Confirmation Hearings
- Trump Treasury nominee Mnuchin to defend banking record to senators by David Lawder (Reuters)
- Foreclosure victims say Steve Mnuchin cheated them out of their homes by Kira Lener (ThinkProgress)
- Donald Trump Cabinet Picks Steven Mnuchin And Rick Perry Face Confirmation Hearings by Paige Lavender (Huffington Post)
- Steve Mnuchin, Treasury Nominee, Failed to Disclose $100 Million in Assets by Alan Rappeport (New York Times)
- Trump’s Treasury Secretary Nominee Steven Mnuchin Takes On OneWest Rescue, Fannie Mae, Taxes by Antoine Gara (Forbes)
- Republicans on Donald Trump’s rough week for Cabinet appointments: It’s Democrats’ fault by Taylor Link (Salon)
- What We Learned (And Didn’t) About Scott Pruitt At His Confirmation Hearing by Maggie Koerth-Baker (FiveThirtyEight)
- WATCH LIVE: Trump Treasury Nominee Defends Profiting Off Foreclosure Crisis by Yuki Noguchi (NPR)
- Energy Secretary Nominee Rick Perry Reportedly Didn’t Realize He’d Be In Charge of America’s Nukes by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
- Trump’s treasury secretary pick failed to disclose nearly $100m in assets by Dominic Rushe (The Guardian)
- Steve Mnuchin gets grilled for his off-shore holdings in Cayman Islands by Josh Israel (ThinkProgress)
- Bernie Sanders can’t get Rick Perry to admit that climate change is a crisis by Alexander C. Kaufman (Huffington Post)
- Rick Perry’s hearing was blindsided by a report that Trump plans to gut the energy department by Brad Plumer (Vox)
Inauguration
- Trump inauguration live stream: watch swearing-in speech online by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- Donald Trump inauguration: President-elect to be sworn into office with Abraham Lincoln’s Bible by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Will Trump deliver the unifying inaugural address that his aides keep promising? by James Hohmann (Washington Post)
- 3 things to watch for in Trump’s inauguration speech by Beverly Hallberg (The Hill)
- Who is performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration and who said no? by Helena Horton (Telegraph)
- The one metric that predicts which Democrats are most likely to skip Donald Trump’s inauguration by Amber Phillips (Washington Post)
- What time will Trump be president? A guide to the day (BBC)
- Here’s A Schedule Of Inauguration Events by Mollie Reilly (Huffington Post)
- Your Guide to Inauguration Day 2017 by Nicholas Fandos (NY Times)
- US prepares for inauguration amid Donald Trump protests (Al Jazeera)
- Girl Scouts CEO: Why Our Girls Are Marching In the Inaugural Parade by Sylvia Acevedo (Time)
- Trump inauguration: President-elect pledges unity at concert (BBC)
News
- LGBTQ activists threw a dance party outside Mike Pence’s house and the pictures are epic by Gianluca Mezzofiore (Mashable)
- Davos CEOs ‘go local’ on supply chain in Trump era by Martinne Geller and Ben Hirschler (Reuters)
- Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump by Zoë Schlanger (Wired)
- Trump’s Washington Hotel Draws Protesters — And Ethics Concerns by Jackie Northam (NPR)
- Unclear Role Of Trump’s Special Advisers Has Some Concerned by Jim Zarroli (NPR)
- Trump team prepares dramatic cuts by Alexander Bolton (The Hill)
- Warren: GOP ‘ignored’ ethical requirements for Cabinet picks by Paulina Firozi (The Hill)
- Trump team formally announces Perdue as agriculture pick (Reuters)
- As soon as he is inaugurated, Trump will move to clamp down on immigration by Brian Bennett (LA Times)
- Anti-Donald Trump protester ‘tries to set himself on fire’ outside Trump International Hotel in Washington DC by Tom Batchelor (Independent)
- At least one Democratic congressman is already preparing to impeach Donald Trump by Alexandra Rosenmann (Salon)
- Rick Perry expresses ‘regret’ for pledging to abolish Energy Department by Steven Mufson and Sean Sullivan (Washington Post)
- Trump keeping 50 Obama administration officials by Jordan Fabian and Ben Kamisar (The Hill)
- Trump reportedly wants to cut cultural programs that make up 0.02 percent of federal spending by Phillip Bump (Washington Post)
- Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts Will Go After the Arts by Lauren Messman (VICE)
- Donald Trump will adopt Heritage Foundation’s “skinny budget”: Arts, Violence against women funding to be cut by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
- Trump poised to take executive actions on first day in office by Steve Holland & Julia Edwards Ainsley (Reuters)
- Affordable Care Act made cancer screening more accessible for millions, study finds from University of Virginia Health System (ScienceDaily)
- Under Trump, approach to Civil Rights law is likely to change definitively by Matt Apuzzo (The New York Times)
- ‘He does not have a mandate’: Anti-Trump inauguration plans sow defiance by Ed Pilkington (the Guardian)
- The up-and-coming leaders of the Trump resistance in Washington by Lauren Gambino (The Guardian)
- Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue by Heather Hansman (The Guardian)
- Trump reportedly wants to cut cultural programs that make up 0.02 percent of federal spending by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- U.S. governors want Congress to keep funding health benefits for poor by Susan Cornwell (Reuters)
- Intercepted Russian communications part of inquiry into Trump Associates by Michael S. Schmidt, Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman, and Matt Apuzzo (The New York Times)
- Inauguration protests held at Trump Hotel and elsewhere by Marc Santora (The New York Times)
