March 2018

Amazon

• Trump goes after Amazon _ again _ over postal delivery by Hope Yen (AP)
• Trump escalates attack on Amazon, demands Washington Post register as ‘lobbyist’ by Brent D. Griffiths (Politico)
• Trump: Amazon ‘scam’ costing Postal Service ‘billions’ by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
• Trump claims Washington Post is ‘lobbyist’ for Amazon by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
• Trump accuses Amazon of ‘Post Office scam,’ falsely says The Post is company’s lobbyist by Philip Rucker (The Washington Post)

News

• Donald Trump stops funds for recovery efforts in Syria as he mulls withdrawal of US troops by Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Alissa J Rubin (Independent)
• Trump freezes $200M in Syria recovery funds: report by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
• UK-Russia standoff deepens as Moscow cuts UK diplomats by Andrew Osborn (Reuters)
• Trump attacks California governor for pardoning ex-convicts facing deportation AP (Guardian)

Analysis

• When Our President Put His Doctor in Charge of Everything by Marius Stan, Vladmir Tismaneanu (Politico)
• Does Trump believe in the value of expertise, or does he disdain it? by Dan Balz (The Washington Post)

Opinion

• Hand over my social media account to get a US visa? No thank you by Arwa Mahdawi (Guardian)

News

• Andrew McCabe’s GoFundMe Just Broke $400,000 by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Donald Trump’s Lies About the Border Wall, Explained by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
• Donald Trump Gets Mocked After Showing He Really Doesn’t Know What The Post Office Does by Ed Mazza (Huffington Post)
• Report: Trump’s citizenship question in 2020 census could undercount 24 million people by Amanda Michelle Gomez (ThinkProgress)
• Watchdog groups file criminal complaint against Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica and Bolton super PAC by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
• Rick Gates Could Be More Dangerous Than Trump’s Allies Thought by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
• The Implications of Trump’s Latest Trans Military Ban (VICE)
• Trump administration reveals Phase One of the border wall by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
• Trump administration freezes $200 million in funds for Syria recovery by Nahal Toosi, Rebecca Morin (Politico)
• Trump ally interrogated by FBI about campaign involvement by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
• FBI report used in McCabe firing shows discrepancy with public statements: CNN by Josh Delk (The Hill)
• Trump declares April sexual assault prevention month by Josh Delk (The Hill)

Analysis

• Why Conservatives Tolerate Trump’s Crony Capitalism by Jeet Heer (The New Republic)
• Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience by Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg (Washington Post)
• Making public lands white again: Ryan Zinke’s special brand of environmental racism by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Immigration backlog grows as Trump administration curtails administrative closures by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)

Opinion

• The Americans Our Government Won’t Count by Alex Wagner (NY Times)

Amazon

• Trump accuses Amazon of not paying fair share of taxes by Louis Nelson (Politico)
• Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon: report by Nicole Karlis (Salon)
• Trump attacks Amazon for paying ‘little or no taxes’ (BBC)
• Trump attacks Amazon over tax policies and US Postal Service deals by Colin Lecher (The Verge)
• Trump lashes out at Amazon and sends stocks tumbling by Edward Helmore (Guardian)

Shulkin / VA Secretary

• Fired VA Secretary Says White House Muzzled Him by Laurel Wamsley. Scott Neuman (NPR)
• No longer muzzled, Shulkin takes on Trump’s White House by Andrew Restuccia, Louis Nelson (Politico)
• Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Says He Was Fired After Opposing Privatization of VA Healthcare by Hope Yen (TIME)
• White House aides privately worried about Trump VA pick’s lack of experience: report by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Ousted VA secretary blasts privatization in a New York Times op-ed by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)

Mueller / Russia Investigation

• If Trump Fires Mueller, He Just Might Get Away With It by Bob Dreyfuss (The Nation)
• The constitutional debate around protecting Robert Mueller’s job, explained by Tara Golshan (Vox)
• Mueller just connected a top Trump campaign staffer to Russian intelligence by Zachary Fryer-Biggs (Vox)
• Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources by Mark Hosenball (Reuters)
• Mueller signals he is going after bigger fish as he drills down on the central thread of the Russia investigation by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)

