Refugee & Muslim Ban
- The Four Wrong Numbers Behind Trump’s Immigration Ban by Andrew MGill (The Atlantic)
- Tech companies hate Trump’s immigration order. But much of corporate America doesn’t care. by Timothy B. Lee (Vox)
- CNN producer sues over Trump refugee order by Joe Concha (The Hill)
- Elderly woman dies after Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ stops her returning from Iraq for medical treatment by May Bulman (Independent)
- Six-year-old Syrian boy with cancer may not receive essential US treatment due to Donald Trump ‘Muslim ban’ by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- ‘The world is protesting Trump’s immigration ban, why aren’t we?’ PTI asks in NA by Fahad Chaudhry (DAWN)
- Israeli Jews born in travel ban countries exempted, says US embassy (DAWN)
- Trump’s immigration order lays out a way to turn the temporary ban into a permanent one by Dara Lind (Vox)
- U.S. Travel Ban: Officials admit poor communication but defend policy (BBC)
- ‘Witch hunt’ fears as US may outlaw Muslim Brotherhood by Shafik Mandhai (Al Jazeera)
- Challenges to Trump’s immigration orders spread to more U.S. states by Scott Malone and Dan Levine (Reuters)
- Federal judge in L.A. orders a temporary halt to Trump’s travel ban by Joel Rubin (The LA Times)
- CNN editor sues after being detained at Atlanta airport under Trump travel ban by Amber Jamieson (The Guardian)
- Mayor of Madrid compares Donald Trump to Hitler over immigration ban by Lucy Pasha-Robinson (Independent UK)
- Khizr Khan, Gold Star Father, warns of anti-Trump boycott after travel ban by Sabrina Siddiqui (The Guardian)
- White House Warns Iran But Plans No Immediate New Action by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- A New State Department Order to Revoke Visas Could Have Far-Reaching Effects by Justin Elliott (Propublica)
- 3 Ways Trump’s Travel Ban Could Affect Humanitarian Aid Workers by Malaka Gharib (NPR)
- How Trump’s immigration ban threatens health care, in 3 charts by Julia Belluz and Sarah Frostenson (Vox)
Supreme Court Nomination
- Supreme Court choice Neil Gorsuch draws Democrat opposition (BBC)
- Progressive groups prep to unleash all-out assault on Trump’s Supreme Court pick by Kerry Eleveld (Daily Kos)
- Gorsuch Pick For Top Court Fulfills Trump Campaign Pledge, Confirms Democrats’ Fears by Ron Elving (NPR)
- Why Gorsuch’s Nomination Is Likely To Play Out As An Angry, Partisan Battle by Susan Davis (NPR)
- What Trump’s Supreme Court pick means for the court by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Trump Picks a Bioethicist for the Supreme Court by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
- Protesters Respond to Trump’s Supreme Court Pick by Jeremy Venook (The Atlantic)
- Scalia, the Sequel by Erwin Chemerinsky (The American Prospect)
- Trump’s handling of the Supreme Court nomination is his most savvy political deal so far by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Here are the questions Trump’s supreme court pick has to answer by Jonathan Freedlan (The Guardian)
- Senate Democrats Can Block Trump’s Supreme Court Pick by William Yeomans (The Nation)
- Trump endorses use of ‘nuclear option’ to confirm his Supreme Court pick by John Wagner and Ashley Parker (Washington Post)
- Neil Gorsuch Is Nothing Like Donald Trump by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- Trump says ‘Go Nuclear’ as Democrats brace for Gorsuch fight by Matt Flegenheimer (The NY Times)
- The Gorsuch Files by Branko Marcetic (Jacobin Mag)
- Robert Reich: The Senate Must Block Neil Gorsuch at All Costs by Robert Reich (Alternet)
News
- President Trump says it’s illegal to be registered to vote in two states — but he’s wrong by Kurtis Lee (LA Times)
- The ‘America First’ President Sends His Defense Secretary To Asia by Elise Hu (NPR)
- HHS Nominee Tom Price Targeted Panel That Urged Fewer Cancer Screenings by Marshall Allen (ProPublica)
- US Republicans launch effort to abolish Environmental Protection Agency with new bill by Ian Johnston (Independent)
- Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders Are Going to Duke It Out Over Obamacare on TV by Lauren Messman (Vice)
- GOP changes rules to push through nominees after Dem boycott by Peter Schroeder (The Hill)
- Report: Melania Trump may not move into White House at all by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Protesters gather outside Schumer’s apartment, urge resistance to Trump nominees by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Steve Bannon wedges his anti-Muslim ideology into a seat on the National Security Council by Justin Salhani (ThinkProgress)
