News
- Michael Moore’s last plea to Republican electors: “Do not put our nation in danger by choosing Donald J. Trump” by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump presidency set to be confirmed amid bid to thwart him (BBC)
- The rogue electors’ long game by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Donald Trump expected to move one step closer to the presidency as the electoral college meets by Cathleen Decker (LA Times)
- Undocumented Immigrants Brace for the Trump Administration by Jonathan Blitzer (The New Yorker)
- The electoral college is poised to pick Trump, despite push to dump him by Ed O’Keefe (Washington Post)
- U.S. electors expected to officially confirm Trump victory by David Morgan (Reuters)
- Donald Trump will violate the US constitution on inauguration day by Laurence H Tribe (The Guardian)
- ‘Faithless electors’ explain their last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump by Ed Pilkington (The Guardian)
- Electoral college votes – and ‘faithless electors’ speak out by Nicole Puglise (The Guardian)
- Trump has no idea how to run a superpower, say Chinese media by Tom Phillips (The Guardian)
- Trump Tower Has Tiffany’s-Branded Security Barricades Because We Live In a Scifi Dystopia Now by Matt Novak (Paleofuture)
- Trump team still refusing to accept reports of Russian action, or to take action against Russia by Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)
- Trump nominates trading firm founder Viola as Army secretary (Reuters)
- 5 Things You Should Know About The Electoral College by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Transcript And Video: NPR’s Exit Interview With President Obama (NPR)
- Newt Gingrich ramps up attacks on “propaganda media”: If you’re not with Trump, you’re the enemy by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
- Michael Moore vows to pay fines of Republican electoral college members who vote against Donald Trump by Olivia Blair (Independent)
- Electoral College Briefing: The Final Lap to the White House (NY Times)
- John McCain warns Russia hacking is a sign of the “unraveling” of the “world order” and can “destroy democracy” by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Electoral College meets amid effort to deny Donald Trump presidency (Chicago Tribune)
- The Hamilton Electors won’t prevent Donald Trump from being elected: report by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Here’s why an electoral college revolt is unlikely today by Cathleen Decker (Los Angeles Times)
- Donald Trump Meets Off The Record With Journalists by Michael Calderone (Huffington Post)
- Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’ by Kenneth P. Vogel (Politico)
- To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To ‘Coach’ Young Talent by Scott Detrow (NPR)
- Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s choice for budget chief, wants to cut Social Security and Medicare by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- ‘Unpresidented’: Donald Trump invents the Guardian’s word of the year by Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
- Billionaire businessman Vincent Viola picked as Trump’s army secretary (The Guardian)
- North Carolina’s Legislative Coup Shows What Voter Suppression Will Look Like Under Trump by Ari Berman (The Nation)
- The full transcript from the Trump transition team’s Monday call to reporters (Washington Post)
- Bill Clinton: Trump knows how to get ‘angry white men to vote for him’ by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- U.S. judge orders unsealing of Clinton email probe search warrant by Nate Raymond (Reuters)
- The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker by Russell Berman (The Atantic)
- Could Republicans Undo Marriage Equality? Yes — And Here’s How by Matt Baume (Huffington Post)
- ‘Faithless Electors’ Buck Party By Voting Against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump by Igor Bobic, Mollie Reilly, Chris D’Angelo (Huffington Post)
- The Republican coup in North Carolina makes clear that Democrats must seat Merrick Garland to SCOTUS by Joan McCarter (Daily Kos)
- Yes, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.86 million, and she did it fair and square by Joan McCarter (Daily Kos)
- Bipartisan group of senators renews call for select committee to investigate Russia hacking by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- Pennsylvania’s electors, greeted by protesters, vote for Trump by David Weigel (Washington Post)
- Electoral College: Where the vote stands by Ben Kamisar (The Hill)
- Maine Electoral College voter defects — from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
- Pennsylvania electoral college voters sent books on courage and called thousands of times to change their vote by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Yes, Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Is Really Headed Back To His Old Job by Cristian Farias (Huffington Post)
