Muslim & Refugee Ban
- Trump travel ban: States urge retention of temporary block (BBC)
- Will the Courts Find Trump’s Ban Unconstitutional? by Garrett Epps (The Atlantic)
- U.S. tech firms file legal brief opposing Trump’s travel ban (Reuters)
- Nearly 100 Tech Firms Ask Federal Court To Block Trump’s Travel Ban by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Spicer: ‘It’s somewhat sad to see a judge go rogue like this’ by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Bipartisan group of national security officials argue Trump’s Muslim ban makes America less safe by Esther Yu Hsi Lee (ThinkProgress)
- The White House Is Confident Trump’s Travel Ban Will be Restored by Eric Tucker (TIME)
- How do U.S. courts work? A map of the battlefield over Trump’s immigration ban by Evan Annett (The Globe and Mail)
- World’s Saddest Trump Rally Draws Just 8 Supporters by Ed Mazza (Huffington Post)
- Federal Judge slammed by Donald Trump for halting ‘Muslim ban’ was appointed by George W Bush by Rachel Roberts (Independent)
- MoMA replaces Picasso and Matisse with artists from countries affected by Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith (Independent)
- The President Has Much Power Over Immigration, but How Much? by Adam Liptak (NY Times)
- Opposition to Trump travel ban grows as key court decision looms by Matt Zapotosky and Brian Murphy (The Washington Post)
- Corporate titans among 100 companies joining brief against Trump travel ban by Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)
- Federal appeals court decides to schedule a hearing on Trump travel order by Matt Zapotosky (The Washington Post)
- About 20 Rabbis Arrested During Protest Over Trump Travel Ban by Colin Moynhan (NY Times)
- Like Many Americans, A Judge On The Court Weighing Trump’s Immigrant Ban Is An Immigrant by Matt Ferner (Huffington Post)
- Adobe, Bungie, IAC and HP join amicus brief against Trump’s immigration order by Jordan Golson (The Verge)
- 97 Tech Companies Including Apple and Google File Brief Against Trump Travel Ban by Nina Zipkin (Entrepeneur)
- Ontario will still help young patients even though Trump travel ban halted by Robery Benzie (The Star)
News
- U.S. Companies Uncertain Of NAFTA Trading Under Trump Administration by Frank Morris (NPR)
- Judge Gorsuch’s Originalism Contrasts With Mentor’s Pragmatism by Nina Totenberg (NPR)
- Donald Trump still receiving ‘exclusive benefit’ from his business, documents confirm by Rosalind S Helderman (Independent)
- Fake news: Facebook and Google team up with French media (BBC)
- Kremlin angry over Fox News ‘Putin’s a killer’ question (BBC)
- Kremlin says it wants apology from Fox News over Putin comments (Reuters)
- Mike Pence is set to make history with a tie-breaking vote for Betsy DeVos by Kami Spicklemire (ThinkProgress)
- Mitch McConnell won’t fund President Trump’s voter fraud investigation by Matthew Rozsa (Salon )
- U.S. Government Takes Animal-Welfare Data Offline by Sara Reardon (Scientific American)
- Trump: ‘Any negative polls are fake news’ by Kyle Balluck and Jennifer Calfas (The Hill)
- Donald Trump: ‘Any negative polls are fake news’ by Tom Batchelor (Independent)
- Trump is turning Elon Musk into a crony capitalist by Russell Brandom (Verge)
- Donald Trump is systematically attacking every institution which could hold him in check by Rachel Cunliffe (The Telegraph)
- Malcolm Turnbull convinced Donald Trump not to dump refugee deal by Peter Hartcher (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Veteran To Donald Trump: This Is ‘Not The America I Sacrificed For’ by Paige Lavender (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump ‘didn’t realise he was promoting Steve Bannon to National Security Council when he signed order’ by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Donald Trump doesn’t exercise: US President eats Big Macs, steaks and crisps on silver plates by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Donald Trump condemned by Republicans over ‘respect’ for Putin by Samuel Osborne (Independent)
- Conway used ‘Bowling Green massacre’ days before MSNBC interview by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Trump Launches Pre-emptive War on Truth, Declares All Negative Polls “Fake News” by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
