January 2019

Government Shutdown / Border Wall / Pelosi

• Shutdown Threatens To Stall Recovery In Wildfire-Ravaged Paradise, Calif. by Kirk Siegler (NPR)
• Trump Tried to Defend the Shutdown In Front of Farmers. They’re Still Feeling the Consequences. by Nick Bowlin (Mother Jones)
• Trump Isn’t Even Trying to Convince Voters on the Shutdown by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
• The Shutdown Is Hammering Low-Wage Federal Contract Workers by Jay Willis (GQ)
• Trump cancels Nancy Pelosi foreign trip citing shutdown (BBC)
• Trump Strikes Back at Pelosi by Saying He’s Canceled Her Foreign Travel by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump grounds Speaker Pelosi’s travel amid shutdown feud (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Postpones Pelosi Trip To War Zone After She Postpones State Of The Union by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
• McConnell blocks bill to reopen most of government by Jordain Carney (The Hill)

Other News

• Giuliani No Longer Ruling Out Possibility the Trump Campaign Colluded With Russia by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Poll: Trump Approval Down, Slips With Base by Domenico Montnaro (NPR)
• Trump administration separated thousands more migrants than previously known by Dan Diamond (Politico)
• Ukrainian Oligarch Scrutinized by Robert Mueller Was a Giuliani Client by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• The Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Know How Many Families It Separated at the Border by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s new ‘anti-Muslim’ appointee worries civil rights groups by Patrick Strickland (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Unveils Ambitious Missile Defense Plans by Geoff Brumfiel (NPR)
• Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Blocking Citizenship Question On 2020 Census by Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
• President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project by Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier (Buzzfeed)
• Trump’s Ex-Lawyer Michael Cohen Acknowledges Scheme To Rig Polls In Presidential Race by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Lawmakers Vow To Investigate Evidence That Trump Told His Lawyer To Lie To Congress by Emma Loop (Buzzfeed)

Impeachment

• Impeach Donald Trump by Yoni Abbelbaum (The Atlantic)
• Impeachment: An Argument by Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)

Analysis

• Why One of Trump’s Biggest Legal Threats Is New York’s Attorney General by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
• Is Trump Trying To Politicize Agricultural Data? Some Former USDA Officials Suspect Yes. by Christie Aschwanden (FiveThirtyEight)

Government Shutdown / Border Wall / State of the Union

• 9 key questions about the longest government shutdown in history, answered by Tara Golshan, Li Zhou, Dylan Scott, Ella Nilsen (Vox)
• Pelosi asks Trump to postpone State of the Union over shutdown by Mike Lillis (The Hill)
• Shutdown forces federal workers to consider career changes just to make ends meet by Casey Quinlan (ThinkProgress)
• The shutdown just cost Trump his State of the Union address by Luke Barnes (ThinkProgress)
• Pelosi Calls on Trump to Postpone State of the Union Address Till After Shutdown by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Pelosi Calls For Postponement Of State Of The Union Address Due To Shutdown by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Shutdown Will Be Worse For Economy Than First Thought, White House Says by Emily Sullivan (NPR)
• USDA reopens many field offices for 3 days to help farmers amid shutdown by Liz Crampton (Politico)
• Bipartisan group of senators will urge Trump to reopen government for 3 weeks by Jordain Carney (The Hill)

William Barr / AG  / Mueller

• NAACP president: William Barr ‘literally wrote a book on the case for more incarceration’ by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
• Feinstein grappling with vote on AG nominee Barr by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• How Much Do You Trust Bill Barr? by Matt Ford (The New Republic)
• Why Would Bill Barr Even Want to Be Attorney General? by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Decoding What Barr Really Said About Letting the Public See the Mueller Report by Joshua Gzeltzer (Just Security)
• Opinion: The many red flags raised by William Barr’s hearing by E.J. Dione, Jr. (Washington Post)

EPA / Andrew Wheeler

• The Next Likely EPA Chief Has Almost Completed His Former Coal Client’s Wish List by Rebecca Leber (Mother Jones)
• EPA Nominee Andrew Wheeler Wasn’t Ready for the Senate’s Questions on Climate Change by Rebecca Leber (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s EPA nominee says he hasn’t had time to be fully briefed on major climate report by Mark Hand (ThinkProgress)
• Trump EPA nominee grilled by Sanders, Democrats on climate change by Anthony Adragna (Politico)
• EPA Nominee Andrew Wheeler Downplays Climate Threat At Testy Confirmation Hearing by Alexander C. Kaufman (Huffington Post)
• How Trump’s EPA is letting environmental criminals off the hook, in one chart by Umair Irfgan (Vox)
• Andrew Wheeler: Trump’s EPA pick says climate change ‘not the greatest crisis‘ by Emily Holden  (Guardian)

