Facebook Playbook for Dec. 15, 2014 ARTICLE OF THE DAY -- EVAN OSNOS in The New Yorker, Profiles: IN THE LAND OF THE POSSIBLE -- Samantha Power [U.S. ambassador to the U.N.] has the Presidents ear. To what end? ... Can Power reconcile her ardent human-rights interventionism with the composite calculus that must guide American policy? (online: The Samantha Power Doctrine) nyr.kr/1wSoRZM Good Monday morning. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is keeping herself in the 2016 conversation, repeatedly telling NPRs Steve Inskeep in a phoner for todays Morning Edition: I am not running for president - even after he noted she was speaking in the present tense. DATA OF THE DAY - $1tn cost of longest US war [Afghanistan], by FTs Geoff Dyer and Chloe Sorvino: 80 per cent of that spending on the Afghanistan conflict has taken place during the presidency of Barack Obama. on.ft/1zV6ORL SCOOP DU JOUR - Top staffers at RGA, DGA form consulting firm, by James Hohmann politico.pro/1zV21jj JOSH HOLMES is named as Fox News Sundays Power Player of the Week - the man behind Mitch McConnells Senate takeover. Video: bit.ly/1zen4gB DAVID ROGERS in Politico Magazine, The Democratic Party Debates Its Soul: Four days in December hint at deeper divides to come politi.co/16nRL8m TODD S. PURDUM, Obamas big Clinton moment: [H]istory suggests that the short-term partisan pain [from fighting with your base] usually produces more lasting political gain. politi.co/1wvDC2D Playbook Classic: politico/playbook Have a great week, Mike and Daniel
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