- Vatican Issues First Comments On Trump’s Immigration Ban by Reuters (Huffington Post)
- Reuters editor-in-chief instructs journalists on how to cover the new Administration by Mark Frauenfelder (BoingBoing)
- Trump’s war on science, a chronology (Week 1) by Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing)
- Russia charges cyber-security experts with treason (BBC)
- ‘My worst nightmare’: high-skilled tech workers fear Trump visa crackdown by Sam Levin (The Guardian)
- More Britons are in favour of a Donald Trump state visit to the UK than are against it, poll shows (The Telegraph)
- Senate Republicans Passed Tom Price and Steve Mnuchin Through Committee Without Democrats Present by Osita Nwanevu (Slate)
- Republicans ram through committee approval of Trump Cabinet nominees by Kelsey Snell and David Weigel (Washington Post)
- Trump loses suit over golf club memberships by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Jerry Falwell Jr. Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy by Goldie Blumenstyk (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Senate Republicans Defy Democrats’ Boycott To Advance Trump Nominees by Arnie Seipel (NPR)
- For hardline West Bank settlers, Jared Kushner’s their man by Maayan Lubell (Reuters)
- Trump trip canceled; Harley-Davidson wasn’t comfortable with likely protests, per source by Jeremy Diamond (CNN)
- Donald Trump appoints creationist college president to lead higher education reform taskforce by Andrew Buncombe (Independent UK)
- Trump travels to honor remains of slain Navy SEAL by Matthew Nussbaum and Nolan D. McCaskill (Politico)
- DeVos in trouble by Burgess Everett and Kimberly Hefling (Politico)
- DeVos nomination stands at 50-50 by Burgess Everett and Kimberly Hefling (Politico)
- Trump cabinet pics advance as Republicans outmuscle Democrats by Alan Rappeport, Eric Lichtblau, and Coral Davenport (The NY Times)
- Rex Tillerson is confirmed as Secretary of State by Gardiner Harris (The NY Times)
- Trump cabinet: Rex Tillerson sworn in as top US diplomat (BBC)
- Jewish people give Muslims key to their synagogue after town’s mosque burns down by Jon Sharman (Independent)
- White House daily press briefing goes high-tech using Skype by Darlene Supervilled (AP)
- Eight-year-old American girl killed in ‘Yemen raid approved by Trump’ by Spencer Ackerman, Jason Burke, and Julian Borger (The Guardian)
- Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam – sources by Justin Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz, and Kristina Cooke (Reuters)
- Melania Trump hires chief of staff by Paulina Firozi (The Hill)
- House Republicans Vote to End Rule Stopping Coal Mining Debris From Being Dumped in Streams by Mathew Daly and Kevin Freking (TIme)
- Public figures call for biggest ever UK protest to oppose Trump visit by Hannah Ellis-Petersen (The Guardian)
- President Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico to Take Care of ‘Bad Hombres’ (AP)
- Reddit shuts down two popular alt-right subreddits by Justin Carissimo (Independent UK)
- On the same day Rex Tillerson is confirmed, the House votes to kill a transparency rule for oil companies by Brad Plumer (Vox)
- Over 70 arrested at Standing Rock as Dakota Access aims to finish pipeline by Sam Levin (The Guardian)
- South Dakota GOP Repeals Anti-Corruption Act Passed By Voters by Josh Silver (Huffington Post)
- Canadian government pulls ads from Trump ally’s Breitbart site by Simon Houpt (Globe and Mail)
- Report: Trump lashes out at Australian PM on phone call by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
- No ‘G’day, mate’: On call with Australian Prime Minister, Trump badgers and brags by Greg Miller and Philip Rucker (The Washington Post)
- US veterans group says Dakota Access pipeline ‘will not get completed. Not on our watch’ by Tom DiChristopher (CNBC)
- Dakota pipeline: Police arrest 76 as protests continue (BBC)
- 1,000 Yemeni bodegas across NYC are striking tomorrow to protest Trump’s Muslim ban by Tim Donnelly (Brokelyn)
- Trump wants less scrutiny on violent white supremacists by Aaron Rupar (ThinkProgress)
Analysis
- Liberals To Senate Democrats: (Don’t) Do Your Jobs by Scott Detrow (NPR)
- Who Will Fund Investigative Reporting in the Age of Trump? by Anya Schriffin (The Nation)
