US Politics

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/gohmert-suit-pence-overturn-trumps-defeat-451485


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-overturn/2020/11/28/34f45226-2f47-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/23/us/joe-biden-trump/republicans-caught-between-trumps-wrath-and-reality-have-splintered-into-two-groups


Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won’t play his games

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/trump-gop-elections-challenge-438938


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/culture-wars-latinos-trump-438932


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-uses-power-of-presidency-to-try-to-overturn-the-election-and-stay-in-office/2020/11/19/bc89caa6-2a9f-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/19/trump-election-results-legal-team-438470


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brad-raffensperger-georgia-vote/2020/11/16/6b6cb2f4-283e-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html


https://thebulwark.com/be-alarmed/—44


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/12/shrinking-workforce-can-hurt-biden-436164


https://www.vox.com/2020/11/11/21559082/trump-dispute-election-fraud-electors


https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/10/most-republicans-dont-yet-dare-to-cross-donald-trump


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/anthony-tata-pentagon-policy-trump-obama-terrorist-b1720677.html


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-election-press-conference-four-seasons-total-landscaping-philadelphia-pennsylvania-watch-live-stream-today-2020-11-07/

“Networks don’t get to decide elections, courts do,”


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/elections/after-trump-accuses-doctors-of-profiteering-medical-professionals-push-back-44


Fearing a ‘Blood Bath,’ Republican Senators Begin to Edge

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/politics/republican-senators-trump


https://www.nytimes.com/article/electoral-college-explained


https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/10/03/priestly-guidance-on-voting-is-dividing-the-catholic-church-in-america


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-succession-constitution


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/30/us/presidential-debate/its-the-kind-of-language-you-might-expect-from-a-dictator-trumps-remarks-on-election-integrity-and-poll-watching-alarm-experts


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-mark-meadows-on-face-the-nation-september-27-2020/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/opinion/sunday/trump-politics-humor


https://medium.com/@ericjscholl/trump-reveals-his-nightmare-post-election-strategy-70262fb58317


https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/ellen-knight-bolton-book-letter/c98f11bb205df88a/full.pdf


https://www.axios.com/bloomberg-group-trump-election-night-scenarios-a554e8f5-9702-437e-ae75-d2be478d42bb.html


https://medium.com/@ericjscholl/trumps-supporters-are-doing-something-they-haven-t-done-much-before-7078eaa7e558


https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-covid-new-york-coronavirus-de-blasio-shutdown-timing-11599836994


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809


In Woodward’s ‘Rage,’ Trump Consistently Makes Efforts To Bend Reality, Sell His Narrative

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/09/911138032/woodward-book-says-trump-chose-to-downplay-deadliness-of-virus-to-avoid-panic


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/homeland-security-russia-trump


https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-08/trump-channels-noam-chomsky-on-u-s-aggression


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/trump-military-defense-industry-booster-410396


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/white-house-has-talked-va-secretary-about-taking-pentagon-job-n1239007


https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/09/08/trump-says-pentagon-leaders-are-under-defense-industrys-influence/


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/08/us/trump-vs-biden/trump-whose-administration-proposed-opening-offshore-waters-to-drilling-now-claims-credit-for-issuing-a-moratorium


https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html


https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-trap-the-democrats-walked-right


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/04/presidents-are-expected-set-national-tone-what-we-got-with-trump-has-been-catastrophic/


According to a recent poll, 62% of Americans don’t feel comfortable speaking freely about politics. Is there really a free speech crisis in the U.S.?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/land-of-free-and-fettered-speech-11599231635


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/opinion/ed-markey-young-progressive-voters


https://the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-for


https://the.ink/p/we-are-in-a-cold-civil-war


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-violence/2020/08/27/3f232e66-e578-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/04/white-house-racial-sensitivity-training/


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/trumps-weaponization-usps-and-census/615235/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-presented-the-mother-of-all-fabrications-on-the-white-house-lawn/2020/08/28/a08c2fb8-e8d9-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html


https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/08/31/postal-chief-dejoy-has-long-leveraged-connections-dollars/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tennessee-adopts-new-law-that-could-strip-some-protesters-of-voting-rights/2020/08/22/293d7d28-e4aa-11ea-8dd2-d07812bf00f7_story.html


“There is simply no way to put Trumpism back into the bottle,” writes Gerald F. Seib. So the question for Republicans “is simple and stark: How to adapt their gospel so that it fits in the age of Trump?”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-trump-has-changed-the-republicans-11598023026


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/21/convention-shows-democrats-have-ceded-working-class-gop/


Biden VP Search Story

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/biden-harris


Exclusive: After Quitting Last Year, Senior U.S. Intelligence Official Now Talks

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902345240/exclusive-after-quitting-last-year-senior-u-s-intelligence-official-now-talks


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/08/12/us/biden-vs-trump/kanye-west-who-is-pursuing-a-spot-on-the-2020-ballot-met-with-jared-kushner


https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/who-will-guard-the-guardians-44


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/magazine/us-russia-intelligence


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/01/alexander-vindman-retiring-oped/


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/national-guard-white-house-virus-390968


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/elizabeth-warren-mark-esper-pentagon-nominee-391026


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/08/02/controversial-nominee-tata-appointed-to-top-defense-job-bypassing-congress/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/donald-trump-taxes-cyrus-vance


https://popular.info/p/trump-goes-postal


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-trump-campaign-came-to-court-qanon-the-online-conspiracy-movement-identified-by-the-fbi-as-a-violent-threat/2020/08/01/dd0ea9b4-d1d4-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/postal-service-trump-dejoy-delay-mail/


https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-chaotic-design-of-trumps-mail-in-voting-rants


https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/07/30/senator-union-leader-postal-service-considers-downsizing/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/trump-delay-election-coronavirus


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/pentagon-protesters-journalists-adversaries-386854

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/pentagon-strips-out-language-protesters-adversaries-388751


https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/02/cracks-in-the-republican-party-establishment-are-getting-bigger/


https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/07/21/house-cheney-gop-conference-375812


-medium.com/dfrlab/disinformation-about-antifa-provides-fodder-for-foreign-propagandists-61dfa6232c02-44\


In a letter released Thursday, Wolf, the acting DHS secretary, said, “Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.”

“A federal courthouse is a symbol of justice,” Wolf wrote, denigrating protests against racism in the U.S. criminal justice system as an angry mob. “To attack it is to attack America.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland-44


https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-conference-071420/


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/07/09/esper-announces-leak-investigation-at-pentagon/


https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/07/does-pentagon-understand-what-navy/166693/


https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/congress/2020/07/07/trump-officials-under-congressional-scrutiny-over-misleading-opm-testimony/


https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-confront-a-racist-national-history


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/trump-politics-psychology

Academic studies show that Republicans were far less willing to adopt safety procedures and were far more skeptical of scientific warnings than their Democratic counterparts


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/politics/trump-schools-coronavirus

President Trump spearheaded an administration-wide push to pry open the nation’s elementary and secondary schools, the next phase of his effort to get the economy on its feet.


https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter


According to Harvard and MIT, the policy would effectively strand hundreds of thousands of international students studying in the U.S. and muddy plans for a return to class amid the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/888871130/harvard-mit-sue-immigration-officials-over-rule-blocking-some-international-stud


Lt. Col. Vindman, Witness In Trump Impeachment, Is Retiring From Military

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888933684/lt-col-vindman-witness-in-trump-impeachment-is-retiring-from-military


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/politics/electoral-college-supreme-court


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/magazine/isabel-wilkerson-caste


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/politics/biden-trump-fundraising-2020


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/politics/trump-2020-campaign-problems


https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/recruiting/2020/07/01/mother-of-marine-killed-in-afghanistan-demands-answers-amid-russian-bounty-allegations/


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/why-the-mueller-investigation-failed


https://variety.com/2020/politics/features/nancy-pelosi-trump-election-2020-democrats-hollywood-1203521090/


https://www.airforcetimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/27/i-am-confused-scared-and-afraid/


https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/28/officials-continue-to-throw-capt-brett-cozier-under-the-bus-for-outbreak-on-navy-carrier/


https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/28/commentary-asking-yourself-the-question/


https://www.navytimes.com/naval/2020/06/26/us-navys-chief-learning-officer-announces-departure-as-pentagon-exodus-continues/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/michael-flynn-sidney-powell


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/workers-removed-thousands-of-social-distancing-stickers-before-trumps-tulsa-rally-according-to-video-and-a-person-familiar-with-the-set-up/2020/06/27/f429c3be-b801-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html


https://medium.com/discourse/why-we-need-house-speaker-shelia-jackson-lee-af12443bc7b1


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/politics/esper-trump-defense-military


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/white-house-intensifies-effort-to-install-pentagon-personnel-seen-as-loyal-to-trump/2020/06/25/1bfeee3a-9f86-11ea-9d96-c3f7c755fd6e_story.html


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/opm-chief-resigns-134541


https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-federal-intervention-5g-huawei-china-nokia-trump-cisco-11593099054


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/23/griffin-porter-resign-from-top-dod-tech-jobs/


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/politics/arizona-2020-election-democrats-republicans


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/what-fiona-hill-learned-in-the-white-house


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/we-dont-see-color-trump-rallygoers-explain-black-lives-matter-protests-to-their-children/2020/06/21/79ee890c-b40c-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html


https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/us-military-politics-trump-election-campaign/


Attorney General’s controversial firing of the Manhattan U.S. Attorney was the latest action to concern his allies

https://www.wsj.com/articles/attorney-general-barr-known-by-aides-as-the-buffalo-scrutinized-over-firing-of-u-s-attorney-11592749511


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/evangelical-church-trump-alabama


https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881096897/as-the-culture-wars-shift-president-trump-struggles-to-adapt

Culture wars have been part of American politics for decades. Hot-button issues like immigration, family values and respect for the American flag can get a more powerful reaction from voters than dry debates over taxes or Medicare.


https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/us-military-politics-trump-election-campaign/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bolton-book-exposes-rare-fissures-between-trump-and-pompeo/2020/06/18/9e218bd4-b0e8-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/18/pentagon-official-resigns-white-house-nixes-nomination-328552

Experts worry that the loyalty purge will cost the Pentagon talent and institutional memory, and further stretch the officials who remain as the department struggles to fill more than a dozen senior positions.

“This kind of churn is generally bad because the wider the cracks are, the more things fall through the cracks,” said Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College, who was speaking in a personal capacity.

Mr. Trump is making it very clear that he has no room for even mild dissent, and that he has no desire to include anyone but true loyalists in his government.”

It also may have a chilling effect on qualified people who are considering jobs in the Pentagon.

“I’ve never seen something quite like this before,” said one former senior DoD official who served in the Obama administration. “There are good qualified experienced people who are no longer interested in the opportunity to serve because they don’t want to expose themselves to a situation like this. It does put a real chill on the environment for people.”


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/18/kathryn-wheelbarger-top-foreign-policy-defense-official-resigns/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/impeachment-casts-shadow-over-army-officers-promotion/2020/06/17/f6fc7c82-b0ac-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/bolton-book-trump-impeached


https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2020/06/16/elaine-mccusker-pentagon-comptroller-resigns/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/12/crises-multiply-trumps-senate-allies-respond-her-emails/


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-white-house-vs-john-bolton-11591813953


https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-georgia-primary-and-the-state-of-voting-rights


https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/can-the-constitution-reach-donald-trumps-corruption-emoluments


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/trump-fox-news-pentagon-policy-chief-312172


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/us/politics/john-gleeson-michael-flynn