Transgender Troops
- Trump moves to ban most transgender troops by Jacqueline Klimas (Politico)
- Trump moves to limit transgender individuals from military service (Reuters)
- Trump Memo Disqualifies Certain Transgender People From Military Service by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
- Trump moves to ban most transgender people from serving in military by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- Trump’s Twitter ban on trans troops is officially official by Brittany Levine Beckman (Mashable)
Spending Bill / Government Shutdown
- Trump Threatens Veto Of Spending Deal Hours Before Government Would Shut Down by Domenico Montanaro, Scott Detrow, Scott Horsley, Tamara Keith, Kelsey Snell (NPR)
- Trump Threatens to Veto Spending Bill and Shutdown the Government by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Trump threatens to veto $1.3tn spending bill passed by Congress (BBC)
- DREAMers skeptical as Trump ‘may veto’ bill over DACA by Creede Newton (Al Jazeera)
- Trump threatens to veto spending bill, risking shutdown by Elana Schor, Burgess Everett, Matthew Nussbaum, Rachael Bade (Politico)
- Congress Spares Science From Trump’s Budget by Marina Koren (The Atlantic)
- Trump threatens to veto $1.3tn spending bill for not protecting Dreamers or fully funding Mexico border wall by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
- Here’s Why Trump’s Spending Bill Veto Threat Is So Baffling by Nash Jenkins (TIME)
- Trump signs massive spending bill, backing away from veto threat by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Spending Bill Protects Tipped Workers From Sharing With The Boss by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- Here’s What’s in the Budget Bill Nobody’s Bothered to Read by Michael Grunwald (Politico)
- Donald Trump proves his omnibus veto threat was just a temper tantrum by Dara Lind (Vox)
- Trump signs massive spending bill, but not before a little drama by Josh Dawsey and Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)
- Trump wants Congress to do something nearly impossible to give him more power over government spending by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
Gun Control
- Emma González on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control by Emma González (Teen Vogue)
- 5 Gun Control Activists Discuss What’s Next for Gun Reform (Teen Vogue)
- What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From the Civil-Rights Movement by Julian E. Zelizer (The Atlantic)
- President Trump Announces Ban on Bump Stocks for Guns by AP (TIME)
- Protesters gather in Washington, demanding gun control by Ashraf Khalil (AP)
- Parkland Shooting Survivor Discusses Newfound Activism To End Gun Violence by Ailsa Chang, Wynne Davis (NPR)
McMaster / Bolton
- John Bolton: Five things new Trump security adviser believes (BBC)
- Apocalypse Soon? John Bolton Set To Replace HR McMaster as National Security Adviser by James Carden (The Nation)
- US: Who is John Bolton? (Al Jazeera)
- A look back at HR McMaster’s time in the White House (Al Jazeera)
- In the terrifying John Bolton, Trump finds his national-security soulmate by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Bolton pick underscores Trump’s foreign policy confusion by Michael Crowley, Bryan Bender (Politico)
- A Short Guide to John Bolton’s Government Career by Krishnadev Calamur (The Atlantic)
- What Trump’s Choice of Bolton Reveals by David Frum (The Atlantic)
- John Bolton and Gina Haspel Are the Consequences of Our Failure to Reckon With the Bush Years by Joshua Keating (Slate)
- Trump’s New National Security Advisor John Bolton Has Links to Cambridge Analytica by Ryan Teague Beckwith (TIME)
- Opinion: John Bolton has North Korea and Iran in his sights. He must be stopped by Michael H. Fuchs (The Guardian)
- Trump adviser John Bolton worked with Cambridge Analytica on YouTube voter experiment by Paul Lewis (The Guardian)
- H.R. McMaster Worked for Me. His Retirement From the Military Reveals A Lot About President Trump by James Stavridis (TIME)
- “It’s the Perfect Storm”: as John Bolton Arrives, the Deep State Braces for a Turn Toward War by Abagail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
China / Tariffs / Trade
- Trade wars, Trump tariffs and protectionism explained (BBC)
- China hits back after US tariffs on Chinese imports (Al Jazeera)
- Trump Just Pushed the World Trade Organization Toward Irrelevance by Peter S. Goodman (NY Times)
Stormy Daniels / Karen McDougal
- Former Playboy Model Spills Details Of Alleged Affair: Trump ‘Tried To Pay Me’ by Vanessa Romo (NPR)
- Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes: When is the interview and how can you watch it? by Clark Mindock (Independent)
- Former Playboy model who ‘had 10-month affair with Trump’ claims he offered her money for sex by Chris Baynes (Independent)
- “The President May Be Able to Fire Mueller, but He Can’t Fire Me”: Stormy Daniels’s Attorney Relishes His Role as Trump Nemesis du Jour by Joe Hagan (Vanity Fair)
Cambridge Analytica
- The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram by Alvin Chang (Vox)
- Leaked: Cambridge Analytica’s blueprint for Trump victory by Paul Lewis, Paul Hilder (The Guardian)
Other News
- US approves proposed $1bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia (Al Jazeera)
- Russia Hacked U.S. Power Grid — So What Will The Trump Administration Do About It? by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- White House lawyer McGahn eager to exit by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- U.S. charges Iranians for global cyber attacks on behalf of Tehran by Dustin Volz (Reuters)
Analysis
- Trump voters are selfish: They love him because they identify with him by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
- Trump Is Bringing In Loyalists And Getting Rid Of Critics by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
- After Another Week of Chaos, Trump Repairs to Palm Beach. No One Knows What Comes Next. by Mark Sandler and Julie Hirshfeld Davis (NY Times)