News
- Meryl Streep uses Golden Globes to excoriate Trump (Al Jazeera)
- Donald Trump calls Meryl Streep ‘overrated’ after Golden Globes speech (BBC)
- North Korea threatens missile launch anytime, blames US (Al Jazeera)
- Trump’s choices for top Cabinet posts face big tests this week by Steve Holland (Reuters)
- Chinese state tabloid warns Trump, end one China policy and China will take revenge by Brenda Goh & J.R. Wu (Reuters)
- Fiat Chrysler ups the ante as automakers respond to Trump by Bernie Woodall & David Shepardson (Reuters)
- Trump Wants to Allow Concealed Weapons Everywhere—This Bill Would Do That by Bryan Schatz (Mother Jones)
- California mogul with Mideast ties guides Trump’s inaugural by Michael Finnegan (LA Times)
- Senate Democrats To Hold Late-Night Talkathon Against Obamacare Repeal by Laura Barron-Lopez (Huffington Post)
- Elizabeth Warren Plans To Introduce Bill To Resolve Trump’s Conflicts of Interest by Paul Blumenthal (Huffington Post)
- Artists, activists, and progressives are seeking joy in the wake of this election by Jessica Goldstein (ThinkProgress)
- Kushner to be named ‘senior adviser’ to Trump: report by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- WATCH: Michael Moore calls for “100 days of resistance” starting with Donald Trump’s inauguration by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump Just Dismissed the People in Charge of Maintaining Our Nuclear Arsenal by Ashley Feinberg (Gizmodo)
- Jared Kushner to be named a senior white house advisor to Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush (The New York Times)
- U.S. to Blacklist 5 Russians, a Close Putin Aide Among Them by Mark Landler (NY Times)
- Russian Billionaires, Including Some Tied To Putin, Have Gained $29 Billion Since Trump’s Election by Dan Alexander (Forbes)
- Conway: Judge Trump by what’s in his heart, not what comes out of his mouth by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Paul, Trump upend GOP’s Obamacare repeal plans by Burgess Everett (Politico)
- The conflicts of interest Donald Trump recently canceled added up to less than $400,000 by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Donald Trump had nothing to do with our new US jobs, Fiat Chrysler reveals by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- After Trump’s election, the death of Ayatollah Rafsanjani is grim news for Iran’s nuclear deal by Kim Sengupta (Independent)
- Schumer sends McConnell back his own 2009 letter on nominations by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- Schumer threatens Trump Cabinet confirmation delays by Elana Schor (Politico)
- Abbas warns Trump not to move US embassy to Jerusalem (Al Jazeera)
- Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, named top adviser (BBC)
- Dakota Access Pipeline Supporter Becomes Chair of Senate Indian Affairs Committee by Zak Cheney Rice (Time)
- Democrats want 9/11-style special commission to probe Russia (Reuters)
- Democrats are holding a late-night pep rally for Obamacare by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Plays Hardball With Her Wealth by Noam Scheiber (NY Times)
- Senate delays confirmation hearing for Trump education pick DeVos (Washington Post)
- Condoleezza Rice backs Sessions for AG: report by Mark Hensch (The Hill)
- 89-Year-Old Inauguration Announcer Fired by Trump: “I Got the Shock of My Life” by Yohanna Desta (Vanity Fair)
- Breaking: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Will Resign from Their Jobs, Sell Assets by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair)
- Booker to testify against fellow senator Sessions in unprecedented move (CNN)
- Senate Democrats head into five hours of Obamacare talkathon by Joan McCarter (Daily Kos)
- Obamacare Repeal Might Have Just Died Tonight by Jonathan Chait (NY Mag)
- A Troll Outside Trump Tower Is Helping To Pick Your Next Government by Ryan Mac (Forbes)
Analysis
- Stop Saying Trump’s Win Had Nothing To Do With Economics by Ben Casselman (FiveThirtyEight)
- Why Trump can’t ‘simply’ divest from his business by Katy O’Donnell & Lorraine Woellert (Politico)
- Republicans Think Capitol Hill’s Rules Are for Suckers by Brian Beutler (New Republic)
- The Republicans Trying to Slow Down Obamacare Repeal by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- How Democrats Can Defeat the Repeal of Obamacare by Paul Waldman (The American Prospect)
- The Folly of Trumponomics by Simon Johnson (The American Prospect)
- What Trump can accomplish on day one by Jordan Fabian & Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
- What the G.O.P. Really Thinks of Trump by T.A. Frank (Vanity Fair)
- Colonialism isn’t over: 5 reasons why the DAPL fight will continue in 2017 by Kyle Powys Whyte (Salon)
- The Voter Fraud Case Jeff Sessions Lost and Can’t Escape by Emily Bazelon (NY Times)
