News
- Trump-Taiwan call: China lodges protest (BBC)
- China lodges complaint with US over Trump’s Taiwan phone call by Tom Phillips (The Guardian)
- U.S. veterans to meet with tribe elders in pipeline protest by Ernest Scheyder and Terray Sylvester (Reuters)
- Attorney General Lynch sends federal mediators to defuse standoff over Dakota Access pipeline by Juliet Eilperin and Derek Hawkins (Washington Post)
- Secret Service faces massive bill for protecting Trump by Sarah Wheaton (Politico)
- $50m Trump residential development relied on immigrant visa funds by Edward Helmore (The Guardian)
- Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory by David Smith (The Guardian)
- Legal and still a crime: Abortion laws to watch out for in Trump’s America by Eesha Pandit (Salon)
- Trump says he’ll cancel Obama’s ‘unconstitutional’ executive actions. It’s not that easy. by Andrew Rudalevige (Washington Post)
- Climate scientists condemn article claiming global temperatures are falling by Alan Yuhas (The Guardian)
- China lodges complaint with US over Trump’s Taiwan phone call by Tom Phillips (The Guardian)
- Extremists turn to a leader to protect Western values: Vladimir Putin by Alan Feuer and Andrew Higgins
- The real risk behind Trump’s Taiwan call by Evan Osnos (The New Yorker)
- Why it will be hard to repeal Obamacare by Haeyoun Park and Troy Griggs (The New York Times)
- Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana carrier factory by David Smith (The Guardian)
- At defense forum, Trump’s promises on spending draw praise, but other questions linger by Alan Zarembo (LA Times)
- Thousands of veterans converge on North Dakota to aid pipeline protest by Sandy Tolan (LA Times)
- Donald Trump Attends ‘Villains And Heroes’ Costume Party As Himself by Melissa Fares (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump’s Education Secretary Pick Wants To Make Christianity A Bigger Part Of Schooling by Rebecca Klein (Huffington Post)
- China Lodges Protest After Trump Call With Taiwan President (Huffington Post)
- Green Party drops Pennsylvania recount bid by Hanna Trudo and Daniel Strauss (Politico)
- Yurts, cleats, coats: Dakota protesters dig in for brutal winter by Ernest Scheyder & Terray Sylvester (Reuters)
- Philippines President Says Trump Congratulated Him on Violent Anti-Drug Crackdown by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- ‘Trump America Is Real’: Muslim Woman Assaulted on Subway by Three Men as Bystanders Watched by Tom Boggioni (AlterNet)
- Bernie Sanders challenges Trump over jobs boast: ‘What are you going to do?’ (The Guardian)
- Congress to begin Obamacare repeal effort in January, says Mitch McConnell (The Guardian)
- Will Ivanka Trump be the most powerful first daughter in history by Alessandra Stanley Jacob Bernstein (The New York Times)
Opinion
- The Workers Versus Trump by Dave Kamper (Jacobin)
- Identity politics vs. populist economics? It’s a false choice – liberals need to look in the mirror by Conor Lynch (Salon)
- Donald Trump keeps confirming fears about his diplomatic skills by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
- Where unfair voting practices begin (The New York Times)
- Why blue states are the real ‘Tea Party’ by Steven Johnson (The New York Times)
- The Real Risk Behind Trump’s Taiwan Call by Evan Osnos (New Yorker)
- Are We Really Going to Let Trump Con Us on the Economy? by Robert Reich (AlterNet)
- At least four kinds of terrorism target our grandchildren — none are what Donald Trump would have you think by Paul Buchheit (Salon)
- Fake news, a fake president and a fake country: Welcome to America, land of no context by Andrew O’Heehir (Salon)
- Trump’s troubling tweet: He would almost certainly be violating the Constitution if he continues to own his businesses by Richard Tofel (Salon)
- “Dapper” and dangerous: The ugly history of glamorizing white nationalism by Eileen G’Sell (Salon)