- What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class by Joan C. Williams (Harvard Business Review)
- I am one of those 538 National Elector’s and yes the Electoral College is in play [edited with poll] (Daily Kos)
News
- Not fade away: President Obama vows to hold Donald Trump, and Democrats, accountable by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Here’s a reminder that Donald Trump just settled his Trump University fraud case, which swindled people out of lots of money by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- “Europeans defined America” An alt-right leader speaks out on his vision for the U.S. by Sarah Lazare (Salon)
- For Obama, a bittersweet farewell from the world stage by Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post)
- NY governor creates anti-hate-crime initiative (Al Jazeera)
- Korean-American may join Trump Cabinet by Hong Dam-young (Korea Times)
- How much will it cost the US taxpayer to protect Trump and his family? by Asmita Sardar (International Business Times)
- Trump summons five news networks for an off-the-record Trump Tower meeting by Hunter (DailyKos)
- How hard (or easy) it will be for Trump to fulfill his 100-day plan by Larry Buchanan, Alicia Parlapiano, and and Karen Yourish (NY Times)
- Potential Trump Cabinet pick reveals DHS plans in photo by Brooke Seipel (The Hill)
- Historian finds German decree banishing Trump’s grandfather by Kate Connolly (The Guardian)
- ‘Hail Trump!’: White Nationalists Salute the President Elect by Daniel Lombroso & Yoni Appelbaum (The Atlantic)
- Trump Summons TV Figures for Private Meeting, and Lets Them Have It by Michael M. Grynbaum & Sydney Ember (NY Times)
- Where Trump stands on school choice, student debt, and common core by Stephanie Saul (NY Times)
- John Lewis to anti-Trump protesters: ‘Never become bitter’ by Jonathan Matisse (The Montgomery Advertiser)
- Trump plagued by business conflict questions by Kenneth P. Vogel (Politico)
- Pelosi predicts fierce Trump backlash by John Bresnahan (Politico)
- Donald Trump meets with prominent Sanders supporter Tulsi Gabbard by David Smith (Guardian)
- World gets glimpse of deportation plan Kris Kobach took to meeting with Trump by Colleen Shalby (LA TImes)
- Billionaires vs. the press in the era of Trump by Emily Bazelon (NY Times)
Opinion
- Today’s Action: Hitting Trump Again on Financials + Conflicts from Maud Newton
- The Black Middle Class is About to Get Trumped by Lurie Daniel Favors (The Root)
- This is How the World Ends? by Valeria Luisella (LitHub)
- Aid the Immigrants in the Age of Trump by Steve Gertz (Huffington Post)
- America needs anger management by Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
- 3 WAYS TO COPE WITH TRUMP by Dimitri Elrlich (Huffington Post)
- Life Under Trump by Rebecca Gordon (Huffington Post)
- Trump’s Hamilton outburst ignores the theater’s history as a place for political protest by Constance Grady (Vox)
- Here’s An Invaluable Way To Talk To Kids About The 2016 Election Results by James Michael Nichols (Huffington Post)
- The feedback loop of doom for Democratic norms by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump From Being President by Peter Beinart (The Atlantic)
- A pastor on why the religious left has a compelling political message by Sean Illing (Vox)
- Krugman: Why Even Trump’s Benign-Sounding Proposals Are Actually a Scam by Janet Allon (AlterNet)
- People are in the streets protesting Donald Trump. But when does protest actually work? by Erica Chenoweth (Washington Post)
- Gun Paranoia in the Age of Trump by Steve Chapman (Reason)
- If Berlusconi is like Trump, what can Italy teach America? by Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
- Obama created a deportation machine. Soon it will be Trump’s by Daniel Denvir (The Guardian)
- The Kremlin Would Be Proud of Trump’s Propaganda Playbook by Bryan Schatz (Mother Jones)
- Glen Beck is sorry about all that interview by Ana Marie Cox (NYTimes Magazine)
- Surviving in Trump’s America: 10 things women can do to protect their rights by Jessica Valenti (Guardian)
- Trump: Making America White Again by Charles M. Blow (NYTimes)
- Build He Won’t by Paul Krugman (NYTimes)
- Toni Morrison: Fear of Losing White Privilege Led to Trump’s Election by Zeba Blay (HuffingtonPost)
- Trump: Making America white again by Charles Blow (NY Times)
- The signal sent by picking Jeff Sessions for Attorney General by Garrett Epps (The Atlantic)
- Trump faces avalanche of conflict-of-interest troubles by Steve Benen (MSNBC)
- Normalizing Trump: Why the Washington media must break the fluff cycle by Micheline Maynard (Forbes)
- Jeff Sessions’ other Civil Rights problem by Thomas J. Sugrue (NY Times)
- Why We Must Protest by Masha Gessen (LitHub)
- Sanders Urges Supporters: Ditch Identity Politics And Embrace The Working Class by Matt Shuham (TPM)
- No, Bernie Sanders didn’t ask his supporters to “ditch” identity politics. by Clio Chang (New Republic)
- What Artists Can Learn from the Trump v. Hamilton “Distraction” by Timothy Yu (The Nerds of Color)
- The alt-right movement goes full Nazi as Steve Bannon prepares to enter the White House by Shaun King (NY Daily News)
- Vote For President Oprah In 2020! by Carol Muske-Dukes (Huffington Post)
- I Friended a Bunch of Trump Voters. It’s Been a Fascinating Week. by James West (Mother Jones)
- The Normalization of Donald Trump Began in 1984 by Chauncey DeVega (Alternet)
- The Passions of Kanye West and Mike Pence by Doug Rice
- Don’t Be Passive Observers of Last Night’s Terrorization in Standing Rock: Here’s What You Can Do by Kelly Hayes (Truth-out)
- Right TurnOpinion #NeverTrump must become #TheResistance by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
- How Artists Are Changing Their Work in Response to Donald Trump’s Victory by Mahita Gajanan (Time)
- The Alt-Right is Spouting White Nationalism and Doing Hitler Salutes in Washington, D.C. — but Dressed Nice by Brendan Gauthier (AlterNet)
- Trump’s Team Will Start New Wars in the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn (AlterNet)
- We Carry It Into Our Future by Chiwan Choi (Cultural Weekly)
- A Minority President: Why the Polls Failed and What the Majority Can Do by George Lakoff (AlterNet)
- How the Vote Broke, in Historical Perspective by James Fallows (The Atlantic)
- Jill Stein’s Post-Election Interview—Green Party Candidate Shares Why She Thinks Hillary Clinton Lost the Election by Vijay Prashad (AlterNet)
- The Identity Politics of Whiteness by Laila Lalami (NY Times Magazine)