- Pelosi calls for probe of possible Russian blackmail of Trump by Isaac Arnsdorf (Politico)
- California protests lead the way for Trump resistance movement by Sam Levin (The Guardian)
- Trump reportedly angry that he wasn’t ‘fully briefed’ on executive action giving Bannon more power by Rebecca Harrington (Business Insider)
- Few Recall Gorsuch’s Volunteer Work at Harvard Beth Reinhard and Jess Bravin (Wall Street Journal)
- Australia’s chief scientist compares Trump to Stalin over climate censorship by Gareth Hutchins (The Guardian)
- President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Democrats Are Holding the Senate Floor for 24 Hours to Protest Betsy DeVos’ Nomination by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Senate Democrats Plan All-Night Push To Rally Against Trump’s Education Pick by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
- “I have no words”: Conservatives shocked by Trump’s “disgusting” moral relativism with Vladimir Putin by Taylor Link (Salon)
- Women’s March Organizers Are Planning A ‘Day Without A Woman’ by Alanna Vagianos (Huffington Post)
- Detroit Pop-Up Dinner Series Protests Trump’s Travel Ban 1 Dish At A Time by Sarena Maria Daniels (NPR)
- Trump, GOP Lawmakers Back Off From Immediate Obamacare Repeal by Alison Kodjak (NPR)
- President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks by Philip Bump (The Washington Post)
- Democrats are speaking for 24 hours in last push against Betsy DeVos by Emma Brown (The Washington Post)
- US government asks court to reinstate Trump travel ban (Al Jazeera)
- Some 450 Former EPA Officials Want The Senate To Reject Trump’s Pick by Joseph Erbentraut (Huffington Post)
- D.C. police demand Facebook hand over data on Trump protesters by Colin Daileda (Mashable)
- Trump not invited to address Parliament, British speaker says by Madeline Conway (Politico)
- In response to Trump, Assembly passes ‘sanctuary state’ bill by Jimmy Vielkind (Politico)
- Donald Trump Believes Barack Obama Likes Him by Ed Mazza (Huffington Post)
- Spicer to provide list of terror attacks that the media didn’t cover by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Melania Trump reveals plan to leverage presidency to ink ‘multi-million dollar’ endorsement deals by Judd Legum (Think Progress)
- Apparently Trump Wasn’t ‘Fully Briefed’ on the Order Giving Bannon an NSC Seat by Lauren Messman (Vice)
- Senate Democrats pulling an all-nighter in opposition of Betsy DeVos by Barbara Morrill (Daily Kos)
Analysis
- How Political Fear Works by Corey Robin (New Republic)
- Bracing for Trump’s Revenge by McKay Coppins (The Atlantic)
- President Trump’s Missing Labor Secretary by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- America’s Most Successful Corporations Have Already Determined That President Trump Is Bad for Business by Jay Willis (GQ)
- The Theory That Explains The Anger Of Our Political Moment by Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
- Donald Trump doesn’t like judges who can say no to him. You know who else had a problem with that? by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- Here’s How the 2018 Midterm Elections Could Be Fatally Undermined by Natalie Reed (The Nation)
- When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig by George Prochnik (The New Yorker)
- Decoding Stephen Miller’s Nationalist Mind by T.A. Frank (Vanity Fair)
- The big lesson of Trump’s first 2 weeks: resistance works by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Donald Trump Is Signing Executive Orders That He Doesn’t Read or Understand by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Joan Baez Talks Protest in the Trump Era: ‘We’re in for a Bumpy Ride’ by Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone)
- Donald Trump Says Your Opinions Are Fake If You Don’t Like His Policies by Natalie Jackson (Huffington Post)
- Fake news for liberals: misinformation starts to lean left under Trump by Sam Levin (The Guardian)
- Is This Watergate? by Elizabeth Drew (Politico)
- About the size of that NEA budget by Julia Fleischaker (Melville House)