- The History of the State Department’s Dissent Channel—and How Trump Is Trying to Squelch It by Hannah Gurman (The Nation)
- Steve Bannon’s own words show sharp break on security issues by Steve Reilly and Brad Heath (USA Today)
- Steve Bannon’s Presence on the National Security Council Is Not Just Terrible. It’s Illegal. by Fred Kaplan (Slate)
- Dem offers bill to remove Bannon from National Security Council by Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
- How Trump Could Rearrange the U.S. House by Ronald Brownstein and Leah Askarinam (The Atlantic)
- How progressives are forcing Senate Democrats into action by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- How Trump Transition Officials Are Privately Explaining the Chaos at the EPA by Tim Sohn (Slate)
- Republicans close to dominating all government branches (Al Jazeera)
- The Democrats Can’t Block Gorsuch by Dahlia Lithwick and Neil S. Siegel (Slate)
- A Third Of The U.S. Says Being Christian Is A Key Part Of Being American by Kathryn Cesteel (Five Thirty Eight)
- AP EXPLAINS: What is the Senate’s ‘nuclear option’? (AP)
- How Alaskan Activists Got a Key Republican Senator to Oppose Betsy DeVos by John Nichols (The Nation)
- Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt by Zoe Williams (The Guardian)
- Why most of the lawyers you see battling Trump’s immigration order are women by Hanna Kozlowska (Quartz)
Opinion
- Resistance Is on the Agenda by Jacobin (Jacobin)
- Steve Bannon’s Vision for a Holy War Is Coming into Focus by Jack Moore (GQ)
- The Left Needs to Get Real—and Get Ready to Lose Many Fights by Brian Beutler (New Republic)
- It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator – with civil resistance by Erica Chenoweth (The Guardian)
- A chronicle of fear: seven days as a Muslim immigrant in America by Mona Chalabi (The Guardian)
- How the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq (Syria Times)
- To fight hate, we must become soldiers of inclusion by Sheema Khan (The Globe and Mail)
- Democrats should use the coming court fight to spotlight Trump’s authoritarianism. Here’s how. by Greg Sargent
- Trump’s support of gays is right out of the European far-right playbook by Amanda Ericsson (Washington Post)
- How Trump Has Taken Away Our Homes by Masha Gessen and Martina Navratilova (NY Times)
- Intergenerational Resistance: “This Isn’t Any Worse, It’s Just Your Turn” by Soraya Membreno (Bitch Media)
- How California can fight the extreme provocations of Donald Trump by Harold Meyerson (LA Times)
- Why the Quebec mosque shooting happened by Safiah Chowdhury (Al Jazeera)
- White House Inc. (The New York Times)
Conservative Perspectives
- The Left Holds Itself to Lower Standards of Behavior by Walter E. Williams (The Daily Signal)
- Donald Trump Just Struck a Blow against Authoritarianism by David French (National Review)
- What Senate Republicans Are Saying About Trump’s Supreme Court Pick by Rachel del Guidice (The Daily Signal)
Resources/Action
- 10 Ways to Take on Trump (New Republic)
- Your Cybersecurity Self-Defense Cheat Sheet by Jacob Brogan (Slate)
- Welcome to Our Cybersecurity Self-Defense Class by Jacob Brogan (Slate)
- Where Does Your Member Of Congress Stand On Trump’s Immigration Order? by Laurel Wamsley and Brett Neely (NPR)
- Check out our maps and analysis comparing 2016’s presidential and congressional results by district by Stephen Wolf (Daily Kos)
- March for Science Set for Earth Day by Brian Kahn (Scientific American)
- 20-point guide to defending democracy under a Trump presidency by Mark Frauenfelder (BoingBoing)
Recommended Reading
- 10 Writers Who Can No Longer Read Their Work in the United States by Scott Esposito (Conversational Reading)
Black Voices / Black History Month
- 7 Black Media And Activism Game Changers Who Are Paving The Way by Zeba Blay (Huffington Post)
- This Black History Month, We Declare: ‘We, Too, Are America’ by Lilly Workney (Huffington Post)
- A Full Transcript Of Donald Trump’s Black History Month Remarks by Hamilton Nolan (The Concourse)
- Trump Praises Fox News, Calls Life in Black America “Terrible” at First Black History Month Event by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Unpublished Black History by Rachel. L. Swarns, Darcy Eveleigh, and Damien Cave (NY Times)
- Donald Trump’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump just gave a Black History Month speech about the persecution of Donald Trump by Daniel Dale (The Star)