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Ben Weyl

@benweyl

senior editor @PoliticoMag

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.Ben Jacobs goes to Georgetown to find out how McCarthy would like us to remember his time in office (and what he'd like us to not remember): politico.com/news/magazine/…

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“The 401(k) industry owns Congress”: How the retirement savings lobby turned a system that was supposed to help the middle class into a benefit for the rich politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

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Trump is enmeshed in a “two-tiered system of justice,” he often says — and he’s right. There are two tiers. But Trump frequently has been the beneficiary, not the victim. via James Romoser politico.com/news/magazine/…

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“Andrés’ path to rock star status is an evolution that says as much about Washington as it does about Andrés — and makes the fallout from the killing worth watching as a barometer of Beltway opinion about Israel’s campaign against Hamas.” -Michael Schaffer politico.com/news/magazine/…

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Inside the WSJ’s effort to Free Evan Gershkovich

The Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour tells Ryan Lizza about the first call indicating Evan might be in trouble, the past year’s public and private diplomacy, and prospects for a prisoner swap.



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Inside the WSJ’s effort to Free Evan Gershkovich @WSJ publisher @almarlatour tells @RyanLizza about the first call indicating Evan might be in trouble, the past year’s public and private diplomacy, and prospects for a prisoner swap. #IStandWithEvan politi.co/4cxyymF
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.Ian Ward does a really impressive job here pushing back on the evasion from the Alliance for Defending Freedom's CEO on birth control.

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Thanks to POLITICO and Marc Novicoff for an interview that let me go deep into the evidence for causation, and into why TikTok may be the worst consumer product ever invented, given its negative utility for users (who are in a trap)...

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Practically every Trump joke is “an in-group and out-group joke,” and “laughing at the joke is a sign of loyalty,” Jennifer Mercieca tells Michael Kruse.
“That is how autocrats work.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

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Has an American politician ever endorsed abandoning the dollar as the global reserve currency? J.D. Vance is open to it, per Ian Ward politico.com/news/magazine/…

Has an American politician ever endorsed abandoning the dollar as the global reserve currency? J.D. Vance is open to it, per @ianwardreports politico.com/news/magazine/…
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“Now, McConnell isn’t trying to stand up to the man he does not think has any business being president – he’s trying to make the best of it for Republicans.” Smart Jonathan Martin politico.com/news/magazine/…

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“Erin Hawley’s status as a senator’s wife is perhaps the least interesting thing about her. By some accounts, she’s having a greater impact on the law in this country than her lawmaker husband is.” via Kathy Gilsinan politico.com/news/magazine/…

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NEW: “I’m not at church.'

Speaker Johnson invoked religion/Bible verses for a big portion of a presentation at a private leadership retreat this weekend and it didn't land well w/ some of the Rs b/c the focus was supposed to be on keeping the majority.
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NEW: Trump allies plan to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration

(docs obtained by POLITICO)
w Alex Ward

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‘I Have to Say Goodbye. But I Don’t Want to Go to Jail.’ albats tells Maura Reynolds
One of Navalny’s closest friends mourns his death, and Russia’s future. politico.com/news/magazine/…

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what Donald Trump Jr's foray into lifestyle content shows about the direction of the right politico.com/news/magazine/…

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