Government Shutdown / Federal Workers
- Trump Complains Democrats Are Causing the Shutdown. Americans Don’t See It That Way. by Rebecca Leber (Mother Jones)
- Fallout Grows As Partial Government Shutdown Drags On Into New Year by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- Trump issues order freezing pay rate for federal workers by Tax Axelrod (The Hill)
- Trump Orders Freeze in Federal Workers’ Pay Amid Government Shutdown by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- During Shutdown, Trump Signs Order Canceling Next Year’s Raise for Federal Workers by Patrick Caldwell (Mother Jones)
- Federal Government Advised Furloughed Employees to Offer Manual Labor for Rent During Shutdown by Gina Martinez (TIME)
Border / Migrant Children
- Trump Blames Democrats For Deaths of Migrant Kids As DHS Secretary Visits Border by Ian Stewart (NPR)
- Trump claims Dems are to blame for deaths of migrant children in US custody by Chris Mills Rodrigo (The Hill)
- Trump blames Democrats for deaths of child migrants in U.S. border custody by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- Trump Takes No Responsibility For Two Migrant Children Who Died in Border Patrol Custody by Rebecca Leber (Mother Jones)
2018
- 10 things the Trump administration did in 2018 that you may have missed by Chris Sheridan (Al Jazeera)
- 5 Protest Tactics We Loved in 2018 by Lucy Diavolo (Teen Vogue)
Trade
- Trump Says ‘Big Progress’ Is Being Made On Trade Deal by Jenny Gathright (NPR)
- US-China trade: Trump touts progress in talks for deal (BBC)
- Trump says ‘big progress’ on possible China trade deal by Yeganeh Torbati, Ryan Woo (Reuters)
Manafort
- Identity of Russian ex-spy who served as Manafort’s main foreign contact during 2016 election revealed by Ellen Cranley (Business Insider)
- Former Russian Spy Reportedly Pressured Manafort to Pay Back Oligarch Debts by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Exclusive: Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch by Simon Shuster (TIME)
Other News
- Trump returns to ‘Presidential Harassment’ claim amid shutdown stalemate by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- ‘War on transparency’: US agency plans crackdown on information requests by Jimmy Tobi (The Guardian)
- Republicans quietly end probe into FBI ‘bias’ against Trump during Clinton and Russia investigations by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
- Taxpayers Dish Out $54,000 For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents For New Year’s Eve by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Trump Lies Again About 19,000 ‘Deleted’ FBI Text Messages by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
Analysis
- Trump and Social Media Could Be An Even More Dangerous Combination in 2019 by Monika Bauerlein (Mother Jones)
- No Democrat Deserves a Free Pass Just Because They’re Not Trump by Luke Darby (GQ)