News
- Donald Trump backs Julian Assange over Russia hacking claim (BBC)
- Trump knows U.S. intelligence agencies are wrong on Russia hacking, because Julian Assange said so by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- Obama Makes A Last-Ditch Effort For His Signature Health Care Law by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- Desperate Democrats scramble for an Obamacare strategy by Jennifer Haberkorn and Rachana Pradhan (Politico)
- Rex Tillerson Cuts All Ties With Exxon Mobil To Avoid Conflicts (Huffington Post)
- Trump pick for secretary of state reaches $180 million payout deal with Exxon by Anne Gearan (Washington Post)
- Anticipating Clashes With Trump, California Puts Eric Holder On Retainer (Huffington Post)
- GOP rep giving Trump credit for Republicans’ reversal on ethics office by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Come up with a real health care plan, biggest U.S. doctors group tells the GOP by Tara Culp-Ressler (ThinkProgress)
- Keith Ellison Vows To Ban Lobbyist Contributions To The DNC by Zach Carter & Daniel Marans (Huffington Post)
- Trump gets the facts wrong, but homicides in some cities are up after a long decline by Matt Pearce (LA Times)
- Obama and Pence face off on healthcare by Mazin Sidahmed (The Guardian)
- The Obamacare repeal battle: President Obama, Mike Pence to deliver different strategy sessions by Alan Fram (Salon)
- NAACP President Among 6 Arrested After Staging Sit-In Against Sen. Jeff Sessions by Melissa Chan (Time)
- China Warns Donald Trump Not to ‘Escalate’ North Korea Situation With Erratic Tweets by Charlie Campbell (Time)
- According to Donald Trump, WikiLeaks is more trustworthy than U.S. intelligence by Marcus Gilmer (Mashable)
- Poll: Voters in Trump states want Democrats to keep him in check by David Weigel (Washington Post)
- Trump voices new doubts about Russian efforts to sway U.S. vote (Reuters)
- Bernie Sanders tells Rachel Maddow: Republicans don’t have a mandate by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Ivanka Trump is working with lawmakers on a completely ineffective childcare plan by Bryce Covert (ThinkProgress)
- Bernie Just Printed a Giant Trump Tweet and Brought It to the Senate Floor by Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
- Bill O’Reilly Blames ‘Reverse McCarthyism’ For Celebs Shunning Donald Trump’s Inauguration by Ron Dicker (Huffington Post)
- Civil rights activists arrested for protest over Jeff Sessions as Attorney General by Camila Domonoske (NPR)
- Mike Pence promises Obamacare repeal but shares few details on alternative by David Smith and Lauren Gambino (The Guardian)
- Trump intensifies ‘insanely dangerous’ feud with intel agencies by Steve Benen (MSNBC)
- Trump appears to side with Assange over Intelligence Agencies’ conclusions by Scott Shane, Matt Flegenheimer, and Julie Hirschfeld David (The New York Times)
- Trump Reportedly Now Wants to Cut Back the CIA Because He Thinks Intelligence Is Too Politicized by Eliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump alleges delay in his briefing on ‘so-called’ Russian hacking; U.S. official says their wasn’t one by John Wagner and Greg Miller (The Washington Post)
- Mitch McConnell Says Americans Won’t Tolerate Democrats Blocking Supreme Court Nominations by Cristian Farias (Huffington Post)
- Wall Street attorney Jay Clayton nominated for SEC chairman (The Guardian)
- Republicans’ Obamacare repeal plan will add $9 trillion to national debt, but that may not bother them by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Rockettes boss donated to Trump: report by Mark Hensch (The Hill)
- Chicago Police Investigate Live-Streamed Torture (CBS Chicago)
- Trump announces 11 more White House hires by Matthew Nussbaum (Politico)
- House passes bill to overturn ‘midnight’ regulations en masse by Lydia Wheeler (The Hill)
- Donald Trump Nominates Wall Street Lawyer to Head S.E.C. by Leslie Picker (NY Times)
Analysis
- The Ideological Reasons Why Democrats Have Neglected Local Politics by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
- How to Stop a Trump Supreme Court Nominee by Jeffrey Toobin (The New Yorker)
- What Is the Fate of the First Amendment in the Digital Age? by Jameel Jaffer (The Nation)
- The Republicans Who Want Trump to Fight Climate Change by Kate Aronoff (The Atlantic)
- 15 charts that show how Obamacare works now — and how Republicans would overhaul it by Sarah Klliff (Vox)
