Mass Shootings/ Gun Violence / White Supremacy
- Trump Backs Background Checks, Sees No ‘Appetite’ For Assault Rifle Ban by Jessica Taylor, Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Trump quietly used regulations to expand gun access by Anita Kumar (Politico)
- Trump visits mass shooting victims at Ohio hospital amid protests by Jeff Mason (Reuters)
- ‘Do something’: Protests as Trump visits Dayton shooting victims (Al Jazeera)
- How Views On Gun Control Have Changed In The Last 30 Years by Nathaniel Rakich (FiveThirtyEight)
- President Trump visits mass shooting sites amid criticism (BBC)
- How 8chan Became the Go-To Platform for Mass Shooters by Talia Lavin (GQ)
- Donald Trump Lashes Out At New York Times Over Headline Change by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
- White House to meet with internet companies after shootings by Margaret Harding Mcgill, Daniel Lippman (Politico)
- Trump says his rhetoric ‘brings people together’ ahead of visits to sites of mass shootings by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- President Trump tells Beto O’Rourke to “be quiet” ahead of his visit to El Paso by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
- Trump falsely claims there’s ‘no appetite’ for an assault weapons ban by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
- President Trump Faces Protests During Visit to Dayton and El Paso by AP (TIME)
- Trump Visits the Grieving, and Stokes Divisions by Michael Crowley, Maggie Haberman, Mitch Smith and Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
- One Of Trump’s First Actions Reversed An Obama Rule On Guns And Mental Impairment by Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
- Trump invokes “both-sidesism” in comparing white supremacists to antifa by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
- Trump dismisses critics after shootings, says they’re ‘looking for political gain’ by Caitlyn Oprysko (Politico)
- Several countries are warning citizens against traveling to the US in the wake of the wave of deadly mass shootings that killed 34 people in a week by Rosie Perper (Business Insider)
- A Trump campaign ad featured QAnon signs weeks after the FBI warned conspiracy theories are a domestic terrorism threat by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
- The owner of 8chan is being summoned to testify before Congress over the site’s link to mass shootings, but no one seems to have his mailing address by Nick Bastone (Business Insider)
- Trump attacks local leaders as he visits two cities grieving from mass shootings by Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, Jenna Johnson, and Felicia Sonmez (Washington Post)
- White Nationalists Are Debunking White Supremacy by William Saletan (Slate)
- Trump: My Unhinged Hate Speech “Brings People Together” by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Beto O’Rourke Flatly Calls Trump A White Supremacist On Live TV by Carla Herreria (Huffington Post)
Immigration / ICE
- ICE Raids Mississippi Food Processing Plant Hours Before Trump’s El Paso Visit by Rogelio Solis, Jeff Amy (Huffington Post)
- Iraqi man dies after Trump administration deports him by Ted Hesson, Nahal Toosi (Politico)
- ICE Arrests 680 in Mississippi in Largest Workplace Raid in Years by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Analysis: Requests for Evidence and Visa Denials Continue to Climb in 2019 by Melissa Manna (National Law Review)
Other News
- Dan Coats’ Deputy Is a Widely Respected Intelligence Professional. Naturally, Trump Wants Her Out. by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
- Trump says U.S. Federal Reserve ‘too proud to admit mistake’ (Reuters)
- Trump Tariffs Will Cost US Households $500 Each by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- U.S. government contractors to get first look at Huawei ban today by Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
- U.S. agency says Trump, Bush can review Kavanaugh records request (Reuters)
- Trump: South Korea should pay ‘substantially more’ for defense costs by Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
- Trump campaign sues California over law requiring candidates to release five years of tax returns by Alex Henderson (Salon)
- NBC analyst: Trump re-raising US flags on Aug. 8 ‘very significant to the neo-Nazi movement’ by Joe Concha (The Hill)
- Trump plan to re-raise flags on August 8 will send message to neo-Nazis, former FBI official warns by Zamira Rahim (Independent)
- Why Joaquin Castro’s tweet of a list of Trump donors is so controversial by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- Trump’s Anti-Obamacare Insurance Plans Are Ripping People Off by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
- White House drafting executive order to tackle Silicon Valley’s alleged anti-conservative bias by Margaret Harding McGill and Daniel Lippman (Politico)
- Trump: South Korea agreed to pay U.S. more to defend from North Korea by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- House Judiciary asks courts to order McGahn to testify by Todd Ruger (Roll Call)
Analysis
- The Fight Against White Nationalism Is Different by Mark Giglio (The Atlantic)
- Why So Many House Republicans Are Retiring, And Why More Could Be On The Way by Geoffrey Skelley (FiveThirtyEight)
- Mexico Could Finally Confront the Trump Administration After El Paso. But Does It Want To? by Joshua Keating (Slate)
- Trump says Google is biased against conservatives. Here’s how search actually works. by Rani Molla (Vox)
Opinion
- What I learned writing about climate change and the US south for a year by Megan Mayhew Bergman (The Guardian)
- There’s an old word for Trump’s brand of nationalism: ‘hatriotism’ by Samuel G Freedman (The Guardian)