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Bernie Sanders Decides to Play Rough This Time 
Bernie Sanders. (photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
Gideon Resnick, The Daily Beast
Resnick writes: "The senator is playing to win, drawing sharp contrasts with his opponents far more quickly and aggressively than he did four years ago."
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Sen. Patrick Leahy questions attorney General William Barr. (photo: Fox News)
Sen. Patrick Leahy questions attorney General William Barr. (photo: Fox News)

House Democrats to Hold Contempt Vote Wednesday After Barr Misses Deadline to Provide Complete Mueller Report
Felicia Sonmez and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee said they will vote Wednesday on whether to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress after Barr missed a deadline to produce a complete version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report."
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (photo: Bryan Cox/Getty Images)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (photo: Bryan Cox/Getty Images)

Trump's Pick to Lead ICE Supports Border Wall, Sending Migrants to Sanctuary Cities
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "In a Sunday morning tweet, President Donald Trump announced that he will appoint Mark Morgan, former head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), to serve as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
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Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. (image: Saul Loeb/AFP/Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Xavier Zarracina/Vox)
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. (image: Saul Loeb/AFP/Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Xavier Zarracina/Vox)



The 20-Year Argument Between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren Over Bankruptcy, Explained
Matthew Yglesias, Vox
Yglesias writes: "Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the first Democratic 2020 hopeful to take a direct swing at former Vice President Joe Biden since he got into the race, accusing him of being 'on the side of the credit companies' in a fight that launched her political career a decade ago."
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Johnella Larose, cofounder of the Sogorea Te Land Trust, kneels behind a model of a traditional arbor. The land trust plans to construct one on land shared with Planting Justice in east Oakland. (photo: Deonna Anderson/Yes Magazine)
Johnella Larose, cofounder of the Sogorea Te Land Trust, kneels behind a model of a traditional arbor. The land trust plans to construct one on land shared with Planting Justice in east Oakland. (photo: Deonna Anderson/Yes Magazine)

These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area
Deonna Anderson, YES! Magazine
Anderson writes: "On a cool morning in December, Johnella LaRose stands in a 2-acre field in east Oakland, overseeing a group of volunteers preparing a section of this land that the Sogorea Te Land Trust stewards for the arrival of a shipping container. LaRose is dressed to work, wearing jeans and boots that look broken in."
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The Arab Spring was a series of protests, uprisings, and rebellions that spread across the Middle East in late 2010 and early 2011. (photo: Hani Mohammed/AP)
The Arab Spring was a series of protests, uprisings, and rebellions that spread across the Middle East in late 2010 and early 2011. (photo: Hani Mohammed/AP)

Rebecca Gordon | Spring Stirrings and Misgivings: Of Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Gordon writes: "If we don't want to end up like so many other countries, replacing one autocrat with another, we have to find a way to hold the one we now have accountable for his high crimes and misdemeanors."
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Forest clearance in Indonesia. Scientists have warned of the impact of deforestation on animals. (photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace)
Forest clearance in Indonesia. Scientists have warned of the impact of deforestation on animals. (photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace)

Human Society Under Urgent Threat From Loss of Earth's Natural Life
Jonathan Watts, Guardian UK
Watts writes: "Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth's natural life-support systems, the world's leading scientists have warned, as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken."
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