Government Shutdown / Border Wall
- It’s Official: The Partial Government Shutdown Is The Longest In U.S. History by Arnie Seipel (NPR)
- The Longest Government Shutdown In History, No Longer — How 1995 Changed Everything by Don Gonyea (NPR)
- US partial government shutdown becomes longest ever (BBC)
- Why Hasn’t Trump Folded? by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- On The Navajo Nation, 5,000 Workers Dependent On A Federal Paycheck by Laurel Morales (NPR)
- Congratulations, Trump! This is Now the Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- As shutdown becomes longest in U.S. history, federal employees sue over working for no pay by Jessica M. Goldstein (ThinkProgress)
- President Trump Thinks the Shutdown Will Give Him His Wall. Here’s How Presidents Have Fared in Past Shutdowns by Katie Reilly (TIME)
- $20 million in donations for border wall to be refunded or shifted to non-profit effort by AP (Politico)
- The astonishing effects of the shutdown, in 8 charts by Javier Zarracina, Li Zhou (Vox)
- What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency by Elizabeth Goiten (Atlantic)
- Analysis: Record shutdown is a massive Washington failure by Stephen Collinson (CNN)
- Analysis: In the White House waiting’: Inside Trump’s defiance on the longest shutdown ever by Robert Coast, Josh Dawsey, Philip Rucker, and Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)
FBI Investigation / Trump-Russia
- The FBI Reportedly Investigated Whether Trump Was a Russian Agent, and Trump Is Furious by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
- Trump: I have been tougher on Russia that any other president by John Bowden (The Hill)
- Comey Firing Reportedly Led FBI to Investigate Whether Trump Was Working for Russia by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Trump lashes out at FBI after report he was investigated over national security by Brent D. Griffiths (Politico)
- FBI Investigated Whether President Trump Worked for Russia: Report by AP (TIME)
- The F.B.I. Investigated Whether Trump Was Secretly Working for Russia by Kevin Fitzpatrick (Vanity Fair)
- Trump Russia: FBI probed whether Trump was working for Moscow – NYT (BBC)
- Trump claims he has been ‘tougher than any other president’ on Russia in angry response to FBI investigation report by Conrad Duncan (Independent)
- Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades by Sean Illing (Vox)
- As the Shutdown Drags On, the Trump-Russia Story Is Back at Center Stage by John Cassidy (New Yorker)
- How the Times Reported the F.B.I. Counterintelligence Investigation Into President Trump: An Interview with the Journalist Adam Goldman by Isaac Chotiner (The New Yorker)
- Trump tweets his fury after bombshell report adds drama to Russia inquiry by David Smith (The Guardian)
- Analysis: Why the FBI might’ve thought Trump could be working for Russia by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration by Greg Miller (Washington Post)
- Trump reportedly hid records of his conversations with Putin from his own administration by Michelle Mark (Business Insider)
- Analysis: How the big new New York Times scoop changes our understanding of the Trump-Russia probe by Andrew ProkopJan (Vox)
Other News
- U.S. starts withdrawing supplies, but not troops, from Syria by AP (Politico)
- Trump Has Entered The Lying Stratosphere, Says Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Ivanka Trump ‘being considered as new World Bank chief’ by Chiara Giordano (Independent)
- Afghan interpreter who helped US troops ‘detained and threatened with deportation’ by border authorities by Alex Horton (Independent)
- ‘Ridiculous’: report Ivanka Trump could lead World Bank meets scorn by Jamiles Lartey (The Guardian)
- Pompeo Says The U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Syria Is Just A ‘Tactical Change’ by Sasha Ingber (NPR)
Analysis
- Climate Change Denial by Sara Gorman, Ph.D., MPH, and Jack M. Gorman, MD (Psychology Today)