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Today’s must-reads are in an Empire State of Mind:
- The president is headed to Wall Street today to talk about the economy. What will he say? (WaPo)
- What does the public really think about the public option? (MoJo)
- Key GOP senator wants Obama to take public option “off the table.” (NYT)
- Related news from the department of Republicans wouldn’t think twice: “Massachusetts Democrats wary of Kennedy law change.” (Politico)
- What’s the deal with those “9/12” protests? (MoJo)
- Trade war! China retaliates against US tire tariff. (NYT)
- Things are really not going that well in Afghanistan. (WaPo)
- Kanye West interrupts President Obama (YouTube)
- Michael Kinsley: FREE JOE WILSON! (WaPo)
- Leon Wieseltier reviews Norman Podhoretz’s Why Are Jews Liberals? (NYT Book Review)
- What does it mean to have a million Twitter followers? (Mediaite)
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