Alabama Senate Election / Roy Moore
- Black Voters, Mothers, and Millennials Carried Doug Jones to Victory by Joan Walsh (The Nation)
- Republicans Shouldn’t Assume Roy Moore Was An Outlier by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump’s Lawyer (Inadvertently) Makes the Case for Seating Doug Jones Right Away by Andy Kroll (Mother Jones)
- Alabama senate election: Black female voters were key to Doug Jones defeating Roy Moore by Caroline Mortimer (Independent)
- ‘I Was Right!’ President Trump Claims He Knew Roy Moore Wouldn’t Win the Alabama Election by AP (TIME)
- Black Women Played A Big Part In Doug Jones’ Surprise Victory In Alabama by Marina Fang (Huffington Post)
- The defeat of Roy Moore in Alabama is a rare moment to lift the spirits by Jonathan Freedlan (The Guardian)
- How Doug Jones Will—and Won’t—Shake Up the Republican Agenda by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
Jerusalem
- OIC declares East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital (Al Jazeera)
- Jerusalem latest: Palestinians will not accept any US role in peace process ‘from now on’, says Mahmoud Abbas by Bethan McKernan (Independent)
- East Jerusalem should be declared Palestinian state’s capital, say Muslim world leaders by Bethan McKernan (Independent)
- Muslim leaders call on world to recognize East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital by Ali Kucukgocmen (Reuters)
- Trump’s Jerusalem move: All the latest updates by Staff (Al Jazeera)
- Palestinian leader calls on UN to replace US as Mideast mediator by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
Tax Bill
- Republicans strike deal on sweeping tax overhaul by Brian Faler (Politico)
- Republicans rush to nail down tax deal as Trump readies final push by Amanda Becker, Steve Holland (Reuters)
- Republicans Say They Have a Deal on Tax Bill by Jim Tankersly (NY Times)
- Republicans Reach a Tax Deal, Decide to Cut Rates Even Further for the Rich by Jordan Weissman (Slate)
- Republicans Won’t Slow Down on Taxes After Doug Jones’ Win. They’ll Speed Up. by Jim Newell (Slate)
- Opinion: On their tax bill, Republicans are making a risky, desperate gamble by Paul Waldman (Washington Post)
Net Neutrality
- What is net neutrality? It protects us from corporate power by Matt Stoller (Guardian)
- Will Net Neutrality’s End Harm the Poor? by Creede Newton (Al Jazeera)
News
- White House Aide Omarosa Manigault Newman Resigning by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Omarosa to leave the White House by Matthew Nussbaum (Politico)
- Half of voters say sexual misconduct accusations against Trump are credible by Steven Shepard (Politico)
- Trump’s Deputy Attorney General Says There Is No Good Cause to Fire Robert Mueller by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- USA Today op-ed delivers the harshest criticism of Donald Trump yet by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- USA Today just ran the most anti-Trump editorial of the year by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- Minnesota Replaces Al Franken With Lt. Gov. Tina Smith by Willa Frej (Huffington Post)
- WH withdrawing Trump judicial pick who has never tried a case: report by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- White House Corrects Tillerson on Whether U.S. Will Talk to North Korea by Mark Landler (NY Times)
- In ‘highly unusual’ move, DOJ secretly invited reporters to view texts sent by ousted FBI agents by Natasha Bertrand (Business Insider)
- Justice official defends Mueller, sees no cause for firing by Sadie Gurman and Eric Tucker (AP)
- Rosenstein defends Mueller as GOP lawmakers raise questions of bias in Russia probe by Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett (Washington Post)
- Judge dismisses rioting charges against six Trump inauguration protesters by John Bowden (The Hill)
Opinion
- New York Public Libraries: the proposal to kill net neutrality is ‘appalling’ by New York Public Libraries (The Verge)