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  THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: The government has charged Snowden under the Espionage Act, a World War One-era law that doesn’t distinguish between selling secrets to foreign governments and giving them to journalists working in the public interest. If Snowden were to be tried under the charges he faces, any argument that his actions benefited the public would be inadmissible in court. The Pardon Snowden campaign will work through the end of Obama’s administration to make the case that Snowden’s act of whistleblowing benefited the United States and enriched democratic debate worldwide, and we’re asking citizens to write to […]

  DANIEL ELLSBERG [PICTURED, BELOW RIGHT]: I have a very strong feeling that Nixon and Kissinger are similar personalities and feel a great affinity and attraction. Each of them may be the other’s best friend, at least during business hours. Kissinger – and surely Nixon, too – has a very strong ideological belief in the efficacy and legitimacy of the threat of violence as a tool of power and as a way of “establishing world order.” One can guess – and I’m neither a psychiatrist nor a producer of official psychological profiles – that Nixon and Kissinger are people who […]

  CNN: Despite a night of disappointing losses, Bernie Sanders vowed Tuesday night to continue his campaign and to take his fight all the way to the convention in Philadelphia. While Hillary Clinton secured the delegates she needed Monday to become the presumptive presidential nominee, Sanders channeled the defiance of his supporters as he took the stage shortly before 11 p.m. PT. The crowd was on edge — angry with the press and worried that he would give in to the growing pressure from Democratic leaders to bow out of the race. But it wasn’t long before it became clear […]

  NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Bernie Sanders prevailed over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in the Oregon primary, according to The Associated Press, while Mrs. Clinton claimed victory in a tight race in Kentucky, the day’s other contest. Mrs. Clinton raced around Kentucky in the two days before the primary, hoping to fend off Mr. Sanders in a state that she won easily in 2008. In unofficial results late Tuesday night, Mrs. Clinton edged Mr. Sanders by about 1,900 votes, or less than half a percentage point, with all counties reporting. The Associated Press had not declared a winner by midnight. […]

INDIE WIRE: Spike Lee, an avowed Bernie Sanders supporter, has made his endorsement of the Vermont senator’s presidential campaign even more official than it already was with a new ad starring Harry Belafonte, Susan Sarandon, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming and others. The five-minute piece comes a few days ahead of Tuesday’s primary in New York, which is among the most significant contests remaining in the ongoing race between Sanders and Hillary Clinton. MORE

  UNCUT: A new Wisconsin poll shows Bernie Sanders widening his lead over Hillary Clinton ahead of the state’s April 5 primary. The poll, conducted by Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, is seen as the gold standard of polls in the Badger State. Today’s poll results show Sanders is ahead of Clinton by 4.3 points (49.2-44.9), with less than a week to go before Wisconsin voters cast their ballots. MORE NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent Wednesday crisscrossing Wisconsin, hosting events in three cities and arguing that his stances on trade deals, campaign finance and foreign policy […]

  POLITICO: Bernie Sanders’ winning streak – which includes blowout victories over Hillary Clinton in three states on Saturday – has helped him narrow the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. But if Sanders is going to surpass Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates to this summer’s convention in Philadelphia, he’ll need to build on that momentum and win by wide margins in the types of states where Clinton has prevailed thus far – and Sanders currently trails in most of them. A POLITICO analysis underscores Sanders’ challenge: Even after runaway victories in Idaho, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and Washington this week […]

  NEW YORK TIMES: Of all the ways Donald Trump has shocked the political system, one of the most significant is how he wins primary after primary with one of the smallest campaign budgets. He still doesn’t have a super PAC. He skimped on ground organization and field offices. Most important, he spent less on television advertising — typically the single biggest expenditure for a campaign — than any other major candidate, according to an analysis by SMG Delta, a firm that tracks television advertising. But Mr. Trump is hardly absent from the airwaves. Like all candidates, he benefits from […]

Artwork by DonkeyHotey BY CHARLIE TAYLOR This past week, Phawker was privileged to speak to Senator Cory Booker, the junior United States Senator (Dem.) from New Jersey and former Mayor of Newark. A former Rhodes scholar and graduate of Yale Law School, Senator Booker is a young, telegenic and charismatic politician, known for his dedication to community service and mastery of social media. He will be at the Philadelphia Free Library tonight (Tuesday March 1st) discussing his new book, United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good, in which he describes his history, both personal and political, […]

  THE GUARDIAN: The Koch brothers, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and BP’s former boss Tony Hayward have had their mugshots drawn by a group of inmates as part of an art project entitled “Captured: people in prison drawing people who should be”. None of the executives have been convicted of a crime, but the two New York City-based activists behind Captured have listed the “offenses” they claim the companies the executives oversaw perpetrated alongside the actual crime of the convict who drew them. Goldman Sachs, for example, is accused of “mass deception” and “stealing taxpayers money”. Last month the […]