex-CDC directors slam Trump for politicizing science, Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan, David Satcher and Richard Besser- NBC News, Mary Trump's book reveals Trumpworld's web of lies — and the enablers who protect it, Nina Burleigh
- Washington Post, Live Updates: California backtracks on reopening as rise in coronavirus cases spreads beyond Sun Belt
- Washington Post, Workers pushed to the brink as they continue to wait for delayed unemployment payments
- Washington Post, Virus Live Updates: Coronavirus deaths on the rise in almost every part of the U.S.
Race, Police Brutality News
- Washington Post, Partially blinded by police: Video evidence undermines official accounts of injuries at protests, Meg Kelly, Joyce Sohyun Lee and Jon Swaine
Virus Victims, Responses
New York Times, Opinion: America Drank Away Its Children’s Future, Paul Krugman- New York Times, Opinion: Where Are the Calls for Trump to Resign? Michelle Goldberg
- Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Commentary: Under-counting the number of dead and mass graves and cremations: The whiff of Nazi Germany, Wayne Madsen
- New York Times, Aide Posts Cartoon Mocking Fauci as White House Denies Undermining Him
Washington Post, White House signals openness to compromise as millions face loss of unemployment benefits- Washington Post, Trump administration to recommend National Guard as option to help hospitals report coronavirus data
- New York Times, Opinion: The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse. We Must Act Now, John M. Barry
- Washington Post, Investigation: At college health centers, students battle misdiagnoses and inaccessible care
Law, Courts, Crime
BBC, Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail in Epstein sex trafficking case- Washington Post, Ghislaine Maxwell had ex-British military as security at New Hampshire estate, prosecutors say
- Washington Post, U.S. carries out first federal execution since 2003 after Supreme Court intervention, Mark Berman, July 14, 2020
- Washington Post, Opinion: Why Joe Biden won’t campaign on the Supreme Court, Paul Waldman
- New York Times, Opinion: Did Mueller Ever Stand a Chance Against Trump and Roger Stone? Nick Akerman
- New York Times, Opinion: We Can Still Get the Truth From Roger Stone, Andrew Weissmann
U.S. 2020 Elections, Politics
- New York Times, Election Live Updates: Republicans Plan to Move Convention Events Outdoors
- New York Times, The QAnon Candidates Are Here. Trump Has Paved Their Way
- Washington Post, Biden set to offer newly ambitious climate goals
- Washington Post, Opinion: The one constant in Trump’s presidency: Tomorrow will be worse, Dana Milbank
- New York Times, Opinion: Attention All Women: Trump Is Coming for Your Health Care, Kathleen Sebelius
- Washington Post, Brad Parscale hits a rough patch as Trump’s campaign manager
World News
Washington Post, Polish president Duda triumphs in tight vote, electoral commission says- Washington Post, Venezuelan executive, detained in failed raid, says he was unwitting pawn
Media / Political News
- Washington Post, Fact Checker Analysis: Trump ad falsely suggests Biden supports defunding police, Glenn Kessler
- Washington Post, Lincoln Project video editor is out over crude tweets about female anatomy
- Washington Post, New York Times shreds Trump campaign lawsuit over Russia op-ed, Erik Wemple
Top Stories
Washington Post, Opinion: In op-ed, ex-CDC directors slam Trump for politicizing science, Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan, David Satcher and Richard Besser, July 14, 2020. Four former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention co-wrote an op-ed published by The Washington Post. The administration is undermining public health.
As America begins the formidable task of getting our kids back to school and all of us back to work safely amid a pandemic that is only getting worse, public health experts face two opponents: covid-19, but also political leaders and others attempting to undermine the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of this date, the CDC guidelines, which were designed to protect children, teachers, school staffers and their families — no matter the state and no matter the politics — have not been altered. It is extraordinary for guidelines to be undermined after their release. Through last week, and into Monday, the administration continued to cast public doubt on the agency’s recommendations and role in informing and guiding the nation’s pandemic response.
The four of us led the CDC over a period of more than 15 years, spanning Republican and Democratic administrations alike. We cannot recall over our collective tenure a single time when political pressure led to a change in the interpretation of scientific evidence.
