Obamacare / ACA
- Apparently the White House Really Doesn’t Want You to Call It Trumpcare by Jack Moore (GQ)
- How Defunding Planned Parenthood Could Affect Health Care by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- The Fight to Save the Affordable Care Act Is Really a Class Battle by Angela Bonavoglia (The Nation)
- House Republicans’ Obamacare Replacement Plan Is a Disaster. Here’s Why. by Veronique de Rugy (Reason)
- 5 Key Takeaways From The GOP Health Overhaul Plan by Julie Rovner (NPR)
- Health Bill Clears House Panel in Pre-Dawn Hours by Thomas Kaplan, Abby Goodnough, Jennifer Steinhauer (NY Times)
- House panel OKs health bill, industry groups say ‘no’ by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar & Alan Fram (AP)
- Republicans just took their first big step to replace Obamacare by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- Republicans’ rushed health bill is everything they said they hated about Obamacare by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
- Healthcare groups unload on GOP bill by Megan R. Wilson (The Hill)
- Fact Check: Is the GOP’s Healthcare Proposal Titled ‘World’s Greatest’? (Snopes)
- Why Republicans Are Battling Republicans on Obamacare Repeal by Jeremy W. Peters (NY Times)
- 7 things that probably need to happen for the Republican health bill to pass by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- The major critics of the GOP’s health reform plan, in one chart by
- Analysis: The GOP health-care plan would quietly kill the Medicaid expansion. Here’s how. by Benjamin Sommers (Washington Post)
- Women’s Health Services Face Cuts in the GOP’s Obamacare Replacement Bill by AP (TIME)
- Mental Health Support Will Disappear Under The GOP Healthcare Act by Robin Andrews (ILFSCIENCE)
Women’s Strike / A Day Without a Woman
- Strikes Aren’t for the Privileged by Kate Aronoff (Jacobin)
- “This isn’t just a trend for us”: why New York women went on strike, in their own words by Caroline Framke (Vox)
- The day without women organizers have been released from jail by Emily Crockett (Vox)
- This Is What Feminism Really Looks Like by Michelle Chen (The Nation)
Immigration / Travel Ban
- Hawaii challenges Trump’s new travel ban (Al Jazeera)
- In Arizona, Program To Recruit Police To Help ICE Agents Gets Mixed Reviews by Wade Goodwyn (NPR)
- Trump travel ban could prevent United States hosting World Cup by Press Association (The Guardian)
- Analysis: Growing signs of trouble for Trump’s border wall by Noland D. McCaskill and Eli Stokils (Politico)
- Number of immigrants caught at Mexican border plunges 40% under Trump by Jenny Jarvie (LA Times)
- Trump’s travel ban challenged by Washington and Hawaii (Al Jazeera)
- Four states suing to block Trump’s new travel ban by Reid Wilson (The Hill)
News
- CIA: WikiLeaks dump ‘equips’ US adversaries (Al Jazeera)
- Trump Reportedly Selects Jon Huntsman As U.S. Ambassador To Russia by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Donald Trump could be impeached on four grounds, former Labor Secretary says by Samuel Osborne (Independent)
- Donald Trump: Psychiatry professors say ‘dangerous’ US President must be removed from post for public safety by Katie Forster (Independent)
- Donald Trump’s State Department approves Saudi Arabia weapons sales blocked by Barack Obama by Samuel Osborne (Independent)
- Donald Trump team attacks WikiLeaks over CIA files, despite President once saying he ‘loved’ them by Andrew Griffin (Independent)
- The White House is scrutinizing job candidates’ old social media posts for criticism of Trump by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Source of the Latest WikiLeaks Document Dump Appears to Be CIA Contractors: U.S. Officials by John Walcott & Mark Hosenball (TIME)
- Mike Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, lobbied for Turkey during campaign by Taylor Link (Salon)
- Disgraced Trump adviser Mike Flynn admits he worked as a “foreign agent” for the Turkish government by Jennifer Williams (Vox)
- EPA chief: Carbon dioxide isn’t a ‘primary contributor’ to global warming by Timothy Cama (The Hill)
- Graham says he would subpoena for evidence on Trump wiretap claim by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Sessions open to using outside counsel to investigate DOJ under Holder, Lynch by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Mexico will not pay for Donald Trump’s border wall, admits Senate leader Mitch McConnell by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies by Dustin Volz (Reuters)
- Robert Reich: Jeff Sessions needs to resign for the sake of the country by Matteen Mokallla (Vox)
- Report: Former Trump Advisor Roger Stone Was In Contact with a Russian Hacker During the Election by Jack Moore (GQ)
- EPA chief: Carbon dioxide not primary cause of warming by Matthew Daly (AP)
- EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Questions Basic Facts About Climate Change by Geoff Brumfiel (NPR)
- Tillerson recuses himself from Keystone pipeline decision (AP)
- Transgender families press education secretary on rights by Maria Danilova (AP)
- A GOP Congressman Just Spent 6 Minutes Defending Vladimir Putin by AJ Vicens (Mother Jones)
- U.S. Ethics Official To White House: No, These Rules Definitely Apply To You by Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
- Julian Assange Says WikiLeaks Will Share CIA Code With Tech Companies by Camila Domonoske & Greg Myre (NPR)
- Ethics Chief to White House: Not Punishing Kellyanne Conway Risks Undermining The Entire Ethics Program by Josh Voorhees (Slate)
- Feinstein: ‘Possibility’ Intel Dems could subpoena Trump tax returns by Mark Hensch (The Hill)
Analysis
- This Is the Resistance: More Than 5,000 Grassroots Groups Have Sprung Up Since Trump Was Elected by Start Making Sense & Jon Wiener (The Nation)
- Can the Education System Survive Betsy DeVos’s Extreme School-Choice Agenda? by Linda Darling-Hammond (The Nation)
- Can the Intelligence Community Secure Its Own Hacking Tools? by Julian Sanchez (The Atlantic)
- Will a Leak Reveal Trump’s Tax Returns? Don’t Hold Your Breath by Alan Rappeport (NY Times)
- Republicans’ War on Science Just Got Frighteningly Real by Emily Atkin (New Republic)
Opinion
- “Post-truth is pre-fascism”: a Holocaust historian on the Trump era by Sean Illing (Vox)
- I’m a Somali Muslim American and This Is How We Can All Build a Hopeful Future by Habon Abdulle (Luna Luna)
- Killing a program that brings history to life by Drew Gilpin Faust (The NY Times)
- KING: The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular by Shaun King (NY Daily News)
- I’m Trans, Disabled, And Tired Of Fighting To Get Into Bathrooms by Christian McMahon (Buzzfeed)