Healthcare
- John McCain Is Coming Back to the Senate to Vote on Health-Care Repeal by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Senators To Vote On Whether To Proceed With Health Care Debate by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Republican Senate leader to hold healthcare vote within hours (Reuters)
- Americans share their ACA success stories with John McCain before he votes on health care reform by Taylor Link (Salon)
- GOP promised lower premiums, more competition. Skinny repeal delivers the opposite. by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
- Senate Republicans don’t know what’s in their health bill or what it would do. They’re voting anyway. by Dylan Scott (Vox)
- Senate Health Care Decision: Critical Republicans to Vote Yes by Thomas Kaplan, Robert Pear, and Reed Abelson (NY Times)
- Live: Senate Votes on Considering the Republican Health Care Bill by Staff (NY Times)
- Republicans vote to move ahead on Obamacare repeal by Jennifer Haberkorn, Seung Min Kim, and Burgess Everett (Politico)
- Senate Democrats can’t stop a healthcare vote. Here’s what they’ll do instead. by Jeff Stein (Vox)
- John McCain’s incongruous speech by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Your guide to the next steps in the Senate health care debate by Dylan Scott (Vox)
- The Senates healthcare travesty (The NY Times)
- ‘Skinny’ Obamacare repeal would clash with Republicans’ healthcare promises by Margot Sanger-Katz (The NY Times)
- Senate rejects ObamaCare repeal, replacement amendment by Jordan Carney (The Hill)
- Senate Republicans Clear Key Health-Care Hurdle by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
Boy Scout Speech
- Trump boy scout Jamboree speech angers parents (BBC)
- Trump’s political speech to Scouts inspires parental outrage by Julie Bykowicz (AP)
- Trump’s Boy Scouts Speech And The Thin Line Between Openness And Recklessness by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
- Trump Goes on Unhinged Rant in Front of Thousands of Children by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- All The Ways Donald Trump Violated The Boy Scout Law Last Night by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
- Boy Scouts of America distances itself from partisan politics after Trump speech (Politico)
- The Boy Scouts are stunned by Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping speech by yMatthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump’s speech to boy scouts irks some in ‘nonpartisan’ organization by (The Washington Post)
Sessions
- Trump assails Sessions for ‘very weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes’ by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- The Strange, Slow-Motion Defenestration of Jeff Sessions by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Sessions’ allies say Trump using Twitter attacks to force resignation by Julia Edwards Ainsley (Reuters)
- Donald Trump launches major attack on ‘very weak’ Attorney General Jeff Sessions, amid rumours he is set to fire him by Tom Batchelor (Independent)
- Sessions sets limits on U.S. federal funding for sanctuary cities (Reuters)
Russia
- Why Russia Revelations Never Seem To Change Anything by Julia Azari (FiveThirtyEight)
- Why Trump Might Fire Robert Mueller by Peter Beinart (The Atlantic)
- Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About June 2016 Meeting With Russians by Eileen Sullivan, Adam Goldman, and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
- Capitol Hill throws up red flags as Trump moves on Sessions and possibly Mueller by Mike DeBonis (Washington Post)
News
- A Guide to Trump’s $1 Trillion Defense Bill by William D. Hartung (The Nation)
- Trump welcomes Lebanese prime minister Hariri to White House by Darlene Superville (AP)
- Trump, without evidence, cites Ukraine ties to ex-rival Clinton (Reuters)
- Federal judge blocks Trump from deporting almost 1,500 Iraqis by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
- Breitbart turns on Donald Trump with attack on President’s treatment of Jeff Sessions by Andrew Griffin (Independent)
- Conflicting reports emerge over firing of White House press aide by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Scaramucci on Leaks: ‘I’m Going to Fire Everybody’ by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (NY Times)
- House votes overwhelmingly to approve new Russia sanctions (Reuters)
Analysis
- Just How Conservative Was Neil Gorsuch’s First Term? by Oliver Roeder (FiveThirtyEight)
- Senators on hot mic: Trump is ‘crazy’; ‘I’m worried’ by Philip Bump (Vox)
Opinion
- This is not okay by Editorial Board (Washington Post)
- I’d Like to Report a Scam Against the Elderly by Jack Shafer (Politico)