- Here’s what optimistic liberals get wrong about Trump and climate change by Brad Plumer (Vox)
- Trump’s trade agenda takes the GOP back a century by Timothy B. Lee (Vox)
- The Senate’s complicated plan to repeal Obamacare, explained by an expert on Congress by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
- The Parliamentary Trick That Could Obliterate Obamacare by Robert Pear (NY Times)
- Donald Trump is undeniably the enemy — but people who voted for him might not be by Conor Lynch (Salon)
- What do we actually know about the Russia-Assange-hacking allegations? by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- ‘Repeal and delay’ won’t prevent Obamacare repeal chaos by Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)
- The real reason Ford abandoned its plant in Mexico has little to do with Donald Trump by Danielle Paquette (The Washington Post)
- Why is Trump so reluctant to accept claims of Russian hacking by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Just 18 Percent of Americans Approve of the Congress Paul Ryan Leads by John Nichols (The Nation)
- Study: racism and sexism predict support for Trump much more than economic dissatisfaction by German Lopez (Vox)
- One fact about Trump that actually breaks through with Trump voters by Laurel Raymond (ThinkProgress)
Opinion
- Fact-Checking Won’t Save Us From Fake News by Brooke Borel (FiveThirtyEight)
- The Republican Party’s Corruption Will Bring Them Down—Again by Brian Buetler (New Republic)
- How to Protect Diversity During Trump’s Presidency by Richard D. Kahlenberg (New Republic)
- The “Generation KKK” Fiasco by Alexis Okeowo (The New Yorker)
- How Donald Trump Will Make America White Again by Julianne Hing (The Nation)
- Publishing Milo Yiannopoulos’ book is wrong. My magazine is fighting back by Adam Morgan (The Guardian)
- Does impeachment begin now? The case for building the end of Trump’s presidency before it even starts by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- NAACP President Gives 5 Reasons Why Jeff Sessions Should Not Be Attorney General by Alexandra Rosenmann (AlterNet)
- Donald Trump loves taking credit. The media isn’t sure how much to give. by Callum Borchers (Washington Post)
- Read Deval Patrick’s scathing indictment against Jeff Sessions for Attorney General by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- The American auto industry does not need Trump to stage-manage it by Charles Lane (The Washington Post)
- No, Feminism Isn’t Over — But It Needs to Change by Adele M. Stan (The American Prospect)
- Donald Trump’s Alarmingly Trumpian Transition by John Cassidy (The New Yorker)
- The Confirmation Process Is an Opportunity to Expose Trump’s Big Lie (The Nation)
- How “collective narcissism” helps explain the election of Trump by Brian Resnick (Vox)
Conservative & Libertarian Perspectives
- The Trump Years by John Stossel (Reason.com)
- ‘Election Hacking’ or Voter Education? by Jacob Sullum (Reason.com)
- Shut Down America’s Refugee Programs Before They Turn Us Into Germany by James Simpson (The Federalist)
- Because Of Trump, The Left Suddenly Cares About Conscience Rights Again by Jordan Lorence (The Federalist)
- Russia Isn’t Our Friend, But That Doesn’t Make The Left’s Conspiracy Theories True by David Harsanyi (The Federalist)
- For Me, Obamacare Means Paying All Your Own Bills And Never Getting The Doctor You Need by M.G. Oprea (The Federalist)
- Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis officially propose term limits amendment by Sara Gonales (The Blaze)
- For Peace in Palestine, Start from Scratch by Mario Loyola (National Review)
- The 115th Congress Should Get to Work Restraining the Powers of the Presidency by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (National Review)
- Conservatives Should Think Twice before Supporting Jeff Sessions by Michael Tanner (National Review)
- Women’s Issues in the Trump Era by Michael Bargo, Jr. (American Thinker)
- They Clapped while They Took Away Jerusalem from the Jews by Rabbi Aryeh Spero (American Thinker)
- Trump Is Right about the Russian Hacking Case by Stephen D. Bryen and Shoshana Bryen (American Thinker)
- Liberals Think They Can Alter Reality. They’re Wrong. by Walter E. Williams (The Daily Signal)
- Don’t Let the Media Confuse You: Obamacare Is a Policy Failure by Alyene Senger (The Daily Signal)