News
- Trump’s transition reality show: Kanye West, a naked cowboy and a month to go by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
- Donald Trump’s campaign co-chair tells Michelle Obama to go to Africa and live with a gorilla by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- It’s mostly kumbaya so far for Trump and GOP in Congress by Mike DeBonis (Washington Post)
- Intent on Unsettling E.U., Russia Taps Foot Soldiers From the Fringe by Andrew Higgins (New York Times)
- White House Sharpens Its Case For Obamacare, As Republicans Sharpen Knives by Scott Horsely (NPR)
- Some of Trump’s appointees donated generously to his campaign by Matt Rocheleau (Boston Globe)
- Donald Trump inauguration: Rockettes ‘will not be forced to perform’ (BBC)
- Trump tweets praise of Putin for attack on Clinton by Philip Rucker (Washington Post)
- Donald Trump vows to shut controversial Trump Foundation (BBC)
- Under scrutiny, Trump decides to dissolve his foundation (Reuters)
- No Rockettes Will Be Required to Perform at Donald Trump’s Inauguration by Daniel Politi (Slate)
Analysis
- After Clinton’s defeat, what’s the path for future women presidential candidates? by Cathleen Decker (LA Times)
- Electoral integrity in all 50 US states, ranked by experts by Pippa Norris, Holly Ann Garnett, and Max Grömping (Vox)
- Trump’s Economic Team of Rivals by Zachary Karabell (Politico)
- Donald Trump’s Hot-and-Cold Bromance With Vladimir Putin by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
Opinion
- What truth? George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and the Trumpified political reality of 2016 by Conor Lynch (Salon)
- This week in Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest: No, seriously, you should stay at my hotel by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Russia messed with our election! America would never do anything like that, right? by Bob Hennelly (Salon)
- Even after Trump win, why I still have hope (and it has nothing to do with Jesus) by Sher Watts Spooner (Daily Kos)
- Dear Mr. Trump: Here’s How to Maintain America’s Tech Lead by Sara Aronchick (Wired)
- The failures of capitalism have led to Brexit and a Donald Trump presidency by Lynn Stuart Parramore (Salon)
- Dreaming of a white “Christmas Story”: A Yuletide classic’s “color-blind” racism by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
- “Rogue One”: Exactly the “Star Wars” movie we need as the age of Trump dawns by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
- Trump’s unpopularity threatens to hobble his presidency by Steven Shepard (Politico)
- The Great Resistance 2017 by Marianne Williamson (Huffington Post)
- The Stolen Supreme Court Seat by the Editorial Board (NY Times)