News

• FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
• Trump’s Plan to Speed Up Infrastructure Projects—With or Without Congress by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
• President Trump calls to congratulate Roseanne Barr (BBC)
• ‘Crime scene’ projected onto Trump hotel by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• EPA accused of urging staff to downplay climate change after memo leaks by Oliver Milman (Guardian)
• Wooing Saudi Business, Tabloid Mogul Had a Powerful Friend: Trump by Jim Rutenberg, Kate Kelly, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Mike McIntire (NY Times)
• E.P.A. Prepares to Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars to Be Cleaner and More Efficient by Coral Davenport and Hiroko Tabuchi (NY Times)
• After being pent up for days, Trump lets ’er rip by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
• Trump says US troops to get out of Syria ‘very soon’ (Al Jazeera)
• Democrats demand Jared Kushner be investigated (Al Jazeera)
• McCabe, fired from FBI, launches legal defense fund by Elana Schor (Politico)
• ICE Will Now Detain Pregnant Women Because of President Trump’s Executive Order by Abigail Abrams (TIME)

Analysis

• Trump doesn’t know what his own attorneys are up to. That’s what voters are supposed to believe, anyway. by Callum Borchers (Washington Post)

Opinion

• It Is Amazing to Watch the President Lie in Public So Freely by Jack Holmes (Esquire)
• Surprise: Trump’s newest Cabinet nominee has no relevant experience by Eugene Robinson (Washington Post)
• Why Robert Mueller could be considering bribery charges by Randall D. Eliason (Washington Post)

Census

• How Trump Plans to Use the Census to Make a Fake America by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Republicans’ plan to undermine the 2020 census may blow up in their faces by Sophia Tesfaye (Salon)
• The 2020 Census Is a Cybersecurity Fiasco Waiting to Happen by AJ Vicens (Mother Jones)
• Hidden Figures: How Donald Trump Is Rigging the Census by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
• The citizenship question on the 2020 census, explained by Dara Lind (Vox)
• NAACP sues Trump for failing to prepare to count minorities in 2020 census by Jacqueline THomsen (The Hill)

Gun Control / NRA / Second Amendment

• Donald Trump says Second Amendment ‘will never be repealed’ following ex-Supreme Court judge’s comments by Jon Sharman (Independent)
• President Trump Says the Second Amendment ‘Will Never Be Repealed’ by Alan Fram (TIME)
• Citizens United and the NRA: To fix gun laws, we have to fix campaign finance laws first by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Opinion: Smearing Parkland Students Is a Symptom of the Right’s Ideological Exhaustion by Jeet Heer (New Republic)

Stormy Daniels

• Voters believe Stormy over Trump by Steven Shepard (Politico)
• Stormy Daniels’ lawyer seeks to depose Trump over $130,000 payment by Lorraine Woellert (Politico)
• The Stormy Daniels drama just gets worse for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen by Charlie May (Salon)
• Stormy Daniels’ lawyer asks court to compel Trump to testify in deposition (The Guardian)

Mueller / Russia Investigation

• Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Ex-Trump campaign official Rick Gates ‘communicated with a former Russian intelligence officer’, says FBI by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
• Mueller Filing Casually Implies That Trump’s Campaign Chairman Was in Touch With Active Russian Operative by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
• Trump Lawyer Floated Pardons Of Michael Flynn And Paul Manafort: Report by Doha Madani (Huffington Post)
• Trump’s Lawyer Reportedly Broached Pardons for Flynn and Manafort. That Could Be Obstruction. by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
• White House says ‘no discussion’ of Trump pardoning Manafort or Gates by Louis Nelson (Politico)
• White House: No talk of pardons in Russia probe ‘at this time’ by Jordan Fabian, Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
• Trump aide communicated with ex-Russian intelligence officer during 2016 election by Sarah N. Lynch, Makini Brice (Reuters)

