AGRICULTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
The Hamilton Project: economics of infrastructure investment
IMMIGRATION
- Border wall attacks wrong immigration crisis
- Politicians statements on Muslim bans
- Historical perspective from the Atlantic
- Trump is not just deporting criminals; another stroy, from OR
- NYT: Reality about illegal immigration in the US
- DHS memo undermines Trump’s reasons for travel ban
- Fund border wall by cutting Coast Guard and TSA
- ICE targets Austin
ISRAEL
EDUCATION
- Tri-caucus letter to HELP Committee regarding Betsy DeVos
- Nora Gordon – Georgetown University
- President’s FY 2017 Budget Request
- Every Student Succeeds Act
- Prince Edward County’s long history of segregation
- The Secret History of School Choice
- Chalkbeat
- FIRE letter to Trump
- The Education Trust
- Bellwether Education
- Bellwether analysis of Michigan school choice program
- Can school choice work in rural communities?
- Dismal voucher results; EPI analysis, WP article
- Perkins Act FAQ, more details (vo-tech training and education)
- Kentucky GOP tries to dismantle desegregation
ETHICS
- Lawsuits facing Trump … more … & more
- Foreign conflicts, Trump now has a patent … in China!
- Trump’s conflicts of interest
- The tally of travel costs for Trump family; more
- NY AG may dissolve Trump Org
- Trump’s mystery $50 million loan
- Trump’s trademarks in China
- 2005 tax return: $100 million in business losses
- States move to require Presidential candidates to release tax returns
- Unprecedented level of ccrruption
- Trump’s skyrocketing travel budget
- Turkish Trump
- Trump puts a spotlight on his brand
- Ichan and ethics flags
- Christie aids sentenced in bridgegate
- Who’s worth what in the White House?
- Trump aides find surge of lucrative work
- Trump can quietly withdraw money from his trust at any time
- Trump kleptocracy
- Tracking Trump’s visits to Trump properties
- Trump, O’Reilly, and the normalization of sexual assault
- Tax overhaul: Dems demand Trump’s taxes
RUSSIA
- Russia
- Trump server talking to a Russian bank?
- What to ask about Russian hacking
- Trump tries to block Sally Yates; read letters
- Nunes scandal
- Senates steps in
- Manafort is gone, but still has ties to Trump
- Flynn seeks immunity for testimony
- Flynn failed to disclose income from Russia-linked entities
- Trump surveillance drama timeline
- Eric Prince and Trump’s Putin back channel
- Susan Rice’s role
- Nunes recuses himself
TRADE
- CBO Report on U.S. Economy and preferential trade agreements
- Foreign Trade Information System
- Inside Trade
- USTR
- Congressional Research Service: Trade Promotion Authority FAQ
- 10 May 2007 Bipartisan agreement on trade policy, International Institute for Sustainable Development commentary, Washington Trade Report analysis
- Trade Act of 1974 (Trump invokes Section 201 and 301 in battle with WTO)
- The biggest losers under Trump’s plan, Has the trade war already begun?, Trade and Texas cattle ranchers
- Trump wants to re-calculate trade balances (alternative math)
- Trade walls and tariff maps
- TPP: HBR analysis of abandoning the TPP
- JAPAN: Washington Examiner, Senators ask Trump to address unfair trade practices, more, more
- CHINA: Goldman Sachs tells investors to brace for trade war , How many jobs has the US lost since China joined the WTO?, the impact of Chinese imports
- MEXICO/NAFTA: Many ways Mexico can fight back, Fortune criticizes Trumps battle with Mexico, NAFTA has not gutted American manufacturing, Mexico will be ready to begin NAFTA negotiations in May, Who would suffer if NAFTA is repealed?, CFR, Public Citizen, a nod to NAFTA, Mexico ready to play to corn card
- EU: Trump’s currency war and the destuction of the EU, Merkel pushes back. Trade war? after threats against steel
