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Snapshot

What We’re Reading

What Is She Doing?: In her quest to understand Omarosa Manigault’s job in the Trump White House, reporter Elaina Plott shadowed the former reality-TV star. She didn’t learn much. (The Daily Beast)

‘One of the Most Secretive, Dark States’: An investigation by The Kansas City Star found several examples of the Kansas state government’s decreasing transparency. (Laura Bauer, Judy L. Thomas, and Max Londberg)

Hmmm: One of Donald Trump’s judicial nominees is married to a senior lawyer in the White House. He did not disclose that fact on a Senate questionnaire requiring him to list potential conflicts of interest. (Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times)

Relics of the Third Reich: Here’s how a cache of Nazi propaganda—including four watercolor paintings by Adolf Hitler—ended up in a warehouse in Woodbridge, Virginia. (Andrew Beaujon, Washingtonian)

Roll Tide: George Will argues that Democrat Doug Jones’s hopes to beat Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race rest entirely with “traditional white Democrats (scarce), Republicans capable of chagrin (scarcer), and African Americans.” (National Review)

Visualized

What’s the Plan?: Under the Republican tax plan, most Americans would see a tax cut in 2018, but over time those cuts will get smaller for everyone except the richest 1 percent of earners. (Alicia Parlapiano and Jasmine C. Lee, The New York Times)

Trump Abroad: Check out the most memorable photos from President Trump’s 12-day trip across Asia. (Alan Taylor, The Atlantic)

Question of the Week

In this dispatch from Seattle, The Atlantic’s Olga Khazan describes the city’s plans to open a new safe-injection facility for heroin addicts in an attempt to make it safer for them to quit. But critics say it actually makes it easier for users to stay addicted.

Do you think this is an effective strategy for addressing the country’s escalating opioid epidemic? Do you see it as necessary—or as enabling?

Share your response here, and we'll feature a few in Friday’s Politics & Policy Daily.

-Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey)

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