Trump Emoluments

• A Federal Judge Just Gave the Go-Ahead to a Major Case Against Trump by Russ Choma (Mother Jones)
• President Trump Just Lost a Legal Battle in the Constitutional Fight Over His Business by Stephen Braun (TIME)
• U.S. Judge Refuses To Toss Suit Against Trump On Foreign Payments by Andrew Chung (Huffington Post)
• Federal Judge Allows Trump Emoluments Case to Go Forward by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
• Judge rejects Trump push to dismiss emoluments lawsuit by Morgan Gstalter, Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Emoluments suit against Trump clears standing and political question hurdles by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)

Other News

• Trump says China told him Kim Jong-un meeting ‘went very well’ but US will maintain ‘sanctions and pressure’ on North Korea by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Every Woman in the Senate Is Demanding a Vote on a Sexual Harassment Bill by Maya Rhodan (TIME)
• Senate Candidate Joe Arpaio Vows To Keep Pushing Birtherism by Scott Neuman (NPR)
• How Jared Kushner Landed in the Middle of a Vicious Proxy War Between Qatar and Its Neighbors by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Forget Zuckerberg: Trump Is “Obsessed” with Breaking Jeff Bezos by Maya Kosoff (Vanity Fair)
• Little-known lawyer to take larger role on Trump defense team: report by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• Trump signs bill preventing taxpayer money from being used for portraits of federal employees by John Bowden (The Hill)
• It’s not just elections: Russia hacked the US electric grid by Kelsey Atherton (Vox)
• Trump will end deportation protection for Liberians by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump hotel business fails to undo Panama coup by Jeff Horowitz (AP)
• Former Disney Star Caroline Sunshine Joins The Trump White House by Emily Sullivan (NPR)
• Trump ousts Shulkin at VA, taps White House physician by Rebecca Kheel (The Hill)
• VA Secretary Shulkin to resign, Trump to nominate his personal physician by Steve Holland (Reuters)
• EPA staffers get talking points downplaying human role in climate change by Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post)
• Meet Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor who gave Trump a glowing physical and was just named secretary of Veteran Affairs by Michal Kranz (Business Insider)

Analysis

• The Very Male Trump Administration by Annie Lowrey, Steven Johnson (The Atlantic)
• A quarter of Trump’s ‘highest IQ’ Cabinet has been replaced by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
• Overview: Where the Omnibus Money Is Going by Randy Leonard (Roll Call)
• 3 Takeaways From White House’s Semi-Denials of Pardon Talks by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Under Ben Carson, HUD Scales Back Fair Housing Enforcement by Glenn Thrush (NY Times)

Census

• California Sues Trump Administration Over Citizenship Question on 2020 Census by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Trump Administration Creates Census Crisis With Move to Suppress Immigrant Responses by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
• Dem lawmaker says she will introduce bill to block 2020 census from asking about citizenship by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• Blue states sue Trump over Census citizenship question by Reid Wilson (The Hill)
• Trump’s controversial change to the 2020 Census could have massive political and economic consequences by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
• Analysis: Why Asking About Citizenship Could Make the Census Less Accurate (Update) by Lynn Vavreck (NY Times)
• At least twelve states to sue Trump administration over census citizenship question by Michael Wines and Emily Baumgaertner (The NY Times)
• FACT CHECK: Has Citizenship Been A Standard Census Question? by Tamara Keith (NPR)

Kushner

• White House Probes Kushner Business Loans After Ethics Questions by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
• White House investigating $500m loans to Kushner family firm – ethics chief by AP (Guardian)
• White House denies Jared Kushner is under investigation by Nicole Karlis (Salon)
• Jared Kushner’s Month Goes from Bad to Weeping Inconsolably in a Janitor’s Closet by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)

Gun Control / NRA / Second Amendment

• NRA Says It Receives Foreign Funds, But None Goes To Election Work by Tim Mak (NPR)
• Ex-Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
• Former Justice John Paul Stevens calls for repeal of the Second Amendment by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)

Other News

• Trump’s approval rating reaches its highest level since 100-day mark of presidency, shows new poll by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
• 2 Winston lawyers turn down chance to join Trump’s legal team, while Olson comments on ‘chaos’ by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Trump’s lawyer defamed me, Stormy Daniels alleges in amended suit by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
• Trump eyes accused wife-beater Rob Porter for a late-season return by Isobel Thompson (Vanity Fair)
• Trump Administration Strikes Trade Deal With South Korea by Scott Horsley (NPR)
• Trump gets South Korean concessions in first trade deal by Doug Palmer (Politico)
• Bipartisan Senate duo calls on Trump to back off Mueller by Elana Schor (Politico)

