China
- Report: China Has Committed $500 Million to Indonesian Development That Will Include Trump Hotels and a Trump Golf Course by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Trump Vows To Save…Chinese Jobs by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
North Korea
- North Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit (BBC)
- North Korea Summit With Trump In Doubt Because Of Military Exercises by Elise Hu (NPR)
- U.S. still hopeful of Trump-Kim summit despite North Korea threat by Steve Holland, Christine Kim (Reuters)
News
- President Trump Would Like You to Know That He Is Modestly Less Unpopular Than Before by Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Cruel Folly: Canceling TPS for Hondurans Will Fuel More Violence by Lauren Carasik (The Nation)
- Trump: ‘Media may be corrupt, but the People truly get it!’ by Eli Okun (Politico)
- Obama ethics chief accuses Trump of violating emoluments clause: ‘See you in court Mr. Trump’ by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- Trump administration abandons peace push as Israel kills dozens in border struggle with Hamas, Palestinians by Alex Lockie (Business Insider)
- EU tells Iran it will try to protect firms from US sanctions by Patrick Wintour and Jennifer Rankin (Guardian)
- Trump renews call for immigration crackdown by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Gaza buries its dead as death toll from protests at fence with Israel rises to at least 60 by Loveday Morris and Ruth Eglash (Washington Post)
- White House Now Using Literal Hall Monitors to Try and Prevent Leaks by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Gina Haspel: CIA Should Not Have Carried Out ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ by Greg Myre (NPR)
- Trump administration preparing to hold immigrant children on military bases by Nick Miroff and Paul Sonne (Washington Post)
Analysis
- Don’t claim Trump’s doing nothing: He’s destroying the federal government by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Is China straight-up bribing Donald Trump? by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Trump supporters suffer unintended consequences of his policies by James Hohman (Washington Post)
- Trump has a new favorite poll (that shows half the country disapproves of him) by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
Essay
- The Coup Has Already Happened by Rebecca Solnit (LitHub)