News
- Newt Gingrich: Donald Trump’s Twitter Foreign Policy Is ‘Brilliant’ by Daniel Marans (Huffington Post)
- Israel, angered by anti-settlement U.N. vote, summons foreign ambassadors (Reuters)
- Trump Vows to Dissolve Controversial Foundation (Democrats Say it Isn’t Enough) by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- This week in Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Inside the Trump Organization, the Company That Has Run Trump’s Big World by MEgan Twohey, Ross Buettner, Steve Eder (NY Times)
- The civil rights case that haunts Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general by Brent E. Sasley (Washington Post)
- Newt Gingrich Admits Donald Trump Does Not Yet Have A Plan To Beat ISIS by Daniel Marans (Huffington Post)
- Gingrich endorses Trump’s nuclear arms buildup by David Cohen (Politico)
Analysis
- Donald Trump and the Triumph of Climate-Change Denial by Clare Foran (The Atlantic)
- No middle class, no republic: GOP plans to destroy America’s safety net will also kill democracy by Thom Hartmann (Salon)
- Combating racism is crucial to revitalizing American politics: It’s not easy, but it can be done by Sean McElwee (Salon)
- America’s youth are suing the government over climate change, and President Obama needs to react (Salon)
- Inside the Trump Organization, the Company That Has Run Trump’s Big World by Megan Twohey, Russ Buettner, and Stever Eder (NY Times)
- Donald Trump’s wrecking crew: A cabinet of zealots who yearn to destroy their own agencies by Paul Rosenberg (Salon)
- 6 Compelling Executive Actions Obama Has Taken That Are Targeted by Trump by Steven Rosenfeld (AlterNet)
- Donald Trump Claims Torture ‘Works’—but What Does the Science Say? by Coral Dando (AlterNet)
Opinion
- The China Shock and the Trump Shock by Paul Krugman (NY Times)
- A letter to historians of the future — the 2016 election really was dominated by a controversy over emails by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- The Guardian view on democracy: an uncertain year (The Guardian)
- Trump May Kill Us All: Here’s a Letter by Mohammed Fairouz (Huffington Post)
- War and Democracy in the Age of Trump by John Keane (AlterNet)
- Conservatism Has Curdled Beyond Recognition: The Movement Belongs Exclusively to Nihilists Now by Amanda Marcotte (AlterNet)
- Important Assumptions About Trump: What He Says Will Likely Be False; What He Does May Very Well Not Be in the Interest of the Country by Nancy Altman, Ira Lupu (AlterNet)
- The Last Time We Had a President Bored by Intel Briefings, We Got 9/11 by Ronald Stockton (AlterNet)
- Will Big Business Help Fight Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda? by Brian J. Barth (AlterNet)
- The Decline of Empathy and the Appeal of Right-Wing Politics by Michael Bader (Pyschology Today)