US Politics
Biden Shift Shows Pressure Can Work
Amid relentless progressive pressure, the president-elect is now promising $2,000 survival checks if Georgia Democrats win — that is a shift from his endorsement...
Trump intensifies coup plot as Congress meets to certify election results
By Andre Damon
Jan.6, 2020
The United States Congress is meeting today to formally count the Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election. Under normal...
Pence won’t interfere with election certification despite Trump’s pressure, officials say
President urges vice-president to subvert democracy while Washington DC prepares for protests planned by Trump supporters
By David Smith in Dalton, Georgia,
and Peter...
In Georgia speech, Trump pledges to overturn election result
By Patrick Martin
Jan. 5, 2021
US President Donald Trump doubled down on his efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in a...
In Op-Ed, 10 Ex-Defense Secretaries Say Military Has No Role In...
January 4, 2021
The U.S. presidential election, and the time for questioning its results, are over, all 10 living former secretaries of defense wrote in...
Trump and Netanyahu keep trying to goad Iran into conflict. They...
By James North
January 3, 2021
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu continue trying to goad Iran into a conflict — and the U.S. mainstream media...
Trump Pressures Pence to Reject Electoral Votes
The vice president plays a crucial but largely ceremonial role in certifying the election results in Congress. Here’s how Congress’s election tally actually works.
By...
Trump taking control of NSA
A Trump loyalist is installed at the National Security Agency.
By Julian E. Barnes
Nov. 10, 2020
A Trump loyalist has been appointed as the top lawyer...
Trump’s Self-Coup
by Ted Rall
December 30, 2020
Late last month I wrote that there was a strong chance–I called it 50-50—that Donald Trump would engineer a “self...
More ‘Dictatorship Than a Democracy’: Trump Purge at Pentagon Increases Fears...
"The purge happening at the Department of Defense, in the middle of a messy transition, should worry us all."
by Kenny Stancil
Nov. 11, 2020
Fears that a...