August 2019

News

• Stephen King has a very bleak prediction for how Trump’s presidency will affect the U.S. by Sam Haysom (Mashable)
• Trump’s ‘Disloyalty’ Claim About Jewish Democrats Shows He Doesn’t Get How They Vote by Domenico Montanaro, Tamara Keith (NPR)
• 70 mayors sign letter opposing Trump proposal that would restrict access to food stamps by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Trump has 62 percent disapproval rating in new AP poll by Rebecca Klar (The Hill)
• Trump again says he is “seriously” considering ending birthright citizenship despite 14th Amendment by Shira Tarlow (Salon)
• ‘Let’s Call Wayne.’ Inside the White House Discussions on Guns by Bryan Bennett (Time)
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders becomes Fox News contributor by Brett Samuels and Joe Concha (The Hill)
• AP-NORC poll: 62% disapprove of how Trump’s handling his job by Steve Peoples and Hannah Fingerhut (AP)
• ‘This is unprecedented’: Iceland prime minister will not meet Mike Pence during his visit by Clara Mindock (Independent)

Opinion

• Trump, frustrated by unpopularity with Jews, thrusts Israel into his culture war by Philip Rucker (Washington Post)

Border

• Child migrants to be held in detention longer under new Trump administration rule by Andy Sullivan (Reuters)
• Trump Wants to Keep Migrant Kids in Detention Indefinitely by Gaby Del Valle (VICE)
• US to remove limit on how long immigrant children can be detained by AP (The Guardian)
• Trump Administration Announces Plan To Detain Migrant Children For Longer by Marina Fang, Elise Foley (Huffington Post)
• Trump Seeks to Indefinitely Detain Immigrant Children by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
• Trump’s New Indefinite Family Detention Plan Completes a Cruel Agenda by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)

Gun Legislation

• The NRA killed Trump’s background check idea with one word: ‘No’ by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
• Trump Caves to the NRA on Background Checks by Alison Durkee (Vanity Fair)
• Trump called NRA to say he wouldn’t impose stricter gun background checks after they said ‘no’, report says by Jon Sharman (Independent)
• Trump Thinks Background Checks Won’t Stop Shootings. He’s Wrong. by Kara Voght (Mother Jones)
• Trump echoes NRA talking points, showing that “background checks” talk was all a charade by Aaron Rupar (Vox)

Trump on Jewish Democrat Voters

• Trump says Jews who support Democrats are ‘disloyal’ by Zamira Rahim (Independent)
• Trump draws U.S. backlash on Jews’ disloyalty comments by Doina Chiacu, Maayan Lubell (Reuters)
• A Conspiracy Theorist Said Israelis Love Trump Like He’s “Second Coming of God.” Trump Tweeted It. by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump promotes claim Jewish Israelis love him like he is ‘King of Israel and second coming of God’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Trump says American Jewish Democrats are disloyal, claims “king of Israel” title by Tara Golshan (Vox)
• Opinion: Donald Trump and the ‘Disloyal’ Jews by Bari Weiss (NY Times)
• Opinion: Trump shows us again what he thinks of Jews by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
• Opinion: Jew-baiting is part of the Trump playbook. It’s a feature, not a bug by Lloyd Green (The Guardian)
• Trump Invokes Anti-Semite Henry Ford After Accusing Jewish Democrats Of Disloyalty by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)

Greenland / Denmark

• Trump cancels Denmark visit amid spat over sale of Greenland (BBC)
• “He Has Made Us A Laughing Stock”: Diplomats Stunned By Trump’s Feud With Denmark by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
• Trump attacks Danish prime minister for her ‘nasty’ comments about his interest in U.S. purchase of Greenland by Rick Noack and John Wagner (Washington Post)
• The Greenland Gambit by Fred Kaplan (Slate)

Birthright Citizenship

• Trump says administration looking ‘seriously’ at ending birthright citizenship by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Trump Targets ‘Ridiculous’ Right To Citizenship For Anyone Born In U.S. by Carla Herreria (Huffington Post)
• Trump says administration is ‘seriously’ considering abolishing birthright citizenship by Clark Mindock (Independent)

Economy / Tariffs

• Trump thinks tariffs will add U.S. manufacturing jobs. Economic reality says they won’t. by Adam Behsudi, Finbarr Bermingham (Politico)
• Trump heaps pressure on Fed and its chairman Powell to cut rates (Reuters)
• Budget Deficit on Path to Surpass $1 Trillion Under Trump by Jim Tankersley and Emily Cochrane (NY Times)
• Trump says ‘I am the chosen one’ in tirade over looming recession and China trade war by Chris Baynes (Independent)
• Trump Acknowledges That His China Policies May Mean Economic Pain for the U.S. by Kevin Freking and Josh Boak, AP (Time)

Other News

• Trump’s Get Out of Jail Free Card for a Convicted Scammer Is Full of Half-Truths and Omissions by Benjamin Hardy, Moiz Syed (ProPublica)
• Trump Says Russia Should Be Allowed Into G-7, Moscow Wants Talks To Continue by Sasha Ingber (NPR)
• US mental health staff warned not to contradict Trump after mass shootings (Independent)
• Trump ramps up attacks on Tlaib by Zack Budryk (The Hill)
• Trump’s feud with Anthony Scaramucci, explained by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Trump orders elimination of student loan debt for thousands of disabled veterans by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Environmental Groups Just Sued the Trump Administration Over Its Endangered Species Act Rollback by Nicole Javorsky (Mother Jones)
• Trump says he wanted to give himself Medal of Honor by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Where Is the White House Press Secretary? by Ben Mathis-Lilly (Slate)

Analysis

• The Demoralizing Reality of Life Under Trump by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)

Opinion

• ‘I am the Chosen One’: with boasts and insults, Trump sets new benchmark for incoherence by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)

Trump on Jewish Democrat Voters

• Trump: Any Jew voting Democratic is uninformed or disloyal by Jonathan Lemire and Darlene Superville (AP)
• Trump accuses Jewish Democrat voters of ‘great disloyalty’ (BBC)
• Trump slammed for saying Jews disloyal if they vote for Democrats (Al Jazeera)
• Donald Trump Is Bad for the Jews by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)

Economy / Tariffs

• Trump administration considering abandoning tariffs as looming recession threatens to ruin 2020 re-election hopes by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Trump looking at possible tax cuts amid economic jitters by Steve Holland, Lisa Lambert (Reuters)
• Trump considers new tax cut to boost US economy (BBC)
• Donald Trump dismisses economy slowdown concerns by Kimberly Halkett (Al Jazeera)

Border / ICE

• Trump administration expected to announce plan to detain migrant children longer by Lisa Shumaker, ABC (Reuters)
• ICE Accidentally Just Revealed How Much its New Contract With Peter Thiel’s Palantir Is Worth by Ali Breland (Mother Jones)
• A Sweeping New Lawsuit Blasts ICE Over “Horrific, Inhumane” Conditions in Immigration Detention by Fernanda Echavarri (Mother Jones)
• Trump to move to expand detentions of migrant families by Ted Hesson (Politico)

Greeland

• Trump cancels visit to Denmark after PM rejects sale of Greenland (Al Jazeera)
• Trump postpones Denmark trip after prime minister declines to sell him Greenland by Felicia Sonmez, Anne Gearan, and Damian Paletta (Washington Post)
• Trump postpones visit after Denmark rejects Greenland sale by Matthew Choi (Politico)

Russia

• Trump fuels outsize expectations that Russia investigators will face prison time by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Trump says appropriate to let Russia join G7 (Al Jazeera)
• Trump renews call for Russia to be readmitted to G-7 by Felicia Sonmez (Washington Post)
• Trump says he could tap Pompeo deputy to be new ambassador to Russia by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)

Gun Legislation

• Trump says White House discussing gun legislation; Democrats say talks low-level (Reuters)
• Trump Backpedals On Tougher Gun Background Checks, Warning Of ‘Slippery Slope’ by Amy Russo (Huffington Post)
• Donald Trump Appears To Be Caving To NRA On Background Checks by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
• Trump’s Phone Calls With Wayne LaPierre Reveal NRA’s Influence by Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
• After meeting with NRA chief, Trump backs away from background checks by Igor Derysh (Salon)

Other News

• Four Mass Shootings Have Been Thwarted Since the El Paso Massacre, Authorities Say by Mark Follman (Mother Jones)
• Trump argues NY tax return case should take place in DC by Naomi Jagoda (The Hill)
• Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Might Be Hurting His 2020 Re-Election Chances by Jay Willis (GQ)
• Trump’s outrageous claims of voter fraud have a clear goal: Refusing to accept defeat in 2020 by Bob Cesca (Salon)
• Trying to conceal tax returns, Trump sees political coordination in subpoenas by Doug Sword (Roll Call)
• More than half of House Democrats now support opening an impeachment inquiry against Trump by Ella Nilsen and Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Trump mulls scaling back proposed $4B in foreign aid cuts by Jake Sherman, Jennifer Scholtes (Politico)
• Trump White House seeks to assuage farmer unrest over biofuel policy: sources by Jarrett Renshaw, Humeyra Pamuk (Reuters)
• Trump boasts about Log Cabin Republican endorsement as its members flee in protest by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)

Analysis

• The Trump vs. Obama economy — in 15 charts by Heather Long (Washington Post)

Opinion

• Why are Republicans taking away birth control? Because they don’t want women to have it by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)

Planned Parenthood

• Planned Parenthood Rejects Federal Funding Over Trump Administration’s “Unethical” Gag Rule by Marisa Endicott (Mother Jones)
• Planned Parenthood pulls out of family planning program over Trump abortion rule by Alice Miranda Ollstein (Politico)
• Planned Parenthood Withdraws From Title X Program Over Trump Abortion Rule by Sarah McCammon (NPR)
• Planned Parenthood abandons federal program under attack by Trump administration by Casey Quinlan (ThinkProgress)
• Trump’s Title X Restrictions Are Nothing Short of Coercion by Melissa Gira Grant (The New Republic)

Other News

• Trump cuts off one of his closest friends by Daniel Lippman (Politico)
• ‘I’m not happy with it’: Trump hits Fox News over poll results by Bianca Quilantan (Politico)
• Donald Trump Slams Fox News For His Brutally Bad Polling Numbers by Ron Dicker (Huffington Post)
• Trump drops support for enhanced background checks two weeks after mass shootings by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
• With ‘America First’, some foreign companies in the U.S. fear Trump is putting them last by David J. Lynch (Washington Post)
• After ICE by Harry Grabar (Slate)
• In Economic Warning Signals, Trump Sees Signs of a Conspiracy by Maggie Haberman (Maggie Haberman)
• Schumer assails Trump’s ‘heartbreaking’ apparent reversal on background checks by Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Newt Gingrich trying to sell Trump on a cheap moon plan by Bryan Bender (Politico)
• Trump administration sued over poor medical care in immigration centers by Renuka Rayasam (Politico)
• Trump advisers are scrambling to sell the idea that a recession isn’t going to happen by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
• Trump impeachment push gets important new ally by Heather Caygle, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Academics Doubt Trump’s Claim About Google Influencing the 2016 Election by Ali Breland (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s Baseless Election Fraud Claim Zooms From 3 Million To 16 Million Votes by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)

Analysis

• Anti-Immigration White Supremacy Has Deep Roots in the Environmental Movement by Susie Cagle (Mother Jones)
• There Will Be No Justice for Trump’s Enablers by Paul Waldman (The American Prospect)
• 74% of economists in survey see US recession by end of 2021 by Marcy Gordon (AP)
• The Trump administration wants to make it easier to fire women who act too ‘masculine’ by Ian Millhiser (ThinkProgress)

Opinion

• Trump’s scam is failing him, and he’s in a panic over it by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
• Trump is Taking More Money for Raids and Detention. Congress Should Stop Him. by Madhuri Grewal and Yesenia Chavez, (ACLU)

Economy

• Trump’s top economic advisers try to calm recession fears by Ian Kullgren, Bianca Quilantan (Politico)
• Terrible news for Trump on the economy in new WSJ/NBC poll by Joe Romm (ThinkProgress)
• Trump’s economic adviser scrambles to play down growing fears of looming recession by Dave Maclean (Independent)

Greenland

• White House aide Kudlow confirms Trump interest in Greenland (AP)
• White House Economic Adviser Confirms President Trump’s Interest in Buying Greenland by AP (TIME)
• Trump confirms he is considering attempt to buy Greenland by Martin Pengelly (The Guardian)

Other News

• Proud Boys Deem Portland A Success Because Trump Sided With Right-Wing Extremists by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• Trump factory speech crowd members were paid to listen to him and banned from ‘anything viewed as resistance’ by Marisa Iati, Morgan Krakow (Independent)
• Trump rages over poll numbers and coverage of his racism after approval ratings plummet by Chris Baynes (Independent)
• Far-right groups celebrate as Trump attacks anti-fascists after Portland rally by Chris Baynes (Independent)
• How Trump’s Policies Are Leaving Thousands of Asylum Seekers Waiting in Mexico by Jason Kao and Denise Lu (NY Times)
• Workers at Trump’s Pennsylvania Speech Lost Wages If They Chose Not to Attend by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Trump Blasts NY Times, Accuses It of Going on a “Racism Witch Hunt” by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump affirms that Mike Pence will be 2020 running mate (Reuters)
• U.S. President Trump does not want to do business with China’s Huawei (Reuters)
• White House Sought Ways to Block Undocumented Immigrant Children From Attending Public Schools by Jennifer Jacobs, Justin Sink (TIME)

News

• Economic angst rises at bad time for Trump by Sylvan Lane (The Hill)
• Court rejects Planned Parenthood bid to freeze Trump’s family planning rule by Alice Miranda Ollstein (Politico)
• Trump blames market meltdown on “Fake News,” conspiracy of “weenies” by Igor Derysh (Salon)
• FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Permit Employment Discrimination Against Transgender Workers by Tara Law (TIME)
• Shell Union Workers Had to Choose Between Attending President Trump’s Speech or Losing Pay by Tara Law (TIME)
• The Adviser Who Scripts Trump’s Immigration Policy by Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
• Ahead of a far-right rally in Portland, Trump tweets a warning to antifa by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
• Trump’s former national security adviser set to speak at event hosted by QAnon conspiracy theorist by Alex Henderson, Alternet (Salon)

Analysis

• The third-person-in-chief: How Trump talks about himself by JM Reiger (Washington Post)

Opinion

• The Tired and Poor Who Make America Great by Anastasia Edel (NY Times)

Omar, Tlaib – Israel

• Rep. Rashida Tlaib Cancels Visit To Israel And The West Bank by Daniel Estrin, Scott Neuman, Merrit Kennedy (NPR)
• U.S. Rep. Tlaib refuses Israel’s ‘oppressive conditions’ for West Bank visit by Susan Heavey, Rami Ayyub (Reuters)
• Rep. Rashida Tlaib will not visit Israel after country reverses course to grant her entry by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Trump accuses Tlaib of grandstanding by turning down Israel offer to see grandmother by Brett Samuels (The Hill)

Immigration / Aslyum

• U.S. Can Block Migrants Seeking Asylum, but Only in Some States, Appeals Court Rules by Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
• 9th Circuit refuses to disturb order requiring US to give immigrant children soap and toothpaste by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Court order allows Trump asylum rules to take effect at parts of border by AP (Guardian)
• Trump scores partial win on asylum ban as court narrows injunction by Ted Hesson (Politico)
• California sues Trump over ‘public charge’ rule denying green cards to immigrants by Patrick McGreevy (LA Times)

Greenland

• President Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in buying Greenland from Denmark: report by Cody Fenwick (Salon)
• Trump Is Thinking of Buying a Giant Socialist Island by Robinson Meyer (Atlantic)
• Greenland to Trump: ‘We’re not for sale’ by John Bowden (Politico)

Other News

• Warren pushes tribal plan amid new Trump attacks on Native American claims by Alex Thompson (Politico)
• New Trump Rule Would Let Many Companies Fire People for Being Pregnant, Gay, or Trans by Susan Rinkunas (VICE)
• Trump Fat-Shamed a Supporter. It Went Just How You Would Imagine. by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
• Trump Administration Wants To Permanently Bring Back NSA Spy Program: Report by Sara Boboltz (Huffington Post)
• Trump’s plan to let employers discriminate against LGBTQ workers, explained by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
• Trump phones supporter he mocked for having a ‘weight problem’ by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• California is gaining allies in its emissions standards war with Trump by E.A. Crunden (ThinkProgress)
• The Trump Administration Asked The Supreme Court To Legalize Firing Workers Just For Being Transgender by Dominic Holden (Buzzfeed)
• Trump’s Gun Control “Expert” Is Elephant-Hunting Simpleton Don Jr. by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• The Trump Administration Just Backed the Sale of F-16 Fighters to Taiwan. China Won’t Be Happy by Nick Wadhams, Tony Capaccio (TIME)

Analysis

• Investigation Finds Political Purge Inside Trump’s State Department by Alison Durkee (Vanity Fair)
• The Trump Justice Department’s war on progressive prosecutors, explained by German Lopez (Vox)
• The Red Flag in the White House by Jim Newell (Slate)
• Americans Are More Worried About White Nationalism After El Paso by Dhrumil Mehta (Five Thirty Eight)

Opinion

• Statement On The Trump Administration Gutting The Endangered Speices Act To Benefit Extractive Industry & Suppress Indigenous Voices & Tribal Rights by staff (Native News)
• Slavery in America reminds us: Trump is far from an aberration by Touré (Guardian)

Omar, Tlaib – Israel

• Israel ‘to bar Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’ (BBC)
• Israel Blocks Visit by Omar, Tlaib After Trump Smears Them in a Tweet by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Israel denies entry to Reps. Omar and Tlaib amid Trump’s push for such a move by John Hudson and Ruth Eglash (The Guardian)
• Amid outcry, US congresswomen slam Israel’s move to deny entry (Al Jazeera)
• Lawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar by Scott Wong and Mike Lillis (The Hill)

Hong Kong

• Trump Offers Meeting With China’s Xi To Resolve ‘Hong Kong Problem’ by Scott Neuman (NPR)
• Trump outlines path to ending Hong Kong crisis by Nahal Toosi (Politico)
• Trump warns of risk of Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong (Al Jazeera)

News

• Trump Just Shared an Anti-Immigrant Tweet from a QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Named ‘MAGA Michelle’ by David Uberti (VICE)
• Trump says US must get ‘tougher on street crime’ in response to Philadelphia police shootings by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• White House Press Secretary On Press Briefing Hiatus: Trump Gaggles ‘Good Enough’ by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
• Border emergency hits six months; ball back in Congress’ court by Andrew Clevenger (Roll Call)
• Fox News host compares migrants entering US to Nazis by Edward Helmore (The Guardian)
• 8Chan owner Jim Watkins subpoenaed by House Homeland Security Committee by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• More than three dozen violent or threatening criminal cases linked to people who cited Trump: report by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump Shifts From Background Checks To Mental Illness Reform At N.H. Rally by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
• Greenland tells Trump it is open for business but not for sale by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen (Reuters)
• ICE Is Detaining Thousands Of Immigrants Who Have Passed A Test Showing Fear Of Persecution Or Torture by Hamed Aleaziz (Buzzfeed)
• CVS Is Reportedly a Major Donor to Trump’s 2020 Campaign by Nico Lang (Out)
• Panel rules soap, sleep essential to migrant kids’ safety by Amy Taxin (AP)

Analysis

• The Limits of Trump’s White Identity Politics by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
• Why everybody’s worried about a recession again by Emily Stewart (Vox)

Opinion

• Someone Should Probably Step In and Stop the Economy From Tumbling Into a Recession by Jordan Weissman (Slate)

News

• Donald Trump Turns On Conservatives Who Defended CNN’s Chris Cuomo by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Why the Secret Service spent thousands at a Trump hotel by Anita Kumar (Politico)
• Trump offers to try again in lawsuit over New York tax returns by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Trump Immigration Official Says Statue of Liberty’s ‘Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor’ Was Talking About Europeans by Morgan Baskin (VICE)
• Planned Parenthood May Lose Tens of Millions in Funding on Monday Thanks to the Trump Administration by Cartre Sherman (VICE)
• Labor Dept. proposes granting businesses with federal contracts ‘religious exemption’ in hiring by Tax Axelrod (The Hill)
• Fury as Trump ally says poem on Statue of Liberty refers to ‘people from Europe’ by Edward Helmore (The Guardian)
• Republican lawmaker aided group training young men for ‘biblical warfare’ by Jason Wilson (The Guardian)
• Trump hits ‘clueless’ Fed chair, ‘crazy inverted yield curve’ after stocks plunge by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Trump administration moves to relax rules on how long truckers can drive by AP (LA Times)

Analysis

• Essay: Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. by Nikole Hannah-Jones (NY Times)
• Donald Trump Claimed the Impact of His China Tariffs on American Consumers Is ‘Virtually None’—But That’s Not What the Evidence Says by Shane Croucher (Newsweek)
• Trump wants to focus on the ‘real threat’ to elections: Not Russia, but imaginary voter fraud by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
• Trump’s recession risk rises by Ben White (Politico)
• How Trump Is Reversing Obama’s Nondiscrimination Legacy by Emma Green (The Atlantic)

Opinion

• Trump is holding election security hostage by Brian Klaas (Washington Post)
• Why Trump’s blurring of the line between campaigning and governing matters, explained by an expert by Aaron Rupar (Vox)

Immigration / ICE / Statue of Liberty

• The Case That Made an Ex-ICE Attorney Realize the Government Was Relying on False “Evidence” Against Migrants by Melissa del Bosque (ProPublica)
• Last Week’s ICE Raids Were a Tremendously Expensive Political Show That Didn’t Make Anyone Safer by Eric Boehm (Reason)
• Trump’s Top Immigration Official Thinks the Statue of Liberty Has it Wrong by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Top Trump Official Edits Statue of Liberty Poem to Justify Rule Punishing Poor Immigrants by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s new crackdown on legal immigration: His base loves the cruelty by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
• Families Affected By Mississippi ICE Raids Scramble To Find Support by Debbis Elliott (NPR)
• Immigration Chief: ‘Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor Who Can Stand On Their Own 2 Feet’ by Sasha Ingber (NPR)
• Trump official suggests famous Statue of Liberty sonnet is too nice to immigrants by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
• Opinion: ‘It’s Like an Automatic Deportation if You Don’t Have a Lawyer’ by Mazin Sidahmed (NY Times)

Other News

• Even with Trump in Office, the Climate Denial Movement Is Quietly Falling Apart by Geoff Dembicki (VICE)
• Trump delays laptop and smartphone tariffs until December by Colin Lecher (The Verge)
• Trump dismisses farmers’ concerns over trade war as his agriculture secretary insults them by Josh Israel (ThinkProgress)
• Stacey Abrams to launch program combatting voter suppression in battleground states by Zack Budryk (The Hill)
• 22 States Sue Trump Administration Over Relaxed Coal Restrictions, Citing ‘Climate Crisis’ by Don Thompson and Adam Beam, AP (Time)
• Trump makes ‘bizarre’ nuclear-powered cruise missile claim after Russia explosion by Jon Sharman (Independent)
• Eliot Engel warns foreign officials: Stop spending money at Trump properties by Andrew Desidero (Politico)
• Julián Castro buys anti-Trump ad on Fox News – to ensure the president sees it by Luke O’Neil (The Guardian)
• Trump defends sharing Clinton-Epstein conspiracy theory by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump was supposed to give a speech on energy. He went way off script. by Caitlin Opryslo (Politico)
• Trump Again Hypes the Clinton-Epstein Conspiracy Theory—and His Fans Are Loving It by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos Are Scheduled to Speak at a Conference Organized by a QAnon Supporter by Dan Friedman, Ali Breland (Mother Jones)
• A Kremlin-Linked Firm Invested Millions in Kentucky. Were They After More Than Money? by Simon Shuster and Vera Bergen Gruen (Time)

Analysis

• The Fight Over Section 230—andthe Internet as We Know It by Matt Laslo (Wired)
• The Trump administration wants to make it harder for unemployed workers to get benefits by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
• Trump adds a dismal dimension to the US-China trade dispute by Jeffrey Frankel (The Guardian)
• 21 outlandish conspiracy theories Donald Trump has floated over the years by Joseph Zeballos-Roig, John Haltiwanger, and Michal Kranz (Business Insider)
• Trump’s Push to Bring Back Jobs to U.S. Shows Limited Results by Jim Tankersley (NY Times)