Mueller Investigation / Manafort Trial / Michael Cohen
- Guilty: 6 Takeaways From Manafort’s And Cohen’s Big Day by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
- Six Big Questions After the Cohen and Manafort Bombshells by Garrett M. Graff (Wired)
- New York Prosecutors Can Now Go After Trump with Criminal Charges — Even If Mueller Won’t by David Cay Johnson (AlterNet)
- Here’s Why Paul Manafort’s Second Trial Could Be Even Worse for Him Than His First by Alex Henderson (AlterNet)
- Donald Trump’s Fixer Says the President Engaged in a Criminal Conspiracy to Sway the 2016 Election by John Nichols (The Nation)
- Trump’s Tweet About Michael Cohen Is Completely Wrong by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Cohen Ready to Tell Mueller Potentially Explosive Info on Trump, Would Not Accept Pardon by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Michael Cohen’s Lawyer Says His Client Would Never Accept Pardon From ‘Corrupt’ Trump by Colin Dwyer, Ryan Lucas (NPR)
- Trump slams Cohen, lauds Manafort after twin legal blows by Susan Heavey, Lisa Lambert (Reuters)
- As Legal Troubles Mount for His Former Associates, Trump Lashes Out by Sarah McCammon (NPR)
- Cohen won’t accept pardon from Trump, attorney says by Stephanie Murray (Politico)
- Trump praises Manafort for ‘refusing to break,’ unlike Cohen by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Michael Cohen: Trump ex-lawyer ‘happy’ to aid Russia probe (BBC)
- The President Is a Crook by David Frum (The Atlantic)
- Why Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt by Peter Beinart (The Atlantic)
- The Day That Everything Changed for Trump by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- President Donald Trump’s worst day yet: Manafort, Cohen fall and the walls are closing in by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Is a Massive Victory for Robert Mueller’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
- Michael Cohen Doesn’t Want a Pardon, Does Want $500K in Donations for His “Truth Fund” by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Donald Trump Responds To Former Personal Attorney Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea by Nina Golgowski, Antonia Blumberg (Huffington Post)
- Michael Cohen has information on ‘conspiracy by Russians’, says lawyer by Erin Durkin (The Guardian)
- The beleaguered boss: Trump sees henchmen picked off one by one by David Smith (The Guardian)
- Cohen deletes 2015 tweet mocking Clinton with prison by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- Michael Cohen has information ‘of interest’ to Mueller: lawyer (Al Jazeera)
- It’s no coincidence that Trump is surrounded by criminals by Josh Barro (Business Insider)
- Trump torches Cohen and smothers Manafort with praise by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- ‘How did we end up here?’ Trump wonders as the White House soldiers on by Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers (The NY Times)
- New York investigators subpoena Michael Cohen for documents linked to Trump foundation by Vivian Wang (The NY Times)
- Anatomy of a Crime: Sex, Hush Money and a Trump Fixer’s Guilty Plea by Jim Rutenberg and Rebecca R. Ruiz (NY Times)
Kavanaugh
- Kavanaugh: A Closer Look by Martin Kozlowski (The Nation)
- Sen. Hirono cancels Kavanaugh meeting because Trump is ‘an unindicted co-conspirator’ by Nolan D. McCaskill (Politico)
- Schumer: Kavanaugh hearing should be delayed after Cohen plea deal by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- What’s next for Mueller’s investigation after Manafort’s conviction? by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
Other News
- Elizabeth Warren Chose a Hell of a Day to Unveil Her Sweeping Anti-Corruption Bill by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Trump’s Attacks on Public Lands Could Help the Democrats in These States by Jessica Kutz, Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
- White House Admits Trump Is Using Official Events For Midterm Campaigning by S.V. Date (Huffington Post)
- Trump administration is using federal disability law to disenfranchise minority voters by Kira Lerner (ThinkProgress)
- Trump’s Climate Plan Could Do More Damage Than No Plan At All by Emily Atkin (The New Republic)
- ‘We’re the ones it’s going to hurt’: Trump tariffs fuel angst in Trump country by Ben White and Jenny Ament (Politico)
- Mollie Tibbetts’s family doesn’t want her death politicized. Trump is doing it anyway. by Dara Lind (Vox)
- Betsy DeVos is said to weigh letting school districts use Federal Funds to buy guns by Erica L. Green (The NY Times)
Analysis
- Trump’s Fall: The End Game by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
- Donald Trump’s white nationalist White House: Still in full effect by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
- Trump Loyalists Will Cling to him Like Barnacles on a Sinking Ship by James West (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s atrocious coal plan: A rear-view mirror vision, unconnected to reality by Carl Pope (Salon)
- The South Will Disenfranchise Again by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
Opinion
- A Black and Sooty Mess by Editorial Board (NY Times)