- Trump presidency faces electoral college test from opponents (BBC)
- Three Professors of Psychiatry Call for ‘Neuropsychiatric Evaluation’ of Trump out of Fears He’s Mentally Ill by Tom Boggioni (AlterNet)
- Bill Clinton Tears Up After Casting Electoral Vote For Hillary by Landess Kearns (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump Secures Electoral College Win, With Few Surprises by Scott Detrow (NPR)
- Electoral College vote seals Donald Trump victory (Al Jazeera)
- Donald Trump wins electoral college vote (BBC)
- The Electoral College Has Become Another Partisan Issue by Carl Bialik (FiveThirtyEight)
- Electoral college revolt fails to stop Trump but lands democratic blow by Ed Pilkington (The Guardian)
- Electoral College sees record-breaking defections by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Gingrich: Congress should change ethics laws for Trump by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Trump Voters Think African Americans Are Much Less Deserving Than ‘Average Americans’ by Michael Tesler (Huffington Post)
- Austria’s Far Right Signs a Cooperation Pact With Putin’s Party by Alison Smale (New York Times)
- Garcetti announces $10 million legal defense fund for immigrants facing deportation in Trump’s America by Julia Wick (LAist)
- Details of $25 million Trump U. settlement filed by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Trump and Mexico’s richest man meet for ‘lovely dinner’ at Mar-a-Lago resort by David Agren (The Guardian)
- Michelle Obama Explains In No Uncertain Terms Why She Won’t Run For Office by Lisa Capretto (Huffington Post)
- In Aftermath of Trump’s Win, We Are Witnessing More Than 1,000 Hate Crimes in a Month by TeleSur (AlterNet)
- Tom Arnold Says He’s Got Recordings of Trump Using Racial Slurs and Calling Son a ‘Retard’ by Travis Gettys (AlterNet)
- Donald Trump’s sons behind nonprofit selling access to president-elect by Carrie Levine (The Center for Public Integrity)
- Democratic Governors Make 11th-Hour Plea To Save Obamacare by Sam Stein (Huffington Post)
- LGBTQ Activists Attacked by Trump Supporters While Leaving NYC Art Space by Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic)
- Donald Trump’s Random Walk Down Wall Tweet by Rob Clearfield (Forbes)
Opinion
- Democrats Need To Win Elections, Not Flip Electors by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
- How Liberals Can Use the Tea Party Playbook to Stop Trump by Dave Gilson (Mother Jones)
- The electoral college won’t dump Trump. After inauguration, we fight by Ross Barkan (The Guardian)
- Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool by Paul Finkelman (LARB)
- Speaking the truth in the post-truth era by Lahcen Haddad (Al Jazeera)
- Stop expecting electors to deny Donald Trump the presidency—here’s why by Gersh Kuntzman (New York Daily News)
- Donald Trump, This is Not Normal! by Charles M. Blow (NY Times)
- How Republics End by Paul Krugman (NY Times)
- Paul Krugman Uncovers Chilling Parallels Between Trump, Fascism and the Fall of the Roman Republic by Janet Allon (AlterNet)
- Ben Carson’s warped view of housing (The New York Times)
- Hillary Clinton’s Political Afterlife (on Saturday Night Live) by Megan Garber (The Atlantic)
- This is how tyranny begins: Why will President Donald Trump continue to hold rallies? by Robert Reich (Salon)
- How Do I Explain America to My Black Son? (The Atlantic)
- It’s Time to Deal with the Reality of a Trump Presidency by Harry Cheadle (Vice)
- Why Trump could be a popular president, and how to prevent him from becoming one by Lee Drutman (Vox)
- KING: Obama and the Clintons still have no earthly idea why the Democratic Party lost the presidential election by Shaun King (NY Daily News)
- Highlights of Obama’s NPR Interview: Russia, Trump, Race, and Where Liberals Went Wrong by Max de Haldevang (Quartz)
- What Those Who Studied Nazis Can Teach Us About The Strange Reaction To Donald Trump by Shawn Hamilton (Huffington Post)
- Monday’s Electoral College results prove the institution is an utter joke by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- The Electoral College Does Not Revolt by Benjamn Wallace-Wells (The New Yorker)
- Trumped by Putin: Hillary Clinton lost for many reasons, but Russia’s involvement was the most disturbing by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship (Salon)
- Time to end the electoral college (The New York Times)
- Can we fire the electoral knowledge? Probably not, but we can put it under new management by Susan N. Herman (The Huffington Post)
- The Trump presidency is real – now what? by Patty Culhane (Al Jazeera)
- Special report: I spent 5 years with some of Trump’s biggest fans. Here’s what they won’t tell you. by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Mother Jones)
- Art after Trump: An Email Exchange with a Texas Elector by Jill Steinhauer (Hyperallergic)