Other News

• T-Mobile executives stayed at Trump’s hotel while merger that needed administration’s approval was pending by Morgan Gstalter (The Hill)
• School where Karen Pence will teach prohibits LGBT students, faculty by Emily Birnbaum (The HIll)
• Senate rejects effort to block Trump on Russia sanctions by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
• James Mattis left Pentagon over Trump’s relationship with Putin, former Defense official claims by Travis Gettys (Salon)
• What the Deaths of Four U.S. Troops in Syria Could Mean for Trump’s Withdrawal Plans by Joshua Keating (Slate)
• Fake editions of Washington Post falsely claim Trump steps down by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
• Mueller’s heavily redacted new filing about Paul Manafort, decoded by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Federal agency ‘improperly’ ignored constitutional concerns before allowing Trump to keep lease to his hotel, internal watchdog says by Jonathan O’Connell and David A. Fahrenthold (Washington Post)
• Killing of 4 Americans in Syria throws spotlight on Trump’s policy by Karen DeYoung (Washington Post)
• Senate Republicans Vote Down Effort to Maintain Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Companies by Russ Choma (Mother Jones)
• For 7th Consecutive Year, Visa Overstays Exceeded Illegal Border Crossings by Richard Gonzales (NPR)

Opinion

• Trump’s economy is great for billionaires, not for working people by Bernie Sanders (The Guardian)
• White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not by Robin diAngelo (The Guardian)

Government Shutdown / Border Wall

• Trump lays into Pelosi, Schumer to demand end to shutdown by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• The Shutdown Is Forcing Immigrants to Wait Years for a Court Hearing by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Shutdown bites economy as Democrats reject Trump invitation to talk by Steve Holland, Ginger Gibson (Reuters)
• Trump suddenly decides there might not be a national emergency at the border after all by Emily Stewart (Vox)
• The House Rejects Bill to Reopen Federal Government as Shutdown Drags On by AP (TIME)
• Trump’s Shutdown Is a Savage Assault on the Working Class by Matt Taylor (VICE)
• McConnell blocks second bill aimed at reopening the government by Addy Baird (ThinkProgress)
• It’s Week 4 Of The Shutdown. Americans Still Think Trump Is To Blame. by Janie Velencia (FiveThirtyEight)
• Dems spurn Trump on shutdown talks by Heather Caygle, Andrew Restuccia, Rachael Bade (Politico)
• Federal judge sides with Trump, allowing workers to go unpaid during shutdown by Ian Kullgren, Rebecca Rainey (Politico)
• Democrats boycott meeting with Trump at White House to negotiate government shutdown by Chris Stevenson (Independent)
• Trump tried to bypass Nancy Pelosi and negotiate with members of her caucus. None of them showed up. by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
• McConnell blocks House bill to reopen government for second time by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
• Shutdown strains U.S. diplomacy around the world by Nahal Toosi (Politico)
• New poll sheds light on impact of US government shutdown (Al Jazeera)
• Lacking Republican support, House Democrats’ bill to open government through Feb. 1 fails by Lindsey McPherson (Roll Call)
• Opinion: Actually, the Numbers Show That We Need More Immigration, Not Less by Shikha Dalmia (NY Times)
• Federal employees forced to work without pay during government shutdown lose bid for TRO by Debra Casses Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Trump administration recalls tens of thousands of federal workers as it seeks to blunt shutdown’s impact by Jeff Stein (Washington Post)
• Some Renters Are Already Facing Eviction, Thanks To The Shutdown by Sanjana Karanth and Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
• IRS Recalling 46,000 Workers To Handle Tax Returns Despite Partial Shutdown by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
• Trump Recalls 50,000 Essential Workers, Adding to the 400,000 Already Being Compelled to Work Without Pay During Shutdown by Elliot Hannon (Slate)

William Barr / AG  / Mueller

• Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney general says ‘will not be bullied’ by anybody by Andy Sullivan, Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters)
• Key moments from William Barr’s nomination hearing by Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Barr Will Be Grilled About ‘Unusual’ Memo on Mueller’s Obstruction Probe by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
• Trump’s attorney general pick reveals new details of meeting with him about Mueller investigation by Joshua Eaton (ThinkProgress)
• Attorney general nominee can’t explain the Trump administration’s family separation policy by Rebekah Entralgo (ThinkProgress)
• William Barr: Who is Trump’s controversial pick for Attorney General and what will it mean for the Mueller investigation? by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• William Barr confirmation hearing – LIVE: Trump’s attorney general nominee grilled by Senate over Mueller investigation by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• How William Barr Tried to Reassure Democrats at His Confirmation Hearing by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
• Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Agrees to Testify at Democrat-Led Oversight Hearing by Mary Clare Jalonick (TIME)
• William Barr’s Slick Performance Shouldn’t Fool Anyone by Andrew Cohen (Slate)
• William Barr’s Testimony May Not Sit Well With Donald Trump by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• New Trump-Russia subplot: Mueller and Barr are ‘good friends’ by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Bill Barr Breaks With Trump on the Mueller Probe by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
• Trump rebuffs Robert Mueller’s request. Is a subpoena next? by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Barr Sent Trump’s Lawyers an Unsolicited Memo Arguing Trump Did Not Obstruct Justice by Ollie Ward (Hill Reporter)
• Opinion: I was in Congress during Nixon’s impeachment proceedings. William Barr is wrong. by Elizabeth Holtzman (Washington Post)
• Updates: William Barr Hearing: Senators Press Barr on Criminal Justice Overhaul (NY Times)
• Opinion: Democratic senators expose William Barr’s cluelessness on criminal justice by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
• Trump AG Nominee William Barr Suggests He’d Keep Full Mueller Report Secret by Ryan J. Reilly (Huffington Post)

