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12 April 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News THIS ORGANIZATION WILL NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT BASIC DONATIONS - Our entire DNA is structured around Reader Support, public funding. It allows us total freedom to report objectively on issues of the greatest importance to the public we serve. Right now a crisis is mounting over lack of the most basic donations we need to run the site. We must confront this head-on. / We shall. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Stephen Eric Bronner | America's Syrian Challenge  Stephen Eric Bronner, Reader Supported News Bronner writes: "As President Donald Trump prepares his second reactive missile strike against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, whose chemical attack on Duma left 42 dead and dozens more wounded, a tragic seven-year civil war is on the verge of turning into an international conflagration - or worse." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a F...

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JUDICIAL ETHICS   |   NEWS Why Some Judicial Nominees Struggle When Asked About Brown v. Board of Education By Tony Mauro For some nominees, the concern is that by answering explicitly, they would be viewed as biased. For others, the decisions...  Read More

12 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News A PUZZLING - BUT VERY REAL - FUNDING CRISIS: We don’t know who you are because we do not track our community members. But you are here and you are the first group in the history of Reader Supported News to refuse to help with funding. It will not last. For those of you who choose not to contribute, please look elsewhere. For those who are serious about Reader Supported News, please take the funding appeals more seriously. If we say we need ‘$X’ to finish, then that’s what we need. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Kathleen Parker | We've Seen This Movie Before. It Ended With Impeachment.  Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post Parker writes: "It would seem but a matter of time before the president of the United States is asked a question under oath and gives a false answer. A lie, in other words. In the prequel, starring Bill Clinton, impeachment followe...

Paul Ryan’s party is over Paul Ryan's path to supporting Donald Trump BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: In an alternative universe, Paul Ryan is vice president. It’s his sixth year in the White House, and he is the presumptive Republican nominee to succeed Mitt Romney in 2020. In another intriguing counterfactual, Eric Cantor is speaker of the House and Ryan is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Romney’s struggles to secure the GOP nomination in 2012 over a historically weak field of has-beens and Cantor’s unexpected downfall in a 2014 primary both offered early warning signs of the potent forces that would propel Donald Trump to the presidency. Ryan, who not long ago was considered both the GOP’s ideological standard bearer and its future, has become a stranger of sorts in his own party.  He’s struggled to adjust. Now, at just 48, he’s stepping aside. He said last night that he does not plan to ever seek pu...