Healthcare / AHCA
- Saving Obamacare Is Not Enough—We Need Medicare for All by Dennis Kucinish (The Nation)
- 9 health reform lies Congress members are telling their constituents by Charles Ornstein & Julia Belluz (Vox)
- Ryan’s legacy as speaker on line with health care vote by Stephen Ohlemacher (AP)
- Poll: Approval wanes for GOP health bill by Steven Shepard (Politico)
- Trump, GOP race to clinch Obamacare votes — but still short by Kyle Cheney & Rachael Bade (Politico)
- We’re One Day Before Showtime, and Trumpcare Still Doesn’t Have the Votes by Jim Newell (Slate)
- Trump fights for healthcare bill, makes headway with conservatives by David Morgan & Susan Cornwell (Reuters)
- The Republican Health-Care Unraveling by Paul Starr (The American Prospect)
- Trump, Koch brothers at odds over ‘Trumpcare’ vote by James Oliphant, Emily Stephenson, Caren Bohan (Reuters)
- Koch network spending millions to stop GOP health care bill by Steve Peoples (AP)
- If you’re a millionaire, the AHCA gives you $50K. If you’re poor, it costs you $1,420. by Dylan Matthews (Vox)
- Health Care Plan Championed By Trump Hurts Counties That Voted For Him (NPR)
- The GOP Health Care Bill Is Unpopular Even In Republican Districts by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
- This Health Care Bill May Haunt The GOP by Harry Enten (FiveThirtyEight)
- Pelosi urges ‘all hands on deck’ to fight ObamaCare repeal by Mike Lillis (The Hill)
- Obamacare repeal threatens health programs just as they’re starting to work by Noam N. Levey (LA Times)
- Obama health law’s ‘essential benefits’ may be in jeopardy by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar (AP)
- President Trump appears unable to make a substantive case for the AHCA by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- House Republicans, Deeply Divided, Face Painful Choice on Health Vote by Jennifer Steinhauer (NY Times)
Russia
- AP Exclusive: Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government by Jeff Horwitz & Chad Day (AP)
- Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort secretly worked for Russian billionaire to ‘benefit Putin government’ by Lizzie Dearden (Independent)
- FBI investigated Russian mafia at Trump Tower for two years in probe unrelated to 2016 election by Harriet Agerholm (Independent)
- US Officials: Info suggests Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians by Pamela Brown, Evan Perez & Shimon Prokupecz (CNN)
- Report: FBI evidence suggests Trump associates and Russians may have coordinated to sink Clinton by German Lopez (Vox)
- Trump’s former campaign manager’s tight ties to Putin by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Schiff: ‘There Is More Than Circumstantial Evidence Now’ by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Schiff: There is now ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ of Trump-Russia collusion by Madeline Conway (Politico)
- Congress Must Act: Trump’s Russia Ties a Full-Blown Crisis for U.S. Democracy by Adele M. Stan (The American Prospect)
- McCain: House Panel lost ‘Credibility’ to handle Russian probe by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
- Report: FBI evidence suggests Trump associates and Russians may have coordinated to sink Clinton by German Lopez (Vox)
Immigration / Travel Ban
- One in three U.S. Muslims fear for safety in Trump presidency: poll (Reuters)
- Sanctuary shaming: Trump’s Homeland Security releases first crime report dedicated to undocumented immigrants by Taylor Link (Saon)
- Opinion: President Trump’s reckless shame game (The NY Times)
Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing
- Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch coasting toward Senate showdown by Lawrence Hurley & Andrew Chung (Reuters)
- While Gorusch was testifying, the Supreme Court unanimously said he was wrong by Ian Millhiser (ThinkProgress)
- Live coverage: Day three of Supreme Court nominee hearing by Alexander Bolton & Lydia Wheeler (The Hill)
- Gorsuch hearings Day 3: Feinstein presses judge on abortion, physician-assisted suicide by Robert Barnes (Washington Post)
- Opinion: The Problems With Originalism by Ken Levy (NY Times)
- Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Has Little in Common With Most Americans by Stephanie Mencimer (Mother Jones)
- Gorsuch: Roe v. Wade Is the ‘Law of the Land’ by Matt Ford (The Atlantic)
- Al Franken’s grilling of Gorsuch exposes the heartless cruelty behind conservative legal philosophy by Paul Rosenberg (Salon)
- Unanimous Supreme Court overturns a Gorsuch decision … in the middle of his confirmation hearing by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- Yes, Dems Should Block Gorsuch While the FBI’s Trump Probe Goes on by Joan Walsh (The Nation)
- Democrats weigh deal to let Gorsuch through by Burgess Everett (Politico)
