Mike Barnicle
Mike Barnicle is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a social and political commentator. Watch Mike Barnicle at http://t.co/TezGTdIXle
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2020 Democratic Candidates Wage Escalating Fight (on the Merits of Fighting)
For all the emphasis placed on the various divides among the candidates, the question of “to fight or not to fight” might represent the most meaningful contrast.
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Mike Barnicle
@MarkLeibovich @nytimes To fight or not to fight.
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Putin’s Good Year Keeps Getting Better
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has had a good year, and it just keeps getting better. He now is collecting his winnings on multiple fronts.
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Mike Barnicle
“Even Mr. Putin must be amazed at how well he is achieving his goal of sowing discord within the U.S. political system.” @WSJ
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Elizabeth Warren Has Done the Hard Part. Now Comes the Harder Part.
All summer, she was soaring, slinging buzzy plans and climbing in the polls. It’s not summer anymore.
Shoot Them in the Legs, Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War
Over a frenzied few days in the spring, an internal White House debate led to turnover in staff and a turning point for the president’s immigration agenda.
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Mike Barnicle
The following news story revolves around the behavior of a crazy person who is still at-large. You might want to read this @nytimes piece twice. This man is deeply disturbed.
nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/… via @NYTimes
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Why Does Trump Fan the Flames of Race-Based Terrorism?
The president is making the F.B.I.’s job harder.
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Mike Barnicle
@FrankFigliuzzi1 wrote this prior to El Paso and Dayton. And there will be other massacres to come.
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How Lindsey Graham Went From Trump Skeptic to Trump Sidekick
“What happened to me?” the senator asks. “Not a damn thing.”
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Mike Barnicle
If America wants to know what happened to Lindsay Graham @MarkLeibovich is here to tell them in a great @nytimes piece.
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Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington
The former Senate majority leader on President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer, and on why he doesn’t regret ending the filibuster for judicial appointments.
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Mike Barnicle
The latest and greatest piece from @MarkLeibovich @nytimes about a guy who could both take and throw a punch.
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2019: The Year of the Wolves
Can the Constitution withstand the partisans?
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More from @nytdavidbrooks on the inevitable choice facing the silent, complicit GOP:
“At that point congressional leaders will face the defining choice of their careers: Where does their ultimate loyalty lie, to the Constitution or to their party?”
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Susan Collins Could Do Without the Death Threats
The Republican senator from Maine prides herself on her ability to work with everyone — which, increasingly, is a good way to make everyone furious.
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Mike Barnicle
Another great read from @MarkLeibovich @nytimes on Susan Collins, last Republican left standing in New England...for now!
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The Polarizer-in-Chief Meets the Midterms
Democrats and Republicans continue to move farther apart. Trump wouldn’t have it any other way.
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@edsall with another great piece filled with insight on the Democrats difficult future becoming the majority in the US Senate: The Polarizer-in-Chief Meets the Midterms
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The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail
She moved to Flushing, Queens, with dreams of success and citizenship. Now she was crumpled outside a massage parlor on 40th Road, her blood pooling on the pavement she had so often worked.
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Mike Barnicle
A truly staggering piece of reporting and writing - a novel in a newspaper - from @DanBarryNYT and the arc of one woman’s short life in America with days of hope, sadness, shame, the sex trade and finally despair and death.
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The Real Lesson of Sept. 11
I went to war to avenge my brother’s death. But the only person I truly wanted to kill died 17 years ago.
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Mike Barnicle
One thing to do today, September 11th? Read Joe Quinn, a brother, a father, a soldier in @nytimes
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John McCain Believed In America. Let’s Redeem it in His Passing.
The true spirit of the man was seen in those moments away from the camera. There won’t be another like him.
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Catholic church faces ominous decline
As Pope Francis arrives in Ireland.
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Mike Barnicle
The doubts of millions of U.S. Catholics about the future of the church is a huge, lingering story now overshadowed by Trump but more important in the long run.
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'NFL's rampant boobery' exposed in Leibovich's new book
'Big Game, The NFL in Dangerous Times' -- written by New York Times reporter (and Patriots fan) Mark Leibovich -- shines a harsh light on a flawed league, with fascinating tidbits on Robert Kraft, Tom Brady and the Pats.
Cleaning Toilets, Following Rules: A Migrant Child’s Days in Detention
A portrait of life in the shelters for the children detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump Tries to Destroy the West
There’s only one explanation that fits all of his behavior: He wants to break up the Atlantic alliance that has dominated the past century.
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Mike Barnicle
@DLeonhardt on the destructive daily reality that is @realDonaldTrump. Please read it
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What I Saw on RFK’s Funeral Train 50 Years Ago Today
It was a somber moment. It was a horrifying year. And, in many ways, the country has yet to recover.
White House official derides McCain over Haspel opposition: ‘He’s dying anyway’
Kelly Sadler, a special assistant to the president, made the comment about McCain, who is fighting brain cancer, during a closed-door meeting of White House communications staffers.
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Mike Barnicle
Trump and his people. What shallow, ignorant losers. This is just the latest disgrace they bring to the presidency. They are a stain on history.
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Ichiro's return to Seattle won't resolve the battle raging within him
How five days in February reveal what Seattle's signing of Ichiro cannot. The future Hall of Famer is haunted by the life he can't escape.
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Mike Barnicle
Wright Thompson on Ichiro In Winter @ESPN is one of the most remarkable pieces ever; truly extraordinary!
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