Census
- How Trump Plans to Use the Census to Make a Fake America by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Republicans’ plan to undermine the 2020 census may blow up in their faces by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
- The 2020 Census Is a Cybersecurity Fiasco Waiting to Happen by AJ Vicens (Mother Jones)
- Hidden Figures: How Donald Trump Is Rigging the Census by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
- The citizenship question on the 2020 census, explained by Dara Lind (Vox)
- NAACP sues Trump for failing to prepare to count minorities in 2020 census by Jacqueline THomsen (The Hill)
Gun Control / NRA / Second Amendment
- Donald Trump says Second Amendment ‘will never be repealed’ following ex-Supreme Court judge’s comments by Jon Sharman (Independent)
- President Trump Says the Second Amendment ‘Will Never Be Repealed’ by Alan Fram (TIME)
- Citizens United and the NRA: To fix gun laws, we have to fix campaign finance laws first by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
- Opinion: Smearing Parkland Students Is a Symptom of the Right’s Ideological Exhaustion by Jeet Heer (New Republic)
Stormy Daniels
- Voters believe Stormy over Trump by Steven Shepard (Politico)
- Stormy Daniels’ lawyer seeks to depose Trump over $130,000 payment by Lorraine Woellert (Politico)
- The Stormy Daniels drama just gets worse for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen by Charlie May (Salon)
- Stormy Daniels’ lawyer asks court to compel Trump to testify in deposition (The Guardian)
Mueller / Russia Investigation
- Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Ex-Trump campaign official Rick Gates ‘communicated with a former Russian intelligence officer’, says FBI by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
- Mueller Filing Casually Implies That Trump’s Campaign Chairman Was in Touch With Active Russian Operative by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Trump Lawyer Floated Pardons Of Michael Flynn And Paul Manafort: Report by Doha Madani (Huffington Post)
- Trump’s Lawyer Reportedly Broached Pardons for Flynn and Manafort. That Could Be Obstruction. by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
- White House says ‘no discussion’ of Trump pardoning Manafort or Gates by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- White House: No talk of pardons in Russia probe ‘at this time’ by Jordan Fabian, Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
- Trump aide communicated with ex-Russian intelligence officer during 2016 election by Sarah N. Lynch, Makini Brice (Reuters)
Trump Emoluments
- A Federal Judge Just Gave the Go-Ahead to a Major Case Against Trump by Russ Choma (Mother Jones)
- President Trump Just Lost a Legal Battle in the Constitutional Fight Over His Business by Stephen Braun (TIME)
- U.S. Judge Refuses To Toss Suit Against Trump On Foreign Payments by Andrew Chung (Huffington Post)
- Federal Judge Allows Trump Emoluments Case to Go Forward by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
- Judge rejects Trump push to dismiss emoluments lawsuit by Morgan Gstalter, Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Emoluments suit against Trump clears standing and political question hurdles by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
Other News
- Trump says China told him Kim Jong-un meeting ‘went very well’ but US will maintain ‘sanctions and pressure’ on North Korea by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
- Every Woman in the Senate Is Demanding a Vote on a Sexual Harassment Bill by Maya Rhodan (TIME)
- Senate Candidate Joe Arpaio Vows To Keep Pushing Birtherism by Scott Neuman (NPR)
- How Jared Kushner Landed in the Middle of a Vicious Proxy War Between Qatar and Its Neighbors by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Forget Zuckerberg: Trump Is “Obsessed” with Breaking Jeff Bezos by Maya Kosoff (Vanity Fair)
- Little-known lawyer to take larger role on Trump defense team: report by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Trump signs bill preventing taxpayer money from being used for portraits of federal employees by John Bowden (The Hill)
- It’s not just elections: Russia hacked the US electric grid by Kelsey Atherton (Vox)
- Trump will end deportation protection for Liberians by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump hotel business fails to undo Panama coup by Jeff Horowitz (AP)
- Former Disney Star Caroline Sunshine Joins The Trump White House by Emily Sullivan (NPR)
- Trump ousts Shulkin at VA, taps White House physician by Rebecca Kheel (The Hill)
- VA Secretary Shulkin to resign, Trump to nominate his personal physician by Steve Holland (Reuters)
- EPA staffers get talking points downplaying human role in climate change bBrady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post)
- Meet Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor who gave Trump a glowing physical and was just named secretary of Veteran Affairs by Michal Kranz (Business Insider)
Analysis
- The Very Male Trump Administration by Annie Lowrey, Steven Johnson (The Atlantic)
- A quarter of Trump’s ‘highest IQ’ Cabinet has been replaced by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Overview: Where the Omnibus Money Is Going by Randy Leonard (Roll Call)
- 3 Takeaways From White House’s Semi-Denials of Pardon Talks by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- Under Ben Carson, HUD Scales Back Fair Housing Enforcement by Glenn Thrush (NY Times)