News
- Leonardo DiCaprio talks environment and jobs with Donald Trump (The Guardian)
- Trump picks climate skeptic Pruitt for environment chief (BBC)
- Trump to nominate Pruitt to lead U.S. environmental agency: statement (Reuters)
- Barack Obama Says He ‘Absolutely’ Faced Racism In Office by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump just attacked a local union leader for telling the truth by Laura Clawson (Daily Kos)
- State of the Recount: Michigan halted, hearing in PA, WI 70% complete by Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)
- Meet Wilbur Ross, who once bailed out Trump in Atlantic City and is now his pick for Commerce secretary by Chris Megerian (LA Times)
- Trump’s Pick for Health Secretary Has Spent Years Trying to Limit Access to Contraception by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
- Trump could privatize nation’s air traffic controllers by Ginger Gibson (Reuters)
- Wall Street hits new high as post-election rally roars ahead by Yashaswini Swamynathan (Reuters)
- Trump’s choice of China envoy a positive sign for ties, Xinhua says (Reuters)
- Libraries Become Unexpected Sites of Hate Crimes by Christopher Mele (NY Times)
- Trump expected to name CKE Restaurants CEO to head Labor Department (Reuters)
- Twitter Users Rally Around Union Leader After Donald Trump Lashes Out by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump isn’t serious about giving up his business, will hand it off to his kids by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Carrier Union leader: Trump’s attack means I’m doing my job (USA Today)
- Women’s march on Washington won’t have access to Lincoln Memorial by Amber Jamieson and Jessica Glenza (The Guardian)
- Trump’s EPA pick is skeptical of more than just climate change by Robinson Meyer (The Atlantic)
- Judge’s order suspends Michigan’s recount by Robert Snell and Chad Livengood (The Detroit News)
- Trump names Andrew Puzder, a fast-food CEO and critic of substantially raising the minimum wage, to head the Labor Department (Washington Post)
- Donald Trump’s labor secretary pick Andy Puzder, who makes 300 times his employees, opposes minimum wage hike by Brendan Gauthier (Salon)
- How Trump can influence climate change by Jasmine C. Lee and Adam Pearce (NY Times)
- Inequality is killing the American dream by Ben Casselman (FiveThirtyEight)
- German firms including BMW pull advertising from Breitbart by Jon Henley and Philip Oltermann (The Guardian)
- EPA fears ‘unprecedented disaster’ for environment over Scott Pruitt pick by Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
- Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick: I Like Beautiful Women Eating Burgers in Bikinis by Emily Peck (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump to Remain Executive Producer on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ by Cynthia Littleton (Variety)
- Hillary Clinton Gets More Votes Than Any Candidate Ever by Chris Riotta (Yahoo)
- Japanese-Americans stand with Muslims in wake of attacks by Josie Huang (KPCC)
- Hillary Clinton warns of ‘fake news epidemic’ (BBC)
- Republicans ready to launch wide-ranging probe of Russia, despite Trump’s stance by Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post)
- Nearly a third of Republicans don’t know that Trump lost the popular vote by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Trump gets one presidential intelligence briefing a week by Mark Hosenball (Reuters)
- The first Somali-American elected official visited the White House, then was called “ISIS” by her cabbie by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
- Dick Cheney Thinks Trump’s Muslim Ban Is ‘Against Everything We Stand For’ by Caitlin Cruz (Talking Points Memo)
Opinion
- Michael Moore predicts Electoral College will deny Donald Trump: “He’s not president of the United States yet” by Brendan Gauthier (Salon)
- The Fierce Urgency of ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ by Jason Bailey (Flavorwire)
- How the alt-right became racist: A short history of hate — Part 1 by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
- All the President-Elect’s Generals by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- How Democrats Must Fight the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions by Sherrilyn Ifill (New Republic)
- The Blind Spots of Liberalism by Adam Fisher (Jacobin)
- The Media In the Trump Age: Why We Should Be Terrified by Andy Ostroy (Huffington Post)
- Does Donald Trump Believe Nuclear War Is Inevitable? by David Corn (Mother Jones)
- Glenn Beck’s Regrets by Peter Beinart (The Atlantic)
- Obama’s Civil Rights Legacy—and Ours by David Cole (The Nation)
- Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit, and Zack Exley: How Organizing Can Still Win by Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener (The Nation)
- All TV Will Be Trump TV by Leslie Savan (The Nation)
- Scientists – Welcome to the Skeptical Movement by Steven Novella (Neurologica)
- What a Top FBI Profiler Taught Me About Extreme Narcissists Like Donald Trump by Joe Romm (AlterNet)
- Michael Moore Perfectly Nails What Democrats Fail to Understand by Alexandra Rosenmann (AlterNet)
- What You Can Do Right Now To Stop Donald Trump’s Dangerous Climate Agenda by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
- Don’t assume Trump is dumb. He knows exactly what he’s doing by Richard Wolffe (The Guardian)
- Jill Stein: US election recount is vital to reform our broken voting system by Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)
- Trump: Madman of the year by Charles Blow (The New York Times)
- Donald Trump warms up by Gail Collins (The New York Times)
- Trump’s presidency is going to require all your vigilance — and courage by Rebecca Ruiz (Mashable)
- The coming Trump kleptocracy, perfectly captured in a single sentence by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
- 7 Election Integrity and Cyber Security Experts Say Stopping Michigan Recount Is Anti-Democratic by Steven Rosenfeld (AlterNet)
- Robert Reich Issues Dire Warning to ‘Thin-Skinned, Vindictive’ Trump by Alexandra Rosenmann (AlterNet)
- Donald Trump, Master of the Pseudo-Event by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)
- A former Tea Party congressman is already ticked off at Trump: “I’m disappointed” by Sean Illing (Vox)
- Trumped and Abandoned by Susan Faludi (The Baffler)
- Democrats should fight all of Trump’s nominees. Yes, all of them. by Joan Walsh (The Nation)
- Kellyanne Conway Slips Up, Implies Trump White House Will Be Terrible Place for Women by Emily Peck (Huffington Post)
- On Optimism and Despair by Zadie Smith (NYRB)
- Just in Time for the Trump Administration, the FBI Has Expanded Surveillance Powers by Fred Kaplan (Slate)
- 19 Lessons for Political Scientists From the 2016 Election by Andrew Gelman (Slate)
- Maybe the Answer Is That He Can’t Divest by John Marshall (Talking Points Memo)
- I’m the union leader Donald Trump attacked. I’m tired of being lied to about our jobs. by Chuck Jones (Washington Post)
- Why Time’s Trump Cover Is a Subversive Work of Political Art by Jake Romm (Forward)
- Self-Described “White Trash Hillbilly” Nails Exactly What’s Wrong with America by Jake Woolf (GQ)
- The Will of the People by Kenneth A. Taylor (Boston Review)
- Trump’s Presidency Is Shaping Up to Be an American Tragedy by Jesse Berney (Rolling Stone)