Whistleblower / Impeachment / Ukraine
- Giuliani Reportedly Contacted Imprisoned Manafort To Bolster Ukraine Conspiracy Theory by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
- How Trump’s Obsession With a Conspiracy Theory Led to the Impeachment Crisis by Simon Shuster, Vera Bergengruen (TIME)
- Poll: 45 percent of Americans support impeaching Trump by Justin Wise (The Hill)
- Trump’s impeachment defiance spooks key voting blocs by Gabby Orr (Politico)
- Pelosi warns a second Trump term could inflict ‘irreparable harm’ on the nation by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- Nancy Pelosi: Doesn’t Matter What Effect Impeachment Has On 2020 Election by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
- House Democrats Are So Focused on Ukraine That They’re Overlooking Another Impeachable Offense by David Corn (Mother Jones)
- Trump urges Ukraine, China to investigate Bidens by Brett Samuels, Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
- Trump Confirms He Asked Ukraine to Target Biden in Covered-Up Call, Then Says China Should Target Biden Too by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Opinion: The Party of Collusion by William Saletan (Slate)
- ‘Crazy to withhold security assistance’ to Ukraine for political campaign: Top US diplomat by Katherine Faulders and Conor Finnegan (ABC)
- Trump publicly asks China to investigate Biden, even amid impeachment inquiry by Roberta Rampton and Patricia Zengerle (Reuters)
- Trump throws an impeachment stink bomb into China trade talks by Adam Behsudi (Politico)
- FEC Chair, Again: Soliciting Foreign Election Help Is Illegal by Sara Boboltz (Huffington Post)
- Trump again seeks foreign help to probe Bidens, calls on China (Al Jazeera)
- The Impeachment Crisis Just Got Worse for the GOP by Joan Walsh (The Nation)
- IRS Official Alleges Treasury Department Appointee Tried to Interfere With Trump or Pence’s Tax Returns by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Trump Blurts Out an Impeachable Offense on the White House Lawn by Alex Schultz (GQ)
- Ex-US envoy to Ukraine testifies about Trump impeachment inquiry by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
- Text Messages Dive Deeper Into Trump’s Extortion of Ukraine by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Read: Democrats release Ukraine scandal texts from State Department officials by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
Border
- The US wants to collect DNA from immigrant detainees for a federal criminal database by Nicole Narea (Vox)
- How the Trump Administration Is Privatizing the Detention of Migrant Children by Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza / AP (TIME)
- Trump wanted to have U.S. forces equipped with bayonets to stop migrants at border, among other ideas, officials say by Nick Miroff, Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
Nickelback Video
- Trump Just Politicized Nickelback And People Think We’ve Entered Another Universe by Josephine Harvey (Huffington Post)
- Trump’s video taken off Twitter after band Nickelback complains by Alex Hern (The Guardian)
- Twitter removes Trump Nickelback clip featuring Bidens after copyright complaint by Justin Wise (The Hill)
Other News
- Trump’s USDA Is Letting Factories With Troubling Safety Records Slaughter Chickens Even Faster by Isaac Arnsdorf (ProPublica)
- Trump retweets post mocking Greta Thunberg, calling her an ‘actress’ by Aris Folley (The Hill)
- Trump breaks fundraising records — after he guts elections oversight agency by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
- Trump administration’s war on science has hit ‘crisis point’, experts warn by Oliver Milman (Guardian)
- Trump promotes private Medicare coverage, drawing contrast with Democrats’ health care plans by Rachel Roubein (Politico)
- At least one foreign government allegedly tried to suck up to Trump by booking rooms in his hotel but never staying in them by Alexanda Ma (Business Insider)
- Facebook Just Gave Trump Permission to Lie by Ali Breland (Mother Jones)
- Trump Administration Finalizes Unemployment Drug Testing Rule by Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
- New York prosecutors say DOJ trying to shield Trump in tax-returns case by Toby Eckert (Politico)
- Trump floats idea of his own news network to counter CNN by Oma Seddiq (Politico)
Analysis
- If Republicans Ever Turn On Trump, It’ll Happen All At Once by Lee Drutman (FiveThirtyEight)
- The absurd whiteness of America’s court system, in 2 charts by Ian Millhiser (Vox)
- Trump’s trade attack on Europe couldn’t come at a worse time for a region on the brink of recession by Yusef Khan (Business Insider)
- Weighty matters load the Supreme Court’s next term by Erwin Chemerinsky (ABA Journal)