Immigration / Border / Family Separation
- Why Rank-And-File Evangelicals Aren’t Likely To Turn On Trump Over Family Separation by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- How America Makes People into Monsters by Joshua Rivera (GQ)
- How Will Detained Children Find Their Parents? by Priscilla Alvarez (The Atlantic)
- Trump Meets Young Toddler Crying at the Border in New Time Cover (Mother Jones)
- 5 Reasons Why Activists Are Calling for the Abolition of ICE by Natasha Uhlmann (Teen Vogue)
- ‘Time’ slams Trump’s family separation policy in a cover for the ages by Marcus Gilmer (TIME)
- Donald Trump backs down on family separation — but the trauma could last a lifetime by Ian Danielsen (Salon)
- Children detained at border forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims by Matt Smith, Aura Bogado (Salon)
- Meet the anti-abortion Trump appointee taking care of separated kids by Adam Cancryn, Renuka Rayasam (Politico)
- The House is voting on immigration Thursday. No one seems to know what’s going on. by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- ICE Shuts Down Its Portland Office As Protests Over Family Separations Continue by Willa Frej (Huffington Post)
- President Trump’s Tweet Just Made It Harder for the House to Pass an Immigration Bill by Lisa Mascaro (TIME)
- Revealed: Canada uses massive US anti-terrorist database at borders by Justin Ling (The Guardian)
- Report: On-the-Ground Border Policy on Family Separation May, in Fact, Have Changed Overnight by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Trump administration to suspend prosecutions of migrant parents with children: Washington Post (Reuters)
- Trump administration will suspend prosecution of migrant parents who illegally cross border with children, official say by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- This Bush Cabinet Official Was Imprisoned in a Japanese Internment Camp. He Sees Troubling Parallels With Family Separations by Abigail Simon (TIME)
- The border crisis is a reminder that Trump has no idea what he’s doing by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Trump tells federal agencies to reunite families at border; Melania visits region by Richard Cowan, Steve Holland (Reuters)
- ANTIFA shares names and photos of 1600 ICE employees by Jason Lemon (Newsweek)
- Trump returns to tough talk on immigration, a day after retreating on family separation by Michael D. Shear and Eileen Sullivan (The NY Times)
- First step to helping children sent to New York: Find them by Annie Correal and Liz Robbins (The NY Times)
- To solve his immigration crisis, Trump turns to a table of white men by Eugene Scott (The Washington Post)
- House GOP leaders abruptly postpone high-stakes vote on immigration bill by Mike DeBonis and John Wagner (The Washington Post)
- “Zero Tolerance” and the Detention of Children: Torture under International Law by Meg Satterthwaite, Rebecca Riddell (Just Security)
- No One in D.C. or at the Border Seems to Actually Know What Trump’s New Family Separation Policy Is by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Trump’s Order to Detain Families Together Won’t Help the Children Already Separated From Their Parents by Kaylen Ralph (Teen Vogue)
- More Americans believe immigration is good for the country than ever before by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- House GOP Leaders Delay Vote On Compromise Immigration Bill by Scott Detrow, Kelsey Snell (NPR)
- The Protesters Who Shut Down an ICE Facility Are Just Getting Started by Donovan Farley (VICE)
- A looming question about family separations: where are the girls? by Li Zhou (Vox)
- What Trump’s family separation executive order aims to do, explained in a flowchart by Alvin Chang (Vox)
- Hardline immigration bill fails in the House by Juliegrace Brufke (The Hill)
- No Relief in Sight for Parents of Thousands of Migrant Children Still in Custody by Jack Healy (NY Times)
- The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids by Kevin Seiff (Washington Post)
- Amid immigration debate, feds moving ahead with land seizures for South Texas border wall by Kiah Collier (Texas Tribune)
- The billion dollar business of operating shelters for migrant children by Manny Fernandez and Katie Benner (The NY Times)
- House rejects hard-line immigration bill and delays vote on compromise by Thomas Kaplan and Nicholas Fandos (The NY Times)
- U.S. prepares housing up to 20,000 immigrants on military bases by Michael D. Shear, Helene Cooper, and Katie Benner (The NY Times)
- Tech Employees Are Rallying Against Their Companies’ Work With ICE by Tonya Riley (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Immigration Policies Unified People of Many Faiths in a Powerful Protest on Capitol Hill Today by Nathalie Baptiste (Mother Jones)
