Tax Plan
- Republicans Are Throwing Away Their Shot at Tax Reform by David Frum (The Atlantic)
- Opinion: Republican tax cuts will hurt Americans. And Democrats will pay the price by Bruce Bartlett (The Guardian)
- The CBO found another way the Senate tax bill benefits higher-income Americans over the rest by Dylan Scott (Vox)
- A Vote For The GOP Tax Bill Is A Vote To Cut Medicare by Nancy Altman, Linda Benesch (Huffington Post)
- Analysis: Will Cutting the Health Mandate Pay for Tax Cuts? Not Necessarily by Kate Zernicke and Any Goodenough (NY Times)
- GOP tax bill is second-most unpopular legislation in 30 years by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
Russia Investigation / Russia Collusion
- Trump voter: If Jesus Christ told me Trump colluded with Russia, I’d check with Trump by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- James Clapper on Donald Trump, Russia, and the First Line of His Obituary by Matthias Schwartz (GQ)
- Trump believes Mueller probe is almost done: report by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Mueller to interview Trump officials, Kushner aide: report by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- As the F.B.I. Closes In, Trump’s Lawyers Are Scrambling to Keep Him Calm by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- Mueller wants Jeff Sessions to hand over documents on Comey firing by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Analysis: Is Ivanka Trump a target of investigation now? It seems inevitable by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
North Korea
- US declares North Korea ‘sponsor of terror’ (BBC)
- Trump To Designate North Korea As A State Sponsor Of Terrorism by Arnie Seipel (NPR)
- Trump: U.S. designates North Korea a state sponsor of terror, triggering sanctions by Jeff Mason (Reuters)
- South Korea, Japan say listing North Korea as terror sponsor will pressure Pyongyang to denuclearize by Christine Kim (Reuters)
FCC / Net Neutrality Repeal
- FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules by Margaret Harding McGill (Politico)
- Donald Trump’s FCC is a Clear and Present Danger to Democracy by John Nichols (The Nation)
News
- Is Ivanka Trump a target of investigation now? It seems inevitable by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- White House says true cost of opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504bn by AP (The Guardian)
- Washington Post: Trump does right by elephants, should press on by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Trump predicts unemployment rate below 4 percent by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Trump’s Pentagon Wants to Make Nuclear Weapons More ‘Usable’ by Michael T. Klare (The Nation)
- Days after major Keystone pipeline oil spill, Nebraska commission approves Keystone XL by Natasha Geiling (ThinkProgress)
- Health nominee reaped big earnings from drug industry tenure by Steven Braun (AP)
- Donald Trump Is Shutting Down His Charitable Foundation by David Moye (Huffington Post)
- Report: H.R. McMaster, Like Rex Tillerson, Has Said Privately That Trump Is Real Dumb by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Trump’s top foreign policy adviser questions his intelligence: report by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- U.S. Is Ending Temporary Residence Permits for Nearly 60,000 Haitians by Luis Alonso Lugo (TIME)
- U.S. Cancels Program For Recent Haitian Immigrants; They Must Leave By 2019 by Leila Fadel (NPR)
- White House asks Supreme Court to allow full travel ban (Reuters)
- Trump administration takes travel ban back to Supreme Court by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Trump tweets on CNN could muddy AT&T-Time Warner lawsuit by Steven Overly (Politico)
- Federal judge rules Trump defunding sanctuary cities ‘unconstitutional on its face’ by Olivia Beavers (The Hill)
- Judge Permanently Blocks Trump’s Executive Order On Sanctuary Cities by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protection for Haitians by Miriam Jordan (NY Times)
Analysis
- What It’s Like Covering Trump by Terry Parris Jr. (ProPublica)
- Here’s Where the Democrats Must Win to Retake the House in 2018 by Robert Wheel (VICE)
- A civil rights ’emergency’: justice, clean air and water in the age of Trump by Oliver Milman (Guardian)
- Trump’s Odd Feud With LaVar Ball by David A Graham (Atlantic)
Opinion
- Donald Trump, bold defender of white masculinity by Chauncey DeVega (Salon)
- The Republican War on College by Derek Thompson (Atlantic)