Census

• Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question by Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
• Judge Strikes Down Controversial Citizenship Question on 2020 Census by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
• Judge rules against Trump administration’s citizenship question on 2020 census by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Federal Judge Obliterates Trump’s Census Shenanigans and Dares the Supreme Court to Reverse Him by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)

NATO

• Trump wants to pull U.S. out of NATO: NYT by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump has reportedly discussed withdrawing from NATO. That would be great for Russia. by Emily Stewart (Vox)
• Trump repeatedly discussed withdrawing US from Nato in protest over funding, aides say by Doug Mills (Independent)
• Trump Privately Discussed Destroying NATO Alliance by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)

Steve King

• House Votes To Condemn White Supremacy, And Thus Rep. Steve King by Andy Campbell (Huffington Post)
• Why Republicans Finally Moved Against Steve King by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
• The House Votes to Reprimand Steve King for Racist Comments by Nihal Krishan (Mother Jones)

Other News

• Trump orders 300 burgers for White House banquet, says he bought 1,000 then praises ‘tall, handsome quarterback’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Ivanka Trump to help choose new World Bank president, White House says by Annie Karni (Independent)
• Jared Kushner: Blackmail and Witness Tampering Are “Family Matters” by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• Democrats Aren’t the Only Ones Waiting for the Mueller Report by Tina Ngyuen (Vanity Fair)
• Donald Trump’s Pattern of Deference to the Kremlin Is Clear by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Breakdown Of Trump’s $107 Million Inauguration Spending Revealed by Nina Golgowski (Huffington Post)
• Karen Pence Is Working At A School That Bans Gay Employees by Rebecca Klein (Huffington Post)
• Someone who made troubling claims about date rape could fill Kavanaugh’s former appellate court seat by Cody Fenwick , Alternet (Salon)
• Feds List What They Call Manafort Lies But Few Details Visible In Blacked-Out Filing by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Mueller Delays Rick Gates’ Sentencing A Second Time, Says Gates Is Still Cooperating by Robin Carnevale (Hill Reporter)

Analysis

• Legal experts weigh in on Trump’s Cohen comments and whether they amount to witness intimidation by Stephanie Francis Ward (ABA Journal)

Government Shutdown / Border Wall

• A Waiting Game For Immigrants And Border Agents On Both Sides Of The Wall by John Burnett (NPR)
• Trump backs off national emergency with no end to shutdown in sight by Andrew Restuccia, Rachael Bade (Politico)
• TSA cancels training for hundreds of workers as shutdown drags on by Jennifer Scholtes (Politico)
• Republicans Have No Idea What the Shutdown Means for Americans Who Are Not Rich by Jay Willis (GQ)
• The Militarization of the Southern Border Is a Long-Standing American Tradition by Greg Grandin (The Nation)
• Trump promotes Pat Buchanan column that makes white nationalist case for his border wall by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• TSA reports security officers calling in sick at twice normal rate by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
• Compelled to work without pay, federal employees sue Trump, accusing him of violating 13th Amendment by Meagan Flynn (Washington Post)
• Unpaid TSA Screeners Just Might Be What Breaks the Government Shutdown by Henry Grabar (Slate)

FBI Investigation / Trump-Russia

• The Dueling Narratives on Trump and Russia by Andrew Kragie (The Atlantic)
• Donald Trump Says He “Never Worked for Russia” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump, Following Explosive News Reports, Denies He Worked For Russia by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Trump and Putin’s Cone of Seclusion by Fred Kaplan (Slate)
• The FBI debated whether President Donald Trump was “acting at the behest of” of Russia: transcripts by Shira Tarlo (Salon)

Attorney General / Barr

• William Barr Supported Pardons In An Earlier D.C. ‘Witch Hunt’: Iran-Contra by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
• Barr Vows To Let Mueller Finish His Russia Work — And Promises ‘Transparency’ by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Barr pledges to allow Mueller to complete investigation by Marianne Levine, Darren Sameulsohn (Politico)
• Five Dealbreakers for Confirming Trump’s Next Attorney General by Matt Ford (The New Republic)
• Attorney general nominee William Barr pledges to allow Robert Mueller to complete his investigation by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Kavanaugh hangs over Barr confirmation fight by Burgess Everett and Marianne Levine (Politico)
• Analysis: Trump Says He Alone Can Do It. His Attorney General Nominee Usually Agrees. by Charlie Savage (NY Times)

Other News

• Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road by Ian Stewart (NPR)
• Judge Blocks Trump Birth Control Policy In 13 States And D.C. by Matthew S. Schwartz (NPR)
• Federal judge blocks Trump’s rollback of contraception mandate by Dylan Scott (Vox)
• Trump’s Nominee to Replace Kavanaugh Questioned Date Rape, Discrimination, and Climate Change by Stephanie Mencimer (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s Wilderness Deal Will Decimate the “Most Important Wildlife Refuge in All of Alaska” by Jane Kay (Mother Jones)
• Trump, Erdogan discussed ‘ongoing cooperation’ in Syria: White House (Reuters)
• Trump Interrupts Twitter Meltdown to Announce Baffling New Syria Policy by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
• Theater project lets women who accused Trump tell their stories by Lucia Graves (The Guardian)
• Trump vows to ‘devastate’ Turkish economy if U.S.-backed Kurds are attacked by John Hudson and Kareem Faheem (Washington Post)

