April 2019

Mueller Report

• What Donald Trump actually did in 2016, according to the Mueller report by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Trump disputes McGahn account of attempted Mueller firing by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Lara Trump claims there’s ‘nothing’ in the Mueller report, ignores what’s actually in it by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)

Biden

• Joe Biden Announces He’s Running for President by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Trump mocks ‘Sleepy Joe’ after Biden jumps into 2020 race by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Trump insults Biden saying intelligence ‘long in doubt’ after Democrat enters 2020 election race by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Why Obama Won’t Endorse His Former Vice President Joe Biden (at Least for Now) by Jennifer Epstein (TIME)

Kim / Putin

• Kim and Putin: Challenging the US role in denuclearisation by Mansur Mirovalev (Al Jazeera)
• Kim Jong Un Asks Putin for Help With President Trump at North Korean Leader’s Summit in Russia by Olga Tanas, Youkyung Lee (TIME)

Other News

• US impeachment: Trump vows to take it to top court (Al Jazeera)
• Trump’s high-stakes subpoena battle with House Democrats, explained by Dylan Scott (Vox)
• Trump’s Republican Opponent Says The President Would Resign If He Was A Patriot by Carla Herria (Huffington Post)
• Trump uses Secret Service agents to help him cheat at golf, book claims by Conrad Duncan (Independent)
• Trump administration forces UN to water down anti-rape resolution after veto threat by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Trump’s acting defense secretary has been cleared of an ethics violation by Alex Ward (Vox)
• White House: Stephen Miller won’t testify before House by Ted Hesson (Politico)
• Trump claims U.S. has ‘record clean’ air. A new report says otherwise. by Kyla Mandel (ThinkProgress)
• Lara Trump says refugees ‘one of the worst things that ever happened’ to Germany by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• The White House Press Secretary Held the First Press Briefing Since Feb. 28 – but for Kids by AP (TIME)
• Trump to give Air Force Academy commencement address by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• White House to Congress: top Trump immigration aide won’t testify by Roberta Rampton and Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
• Sanders holds 1st press briefing since Feb. 28, but for kids (AP)
• Trump administration swayed by GOP think tank on abortion, LGBT decisions, group says by Sandhya Raman (Roll Call)

Opinion

• Trump’s Stonewalling Takes Clash Between Branches to a New Level by Carl Hulse (NY Times)

Mueller Report

• Trump ‘opposed to’ his staff testifying over Mueller report (Al Jazeera)
• Mueller fails to detonate for endangered Republicans by Burgess Everett, Melanie Zanona (Politico)
• Yes, Trump, Mueller’s report means the end of your presidency by Kenneth F. Mccallion (Salon)
• ‘This is risky’: Trump’s thirst for Mueller revenge could land him in trouble by Darren Samuelsohn, Andrew Desiderio, and Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• After Mueller, Trump says he’ll fight Dems on all fronts by Darlene Superville and Jonathan Lemire (AP)
• Barr to testify before Senate panel next week on Mueller report by Morgan Chalfant, Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)

Impeachment

• Contradicting Constitution, Trump vows Supreme Court fight over impeachment by Susan Heavey (Reuters)
• Trump Says He’d Turn to Supreme Court to Block Impeachment. That’s Not How It Works. by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Former Trump Transition Official Calls For Impeachment: ‘This Is Serious Stuff’ by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
• Trump says he’ll turn to Supreme Court if Congress begins impeachment by Katie Galioto (Politico)
• Opinion: How Trump may be making his own impeachment more likely by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)

Twitter / Jack Dorsey

• Trump Used His Meeting with Jack Dorsey to Complain About Losing Followers by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Donald Trump Met Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Complained About Losing Followers, Reports Say by Lucy Diavolo (Teen Vogue)
• Trump ‘repeatedly complains about Obama having more Twitter followers than him’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)

Census

• Trump offers alternate argument for citizenship question on 2020 census by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• What is the US census citizenship question? The controversy explained by Erin Durkin (The Guardian)
• The Trump Administration Is Designing the 2020 Census to Make Immigrants Invisible by Jay Willis (GQ)
• The Census Case Will Define the Roberts Court by David H. Gans (Slate)

Border / Immigration

• Trump suggests Mexican soldiers confronted US troops as cover for drug smuggling by John Bowden (The Hill)
• President Trump Makes New Threats About Sending Soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico Border by AP (TIME)
• Trump administration proposed housing migrant children at Guantánamo Bay: report by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• New Trump immigration plan may increase visas for highly-skilled workers by Steve Holland, Jeff Mason (Reuters)

Other News

• The Secret Service Is Wracking Up Huge Expenses So Trump Can (Allegedly Cheat At) Golf by Russ Choma (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s Fed Pick Stephen Moore: Critics Are “Pulling a Kavanaugh Against Me” by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• North Korean Leader Arrives in Russia For Summit With Putin by Anthony Kuhn (NPR)
• Mulvaney: ‘I don’t recall’ telling staffers not to mention election security to Trump by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Trump: ‘We’re fighting all the subpoenas’ by Katie Galioto (Politico)
• Trump says he’ll fight ‘all the subpoenas’ by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• McConnell vows to block Democratic proposals after 2020 elections: “Think of me as the Grim Reaper” by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• Jared Kushner’s chilling preview of Trump 2020: Investigations “way more harmful” than Russia by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
• Trump’s tweets are getting more unhinged by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• France condemns Trump administration for watering down UN resolution opposing rape in war: ‘Intolerable and incomprehensible’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Trump promotes conspiracy theory that UK helped Obama administration spy on his presidential campaign by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Trump suggests one day after announcement of state visit that UK spied on his campaign by Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
• In Push for 2020 Election Security, Top Official Was Warned: Don’t Tell Trump by Eric Schmitt, David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
• New Revelations in Maria Butina Case Highlight Russia’s Infiltration Efforts in 2016 by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Kirstjen Nielsen Was Instructed Not to Talk to Trump About Russia Targeting the 2020 Elections by Nihal Krishan (Mother Jones)
• Trump praises China for executing drug dealers: ‘I appreciate that very much’ by Lily Puckett (Independent)
• Longest-serving Republican in Iowa legislature quits GOP, blames Donald Trump by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump’s chief of staff told former Homeland Secretary not to tell Trump about Russian interference by Alex Henderson, Alternet (Salon)

Analysis

• We Analyzed 40 Years Of Primary Polls. Even Early On, They’re Fairly Predictive. by Geoffrey Skelley (FiveThirtyEight)
• Why the US bears the most responsibility for climate change, in one chart by Umair Irfan (Vox)

Opinion

• I won a Pulitzer. Yet Trump wants to deport me because I’m undocumented by Erika Espinoza (The Guardian)
• Opinion: Here’s Why The Trump Administration’s Iran Sanctions Strategy Won’t Work by Aaron David Miller, Richard Sokolsky (NPR)
• Trump’s shameless obstruction of justice shows no signs of stopping by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Trump’s DHS Pardon Promise Is As Serious As Anything in the Mueller Report by Eugene R. Fidell and Margaret Colgate Love (Slate)

Mueller Report

• Trump’s Approval Rating Tumbles To Below 40% After Mueller Report In New Polls by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
• Jared Kushner: Mueller ‘More Harmful’ Than Russia by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
• Kushner: Mueller probe was ‘more harmful’ to U.S. than Russian election interference by Katie Galioto (Politico)
• Most Devastating of All: Mueller’s Indictment of Trump’s Character by Robert Reich (The American Prospect)
• The Republican Push to Keep Mueller Drama Alive by Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
• Mueller Proved Comey Told the Truth by William Saletan (Slate)
• The White House Will Fight McGahn Subpoena Because His Public Testimony Could Be a Knockout Blow by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Trump says aides need not testify to Congress amid growing power struggle by David Smith (Guardian)
• Trump opposes aides’ testimony on Mueller report, ramping up feud with Democrats by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)

Census Citizenship Question

• Could the Supreme Court Allow Citizenship Question on 2020 Census? Early Indications Point to Yes by Mark Sherman (TIME)
• How The Citizenship Question Could Break The Census by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
• Supreme Court Appears To Lean Toward Allowing Citizenship Question On The Census by Sam Levine (Huffington Post)

UK Trip

• President Trump To Pay A State Visit To U.K. In June, At Queen’s Invitation by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• US President Trump to make state visit to UK in June (Al Jazeera)
• President Trump To Make First U.K. State Visit in June by Billy Perrigo (TIME)
• Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK set for 3 June (BBC)
• Trump’s London Visit Will Bring More of the Same by Yasmeen Serhan (The Atlantic)

Impeachment

• The White House Is Making a Huge Bet on Impeachment by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
• More Democrats Call For Impeachment Proceedings Against President Trump by Giles Snyder, Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Former Trump transition official calls for impeachment by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Analysis: Here’s where 2020 Democratic presidential candidates stand on impeaching Trump by Eliza Relman (Business Insider)
• Analysis: Is Obstruction an Impeachable Offense? History Says Yes by Adam Liptak (NY Times)

Tax Returns

• Today’s The Deadline For The IRS To Hand Over Trump’s Tax Returns by Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
• Trump tax returns: White House set to blow Democrat deadline to release financial documents by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Pence hasn’t released any tax returns since becoming VP: report by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Trump Will Not Release Tax Returns to Congress, Spokesman Says  by Alan Rappeport (NY Times)
• IRS fails to meet congressional deadline for Trump tax returns (Al Jazeera)
• IRS blows deadline to hand over Trump tax returns by Aaron Lorenzo (Politico)
• Mnuchin misses Trump tax returns deadline; asks for more time by David Sword (Roll Call)

Other News

• Trump unleashes on the media in morning tweetstorm by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Kushner says has urged Saudi prince to be transparent about Khashoggi killing (Reuters)
• Netanyahu calls for new Golan settlement named for Trump by AP (Politico)
• Israel’s Netanyahu wants to name Golan settlement after Trump (Al Jazeera)
• How Trump factors into California’s charter school wars by Mackenzie Mays (Politico)
• Trump’s White House orders former security clearance official not to comply with Democratic subpoena by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump threatens trade war with EU over Harley Davidson tariffs: ‘We will Reciprocate!’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Trump makes U-turn to support Harley-Davidson as profits fall amid tariff war by Edward Helmore (The Guardian)
• Barr gets waiver on case linked to inquiry into Trump’s inauguration fund by Natasha Bertrand (Politico)
• Jack Dorsey Is Reportedly Meeting With President Trump by Louise Matsakis (Wired)
• UN waters down rape resolution to appease US’s hardline abortion stance by Liz Ford (The Guardian)
• Trump Hauls Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to the Oval Office, Wants to Know Why He Doesn’t Have More Twitter Followers by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Twitter Users Very Skeptical About Trump’s Closed Door Meeting With Jack Dorsey by David Moye (Huffington Post)
• Trump Reportedly Bans White House Officials from Correspondents’ Dinner by Laura Bradley (Vanity Fair)
• Trump administration insists UN resolution opposing rape in war cannot offer ‘sexual and reproductive health’ assistance to victims by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
• Furious Trump orders officials to boycott correspondents’ dinner by Eliana Johnson (Politico)

Analysis

• Trump Isn’t Just Reversing Obama’s Foreign Policies. He’s Making it Impossible for His Successor to Go Back to Them. by Aaron David Miller, Richard Sokolsky (Politico)
• SCOTUS will consider sexual orientation, transgender discrimination under Title VII by Stephanie Francis Ward (ABA Journal)

Opinion

• The other collusion involving the Trump campaign by Randall D. Eliason (Washington Post)
• Now playing at the Supreme Court: How to preserve white power in four easy steps by Dana Milbank (Washington Post)

Mueller Report

• The Mueller Report Makes It Clear: Trump Is Off the Hook in SDNY as Well by Richard L. Hasen (Slate)
• Trump: ‘Nobody disobeys my orders’ by Katie Galioto (Politico)
• Mueller report: A harsh indictment of Donald Trump — and also of America’s leadership class by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
• Mueller’s report: A profile of a president willing to sell out his country by Jared Yates Sexton (Salon)
• Mueller report: Inside the search for answers about Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia by Rosalind S. Helderman (Independent)
• The scientific maneuver Mueller used that implicates the president by Jennifer Victor (Vox)
• Mueller Clearly Thinks Trump Could Be Charged Once He’s Out of Office by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
• Democrats subpoena ex-White House counsel Don McGahn by Andrew Desidero (Politico)
• House Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoena for Former White House Counsel Don McGahn by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• US House panel chair subpoenas ex-White House lawyer Don McGahn (Al Jazeera)

Impeachment

• Trump erupts over impeachment as congressional proceedings loom: ‘You can’t impeach’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• It’s worth pausing and noting that the president is now tweeting about impeachment by Tara Golshan (Vox)
• Trump: ‘Not even a little bit’ worried about impeachment by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Fact check: Trump focuses on ‘crimes,’ but impeachment is a political decision by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Democratic presidential candidates divided over impeaching Trump by Tim Reid (Reuters)

Financial Records

• Trump sues to block House subpoena of financial records by Andrew Desidero (Politico)
• Trump sues House Democrats to stop them from getting his financial records by Dylan Scott (Vox)
• US: Trump sues to block subpoena for financial records (Al Jazeera)

Herman Cain

• Trump says he won’t nominate Herman Cain for Fed seat (Politico)
• President Trump Drops Plan to Nominate Herman Cain to Federal Reserve Board by Alister Bull (TIME)
• Herman Cain withdraws from consideration for Fed, Trump says by Christopher Rugaber (AP)

Other News

• Trump Misses Sri Lankan Death Toll By Millions In Condolence Tweet by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• These Trump Allies Are Preparing for a New Cold War With China by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
• The Supreme Court Could Shift Power to Republicans for the Next Decade by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
• Trump Celebrates Earth Day With a Proclamation About How Capitalism Is Good by Oliver Milman (Mother Jones)
• Trump says OPEC can step up output after Iran waivers (Reuters)
• Trump wins over big donors who snubbed him in 2016 by Alex Isenstadt (Politico)
• Trump issues Earth Day message without mentioning climate change by Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
• Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Employment Discrimination Laws Apply to LGBT Community by Mark Sherman (TIME)
• US says no more sanctions waivers for importing Iranian oil by Matthew Lee (AP)
• Lawsuit claiming EPA negligence in Flint water crisis can move forward, judge says by Amanda Robert (ABA Journal)
• Stephen Moore, Trump’s Pick for Fed, Once Wrote Multiple Columns Complaining About Women Participating in Sports by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Trump aims to stop all Iran oil exports by halting US sanctions waivers by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• President Trump Bragged About the Border Wall to a Group of Children at the Easter Egg Roll by Shannon Pettypiece, Alyza Sebenius (TIME)
• Trump’s Fed Pick: Keep Women Out of Sports, Unless They Make Me Horny by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• Trump Spends White House Easter Event Updating Kids on His Border Wall by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• President Trump Threatens New Restrictions for High Visa Overstay Countries by Jill Colvin (TIME)
• Immigration detention centers nearly empty as Trump claims border crisis by Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)

Analysis

• SCOTUS will consider sexual orientation, transgender discrimination under Title VII by  Stephanie Francis Ward (ABA Journal)

Opinion

• Trump’s EPA wants to put a toxic mine in pristine Alaska. What could go wrong? by Kim Heavoc (The Guardian)

Mueller Report / Giuliani

• Top Democrat Suggests Mueller Report May Be Grounds for Impeachment by Ali Breland (Mother Jones)
• Giuliani defends Trump campaign’s use of stolen Russian information by Melanie Schmitz (ThinkProgress)
• Early polls show Trump hurt by Mueller report as media vindicated by its findings by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Rudy Giuliani: ‘There’s Nothing Wrong With Taking Information From Russians’ by Igor Bobic (Huffington Post)
• Giuliani briefly accuses Mueller team of coming ‘close to torturing people’ by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Rudy Giuliani: There’s nothing wrong with taking info from Russians by Khushbu Shah (Vox)
• Giuliani rails against Mueller report as Democrats mull Trump impeachment by Victoria Bekiempis, Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)
• Trump continues attacks on Mueller report days after declaring victory by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Top Democrats leave open option of Trump impeachment after Mueller report by Sarah N. Lynch and Yasmeen Abutaleb (Reuters)
• As Russia probe began, Trump called on spy chiefs for help by Deb Riechmann and Susannah George (AP)

Sri Lanka Bombings

• Trump Tweets Wildly Inflated Death Toll for Sri Lanka Bombings by Ali Breland (Mother Jones)
• Trump Tweet Claiming Millions Killed in Sri Lanka Bombings Stays Up for 20 Minutes by Daniel Politi (Slate)

Other News

• GOP Groups And Campaigns Have Spent At Least $4.7 Million On Trump Properties by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• President Trump Attends Easter Service After a Morning of Tweeting by Kevin Freking (TIME)
• In high-stakes census case, Supreme Court will dissect Trump’s effort to catalogue noncitizens by Robert Barnes (Washington Post)
• ‘I Don’t Want to Die’: Asylum Seekers, Once in Limbo, Face Deportation Under Trump by Christina Goldbaum (NY Times)
• Supreme Court to Decide Whether Bias Law Covers Gay and Transgender Workers by Adam Liptak
• To Defend Against a Mercurial Boss, Trump Aides Wield the Pen as Shield by Peter Baker and Annie Karni

Opinion

• Trump’s moral squalor, not impeachment, will remove him from power by Robert Reich (The Guardian)
• A Supreme Court Case That Will Affect Every Aspect of National Life by Garrett Epps (The Atlantic)

Mueller Report – Impeachment

• The Mueller report and the impeachment paradox: Removing Trump from office may have gotten harder by Casey Michel (ThinkProgress)
• So Is Impeachment Plausible, Necessary, or Stupid? (Slate)
• Mueller report: Elizabeth Warren becomes first 2020 candidate to call for Trump’s impeachment by Adam Forrest (Independent)
• Elizabeth Warren calls for Trump’s impeachment by Emily Stewart (Vox)
• Why it’s hard to remove, or even diagnose, mentally ill or unstable presidents by Joseph J. Fins, John Rogan (Salon)
• Trump tampered with witnesses. These Senate Republicans voted to oust Bill Clinton for doing just that by Jon Swaine and Lauren Gambino (Guardian)

Mueller Report – General

• Bill Barr takes a Sharpie to history: It won’t be enough to cover up Trump’s crimes by Lucian K. Truscott IV (Salon)
• Mitt Romney is “sickened” by the Trump administration’s “dishonesty” after reading Mueller report by Khushbu Shah (Vox)
• Trump approval drops to 2019 low after Mueller report’s release: poll by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
• Trump: Mueller report was ‘written as nastily as possible’ by ‘true Trump Haters’ by Mary Tyler March (The Hill)
• All the president’s men and women: how disobedient aides saved Trump by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
• Prodded by Putin, Russians Sought Back Channels to Trump Through the Business World by Sharon LaFraniere (NY Times)
• Former White House Counsel McGahn Says His Portrayal in the Mueller Report Is “Accurately Described” by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
• The Tell-All Book That Could Trump Them All: The Mueller Report by Ron Elving (NPR)
• Opinion: Bill Barr takes a Sharpie to history: It won’t be enough to cover up Trump’s crimes by Lucian K. Truscott III (Salon)
• Armed with Mueller report, Democrats confront challenge of Trump’s messaging machine by Michael Scherer (Washington Post)

Other News

• Fears grow Trump will abandon Afghan women to the Taliban by Nahal Toosi (Politico)
• Donald Trump’s Masturbation-Themed Retweet Sets Twitter Abuzz by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Amy Klobuchar has voted to confirm nearly two-thirds of Trump’s judicial nominees by Frank Dale (ThinkProgress)
• Immigrants Can Be Denied Citizenship for Working in Legal Marijuana Industry by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump’s environmental deregulation agenda faces two major setbacks in one week by E.A. Crunden (ThinkProgress)
• White House releases photos of Trump, Rush Limbaugh playing golf by Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
• White House Releases Photo of Trump, Limbaugh Golfing as President Tweets Mueller Frustrations by Daniel Politi (Slate)

Opinion

• Will the Census Count All of America? by The Editorial Board (NY Times)

Mueller Report

• The Mueller report redactions, explained in 4 charts by Alvin Chang, Javier Zarracina (Vox)
• The Mueller report, explained in 500 words by Alex Ward (Vox)
• The Mueller Report Could Alienate the Voters Republicans Need by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
• “Because There Was So Much Obstruction, It’s Impossible for Us to Know Whether There Was a Conspiracy” by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
• There Might Be More Mueller-Related Prosecutions After All by Joel A. Cohen (Slate)
• Trump’s pattern of crime exposed in Mueller report — but it’s much bigger than that by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Breaking down the 140 pages detailing how Trump fought Mueller by Ben Schreckinger (Politico)
• Mueller Report Showed Donald Trump Was Fixated on Finding Hillary Clinton’s Emails by Abigail Abrams (TIME)
• Mueller Report Shows Depth of Connections Between Trump Campaign and Russians by Karen Yourish and Larry Buchanan (NY Times)
• How WhatsApp, FaceTime and other encryption apps shaped the outcome of the Mueller report by Craig Timburg and Drew Harwell (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Mueller report offers clues to what’s behind the redactions by Joe Fox, John Muyskens, and Danielle Rindler (Washington Post)
• Five unresolved mysteries about Russian meddling in Mueller’s report by Natasha Bertrand (Politico)
• Did Blackwater founder Erik Prince lie to Mueller or to Congress? by Joshua Eaton (ThinkProgress)
• Mueller Redactions Raise Questions About Stone, Trump, and the “No Collusion” Claim by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Why Robert Mueller Cited Antonin Scalia to Prove Trump’s Official Acts Might Have Been Obstruction by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
• Journalists Were Right by Justin Peters (Slate)
• Why the Mueller Report Shouldn’t Be the Final Word on Trump, Russia and Obstruction of Justice by Joyce White Vance (TIME)
• 5 Times the Mueller Report Showed Trump and His Associates Didn’t Tell the Truth by Ryan Teague Beckwith (TIME)
• What a Watergate Expert Thinks of the Mueller Report by Lily Rothman (TIME)
• The “red line” investigations that will haunt trump’s presidency by Abigail Tracy (Vanity fair)
• Mueller Hints at a National-Security Nightmare by Joshua A. Geltzer and Ryan Goodman (NY Times)

Mueller Report – Trump, WH Response / Impeachment / Subpoena Full Report

• “Total Bullshit”: Trump Lashes Out at Mueller Report by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump liked the Mueller report when it looked good for him. Today he called it “total bullshit.” by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• It’s official: House Democrats subpoena the full, unredacted Mueller report by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
• House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Full and Unredacted Mueller Report by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Roadmap for impeachment: Mueller’s purpose is clear by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
• Mueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach Trump by Garrett M. Graff (Wired)
• Democrats make legal bid for all Russia probe evidence, Trump calls Mueller report ‘crazy’ by Doina Chiacu, David Morgan (Reuters)
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders stands by ‘sentiment’ of misleading comments revealed in Mueller report by Galioto (Politico)
• “A Normal Person Would Have Been Indicted”: Trumpworld Reckons with the Mueller Report’s Devastating Impact by Gabriel Sherman (Vanity Fair)
• Trump launches expletive-laden tirade over Mueller report by Andrew Griffin (Independent)
• Freshmen Democrats break ranks on impeachment talk following Mueller report by Frank Dale (ThinkProgress)
• Congress subpoenas full Mueller report, escalating battle with Trump’s Justice Department by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• Mueller Report: Sarah Sanders Admitted To Lying About Comey’s Firing by Chris Walker (Hill Reporter)
• Warren calls for House to begin impeachment proceedings (AP)
• Warren calls on Congress to launch impeachment proceedings against Trump by Katie Galioto (Politico)
• Dems reject Barr’s offer to view a less-redacted Mueller report by Kyle Cheney, Andrew Desidero (Politico)
• Donald Trump accuses Mueller report participants of ‘treason’ and vows to ‘turn tables’ on them by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
• Analysis: Robert Mueller Was Wrong. President Trump Can Be Indicted by Martin London (TIME)
• Opinion: In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment by Michelle Goldberg (NY Times)

Mueller Report – Russia

• Kremlin claims there’s no proof in Mueller’s report of Russian meddling by AP (Politico)
• Mueller Report Raises New Questions About Russia’s Hacking Targets In 2016 by Pam Fessler (NPR)
• Russia rejects Mueller report that documents its interference (Al Jazeera)

Border / Immigration

• The Trump Administration Says It Can’t Handle More Migrants, Ignoring Thousands of Vacant Beds in Family Detention Centers by Manuel Madrid (The American Prospect)
• Trump administration seeks evictions for undocumented immigrants in public housing by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• Videos appear to show armed militia detaining migrants at US-Mexico border by Sam Levin (The Guardian)
• 9th Circuit refuses to block California’s sanctuary state laws by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)

Other News

• CBO: over 1 million Americans have become uninsured since 2016 by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
• Trump’s Mexico-Canada deal would bring minimal economic gains, trade agency says by Sabrina Rodriguez, Megan Cassella (Politico)
• Trump and Libya: White House egged on warlord who intensified attack on Tripoli by Borzou Datagahi (Independent)
• Trump speaks to rebel Libyan general attacking Tripoli by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
• Trump campaign punishes Don McGahn’s law firm by Nancy Cook (Politico)
• Trump’s Offer to Help Notre-Dame Rebuild Doesn’t Match His Response to Puerto Rico’s Disaster by Dennis Tang (Teen Vogue)
• Trump approval drops 3 points to 2019 low after release of Mueller report by Chris Kahn (Reuters)
• Supreme Court girds for fight over Trump census citizenship question by Andrew Chung (Reuters)

Opinion

• Welcome to the Fourth Reich: Donald Trump’s assault on the rule of law will not end well by Chauncey DeVega (Salon)
• Russia attacked us. The Mueller report still doesn’t give us the full story. by Michael McFaul (Washington Post)

Mueller Report – Release

• Top US Democrats call for Mueller to testify publicly (Al Jazeera)
• Trump revs up his Twitter activity hours before release of Mueller report by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Why Was the Mueller Report Delivered to Congress on CDs? by Aaron Mak (Slate)
• The Mueller Report Has Been Released by Ryan J. Reilly (Huffington Post)
• Trump after Mueller report release: ‘I’m having a good day’ by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• 2020 Dems call on Mueller to testify on redacted report by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
• Trump claims victory as damning Mueller details emerge by Nancy Cook, Darren Samuelsohn, Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
• ‘Game over’: Republicans rejoice after Mueller concludes by Melanie Zanona, Sarah Ferris, Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Trump legal team hails Mueller report: ‘A total victory’ by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Nadler to subpoena the unredacted Mueller report and underlying materials by Lindsay McPherson (Roll Call)
• Congressional Republicans had reached a conclusion on the Mueller report long before its release by Tara Golshan (Vox)
• Mueller’s Report Doesn’t Exonerate Trump. But Does That Matter? by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (Five Thirty Eight)
• Trump celebrates the release of the redacted Mueller report with a triumphant ‘Game of Thrones’-themed image by Grace Panetta (Business Insider)
• Mueller drops obstruction dilemma on Congress by Lisa Mascaro (AP)
• The Mueller Report Is an Invitation to Congress to Impeach Donald Trump by Jay WIllis (GQ)
• Paranoia, lies and fear: Trump’s presidency laid bare by Mueller report by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa (Washington Post)
• Mueller: Trump told his aides to interfere in the investigation, they just didn’t listen by Dara Lind (Vox)

Mueller Report – Read the Report

• Redacted Mueller report released by US Justice Department (Al Jazeera)
• READ: The Mueller Report, With Redactions by Dana Farrington (NPR)
• The Mueller Report Was Just Released. Read It Here. by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Read a Searchable Version of the Mueller Report (Slate)
• The Mueller Report Is Out. Read It Here by Brian Barrett (Wired)
• Mueller report: Read the full Trump investigation document here by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• An annotated guide to the redacted Mueller report by Natasha Bertrand, Kyle Cheney, Andrew Desidero, Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
• Read Robert Mueller’s Written Summaries of His Russia Report by Madeleine Carlisle, Olivia Paschal (The Atlantic)

Mueller Report – Highlights

• Mueller’s Russia report outlines episodes of possible Trump obstruction by Sarah N. Lynch, Andy Sullivan (Reuters)
• Mueller report does not conclude Trump committed crime but does not exonerate him (Reuters)
• Mueller report says ‘substantial evidence’ Trump’s firing of FBI head linked to investigation (Reuters)
• Mueller Report: Team Couldn’t Rule Out Obstruction … Or Firmly Establish It by Philip Ewing, Carrie Johnson (NPR)
• Trump curses Mueller appointment: ‘This is the end of my presidency’ by Ginger Gibson, Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
• Mueller report: Trump ‘tried to get special counsel fired’ (BBC)
• “I’m Fucked”: Trump’s Reaction When He Learned of the Special Counsel Investigation by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s Reaction to Mueller’s Appointment: “I’m F–ked… This Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me.” by Henry Grabar (Slate)
• Trump After Learning of Robert Mueller’s Appointment as Special Counsel: “I’m Fucked” by Jay Willis (GQ)
• Trump feared Mueller’s appointment: ‘This is the end of my Presidency’ by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
• Mueller: Trump pressured McGahn to deny reports he was asked to fire Mueller by Zack Budryk (The Hill)
• Trump told Mueller more than 30 times he did not remember key events by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Trump claimed he couldn’t ‘remember’ at least 30 times when answering Mueller team’s questions by Emily Q. Hazzard (ThinkProgress)
• Mueller “Unable” to Say Trump Didn’t Commit Obstruction of Justice by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
• Mueller cannot confidently state Trump didn’t obstruct justice by Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• 10 episodes where Trump might have obstructed justice (Politico)
• Mueller probed Sessions for perjury over Russia contacts by Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Everything the Mueller Report Says About the Pee Tape by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Trump Still Hasn’t Condemned Russia for Meddling in the 2016 Election by Krishnadev Calamur (The Atlantic)
• 7 Must-Read Moments From the Mueller Report by Madeleine Carlisle, Olivia Paschal (The Atlantic)
• Sarah Sanders Admitted to the Special Counsel that She Lied About Comey by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
• Mueller Report Explains Why Special Counsel Didn’t Subpoena Donald Trump by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (Huffington Post)
• Trump Tower meeting: Why Mueller didn’t prosecute Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and others by Victoria Gagliardo-Silver (Independent)
• Mueller report sheds new light on how the Russians hacked the DNC and the Clinton campaign by Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
• Mueller report: Things we only just learned (BBC)
• Highlights From The Mueller Report (NPR)
• Mueller report: the key takeaways from the Trump-Russia investigation by Sabrina Siddiqui (The Guardian)
• New Details From the Mueller Report About Don Jr.’s Interactions With WikiLeaks by April Glaser (Slate)
• Special counsel’s report is released; here are highlights by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Mueller rejects argument that Trump is shielded from obstruction laws by Staff (Washington Post)
• Mueller report: Trump tried repeatedly to choke Russia probe by Nancy Benac, Chad Day, Eric Tucker, and Michael Balsamo (AP)
• The Discrepancy Between the Mueller Report and Barr’s Summary Is Telling by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• The Most Exquisite Details of the Mueller Report by Heather Schwedel (Slate)
• Trump Repeatedly Asked Campaign Associates to Find Clinton’s Deleted Emails by Aaron Mak (Slate)
• Mueller: Manafort Discussed Enlisting Trump to Aid Russia in Ukraine by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• See How Much Of The Mueller Report Is Redacted by Ryan Lucas, Alyson Hurt, Thomas Wilburn (NPR)
• Jared Kushner’s meeting with Russian state bank still shrouded in mystery after Mueller probe by Sarah K. Burris (Salon)
• Mueller paints damning portrait of dysfunctional Trump White House by Nancy Cook, Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
• Trump claimed he knew about damaging Clinton emails in advance by Julian Borger and Marc Bennetts (Guardian)

Mueller Report – Barr

• Bill Barr’s Big Deception by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Mueller report: Barr accused of helping Donald Trump ahead of release (BBC)
• Barr defends Trump before release of redacted Mueller’s report (Al Jazeera)
• Transcript: Attorney General William Barr’s press conference remarks ahead of Mueller report release (Politico)
• Read Attorney General William Barr’s Full Remarks Ahead of the Mueller Report Release by Katie Reilly (TIME)
• Trump Tells Americans to Watch Attorney General on Conservative Media by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Barr defends Trump on obstruction, says he faced ‘unprecedented’ situation by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• Barr: Trump’s lawyers did not request any redactions in Mueller report by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
• Twitter melts down over Barr press conference by Joe Concha (The Hill)
• William Barr press conference: Attorney General says Mueller report found 10 cases of possible obstruction by Trump by Chris Riotta (Independent)
• The attorney general just pre-spun the Mueller report for Trump by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
• William Barr Didn’t Have a Great Answer When Asked if He Was Trying to Protect the President by Aaron Mak (Slate)
• The Most Remarkable Part of Barr’s Press Conference Had Nothing to Do With the Facts by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• William Barr Has Failed America by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
• “The President Was Frustrated”: Barr Defends Trump’s Hurt Feelings in Pre-Mueller Presser by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
• Barr ‘disagreed’ with Mueller’s obstruction theories by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Barr Has Abandoned the Constitution in Order to Serve Trump by John Nichols (The Nation)
• Bill Barr’s amazing spin machine: Trump’s AG is barely even pretending by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• US Democrats criticise William Barr over Mueller report release (Al Jazeera)
• What Attorney General Barr buried, misrepresented or ignored in clearing Trump by Philip Bump (Washington Post)

Other News

• Trump adviser visits Moscow for Kremlin talks (Reuters)
• North Korea calls for ‘immature’ Mike Pompeo to be dropped from nuclear talks with US by Peter Stubley (Independent)
• Trump Administration Announces Measures Against Cuba, Venezuela And Nicaragua by Francesca Paris (NPR)
• How the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration Policies are Changing After Kirstjen Nielsen’s Resignation by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento (Teen Vogue)
• The Trump Administration Wants to Kick Undocumented Immigrants Out of Public Housing by Nathalie Baptiste (Mother Jones)
• Herman Cain says he doesn’t plan to withdraw from consideration for the Federal Reserve by Li Zhou (Vox)
• Trade, North Korea on agenda for Trump-Abe talks (Al Jazeera)

Analysis

• Trump’s Second Term by Paul Starr (The Atlantic)
• 20 Times Donald Trump Praised Dictators And Controversial Leaders by Steph Dazzle (Hill Reporter)

Opinion

• Congress Should Impeach William Barr by Jonathan Chait (New York Magazine)

Mueller Report

• Who’s Afraid of the Mueller Report? by Peter Nicholas, Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
• Mueller report to be released on Thursday: What you won’t see (Al Jazeera)
• Poll: Most Americans don’t think Mueller report will clear Trump by Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Trump Has Set Himself Up for Disaster If He’s Wrong About Mueller by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
• “Spying Is a Judgment”: After Mueller, Will Trump Get His Grand Inquisition? by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
• Analysis: The Mueller Report Will Be Released on Thursday. Here’s a Guide. by Sharon LaFraniere (NY Times)
• Democrats prepared to subpoena Justice Department for all of Mueller’s findings as soon as Friday by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Congress won’t get Mueller report until after Barr press conference by Jacqueline Thomsen And Brandon Conradis (The Hill)
• White House, Justice Department officials discussed Mueller report ahead of release: NYT by David Morgan, Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters)
• The White House Reportedly Knows Details About the Mueller Report Ahead of Its Release—And Democrats Are Pissed by Jackie Flynn Mogensen (Mother Jones)
• Look for References to Michael Flynn in the Mueller Report to See How Much William Barr Has Redacted by Jed Shugerman (Slate)
• Justice Department Reportedly Has Already Tipped Off Trump’s Lawyers to Mueller Report Conclusions by Elliot Hannon (Slate)

Cuba

• Trump lifts ban on U.S. lawsuits against foreign firms in Cuba by Lesley Wroughton, Matt Spetalnick (Reuters)
• Trump security adviser unveils new U.S. sanctions to pressure Cuba, Venezuela by Matt Spetalnick, David Alexander (Reuters)
• U.S. restricts travel, remittances to Cuba as part of a new policy under Trump by Nora Gámez Torres (Miami Herald)

Other News

• Poll: Nearly 4 in 10 voters believe Trump’s campaign was spied on by Nolan D. McCaskill (Politico)
• Trump takes second whack at Fox News by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Trump wants to spend more on opioid task force that found 0.2 grams of heroin in week-long sting by Alan Pyke (ThinkProgress)
• Trump’s disaster relief prioritizes ‘Western civilization’ over U.S. people of color by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
• U.S.-China trade deal is nearly here. What we know so far shows Trump is the biggest winner. by D. Parvaz (ThinkProgress)
• Trump abruptly blocks U.S. from appointing anyone to UN committee on racism by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• New records put Trump’s interior chief under fresh scrutiny over casino row by Emily Holden (The Guardian)
• Trump and Netanyahu Are Breaking the Bond Between American Jews and Israel by Jane Eisner (TIME)
• Gold-plated golf clubs and birthday bashes: How Abe courts Trump by Eliana Johnson (Politico)
• Monica Crowley, a Fox News Fixture, Is Said to Get a Top Treasury Job by Alan Rappeport (NY Times)
• Ivanka Trump says she passed on World Bank job by Catherine Lucey (AP)
• Melania Trump says she’ll serve 4 more years as first lady by Darlene Superville (AP)
• AG Barr orders detention of some asylum-seekers who pass credible fear interviews pending case resolution by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Trump refers to Fox News as ‘we,’ after years of echoing the network by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• AG Barr Orders Immigration Judges To Stop Releasing Asylum Seekers Out On Bail by Vanessa Romo, Joel Rose (NPR)
• Trump Says He Offered His ‘Great Experts’ To Pope Francis, Macron To Rebuild Notre Dame by Antonia Blumberg (Huffington Post)
• Ivanka Trump says she passed on her father’s offer to lead World Bank by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)

2020

• Tracking The Money Race Behind The Presidential Campaign by Sean Mcminn, Alyson Hurt (NPR)
• Bill Weld: Trump to face 2020 Republican challenge (BBC)
• First GOP Candidate Announces Primary Challenge to Trump by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Trump Begins Effort To Flip Minnesota, Which Was A Democratic Holdout In 2016 by Brian Naksy (NPR)
• Trump’s 2020 Strategy: Target Grandpa with Anti-Immigrant Ads by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
• The Trump 2020 campaign is going after older people with immigration ads on Facebook by Emily Stewart (Vox)

Ilhan Omar

• Trump says he doesn’t regret posting edited video slamming Omar by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• How Donald Trump Resurrected the 9/11 Loyalty Test by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
• Trump ‘not at all’ concerned that his tweet triggered death threats against Ilhan Omar by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
• Trump slams Omar again: ‘She’s got a way about her’ that is ‘very, very bad for our country’ by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Opinion: Why Trump Won’t Stop Talking About Ilhan Omar by Jamelle Bouie (NY Times)
• Trump says he has no regrets about sharing Ilhan Omar video by Colby Itkowitz and John Wagner (Washington Post)

Tax Returns

• Battle over Trump tax returns could extend into 2020 election by Jan Wolfe (Reuters)
• Law says Mnuchin must turn over Trump’s taxes or face 5 years in prison by Matthew Chapman (Salon)
• House Democrats have the power to see the Mueller report and Trump’s taxes — if only they’d use it by Travis Gettys (Salon)

Mueller Report

• Many key facts uncovered by Robert Mueller are still being investigated, new court finding reveals by Cody Fenwick (Salon)
• Trump says he’s not concerned about Mueller report’s release by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Analysis: Washington is bracing for the redacted Mueller report. Here’s everything we know about the 400-page document so far. by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
• Judge: Barr sowing public mistrust with Mueller report handling by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
• Rudy Giuliani’s Mueller “Counter-Report” Keeps Getting Smaller by Alison Durkee (Vanity Fair)
• Here’s What Will Be Redacted in the Mueller Report by Tara Law, Mahita Gahanan (TIME)

Yemen War

• Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war (Al Jazeera)
• Trump vetoes resolution on ending U.S. role in Yemen civil war by Andrew Desidero (Politico)
• Yemen war: Trump vetoes bill to end US support for Saudi-led coalition (BBC)
• Yemen: Donald Trump vetoes Congress bill ending support for Saudi-led war by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)

Border / Asylum / Immigration

• Donald Trump Has Ordered Thousands More Troops To Mexican Border, New Deployment Document Suggests by James LaPorta, Ramsey Touchberry, and Chantal da Silva (Newsweek)
• Trump Administration to Allow for Extended Detention of Certain Asylum Seekers as Deterrent to Others Not to Come by Elliott Hannon (Slate)
• Trump administration ends right to bond for certain asylum seekers by Oliver Laughland (The Guardian)
• Barr rules that asylum-seekers must be detained during deportation proceedings by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
• Attorney General Barr Decides Asylum Seekers Who Show Credible Fear Are Ineligible for Bond by AP (TIME)

Other News

• Trump announces presidential award for Woods after Masters win (Al Jazeera)
• Congress Subpoenas Deutsche Bank As Part Of Democrats’ Probe Of Trump Finances by Kelsey Snell (NPR)
• Trump goes after Fox News for ‘weird’ Sanders town hall by Katie Galioto (Politico)
• Trump to counter White House correspondents’ dinner with Wisconsin rally by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Trump offers condolences to France’s Macron over Notre Dame fire: White House (Reuters)
• Trump rolls out details for his White House Correspondents’ Dinner counter-rally by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Donald Trump really isn’t happy that Fox News hosted a town hall with Bernie Sanders by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Trump’s Trade War Forces Volvo To Shift Gears In South Carolina by Camila Domonoske (NPR)
• Donald Trump’s new Interior secretary was confirmed last week, and he is already under investigation by Cody Fenwick (Salon)

Opinion

• Hypocrisy without borders: the pomposity of Ivanka Trump’s trip to Africa by Arwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
• On Capitol Hill, some Trump officials are testifying for an audience of one by Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)

Analysis

• The Illusion of Trump’s Mideast Peace Plan by Daniel C. Kurtzer (The American Prospect)