- WASHINGTON STATE: Washington Council on International Trade, Washinton State exports (USCB), ITA, Export Washington, COE Global Trade, Business Roundtable, WSU links, Washington State and TPP
- Kevin Brady & Trump’s trade agenda
- WP graphic: building trade walls
- 2017 USTR trade barriers
BUDGET
- CBO Monthly Budget Review: 2016 Summary
- Defense Department Budget
- Senate Budget Committee
- CBO: Options for reducing the budget
- CBPP: Reconciliation
- Trump budget plan
- Popular social programs face ax
- Cuts to the NEA: a conservative view (Foundation for Economic Educations)
- Heritage: blueprint for balance
- Budget & working class resentment of the poor
- Trump’s budget a historic contraction of federal workforce
- Trump’s budget kills salmon recovery
TAXES
- Border Tax FAQ, Border tax controversy
- House Republicans tax proposal
- Conservative calls for carbon tax
- Destination based cash-flow tax (Tax Foundation); Microsoft avoiding taxes, GOP Plan
- GAO tax reform analysis
- Tax code does NOT “soak the rich”
- CRS: Economy and top tax rates
- Prosperity Caucus and Joint Economic Committee and tax reform
- Cohn led tax plan
- Big pharma tax break will not create new jobs
- The 35% corporate tax myth
- Dave Reichert: tax reform Tuesday
- Burger King and tax avoidance
- Reich on border adjustment tax
- Tax overhaul: Dems demand Trump’s taxes
SECURITY
- Senate Armed Services Committe
- History of NATO
- more history of NATO
- NATO
- GAO report on border security
FINANCE
- Senate Finance Committee
- Dodd-Frank summary
- Fiduciary rule, Does bad advice really cost investors $17B/yr?
- Currency: strong, weak, good, bad?
- Forbes: keep Dodd-Frank and CFPB
- Why have markets soared amidst the uncertainty of Trump (Surowiecki!)
ECONOMICS
FAMILY
Trump’s maternity leave plan: who it leaves out
DRUGS
- Heroin hits the heartland
- Government struggle to hold opioid manufacturers accountable
- Trump’s appointment to FDA in the pockets of drug makers
ENVIRONMENT
- Trump’s draft budget for EPA nearly eliminates funding for Puget Sound
- Gutting EPA budget endangers health of millions
- Olympia should divest from US bank (de-fund DAPL!)
VOTING
Healthcare
Technology
Net Neutrality is Trump’s next target
IRELAND
Adams on McGuinness, A united Ireland, Ireland: famine caused by capitalism, not fungus, the hypocrisy of Establishment Ireland, The story you don’t learn in school, McGuinness and free Derry
PARENTING
fake crying, don’t kids need punishment, unschooling, encourage child-directed play, best kids movies on Hulu, a question of self-worth, 5 things I tell my daughter, 4 ways to raise kids with social intelligence, 10 things emotionally neglected kids believe, toy minimalism, setting limits, end power struggles, always comfort a child, 21 ways to reach a child’s heart, dry and secondary drowning, 5 ways to teach about consent, remember why your child isn’t listening, reading readiness and the body, child says I hate you, Waldorf inspired principles, screen time and young brains, when children bicker, getting kids to behave w/o punishment or rewards, breaking cycles through AP , what to say to kids, limits with empathy, support sibling friendships,
PERSISTING
Kathrine Switzer, Native American women, women in labor history, women Nobel laureates video, nobel laureates list, NASA’s hidden figures, Kid’s booklist, RBG
OTHER
HFA, pressure w/o stress, decision making 101, positive thinking, train new neural pathways, loving/losing female friends, St. Augustine and sex, American small talk, in defense of cultural appropriation, the work you do, the person you are, prioritize these three things, best consumer self-advocacy tool, why shoelaces keep coming undone, speak with love: how words restructure our brain, 39 behaviors of likable people, how to be mindful when angry, 25 adult recovery strategies, your brain’s delete button, re-write your life,
