News
- Obamacare Is First Item On Congress’ Chopping Block by Alison Kodjak (NPR)
- GOP Leaders Ready To Pivot From ‘Do-Nothing’ To Doing A Lot In 2017 by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
- As AG, Jeff Sessions will restore police, Dept. of Justice relationship by Justin Thompson (The Hill)
- Most Americans doubt Trump can handle presidential duties by Melanie Zanona (The Hill)
- Democrats take sides in race for DNC chair by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
- Claiming mandate, GOP Congress lays plans to propel sweeping conservative agenda by David Weigel (Washington Post)
- Here are the eight Trump Cabinet picks Democrats plan to target by Ed O’Keefe (Washington Post)
- Obama Plans Farewell Speech From Chicago by Michael S. Schmidt (NY Times)
- Trump victory spurs women to run for office across US: ‘Our time is coming’ by Joanna Walters (The Guardian)
- Republican-controlled Congress will start to wipe out Barack Obama’s legacy on very first day by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Black pols plan Trump resistance by Heather Caygle (Politico)
- Republicans’ plan to erase Obama legacy starts with chipping away at Obamacare by Julian Borger (The Guardian)
- No proof Russian hacking influenced U.S. election: Trump spokesman (Reuters)
- Trump leaning toward Georgia ex-governor for agriculture head: official (Reuters)
- This map shows whether the left or the right is in power in every European democracy by Stephen Wolf (Daily Kos)
- House GOP guts ethics panel by Deirdre Walsh and Daniella Diaz (CNN)
- With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office by Eric Lipton (NY Times)
- Congress opens with an ambitious Republican agenda for the Trump era by Lisa Mascaro (LA Times)
- Only one in five Americans buys a gun without a background check, survey finds by Kate Masters and Lois Beckett (The Guardian)
- House Republicans vote to rein in independent ethics office by Mike DeNonis and Karoun Demirjian (The Washington Post)
- Ethics advocates warn Trump that he needs to do more to divest from family business by Tom Hamburger (The Washington Post)
- Trump expected to pick Lighthizer for trade post (Politico)
- Outcry after Republicans vote to dismantle independent ethics body by Julian Borger (The Guardian)
- Rebecca Ferguson says she will play Trump inauguration if she can sing Strange Fruit by Amber Jamieson (The Guardian)
Analysis
- Mitch McConnell’s entire career has been about gaining power. What happens now that he has it? by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- Intellectuals For Trump by Kelefa Sanneh (The New Yorker)
- The Trump-Era Corporate Boycott by James Surowiecki (The New Yorker)
- Nine women who could be elected president by Tim Devaney (The Hill)
- Can we redeem “civic virtue” in the age of Donald Trump? John Adams might have understood what just happened by Andrew Burstein & Nancy Isenberg (Salon)
- By Degrees: Weak Federal Powers Could Limit Trump’s Climate-Policy Rollback by Justin Gillis (NY Times)
- Donald Trump makes top Republican fear environmental future by Roger Harrabin (BBC)
- This Is the Year Donald Trump Kills Net Neutrality by Klint Finley (Wired)
- The Republicans who could cause trouble for Donald Trump’s agenda by Emily Schultheis (CBS)
- On Washington: Republicans Stonewalled Obama. Now the Ball Is in Their Court. by Carl Hulse (NY Times)
- Donald Trump’s “carbon bubble” economy is bound to pop — the only question is how bad it will be by Paul Rosenberg (Salon)
- This is what it’s like to read fake news for two weeks by Simon van Zuylen-Wood (Politico)
- Trump trumps up the wrong technological threat by Tom Ackerman (Al Jazeera)
- Warming crushes global records again in 2016 by Joe Romm (Think Progress)
Opinion
- He’s Making a List by Rick Perlstein (New Republic)
- The Rich Already Have a UBI by Matt Bruenig (Jacobin)
- Republicans Have No Choice But to Repeal Obamacare — No Matter the Cost by Paul Waldman (The American Prospect)
- Rising Inequality Is Far From Inevitable by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
- How Dwindling Union Power Helped Usher In Trump by Alan Draper (The American Prospect)
- Could Trump’s Deregulation Agenda Open An Additional $70 Billion Solar Market in the US? by Joshua Pearce (Huffington Post)
- What Donald Trump Doesn’t Get About the Minimum Wage by the Editorial Board (New York Times)
- Now and then, who to blame? by Ahmed Al Sheikh (Al Jazeera)
- Donald Trump’s “carbon bubble” economy is bound to pop — the only question is how bad it will be by Paul Rosenberg (Salon)
- America becomes a Stan by Paul Krugman (The New York Times)
- Why corporations are helping Donald Trump lie about jobs (The New York Times)
- Yes, Donald Trump ‘lies’. A lot. And news organizations should say so. by Greg Sargent (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s inability to tolerate critics may be his biggest problem by Jennifer Rubin (The Washington Post)
- Trump and Conway’s transition of contradictions by Dana Milbank (The Washington Post)
- An unpopular president. An unpopular program. Republicans call it a ‘mandate’. by Paul Waldman (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s America is not the only ‘real’ America by Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
- Why Obamacare is unlikely to die a swift death by Kelsey Snell and Mike DeBonis (The Washington Post)
- Don’t Let Media and Society Normalize the Neofascists Coming to the White House by Juan Cole (AlterNet)
- Will Trump’s White House have computers? by Catherine Ramped (Washington Post)
Conservative Perspectives
- Obama is sabotaging Russian-American rapprochement by James Lewis (American Thinker)
- Defining American Conservatism by Robert Curry (American Thinker)
- Obama’s ‘Disdain of Military Force’ and Our Militarized Foreign Policy by Daniel Larison (The American Conservative)
- Obamacare Repeal Must Be on Day One: Congress Has No Excuses by Jim DeMint (The Daily Signal)
- The Media’s Dishonest Reporting on Firearms by Kevin D. Williamson (National Review)
- Reversing Obama’s Last-Minute Land Grab by Alexandra Desanctis (National Review)
- Is the First Amendment at a Crisis Point? by Jack Fowler (National Review)
Resistance
- March on Washington and beyond: How women are resisting Donald Trump by Ilana Novick (Salon)
- Why Are You Marching? by Annie H. Hartnett (Medium)