The Morning Dispatch: Withdrawal Mayhem

Plus, John Bolton teases possible testimony.

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Happy Tuesday! Today’s the big day—or at least the medium day! The wires have all been plugged in, various nodes connected—we have a website! You’ll notice it’s much less … website-y than many of the outlets you may be familiar with. That’s by design! It’s meant to be simple and unfancy.

What we’re lacking in pop-up videos and toenail fungus ads we hope to make up for in seasoned and thoughtful reporting and analysis. If you like what you see, we hope you’ll subscribe here.

Quick Hits: What You Need to Know

  • The delicate diplomatic situation in Iraq devolved into chaos Monday after the White House sent a letter to the government of Iraq seeming to say that U.S. troops would soon be withdrawing from the country—then backtracked, saying the letter was a poorly worded draft that had been released in error.  (See below for more.)

  • Former 2020 candidate Julian Castro, who dropped out of the race last week, endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president Monday, saying the Massachusetts senator is “unafraid to fight like hell to make sure America’s promise will be there for everyone.” 

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    Michael

    How about adding an editorial cartoonist to the staff?

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    Mrs. Marion Coatsworth-Hay

    Good morning -- congratulations on the launch. Such a great core of people whose opinions on current events I both value and trust. Thank you. More dogs, but far, far more Gracie and Ralph, please. Cats are a magnet for female subscribers! ;) Just kidding.

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    Robert Ernst

    Congratulations on getting the website up and running. Also, thanks for the daily dose of great journalism. All I ask is that you continue to keep it honest and factual.

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    David Burke

    Outstanding all! As a 3rd generation Bawstn Bleedn’friggin hawt librl. It is so refreshing to read a conservative slant on the events of our day that do not have The Donald Pom-Poms, the smugness of Rich Lowry nor the sack cloth of David Brooks. Congratulations and carry on! More doggies is fine as well Jonah.

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    Jenny

    I pick more ads--especially if they are for political candidates! I don't see enough of those everywhere else in the world, which is too bad. I mean, how else am I supposed to figure out who to vote for?

    Congratulations on the launch, folks!

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  6. Jade Allen

    I *guess* you could run ads of Jonah's dogs? I'd support that.

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    CynthiaW

    No ads, no autoplay. Also, if articles are going to include pictures at the top, the pictures should be *immediately* relevant to the content, and all pictures should be clearly captioned. For example, in this morning's newsletter, there is a picture of an American general who is not clearly identified.

    I love Jonah's pets and Lucianne Goldberg's cats. I think they should have their own section, not be mixed with news or opinion content.

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      Kenton A. Hoover

      +1 on captions

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    Barry Cope

    You should enable whatever feature is necessary to allow links to articles from the home page to be opened in new tabs (like with a right-click ). More of Jonah's dogs would also be very good.

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      Kenton A. Hoover

      (cmd/ctrl-click works fine to put it in a separate tab on Safari and Chrome)

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        Barry Cope

        That doesn’t work on a PC using Firefox, Edge, IE, or Chrome on my computer. The links to the Newsletters on the right side all have the right-click options to open in a new tab. The other article links should have the same options.

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    Jason

    Second on the ads, autoplay. Less so on the dogs.

    Concerning re the shuffle/churn time in determining the origin of the letter given the temperature of the crisis - clarifying those types of issues could actually be a good use of a Presidential tweet.

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    Mr. "B"

    No ads and no auto play. More of Jonah's dogs would be great though. Just saying. :-)

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