News
- Nerd Alert! This spreadsheet contains every presidential election by state from 1828 to 2016 by Stephen Wolf (Daily Kos)
- In The Weeks Before Trump Takes Office, Obama’s Mad Dash To Save Public Lands by Dominque Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
- Hillary Clinton Met With A Heartwarming Surprise On Thanksgiving Day by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- Steve Bannon’s First Pick For President by Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna (Politico)
- Christian leaders see influence growing under Trump by Katie Glueck (Politico)
- Republicans Get Ready to Welcome Back Earmarks by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- Trump will pursue ‘regional hegemony’ in South China Sea: Chinese academics (Reuters)
- Donald Trump’s allies don’t want him to pick Mitt Romney to be secretary of state by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Russian propaganda is using Facebook, other social media sites to manipulate American voters by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Donald Trump’s stock in Dakota Access oil pipeline company raises concern by Matthew Daly (Salon)
- Will Trump bring stagflation to Korea? by Kim Jae-kyoung (Korea Times)
- Jill Stein raises nearly $5 million for recount effort by Zach Montellaro (Politico)
- The controversy over Trump’s tower project in Argentina: what we know by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
- A short history of fake news: Conservatives believed all sorts of crap long before Facebook by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
- See Ivanka Trump’s response to her father’s jokes about dating her by Tré Goins-Phillips (The Blaze)
- Doctors see a new condition among immigrant children: fear of Trump by Andrew Gumbel (The Guardian)
- Jill Stein: ‘Why Would Anyone Not Want to Count the Votes?’ by Alexandra Rosenmann (AlterNet)
- Jill Stein to formally file for Wisconsin recount as fundraising effort passes $5m by Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
- UpFront special: Noam Chomsky on the new Trump era (Al Jazeera)
- By any definition, Russia hacked the election. by Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)
- Donald Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin as often as he’s talked to his intelligence briefers by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump’s stock in Dakota Access pipeline raises concerns (Al Jazeera)
- Hate Crimes Are Rising But Don’t Expect Them to be Prosecuted by Brandon Ellington Patterson (Mother Jones)
- For the first time in over two decades, seniors moved toward Democrats by David Beard (Daily Kos)
- Trump’s education secretary pick supported anti-gay causes by Benjamin Wermund & Kimberly Hefling (Politico)
- Trump names McGahn as White House counsel by Zach Montellaro (Politico)
- Trump Picks Former FEC Chairman As His White House Counsel by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
- How Russian Propaganda Used Facebook to Spread Fake News During the Election by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Artist turns random dog poop into Donald Trump art installation by David Moye (The Huffington Post)
- Should the electoral college go rogue? One Harvard professor thinks so by Christina Prignano (The Boston Globe)
- In Scotland, Trump built a wall. Then he sent residents the bill by Katrin Bennhold (The New York Times)
- Trump owns stock in Dakota Access parent company by Harper Neidig (The Hill)
- Wisconsin Agrees To Presidential Vote Recount At Third-Party Candidates’ Requests (NPR)
- Donald Trump Is Going to Make Money off the Secret Service Detail Assigned to Protect Him by Matthew Rozsa (AlterNet)
- KING: Will Sims, beloved musician, beaten and shot to death by three white men in a California hate crime by Shaun King (NY Daily News)
- Feds Plan To Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp by Michael McLaughlin (Huffington Post)
Opinion
- Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media by Charles Sykes (Politico)
- Before there was Trump there was Ventura: The Lessons from Minnesota by David Schultz (Huffington Post)
- A Washington Transition for Trump, and For the Rest of Us by Ron Elving (NPR)
- Our Food System Relies on Immigrants. Here’s How One Waiter Is Coping With Trump’s Election. by Tom Philpott (Mother Jones)
- Krugman Gets to the Bottom of Why the White Working Class Votes Against Its Own Interests by Janet Allon (AlterNet)
- Dear Media: Please Stop Normalizing the Alt-Right by David Harsanyi (reason.com)
- Donald Trump’s Revival of ‘Honest Graft’ by Yoni Appelbaum (The Atlantic)
- White prosperity over racial equality: It’s (still) the American way by Darren F. Speece (Salon)
- Democrats Don’t Have an Easy Answer for the Rust Belt by Alana Semuels (The Atlantic)
- Trump’s Big Test in the Middle East by Vali Nasr (The Atlantic)
- The radically simple reason Hillary Clinton didn’t run a different campaign: she thought she was winning by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- Would a different style of voting have changed the 2016 election? We tested 5 alternatives. by Dylan Matthews (Vox)
- What Trump’s presidency may mean for the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Standing Rock Sioux by John Paul Brammer (Vox)
- Trump and Brexit show why the media should stop their overreliance on polls by Rob Vance (The Guardian)
- There are three rules of cabinet appointments. Will Donald Trump break them? (Washington Post)
- Obama’s best chance to influence the Israeli-Palestinian dispute will come after he leaves office by Tony Karon (Vox)
- No Matter Who the President Is, Islam Is an American Faith Tradition by John Nichols (The Nation)
- Trump’s foreign policy can be summed up in a single word: extortion by Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)
- Did racism Trump economic anxiety in US election? (Upfront)
- Could Jill Stein’s vote recount change the outcome of the election? by Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
- A Wretched, Smelly Time: The Morning After by Joan Wickersham (LA Review of Books)
- Donald Trump’s cauldron of conflicts (The New York Times)
- Betsy DeVos and the wrong way to fix schools by Douglas N. Harris (The New York Times)
- You’re The Puppet: Trump, the Death of Truth, and the Silence of the Left by Tom Zoellner, Michelle Chihara (LARB)
- Tower of Power: A Poem for Donald Trump by Martin Pousson (LARB)
- What comes through the fence: reading Paul Celan after the US election by Misha Hoosen (Ploughshares)
- Noam Chomsky Drops Truth Bomb on Trump’s election by Alexandra Rosenmann (AlterNet)
- What Europe Can Teach Us About Trump – They’ve Been Dealing with Guys Like Him for Decades by John Feffer (AlterNet)
- The Big Lesson From 2016 Is That Neither Party Has A Winning Vote Coalition by Natalie Jackson (Huffington Post)
- The Seven Main Reasons Democrats Shouldn’t Donate to Jill Stein’s Recount Fund by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- The Alt-Right, The Other Alt-Right, And The Rise Of The Alt-Left by Seth Abramson (Huffington Post)
- Americans keep looking away from the election’s most alarming story by Eric Chenowith (Washington Post)