Analysis

• What Israeli Airstrikes Say About Trump’s Middle East Policy by Elizabeth Tsurkov (The New Republic)
• The House Democrats’ Colossal Election Reform Bill Could Save American Democracy by Richard L. Hasen (Slate)
• All of Congress’s ideas for bringing down prescription drug prices, explained by Dylan Scott (Vox)

Opinion

• Standing Rock inspired Ocasio-Cortez to run. That’s the power of protest by Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)
• Unthinkable: 50 Moments That Define an Improbable Presidency by Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)

Government Shutdown / Border Wall

• As Shutdown Continues, Thousands Of Federal Workers Visit D.C.-Area Pop-Up Food Banks by Ian Stewart (NPR)
• ‘Whatever It Takes’: Government Workers Apply For Unemployment As Shutdown Drags On by Patrick Madden (NPR)
• Trump losing battle to avoid blame for shutdown as it enters day 23 by Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)
• Americans blame Trump and GOP much more than Democrats for shutdown, Post-ABC poll finds by Scott Clement and Dan Balz (Washington Post)

FBI Investigation / Trump-Russia / Putin

• Trump denies hiding detail of Putin summit talks from staff (BBC)
• Trump Reportedly Went to “Extraordinary Lengths” to Hide Details of Putin Talks From His Own Officials by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump on NYT Report on FBI Investigation: “Most Insulting Article I’ve Ever Had Written” by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump Says He’s ‘Not Keeping Anything Under Wraps,’ About Meetings With Putin by Clare Lombardo (NPR)
• Trump Reportedly Confiscated Interpreter’s Notes to Keep Putin Meeting Details Secret by Kevin Fitzpatrick (Vanity Fair)
• Key Republican to ask FBI about report of Trump counterintelligence probe by Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters)
• President Trump Evades Questions on Whether He Has Worked for Russia by Darlene Superville (TIME)
• Trump fails to answer yes or no when asked if he ever worked for Russia by Erin Durkin (The Guardian)
• Trump: ‘I couldn’t care less’ if Putin conversation becomes public by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump’s attorney general pick raises fears of a president above the law by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
• William Barr’s confirmation hearing expected to be a battle over Mueller’s future by Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, Karoun Demirjian, and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post)
• House Democrats Analyze Subpoenaing Trump’s Interpreters in Putin Meetings by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• House chairmen warn Trump against interfering with congressional oversight by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Analysis: It’s Already Collusion by Strobe Talbott (Politico)
• Opinion: Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset by Max Boot (Washington Post)
• Top Democrats Warn Trump Over Comments on Michael Cohen by Nicholas Fandos and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)

Other News

• Trump’s disapproval rating higher since shutdown began: poll by Michael Burke (The Hill)
• Wall Street Journal: White House requested plans last year from Pentagon to attack Iran by Devan Cole (CNN)
• Judge freezes Trump administration contraception rule by Alicia Miranda Ollstein, Victoria Colliver (Politico)
• Federal judge blocks Trump’s rollback of birth control mandate in 13 states and D.C. by Amanda Michelle Gomez (ThinkProgress)
• Trump threatens Turkey with economic devastation by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump says he will ‘devastate Turkey economically’ if it attacks Kurds by Agence France-Presse (The Guardian)
• Pentagon Officials Fear Bolton’s Actions Increase Risk of Clash With Iran by Eric Schmidt and Mark Landler (NY Times)

Analysis

• Expect ‘An Acceleration Of The Chaos’ With Trump In 2019 — An Interview With Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee by Chris Walker (Hill Reporter)

Opinion

• Obsessing over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health is bad for her, bad for us and bad for democracy by Morgan Jerkins (Washington Post)
• Trump Is Totally Cavalier About His Use of Personal Technology by Ian Bogost (Atlantic)

Government Shutdown / Border Wall

• It’s Official: The Partial Government Shutdown Is The Longest In U.S. History by Arnie Seipel (NPR)
• The Longest Government Shutdown In History, No Longer — How 1995 Changed Everything by Don Gonyea (NPR)
• US partial government shutdown becomes longest ever (BBC)
• Why Hasn’t Trump Folded? by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• On The Navajo Nation, 5,000 Workers Dependent On A Federal Paycheck by Laurel Morales (NPR)
• Congratulations, Trump! This is Now the Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• As shutdown becomes longest in U.S. history, federal employees sue over working for no pay by Jessica M. Goldstein (ThinkProgress)
• President Trump Thinks the Shutdown Will Give Him His Wall. Here’s How Presidents Have Fared in Past Shutdowns by Katie Reilly (TIME)
• $20 million in donations for border wall to be refunded or shifted to non-profit effort by AP (Politico)
• The astonishing effects of the shutdown, in 8 charts by Javier Zarracina, Li Zhou (Vox)
• What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency by Elizabeth Goiten (Atlantic)
• Analysis: Record shutdown is a massive Washington failure by Stephen Collinson (CNN)
• Analysis: In the White House waiting’: Inside Trump’s defiance on the longest shutdown ever by Robert Coast, Josh Dawsey, Philip Rucker, and Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)

