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**The Daily 202’s Big Idea**

Start your day with the news you need to know and insights you can’t get anywhere else. Every weekday morning, The Washington Post brings you an insider’s view of the biggest stories of the moment.

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The corrosion of support for First Amendment principles started before Trump. He’s supercharged it. Oct 23, 2017

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Donald Trump celebrated Sunday that his campaign to delegitimize the free press is working.

Obama and Bush deliver calls to action against Trumpism Oct 20, 2017

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On Thursday, both former presidents used major speeches to repudiate President Trump’s brand of politics and approach to the world.

What Jeff Sessions wouldn’t say was more revealing than what he did Oct 19, 2017

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Jeff Sessions was the personification of a hostile witness whenever a Democratic lawmaker questioned him during a contentious five-hour oversight hearing on Wednesday.

Ex-CIA officers are running for Congress as Democrats Oct 18, 2017

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The spooks have come in from the cold, and they’re running for Congress.

Hawks worry about the lack of American resolve to confront North Korea Oct 17, 2017

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President Trump’s bellicose rhetoric toward North Korea is making it harder to marshal domestic support for potential United States intervention.

Trump’s attacks on Senate Republicans are paying political dividends Oct 16, 2017

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It was striking how little criticism there was of Trump at the Koch retreat in Manhattan last Thursday and Friday. Meanwhile, the anger directed toward moderate Republicans in the Senate was palpable.

Trump now owns the broken health-care system Oct 13, 2017

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Remember the Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it.

Stepped-up attacks on the press reflect Trump’s bunker mentality Oct 12, 2017

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The president's latest comments add fresh data points to the cementing narrative that the brooding president has become increasingly isolated and angry.

Foreign intelligence agencies might be using your anti-virus software against you Oct 11, 2017

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Several worrisome stories popped overnight that underscore the growing vulnerability of the United States to hacking and cyberespionage by foreign governments, specifically Russia and North Korea.

Final Virginia governor’s debate spotlights Democratic problems in rural America Oct 10, 2017

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Democrats have a real problem in rural America, and it was on display in the third and final Virginia governor’s debate last night.