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As long as your takes are hot, as long as your thinking is “correct,” as long as you believe in the wisdom of a central government organizing everyone else’s lives, you are IN, baby. Case in point: Sam Stein. Throughout the Obama era, Stein was a shooting star who personified everything that is so shallow and awful about our media. A perpetually young, leftwing, over-educated metrosexual who is always perfectly prepared to tell the Morning Joe Mafia exactly what they want to hear, Stein never rocks the leftwing establishment boat.

As long as your takes are hot, as long as your thinking is “correct,” as long as you believe in the wisdom of a central government organizing everyone else’s lives, you are IN, baby. Case in point: Sam Stein. Throughout the Obama era, Stein was a shooting star who personified everything that is so shallow and awful about our media. A perpetually young, leftwing, over-educated metrosexual who is always perfectly prepared to tell the Morning Joe Mafia exactly what they want to hear, Stein never rocks the leftwing establishment boat.

President Donald Trump's controversial former chief strategist Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which defers deportation of unauthorized residents who were brought to the United States as children. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," Bannon said Catholic bishops went public with their disapproval only because the church has an ulterior motive, which he described as encouraging illegal immigration. "The Catholic Church has been terrible about this," he said in a clip of the interview that aired today on

“Chuck and Nancy.” The way President Donald Trump talked about the meeting with congressional leadership Wednesday, it would be easy to forget Republicans were even there. It’s too early to tell whether Trump’s willingness to strike a deal with Democrats to fund the government in the short-term was a sign of a new strategy to work across the aisle, or simply an impulsive decision from a president already frustrated with his own party. But his move did not happen in a vacuum.

The five former living US presidents have banded together to launch "One America Appeal," an initiative that will raise funds for organizations assisting victims of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, George H.W. Bush's office announced Thursday. Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush. NFL's season opening game. Another PSA will launch this weekend. "People are hurting down here," George W. Bush says in Thursday's PSA, "but as one Texan put it, 'we've got more love in Texas than water.'" His father, George H.W.

After a five-hour meeting with congressional investigators, personally dictated the first statement his son gave in response to questions about the June 2016 meeting. Sources said Thursday the president’s son today tried to distance himself from the White House response and his father’s involvement. Sources also said Trump Jr.

During a five-hour meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee staffers today, Donald Trump Jr. denied any wrongdoing in his meeting with a Russian lawyer during his father's presidential campaign, according to his prepared remarks, which were obtained by ABC News. In his statement, Trump Jr. said he took the meeting with the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya — on June 9, 2016, more than a month after Donald Trump Sr.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories (Bloomberg) -- The Senate voted to extend the U.S. debt limit as part of a $15.25 billion bill providing funds for Hurricane Harvey victims under a deal struck by President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders that roiled Republican lawmakers. The 80-17 vote Thursday would suspend the debt limit and keep the government open through Dec. 8 and finance aid to flood victims in Texas and other parts of the Gulf coast.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The vote on Thursday will suspend the debt limit, keep the government open through Dec.

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