August 2017

Steve Bannon

• Steve Bannon Out as President Trump’s Chief White House Strategist by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
• Top White House aide Bannon out (BBC)
• Bannon out at White House by Jonathan Easley & Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Bannon out as White House chief strategist by Josh Dawsey (Politico)
• Trump to push out adviser Bannon: New York Times (Reuters)
• Steve Bannon’s exit from the Trump White House, explained by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Reports: Steve Bannon Out As Chief White House Strategist by Scott Horsley (NPR)
• Analysis: Ousting Bannon is a risky move for Trump by Callum Borchers (The Washington Post)
• Opinion: Don’t fall for the White House spin on Steve Bannon’s ouster by Jennifer Rubin (The Washington Post)
• Bannon returns to Breitbart News as executive chairman by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
• Bannon Is ‘Going Nuclear’ by Rosie Gray (The Atlantic)
• Steve Bannon’s revenge: Breitbart News and other conservatives swiftly declare “war” on Donald Trump by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
• Bannon: The Trump presidency is ‘over’ by Max Greenwood (The Hill)

Arts & Humanities Committee

• President Trump’s Entire Committee On The Arts And The Humanities Just Resigned by Diana Budds (Co.Design)
• The Entire President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Just Resigned (Electric Literature)
• President’s arts and humanities committee resigns over Trump’s Charlottesville response by Edward-Isaac Dovere (Politico)
• Hidden message in mass resignation letter from President Trump’s Committee on Arts and Humanities (BoingBoing)
• Why the White House’s Arts and Humanities Commitee Decided to Resign All at Once Under Trump by Yohana Desta (Vanity Fair)
• The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigns, urging resistance against Trump by Aja Romano (Vox)

Charlottesville

• Mitt Romney Pens Powerful Message Calling On Trump To Apologize For Charlottesville Remarks by Paige Lavender (Huffington Post)
• ‘A Defining Moment.’ Mitt Romney Says President Trump Must Apologize for Charlottesville Response by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
• Charlottesville Victim’s Mom ‘Will Not’ Speak to President Trump by Ryan Reed (Rolling Stone)
• Charlottesville Victim’s Mother Says She Will Not Take Trump’s Calls by Merrit Kennedy (NPR)
• Members of Trump’s arts commission quit after his Charlottesville comments by Robin Eberhardt (The Hill)
• 5 charities just dropped Trump’s Mar-a-Lago for their big fundraisers after Charlottesville by Lydia Ramsey (Business Insider)
• Romney tells Trump to apologize for causing ‘racists to rejoice’ by Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)
• Confederate statues are the easy part by Clay Risen (The NY Times)
• Trump could lose honorary law degree after Charlottesville remarks by Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
• Analysis: Why Congress Should Censure Trump for Boosting White Supremacists by Ryan Lizza (Newyorker.com)

Trump Resignation / Impeachment ?

• Trump’s ghostwriter prediction: Trump is going to resign by Carla Sinclair (BoingBoing)
• Al Gore Calls On Donald Trump To Resign by Ed Mazza (Huffington Post)
• Donald Trump is ‘just six Senate votes from impeachment’ (Independent)
• Read a House Democrat’s new bill asking for Trump to be removed via the 25th Amendment by Jeff Stein (Vox)
• Arts council members call for Trump to step down in their resignation letter by Robin Eberhardt (The Hill)

News

• US lawmaker Chappelle-Nadal’s Trump assassination post investigated (BBC)
• Trump approves plan to create independent cyber command by Lolita C. Baldor (AP)
• Tillerson condemns hate speech, says bigotry is un-American by Matthew Lee (AP)
• 3 Questions About A Pro-Russia Congressman’s Meeting With Julian Assange by Ryan Lucas (NPR)
• Mueller’s investigation focusing on Trump Jr.: report by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Graham to Trump: Afghanistan pullout could cause another 9/11 by Austin Wright (Politico)
• ‘We can’t just pull out our gun’: Border Patrol alters training by Ron Nixon (The NY Times)
• Trump moves to impeded consumer lawsuits against nursing homes by Robert Pear (The NY Times)
• Investor Carl Icahn steps down as adviser to President Trump by Trevor Hunnicutt & Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters)
• Mueller’s investigation focusing on Trump Jr.: report by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Member of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board resigns over ‘conflict in values’ by Max Greenwood (The Hill)

Analysis

• Steve Bannon Is Playing a Dangerous Game of Chicken with Donald Trump—and He’ll Probably Win by Jack Moore (GQ)
• The Bull Case for the Trump Presidency Collapses by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair)
• Donald Trump Is America’s Most Irredeemable Man by Brian Beutler (New Republic)
• The chaos of the Trump administration, in one picture by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Trump’s White House Is Turning a Blind Eye to White-Supremacist Terrorism by David Neiwert (The Nation)
• Antifa and the ‘Alt-Left’: Everything You Need to Know by Shawn McCreesh (Rolling Stone)
• The chaos of the Trump administration, in one picture by Andrew Prokop (Vox)

