State of the Union
- State of the Union: Trump’s ‘highest’ audience boast debunked (BBC)
- Trump takes brave stance against math in claims his State of the Union made ratings history by Rachel Leah (Salon)
- Trump incorrectly calls his SOTU address most watched in history by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Trump Claims His SOTU Had The Highest Ratings In History. It Didn’t by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
- Trump’s first State of the Union: A list of promises made — and broken by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
FBI Memo / Russia Investigation
- Donald Trump Is Counting on the Nunes Memo to Make Mueller’s Russia Investigation Go Away by Jay Willis (GQ)
- While You Are Tweeting About the Nunes Memo, Russia Is Plotting Its Midterms Attack by David Corn (Mother Jones)
- Mueller’s Reputation In Washington Is ‘Stunningly Bipartisan,’ Journalist Says by Terry Gross (NPR)
- White House works to release Republican memo despite FBI warning by Steve Holland, Warren Strobel (Reuters)
- Nunes memo: Democrats call for removal of intelligence committee chairman for ‘undermining Trump-Russia probe’ by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
- The 9 biggest questions about the Nunes memo, answered by Zack Beauchamp, Alex Ward (Vox)
- Opinion: How Did the FBI Become the Counterculture? by Mary C. Curtis (Roll Call)
- ABA president: Special counsel must be unfettered by threats and intimidation tactics by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- With memo, Devin Nunes, once a scourge of the hard right, becomes its hero by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Matthew Rosenberg (The NY Times)
- Nunes memo centers on a 40-year-old law written to prevent surveillance abuses by Ellen Nakashima (The Washington Post)
- “Unprecedented”: 9 historians on why Trump’s war with the FBI is so stunning by Sean Illing (Vox)
- Opinion: In Trump vs. the F.B.I., Trump Will Lose by Tim Weiner (NY Times)
- Analysis: How the Nunes memo became the latest political football in the Russia investigation by Matthew Nussbaum (Politico)
News
- The G.O.P. Tax Cut Is Draining the Treasury Even Faster Than Expected by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- The Republican tax bill is going to cost America dearly by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump urges compromise as Republicans wrestle with immigration by Steve Holland, Amanda Becker (Reuters)
- Trump administration strips consumer watchdog office of enforcement powers in lending discrimination cases by Renae Merle (Washington Post)
- No. 3 U.S. diplomat quits in latest departure under Trump by Lesley Wroughten (Reuters)
- CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak by Lena H. Sun (Washington Post)
- With DACA in limbo, teachers protected by the program gird for the worst by Erica L. Green (The NY Times)
- Justice Dept. Office to Make Legal Aid More Accessible Is Quietly Closed by Katie Benner (NY Times)
Analysis
- Trump’s All-Out Attack on the Rule of Law by Bob Dreyfuss (The Nation)
- About 25% of Trump’s Re-election Spending Continues to Go to Lawyers by Kenneth P. Vogel and Rachel Shorey (NY Times)
- For every woman in political office in the United States, there are three men. by Darla Cameron and Kim Soften (Washington Post)
- Republicans give up on Obamacare repeal by Burgess Everett (Politico)
Opinion
- The Republican Tax Bill Could Turn Texas Blue by Will Wilkinson (NY Times)
- Trump’s talk of GOP ‘unity’ a myth by Burgess Everett and Rachel Bade (Politico)