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From The Reporter’s Notebook
The Democratic primary is starting to heat up, as polls in Iowa and New Hampshire show Bernie Sanders performing strongly. TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal notes that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has stepped up attacks on Sanders in response, launching criticisms of his proposals for a single-payer health care system. Sanders defended himself from the attacks this week, accusing Clinton of flip-flopping and using “Karl Rove tactics.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “In my book, oil and gas is steadfastly marching to irrelevancy. These numbers really state that case well. Also, I lost the link, but I saw in the Washington Post Tech section that the Budget Deal of 2015 between Ryan and Pelosi had one of the five most technologically influential things in it from 2015 because the deal they cut to export shale oil for fracking states will, in the Post’s estimate, double solar output in the US by 2020 due to extending the recession era tax cuts and subsidies for the solar industry.”
Related: There are now more solar jobs in America than oil jobs.
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What We’re Reading
100,000 NYC schoolchildren face airport-style security screening every day. (ProPublica)
A State of the Union for the age of polarization. (The New Yorker)
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