News
- Trump defends China’s alleged cover-up of coronavirus victims: ‘You don’t want the world to go crazy’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
- Iran: President Trump Is Wrong to Think Tehran Regime Will Collapse by David Rising / AP (TIME)
- Trump looks to rev up his base at Daytona 500 by Kevin Freking (AP)
- Trump Administration Deploys Elite Border Agents to Sanctuary Cities by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Report: Barr Protected Turkish Bank From Prosecution to Appease Erdogan by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
- Trump Sparks Outrage by Quoting Emerson to Refer to Himself as “the King” by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Trump holds lavish fundraiser at Palm Beach billionaire’s home by Meridith Mcgraw (Politico)
Analysis
- William Barr: how the attorney general became Trump’s enabler-in-chief by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
- Another case Trump meddled in. Another unorthodox intervention from Barr. by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
Opinion
- Can we stop tiptoeing around the fact that Trump is behaving like a dictator? by Lucian K. Truscott IV (Salon)
- This is how democracy dies — in full view of a public that couldn’t care less by Max Boot (Washington. Post)
- Trump seems to confirm campaign of ‘grievance, persecution and resentment by Martin Pengally (The Guardian)