Party whip asked three times by Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace to disavow Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ about electoral fraudCapitol attack panel ready to urge prosecution of Trump aidesThe second-ranking House Republican, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, repea…
House Capitol attack panel ready to urge prosecution of Trump aides, says Schiff
Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon and Kash Patel all defying subpoenas under instruction from TrumpInterview: Adam Schiff on Trump’s threat to democracyThe House select committee investigating the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January is …
US treasury secretary Yellen: global minimum corporate tax will pass
Minimum global corporate rate of 15% agreed by 136 countries as Yellen also says US will raise debt ceiling on 3 DecemberThe US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, said on Sunday she was confident Congress would approve legislation to implement the globa…
‘Buckxit’: plan to split ritzy Buckhead from Atlanta faces expensive hurdles
Affluent suburb bids to become its own city to reduce taxes and crime – but critics say proposal would mean ‘a race to the bottom’A controversial plan to split Buckhead, an upscale district of Atlanta, from the Georgia city faces a number of expensive …
Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse | Robert Reich
These unaccountable bodies hold increasing sway over US government. Their abuses of power affect us allThe week’s news has been dominated by the supreme court, whose term began on Monday; the Federal Reserve, and whether it will start responding to inf…
Tom Morello: ‘We came within a baby’s breath of a fascist coup in the US’
Lockdown and ‘looking after the grandmas’ may have kept the Rage Against the Machine guitarist away from recent protests – but he refuses to be silencedTom Morello has made more than 20 albums, as a founding member of Rage Against the Machine – the pol…
Stop calling Joe Manchin ‘moderate’ – he’s just a greedy reactionary | Arwa Mahdawi
Contrary to what the senator says, there’s absolutely nothing ‘entitled’ about expecting a government to care about the people it representsJoe Manchin is on a mission to save the United States from becoming an “entitlement society”. The West Virginia …
Progressive Democrats draw strength from muscle-flexing in Congress
The left of the party is celebrating holding firm on insisting on both parts of Biden’s domestic agenda over centrist objectionsWhen House Democrats were forced to delay their planned vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill earlier this month, the r…
Biden overrules Trump effort to keep White House files from 6 January panel
The National Archives told to give documents to House committee despite ex-president’s attempt assert executive privilege Joe Biden has blocked an attempt by former US president Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the 6 January …
Biden restores beloved national monuments, reversing Trump cuts
Restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante represents victory for advocates after protections were slashedJoe Biden restored environmental protections on Friday to three national monuments and their vast expanse of vital ecosystems and sac…