Impeachment
- Trump Lawyers Ready For Final Day Of President’s Impeachment Defense by Bobby Allyn (NPR)
- Bolton Book Reportedly Details Concerns That Trump Was Doing “Personal Favors” for Foreign Leaders by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Bolton Warned Barr About Trump’s Cozy Ties to Dictators, Book Claims by Paul Blest (VICE)
- Half Of Americans Think Impeachment Is A Bad Use Of Congress’s Time by Laura Bronner, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump lawyers to wrap up defense in Senate impeachment trial by Susan Heavey, Susan Cornwell (Reuters)
- Impeachment trial live updates: McConnell tells Republican senators he does not have the votes to block witnesses by John Wagner, Elise Viebeck, Colby Itkowitz, and Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)
- Opinion: Trump lawyer Sekulow makes a strong case for hearing from Bolton by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Trump’s Defense Against Subpoenas Makes No Legal Sense by Frank O. Bowman III (The Atlantic)
- Analysis: Due-Process Rights Don’t Apply in an Impeachment Trial by Greg Weiner (The Atlantic)
- Opinion: Trump’s Impeachment Lawyers: Yeah, He Did It, So What? by Bess Lewvin (Vanity Fair)
- Fact Check: Trump defense wrong about FBI investigation by Eric Tucker (AP)
- Opinion: Why We Can Probably Believe John Bolton by Fred Kaplan (Slate)
- Trump’s Lawyers Argue That John Bolton’s Account of a Thing He Saw Is an “Unsourced Allegation” by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Trump impeachment: McConnell ‘doesn’t have votes’ to block new witnesses testifying in Senate trial by Alex Woodward (Independent)
- Analysis: Anatomy of a ‘smear’: How John Bolton became a target of the pro-Trump Internet by Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post)
Middle East Peace Plan
- Donald Trump to publish delayed Middle East ‘peace plan’ by Oliver Holmes (The Guardian)
- Trump’s US-Israeli plan announcement: Why now? by Mersiha Gadzo (Al Jazeera)
- Trump leaps into Middle East fray with peace plan that Palestinians denounce by Steve Holland, Dan Williams, and Arshad Mohammed (Reuters)
- Opinion: Jared Kushner, architect of Trump’s Middle East peace plan, still doesn’t get it by Alex Ward (Vox)
- Trump releases long-awaited Middle-East peace plan (BBC)
- Trump unveils long-shot Middle East peace plan with path to Palestinian statehood by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump unveils his Middle East plan amid Palestinian rejections (Al Jazeera)
- Trump’s plan offers best chance for Palestinian state: Kushner (Al Jazeera)
- Trump’s Middle East plan denies Palestinians right of return by Sara Khairat (Al Jazeera)
Other News
- NPR reporter barred from Mike Pompeo trip after tense interview by Kate Ng (Independent)
- Trump Says Weed Makes You Dumb, Leaked Audio Reveals by Greg Walters (VICE)
- Trump Praises Pompeo for Cursing Out Female Reporter: “You Did a Good Job on Her” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- U.S. deficit to eclipse $1 trillion in 2020, CBO says, as fiscal imbalance continues to widen by Jeff Stein (Washington Post)
- Federal deficit to top $1 trillion under Trump by Caitlin Emma (Politico)
- Immigration judges are leaving because the job is ‘unbearable,’ union says by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- Leaked audio reveals that Trump didn’t know semitrucks run on diesel — yet the industry is among Trump’s most ardent supporters by Rachel Premack (Business Insider)
Opinion
- What Trump and Netanyahu just unveiled was a PR campaign, not a peace plan by Max Boot (Washington Post)
- “You’re Talking About Excluding Millions” by Mary Harris (Slate)
- Pompeo Called Me a ‘Liar.’ That’s Not What Bothers Me. by Mary Louise Kelly (NY Times)