“This is as explicit as it gets,” said one observer. Text messages obtained by the House select committee that is investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection revealed that people in former President Donald Trump’s closest circle—specifically his son, Donald Trump Jr.—were strategizing before the votes were even counted how they could overturn the results of the […]
“We are now facing the prospect of destruction of organized human life on Earth.” Far-right and authoritarian leaders in the U.S. and Russia are pushing the planet toward “the most dangerous point in human history,” renowned scholar Noam Chomsky said in an interview published by The New Statesman Wednesday, pointing to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the planetary […]
Donors like billionaire investor Ken Langone, said one critic, are “always there to reach across the aisle to make sure to support politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich.” After he announced in December he would not be supporting President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin’s political action committee […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who introduced the Masks for All Act in July 2020, called the move “a good first step.” Eighteen months after Sen. Bernie Sanders first introduced legislation to ensure everyone in the U.S. would receive face masks to protect against Covid-19, the White House on Wednesday followed public health guidance by announcing it will make N95s […]