FBI Investigation / Trump-Russia

• The FBI Reportedly Investigated Whether Trump Was a Russian Agent, and Trump Is Furious by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
• Trump: I have been tougher on Russia that any other president by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Comey Firing Reportedly Led FBI to Investigate Whether Trump Was Working for Russia by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump lashes out at FBI after report he was investigated over national security by Brent D. Griffiths (Politico)
• FBI Investigated Whether President Trump Worked for Russia: Report by AP (TIME)
• The F.B.I. Investigated Whether Trump Was Secretly Working for Russia by Kevin Fitzpatrick (Vanity Fair)
• Trump Russia: FBI probed whether Trump was working for Moscow – NYT (BBC)
• Trump claims he has been ‘tougher than any other president’ on Russia in angry response to FBI investigation report by Conrad Duncan (Independent)
• Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades by Sean Illing (Vox)
• As the Shutdown Drags On, the Trump-Russia Story Is Back at Center Stage by John Cassidy (New Yorker)
• How the Times Reported the F.B.I. Counterintelligence Investigation Into President Trump: An Interview with the Journalist Adam Goldman by Isaac Chotiner (The New Yorker)
• Trump tweets his fury after bombshell report adds drama to Russia inquiry by David Smith (The Guardian)
• Analysis: Why the FBI might’ve thought Trump could be working for Russia by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration by Greg Miller (Washington Post)
• Trump reportedly hid records of his conversations with Putin from his own administration by Michelle Mark (Business Insider)
• Analysis: How the big new New York Times scoop changes our understanding of the Trump-Russia probe by Andrew ProkopJan (Vox)

Other News

• U.S. starts withdrawing supplies, but not troops, from Syria by AP (Politico)
• Trump Has Entered The Lying Stratosphere, Says Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• Ivanka Trump ‘being considered as new World Bank chief’ by Chiara Giordano (Independent)
• Afghan interpreter who helped US troops ‘detained and threatened with deportation’ by border authorities by Alex Horton (Independent)
• ‘Ridiculous’: report Ivanka Trump could lead World Bank meets scorn by Jamiles Lartey (The Guardian)
• Pompeo Says The U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Syria Is Just A ‘Tactical Change’ by Sasha Ingber (NPR)

Analysis

• Climate Change Denial by Sara Gorman, Ph.D., MPH, and Jack M. Gorman, MD (Psychology Today)

Government Shutdown / Border Wall

• Why national parks may be damaged long after the government shutdown ends by Nicole Karlis (Salon)
• Trump’s steel wall prototype can be easily defeated by saw: report by Nicole Karlis (Salon)
• Government Shutdown Threatens Native Americans’ Access To Health Care by Jennifer Bendery (Huffington Post)
• Some US government websites won’t load after HTTPS certificates expire during shutdown by Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
• Trump Wants to Take Money from Actual Crises to Fund One He Made Up by Eric Lutx (Vanity Fair)
• The Shutdown Was Never Really Going to End This Week by Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
• US shutdown: Thousands of federal workers miss paycheques (Al Jazeera)
• US shutdown bites as federal workers miss payday (BBC)
• Most Americans Call Shutdown ‘Embarrassing’ As It’s Set To Become Longest In History by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
• Most Federal Workers’ Health Coverage To Continue During Shutdown, Even If Pay Stops by Julie Appleby (NPR)
• The Impact of the Government Shutdown Is About to Snowball by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
• The Most Remarkable Thing About Trump’s Proposed National Emergency by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
• Trump fans donated more than $20 million for the wall on GoFundMe. It looks like they’re being duped by Matthew Chapman (Salon)
• Experts Say Trump May Have Trouble Proving His Case for a ‘National Emergency’ by Abby Vesoulis (TIME)
• House passes bill to reopen some agencies shut down in wall fight by Richard Cowan (Reuters)
• House votes to reopen Interior, EPA as shutdown fight wages on by Juliegrace Brufke (The Hill)
• Trump says not in a rush to declare emergency in border wall fight (Reuters)
• Congress Passes Bill Requiring Back Pay for Federal Employees After Shutdown Ends by Catherine Lucey, Lisa Mascaro, Zeke Miller (TIME)
• White House Eyes Funding Sources For Border Wall In Case Trump Declares Emergency by Scott Horsley, Tom Bowman, Kelsey Snell (NPR)
• The GoFundMe Campaign to Build Trump’s Wall Crashes and Burns by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• GoFundMe will refund donations to campaign for Trump’s border wall by Victoria Rodriguez (Mashable)
• Federal employee unions sue over shutdown by Lydia Wheeler (The Hill)
• Trump’s Big, Beautiful, Stupid Wall Could Unite the Left and Right in Texas by Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)
• Trump Considers Taking $2B From Puerto Rico Disaster Fund To Fund Wall by Brian Krassenstein (Hill Reporter)
• US aviation system is starting to show strains from shutdown by David Koenig (AP)
• White House economic adviser appears to compare shutdown to ‘vacation’ for furloughed workers by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Bipartisan blowback hits idea of tapping Army Corps for wall money by Annie Snider (Politico)
• The border wall blitz, brought to you by Donald Trump and Mike Pence by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Trump continues trying to rewrite his own Mexico paying for wall history by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Navajo Nation President urges U.S. President to end federal shutdown by Staff (Native News Online)
• Billions in food stamp payments to come early because of shutdown by Helena Bottemiller Evich (Politico)
• Analysis: Mitch McConnell could end the shutdown. But he’s sitting this one out. by Colby Itkowitz (Washington Post)

Mueller Investigation

• The Myth of the Mueller Report by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Exclusive: Trump team should be allowed to ‘correct’ final Mueller report, says Giuliani by Niall Stanage (The Hill)
• Mueller, Feds Probe Ukrainian Officials Who Attended Trump’s Inauguration: Report by Marina Fang (Huffington Post)

FBI Investigation / Trump-Russia

• Mnuchin Tells Democrats to Just “Trust” Trump on Russia by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia by Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt, and Nicholas Fandos (NY Times)
• Trump Lashes Out At FBI After ‘NY Times’ Reported On Inquiry Into His Intentions by Richard Gonzales, Sasha Ingber (NPR)
• FBI investigated Trump’s Russia ties after Comey firing: NYT (Al Jazeera)

Other News

• Documents Show NRA and Republican Candidates Coordinated Ads in Key Senate Races by Christopher Hooks, Mike Spies (Mother Jones)
• Pablo Escobar’s estate launches cryptocurrency to impeach Trump by David Canellis (TNW)
• The Trump Immigration-Law Change That Could Increase Child Poverty by 5 Percent in New York City by Michelle Chen (The Nation)
• Trump’s Syria Pullout—After Resignations and Uproar—Is On by Kathy Gilsinan (The Atlantic)
• Conservative Men Are Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Science Tells Us Why. by Laura Bassett (Huffington Post)
• Trump wants to bypass Congress on Medicaid plan by Rachana Pradhan, Dan Diamond (Politico)
• Trump Sold $35 Million Of Real Estate In 2018 by Dan Alexander (Forbes)

Analysis

• The Only Impeachment Guide You’ll Ever Need by Darren Samuelson (Politico)

Opinion

• ‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration by Julian Borger (Guardian)

Government Shutdown / Border Wall

• Shutdown Shutters Many D.C. Tourist Attractions — But Not The One In Trump’s Hotel by Peter Overby (NPR)
• Trump says ‘if there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go under it, go around it’, in rediscovered 2004 video by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• 35 Million People Watched President Trump’s Oval Office Address on the Border Wall by AP (TIME)
• President Trump Has a Long History of Storming Out of Meetings – and It Has Usually Worked by Shannon Pettypiece, Margaret Taley (TIME)
• The Shutdown Could Take Its Biggest Toll on the Most Vulnerable Americans by Nathalie Baptiste (Mother Jones)
• Federal Contractors Have Never Gotten Back Pay for Shutdowns. Democrats Are Trying to Fix That. by Tonya Riley (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s Wall Could Cost Him in 2020 by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
• Trump Says He’s Likely To Declare National Emergency If Congress Won’t Fund Wall by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Trump says he will almost ‘definitely’ declare a national emergency for border wall by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
• McConnell blocks House bills to reopen government by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
• Fact check: Mexico will ‘indirectly’ pay for a border wall through the new trade deal
  by Adam Behsudi (Politico)
• Trump: I never said Mexico would ‘write out a check’ for border wall by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• The shutdown could end when Senate Republicans decide to end it by Li Zhou and Tara Golshan (Vox)
• As Trump visits border, Texas landowners prepare wall fight by Nomaan Merchant (AP)
• Opinion: Is the shutdown an impeachable offense? Time for McConnell to call Trump’s bluff by Carl Pope (Salon)
• Trump eyes emergency powers to pay for border wall, end shutdown by Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle (Reuters)
• Report: Prototype for Trump’s Steel Slat Border Wall Can Be Cut With Saw by Aaron Mak (Slate)
• The Latest: Pence says Trump hasn’t decided on emergency (AP)
• Trump sends clear signal he’s moving toward a national emergency over southern border by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Border Protection officers sue Trump administration over pay missed during shutdown by Deanna Paul (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Before Trump, Steve King Set the Agenda for the Wall and Anti-Immigrant Politics by Trip Gabriel (NY Times)
• Analysis: The Government Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Workers in Every State by K.K. Rebecca Lai and Denise Lu (NY Times)
• As Trump heads to border, federal workers rally against shutdown (Al Jazeera)
• “We Just Want to Get Back to Work”—Thousands of Federal Employees March on the White House by Tonya Riley (Mother Jones)
• White House weighs emergency, Army funds diversion for border wall: reports (Reuters)
• Survivors of domestic violence, child abuse could be hit next by shutdown by Benjamin Wermund (Politico)
• Joshua Tree National Park has been trashed in the shutdown. Now visitors are cutting down trees. by Aditi Shrikant (Vox)
• FBI Agents Say the Shutdown Is a Threat to National Security by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
• Science and the shutdown: 5 things to watch as US impasse drags on by Lauren Morello, Sara Reardon, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, Jeff Tollefson, Alexandra Witze (Nature)
• Trump says ‘the law is 100% on my side’ for national emergency by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
• Trump tours border after repeating threat to call national emergency by Ed Pilkington (Guardian)
• At the border, Trump moves closer to emergency declaration by Catherine Lucey, Lisa Mascaro, and Zeke Miller (AP)
• Trump administration eyes disaster money to fund border wall by Jill Colvin, Lisa Mascaro, Colleen Long, and Lolita C. Baldor (AP)

Mueller Investigation / Cohen

• Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to testify in front of Congress (Al Jazeera)
• Michael Cohen will testify publicly to Congress by Josh Gerstein, Martin Matishak (Politico)
• Shutdown Antics Obscure Big Moment in Russia Investigation by Adele M. Stan (The American Prospect)
• Russians Indicted by Mueller Linked to Murder of Journalists in Central African Republic by Simon Shuster (TIME)

Other News

• Justice still elusive 100 days after Khashoggi’s murder by Jamal Ehshayyal (Al Jazeera)
• Trump says U.S. is having tremendous success with China on trade (Reuters)
• White Supremacist Rep. Steve King Wonders Why Being White Supremacist Is Offensive by Andy Campbell (Huffington Post)
• Trump White House urging allies to prepare for possible RBG departure by Eliana Johnson, Gabby Orr (Politico)
• Trump White House Reportedly on R.B.G. Deathwatch by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
• Liberals dare Trump to back their bills lowering drug prices by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar (AP)
• Trump cancels Davos trip over shutdown by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Trump cancels Davos trip over US government shutdown (Al Jazeera)
• Pompeo’s Cairo Speech Is Met With Skepticism About Trump Policies by Daniella Cheslow (NPR)
• Trump’s attorney general nominee to recuse from AT&T-Time Warner appeal by Mark Hosenball, Sarah N. Lynch, Andy Sullivan (Reuters)

Analysis

• Trump and Pompeo Embrace Autocrats and Disparage Opponents at Home by Mark Landler (NY Times)

Opinion

• Trump is using the government as a bargaining chip – like a dictator would by Robert Reich (The Guardian)

Government Shutdown / Trump Address / Border Wall

• 7 Takeaways From President Trump’s Oval Office Address by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
• Trump’s Oval Office Address Was Classic Stephen Miller by McKay Coppins (The Atlantic)
• Why Federal Workers Still Have to Show Up Even If They’re Not Being Paid by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
• Trump Has Lost Ground In The Shutdown Blame Game by Janie Velencia (FiveThirtyEight)
• Trump will bring top White House lawyer to Mexican border by Nancy Cook, Gabby Orr (Politico)
• The legality behind President Trump’s national security threat by Eugene Daniels (Politico)
• Trump walks out of shutdown talks with a ‘bye-bye’ (BBC)
• Schumer: President Stormed Out of Shutdown Talks in a “Temper Tantrum” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• ‘Bye-Bye’: Trump Walks Out Of White House Meeting With Democrats About Shutdown by Susan Davis, Kelsey Snell, Scott Horsley (NPR)
• Trump storms out of talks on shutdown, bemoans ‘total waste of time’ by Richard Cowan, Alexandra Alper (Reuters)
• House passes bill that would end shutdown, but Senate unlikely to take up (Reuters)
• TSA officers quit over paycheck uncertainty during Trump shutdown, creating “massive security risk” by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Shutdown’s economic damage: $1 billion a week by Victoria Guida (Politico)
• Shutdown impasse: 8 House Republicans break with Trump on shutdown strategy, back Democrats’ plan to reopen Treasury without new border wall funds by Felicia Sonmez and John Wagner
• Analysis: Fact-checking President Trump’s Oval Office address on immigration by Salvadore Rizzo (Washington Post)
• Border Protection officers sue Trump administration to get pay missed during shutdown by Deanna Paul (Washington Post)
• Coast Guard families told they can have garage sales to cope with government shutdown by Sam Lamothe (Washington Post)
• Opinion: The Guardian view on Trump and the wall: useful for him, not for the US Editorial (Guardian)
• Trump urges Senate Republicans to ‘just hang together’ on border battle by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Delayed surgeries and bologna sandwiches: US workers’ family budgets hit the wall by Steve Rubenstein (SF Chronicle)
• Government Shutdown Brings FDA Food Safety Inspections to a Halt. But Enjoy the Burrito. by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Interior Restaffs Some Wildlife Refuges During Shutdown by Nathan Rott (NPR)

Rosenstein/Barr

• Rod Rosenstein Is Leaving the Trump Administration of His Own Free Will by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
• Rosenstein expected to step down after new attorney general’s confirmation by Darren Samuelsohn, Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller, to leave DOJ soon: reports (Al Jazeera)
• William Barr Helped Build America’s Surveillance State by Neema Singh Guliani and Brian Tashman (ACLU)

FEMA Funds For California

• Trump again threatens to cut off FEMA funds for California by Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Trump Orders FEMA To Cut Off Aid For California Wildfire Recovery by Chris D’Angelo (Huffington Post)
• California Republicans object after Trump threatens wildfire aid by Sharon Bernstein, Susan Heavey (Reuters)
• Trump threatens to cut off disaster funding for California fire victims by Sarah D. Wire and Noah Bierman (LA Times)
• Trump threat to cut off California fire relief draws bipartisan rebukes by Tal Copan (SF Chronicle)

Mueller Investigation / Mueller

• Mueller protection bill likely to get new committee vote by Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Manafort’s Own Lawyers May Have Hastened His Downfall by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
• A beefed-up White House legal team prepares aggressive defense of Trump’s executive privilege as investigations loom large by Carol D. Leonnig (Washington Post)

Other News

• Trump Demands That Reports on Waste and Fraud in Afghanistan Be “Locked Up” by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
• U.S.-China Trade Talks Wrap Up After Extending To 3rd Day by Matthew S. Schwartz (NPR)
• Trump formally nominates Wheeler to deregulate at EPA by Alex Guillén (Politico)