- Trump Is Trying to Find a Legal Way to Lock Up Even More Immigrant Families by Madison Pauly (Mother Jones)
- Military Asked To Provide 20,000 Beds For Detained Immigrant Children by Tom Bowman (NPR)
- The Trump Administration Still Has No Plan to Reunite Families It Tore Apart by Zoë Carpenter (The Nation)
- Proposed child holding site in Arkansas 5 miles from WWII Japanese-American internment camp by Benjamin Hardy (Arkansas Times)
Melania Trump
- Melania Trump Plays the Role of Medieval Queen by Sonja Dimmer (The Atlantic)
- First lady Melania Trump visits detained immigrant children (Reuters)
- Melania Trump makes surprise trip to child detention center at border by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Melania Trump Wore a Jacket With the Words “I Really Don’t Care” Written on It to Visit Kids at the Border by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Melania Trump, agent of coat chaos by Vanessa Friedman (The NY Times)
Trump-Russia / Russia Investigation / Mueller
- Trump’s Miss Universe Business Partner Built Two World Cup Stadiums. Now He’s Part of the Russia Probe. by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
- “Coincidence Number 395”: The N.R.A. Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was It Russian Money? by Chris Smith (Vanity Fair)
- Trump’s war against Mueller borrows from Bill Clinton’s playbook by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Mueller worried ‘widespread media attention’ may have biased jurors by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Judge rejects Manafort bid to suppress storage-unit evidence by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
Stephen Miller
- Trump Aide Stephen Miller, Meet Your Great-Grandfather, Who Flunked His Naturalization Test by Lisa Belkin (Huffington Post)
- Stephen Miller: Who is the Trump adviser credited with crafting the president’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policies? by Joe Sommerlad (Independent)
- GOP lawmaker calls on Trump to fire Stephen Miller over family separation by Maria Curi (Politico)
- White House aide Miller targeted in backlash over family separations by Nancy Cook (Politico)
North Korea
- Trump says remains of U.S. war dead in process of being returned from North Korea (Reuters)
- Most Americans Approve of How Trump Is Handling North Korea Following Summit by AP (TIME)
- It sure looks like Trump is lying about his agreement with Kim Jong Un by Alex Ward (Vox)
Scott Pruitt
- Scott Pruitt Spent Over $1,500 in Taxpayer Money on “Tactical Pants” by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Scott Pruitt spent more than $4m on his security detail, report reveals by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
Proposal to Merge Education / Labor
- Sweeping Trump proposal seeks to shrink government, merge agencies by Lorraine Woellert, John Bresnahan (Politico)
- White House Proposes Merging Education And Labor Departments by Clare Lombardo, Alexis Arnold (NPR)
- White House proposes federal government overhaul, including a consolidation of safety-net programs by Lisa Rein (Washington Post)
Trade / Tariffs
- Got Lobster? Trump’s Steel Tariffs Threaten Trap Industry by Craig Lemoult (NPR)
- China angry over Trump’s latest tariff threats but gives no clues about countermeasures by Amanda Lee (Politico)
- Donald Trump’s Trade Wars Could Lead to the Next Great Depression by Nomi Prins (The Nation)
Other News
- Donald Trump ‘lacks character’ for hotel liquor licence (BBC)
- The Trump Administration’s War on Marijuana Could Prevent Sick Kids From Getting Medical Care by Jackie Flynn Mogensen (Mother Jones)
- Trump to campaign for Henry McMaster ahead of runoff by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips cost $20M in Coast Guard protection: report by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
- Democrats plan new effort to target minority voters by Astead W. Herndon (The NY Times)
- A “White Civil Rights Rally” Is Being Planned Across the Street From the White House by Araceli Cruz (Teen Vogue)
- Donald Trump Has Raised Taxes on the Middle Class By $250 Billion by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- National Enquirer sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication, people familiar with the practice say by Sarah Ellison (Washington Post)
- GOP Senators Accuse National Science Foundation Of Funding Climate ‘Propaganda’ by Alexander C. Kaufman (Huffington Post)
- Behind Trump’s plan to overhaul the government: Scaling back the safety net by Glenn Thrush and Erica L. Green (The NY Times)
- Charlottesville rally organizer gets approval for ‘anniversary’ event by Adam Gabbatt (Guardian)
Analysis
- Fact Check: President Trump’s Duluth Rally Claims by Scott Horsley (NPR)