- Trump says private firms can fix Obamacare but they underpin the ACA by Maggie Fox (NBC News)
- Report: Trump has given up personal cellphone by Cyra Master (The Hill)
- Anonymous To Trump: ‘You Are Going To Regret The Next 4 Years’ by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
Analysis
- The seven biggest threats to Donald Trump’s presidency by James Reinl (Al Jazeera)
- From Obama to Trump: What’s next for Cuba? by Abraham Jimenez Enoa (Al Jazeera)
- The Left’s Divisions Will Be on Display at the Inauguration by Nicole Narea (New Republic)
- How Large Employer Health Plans Could Be Affected By Obamacare Overhaul by Michelle Andrews (NPR)
- Presidential Health Has Always Been a Well-Kept Secret by Marc Siegel (Slate)
- The Most Powerful Republican in America (and How He Paved the Way for Donald Trump) by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- Trump made a lot of promises about what he will do as president. We’ve documented 663 of them. by Ryan Koronowski (ThinkProgress)
- Everything you need to know about Donald Trump’s cabinet, in 5 charts by Niamh McIntyre (Independent)
- The House Democratic boycotts of Donald Trump’s inauguration, explained by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- Fascinating poll findings: Only white Americans like Trump by Kali Holloway (Salon)
- Report About Trump Plan for “Dramatic” Spending Cuts Involves Some Extremely Suspect Numbers by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Donald Trump Might Cut Violence Against Women Programs by Patrick Caldwell (Mother Jones)
- Palestine in the Age of Trump by Rashid Khalidi (The New Yorker)
- Americans seem more interested in inauguration protests than in the inauguration by Zachary Crockett (Vox)
- The real story of 2016 by Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight)
- Everything we know from Trump’s (limited) financial disclosures by Jeremy Venook (The Atlantic)
- Why Tom Price’s potential conflicts of interest matter? by Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)
- Why some democrats in Congress refuse to attend inauguration by Clare Foran (The Atlantic)
- At Trump Hotel in Washington, Champagne Toasts in an Ethical ‘Minefield’ by Eric Lipton and Suzanne Craig (NY Times)
- A Trump attack on the arts would be more than just symbolic by Philip Kennicott (Washington Post)
- For the first time since Ronald Reagan, the President’s Cabinet won’t include a Latino by Ed O’Keefe (The Washington Post)
- The America Donald Trump Is Inheriting, By The Numbers by Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
- Here’s What Donald Trump’s Arts and Humanities Cuts Would Cost America by Laura Bradley (Vanity Fair)
- This is how American health care kills people by Ryan Cooper (The Week)
Opinion
- The Moral Improbability of the Trump Campaign by John Paul Rollert (LARB)
- Dear Donald Trump: A letter from Cuba by Elaine Diaz Rodriguez (Al Jazeera)
- Why Republicans Can’t Come Up with an Obamacare Replacement by Harold Meyerson (The American Prospect)
- Trump’s sexism is trickling down. Let’s refuse to accept it by Jessica Valenti (The Guardian)
- Democracy Reigns and I Still March by Li Cohen (Huffington Post)
- Yes, science is political by Elizabeth Lopatto (Verge)
- We mustn’t let a superpower turn its back on rationality (New Scientist)
- Donald Trump’s Presidency Will Be a Fiasco for Donald Trump by William Greider (The Nation)
- Donald Trump Has No Mandate—Sad! by John Nichols (The Nation)
- Trump administration plans to abolish nation endowments for the arts and the humanities will usher in new ‘dark ages’ in America (Pen America)
- KING: Republicans can never say they care about family values again for embracing Trump and shunning the Obamas by Shaun King (NY Daily News)
- Targeting the arts is the laziest, stupidest way to pretend to cut the budget by Alyssa Rosenberg (Washington Post)
- Are you not alarmed? by Charles Blow (The New York Times)
- Missing Barack Obama already by Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
- Op-Ed: Why Sheriff Jim McDonnell’s Promise To Immigrants Wasn’t Enough by Melissa Chadburn & Amelia Gray (Laist)
- What’s at Stake if Trump Kills the National Endowment for the Arts by Marc Hogan (Pitchfork)
- Without a path from protest to power, the Women’s March will end up like Occupy by Micah White (The Guardian)
Resources / Resistance / Protests
- If You Want to Run for Office (and You Should), Start With These Resources by Osita Nwanevu (Slate)
- Who’s Behind the Women’s March? by Eliza Newlin Carney (The American Prospect)
- The Women’s March on Washington has spread to 57 countries around the globe by Sarah Wildman (Vox)
- See someone being harassed? Here’s how you can help. by Victoria Fleischer (ThinkProgress)
- Protests, anti-Trump events offer inauguration alternative by Lisa Hagen & Sara Sirota (The Hill)
- Inside the Anti-Trump Comics Collection ‘Resist!’ by Ilana Masad (VICE)
- How To Make The Perfect Protest Sign by Meg Miller (Co.Design)
- The Somehow Controversial Women’s March on Washington by Jia Tolentino (New Yorker)
- Activism in the age of Trump: meet the leaders of the grassroots resistance by Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
- Women’s March on Washington schedule: time, lineup, and what to expect by Emily Crockett (Vox)
- 5 ways you can protest Donald Trump’s presidency by Feliks Garcia (Independent)
- Women’s March expected to be largest gathering of people with disabilities in US history by Liz Plank (Vox)
- Riveting Moments From Donald Trump Inauguration Protests—Updated by Julia Lurig & Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)