News
- US House Republicans move to gut ethics committee (Al Jazeera)
- House Republicans secretly vote to gut Office of Congressional Ethics by Judd Legum (ThinkProgress)
- Germany sees ‘overwhelming’ sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf (BBC)
- Controversy over black marching band’s decision to play Donald Trump’s inauguration (BBC)
- Trump: North Korea intercontinental missile ‘won’t happen’ (BBC)
- Leading Scientists Urge Donald Trump To Honor Iran Nuclear Deal by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump’s Attitude Toward Hacking Raises Concerns Among Cybersecurity Experts by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump spends New Year’s Eve with convicted felon, Dubai billionaire: “The taxes are coming down” by Brendan Gauthier (Salon)
- Elizabeth Warren blasts GOP for gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics: “Who thinks we have too many rules requiring government to act ethically?” by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Donald Trump Targets GM on Chevy Cruzes Imported From Mexico by John D. Stoll & Mike Colias (WSJ)
- Trump threatens General Motors with ‘big border tax’ over imported cars by AP (The Guardian)
- GOP Congress storms into Trump era by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- Trump taps Lighthizer for trade representative by Kyle Balluck (The Hill)
- Don’t bankrupt labor department’s mission, wages chief tells Trump nominee by Steven Greenhouse (The Guardian)
- Donald Trump’s Twitter crosshairs: These are the companies the president-elect has singled out by AP (Salon)
- GOP rep: Reining in ethics panel will ‘provide more accountability’ by Jessie Hellman (The Hill)
- Scarborough: GOP gutting ethics watchdog ‘horrific’ by Mark Hensch (The Hill)
- Male Manager Encourages Rockette Dancers To ‘Tolerate Intolerance’ by Sara Boboltz (Huffington Post)
- House Republicans Back Down on Bid to Gut Ethics Office by Eric Lipton and Matt Flegenheimer (NY Times)
- N.A.A.C.P. President Arrested During Sit-In at Office of Jeff Sessions by Liam Stack (NY Times)
- More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Session’s nomination as Attorney General by Sari Horwitz (The Washington Post)
- GOP approves new fines for livestreaming protests on House floor by Heather Caygle (Politico)
- House passes rules aimed at preventing lawmaker protests by Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
- White House expects more Guantanamo transfers (Al Jazeera)
- Trump Tweetwatch: N Korea nuclear plans ‘won’t happen’ (BBC)
- Prominent Trump Backers Sign Letter Pushing To End Conflicts Of Interest by Jim Zarroli (NPR)
- Bill and Hillary Clinton to attend Trump’s inauguration by Edward-Isaac Dovere (Politco)
- George W. Bush to attend Trump’s inauguration by Matthew Nussbaum (Politico)
- Obama still scared of Trump with nuclear codes by Edward-Isaac Dovere (Politico)
- Paul Ryan easily wins reelection as speaker of the House by John Bresnahan and Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Senate to vote on Obamacare repeal budget next week by Ben Weyl (Politico)
- Rockettes Told to ‘Tolerate Intolerance’ With Trump Inauguration Performance by Kory Grow (Rolling Stone)
- ‘Apprentice’ Contestant Omarosa Manigault Set to Join Trump White House by Jon Blistein (Rolling Stone)
- Ford scraps plan for $1.6 billion plant in Mexico after Trump criticism by Bernie Woodall and David Shepardson (Reuters)
- NAACP Activists Arrested for Sit-In Protesting Jeff Sessions’ AG Nomination for “Hostility” Toward Civil Rights by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Hey, a Bunch of People Called Their Representatives in Congress, and It Actually Worked! by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Hillary Clinton ‘delighted’ by Cuomo’s free-tuition plan by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Republican senators introduce bill to move US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem (The Guardian)
- Trump Says Intelligence Officials Delayed Briefing on Russian Hacking by Michael S. Schmidt (NY Times)
- Women’s March organizers predict 200,000 will attend anti-Trump protest by Daniel Strauss (Politico)
- The full transcript from the Trump transition team’s Tuesday call to reporters (Washington Post)
- Noam Chomsky: You can’t educate yourself by looking things up online by Alexandra Rosenmann (Salon)
- Julian Assange denies Russian hacking allegations, claims President Obama is trying to “delegitimize” Donald Trump by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump transition seeks info about undocumented immigrants by Ester Yu Hsi Lee (Think Progress)
- How Women Deal with Unwanted Pregnancies When Abortion Isn’t Legal by Garnet Henderson (Vice)
- Historically black college faces backlash over band’s plan to perform at Trump inauguration by Joe Heim (Washington Post)
Analysis
- A President Without an Administration by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump and the Russian election hack: Why is he resisting all the evidence? by Gary Legum (Salon)
- Can the Democrats Start from Scratch? by T.A. Frank (Vanity Fair)
- The 2018 midterms are nearly two years away. Start paying attention now. by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- The way Putin and Netanyahu are responding to Trump is really pretty unusual by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
- Blustering Toward Armageddon by Jeremi Suri (The American Prospect)
- Donald Trump, meet your toughest hurdle: the U.S. Senate by Paul Kane (Washington Post)
- Will Donald Trump’s election put America first and global conflict next? by Nouriel Roubini (The Guardian)
- Congress Returns. Republicans Are in Charge. 6 Things to Watch. by Emmarie Huetteman (NY Times)
- Donald Trump will take office with unusually few Americans confident he can do the job by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Is Trump’s Tariff Plan Constitutional? by Rebecca M. Kysar (NY Times)
- Donald Trump’s tweets on North Korea’s nukes have established his foreign policy priorities by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- The era of Republican overreach begins by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- What’s the Biggest Test Trump Will Face in 2017? (Politico)
