News
- Access to Donald Trump, for $500,000: Pitfalls for Presidents’ Families by Eric Lipton (New York Times)
- Trump’s commitment to infrastructure vow is being questioned (CNBC)
- Gingrich: Trump backing away from ‘drain the swamp’ by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Here’s The Law That Poses The Greatest Threat To Donald Trump by Michael McAuliff (Huffington Post)
- Gingrich Says Trump Must Address Business Conflicts Soon, Urges Monitors (NPR)
- Donald Trump on tape saying ‘every racist thing ever’, claims actor Tom Arnold by Rory Caroll (The Guardian)
- Dear Obama: progressives share what they want done before president leaves by Sam Levin and Julie Carrie Wong (The Guardian)
- Women’s March On Washington Aims To Be More Than Protest, But Will It Be? by Alejandra Maria Salazar (NPR)
- Obama restricts offshore drilling in latest poke at Trump by Esther Whieldon (Politico)
- How One Reporter Turned to His Readers to Investigate Donald Trump by Dan Gillmor (The Atlantic)
- Mitch McConnell Assaulted the Constitution (and Got Away With It) by William Greider (The Nation)
- Donald Trump’s national security adviser meets with Austrian far-right leader by Caroline Mortimer (Independent)
- FBI search warrant blamed for costing Hillary Clinton presidential election ‘should never have been granted’ by Ben Kentish (Independent)
- Donald Trump, climate change denier, questions State Department about environmental spending by Juliet Eilperin & Carol Morello (Independent)
- Trump’s budget director pick: “Do we really need government-funded research at all” by Julia Belluz (Vox)
- Courts could be a firewall if Trump seeks to expand presidential powers by David G. Savage (LA Times)
- Donald Trump’s Cabinet-in-waiting: What we know so far (updates) by Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
- Trump claims he could have also won the popular vote, if he wanted to by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- First Amendment Defense Act Would Be ‘Devastating’ for LGBTQ Americans by Mary Emily O’hara (NBC)
- Ted Cruz to introduce bill allowing discrimination against LGBT Americans nationwide by Hunter (Daily Kos)
- Texas Moves To Block Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Funds by Rebecca Hersher (NPR)
- Trump appoints ‘Death by China’ author as head of US trade council (BBC)
- Poll: 62 percent of Democrats and independents don’t want Clinton to run again by Nolan D. Mccaskill (Politico)
- Trump under pressure to pick a Hispanic for his Cabinet by Josh Dawsey & Tara Palmeri (Politico)
- Trump adds billionaire Carl Icahn to team as special adviser on regulation by Dominic Rushe (The Guardian)
- Donald Trump’s trade team has based their analysis on a remarkably silly mistake by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Trump on the future of proposed Muslim ban, registry: ‘You know my plans’ by Abby Philip (Washington Post)
- Donald Trump Is Hiring People for His Administration Based Partly on Their Looks by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump suggests Berlin attack affirms his plan to bar Muslims by Mark Landler (The New York Times)
- Donald Trump is holding a government casting call. He’s seeking ‘the look.’ by Philip Rucker and Karen Tumulty (The New York Times)
- Cybersecurity firm finds a link between DNC hack and Ukrainian artillery by Ellen Nakashima (The Washington Post)
- This Fake Nonprofit Has Been Accused Of Spying On Real Human Rights Activists by Thomas Fox-Brewster (Forbes)
Opinion
- In Donald Trump’s Washington, corruption will be utterly shameless by Paul Waldman (Washington Post)
- Trump posse browbeats Hill Republicans by Rachael Bade (Politico)
- Trump Is Going After Health Care. Will Democrats Push Back? by Theda Skocpol (New York Times)
- Donald Trump’s cabinet bodes ill for the planet by Lauren Carasik (Al Jazeera)
- “Drain the swamp” — of all those P.C. liberals! Turns out Trumpers don’t care about lobbyists or plutocrats by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
- Conflicts on top of conflicts: Another “emoluments clause” that should bar Donald Trump from office by Hether Digby Parton (Salon)
- I Was Accused of Voter Fraud in North Carolina by Brooks Sterritt (New Republic)
- The CIA Is Not Your Friend by Jordy Cummings (Jacobin)
- Donald Trump’s cabinet bodes ill for the planet by Lauren Carasik (Al Jazeera)
- The Invention Of The White Working Class by Les Leopold (Huffington Post)
- The Unkillable Two-Party System by Matt Welch (reason.com)
- As a white nationalist, what do you do? A conversation with a scholar of America’s extreme right by A.C. Thomson (Salon)
- One-on-one with Trump’s doctor: Hecklers, house calls, and why Obamacare must be shut down by Ike Swetlitz (Stat)
- Books for the Trump Era by Ross Douthat (New York Times)
- Mike Flynn’s Pakistan Problem by Michael Kugelman (Foreign Policy)
- Inaugurations Are Ethically Problematic. Trump Is Just Taking It Much Further. by Sam Stein (Huffington Post)
- The Year of Ourselves, Each Other, and the Other Side of Mourning by Jessica Ceballos (Medium)
- Silicon Valley for Trump by Jathan Sadowski (Jacobin)
- The Most Urgent Questions About the Russia Hacks by Larry Diamond (The Atlantic)
- ‘Better Is Good’: Obama on Reparations, Civil Rights, and the Art of the Possible by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)
- The Trouble With Trump’s Dangerous Instincts on China by Jiayang Fan (The New Yorker)
- Thinking About Committing Civil Disobedience in the Age of Trump by Harold Pollack (The Nation)
- Here’s The Way (The ONLY Way) That Democrats Can Surely Stop Donald Trump by Riachard Greene (Huffington Post)
- Robert Reich: Why Donald Trump Would Never Have Won the Popular Vote by Robert Reich (AlterNet)
- Happy Holidays, Donald Trump by E.J. Dionne Junior (Washington Post)
- The Trump Family must make clear that influence is not for sale (The Washington Post)
- 7 Disturbing Facts About Donald Trump’s Personality by Janet Allon (AlterNet)
- 2016 Was a Great Year for Feminist Pop Culture—Except for That Donald Trump Thing by Amanda Marcotte (AlterNet)
- A Former Apprentice Producer Responds to Donald Trump Being Elected President by Bill Pruitt (Vanity Fair)
- The Contemplative Warrior by Anna Quinn (annanotes)