Opinion/Essay

• Steve Bannon is out. That’s good, but the problem is still Donald Trump. by Paul Waldman (Washington post)
• Red Ink of Revisionist History by Kavita Das (LARB.org)
• The week when President Trump resigned by Frank Bruni (The NY Times)

Charlottesville / White Supremacy

• How Trump’s Reaction to Charlottesville Threatens the GOP by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
• Why Military Chiefs Are Condemning White Supremacy by Andrew Exum (The Atlantic)
• Joint Chiefs Denounce Racism After Trump’s Comments by James Doubek (NPR)
• Trump’s White Supremacist Economic Agenda by Bryce Covert (New Republic)
• Poll: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump response to Charlottesville by Negassi Tesfamichael (Politico)
• After Charlottesville, Spotify is pulling white supremacist music from its platform by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump defends ‘beautiful’ Confederate statues by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
• Trump ‘Sad’ Over Removal of ‘Our Beautiful Statues’ by Eileen Sullivan And Maggie Haberman (NY Times)

News

• California scientists push to create massive climate-research programme by Jeff Tollefson (Nature)
• Trump increasingly isolated as business panels dismantled by Julie Bykowicz, Jonathan Lemire AP)
• Trump’s first campaign manager joins super PAC backing him by Julie Bykowicz (AP)
• Bannon ridicules White House adversaries in wide-ranging interview by Louis Nelson (Politico)
• Poll: Support for Trump impeachment grows to 40 percent by Robin Eberhardt (The Hill)
• Dem to introduce impeachment articles over Charlottesville by Mike Lillis (The Hill)
• Art of the Deal co-author predicts Donald Trump is about to resign by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
• Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions by Adam Liptak (NY Times)
• Pence likens Trump to one of his heroes: Teddy Roosevelt by Philip Rucker (Washington Post)
• Trump recycles discredited Islamic pigs’ blood tale after terrorist attack in Barcelona by David Nakamura (Washington Post)
• White House disbands another advisory council, this one on infrastructure by John Wagner (Washington Post)

Analysis

• Robert Mueller May Not Be The Savior The Anti-Trump Internet Is Hoping For by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
• How Militias Became the Private Police for White Supremacists by Casey Michel (Politico)

Opinion

• The Other Inconvenient Truth by Charles M. Blow (NY Times)

Action / Resources

• A Post-Charlottesville To-Do List for Anti-Trumpers by Harold Meyerson (The American Prospect)
• ABA Legal Fact Check website launched to help public sort fact from fiction by Lee Rawles (ABA.com)

Charlottesville

• Two more bosses quit White House panel (BBC)
• Bush presidents wade into Trump furore over Charlottesville (BBC)
• Both Presidents Bush Condemn Hatred a Day After Trump’s Press Conference by Maya Rhodan (TIME)
• Quoting Mandela, Obama’s Tweet After Charlottesville Is The Most-Liked Ever by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
• Lawmakers weigh in on Trump’s comments on Charlottesville (AP)
• Military leaders speak out against racism, extremism by Robert Burns (AP)
• Top US generals issue veiled criticism of Donald Trump’s Charlottesville comments: ‘The Army doesn’t tolerate racism, extremism, or hatred’ by Chloe Farand, Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
• What Trump Gets Wrong About Antifa by Peter Beinart (The Atlantic)
• White privilege turned deadly in Charlottesville: How would police have reacted if a mob of angry black people had gathered there? by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
• Meet the clergy who stared down white supremacists in Charlottesville by Jack Jenkins (ThinkProgress)
• Colbert: Trump’s Press Meltdown Was “the Strongest Argument” for Impeachment Yet by Laura Bradley (Vanity Fair)
• World leaders condemn Trump’s remarks on neo-Nazis by Nahal Toosi (Politico)
• Twitter must suspend Donald Trump for being an ‘accomplice to domestic terrorism’, says Anne Frank Centre by Shehab Khan (Independent)
• Donald Trump disbands key business councils after CEOs quit over Charlottesville response by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Pence responds to Trump remarks: ‘I stand with the president’ by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Opinion: I was in Charlottesville. Trump was wrong about violence on the left by Jason Wilson (Guardian)
• Jewish Trump officials silent on President’s defense of Anti-semitic protesters by Michael D. Shear (The NY Times)
• ‘They tried to kill my child to shut her up,’ Heather Heyer’s mother mourns at funeral for woman killed during Nazi protest in Charlottesville by Ellie Silverman, Arelis R. Hernández and Steve Hendrixllie Silverman, Arelis R. Hernández and Steve Hendrix (The Washington Post)
• The U.S. capital has at least three times as many statues of Confederate figures as it does of black people by Christopher Ingraham (The Washington Post)
• Trump’s comments on race open breach with C.E.O.s, military, and G.O.P. by Michael D. Shear, Glenn Thrush, and Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)
• Charlottesville Police refused to protect synagogue from Nazis, so Jewish Center hired armed security for the first time by Jack Moore (Newsweek)
• Unlike his predecessors, Trump steps back from moral judgement by Mark Landler (The NY Times)
• Trump lawyer forwards email echoing secessionist rhetoric by Michael S. Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo (The NY Times)
• Mayors taking swift action to avoid becoming the next Charlottesville by Janell Ross, Mark Berman and Joel Achenbach (The Washington Post)