- What is the Office of Congressional Ethics and why does it matter? by Kyle Cheney and John Bresnahan (Politico)
- A closer look at Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- The Era of Republican Overreach Begins by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- When America Last Had Two Presidents at One Time by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Trump Supporters on What Would Change Their Minds by Conor Freidersdotf (The Atlantic)
- Rough start for U.S. Republicans on first day of Trump-era Congress by Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell (Reuters)
- Trump and the Case of Congressional Ethics by Amy Davidson (New Yorker)
- The End of Democracy in Turkey by Dexter Filkins (New Yorker)
- Survey: New Congress dominated by Christians by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
- Bernie Sanders’s Free Tuition Dream Could Become a Reality in New York by Matt Phillips (Vice)
- Is It Possible to Cure Prejudice and Racism? by Js Rafaeli (Vice)
- Senate Republicans just introduced an Obamacare repeal plan Democrats can’t stop by Dylan Matthews (Vox)
- Milo Yiannopoulos’s book deal with Simon & Schuster, explained by Constance Grady (Vox)
- Why Trump’s pick for US trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, is a big deal by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
- The first director of the Office of Congressional Ethics explains why House Republicans targeted it by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- Trump just showed that he will throw House Republicans under the bus to make himself look good by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- The Republican Ethics Vote: What Happened? by Jonah Engel Bromwich (Ny Times)
- Check out our comprehensive 115th Congress guide, with election data, demographics, and member stats by Stephen Wolf (Daily KOS)
- Americans are getting more liberal because Democrats are getting more liberal by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- A more liberal nation: Fewer Americans are calling themselves conservative these days by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump didn’t kill House ethics changes but the media gave him credit anyway by Aaron Rupar (Think Progress)
- Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court Nomination Just Died With The Old Congress by Cristian Farias (Huffington Post)
- Welcome to the One-Party State by Tom Engelhardt (The Nation)
- Congressional Resistance to Trump Begins Now by Joan Walsh (The Nation)
- 3 Steps for Progressive Resistance and Rebuilding as the Trump Era Launches by Katrina Vanden Heuvel (The Nation)
- Activists Urge Racist Presidential Election Results Should Not Be Certified by Steven Rosenfeld (AlterNet)
Opinion
- WATCH: Positive black representation is “radical” by Peter Cooper (Salon)
- Democrats would be smart to embrace Keith Ellison as DNC chair by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Impeaching Trump by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
- House Republicans just did something very, very dumb by Chris Cillizza (Washington Post)
- Robert Reich: 15 Signs of Impending Tyranny Under President trump by Robert Reich (AlterNet)
- A Constitutional Revolution by Daniel Lazare (Jacobin)
- Why this conservative radio host quit after Trump’s victory by Sean Illing (Vox)
- Donald Trump’s disastrous example by Frank Bruni (The New York Times)
- Jeff Sessions says he handled these civil rights cases. He barely touched them. by J. Gerald Hebert, Joseph D. Rich, and William Yeomans (The Washington Post)
- Trump opponents find an ally: Republican incompetence. by Dana Milbank (The Washington Post)
- I’m a former health insurance CEO and this is what Obamacare repeal will do by J.B. Silvers (Marketwatch)
- If You’re in the Fight, Get Ready to Do the Work by Melissa Chadburn (Dame Magazine)
- Blue States Must Become Even Bluer by Matthew Pratt Guterl (New Republic)
- Donald Trump isn’t a fascist by Sheri Berman (Vox)
- Blue-state lawmakers want to keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns by Fenit Nirappil (Washington Post)
- Why I’m Proud to Be a Naturalized Citizen in 2017 by Chin Lu (Vice)
- It Did Happen Here: 5 Reasons the Impossible Became Reality in America by Tom Engelhardt (AlterNet)
Narratives, Languages
- WATCH: Personal narratives are crucial to our cultural survival by Kevin Carlin (Salon)
- Silent Spring Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 by Rachel Carson (The New Yorker)
- This Thesaurus Translates Between Liberals And Conservatives by Katharine Schwab (Co.Design)
- Partisan Thesaurus
- In Books We Trust: On Reading and Building Identities by A.K. Afferez (Ploughshares)
- Editor Roundtable: How Will a Trump Presidency Impact Literary Magazines? by Matt Broderick (Review Review)
Conservative & Libertarian Perspectives
- Democrats Defect from Obamacare by Peter Suderman (Reason.com)
- 5 Conservatives Liberals May Grow to Love During the Trump Era by Matt Welch & Joshua Swain (Reason.com)
- I Want a President Who Loves America: Pre-Inaugural Edition by Christopher Chantrill (American Thinker)
- A President Willing to Roll Up His Sleeves and Work by Brian C. Joondeph (American Thinker)
- House GOP Floods The Swamp by Rod Dreher (The American Conservative)
- 10 Things The Right Can Teach The Left About Accepting The Reality Of Trump by Mollie Hemingway (The Federalist)
- Obama’s Failed Presidency by Conrad Black (National Review)
- It’s Still a Mad, Mad California by Victor Davis Hanson (National Review)
- More Than 1,100 Law Professors Oppose Jeff Sessions; Nobody Should Care by David French (National Review)
- Dear Feminists, ‘Male Vulnerability’ Isn’t a Virtue by David French (National Review)
- Obamacare Repeal Through Reconciliation: What Goes Around, Comes Around by David French (National Review)
- Neoliberalism Vs. Medievalism by Rod Dreher (The American Conservative)
- I’m a Lifelong Democrat. Here Are 3 Reasons I Pulled the Lever for Trump. by Michael Reeb (The Daily Signal)
- Society Commentary The Administrative State Has Changed Our Culture. Trump Can Help Reverse Course. by Paul Moreno (Daily Signal)