Tax Bill
- Now That The GOP Tax Bill Is Approved, The IRS Gets Busy by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Donald Trump accidentally admits Republican tax bill was deceptively sold as boost to middle classes by Aaron Blake (Independent)
- Trump’s tax bill will allow US President to personally save up to $15m, find analysts by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- The Koch Brothers Have a Plan to Make the Tax Bill Popular by Philip Elliot (TIME)
- Trump hits media over negative tax bill coverage: They’re desperate to please ‘their Democrat bosses’ by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- The GOP’s big tax break for landlords could make America’s housing crisis worse by Akin Oyedele (Business Insider)
- Opinion: The Great American Tax Heist by Charles M. Blow (NY Times)
- Tax cuts buoy Republicans, but they’re swimming against an undertow by Jonathan Martin (The NY Times)
- After tax bill’s passage, tensions over what Republicans should do next by John Wagern, Ed O’Keefe, and Paul Kane (The Washington Post)
- Republicans Exact Their Revenge Through a Tax Bill by David Frum (The Atlantic)
- Republicans plan mega marketing push to sell unpopular tax plan by Kevin Robillard, Nancy Cook, Cristiano Lima (Politico)
- Analysis: The Most Frightening Aspects of Trump’s Tax Triumph by Masha Gessen (The NewYorker)
Russia Investigation
- Partisan witch hunt: House Republicans are secretly investigating the DOJ and FBI by Charlie May (Salon)
- Senate probes Jill Stein’s Russia connections: Did she really spoil the election? by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
- What Happens If Trump Fires Mueller? by Justin Miller (The American Prospect)
- Donald Trump firing Robert Mueller ‘could provoke constitutional crisis’, warns senator by Chris Baynes (Independent)
News
- Erdogan: Mr Trump, Turkey’s democracy is not for sale (Al Jazeera)
- In the Year Since Trump’s Victory, Democratic Socialists of America Has Become a Budding Political Force by Anna Heyward (The Nation)
- Congress to push stop-gap funding bill to avert shutdown (Reuters)
- UN to vote on Jerusalem amid accusations of bullying by Trump by Peter Beaumont (The Guardian)
- Key Trump adviser regularly promoted far-right conspiracy theories: report by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
- Trump administration targets certain words, and the bureaucracy pushes back by Juliet Eilperin and Lena H. Sun (Washington Post)
- After passing tax overhaul, GOP returns to infighting as shutdown deadline looms by Mike DeBonis and Erica Werner (Washington Post)
- First 6 defendants cleared of all charges in anti-Trump Inauguration Day protests that turned violent by Michele Mark (Business Insider)
- Defying Trump, over 120 countries at U.N. condemn Jerusalem decision by Michele Nichols (Reuters)
- Trump administration considers separating families to combat illegal immigration by Caitlin Dickerson and Ron Nixon (The NY Times)
- Obamacare signups at high levels despite Trump saying it’s ‘imploding’ by Robert Pear (The NY Times)
- Trump advisers vent frustrations about 2018 strategy as President listens by Josh Dawsey and Robert Costa (The Washington Post)
- Congress votes to avert shutdown, sends Trump stopgap spending bill by Richard Cowan (Reuters)
- Trump Wins First Round In Legal Battle Over Emoluments by Peter Overby (NPR)
- Republicans warn Trump of 2018 bloodbath by Alex Isenstadt (Politico)
- Appeals court refuses to delay January 1 start date for transgender people enlisting in military by German Lopez (Vox)
- 8.8 million people signed up for Obamacare coverage despite Trump’s sabotage by Dylan Scott (Vox)
Analysis
- Tax Cuts Buoy Republicans, but They’re Swimming Against an Undertow by Jonathan Martin (NY Times)
- How two decisions by Congress may result in millions of adults and children without insurance by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- All the People Congress Is Leaving Behind for Christmas by Russell Berman (Atlantic)
- The Dangerous Incoherence of Trump’s Russia Policy by Jeet Heer (New Republic)
- Getting Kicked, Taking Names by Fred Kaplan (Slate)
Opinion
- The Republican Party Has Bowed, Completely, to the Mad King by Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)