- Neil Gorsuch Is Going to Be Your Next Supreme Court Justice, Even Though He Never Should’ve Been in the Running by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Top takeaways from Gorsuch’s final day of questions by Josh Gerstein & Seung Min Kim (Politico)
News
- Donald Trump will resign ‘soon’, says top Democrat Dianne Feinstein by Rachel Roberts (Independent)
- Rex Tillerson: My wife convinced me to be US secretary of state (BBC)
- NATO says it will reschedule meeting so Tillerson can attend by Matthew Pennington (AP)
- The Trump Administration Denies That an Anti-Muslim Leader Had a Meeting at the White House—Even Though She Posted Photos by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Hill Republicans say they’re growing frustrated with Mattis by Eli Stokols & Eliana Johnson (Politico)
- Ivanka Trump’s family skiing ‘funded by the taxpayer’ by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
- The Secret Service has requested an extra $60 million for Trump family travel and protection by Jen Hayden (Daily Kos)
- White House refuses to attend international meeting to discuss human rights by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Supreme Court restricts Donald Trump’s power to fill temporary government posts by Sam Hananel (Independent)
- Michael Moore calls on Democrats to declare ‘national emergency’ to stop Donald Trump by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith (Independent)
- Donald Trump told to ‘get ready for impeachment’ by senior Democrat Maxine Waters by Harriet Agerholm (Independent)
- President Trump Will Give Commencement Address at Liberty University by Alana Abramson (TIME)
- Muslims inside FBI describe culture of suspicion and fear: ‘It is cancer’ by Spencer Akerman (The Guardian)
- North Korean Missile Launch Fails within Seconds, as Country Continues to Defy Sanctions by David Gilbert (VICE)
- Ousted national security adviser didn’t sign ethics pledge by Julie Bykowicz (AP)
- New poll: only 3% of Trump voters regret their vote by Eric Plutzer (Washington Post)
- World leaders gather to discuss ‘secret plan’ to defeat Isis after laptop terror threat prompts flight ban by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Trump’s Vegas partner says business is not dividing profits from foreign governments as promised by Dan Alexander (Forbes)
- Eyeing Trump’s budget plan, Republican Governors say ‘No Thanks’ by Alexander Burns (The NY Times)
- Trump team ‘incidentally monitored’ after election (BBC)
- Lawmaker says U.S. foreign surveillance ‘unmasked’ Trump associates by Patricia Zengerle & Dustin Volz (Reuters)
- Nunes claims some Trump transition messages were intercepted by Austin Wright (Politico)
- Don’t Buy the Latest Trump Surveillance Hype by Brian Barrett (Wired)
- Elizabeth Warren Exposes Trump’s Dodgy New Labor Pick In Brutal Confirmation Hearing by Alexandra Rosenmann (AlterNet)
- Labor nominee Acosta: Trump is the boss by Marianne Levine (Politico)
- Pelosi: Intel chair Nunes is ‘deeply compromised’ on Russia investigation by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Wall Street Journal Issues Scathing Condemnation of Trump by Matthew Rozsa (AlterNet)
- Donald Trump has lost the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board by Jacob Gardenswartz (Vox)
- Donald Trump Sends Teen Who Made Kitten Website Cease and Desist Letter, Reports Say by Carolyn Lipka (Teen Vogue)
- The LAPD Is Worried Deportation Fears Are Stopping Latinos From Reporting Rape by Melissa Jeltson (Huffington Post)
- The Senate Prepares to Send Internet Privacy Down a Black Hole by Klint Finley (Wired)
- Donald Trump Jr criticises London mayor after terror attack (BBC)
- Trump asked for tanks at his inauguration, email reveals by Jon Sharman (Independent)
Analysis
- Donald Trump may have violated the Constitution, Harvard doctoral candidate says by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- The Growing Red-State Backlash to Donald Trump by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- Ivanka Trump’s “unofficial” White House job, explained by Libby Nelson (Vox)
- Trump’s budget targets rural development programs that provide a quiet lifeline by Jose A. DelReal (Washington Post)
- Trump’s ‘big, beautiful wall’ will require him to take big swaths of other people’s land by Tracy jan (Washington Post)
- ‘Turkish Trump,’ a Hotel Plan and a Tangle of Foreign Ties by Steve Eder and Ben Protess (NY Times)
- Joe Biden Is More Presidential Than Donald Trump Could Ever Hope to Be by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Betsy DeVos’s “School Choice” Fallacy by Graham Vyse (New Republic)
Opinion
- The Trump Presidency Is Already a Joke by Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair)
Recommended Reading
Action / Resources
- Defeat #TrumpCare
- Love libraries? Call your reps and sign a letter demanding continued funding for America’s libraries by Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing)