Border / Immigration / Asylum
- Mexico to deport asylum seekers who tried to breach US border (Al Jazeera)
- Trump’s Cheerleaders Praise the Border Patrol for Tear Gassing Toddlers by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Trump threatens border shutdown if Mexico doesn’t remove migrants by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump threatens to close Mexico border ‘permanently’ after US police fire tear gas at migrant caravan by Chris Baynes (Independent)
- Trump threatens to ‘close the border permanently’ amid heightened tensions by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Mexico’s Government Will Increase Security at U.S. Border in Tijuana by Christopher Sherman (TIME)
- President Trump Threatens to Close Border With Mexico ‘Permanently If Need Be’ by Bloomberg (TIME)
- Fox News wants you to be very afraid of what’s happening at the border by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- Trump urges Mexico to send migrants home; 42 arrested (Reuters)
- Is Tear Gas at the Border the New Normal? by Eric Each (NewYorker)
- This is what Trump’s caravan ‘invasion’ really looks like by Bryan Mealer (Guardian)
- How a march at the US-Mexico border descended into tear gas and chaos by Dara Lind (Vox)
- Opinion: Trump is failing miserably on his biggest issue. And he’s covering it up with lies. by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
- How a march at the US-Mexico border descended into tear gas and chaos by Dara Lind (Vox)
Mueller Investigation / Manafort
- How Trump’s new acting attorney general can protect Don Jr. from a Mueller indictment by Travis Gettys (Salon)
- Trump accuses Mueller of ignoring 2016 staffers who ‘want to be’ questioned by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- A New Indictment Looms in the Mueller Probe by Natasha Bertrand (Atlantic)
- Jerome Corsi: rightwing author rejects plea deal offered by Mueller by David Taylor (The Guardian)
- A New Indictment Looms in the Mueller Probe by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
- Paul Manafort breached plea deal by repeatedly lying in Russia inquiry, Mueller says by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
- Mueller’s Team Just Said Manafort Lied to Investigators After His Plea Deal by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- This reporter argues that Trump used Manafort as a ‘mole’ inside Mueller’s investigation — but it just blew up in their faces by Cody Fenwick (AlterNet)
- Special Counsel Says Paul Manafort ‘Breached’ Plea Deal, Lied to FBI by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
Climate Change
- The Trump administration tried to bury its own climate change report — and right-wing media helped by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump on climate change report: ‘I don’t believe it’ (BBC)
- G20 draft statement on climate change crafted to appease Trump, report says by Mark Hand (ThinkProgress)
- ‘I Don’t Believe It’: Trump Rejects Administration’s Dire Warning About Economic Impact of Climate Change by AP (TIME)
- Trump White House issues climate change report undermining its own policy by Umair Irfan (Vox)
- Climate Change Already Reshaping U.S., Says National Climate Assessment by Chelsea Harvey (Scientific American)
- Trump says he doesn’t believe his administration’s climate report (Al Jazeera)
- Trump Dismisses His Own Administration’s Devastating Climate Change Report by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Opinion: The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial by Paul Krugman (NY Times)
News Network
- Trump suggests creating U.S. ‘worldwide network’ to compete with CNN by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Trump suggests creating his own ‘worldwide’ news network to combat CNN’s ‘false’ reporting by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Trump suggests government start its own worldwide television network by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Trump Suggests the US May Start a State-run Media Organization by Brian Krassenstein (Hill Reporter)
Other News
- Melania’s White House Christmas decorations are up, and there are blood red trees by Nicole Gallucci (Mashable)
- Research predicted this wave of right-wing domestic terrorism. Republicans tanked the report. by Josh Isreal (ThinkProgress)
- UN ambassador Haley condemns Russia’s seizure of Ukraine ships by Morgan Chalfont (The Hill)
- Trump’s trusted body man to depart White House by Nancy Cook (Politico)
- Trump Starts New Week By Tweeting Up A Storm, Omitting Some Major Headlines by Marina Fang (Huffington Post)
- Watchdog office to probe Mar-a-Lago members’ influence at VA by Lorraine Woellert (Politico)
- Trump wants GM to halt car production in China: WSJ by Jeff Mason, David Shepardson (Reuters)
- Trump Inherited Obama’s Drone War and Made It Bigger by Matthew Zeitlin (Slate)
- Goodlatte: ‘It’s awfully tough’ for Ivanka Trump to comply with email standards by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- Trump says he expects to raise China tariffs: Wall Street Journal (Reuters)
Analysis
- What Trump’s Legal Battles Tell Us About Presidential Power by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- Is Trump Compromised by Saudi Money? by Andrew Kragie (The Atlantic)
- How Politics in Trump’s America Divides Families by Kiley Bense (The Atlantic)
- Is the Trump Administration Pivoting the Fight in Syria Toward a War with Iran? by Seth Harp (NewYorker)
- The G20 summit is a reminder of how little the US is doing for American workers by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
- Trump’s rescue mission to Mississippi may drag Cindy Hyde-Smith across the finish line by James Hohman (Washington Post)
Opinion
- How Politics in Trump’s America Divides Families by Kiley Bense (Atlantic)
- Trump’s incoherence is too much — and it’s getting worse by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)