Immigration / Family Separation / Border / ICE
- “The Children Are an Afterthought”: ICE’s Workplace Raids Are Tearing Immigrant Families Apart by Olivia Exstrum (Mother Jones)
- Trump Says ‘Abolish ICE’ Is Bad Politics For Democrats. Is He Right? (FiveThirtyEight)
- 4 Questions About The Call To Abolish ICE by Mara Liasson (NPR)
- US “zero-tolerance” immigration policy still violates fundamental human rights laws by Jeffrey Davis (Salon)
- Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Holding Asylum Seekers in Lengthy, Mass Detention by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- 5 migrant children file complaint over forced medication in detention centers by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
- What to Do If Border Patrol Asks You for Documentation by Gaby Del Valle (Teen Vogue)
- Migrant Parents Face Major Obstacles Before They Can Regain Custody Of Their Children by Joel Rose (NPR)
- ICE Deportation Form: Trump Is Making Parents Choose Between Losing Their Children and Deportation by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
- ICE Officials Are Pressuring Separated Parents To Sign Deportation Forms by Angelina Chapin (Huffington Post)
- ACLU slaps Trump administration over parent deportation form by Maria Sacchetti and Jon Gerberg (Washington Post)
Supreme Court
- Justice Kennedy Wasn’t A Moderate by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- Is the Supreme Court poised to side with ex-gay conversion therapy? by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
- Clean Break: Kennedy Supreme Court Exit Could Upend Environmental Safeguards by David S. Rauf (Scientific American)
- Trump interviews three more potential Supreme Court candidates by Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)
- The Supreme Court Has Long Been a Tool of Oppression by Chase Strangio (Teen Vogue)
- Why Anthony Kennedy Was a Moderating Force on the Supreme Court by David Cole (The Nation)
North Korea
- Trump takes credit for peace with North Korea by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Trump: US Would Be at War With North Korea If Not for Me by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Trump shrugs off news of secret nuclear facility, pretends he prevented war with North Korea by Josh Israel (ThinkProgress)
Affirmative Action / College Admissions
- Trump Administration to Rescind Obama Guidelines on Race in College Admissions by Michelle Hackman (The Wall Street Journal)
- Trump to urge colleges to ignore race in admissions: media (Reuters)
- Trump administration to scrap Obama guidelines on affirmative action by Benjamin Wermund (Politico)
- Trump Administration Reverses Obama on Affirmative Action by Erica L. Green, Matt Apuzzo, Katie Benner (NY Times)
- The Trump Administration Is Hell-Bent on Ending Affirmative Action by Jay Willis (GQ)
- DeVos Doesn’t Believe that Promoting Racial Diversity in Schools Is a Worthwhile Cause by Dennis Parker (ACLU.org)
Ocasio-Cortez
- Can Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Save The Planet? by Emily Atkin (The New Republic)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Resurgence of Democratic Socialism in America by Peter Dreier (The American Prospect)
- What the Media Got Wrong About Ocasio-Cortez’s Triumph (The Nation)
Senate Intelligence Committee / Russia
- New Senate Intelligence Committee report backs up the intel community’s findings on Russian election meddling and flies in the face of Trump’s attacks by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
- The Senate Intelligence Committee Refutes Trump—As Quietly As Possible by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Senate Intelligence Committee backs assessment of Russia election meddling by Martin Matishak (Politico)
- Senate panel upholds finding that Russia backed Trump, contradicting House by Katie Bo Williams (The Hill)
- Judge tosses suit alleging Trump campaign conspired with Russia in DNC hack by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
Scott Pruitt
- Scott Pruitt Asked Aides To Find His Wife A $200,000 Job: Report by Nick Visser, Sara Boboltz (Huffington Post)
- Scott Pruitt’s Scandal-Plagued Tenure Just Keeps Getting Worse by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Report: Pruitt asked staffers to use personal credit cards for his hotel bookings by Li Zhou (Vox)
- Pruitt Asked Trump To Fire Sessions, Let Him Run Justice Department: Report by Lydia O’Connor (Huffington Post)
- Pruitt asked Trump to fire Sessions, name him as AG: report by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
Other News
- After Delay, Trump Orders Flags At Half-Staff For Annapolis Attack by Scott Neuman, Colin Dwyer (NPR)
- Political Cartoonist Fired For Trump Criticism Tells His Story In Comic Form by Marina Fang (Huffington Post)
- After Harley spat, Trump seeks to lure other motorcycle firms to U.S. (Reuters)
- Trade War Likely To Hit Trump States Hard: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Trump returns to attacks on “fake news” only 5 days after Maryland newspaper shooting by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
- President Trump Continues Attacking Maxine Waters After She Cancels Events Over Death Threats (TIME)
- Trump uses official White House Twitter account to attack two women who could challenge him in 2020 by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- ‘Incredible explosion’: 40,000 more US women interested in running for office since Trump’s election, report reveals by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
- Trump planning one-on-one meeting with Putin without aides present: report by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
- Trump makes unfounded claim that Obama gave citizenship to 2,500 Iranians by Julian Borger, Saeed Kamali Dehghan (The Guardian)
- Walmart removes ‘Impeach Trump’ apparel after boycott threats (BBC)
- Federal Judge Rips Trump Administration Over Census Citizenship Question by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
- Trump biographer: Trump didn’t write any of his books by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
- Pore or pour? Trump tweet corrects example of poor spelling. by Judah Taylor (Politico)
Analysis
- We’re About as Different From Each Other As We’ve Always Been by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Why Trump’s proposal to merge the departments of Labor and Education should fail by Nicholas Tampio (Salon)
- The Problem with Patriotism: A Critical Look at Collective Identity in the U.S. and Germany by Andrea Scrima (The Millions)
- Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Trump’s own Justice Department reprimands his conspiracy theorizing by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- In a Fox-Inspired Tweetstorm, Trump Offers a Medley of Falsehoods and Misstatements by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (NY Times)
Opinion
- Trump’s opponents have the moral high-ground. Let’s not squander it by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (The Guardian)
- Dear resistance: marching is not enough by LA Kauffman (The Guardian)
- America Started Over Once. Can We Do It Again? by Editorial Board (NY Times)