Healthcare

• Medicare for All? First, Make Medicare Great Again. by David Dayen (New Republic)
• Often Missing From The Current Health Care Debate: Women’s Voices by Jenny Gold, Anna Gorman (NPR)

News

• Trump Disbands 2 Advisory Councils After String Of Resignations by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• Trump says ending two CEO advisory panels: tweet (Reuters)
• White House names Hicks interim communications director (Reuters)
• Baltimore Quietly Removed All 4 Of Its Confederate Statues Overnight by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
• U.S. seeks ‘major’ rewrite of NAFTA to trim trade deficits by Doug Palmer (Politico)
• DOJ warrant of Trump resistance site triggers alarm by Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• The president of South Korea has a strong message for Trump by Alex Ward (Vox)
• Trump ends C.E.O. advisory councils as main group acts to disband by David Gelles, Landon Thomas Jr., and Kate Kelly (The NY Time)
• Baltimore removes confederate statues; mayor sites public safety by Nicholas Fandos and Russell Goldman (The NY Times)
• F.B.I. Agents Supported Comey, Surveys Show, Weakening Trump’s Claim of Turmoil by Matt Appuzzo (NY Times)
• In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking by Andrew E. Kramer and Andrew Higgins (NY Times)

Analysis

• Liberals Helped Create Trump’s New Bogeyman, the “Alt-Left” by Sarah Jones (New Republic)
• Trump And Russia: Lots Of Talk, But Critics Say There’s No Clear Strategy by Greg Myre (NPR)
• The U.S. Capitol has at least three times as many statues of Confederate figures as it does of black people by Christopher Ingraham (Washington Post)
• For Hope Hicks, Trump’s interim communications director, it’s mission: impossible by Callum Borchers (Washington Post)
• Trump’s solution to racism is ‘jobs’. It’s not that simple. by Heather Long (The Washington Post)
• Down the Breitbart hole by Wil S. Hylton (The NY Times Magazine)
• Trump and race: Decades of sowing divisions by Marc Fisher (The Washington Post)
• Trump’s lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed by Ashley Parker and Robert Costa (The Washington Post)
• Trump-Russia emails suggest Moscow’s attempt to infiltrate the campaign may have gone further than we knew by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
• Steve Bannon, Unrepentant by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)

Opinion

• Every Trump Official With a Conscience Must Resign by Brian Beutler (New Republic)
• Republicans Must Tell Trump to Go – Now by Jesse Berney (Rolling Stone)
• Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself by Editorial Board (NY Times)

Resources

• A Guide to the Companies That Haven’t Quit Trump’s Advisory Councils. (Update: Everyone Is Quitting.) by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
• There Are Still More Than 700 Confederate Monuments In The U.S. by Kathryn Casteel, Anna Maria Barry-Jester (FiveThirtyEight)
• Here are all the Republican members of Congress who have called out the president by Rebekah Entralgo, Addy Baird (ThinkProgress)

