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06 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News Micah Lee and Alice Speri | Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning's Home With Guns Drawn - in a "Wellness Check"  Micah Lee and Alice Speri, The Intercept Excerpt: "Welfare checks like this, usually prompted by calls placed to 911 by concerned friends or family, too often end with police harming - or even killing - the person they were dispatched to check on." READ MORE Robert Mueller. (photo: Getty Images) If Mueller Is Ever Going to Flip Manafort, Now Seems Like the Time Margaret Hartmann, New York Magazine Hartmann writes: "It's long been believed that Mueller is approaching the Russia probe like the prosecution of a crime family, pressuring underlings to flip on the boss." READ MORE Agents take a woman into custody at Corso's Flower and Garden Center in Castalia, Ohio, on Tuesday. (photo: John Minchillo/AP) 'Utter Chaos': ICE Arrests 114 Work...

06 April 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: Mort Rosenblum | A Note to the Most Dangerous Man on Earth  Mort Rosenblum, Reader Supported News Rosenblum writes: "You've taken pains to explain to me why you support Donald Trump. So I say this with all respect: You are the most dangerous man on earth." READ MORE ear B.H., I know you’re no deplorable. You were kind when I visited Idaho in the ’80s and saw the fruits of your successful life. You’ve taken pains to explain to me why you support Donald Trump. So I say this with all respect: You are the most dangerous man on earth. Not actually, which is why I use the initials of a hapless character in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”: Benito Hoover. Uncork some Snake River Valley red, gaze upon your splendid ranch, and consider this note meant as news analysis, not insult. You told me Trump wasn’t perfect, “just 100 times better than Hillary,” and sent me a link to a l...

By  James Hohmann   January 30 Charles Koch: ‘Unite with anybody to do right’   BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—The  Koch network  will spend around  $400 million on    politics and policy  this  election cycle , but that’s only part of a grander effort to fundamentally transform America. Making a long-term play, the billionaire industrialist Charles Koch and his like-minded friends on the right are increasingly focused on melding the minds of the next generation by making massive, targeted investments in both K-12 and higher education. Changing the education system as we know it was a central focus of a three-day donor seminar that wrapped up late last night at a resort here in the desert outside Palm Springs. “We’ve made more progress in the last five years than I had in the last 50,” Koch told donors during a cocktail reception. “The capabilitie...