Trump Trip / Saudi Arabia / Israel
- Trump Arrives In Israel For Second Leg Of International Trip by Camila Domonoske (NPR)
- In A Historic First, Trump Visits Old City Of Jerusalem by Mark Katkov (NPR)
- Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to visit Western Wall by Luke Baker (Independent)
- Melania Trump Coldly Slapped Away Donald Trump’s Hand in Israel by Jack Moore (GQ)
- The Latest: White House puts ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ on website (AP)
- Trump in Jerusalem to explore Palestinian-Israeli talks (Al Jazeera)
- Trump Touched an Orb and He Liked It by Eve Peyser (VICE)
- Donald Trump drops out of Saudi Arabia event due to ‘exhaustion’ by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Trump Comes to Israel Citing a Palestinian Deal as Crucial by Peter Baker, Michael D. Shear, Ian Fisher (NY Times)
- Official White House Document Promotes Goal of “Lasting Peach” Between Israelis and Palestinians by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- The President Just Told a Room of Israelis That He “Just Got Back From the Middle East” by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- In Israel, Trump urges new Middle East ‘harmony’ but faces old suspicions by Phillip Rucker and Karen DeYoung (Washington Post)
- Trump fails to explain how to revive Arab-Israeli talks (Al Jazeera)
- What Explains Trump’s Sharp About-Face on Saudi Arabia? by James Carden (The Nation)
Russia Investigation / Flynn / Comey
- Flynn To Take The 5th, Refuses To Turn Over Documents To Senate Panel by Brian Naylor, Mary Louise Kelly (NPR)
- Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence by Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima (The Washington Post)
- Flynn to decline U.S. Senate subpoena in Russia probe: media (Reuters)
- Analysis: Why new evidence suggests big trouble ahead for Michael Flynn by Matt Ford (The Atlantic)
- Flynn takes the Fifth, declines to comply with Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena by Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post)
- Report: Trump Asked Intel Heads To Push Back On FBI Russia Probe by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
Impeachment
- Democrats Should Proudly Call for Trump’s Impeachment by Brian Beutler (New Republic)
- Will Donald Trump Be Impeached? by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
- The case for impeaching Trump — and fast by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
Budget
- Donald Trump’s budget proposal breaks his promise to not cut Social Security by Dylan Matthews (Vox)
- Trump budget seeks huge cuts to disease prevention and medical research departments by Joel Achenbach and Lena H. Sun (The Washington Post)
- Trump budget plan slashes food stamps, healthcare for poor by Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
- Trump’s budget proposal slashes spending by $3.6 trillion over ten years by Damien Paletta and Robert Costa (The Washington Post)
- Budget seeks end to subsidized student loans, forgiveness by Maria Danilova (AP)
- President Trump’s Budget Proposal Calls For Deep Cuts To Education by Anya Kamenetz (NPR)
- Trump Officially Proposes Stripping All Federal Funds From Planned Parenthood by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
News
- Supreme Court Strikes Down North Carolina’s Racial Gerrymander by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
- Supreme Court Rejects 2 Congressional Districts In North Carolina by Merrit Kennedy (NPR)
- North Korea: Medium-range missile ready for deployment (Al Jazeera)
- Exclusive: Trump EPA transition chief laments slow progress in killing green rules by Valerie Volcovici (Reuters)
- Trump extends legal protection for Haitians in U.S. by Josh Gerstein & Ted Hesson (Politico)
- Amid complicated relations with U.S., Turkey hires longtime Trump lobbyist Brian Ballard by Marc Caputo (Politico)
- White House wants to keep secret which government staffers have been lobbyists by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- How Trump Revived the Story About What He Told the Russians by Krishnadev Calamur (The Atlantic)
- Trump Says He “Never Mentioned the Word ‘Israel’” to the Russians, Which No One Says He Did by Joshua Keating (Slate)
- The White House is trying to dupe the New York Times with phony leaks by Callum Borchers (Washington Post)
- White House Moves to Block Ethics Inquiry Into Ex-Lobbyists on Payroll by Eric Lipton (NY Times)
- Trump seems to confirm Israel as source of intelligence shared with Russia by David Smith (Guardian)
- The Latest: Senate confirms Iowa governor as China envoy (AP)
Analysis
- How Far Can Jeff Sessions Take His Crime War? by David Dagan (New Republic)
- Trump hypocrisy continues at home and abroad by James Hohman (Washington Post)
- Escalating probes rattle Trump and his aides by Josh Dawsey (Politico)
- Can Michael Flynn refuse to turn over documents to Congress? Yes — but he risks jail. by Phillip Bump (Washington Post)
- The real threat of phony leaks by Callum Borchers (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s plan to cut food stamps could hit his supporters hardest by Caitlin Dewey and Tracy Jan (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s budget is an aristocratic con by Derek Thompson (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump is destroying his own Presidency by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- Trump’s first budget only works if wishes come true by Binyamin Applebaum and Alan Rappeport (The NY Times)
Opinion
- Trump’s Big Mouth Got Him Elected President. Now It’s His Undoing. by Paul Waldman (The American Prospect)
- Blood in the Water by Charles M. Blow
- Why Donald Trump’s ‘Arab Nato’ would be a terrible mistake by Rashid Khalidi (Guardian)