- Democracy Without the People by Thea Riofrancos (n+1)
- Age of Trump, Scientists Show Signs of a Political Pulse by Amy Harmon and Henry Fountain (NY Times)
- In one facebook post, three misleading statements by President Trump about his immigration order by Haeyoun Park, Karen Yourish, and Gardiner Harris (The NY Times)
- Donald Trump’s alleged human rights abuses are being tracked by one of the world’s best legal institutions by Will Worley (Independent UK)
- The “paid protest” lie: The Trump White House is trying to delegitimize public protest by Simon Maloy (Salon)
- Here are key passages from the legal arguments over Trump’s immigration order by Maura Dolan and David Lauter (LA Times)
- Rural America Supported Trump But Will His Policies Support Them? by Brian Mann (NPR)
- Who’s Calling the Shots? by Kevin Young (Jacobin)
- Donald Trump Is Getting His Information From America’s Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theorist by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Blaming Trump for the Next Big Terrorist Attack by Jeet Heer (New Republic)
- Trump’s Baseless Claim That the Media Covers Up Terror Attacks by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Despite Judge’s Order, a Cleveland Clinic Doctor Still Can’t Come Back to U.S. by Charles Ornstein (Propoublica)
- Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement by Joshua Holland (The Nation)
- Echoing Infowars, Trump lies that ‘very dishonest’ U.S. press are covering up terror attacks by Xeni Jardin (Boing Boing)
- AP FACT CHECK: Trump says terrorism acts ignored. Evidence? by Calvin Woodward (AP)
- This Republican lawyer justified torture under Bush — and he thinks Trump is going too far by German Lopez (Vox)
- Trump and Bannon Pursue a Vision of Autocracy (Spiegel)
Opinion
- How Trump will ‘fix’ the inner cities by Lena Afridi (Al Jazeera)
- Government by White Nationalism Is Upon Us by Jamelle Bouie (Slate)
- The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Why Democrats Should Block Gorsuch by David Atkins (The American Prospect)
- Women of America: we’re going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power by Linda Martín Alcoff, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, Angela Davis (The Guardian)
- Funding the Resistance by Christopher Kutz (Boston Review)
- The Choice by Keah Brown (Angel’s Flight Literary West)
- How to Beat Trump by David Frum (The Atlantic)
- Did Yiannopoulos secretly send more than 100 thugs to Berkeley to break up his own speech? by Paul Cassel (Washington Post)
- Rethinking our patriotism by Gary Gutting (The NY Times)
- On Running a Democracy Without Reading by Kelly Cherry (AGNI Blog)
- Why we’re calling for Congress to impeach Donald Trump by James C. Nelson and John Bonifaz (Time)
- I’m A Liberal, And I Want Milo Yiannopoulos On My Campus by Matt Teltelbaum (Huffington Post)
- Legal Scholars: Why Congress Should Impeach Donald Trump by James C Nelson and John Bonifaz (Time)
Conservative Perspectives
- 16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won by David Payne (The Federalist)
- Trump Declares Any Negative Polling To Be “Fake News” by Susan Wright (RedState)
- Unelected Steve Bannon really might be pulling the strings by JD Rucker (RedState)
- A Filibuster Attempt on Gorsuch Does Carry Some Political Risk by Jim Geraghty (National Review)
- Why Conservatives Roll Their Eyes At Progressive Super Bowl Ads by David French (National Review)
- Trump’s Comment On American ‘Killers’ Isn’t as bad as you think; it’s worse by David French (National Review)
- A Profound Question Behind the Immigration Debate by Robert W Merry (American Conservative)
- 3 Reasons Neil Gorsuch Is an Ideal Successor to Scalia by Sen Mike Lee (Daily Signal)
Resources / Action
- If You Are An Immigrant (even a US Citizen), Here Are 9 Things You Should Know
- Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump – An updating tally of how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president by Aaron Bycoffe (538)
- Teachings for Uncertain Times: A Black Lives Matter Lovingkindness Meditation by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe (Tricycle)