Flynn / Sally Q. Yates Hearing / Russia
- Monday’s Russia hearing was a disaster for Trump by Aaron Rupar (ThinkProgress)
- Did Donald Trump try to threaten Sally Yates on Twitter? If so, he committed a felony by Bob Cesca (Salon)
- Sally Yates just handed Democrats new ammo for going after Trump by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- Analysis:A Double Dose of Lawlessness by Garrett Epps (Atlantic)
- How the White House explains waiting 18 days to fire Michael Flynn by Michael D. Shear (The NY Times)
James Comey
- Did James Comey Lie Under Oath About Hillary’s Emails to Huma Abedin? by Peter Elkind (AlterNet)
- James Comey just stepped in it big time by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- FBI Director James Comey ‘made false claim’ about Hillary Clinton’s aide while under oath by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
- F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump by Michael D. Shear and Matt Apuzzo (NY Times)
- President Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
- Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey by Matt Ford (The Atlantic)
- FBI director James Comey fired by Donald Trump (Al Jazeera)
- BREAKING: FBI Director James Comey Fired by Sabrina Toppa (Mother Jones)
- Live Updates and Reactions to F.B.I. Director Comey’s Firing by staff (NY Times)
- Comey firing: Reaction from members of Congress on FBI director’s dismissal by Staff (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Democrats hate James Comey. But they hate the fact Trump fired him even more. by Amber Phillips (Washington Post)
- Donald Trump Fires James Comey, the FBI Director Who Was Investigating Him by Jay Willis (GQ)
- The Convenient Dismissal of James Comey by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- CNN Legal Analyst Unloads on Comey’s Firing: ‘This Is the Kind of Thing That Goes on in Non-Democracies’ by Noor Al-Sibai (AlterNet)
- Trump needed a really good excuse to fire James Comey. Comey gave it to him. by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Clinton campaign team denounces Comey firing by Mark Hesnch (The Hill)
- White House circulates negative stories about Comey after firing by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- James Comey fired: Read the memo sacking the FBI Director in full by Clare Mindock (Independent)
- Read: Trump’s bizarre letter telling FBI Director James Comey he’s fired by German Lopez (Vox)
- Schumer to Trump: Comey firing a ‘big mistake’ by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- In Trump’s firing of James Comey, echoes of Watergate by Peter Baker (The NY Times)
- President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey by Dara Lind (Vox)
- Why the Comey firing could be Trump’s Watergate by Yochi Dreazen and Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- Opinion: Comey’s firing should make all of us ‘mildly nauseous’ by Ruth Marcus (The Washington Post)
- Opinion: The One thing we know for sure about Comey’s firing by Jennifer Rubin (The Washington Post)
- This is not a drill by David Frum (The Atlantic)
- ‘An act of Presidential Imperialism’ by Adrienne Lafrance (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey is an attack on American democracy by John Cassidy (The New Yorker)
- Comey’s firing is- and isn’t- like Nixon’s Saturday night atmosphere by Jeffrey Frank (The New Yorker)
- Trump Wanted a Public Execution by Philip Carter (Slate)
- Comey’s Firing Is the Moment of Truth for the GOP by Yascha Mounk (Slate)
- Trump Spokesperson Goes on Fox News, Says It’s “Time to Move on” From Russia Investigation by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Why Did Trump Fire Comey? by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
- ‘Nothing Less Than Nixonian’: Democrats React To Comey Firing by Scott Detrow (NPR)
- Trump’s Firing of FBI Director James Comey Is a Moment of Truth for U.S. Democracy by Brian Beutler (New Republic)
- More Than 100 Lawmakers Respond to Comey Firing by Calling for Independent Russia Probe by Andy Kroll (Mother Jones)
- Trump Goes Full Watergate—and Threatens Russia Investigation by David Corn & AJ Vicens (Mother Jones)
South Korea
- Liberal Wins South Korean Presidency As Opponents Concede by Jihye Lee, Lauren Frayer, Camila Domonoske (NPR)
- South Korea’s New President Could Make Life Harder for Donald Trump by Ashley Dejean (Mother Jones)
- Trump and South Korea’s liberal new president could differ on how to deter North Korea by Laura King (LA Times)
- South Korea elections: What Moon Jae-in’s election means for the North Korea crisis and relations with the US by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
Healthcare
- Paul Ryan E-mailed Seth Meyers to Complain About His Health-Care Report by Laura Bradley (Vanity Fair)
- Fact-Checking Republicans’ Defense Of The GOP Health Bill by Alison Kodjak (NPR)
- Opinion: We’ve Got to ACT UP to Stop Trumpcare by Gregg Gonzalves (The Nation)
- Opinion: A Healthcare Bill that’s bad for moms and babies by Kyla Nguyen (The NY Times)
- Analysis: Senate Republicans face their own divisions in push for Healthcare overhaul by Robert Costa and Sean Sullivan (The Washington Post)
News
- Senior U.S. senator pushes Trump on Russia, French election (Reuters)
- US watched Russia penetrate French systems during election by Deb Riechmann (AP)
- Senate committee approves Trump’s pick for US envoy to China by Richard Lardner (AP)
- The Trump Administration Wants Evidence of Crimes Committed by Haitian Immigrants by Alicia Caldwell (TIME)
- Trump aides postpone meeting as clashes over Paris climate deal continue by Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
- Trump to nominate Clean Power Plan opponents to federal energy commission by Mark Hand (ThinkProgress)
- U.S. upbeat after Turkey talks on Syria, Mattis: ‘We’ll work it out’ by Phil Stewart (Reuters)
- Donald Trump changed his Twitter banner. The internet mocked him. by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- Trump team plans to release video of Clinton’s concession call by Nikita Vladimirov (The Hill)
- President Trump Signs Bipartisan Bill For U.S. To Rejoin World’s Fair Group by Bill Chapell (NPR)
- Democrats Are Shaming Republicans by Holding Town Halls in GOP Districts by Graham Vyse (New Republic)
- The White House Is Trying to Make Trump’s Muslim Ban Disappear by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
- Trump Could Send As Many as 5,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan by Osita Nwanevu (Slate)
- Sessions to toughen rules on prosecuting drug crimes by Rebecca R. Ruiz (The NY Times)
Analysis
- Donald Trump Can’t Stop His Team From Undermining Him by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Why Liberals Aren’t as Tolerant as They Think by Matthew Hutson (Politico)
- Who has Trump’s ear? Often rich, white, Republican men. by Andrew Restuccia, Aidan Quigley (Politico)
- All of Trump’s campaign statements just vanished from his website. So let’s remember them. by Avi Selk (Washington Post)
Opinion
- Macron, Trump and the Middle East by Joe Macaron (Al Jazeera)