News
- Bernie’s giant Trump tweet gets hijacked by your memes (BBC)
- Battle With Trump Puts GM in Tough Spot by Mike Colias (WSJ)
- Barack Obama vows to save Obamacare (Al Jazeera)
- U.S. intelligence chiefs answer questions on Russian hacking of the 2016 election by Brian Bennett (LA Times)
- Obama To The American People: ‘Our Best Days Are Still Ahead’ by Camila Domonoske (NPR)
- Trump to face sworn deposition in Trump Tower by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- With one bill, Republicans fast track plan to undo Obama regulations by Lisa Lambert (Reuters)
- Trump presses Democrats on Obamacare, urges bipartisan fix (Reuters)
- Trump to choose businessman Hagerty as next U.S. envoy to Japan: source (Reuters)
- Brexit leader Farage to attend Trump inauguration by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- At least 50 Donald Trump electors were illegally seated as Electoral College members: report by Steven Rosenfeld (Salon)
- Russia looms large as Senate hears testimony on cyberthreats by Matt Flegenheimer and Scott Shane (The New York Times)
- Top U.S. intelligence official: Russia meddled in 2016 election through hacking and spreading of propaganda by
- Obamacare fight will include push to defund planned parenthood, Ryan says (The Guardian)
- U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win by Adam Entous and Greg Miller (Washington Post)
- In break with precedent, Obama envoys are denied extensions past inauguration day by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (The New York Times)
- Democratic lawmakers considering challenge to Trump’s electoral college victory by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Trump sits for sworn deposition in Trump Tower by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Russian hacking claims: Biden tells Trump to ‘grow up’ (BBC News)
- Senate Dems introduce Bill to block Trump Muslim registry by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites Issue of Hate Crimes Against Whites by Joe Sexton (ProPublica)
- Four People Were Just Charged with a Hate Crime Over the Chicago Torture Video by Mike Pearl (Vice)
- Trump picks former U.S. Senator Coats as director of national intelligence by Steve Holland (Reuters)
- Former CIA Head Quits Trump Transition Team As Intelligence Standoff Intensifies Over Russia by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump said he had $315 million in debt. He left out $1.5 billion. by Judd Legum (ThinkProgress)
- Trump to cede millions of high-wage jobs to China by Joe Romm (ThinkProgress)
- St. Louis Art Museum Faces Backlash Over Artwork’s Role in Trump Inauguration by Joshua Barone (NY Times)
- Contractors File Liens Against Trump D.C. Hotel, Claiming They Were Stiffed Out Of $5M by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
Analysis
- Will Blue-Collar Whites Change Their Minds About Obamacare? by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
- The Battle for Obamacare Begins Anew by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- Registered Voters Who Stayed Home Probably Cost Clinton The Election by Harry Enten (FiveThirtyEight)
- When It Comes To Russia, So Far Donald Trump Mostly Stands Alone by Mara Liasson (NPR)
- The GOP’s quickly learning that governing is difficult — as is working with Donald Trump by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Repeal and delay — the Republicans’ plan to end Obamacare — explained by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
- How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail by Michael Shermer (Scientific American)
- Republicans are about to feel Obama’s pain on Obamacare — and he knows it by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Republicans: you have to pass our health care plan to find out what’s in it by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- The biggest environmental battles facing the Trump presidency by Mazin Sidahmed, Nicole Puglise, and Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
- How nostalgia for white Christian America drove so many Americans to vote for Trump by Sarah Pulliam Bailey (The Washington Post)
- Fox news chooses sexist to replace woman who faced sexism by Erik Wemple (The Washington Post)
- Trump Said ‘Torture Works.’ An Echo Is Feared Worldwide. by James Risen and Sheri Fink (NY Times)
- As We Enter Age of Trumponomics, Five Charts That Highlight Persistent Worker Woes by Justin Miller (The American Prospect)
- The myth about smart black kids and “acting white” that won’t die by Jeneé Desmond-Harris (Vox)
- Why We Can Expect a Virtual Media Blackout of Protests Against Trump’s Inauguration by Alexandra Rosenmann (AlterNet)
- Activists Are Frustrated That Democrats Won’t Challenge Trump’s Legitimacy During Electoral College Ratification by Steven Rosenfeld (AlterNet)
- Inside How Trump Won the White Working Class by Ken Stern (Vanity Fair)
- 9 Things People Get Wrong About Planned Parenthood by Dayna Evans (The Cut)
Opinion
- Trump’s War on the Intelligence Community Is All About Ego by Jeet Heer (New Republic)
- Being Trans, and an Immigrant, Under the Trump Administration by Meredith Talusan (The Atlantic)
- Don’t Forget That Megyn Kelly Is a Racial Demagogue by Jamelle Bouie (Slate)
- Why the Press Is “Totally Unprepared” to Cover Trump by James Warren (Vanity Fair)
- Americans — not just liberals — have a religious literacy problem by Alan Levinovitz (Vox)
- America: don’t be polite in the face of demagoguery by Jessica Valenti (The Guardian)
- Americans can spot election meddling because they’ve been doing it for years by Owen Jones (The Guardian)
- The center has fallen, and white nationalism is filling the vacuum by Ned Resnikoff (ThinkProgress)
- It was the racism, stupid: White working-class “economic anxiety” is a zombie idea that needs to die by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
- Robert Reich: No Democrat should go near Trump’s inauguration, even former presidents by Janet Allon (Salon)
- The healthcare plan Trump voters really want by Drew Altman (The New York Times)
- The G.O.P. healthcare hoax by Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
- Five reasons the McCain cyberwarfare hearing should worry Trump by Jennifer Rubin (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s healthcare plan has already been tried. It was a disaster. by Jim McDermott (The Washington Post)
- The Anti-Inauguration by Charles M. Blow (NY Times)
- Why I’m Obligated to Be as Gay as Possible in Trump’s America by Jeff Leavell (Vice)
Sources
- ‘We’ve shown that we can’: Obama’s last letter to the American people – full text by Barack Obama (The Guardian)
#TBT
- The Art of Dividing the World Into Winners and Losers by Deanne Stillman (LitHub)
Conservative Perspectives
- Obama’s Disastrous Legacy by James Arlandson (American Thinker)
- Sessions Is No Racist: Take Black Democrats’ Word for It by Quin Hillyer (National Review)
- Donald Trump Won’t Unite Us, And That’s Great News by Rachel Lu (The Federalist)
- For Conservatives, Donald Trump Shifts The Window Of What’s Possible by Daniel Oliver (The Federalist)