News
- House OKs Bill Allowing ‘Mentally Incapacitated’ Veterans To Buy Guns by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Trump Embraces One Of Russia’s Favorite Propaganda Tactics — Whataboutism by Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
- Tillerson Says ‘All Of The Options Are On The Table’ In Dealing With North Korea by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Documents detail Michael Flynn payments from Russian interests by AP (LA Times)
- White Nationalist Richard Spencer Gets His Money From Louisiana Cotton Fields—and the US Government by Lance Williams (Mother Jones)
- UK spy agency denies ‘ridiculous’ wiretap claim by Tristan Lejeune (The Hill)
- White House won’t repeat claims that UK helped wiretap Trump by Nikita Vladmirov (The Hill)
- Mick Mulvaney’s “compassion” justification for slashing Meals on Wheels isn’t going over so well by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Bannon and Trump have quietly installed an alt-National Security Council operating inside the White House by Jefferson Morley (Salon)
- In First Face-To-Face, Trump And Merkel Expected To Tackle Trade And NATO by Colin Dwyer (NPR)
- Donald Trump accuses North Korea of ‘behaving very badly’ and says China is not helping by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Immigrants still caught in legal limbo despite travel ban block by Amber Jamieson (The Guardian)
- Trump’s ‘Irish proverb’ confuses the internet on St Patrick’s Day by Elena Cresci (The Guardian)
- GCHQ dismisses ‘utterly ridiculous’ claim it helped wiretap Trump by Lauren Gambino and Kevin Rawlinson (Guardian)
- Military action against North Korea ‘an option’, warns Rex Tillerson by Justin McCurry (Guardian)
- Capitol Hill Republicans not on board with Trump budget by Kelsey Snell and Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post)
- In awkward exchange, Trump seems to ignore Merkel’s handshake request by Madeline Conway (Politico)
- Donald Trump refuses to shake Angela Merkel’s hand by Richard A. L. Williams (Independent)
- ‘Outrageous’: expert slams White House for denying school meals’ link to learning by Sam Thielman (The Guardian)
- Trump offers no apology for claim on British spying by Peter Baker and Steven Erlanger (The NY Times)
- Donald Trump calls US a ‘very powerful company’ before quickly correcting himself by Jon Sharman (Independent)
- Trump to Merkel: We were both wiretapped under Obama (BBC)
- Trump Administration Files Motion Aimed At Controlling Consumer Protection Agency by Barbara Campbell (NPR)
- Travel Ban Legal Battles Continue, As Administration Appeals New Injunction by Camila Domonoske (NPR)
- Trump administration appeals block of travel ban (Al Jazeera)
- The Latest: Seattle judge puts off ruling on travel ban (AP)
- Exclusive: Immigration judges headed to 12 U.S. cities to speed deportations by Julia Edwards Ainsley (Reuters)
- Republicans Start Lining Up to Fight for the N.E.A. and N.E.H. by Michael Cooper & Sopan Deb (NY Times)
- Fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Said to Have Been Investigating HHS Secretary Tom Price by Robert Faturechi (ProPublica)
- The Cost of Trump’s Wall Compared to the Programs He’s Proposing to Cut by Joe Sexton (ProPublica)
- German reporters press Trump on wiretap claims, ‘fake news’ by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
Analysis
- Why Trump Can’t Let Go of His Wiretapping Claim by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Berliners react to Trump’s US-Mexico wall by Gouri Sharma (Al Jazeera)
- GOP breaks from Trump in ‘wiretap’ furor by Niall Stanage (The Hill)
- What America without the NEA and NEH would look like, and why that matters by Mengqi Sun (Christian Science Monitor)
- Rulings offer glimpse into what kind of justice Gorsuch would be by Robert Barnes (NY Times)
- We’ve lost sight on how appalling Trump’s ‘Obama tapped my phone’ accusation is by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Defunding the corporation for public broadcasting won’t kill PBS. It will hurt Trump voters. by Todd VanDerWerff (Vox)
- In these 105 counties, Planned Parenthood is the only full-service birth control clinic by Emily Crockett (Vox)
- Sean Spicer’s Thursday news conference was a new low for the Trump White House by Chris Cillizza (The Washington Post)
- Donald and Angela’s awkward adventure by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Why Immigrants in California Are Canceling Their Food Stamps by Greg Kaufmann (The Nation)
- How Immigrants Became Criminals by Alan J. Aja, Alejandra Marchevsy (Boston Review)
Opinion
- Bill Gates: Cutting Foreign Aid Makes America Less Safe by Bill Gates (TIME)
- Trump’s budget kills national service when we need community most by Stan Soloway and Sonia Soloway (The Hill)
- What to ask about Russian hacking by Louise Mensch (The NY Times)
Recommended Reading / Resistance
- Trans in the time of Trump: Interview with Andrea James, filmmaker and transgender activist by Xeni Jardin (BoingBoing)
- How Aditi Juneja Is Keeping the Public Informed With the Resistance Manual by Lily Herman (Teen Vogue)
- How To Fight for Your Rights and Privacy Online by Evan Malmgren (The Nation)