News
- Trump opposition sets up blue-state headquarters by Gabriel Debenedetti (Politico)
- Trump’s Cabinet picks undergo grueling prep for hearings by Nancy Cook & Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
- Obama Thinks Obamacare Will Survive the Trump Administration by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- Many of Trump’s cabinet nominees have not been through ethics review by Associated Press (The Guardian)
- Something’s missing: Senate confirmation hearings will proceed without nominee background checks by Alli Joseph (Salon)
- Trump campaign manager: Trump’s 164 mentions of WikiLeaks stolen emails had an effect, but no impact on election by Josh Israel (ThinkProgress)
- Mitch McConnell ignoring cabinet confirmation procedure he demanded in 2009 by Josh Israel (ThinkProgress)
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Obama: I didn’t underestimate the threats from Vladimir Putin by David Nakamura (Washington Post)
- Trump accepts U.S. intelligence on Russia hacking, top aide says by Toni Clarke and Dustin Volz (Reuters)
- Trump election: US presidency is not a family business, says Obama (BBC)
- UK prime minister: Trump’s comments about groping women ‘unacceptable’ by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Chief of staff says Trump ‘is not denying Russia was behind hacking campaign’ by Alan Yuhas (The Guardian)
- McConnell: We won’t delay hearings by Seung Min Kim (Politico)
- Hillary Clinton made a rare public appearance at ‘The Color Purple’– and got three standing ovations by Cleeve R. Wooston Jr. (Washington Post)
- Ready or Not, Republicans Say Cabinet Hearings Will Begin Tuesday by Eric Lichtblau (NY Times)
- Artists and Critics Call for Culture ‘Strike’ on Inauguration Day by Andrew R. Chow (NY Times)
- Warren: No Confirmation Hearings for Trump Appointees Until They’re Vetted for Conflicts of Interest by David Ferguson (AlterNet)
- Watch Meryl Streep’s Fiery 2017 Golden Globes Speech by Ryan Reed (Rolling Stone)
- Meryl Streep’s Powerful, Anti-Trump Golden Globes Speech: Read the Whole Thing Here by Hilary Weaver (Vanity Fair)
Analysis
- How the race for ratings affected the election coverage (Al Jazeera)
- 19 Billion Reasons Why Rick Perry Can’t Wait to Give Your Money to Energy Companies by Alec MacGillis (Mother Jones)
- Using populist Trump against GOP Trump by David Akadjian (Daily Kos)
- The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind by Vinnie Rotondaro (Salon)
- The next wave of trans bathroom bills will be even worse: Inside Virginia’s nightmare anti-LGBT legislation by Nico Lang (Salon)
- Jeff Sessions, a Lifelong Outsider, Finds the Inside Track by Sharon LaFraniere & Matt Apuzzo (NY Times)
- Liberals must learn Tea Party tactics, say creators of Indivisible guide by Amber Jamieson (The Guardian)
- How to think critically about news quotes from unnamed “government sources” under trumpism by Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing)
- Jeff Sessions, the grim reaper of Alabama by John J. Donahue III and Max Schoening (The New York Times)
- Did Putin help elect Trump to restore $500 billion Exxon oil deal killed by sanctions by Joe Romm (ThinkProgress)
- America has just installed a democratically illegitimate democracy by Egberto Willies (Daily Kos)
- Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Want Trump Cabinet Picks Held To Standard He Set For Obama by Kim Bellware (Huffington Post)
- Want to Challenge Trump on Immigration? Try a Strategy from the Antebellum South by Anna O. Law (Huffington Post)
Opinion
- America was a ‘stan’ long before Trump by Andrew Mitrovica (Al Jazeera)
- Fascism and the Liberal Imagination by Carl Beijer (Jacobin)
- Russia Made the Difference in the Election by Lincoln Mitchell (Huffington Post)
- Martin Luther King Day With Trump by Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker)
- Why Democrats need to speak with one voice on Obamacare by Sher Watts Spooner (Daily Kos)
- What went wrong with the Democratic Party? Three big failures that led to the current debacle by Sean McElwee (Salon)
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You have been warned: “Trump Derangement Syndrome” will be a cudgel used to silence his critics by Chauncey DeVega (Salon)
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Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen by David Masciotra (Salon)
- Robert Reich: 12 ways to disrupt Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president by Robert Reich (Salon)
- A Lesson on How to Survive Trumpism—From the McCarthy Era by Ellen Schrecker (The Nation)
Conservative Perspectives
- Making (Me and) America Sick Again by Clarice Feldman (American Thinker)
- Clinton 2017 by Kevin D. Williamson (National Review)
- Holding Obamacare Repeal Hostage for Replace Guarantees Its Defeat by James Wallner (The Daily Signal)