Charlottesville / Charlottesville Press Conference

• Charlottesville violence: Fourth executive exits Trump council (BBC)
• Racism, Medievalism, and the White Supremacists of Charlottesville by Josephine Livingstone (New Republic)
• Viral Social Media Account Aims to Identify People Who Participated in Charlottesville Rally by De Elizabeth (Teen Vogue)
• Three Days After Charlottesville Car Attack, Trump Retweets Image of Train Running Over CNN Reporter by Isobel Thompson (Vanity Fair)
• After Charlottesville, Trump retweets–then deletes–image of train running over CNN reporter by David Nakamura and Aaron C. Davis (The Washington Post)
• Trump’s erratic early morning Twitter retweets include one calling him fascist by Amanda Holpuch and Kevin Rawlinson (The Guardian)
• Why White Supremacists Find Comfort in Trump’s Erratic Messaging by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling. by Brian Resnick (Vox)
• Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, and Charlottesville by Jeffrey Toobin (The New Yorker)
• In January, Fox news posted a video of cars mowing down protesters that urged viewers to ‘study the technique’ by Henry Grabar (Slate)
• Trump doubles down on initial Charlottesville response, saying ‘there is blame on both sides’ for violence (The Washington Post)
• Donald Trump compares George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with Confederate general Robert E Lee by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
• Trump’s Long History of Racism by Jesse Berney (Rolling Stone)
• Trump’s defense of Confederate memorials echoes Daily Stormer, Fox News by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
• Trump Says “Some Very Fine People” Participated in Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally by Jim Newell (Slate)
• Donald Trump’s Charlottesville press conference: Read the whole transcript by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Trump Defends White Nationalist Rally, Blames Leftists for Charlottesville Violence in Stunning Meltdown by Maya Kosorff (Vanity Fair)
• Donald Trump again blames ‘both sides’ for Charlottesville and takes aim at ‘very, very violent alt-left’ by Ben Jacobs (The Guardian)
• Key moments from Trump’s most extraordinary press conference yet by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
• This Is the Real Donald Trump by Jay Willis (GQ)
• ‘There’s Blame On Both Sides’: Trump Backtracks On Charlottesville Violence by Jessica Taylor, Dana Farrington (NPR)
• Full text: Trump’s comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville (Politico)
• White House braces for fallout from Trump remarks on Virginia violence by Jeff Mason (Reuters)
• Defiant Trump insists anew: Blame both sides for violence by Jonathan Lemire and Julie Pace (AP)
• Opinion: The president of the United States is now a neo-Nazi sympathiser by Richard Wolffe (Guardian)
• Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
• Trump asks, ‘What about the alt-left?’ Here’s an answer. by Linda Qiu (The NY Times)
• Why the Charlottesville marchers were obsessed with Jews by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
• Historians question Trump’s comments on Confederate monuments by Jennifer Schuessler (The NY Times)
• Walmart chief joins C.E.O. protests by David Gelles, Kate Kelly, Rachel Abrams, and Michael Corkery (The NY Times)
• Trump’s Message to the Country: #NotAllNazis by Dave Zirin (The Nation)

North Korea

• North Korea Says It Won’t Fire Missiles At Guam After All by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• U.S. vs. North Korea: The Winner? China by Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
• US faces critical moment to negotiate with North Korea, experts warn by Julian Borger (Guardian)

Healthcare

• CBO: Pulling Obamacare subsidies would drive up premiums, reduce coverage by Paul Demko (Politico)
• Trump threat to Obamacare would send premiums and deficit skyward by Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan (The NY Times)
• CBO says Trump’s Obamacare sabotage would cost $194 billion, drive up premiums 20% by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
• Trump Threat to Obamacare Would Send Premiums and Deficits Higher by Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan (NY Times)

News

• Taliban letter to Trump urges US to leave Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)
• Afghan Taliban warns Trump against sending in more troops (Reuters)
• Protesters greet Trump on visit to New York home (Al Jazeera)
• Venezuela: Call for military drills after Trump threat (Al Jazeera)
• Donald Trump’s Justice Department Demands the IP Addresses of People Who Visited an Anti-Trump Website by Jack Moore (GQ)
• The Department of Justice wants to know who’s been visiting an anti-Trump website by Taylor Link (Salon)
• Trump Cites ‘Grandstanders’ After Another Executive Leaves His Business Council by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• End of U.S. payments to health insurers would cause premiums to rise: CBO (Reuters)
• NAFTA negotiators aim for ‘ambitious’ first round of talks: U.S. official by Lesley Wroughton and David Lawder (Reuters)
• Trump to revoke Obama-era flood risk building standards by Valerie Volcovici (Reuters)
• Trump’s deleted cartoon dramatically altered the message, says Indianapolis star creator by Michael Cavna (The Washington Post)
• Trump talks infrastructure, but $1 trillion plan is as elusive as ever by Lauren Gardner (Politico)

Analysis

• Trump’s Fuzzy History Of Denouncing White Nationalism by Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
• Trump’s business of corruption by Adam Davidson (The New Yorker)
• How Donald Trump is driving up Health Insurance premiums by Steven Rattner (The NY Times)
• A Sweeping Search Warrant Targets Anti-Trump Website in Clear Threat to the Constitution by Brett Max Kaufman (ACLU.org)

Opinion

• Historical Amnesia About Slavery Is a Tool of White Supremacy by Mychael Denzel Smith (The Nation)

Charlottesville

• Charlottesville And The Rise Of White Identity Politics by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
• White Supremacists Love How Donald Trump Handled Charlottesville by Jack Moore (GQ)
• Trump Attacks Black Merck CEO for Denouncing White Supremacists by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
• Trump Aide Calls Some of Charlottesville Rally Attendees “Good People” by Robert Newhouse (Teen Vogue)
• African-American CEO resigns from White House council, cites Trump’s silence on white supremacy by Addy Baird (ThinkProgress)
• CEO Quits White House Council Over Trump’s Charlottesville Response — And Trump Attacks Him by Marina Fang (Huffington Post)
• Merck CEO resigns from Trump council over Charlottesville by Michael Erman (Reuters)
• White nationalists applaud Donald Trump’s silence about Charlottesville violence by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Charlottesville: Anti-racism vigilantes join forces to identify white supremacists on social media by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
• Sessions on Trump’s Charlottesville statement: He was ‘unequivocal’ in criticizing racism and bigotry by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• “If you’re not resisting, you’re partaking”: a historian on Trump’s failure to call evil by its name by Sean Illing (Vox)
• Charlottesville protests: a quick guide to the violent clashes this weekend by German Lopez (Vox)
• Analysis: ‘Vile bigotry’: Politicians respond to violent protests in Charlottesville by Kevin Uhrmacher, Denise Lu, Kevin Schaul and Aaron Steckelberg (Washington Post)
• Trump Calls Out KKK, White Supremacists After Charlottesville: ‘Racism Is Evil’ by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
• Trump, in Reversal, Explicitly Condemns White Supremacists by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Trump belatedly delivers statement condemning “racist violence,” KKK, and neo-Nazis by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Full text: Trump’s statement on white supremacists in Charlottesville (Politico)
• Trump Finally Condemned the Hate Groups in Charlottesville by Alex Thompson (VICE)
• President Trump cannot redeem himself by Frank Bruni (The NY Times)
• Merck’s C.E.O. took a stand. What about other executives? by Andrew Ross Sorkin (The NY Times)
• ‘We have drawn a different lesson from history’: How the world is reacting to violence in Charlottesville by Isaac Stanley-Becker and James McAuley (The Washington Post)
• Intel CEO becomes third exec to leave Trump council after Charlottesville by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
• Charlottesville’s Faces of Hate by Clio Chang (New Republic)
• On The Internet, Everyone Knows ‘You’re Racist’: Twitter Account IDs Marchers by Camila Domonoske (NPR)

News

• Colombian president to Pence: Military intervention in Venezuela ‘shouldn’t even be considered’ by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• Lots of questions still hang over Trump’s tax plan by Josh Boak (AP)
• California to sue Trump administration over sanctuary policy by Dan Levine (Reuters)
• North Korea’s missile success is linked to Ukrainian plant, investigators say by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger (The NY Times)
• Bannon in limbo as Trump faces growing calls for the strategist’s ouster by Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush (The NY Times)
• Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site by Morgan Chalfont (The Hill)
• Trump Administration Takes Key Step To Rolling Back Auto Fuel Standards by Sonari Glinton (NPR)
• Trump to sign executive order Tuesday on infrastructure projects (Reuters)

Analysis

• Could Paul Manafort Bring Down the Whole Trump Family? by Bob Dreyfuss (The Nation)

Opinion

• Most Americans want universal healthcare. What are we waiting for? by Bernie Sanders (The Guardian)
• When the President Is Un-American by Paul Krugman (NY Times)
• Donald Trump, Neo-Nazi Recruiter-in-Chief by Bob Moser (New Republic)

Resources / Action

• How to find your local “Solidarity with Charlottesville” demonstration by Jeff Stein (Vox)
• Here’s What You Can Do After Charlottesville by NationAction (The Nation)
• Six Things You Can Do in the Wake of the White Supremacist Attacks in Charlottesville by Lauren O’Neal (Lifehacker)

Charlottesville

• Charlottesville attack: What, where and who? (Al Jazeera)
• Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally turns deadly (Al Jazeera)
• Presidential Responses To Racial Violence Have Often Been Weak. Trump’s Is Weaker. by Julia Azari (FiveThirtyEight)
• After Charlottesville Rally Ends in Violence, Alt-Right Vows to Return by Sarah Posner (Rolling Stone)
• Charlottesville mayor lays blame for white supremacist violence at Donald Trump’s feet by Adam Peck (ThinkProgress)
• Ivanka Trump Condemns White Supremacists In Charlottesville by Alana Horowitz Satlin (Huffington Post)
• Trump National Security Adviser Does Something Trump Won’t: Call Charlottesville Violence ‘Terrorism’ by Marina Fang (Huffington Post)
• Anthony Scaramucci: Trump Should Have Been ‘Much Harsher’ On White Supremacists by Nick Wing (Huffington Post)
• Ohio Man Charged With Murder In Fatal Car Attack On Anti-White Nationalist March by Joe Ruiz (NPR)
• Charlottesville Tries To Pick Up Pieces After Day Of Deadly Unrest by Scott Neuman (NPR)
• Scaramucci criticizes Trump’s Charlottesville response and blames Bannon by Madeline Conway (Politico)
• It’s Up To Congress to Call Trump to Account by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)
• Why Won’t Trump Call Out Radical White Terrorism? by Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
• Trump Steadfastly Refuses to Call Out Charlottesville White Supremacy by Emma Stefansky (Vanity Fair)
• Inside the Chaos and Hate at Charlottesville by Allie Conti (VICE)
• Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists applaud Donald Trump’s response to deadly violence in Virginia by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
• Donald Trump condemns neo-Nazis and KKK after torrent of criticism over response to Virginia violence by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
• “Of course it was terrorism”: National Security Advisor McMaster on Charlottesville fury by Sarah Wildman (Vox)
• Opinion: Trump lit the torches of white supremacy in Charlottesville. We must extinguish them. by Petula Dvorak (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Donald Trump’s incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville by Chris Cillizza (CNN.com)
• Watch: Charlottesville’s counterprotesters shut down a white nationalist’s news conference by Amy B. Wang (The Washington Post)
• ‘Look at the campaign he ran’: Charlottesville mayor is becoming one of Trump’s strongest critics by Kristine Phillips (The Washington Post)
• National Security Adviser McMaster on Charlottesville: “Of Course it Was Terrorism” by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• White House issues series of anonymous statements justifying Trump’s refusal to explicitly condemn white supremacists by Maxwell Tani (Business Insider)
• Republicans stand up to Trump over Charlottesville comments by Nancy Cook (Politico)
• A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out On Charlottesville by Janaya Williams, Stacey Vanek Smith (NPR)

News

• Vice President Pence Representing Trump Overseas…Again by Tamara Keith (NPR)
• Report: Donald Trump Suspects Chief Strategist Steve Bannon of Leaking to the Press by Emma Stefansky (Vanity Fair)
• Trump campaign ad says his ‘enemies’ are trying to undermine his progress by John Wagner (Washington Post)

Analysis

• How Trump’s paranoid White House sees ‘deep state’ enemies on all sides by Lawrence Douglass (Guardian)

Charlottesville

• Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far-right rally (BBC)
• White Nationalist Rally In Virginia Turns Violent; Emergency Declared by Joe Ruiz, Doreen McCallister (NPR)
• Violence erupts at white nationalist rally in Charlottesville by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
• Militia force armed with assault rifles marches through US town ahead of white nationalist rally by Jon Sharman (Independent)
• Federal judge rules in favor of white nationalists, greenlights protest despite safety concerns from city by Esther Yu Hsi Lee (ThinkProgress)
• “Why we voted for Donald Trump”: David Duke explains the white supremacist Charlottesville protests by Libby Nelson (Vox)
• State of Emergency declared in Charlottesville after protests turn violent by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Brian M. Rosenthal (The Washington Post)
• Violent clashes between White nationalists and counter protesters in Charlottesville by Joe Heim (The Washington Post)
• White Nationalists ordered to leave Va. park before planned ‘Unite the Right’ rally by Joe Heim, Ellie Silverman, and Emma Brown (The Washington Post)
• At least 10 pedestrians struck along route of white nationalist rally in Charlottesville by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Brian M. Rosenthal (The Washington Post)
• Opinion: What a presidential president would have said about Charlottesville by Editorial Board (Washington Post)
• Opinion: These are your people, President Trump by Colbert I.King (Washington Post)
• Trump fails to condemn white supremacists in statement on Charlottesville violence by Nancy Cook (Politico)
• Opinion: The Real Meaning of “On Many Sides” by Josh Levin (Slate)
• Opinion: Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy by Michael Eric Dyson (The NY Times)
• Suspect in Charlottesville terror attack identified as James A. Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio by Matthew Dessem (Slate)
• The hidden meaning of Trump’s Charlottesville remarks by Elaine Godfrey (The Atlantic)
• This was a white power movement showing it’s strength by Jamelle Bouie (Slate)
• Alt-right members in Charlottesville vow ‘not to back down’ by Daniel Lombroso (The Atlantic)
• The ugly, violent cliches of white-supremacist terrorism by Vinson Cunningham (The New Yorker)
• Donald Trump refuses to name the problem of White Supremacist violence by Dara Lind (Vox)
• Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville by A.C. Thompson and Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Karim Hajj (ProPublica)
• Trump Saw ‘Many Sides’ While Some Republicans Saw White Supremacy, Domestic Terrorism by Vanessa Romo, Martina Stewart (NPR)

North Korea

• Opinion: Why a war with North Korea is unlikely by Stein Tonnesson (Al Jazeera)
• Chinese President warns Trump to tone down language after ‘fire and fury’ threats to North Korea by Jon Sharman (Independent)
• Anatomy of a Crisis: The North Korea threat by Jeremy C.F. Lin, Sarah Frostenson, Tyler Fisher and Jon McClure (Politico)
• Chinese president: U.S. and North Korea must exercise ‘restraint’ by Brent D. Griffiths (Politico)
• China’s President urges Trump to use restraint over North Korea by Simon Denyer and Anna Fifield (The Washington Post)

Mueller / Russia Investigation

• Mueller wants to interview Priebus in Russia probe: report by Josh Delk (The Hill)
• Mueller is said to seek interviews with West Wing in Russia case by Michael S. Schmidt, Matt Apuzzo, and Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)

News

• Latin America to slam Trump’s ‘military option’ threat by Brian Ellsworth, Mitra Taj (Reuters)
• Trump’s Defence Secretary James Mattis makes passionate case against America withdrawing from the world by Jon Sharman (Independent)
• Donald Trump assures governor of Guam that North Korean nuclear bomb threat will boost tourism by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
• Trump’s talk of ‘military option’ in Venezuela may bolster Maduro’s hand by Nicholas Casey and Andrew Knoll (The NY Times)

Opinion

• Don’t Just Impeach Trump. End the Imperial Presidency. by Jeet Heer (New Republic)

North Korea

• China to remain ‘neutral’ if North Korea attacks first (Al Jazeera)
• Trump: US ‘locked and loaded’ against North Korea (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Says U.S. Military Is ‘Locked And Loaded’ To Deal With North Korea by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• Merkel takes swipe at Trump’s fiery North Korea comments by Victor Brechenmacher (Politico)
• Donald Trump says US military ‘locked and loaded’ for North Korea by Jon Sharman, Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
• North Korea says it may ‘reduce the US mainland to ashes any moment’ by Ben Kentish (Independent)
• Guam issues emergency guidelines over Noth Korea atomic bomb attack: ‘Don’t look at flash or fireball’ by Jeremy B White (Independent)
• How the US and North Korea Can Avoid a Nuclear War by Mike Pearl (VICE)
• Trump’s latest North Korea threat is scary. It’s also a lie. by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
• Analysis: A Timely Guide to the North Korea Crisis by Maggie Astor and Christine Hauser (NY Times)
• Report: the Trump administration is having secret talks with North Korea by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)

Mueller / Russia Investigation

• Mueller Turns Up The Heat With Unusual Search Warrant In Russia Probe by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
• The Russia Investigation Is Getting Dangerously Close to Trump by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)

Transgender Ban

• Trump’s Military Ban Could Hurt More Than Just Transgender Troops by Michelle Cheng, Kathryn Casteel, Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Maggie Koerth-Baker and Ben Casselman (FiveThirtyEight)
• How Trump’s Transgender Ban Compromises His Military Authority by Garrett Epps (The Atlantic)

News

• Trump administration to Supreme Court: Travel ban not religious ban by Lydia Wheeler (The Hill)
• Trump D.C. Hotel Made Massive Profits Amid Ethics Concerns by Alana Horowitz Satlin (Huffington Post)
• Trump to send Kushner back to Middle East for more peace talks by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• ACLU sues Trump administration over arrests of immigrant teens by Brandon Carter (The Hill)
• Donald Trump’s Twitter Account Is Very Much in Violation of Twitter’s Terms of Service by Jack Moore (GQ)
• President Trump Says He Won’t ‘Rule Out’ Military Option In Venezuela by Scott Newuman, Barbara Campbell (NPR)

Analysis

• What Could Happen If Trump Formally Declares Opioids A National Emergency by Alison Kodjak (NPR)
• Combative Trump Pulls His Punches for One Man: Putin by Peter Baker (NY Times)

Opinion

• Republicans, Remove This Madman From Power by Brian Beutler (New Republic)

North Korea

• North Korea announces plan to fire missiles toward Guam by AP (Politico)
• This Is Not a North Korean Crisis. It’s a Trump Crisis. by Jeet Heer (New Republic)
• North Korea and America ‘heading toward conflict’, former US Defense Secretary and Pyongyang negotiator predicts by Christopher Hooton (Independent)
• North Korea isn’t flinching: it’s announced detailed plans for a missile strike near Guam by Zeeshan Aleem & Alex Ward (Vox)
• Trump escalates rhetoric on threat from North Korea by Philip Rucker and Karen DeYoung (The Washington Post)
• Trump Toughens Warning on North Korea, Despite Bipartisan Criticism by Peter Baker (NY Times)
• Wrestling with North Korea, Trump finds perilous options by Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt (The NY Times)

Russia Investigation

• 5 Big Unanswered Questions About The Russia Investigations by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Trump thanks Russia’s Putin for slashing U.S. diplomatic staff by Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay, and Yeganeh Torbati (Reuters)

Healthcare

• Trump attacks Senate leader McConnell over healthcare failure (Reuters)
• Trump’s mixed signals on healthcare send premiums rising, study finds by AP (The Guardian)
• Trump steps up attacks on McConnell for failure on healthcare reform by John Wagner, Ed O’Keefe, and Paul Kane (The Washington Post)
• Trump won’t rule out asking Mitch McConnell to resign if he doesn’t deliver on the GOP agenda by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)

News

• Exclusive: U.S. destroyer challenges China’s claims in South China Sea (Reuters)
• Trump calling stories he doesn’t like ‘fake news’ is akin to ‘state-run media’, says director of American Press Institute by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
• Poll: Almost half of Republicans believe Trump won popular vote by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• Trump touts online poll showing he’s a ‘better president’ than Obama by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• Half of Republicans Would Be Down to Postpone the 2020 Election, Says Poll by River Donaghey (VICE)
• Five Transgender Service Members File Suit Over Trump’s Military Ban by Alexa Liautaud (VICE)
• In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it by Ariel Malka and Yphtach Lelkes (The Washington Post)
• Trump attacks on McConnell bring rebukes from fellow Republicans by John Wagner, Ed O’Keefe and Paul Kane (The Washington Post)
• President Trump Thanks Putin For Ordering Expulsion Of U.S. Diplomats From Russia by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
• Trump Says He Intends To Declare Opioid Crisis National Emergency by Brian Naylor, Tamara Keith (NPR)
• Trump Informally Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency by Matt Ford (The Atlantic)

Opinion

• Trump is ignoring the Minnesota mosque bombing. We know why. by Moustafa Bayoumi (Guardian)

North Korea

• Tillerson: Trump Is Using Language Kim Jong Un Can Understand by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• America Is Not Ready for a War in North Korea by Eliot A. Cohen (The Atlantic)
• Trump has taken us to the brink of nuclear war. Can he be stopped? by Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian)
• Opinion: God save us from Donald Trump’s fire and fury by Richard Wolffe (The Guardian)
• Donald Trump says US nuclear arsenal is ‘far stronger and more powerful than ever before’ by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
• Trump’s Threat to North Korea Was Improvised by Peter Baker and Glenn Thrush (NY Times)
• Analysis: Answers to 4 Crucial Questions About North Korea by Russell Goldman (NY Times)
• Tillerson plays down North Korea threat as Trump boasts about nuclear arsenal by Julian Borger and Justin McCurry (Guardian)
• Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Threat Raises Alarm in Asia by Stephen Lee Meyers and Choe Sang-Hun (NY Times)
• World leaders appeal for calm as tensions flare in US and North Korea rift by Patrick Winter and Tom Phillips (Guardian)
• War with North Korea not imminent, officials say, but U.S. would still win by Peter Baker, Gardiner Harris, and Eileen Sullivan (The NY Times)
• Trump warns N.Korea: U.S. nuclear arsenal is more powerful than ever before by John Wagner and Philip Rucker (The Washington Post)
• Opinion: Once again, Trump has done all he can to divide us by E.J. Dionne Jr. (The Washington Post)
• Answers to 4 crucial questions about North Korea by Russell Goldman (The NY Times)
• North Korea outlines plan to launch missiles toward Guam by Eric Talmadge (AP)
• North Korea will develop Guam strike plan by mid-August (Al Jazeera)
• North Korea: Final Plan By Mid-August For Firing Missiles Near Guam by Scott Neuman (NPR)

Mueller / Russia Investigation

• FBI Agents Conducted A Raid On Paul Manafort’s Residence by Bill Chappell (NPR)
• Mueller Closes In on Manafort by Matt Ford (The Atlantic)
• Manafort’s home searched as part of Mueller inquiry by Michael S. Schmidt and Adam Goldman (The NY Times)
• It Sure Seems Like Robert Mueller’s Investigation Is Turning Up Some Interesting Stuff! by Jay Willis (GQ)

News

• Wall Street Journal Openly Calls on Trump to Ax Steve Bannon by Brad Reed (AlterNet)
• Even on break, a Congress weary of Trump gets no respite from him by Matt Flegenheimer (The NY Times)
• FBI raided Paul Manafort’s home — the same morning Trump tweeted his transgender ban by Charlie May (Salon)
• Trump administration considers privatising war in Afghanistan by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Giant inflatable chicken with Trump’s hairdo lands near White House by Sasha Lekach (Mashable)
• Transgender Service Members Sue Over Planned Ban On Trans People In Military by Camila Domonoske (NPR)

Opinion

• Trump ignores his own commission’s advice on opioids by Editorial Board 9Washington Post)

Resources

• 14,995 nukes: All the nations armed with nuclear weapons and how many they have by Dave Mosher & Skye Gould (Business Insider)