Asia Trip
- Donald Trump went to South Korea, and promoted his golf course by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Donald Trump’s surprise visit to Korean DMZ thwarted by bad weather by Jeremy B White (Independent)
- President Trump Meets the World’s Most Powerful Man in Beijing by Charlie Campbell (TIME)
- North Korea tops Trump’s China agenda by Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
- China’s Xi fetes Trump on first day of Beijing trip by Philip Wen, Steve Holland (Reuters)
- White House: Trump intends to tweet in China by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
- Trump promotes his New Jersey golf course during his speech to South Korea parliament by David Nakamura (The Washington Post)
- ‘America first’ means human rights last during Trump’s visit to Asia by Sarah Wildman (Vox)
Tax Bill
- GOP tax bill would kill deduction for student loan interest by Maria Danilova (AP)
- Grad Students Are Freaking Out About the GOP Tax Plan. They Should Be by Robbie Gonzalez (Wired)
Elections
- Donald Trump’s Candidates Crashed and Burned—Sad! by John Nichols (The Nation)
- How Donald Trump is losing his core supporters by Taylor Link (Salon)
- Democrats Sweep Mayoral Elections In New York, Other Major Cities by Scott Neuman (NPR)
- 6 Takeaways From Election Day 2017 by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
- A transgender woman defeated a man who authored a bathroom bill in Virginia in Tuesday’s election by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
- 15 takeaways from Virginia by Jennifer Rubin (The Washington Post)
- Voters repudiate not just Trump but the white supremacist hatred seen in Charlottesville by Petula Dvorak (The Washington Post)
- The shifts in Virginia voting that handed Trump an embarrassing defeat by Philip Bump (The Washington Post)
- Ralph Northam’s win in the Virginia Governor’s race shows the GOP is in big trouble by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- If you care about ending mass incarceration, look at what Philadelphia just did by German Lopez (Vox)
- 2017 election: the women, people of color, and LGBTQ candidates who made history in the 2017 election by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
- ‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: How Trump inspired women to run for office by Anna North (Vox)
- Anti-Trump backlash fuels a Democratic sweep in Virginia and elections across the country by James Hohman (Washington Post)
- GOP candidate who mocked the Women’s March was defeated by a woman who ran because of his comments by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
Russia Investigation
- Lewandowski: ‘My memory has been refreshed’ on Carter Page Moscow trip by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
- Judge issues gag order in Manafort, Gates case by Josh Gerstein and Darrin Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Russia investigators probe 2016 GOP platform fight by Josh Meyer (Politico)
- GOP lawmaker calls for Mueller to be fired in speech on House floor by Brandon Carter (The Hill)
- George Papadopoulos meeting with UK during Trump campaign revealed by Anthony Zurcher (BBC.com)
News
- CBO: Obamacare mandate repeal would reduce deficit by $338 billion by Jennifer Haberkorn (Politico)
- Trump administration tightens sanctions against Cuba (Reuters)
- U.S. judge issues gag order in Manafort-Gates Russia probe case by Spencer S. Hsu (The Washington Post)
- U.S. said to seek sale of CNN or DirectTV in AT&T-Time Warner deal by Michael J. de la Merced, Emily Steel, and Andrew Ross Sorkin (The NY Times)
- White House implements new Cuba Policy restricting travel and trade by Karen DeYoung (The Washington Post)
- CBO: 13 million more uninsured if you repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate by Dylan Scott (Vox)
Analysis
- New data shows how the Trump administration is destroying the State Department by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- Why the push to ban rifle ‘bump stocks’ has slowed by Sheryl Gay Stolberg (The NY Times)
- Democrats prospects in the 2018 midterm elections, explained by Andrew Propkop (Vox)
- Johnstown never believed Trump would help. They still love him anyway. by Michael Kruse (Politico)
- Justice Department’s reported demand of CNN sale ‘unusual’: antitrust expert by Erin Fuchs (Yahoo Finance)
- Is the Political Class Drifting Toward War with North Korea? by Evan Osnos (Newyorker)
- Top ranks of US diplomacy ‘depleted at dizzying speed’ under Trump by Julian Borger (Guardian)
Opinion
- One year on, Donald Trump is still an illegitimate president by Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)
- It’s been a year. How well is America’s constitutional democracy doing? by Daniel W. Drezner (Washington Post)
- Year One: It’s Up to Us by David Cole (NY Review of Books)