Non-Executive Privilege: Former President Donald Trump is trying to exert executive privilege over documents sought by the Congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.   Responding to the committee’s request for 40 documents,  Trump said in a letter to the National Archives that “I hereby …

Self-Sabotage: Democratic leaders have bowed to the Republicans, agreeing to a short-term hike in the debt ceiling and allowing government to operate into December.   Mike Lofgren, a Republican staff member for the House and Senate Budget Committees for 28 years, writes in The …

Messing With Texas: A federal judge in Texas has blocked enforcement of the state’s strict abortion law, which bars the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy.   US District Judge Robert Pitman in a 113-page order granted the Biden administration’s request …

Unfriended: The woman who worked for Facebook for two years before becoming a whistleblower about the company’s business practices testified before Congress yesterday that, “I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products, harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy.”   Fraunces Haugen, …

  All over the world people were cut off from social and business connections. The outage revealed how dependent the world has become on big tech and social media.   Facebook said the cause was changes in its underlying internet infrastructure that coordinates …

Covid Nation: New cases of Covid-19 in the US have dropped more than a third since September 1st, 35 percent to be exact.   Worldwide, cases have dropped 30 percent since August.   The reason for the dip isn’t known. David Leonhardt writes …

After Hours: After passing a bill to keep the government running, the House stalled last night when liberal Democrats staged a revolt against President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The leadership plans to take it up again today.   The reason for the …

Hot Mess:  Congress needs to take some kind of action today to prevent a government shutdown at midnight when the authorization to spend money runs out.    And in a fascinating exercise of politics, the Presidency of Joe Biden may be on …

Crazy: Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, told Senate investigators yesterday that House speaker Nancy Pelosi called him on January 8th, concerned about President Trump’s ability to launch nuclear weapons.   “She was concerned and made various personal …

Covid Nation: New cases of Covid-19 have dropped 18 percent over the past two weeks, giving encouragement that the summer surge may be coming to an end.   Deaths in that same period were up 23 percent, but deaths as you might …