Tax Reform
- Trump Hits The Road To Promote Tax Cuts (Details To Come) by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- FACT CHECK: 4 Claims From Trump’s Tax Speech by Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
- Trump’s Fill-in-the-Blanks Tax Reform Plan by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
Hurricane Harvey
- Trump Administration Hasn’t Decided Whether To Accept Harvey Help From Mexico by Jessica Schulberg (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump Went to Texas for Harvey and Didn’t Meet a Single Flood Victim by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Trump’s Self-Congratulatory Tour Comes to Texas by Isobel Thompson (Vanity Fair)
- Trump says ‘heart goes out’ to Texans after not meeting Harvey victims by Nolan D. McCaskill (Politico)
- Help to Those Who Help Themselves by James Bouie (Slate)
North Korea
- Trump Doesn’t Have the Authority to Attack North Korea Without Congress by Garrett Epps (The Atlantic)
- Trump rips out another terrifying North Korea threat: ‘Talking is not the answer’ by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- Mattis quickly walks back Trump’s bellicose tweet about North Korea by Aaron Rupar (ThinkProgress)
- North Korea launch increases focus on risky U.S. shootdown option by Matt Spetalnick and David Brunnstrom (Reuters)
- Mattis responds to Trump: US ‘never out of diplomatic solutions’ on North Korea by Ellen Mitchell (The Hill)
- Analysis: Trump Says He Will Not Talk to North Korea. Experts Fear He Will. by Mark Sandler (NY Times)
Russia
- Russia Has Confirmed That Donald Trump’s Lawyer Tried to Make a Deal with Them During the Election by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Russiagate’s Second Smoking Gun by Bob Dreyfuss (Rolling Stone)
- Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe by Josh Dawsey (Politico)
Transgender Ban
- Mattis Puts Hold On Transgender Ban For Current Military Service Members by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Mattis Won’t Enforce Trump’s Trans Military Ban—for Now by Alexa Liautaud (VICE)
- Reports: Mattis froze the transgender military ban. Reality: no, he didn’t. by Alex Ward (Vox)
- The military is already denying trans members healthcare, advocates claim by Charlie may (Salon)
News
- Trump Administration Puts on Hold an Obama-Era Desegregation Effort by Alana Semuels (The Atlantic)
- Trump Reportedly Feels Betrayed by Cabinet, and His Mood Is the ‘Worst It’s Ever Been’ by Travis Gettys (Alternet)
- Trump attacking freedom of the press: U.N. rights boss (Reuters)
- White House blocks Obama-era rule expanding pay data from companies by Daniel Wiessner (Reuters)
- Trump voting panel apologizes after judge calls failure to disclose information ‘incredible’ by Spencer S. Hsu (Washington Post)
- Federal judge blocks Texas’ ban on sanctuary cities by Manny Fernandez (The NY Times)
- For Scott Pruitt’s EPA, Climate-Change Denial Is Mission Critical by John Nichols (The Nation)
- Betsy DeVos’s Newest Hire Was a Dean of DeVry, Everyone’s Favorite Sham University by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Sanctuary Cities Set to Go Into Effect This Week by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks SB4, Texas Law Targeting Sanctuary Cities by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
- 11,000 U.S. Troops Are In Afghanistan, Thousands More Than Previously Acknowledged by Mark Katkov (NPR)
- GOP lawmaker: Trump can’t bully senators, ‘this isn’t the Apprentice’ by Julia Manchester (The Hill)
- Ivanka Trump supports rollback of Obama’s policy to close gender pay gap by Sabrina Siddiqui (Guardian)
Analysis
- Legal challenge to Arpaio pardon begins by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
- Ivanka Trump’s latest sell-out is no surprise: Why would she stand up for workers now? by Jeremy Binkles (Salon)
- Trump Halting Equal Pay Measure ‘A Blatant Attack On Women,’ Activists Say by Clare O’Conor (Forbes)