Asia Trip
- Don’t Be Koi. There’s Something Fishy About That Trump-Abe Photo by Scott Neuman (NPR)
- Opinion: 3 Central Questions As President Trump Visits Asia by Ely Ratner, Ashley Feng (NPR)
- Trump, During Visit To Japan, Talks Trade And North Korea by Scott Neuan (NPR)
- US President trumps Abe by upending box of food into Tokyo palace koi carp pond by Jeff Farrell (Independent)
- Donald Trump shuns Japanese food for American burger at golf club near Tokyo by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
- Trump says Japan would shoot North Korean missiles ‘out of sky’ if it bought U.S. weaponry by Steve Holland, Elaine Lies (Reuters)
- Trump’s Seoul visit to put him at heart of North Korea nuclear standoff by Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick (Reuters)
- Donald Trump at the Koi Pond in Japan Was Not Actually the Disaster It Seemed by Kenzie Bryant (Vanity Fair)
- Wooing Trump, Xi Jinping Seeks Great Power Status for China by Jane Perez and Mark Landler (NY Times)
- North Korea calls Trump a ‘lunatic old man’ who may ‘start nuclear war’ as US and Japan hold summit by Rachel Revesz (Independent)
Texas Shooting
- Trump Says the Texas Church Shooting Is a ‘Mental Health Problem’ by Eli Meixler (TIME)
- Trump Says Deadly Texas Shooting Isn’t A Guns Issue, It’s A Mental Health Problem by Rebecca Shapiro (Huffington Post)
- Trump: Texas shooting result of ‘deranged individual,’ ‘isn’t a guns situation’ by Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
- Opinion: The indefensible Republican response to the Texas mass shooting by Paul Waldman (Washington Post)
- Mass shootings in America are spreading like a disease by Derek Thompson (The Atlantic)
- Google’s mass-shooting misinformation problem by Alexis C. Madrigal (The Atlantic)
- Texas gunman had assaulted wife and stepson before church shooting by Dave Philipps and Richard A. Oppel Jr. (The NY Times)
- How to reduce shootings by Nicholas Kristof (The NY Times)
- ‘These killings will not abate’: Chris Murphy’s unorthodox, dystopian plea for gun control by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
- Analysis: Thoughts and Prayers for Texas. NRA Funding for Washington. by David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick, and Stuart A. Thompson (NY Times)
Tax Plan
- The Republican tax plan’s original sin by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Republicans’ tax bill is sneakily hacking away at abortion rights by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- The Republican tax bill, explained with a bowl of cartoon cereal by Alvin Chang (Vox)
- Trump’s tax plan: He might as well ask New Yorkers to take $1,000 out of an ATM and give it to a hedge-fund manager by Bill deBlasio (Business Insider)
- The Paradise Papers Make the Republican Tax Plan Look Insane by David Dayen (VICE)
Russia Investigation / Mueller Probe / Russia Connections
- Russia paid for Facebook and Twitter investments through Jared Kushner business associate by Mytili Sampathkumar (Independent)
- Why the White House Dreads a Flynn Indictment by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- U.S. commerce chief Ross: Nothing improper about his Russia-tied investments (Reuters)
- A Timeline of the Trump-Russia Scandal by Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone)
- Manafort, associate to remain under house arrest, tracked by GPS by Katie Bo Wiliams (The Hill)
- Howard Dean: Kushner will likely be indicted by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
- Paradise Papers list: The highest profile individuals named in the leaked documents so far by Josie Cox (Independent)
- Analysis: Why the White House Dreads a Flynn Indictment by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- What Russia’s Syria Intervention Tells Us About Its Interference in the US Election by Juan Cole (The Nation)
News
- A new twist: Trump a victim of hackers years before election by Tami Abdollah (AP)
- Officials expect DeVos to resign from Trump administration by Chris Sosa (Salon)
- Woman fired for flipping off Trump says conservative colleagues got off easy by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump’s secret weapon for 2020 is quietly gathering steam by Pam Vogel (Salon)
- North Korea calls Trump a ‘lunatic old man’ who may ‘start nuclear war’ as US and Japan hold summit by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Steyer claims breach of contract after Fox News pulls his Trump impeachment ads by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
Analysis
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- America’s pathetic autocrat by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- 15 elections you should be watching by Stephen Shepard (Politico)
- Here’s how far the world is from meeting its climate goals by Brad Plumer and Nadja Popvich (The NY Times)
- As de Blasio Looks to 2nd Term, He Sees a City Threatened by Trump by J. David Goodman (NY Times)
- The weirdness of promoting a book in the first year of Trump by Emily Temple (Lithub)