The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning  —  WASHINGTON — The battle over Monday's Electoral College vote is the beginning, not the end.  A larger campaign to undermine the legitimacy — and constitutionality — of Donald Trump's presidency is likely just getting underway.

Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.

To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To ‘Coach’ Young Talent  —  President Obama sees a role for himself in rebuilding the Democratic Party after he leaves office — coach.  —  “What I am interested in is just developing a whole new generation of talent,” Obama told NPR's Steve Inskeep …

Bill Clinton: Trump knows how to get ‘angry, white men to vote for him’  —  President-elect Donald Trump “doesn't know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”

How Republics End  —  Many people are reacting to the rise of Trumpism and nativist movements in Europe by reading history — specifically, the history of the 1930s.  And they are right to do so.  It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.

UK prof: Singing a Beach Boys' tune got me punished for ‘sexual misconduct’  —  The University of Kentucky has punished me in a “sexual misconduct” case, in part, for singing a Beach Boys tune covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks.  —  Under Administrative Regulation 6:1, Discrimination and Harassment …

In Poland, a window on what happens when populists come to power  —  WARSAW — The Law and Justice Party rode to power on a pledge to drain the swamp of Polish politics and roll back the legacy of the previous administration.  One year later, its patriotic revolution, the party proclaims …

All This Talk of Voter Fraud?  Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None  —  After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible reports of fraud they actually received.

The Terrifying Aftermath of Hillary's Election Victory  —  In the midst of our joyous celebrations, and as we savor the delicious schadenfreude left in the wake of Hillary's humiliating rejection by normal Americans, it's easy to forget that there is a much darker timeline where things could have gone very differently . . .

Gov. Pat McCrory calls for special legislative session to repeal HB2  —  Following a surprise move by the Charlotte City Council, Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday he would call a special session to consider repeal of House Bill 2.  —  The governor's statement came in a rapidly unfolding series …

Trump advisers spar over new political arm  —  Donald Trump's top advisers are jousting over control of the new political group they are forming to help press the president-elect's agenda, as rival camps have formed with repercussions for who ends up as senior staff at the White House.

This Mostly White City Wants To Leave Its Mostly Black School District  —  DeVonte Kirkland is in his second to last year of school at Center Point High in Jefferson County, just outside of Birmingham, Ala. When he graduates next year he wants to head to Alabama State University.

Trump Counties Would See Big Impact From Obamacare Repeal  —  More than 20 million Americans now depend on the ACA, also known as Obamacare, for health insurance.  Data from Gallup indicate that a lot of those people live in counties that favored Trump.

Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses … Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths.  —  The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392.  There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly …