Trans Soldiers
- Justice Dept. weighs in against protections for gays in the workplace by Alan Feuer (The NY Times)
- Chelsea Manning: President Trump, trans people in the military are here to stay by Chelsea Manning (The NY Times)
- Growing GOP backlash to transgender troop ban underscores Trump’s political miscalculation by James Hohmann (The Washington Post)
- Joint Chiefs: ‘No Modification’ to transgender policy from Trump tweet by Bryan Bender and Jacqueline Klimas (Politico)
- Military to Trump: We won’t ban transgender service members just because you tweeted about it by German Lopez (Vox)
- Pentagon has made no change yet to its transgender policy, says highest-ranking officer in U.S. military by Thomas Gibbons-Neff (The Washington Post)
Healthcare
- Senate GOP leaders work to round-up votes for modest health-care overhaul by Juliet Eilperin, Kelsey Snell, and Sean Sullivan (The Washington Post)
- Republican healthcare debate: What is a ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare? by Ben Jacobs and Laura Gambino (The Guardian)
- Republicans Obamacare repeal has revealed a political system where words have no meaning by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- ‘Skinny’ repeal of Obamacare would leave 16 million more people uninsured in a decade by Amy Goldstein (The Washington Post)
- “Skinny” repeal isn’t skinny at all by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
- Senate Healthcare Vote: Narrow repeal measure takes shape by Robert Pear, Thomas Kaplan, and Avantika Chilkoti (The NY Times)
- Panicked Republican Senators Discover That Bill Can Become Law by Jim Newell (Slate)
- Donald Trump threatens to punish Alaska to get back at Lisa Murkowski because of health care by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Reporter who broke rules to stream White House press briefing drew on experiences growing up under dictatorship by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Republicans’ Obamacare repeal drive has revealed a political system where words have no meaning by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- I do not know how to convey how appalling the GOP’s healthcare process or policy is by Ezra Klein (The NY Times)
- Health care debate: McConnell unveils bill, would leave 15 million uninsured by Robert Pear, Thomas Kaplan, and Emily Cochrane (The NY Times)
- ‘I am totally burned out:’ Patients watch healthcare debate with dread by Jan Hoffman (The NY Times)
- Read the Senate ‘skinny repeal’ bill (The NY Times)
News
- Graham: Firing Mueller would be ‘beginning of the end’ of Trump’s Presidency by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- The Trump White House just went full reality TV by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
- Scaramucci denies reporting Priebus to FBI, cites Joe Paterno, vows to ‘inject’ Trump into America by Osita Nwanevu and Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Scaramucci Hints Priebus Was Behind a Leak. But There Was No Leak. by Peter Baker (NY Times)
- House approves spending bill with funds for Trump’s border wall by Cristina Marcos and Niv Ellis (The Hill)
- Anthony Scaramucci called me to unload about White House leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon by Ryan Lizza (The New Yorker)
Analysis
- Anthony Scaramucci’s vulgar New Yorker interview is beyond words by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Republicans are starting to draw red lines on Trump firing Sessions and Mueller by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- The Real Reason the White House has such a leak problem by Dara Lind (Vox)
- The White House Press Briefing was an alternative reality on Thursday by Carly Sitrin (Vox)
Opinion
- ‘First They Came For …’ By Charles M. Blow (NY Times)