2017
- Donald Trump’s First Year as President: A Recap by Lena Felton (The Atlantic)
- One year, many Trumps: 2017’s 10 best theories about our Great Leader by Andrew O’Hehir (Salon)
- Obama is tweeting out the best “good news” stories of 2017, because he knows what we need right now by Jennie Neufield (Salon)
News
- U.S. Military To Allow Transgender Recruits After Trump Administration Drops Appeal by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
- Iran Condemns Donald Trump’s ‘Deceitful and Opportunist’ Tweet Supporting Protests by AP (TIME)
- Pence’s Vacation Neighbors in Aspen Hang “Make America Gay Again” Sign by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- A Drunken Trump Aide Kicked Off the FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Trump is “definitely still involved” in his hotel business, a new report says by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- Ticket prices go up for Trump’s ‘very glam’ New Year’s Eve bash at Mar-a-Lago b
Analysis
- Why Numbers Alone Obscure the Real Deportation Story by Julianne Hing (The Nation)
- How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt by Sharon LaFraniere, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo (NY Times)
- Republican Attacks on Mueller and F.B.I. Open New Rift in G.O.P. by Nicholas Fandoms (NY Times)
- An ‘effort to erase LGBT people’: Activists denounce Trump’s firing of HIV/AIDs council by Eugene Scott (The Washington Post)
- How the Trump era is changing the Federal Bureacracy by Lisa Rein and Andrew Ba Tran (The Washington Post)
- The ‘Double Punishment’ for Black Undocumented Immigrants by Jeremy Raff (Atlantic)
Opinion
- Republicans are waging class war: It’s time for the left to fight back by Conor Lynch (Salon)
- Trump’s vendetta against federal law enforcement (The Washington Post)