US Impeachment Inquiry
Approval Of Impeachment Inquiry Reaches 55 Percent (Quinnipiac)
GOP Members invade a secure impeachment hearing, endangering natsec (FPL)
Laura Cooper detailed process over how foreign aid is distributed in deposition (CNN)
The Investigation Into Rudy Giuliani's Associates Has Widened (Buzzfeed News)
An Envoy’s Damning Account of Trump’s Ukraine Pressure and Its Consequences (NYT)
Former GOP Congressman: Republicans forced to lie to defend Trump (FPL)
U.S. envoy: Trump tied Ukraine aid to Biden, DNC investigations (Axios)
Hungary’s Orban Gave Trump Harsh Analysis of Ukraine Before Key Meeting (NYT)
Fact check: Trump made at least 20 false claims in angry Cabinet monologue (CNN)
Democrats Slow Impeachment Timeline to Sharpen Their Public Case (NYT)
Trump Dismisses ‘Phony Emoluments Clause,’ Defending Doral (NYT)
Trump says his Florida Doral resort will no longer host G7 summit (NBC News)
Lindsey Graham does not rule out the possibility of Trump impeachment if new evidence emerges (CNN)
Forget Trump’s “Meltdown”—Follow the Testimony (New Yorker)
Oleg Deripaska-Linked Firm Was Raided for Undisclosed U.S. Inquiry (Bloomberg)
Mulvaney Says, Then Denies, Trump Held Back Ukraine Aid as Quid Pro Quo (NYT)
“There is definite hanky-panky going on”: the Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades (Vanity Fair)
Mulvaney says G7 summit will be at Trump's Doral resort in Miami (Axios)
Not Since McCarthy Has State Dept Suffered Such a Devastating Blow (Foreign Affairs)
McConnell Lays Out How the Senate Would Handle an Impeachment Trial (VICE)
Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk (NYT)
US diplomat Bill Taylor leaves Ukraine after Democrats ask him to testify in impeachment probe (CNBC)
Ex-Pompeo aide tells Congress he resigned over Trump's Yovanovitch attacks (Politico)
Graham calls Syria decision 'biggest mistake' of Trump presidency (CNN)
Federal investigation of Rudy Giuliani includes counterintelligence probe (CNN)
Giuliani pressed Trump to eject Muslim cleric from U.S., a top priority of Turkish president, former officials say (Washington Post)
George Kent was Directed To ‘Lay Low,’ Leave Ukraine To ‘Three Amigos’ (NPR)
2020 US Election
Zuckerberg: Facebook caught Russia and Iran trying to interfere in 2020 (NBC News)
Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, ‘Is There Anybody Else?’ (NYT)
Comment: The DNC had the same fit in 1992 and 2004. Pay them no mind.
Chinese officials want the U.S. president reelected—because he’s so weak. (FP)
These relinquishments of U.S. leadership in multilateral institutions provide China the space to take a greater role in global governance and in setting international rules and norms. Beijing has taken notice, asserting itself at the United Nations and submitting trade war-related complaints to the WTO, while promoting the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a viable alternative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Though Beijing has moved to make the Belt and Road Initiative the unparalleled vanguard project of global infrastructure development, the Trump administration has yet to provide a viable alternative.
Give Us One Debate About War and Peace (The Nation)
Dear Democrats, Make America Leaders Again (Jerusalem Post)
Democrats still can’t level with voters about American Empire (The Intercept)
Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle (NYT)
Trump to attend 2020 forum at historically black South Carolina college (The State)
We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All’ (NYT)
We’ve identified more than $300 billion in annual military savings alone that we could better invest in priorities like Medicare for All, working with a national grassroots movement called Poor People’s Campaign.