Dr. Mary Trump, clinical psychologist, niece of Donald J. Trump, and author of a best-selling book about her family released on July 14 after the family failed to stop it via a court fight that resulted in a New York state court ruling July 13 enabling her to publish the book and speak publicly about it (Photo by Peter Serling via Simon & Schuster).
NBC News, Mary Trump's book reveals Trumpworld's web of lies — and the enablers who protect it, Nina Burleigh (author of The Trump Women: Part of the Deal), July 14, 2020. Trump’s niece becomes the first family member to openly break ranks, but only the latest critic to face threats for doing so. There's no doubt Mary Trump's uncle knows what she knows about him.
Lawsuits, nondisclosure agreements and emotional or financial blackmail kept the lid on the secrets of Trumpland for years. But the political career of President Donald Trump, a self-described billionaire, has brought an increase in attention. Now as more and more insiders bust out their own books, Trump and his attorneys are playing an increasingly wild and desperate game of whack-a-mole to keep dissidents, including some very close to home, silent.
In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man, officially released on Tuesday, Trump's niece, Mary Trump, becomes the first family member to openly break ranks but only the latest of many critics to face threats for doing so.Mary Trump's book is the literary equivalent of an ambulance siren.
The book is the literary equivalent of an ambulance siren. Mary Trump (Peter Serling / Simon and Schuster;, a clinical psychologist, describes her uncle as a man whose personality was damaged early by his sociopathic father, Fred, and his fragile, absent mother, Mary Anne, and whose retinue of enablers have allowed him to fail up while shielding his profound impairments from the public eye.
Want more articles like this? Follow THINK on Instagram to get updates on the week's most important political analysisThe book's shocking bits have already been picked over and reported: She was a secret source for family financial documents behind The New York Times' investigation that revealed that a "potential tax fraud" enriched the Trump siblings; Trump paid someone to take his SAT test; Trump ogled and praised her breasts.
But the disturbing thesis of the book has gotten less attention so far because it is too complex for a bullet point or a tweet. Mary Trump argues that her uncle has been "institutionalized" his entire life, from his father's rigid house to military school to the Trump Organization and now the White House. In Washington, he is, for the first time in his life, subject to close scrutiny but still surrounded by enablers who have everything to lose if he is exposed as a fake and a fraud.
"The walls of his very expensive and well-guarded padded cell are starting to disintegrate," she writes. "The people with access to him are weaker than Donald is, more craven, but just as desperate."
These desperate people will use whatever means are at their disposal — courts, lawyers, intimidation, loss of employment and even, apparently, prison — to bolster Trump's increasingly fragile facade. She writes that the president's own siblings find him odious and ridiculous by turn and that they knew he was unfit for office but still kept quiet — and even tried to silence her in court.
Washington Post, Live Updates: California backtracks on reopening as rise in coronavirus cases spreads beyond Sun Belt, Staff reports, July 14, 2020. With cases of the novel coronavirus soaring, the West Coast is shutting down — again. California on Monday banned indoor dining and shuttered movie theaters and bars. Hair salons and gyms in particularly hard-hit counties were also told to close. Meanwhile, Oregon cracked down on gatherings of more than 10 people and made masks mandatory statewide.Other states may soon follow. The Sun Belt has been hit hard, but coronavirus case numbers in other parts of the country — including Colorado, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota and the District of Columbia — have also risen sharply over the past week. The entire country reported 57,000 new infections on Monday for a total of 3.3 million cases, with at least 132,000 deaths linked to covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, since the start of the pandemic.
Here are some significant developments:
- Los Angeles, San Diego and Atlanta — three of the nation’s largest school districts — will hold classes online when the new school year begins.
- As Florida’s growing coronavirus caseload continues to shatter records, Miami “is now the epicenter of the pandemic,” ...
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Salem Radio Network, JIP Director Andrew Kreig interviewed on 2020 Democratic candidates, Jane Silk, left, co-host of the Silk-Antrim Show on the Main Street Radio Network, Aug. 22, 
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director of the Justice Integrity Project and the author of Presidential Puppetry, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss presidential politics of the last 40 years. What should we have known about George H.W. Bush, Bill & Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, John Kerry, John Edwards, and John McCain?
Kreig takes a non-partisan approach to dissecting the pros, cons, misdeeds, and motivations of American presidential and vice-presidential candidates, dating back decades. In the interview, Kreig covers the Bush dynasty, why Reagan chose Bush in 1980, 
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