Analysis

• When the Pardon Furthers the Conspiracy: Limits to the Pardon Power by Sam Berger (Just Security)
• Why Trump’s Effort to Eliminate Disparate Impact Rules Is a Terrible Idea by Sarah Hinger (ACLU)

Resources

• Women’s March 2019: Everything You Need to Know by Kaylen Ralph (Teen Vogue)

Border Wall / Immigration / Trump Address

• Trump Opts For Gravitas Of The Oval Office As He’s In Need Of A Game-Changing Moment by Ron Elving (NPR)
• Can Trump Really Use Emergency Powers to Build a Wall? by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
• Networks Will Air Trump’s Surely Inflammatory Immigration Speech . . . Why? by Laura Bradley (Vanity Fair)
• Six Immigration Lies Trump Might Tell in the Oval Office Tonight by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Democrats Set To Counter Trump After Oval Office Address by Kelsey Snell (NPR)
• Wall of Lies by León Krauze (Slate)
• Can the U.S. Military Build a Border Wall Even as It Struggles to Rebuild Itself? by Joe Sexton (ProPublica)
• GOP in the dark as Trump weighs emergency declaration by Rachael Bade, Eliana Johnson, Burges Everett, Heather Caygle (Politico)
• Legal and practical hurdles would await emergency declaration by Wesley Morgan (Politico)
• Trump to make case for wall in TV address; Democrats to respond (Al Jazeera)
• The Networks Blew the Call by James Fallows (Atlantic)
• Analysis: Your fact-checking cheat sheet for Trump’s immigration address by Salvador Rizzo by Glenn Kessler and
  Meg Kelly (Washington Post)
• Donald Trump falsely claims former US presidents told him they wished they’d constructed border wall by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Opinion: An ‘emergency’ power grab would only add to Trump’s problems by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
• Pelosi, Schumer will respond to Trump Oval Office speech by Lindsey McPherson (Roll Call)
• Democrats could sue if Trump declares national emergency over wall, Hoyer says by Lindsey McPherson (Roll Call)
• Trump’s Claim of Terrorists Streaming Over Border ‘Simply Isn’t True,’ Experts Say by Eric Schmitt, David E. Sanger and Glenn Thrush (NY Times)
• Analysis: Trump’s Speech to the Nation: Live Updates and Fact Checks (NY Times)
• Trump Pushes For Wall Amid Shutdown, Says There’s ‘A Crisis Of The Heart’ At Border by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
• In His First Oval Office Speech, Trump Falsely Depicts Immigrants as Violent Criminals to Justify Shutdown by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Here Is the Democrats’ Response to Trump’s Border Wall Address by Mother Jones (Mother Jones)
• FACT CHECK: Trump’s Oval Office Pitch For A Border Wall by Scott Horsley, Joel Rose, Jim Zarroli (NPR)
• What Was the Point of Trump’s Oval Office Address? by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Full text: Donald Trump’s immigration address (Politico)
• Full text: Pelosi and Schumer respond to Trump’s immigration speech (Politico)

Government Shutdown

• DOJ, Largely Shut Down, Nonetheless Issued Statements On Southern Border Cases by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
• Why Mike Pence Couldn’t End the Shutdown by Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
• TSA union: Some screeners have quit as shutdown stretches on by Stephanie Beasley (Politico)
• Joshua Tree National Park Will Close After Visitor Damage During Government Shutdown by Richard Gonzales (NPR)

Russian Investigations / Manafort / Trump Tower

• Russian Lawyer At Trump Tower Meeting Charged In Connection To Money Laundering Case by Ryan Lucas (NPR)
• Russian Lawyer at Trump Tower Meeting Lied About Kremlin Ties, Prosecutors Charge by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Supreme Court turns down mysterious Mueller subpoena fight by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
• Manafort Allegedly Shared 2016 Polling With Associate Linked To Russian Intelligence by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
• Paul Manafort’s Lawyers Tried—and Failed—to Redact This Sensitive Legal Filing by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Paul Manafort’s Botched Redactions Reveal New Details on Trump-Russia Interactions by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Manafort shared Trump polling data with Ukrainian associate during 2016 campaign by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Manafort Filing Suggests Mueller Has Evidence of Something That Starts With C and Rhymes With Schmollusion by Ben Mathis-Lolley (Slate)
• Analysis: A Paul Manafort court filing just accidentally connected some big dots between the Trump campaign and Russia by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Supreme Court rules against mystery corporation from ‘Country A’ fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation by Robert Barnes, Devlin Barrett, and Carol D. Leonnig (Washington Post)
• Mueller protection bill reintroduced in the Senate, but still no prospects for floor time by Niels Lesneiwski (Roll Call)

Other News

• US downgrades EU diplomatic status in Washington (BBC)
• Trump summons advisers to White House over drug price hikes by Dan Diamond, Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle (Politico)
• Bolton leaves Turkey on sour note over Trump’s Syria plans by Elise Labott (Politico)
• Trump’s plan to get out of Syria is collapsing already by Alexandra Ma (Business Insider)

Analysis

• What Would It Take For Trump To Get Primaried? by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
• The U.S. Has Been in a Constant State of National Emergency Since 1979. Here’s Why by Olivia B. Waxman (TIME)