- What to Watch For in Washington: Confirmation Hearings and Trump Meeting the Press by Matt Flegenheiner and Thomas Kaplan (NY Times)
- Bernie Sanders: Trump has to rescue Obamacare or admit he’s a liar by Bernie Sanders (The Washington Post)
- Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing to shine light on history of racism claims by Jon Swain and Oliver Laughland (The Guardian)
- Meryl Streep has hit on star-struck Trump’s biggest weakness by Steve Rose (The Guardian)
- How Exxon, under Rex Tillerson, won Iraqi oil fields and nearly lost Iraq by Missy Ryan and Steven Mufson (The Washington Post)
- On the Russia scandal, Trump’s lies start to pile up by Steve been (MSNBC)
- Who’s The Real Jeff Sessions? Two Hearings In 1986 Show A Conflicting Picture by Nina Totenberg (NPR)
- Donald Trump Is “an Existential Threat to Public Schools” by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
- An Ocean Apart, But United in Concerns About Hate Crimes by Patrick G. Lee (ProPublica)
- Is It Normal to Cram So Many Confirmation Hearings Into One Week? by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- ACLU Head on Bracing for Trump and America’s ‘Enormous Civil Liberties Crisis’ by Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone)
- What Jeff Sessions’s Role in Prosecuting the Klan Reveals About His Civil-Rights Record by Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump’s conflicts aren’t going away: The president-elect has taken few steps to disentangle from his businesses by Julie Bykowicz & Chad Day (Salon)
- Jared Kushner will sell many of his assets, but ethics lawyers worry by Susanne Craig and Maggie Haberman
- Death to the Gerrymander by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
Opinion
- Small hands big missiles: Trump’s dangerous adolescence by Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
- Obama’s Farewell Address Should Sound the Alarm About Trump by Graham Vyse (New Republic)
- Milo Yiannopoulos peddles hate. It’s not censorship to refuse to publish it by Sam Sedgman (The Guardian)
- My immigrant family achieved the American dream. Then I started to question it. by Amanda Machado (Vox)
- Robert Reich: 3 big reasons Republicans can’t replace Obamacare by Robert Reich (Salon)
- The Crisis of Liberalism, Part I by Henry Wismayer (LARB)
- Donald Trump and the Tainted Presidency by Charles M. Blow (NY Times)
- Kellyanne Conway wants people to look into Donald Trump’s “heart,” not “what’s come out of his mouth” by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Meryl Streep called out Trump’s bullying and lies. Trump just hit back– with still more lies. by Greg Sargent (The Washington Post)
- In the Trump era, artists can be Jimmy Fallon or Donald Glover. Choose wisely. by Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post)
- We were ethics lawyers for Bush and Obama. Trump’s cabinet hearings must be delayed by Norman L. Eisen and Richard W. Painter (The Guardian)
- James Comey Is Democrats’ Best Hope for Stopping Trump by Jeet Heer (New Republic)
- Jeff Sessions Could Return Criminal Justice to the Jim Crow Era by Ari Berman (The Nation)
- Trump Could Be the Most Hostile American President the UN Has Ever Faced by Barbara Crossette (The Nation)
- One thing you can do before Trump takes the oath of office by Judd Legum (ThinkProgress)
- Trump, trapped in his lies, keeps lying. Sad! by Lawrence Downes (The New York Times)
- Trump Has to Rescue Obamacare or Admit He’s a Liar by Bernie Sanders (AlterNet)
- For Anti-Trump Protesters: Lessons from the First White House Protests for Women’s Suffrage, 100 Years Ago by Peter Dreier (AlterNet)
Conservative Perspectives
- The New Obamacare Dilemma by Robert Verbruggen (The American Conservative)
- 8 Questions To Ask Betsy DeVos At Her Confirmation Hearing by Joy Pullmann (The Federalist)
- Now That He’s Elected President, Trump Needs To Delete His Twitter Account by Kyle Sammin (The Federalist)
- Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Need Our Taxes by Ian Tuttle (National Review)
- Republicans, Resist the Temptation to Ideological Nostalgia by Fred Bauer (National Review)
- The Democrats are the Party of Big Money by Richard Winchester (American Thinker)
- The Right Way to Repeal Obamacare by Sen. Mike Lee (The Daily Signal)
- The Senate’s Role in Confirming Trump’s Cabinet, Explained by Rachel del Guidice & Ken McIntyre (The Daily Signal)
- Rand Paul offers his own budget plan that will balance it in just five years by Brandon Morse (The Blaze)
- Many of Trump’s supporters are pleading with him to stop tweeting by Carlos Garcia (The Blaze)
- Meryl Streep’s Speech Is Why the Left Wins by David French (National Review)
Resistance
- Resistance alert! Make the Senate phones ring off the hook in opposition to Jeff Sessions for AG by Jen Hayden (Daily Kos)