Kavanaugh
- It’s About Time Senate Democrats Showed Some Damn Backbone by Jay Willis (GQ)
- I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About by Lisa Graves (Slate)
- So No One’s Going to Ask Brett Kavanaugh How He Got Into Massive Debt by Allegedly Buying Baseball Tickets? by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- How Democrats Could Thwart Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination by Thomnas Neuburger (AlterNet)
- Meet the Parkland Survivor Who Testified Against Kavanaugh by Kara Voght (Mother Jones)
- Why Brett Kavanaugh’s Comment About Birth Control Is So Worrisome by Lauren Holter (Teen Vogue)
- Liberal groups urge Dems to seek perjury probe of Kavanaugh by Elana Schor (Politico)
- Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh refers to birth control as “abortion-inducing drugs” by Nicole Karlis (Salon)
- If Kavanaugh is confirmed, any of these 13 cases could end Roe v. Wade by Anna North (Vox)
- Kamala Harris, Brett Kavanaugh and ‘Racial Dog Whistles’ by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- Analysis: New Emails Surface: Did Brett Kavanaugh Perjure Himself Repeatedly? by James Kosur (Hill Reporter)
- Mitch McConnell Suggests Cory Booker Could Face Ethics Investigation And Booker Responds by James Kosur (Hill Reporter)
- Kavanaugh hearing: John Dean warns of a Supreme Court overly deferential to presidential power by Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Kavanaugh won’t even go as far as Gorsuch in defending judges from Trump’s personal attacks by James Hohman (Washington Post)
- Leahy says Kavanaugh was ‘not truthful’ about Democratic documents by Michael Kranish (The Washington Post)
- 4 winners and 3 losers from Brett Kavanaugh’s many-hour, multi-day confirmation hearings by Kay Steiger, Li Zhou, Dylan Matthews, and Anna North
Obama Speech
- Obama: Just Vote For a Democrat, Any Damn Democrat by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Read the Full Transcript of Barack Obama’s Powerful Speech on Donald Trump (Mother Jones)
- Read the full transcript of Obama’s fiery anti-Trump speech by Libby Nelson (Vox)
- Obama delivers full-throated rebuke of Trump’s presidency by Esward-Isaac Dovere (Politico)
- ‘This Is Not Normal’: Obama Takes His Hardest Stance Against Trump by Olivia Paschal (The Atlantic)
- The Juiciest Parts of Obama’s Big Anti-Trump Speech by Eve Peyser (VICE)
- Obama rebukes Trump and Republicans for ‘abuses of power,’ urges Democrats to vote by John Whitesides (Reuters)
- Obama speaks out against Trump and attacks ‘politics of fear and resentment’ by Sabrina Siddiqui (The Guardian)
- ‘It sure isn’t normal; it’s radical’: Former president Barack Obama says Trump and Republicans are knowingly dividing America by Michael Scherer (Washington Post)
- Obama scorches Trump in return to campaign trail (AP)
- The 7 most important moments in Obama’s blistering critique of Trump and the GOP by Dylan Scott (Vox)
Russia Inquiry / Mueller Investigation
- George Papadopoulos: Ex-Trump adviser jailed in Russia inquiry (BBC)
- What’s Still On Mueller’s To-Do List? by Amelia Thomson De-Veaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- Chuck Grassley Is Blocking the Nomination of a Top Intelligence Official Over the Russia Probe by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Trump Campaign Adviser George Papadopoulos Was Just Sentenced to 14 Days in Prison by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Ex-Trump Aide Papadopoulos, 1st Charged In Russia Probe, Sentenced To 14 Days by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
- Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail in Mueller probe by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
- Trump would meet Mueller ‘under certain circumstances’ by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Trump open to Russia probe interview ‘under certain circumstances’ (Reuters)
- “Bob Is Not Afraid of Anything”: Inside the Mueller-Giuliani Chess Match by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
NYT Op-Ed
- White House Considers Using Polygraph Tests to Identify the Op-Ed Writer, Which Is Spectacularly Dumb by Jay Willis (GQ)
- The New York Times’ Anonymous Op-Ed Writer Isn’t Helping Anyone by Danielle Campoamor (Teen Vogue)
- That Anonymous Op-Ed Was About Saving the GOP — Not the Republic by Adele M. Stan (The American Prospect)
- Should Attorney General Investigate ‘New York Times’ Op-Ed? Yes, Trump Says by Carrie Johnson, Philip Ewing (NPR)
- The New York Times Op-Ed Highlights the Actual American Crisis: Congress’ Cowardice by Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, David Plotz (Slate)
- Trump Wants to Polygraph His Own Staff. That’s Nuts. by Bradley P. Moss, Mark Zaid (Politico)
- The Saddest Part of the Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed by Todd S. Purdum (The Atlantic)
- Trump Wants Sessions To Investigate ‘Anonymous.’ But There Was No Crime. by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
- Who wrote the anonymous White House op-ed? A linguistic analysis. by Julia Azari (Vox)
- Trump wants Sessions to investigate New York Times op-ed by Jeremy Diamond and Kaitlan Collins (CNN)
- Who could have written the resistance op-ed? by Natalie Jennings, Aaron Blake, and Kevin Uhrmacher (The Washington Post)
Immigration / Children Detention
- Jeff Sessions Is Executing Trump’s Immigration Plans With a Quiet, Efficient Brutality by Sophie Murguia, Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn (Mother Jones)
- Trump Is Still Desperately Trying to Keep Migrant Children Locked Up by Meredith Hoffman (VICE)
- More Than 400 Kids Separated From Parents At The Border Are Still In Government Custody by Marina Fant (Huffington Post)
- Migrant families separated by U.S. are refusing reunification over dangers: ACLU by Tom Hals (Reuters)
Other News
- Trump threatens China with tariffs on $267B more goods by Megan Cassella, Doug Palmer (Politico)
- President Trump Says He’s Ready to Tax an Additional $267 Billion in Chinese Imports by AP (TIME)
- Donald Trump tries and fails to pronounce ‘anonymous’ during campaign rally speech by Tom Barnes (Independent)
- Trump opens up popular Minnesota wilderness area to mining by Kyla Mandel (ThinkProgress)
- Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease by Sophia A. McClennen (Salon)
- Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Whether Trump Organization Executives Violated Campaign-Finance Laws by Greg Farrell, Christian Berthelsen (TIME)
- Trump Waffles on Pledge to Avoid Government Shutdown by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- Trump on congressman who assaulted reporter: ‘He is a fighter’ by Andrew Restuccio (Politico)
- At Rally, Trump Says Democrats Would ‘Destroy’ Social Security by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- ‘There’s a new sheriff in town’: Trump uses official events to wage campaign against press by David Nakamura (Washington Post)
- ‘I may never have a normal life again’: Stormy Daniels speaks out in rare television interview by Elise Viebeck (The Washington Post)
- ‘I don’t talk that way,’ Trump says. Except when he does by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)
- Michael Cohen seeks to unwind hush money deal with Stormy Daniels by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Trump raises the specter of impeachment at Montana rally by Josh Dawsey and David Nakamura (Washington Post)