Analysis

• Trump Under Oath: Sometimes Combative, Often Boastful, Usually Lacking Details by Tamara Keith (NPR)
• How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico by Danny Vinik (Politico)
• Want to impeach the President? This billionaire is on the case by Monica Hesse (The Washington Post)

Opinion

• Congress Resists the President, for a Change by the Editorial Board (NY Times)
• Trump’s most dangerous betrayal yet by Katrina vanden Heuvel

Stormy Daniels

• Porn star speaks out on Trump, sex, threats (Al Jazeera)
• Stormy Daniels ‘threatened over Trump affair’ (Al Jazeera)
• Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Promises to Reveal a Trove of Evidence Proving Trump Affair by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Stormy Daniels Explained Why She Signed Donald Trump’s Nondisclosure Agreement by Ella Cerón (Teen Vogue)
• Trump’s Legal Threats Backfire by David Frum (The Atlantic)
• Trump Should Be Scared of Stormy Daniels by Harry Cheadle (VICE)
• ’60 Minutes’ scores highest ratings in 10 years with Stormy Daniels interview by Joe Concha (The Hill)
• Stormy Daniels receives “cease and desist” letter after “60 Minutes” interview: report by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Analysis: Trump’s silence on Stormy Daniels is deafening by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Stormy Daniels files lawsuit for defamation against Trump’s lawyer by Jeremy B White (Independent)
• Stormy Daniels sues Trump lawyer for defamation by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
• White House disparages porn star’s story of Trump affair by Lisa Lambert, Makini Brice (Reuters)
• Trump can’t stop tweeting, but goes quiet on Stormy Daniels by Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)

Russian Spy Poisoning

• Trump to expel dozens of Russians over UK poisoning by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Spy poisoning: Russian diplomats expelled across US and Europe (BBC)
• US expels 60 Russians, closes consulate over Skripal poisoning (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Expels 60 Russian Diplomats in Response to Ex-Spy Poisoning by Josh Ledermen (AP)
• U.S. Expels 60 Russian Officials, Closes Consulate In Seattle by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)

Gun Control / March For Our Lives

• It’s official: March for Our Lives was one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam War by German Lopez (Vox)
• March For Our Lives Was About More Than Gun Control by Sarah Jaffe (New Republic)
• Wisconsin students march 50 miles to Paul Ryan’s house for gun reform by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• How rightwingers have attacked Parkland students with lies, hoaxes and smears by Jason Wilson (The Guardian)
• Why Black Girls are taking a leading roll in the fight for gun control by P.R. Lockhart (Vox)

Other News

• The Trump Administration Might Let the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal Go Extinct by Jackie Flynn Mogensen (Mother Jones)
• White House counsel examines loans to Kushner’s family business by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Poll: Trump’s approval rating highest in nearly a year by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Suburban voters angry with Trump threaten GOP’s grip on House by Kari Lydersen and Michael D. Scherer (The Washington Post)
• People who say they’re most eager to vote strongly disapprove of Trump in a new poll by Philip Bump (The Washington Post)
• Jimmy Carter says Trump’s decision to hire John Bolton his ‘worst mistake yet’ by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• White House Says It’s Investigating $500 Million in Loans to Jared Kushner’s Real Estate Company by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Two more attorneys turn down offer to represent Trump by Brett Samuels (The Hill)

Analysis

• What’s next for Trump and the Palestinian Authority? by Dahlia Hatuqa (Al Jazeera)
• Four Ways Trump Could Dump The Iran Nuclear Agreement by Michael Wilner (FiveThirtyEight)
• Bolton’s Appointment Ups Odds of War by John M. Donnelly (Roll Call)
• The Summer Zervos sexual assault allegations and lawsuit against Donald Trump, explained by Anna North (Vox)

Gun Control / March For Our Lives

• March For Our Lives: Six key takeaways from the US gun control rallies (BBC)
• ‘March For Our Guns’ Speakers Call For Self-Defense, Arming Teachers by Nate Heygi (NPR)
• NRA Takes Aim At ‘March For Our Lives’ Rally, Mocks Gun Violence Survivors by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
• March for Our Lives Organizers Estimate 800,000 People Attended the D.C. Rally by De Elizabeth (Teen Vogue)
• How to Fight for Gun Reform After the March for Our Lives by Ebony Bellamy (Teen Vogue)
• Yesterday, we Parkland students made history. And we’re not going anywhere by Rebecca Schneid (The Guardian)
• Thousands on March for Our Lives gun control rally sign up to vote for first time: ‘We will vote them out’ by Tom Barnes (Independent)
• Gun marches keep Republicans on defense in midterm races by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin (The NY Times)
• The Parkland Students Went on Fox News and Perfectly Explained Why the NRA Is Wrong by Brandon E. Patterson (Mother Jones)
• Students Have Transformed the American Gun Debate by Paul Waldman (The American Prospect)

Stormy Daniels

• Stormy Daniels says she stayed silent on Trump out of fear by Jim Rutenberg (The NY Times)
• Stormy Daniels Confirms She Spanked Donald Trump With a Magazine by Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones)
• The Six Biggest Moments From Stormy Daniels’ Interview by Brandon E. Patterson (Mother Jones)
• What the Stormy Daniels Interview Demands of Congress by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)
• Stormy Daniels says Trump told her she reminded him of his daughter by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
• Stormy Daniels claims she was threatened over alleged affair by Julia Manchester (The Hill)
• Stormy Daniels Shares Graphic Details About Alleged Affair With Trump by Miles Paks (NPR)

Other News

• Trump: ‘Very happy’ with my legal team by Brent D. Griffiths (Politico)
• Trump Won’t Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago by Maggie Haberman, Michael S. Schmidt, and Mark Landler (NY Times)
• A surge of LGBTQ candidates are running for political office in 2018 by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Trump says many lawyers and top law firms want to represent him in Russia case by Paul Owen (Guardian)
• Fund-raiser held out access to as a prize for prospective clients by Kenneth P. Vogel and David D. Kirkpatrick (The NY Times)
• At a crucial juncture, Trump’s legal defense is largely a one-man operation by Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)
• Iran denounces Trump’s new hard-line staffers (Al Jazeera)
• Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns by Craig Timberg and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post)
• Trump’s legal team remains in disarray as new lawyer will no longer represent him in Russia probe by Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman (Washington Post)

Analysis

• Fox faces on Trump’s team: TV network serving as West Wing casting call by AP (Guardian)

Opinion

• Trump’s Trans Ban Shows Who He Really Is by Jennifer Finney Boylan (NY Times)

Transgender Troops

• Trump signs new transgender military ban (BBC)
• Trump Order Would Ban Most Transgender Troops From Serving by Ken Thomas (TIME)
• The Murkiness of Trump’s New Transgender Military Ban by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Trump’s Trans Troops Ban Will Never Take Effect by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)

Gun Control / March For Our Lives

• March For Our Lives*
• Demonstration expected to pack streets in D.C. Here’s how to get around today. by Luz Lazo (The Washington Post)
• March for Our Lives: Students plan mass rally for gun control by Nidia Bautista (Al Jazeera)
• March For Our Lives: US set for mass rallies to back gun control (BBC)
• Thousands Expected To Rally For Gun Control, Many For The First Time by Adrienne St. Clair (NPR)
• Hundreds of Thousands of People Marching Against Gun Violence Today (Mother Jones)
• March for our Lives – latest updates: Protests begin in London and around world with Florida shooting survivors to lead call for gun control in Washington by Alexandra Wilts, Clark Mindock, Mythili Sampathkumar, Chris Stevenson (Independent)
• How the NRA derails gun control debates by Carlos Maza (Vox)
• How to watch the March for Our Lives event online by Rachel Wolfe (Vox)
• Why the March for Our Lives could win by German Lopez (Vox)
• March for Our Lives: hundreds of thousands demand end to gun violence – live by Amanda Holpuch, Paul Owen (The Guardian)
• Huge crowd converges on D.C. for gun control rally by Caitlin Emma, Ian Kullgren (Politico)
• March for Our Lives could be the biggest single-day protest in D.C.’s history by Jesse Durando (USA Today)
• While Demonstrators Call for Action on Gun Violence, Nobody’s Home at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. by Staff (Roll Call)
• 6 Minutes and 20 Seconds that Could Change the World by Joan Walsh (The Nation)
• Emma Gonzalez Is Responsible for the Loudest Silence in the History of US Social Protest by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
• Stop Everything and Listen to this Knockout March for Our Lives Speech by an 11-Year-Old Girl by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
• Hundreds Of Thousands March For Gun Control Across The U.S. by Samantha Raphelson, Emma Bowman (NPR)
• Hundreds of Thousands March for Gun Control in Protests Across the Country by Emma Stefansky (Vanity Fair)
• Paul McCartney Joins March For Our Lives In Memory Of John Lennon by Jenna Amatulli (Huffington Post)
• The Students Who Weren’t Just Marching for Parkland by Elaine Godfrey (The Atlantic)
• Just How Large Were the March for Our Lives Rallies? Take a Look at These Images. by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• The March for Our Lives Could Not Possibly Have Been Scripted by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
• The Powerful Silence of the March for Our Lives by Megan Garber (The Atlantic)
• Watch: Emma Gonzalez’s incredible moment of silence at March for Our Lives by German Lopez (Vox)

Other News

• How Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Is Outfoxing Trump by Lorraine Woellert, David Siders (Politico)
• John Bolton plans to fire dozens of White House officials: report by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
• Trump questioning advisers on whether to publicly respond to sex scandals: report by Josh Delk (The Hill)
• Fired FBI Director Andrew McCabe Fires Back at Donald Trump (Mother Jones)

Analysis

• Will Trump Be the President Who Gives Iran the Bomb? by Eric Cortellessa (The New Republic)
• Why Trump’s latest steps heighten risk of a global trade war by Paul Wiseman (AP)
• How Trumpism has come to define the Republican Party by Ashley Parker (Washington Post)

Opinion

• ‘We are the change’ Editorial Board (Washington Post)

Transgender Troops

• Trump moves to ban most transgender troops by Jacqueline Klimas (Politico)
• Trump moves to limit transgender individuals from military service (Reuters)
• Trump Memo Disqualifies Certain Transgender People From Military Service by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
• Trump moves to ban most transgender people from serving in military by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
• Trump’s Twitter ban on trans troops is officially official by Brittany Levine Beckman (Mashable)

Spending Bill / Government Shutdown

• Trump Threatens Veto Of Spending Deal Hours Before Government Would Shut Down by Domenico Montanaro, Scott Detrow, Scott Horsley, Tamara Keith, Kelsey Snell (NPR)
• Trump Threatens to Veto Spending Bill and Shutdown the Government by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Trump threatens to veto $1.3tn spending bill passed by Congress (BBC)
• DREAMers skeptical as Trump ‘may veto’ bill over DACA by Creede Newton (Al Jazeera)
• Trump threatens to veto spending bill, risking shutdown by Elana Schor, Burgess Everett, Matthew Nussbaum, Rachael Bade (Politico)
• Congress Spares Science From Trump’s Budget by Marina Koren (The Atlantic)
• Trump threatens to veto $1.3tn spending bill for not protecting Dreamers or fully funding Mexico border wall by Alexandra Wilts (Independent)
• Here’s Why Trump’s Spending Bill Veto Threat Is So Baffling by Nash Jenkins (TIME)
• Trump signs massive spending bill, backing away from veto threat by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Spending Bill Protects Tipped Workers From Sharing With The Boss by Scott Horsley (NPR)
• Here’s What’s in the Budget Bill Nobody’s Bothered to Read by Michael Grunwald (Politico)
• Donald Trump proves his omnibus veto threat was just a temper tantrum by Dara Lind (Vox)
• Trump signs massive spending bill, but not before a little drama by Josh Dawsey and Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)
• Trump wants Congress to do something nearly impossible to give him more power over government spending by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)

Gun Control

• Emma González on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control by Emma González (Teen Vogue)
• 5 Gun Control Activists Discuss What’s Next for Gun Reform (Teen Vogue)
• What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From the Civil-Rights Movement by Julian E. Zelizer (The Atlantic)
• President Trump Announces Ban on Bump Stocks for Guns by AP (TIME)
• Protesters gather in Washington, demanding gun control by Ashraf Khalil (AP)
• Parkland Shooting Survivor Discusses Newfound Activism To End Gun Violence by Ailsa Chang, Wynne Davis (NPR)

McMaster / Bolton

• John Bolton: Five things new Trump security adviser believes (BBC)
• Apocalypse Soon? John Bolton Set To Replace HR McMaster as National Security Adviser by James Carden (The Nation)
• US: Who is John Bolton? (Al Jazeera)
• A look back at HR McMaster’s time in the White House (Al Jazeera)
• In the terrifying John Bolton, Trump finds his national-security soulmate by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
• Bolton pick underscores Trump’s foreign policy confusion by Michael Crowley, Bryan Bender (Politico)
• A Short Guide to John Bolton’s Government Career by Krishnadev Calamur (The Atlantic)
• What Trump’s Choice of Bolton Reveals by David Frum (The Atlantic)
• John Bolton and Gina Haspel Are the Consequences of Our Failure to Reckon With the Bush Years by Joshua Keating (Slate)
• Trump’s New National Security Advisor John Bolton Has Links to Cambridge Analytica by Ryan Teague Beckwith (TIME)
• Opinion: John Bolton has North Korea and Iran in his sights. He must be stopped by Michael H. Fuchs (The Guardian)
• Trump adviser John Bolton worked with Cambridge Analytica on YouTube voter experiment by Paul Lewis (The Guardian)
• H.R. McMaster Worked for Me. His Retirement From the Military Reveals A Lot About President Trump by James Stavridis (TIME)
• “It’s the Perfect Storm”: as John Bolton Arrives, the Deep State Braces for a Turn Toward War by Abagail Tracy (Vanity Fair)

China / Tariffs / Trade

• Trade wars, Trump tariffs and protectionism explained (BBC)
• China hits back after US tariffs on Chinese imports (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Just Pushed the World Trade Organization Toward Irrelevance by Peter S. Goodman (NY Times)

Stormy Daniels / Karen McDougal

• Former Playboy Model Spills Details Of Alleged Affair: Trump ‘Tried To Pay Me’ by Vanessa Romo (NPR)
• Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes: When is the interview and how can you watch it? by Clark Mindock (Independent)
• Former Playboy model who ‘had 10-month affair with Trump’ claims he offered her money for sex by Chris Baynes (Independent)
• “The President May Be Able to Fire Mueller, but He Can’t Fire Me”: Stormy Daniels’s Attorney Relishes His Role as Trump Nemesis du Jour by Joe Hagan (Vanity Fair)

Cambridge Analytica

• The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram by Alvin Chang (Vox)
• Leaked: Cambridge Analytica’s blueprint for Trump victory by Paul Lewis, Paul Hilder (The Guardian)

Other News

• US approves proposed $1bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia (Al Jazeera)
• Russia Hacked U.S. Power Grid — So What Will The Trump Administration Do About It? by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• White House lawyer McGahn eager to exit by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• U.S. charges Iranians for global cyber attacks on behalf of Tehran by Dustin Volz (Reuters)

Analysis

• Trump voters are selfish: They love him because they identify with him by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
• Trump Is Bringing In Loyalists And Getting Rid Of Critics by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
• After Another Week of Chaos, Trump Repairs to Palm Beach. No One Knows What Comes Next. by Mark Sandler and Julie Hirshfeld Davis (NY Times)

McMaster / Bolton

• Trump replaces National Security Adviser HR McMaster with John Bolton (BBC)
• Donald Trump Taps John Bolton to Replace H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser by Inae Oh, Patrick Caldwell (Mother Jones)
• H.R. McMaster Resigns. John Bolton Named Trump’s New National Security Advisor by AP (TIME)
• John Bolton to replace McMaster as Trump’s national security adviser by Ed Pilkington, Julian Borger (The Guardian)
• McMaster Is Out, an Even Bigger North Korea Hawk Is In by Uri Friedman (The Atlantic)
• John Bolton to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser by Cristiano Lima, Matthew Nussbaum, Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
• This Is the Scariest News of the Trump Presidency by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
• Three examples of John Bolton’s longtime hardline views by Matthew Haag (The NY Times)
• John Bolton, an undiplomatic voice for American might by Peter Baker (The NY Times)
• The case against John Bolton, in one Trump tweet. by Dara Lind (Vox)

China / Tariffs / Trade

• Trump moves to crack down on China trade with $60 billion in tariffs on imported products by David J. Lynch (Washington Post)
• Trump to impose tariffs on $60bn of Chinese imports (Al Jazeera)
• Trump’s Latest China Tariffs Could Hurt Tech—and Even Social Media by Tom Simonite (Wired)
• Trump Could Be Bumbling Into a Trade War With China by Ely Ratner (The Atlantic)
• Stock markets tumble amid heightening concerns over trade by Matt Phillips (The NY Times)
• Trump’s trade threats put China’s leader on the spot by Steven Lee Meyers (The NY Times)
• Opinion: Trump’s half-baked China tariffs (The NY Times)

Biden

• Trump Attacks “Crazy Joe Biden,” Says He Could Beat Up Former Vice President by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump fires back at Biden: He’s ‘mentally and physically’ weak by Louis Nelson (Politico)
• Biden And Trump Taunt Each Other Over Who Would Win ‘High School’ Fight by Brian Naylor (NPR)

Russia Investigation / Mueller

• Team Trump’s smear campaign against Mueller gets serious: Will he survive? by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
• Judiciary Dems warn Trump: Don’t fire Mueller, Sessions during House recess by Olivia Beavers (The Hill)
• Trump says he wants to testify to Mueller in Russia probe by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• “Now I’m F—ing Doing It My Way”: Jubilant and Self-Liberated, the President Prepares for War with Mueller by Gabriel Sherman (Vanity Fair)

John Dowd

• Trump lawyer John Dowd resigns by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
• John Dowd Resigns as Trump’s Lead Lawyer in Special Counsel Inquiry by Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
• Donald Trump’s top Russia lawyer John Dowd resigns (BBC)
• President Trump’s Top Lawyer on the Robert Mueller Investigation Just Resigned by Ryan Teague Beckwith (TIME)
• Trump’s Russia probe lawyer John Dowd resigns by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Trump Proves Indefensible by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)

Karen McDougal

• Former Playboy Model Karen McDougal Says Trump Tried to Pay Her After Sex by Michael Balsamo (TIME)
• Former playboy model gives emotional account of alleged affair with Trump by Eli Rosenberg, Emma Brown, and Mark Berman (The Washington Post)
• Ex-Playboy model says she kept journal of days she met with Trump by Rebecca Morin (Politico)

Other News

• Trump seeks to punish N.Y. commuters by killing Hudson River rail tunnel by Bob Hennelly (Salon)
• Donald Trump announcing imminent talks with Vladimir Putin ‘takes advisers by surprise’ by Karen DeYoung, John Hudson (Independent)
• Trump’s Pick For CDC Director Is Experienced But Controversial by Ed Yong (The Atlantic)
• Everyone has something to hate in Trump’s new budget by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump official says US is ‘pro-life country’ at closed-door UN meeting by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
• Read the Bill or Get Out of Town Quickly? On Omnibus, Congress Chooses the Latter by Lindsay McPherson (Roll Call)
• Trump considered ousting Kelly and serving as his own chief of staff: report by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Kansas militia members wanted to kill Muslims by Alice Mannette (Reuters)
• Spending plan moving through Congress is a rebuke to Trump. Here’s why. by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (The NY Times)
• Beyond gun control, student marchers aim to upend elections by Alexander Burns and Julie Turkewitz (The NY Times)