The UK wants to exempt the big banks from the plan for global businesses to pay tax in the countries where they get the income.

Even if those banks do pay an adequate tax rate — and I won't take a minister's word for that! — it is still important to make them pay tax in each country where they operate.

Texas Republicans have launched the "1836 Project" to teach a distorted version of the reason for Texas's secession from Mexico.

I expect that the Mexican government and Mexicans elites found the rapid arrival of so many border-crossing immigrants in Texas worrisome in itself, independent of the fact that some of them illegally had slaves.

I suspect that one of the aims of this project is to pave the way for an attempt to take nondemocratic control of the US government, or else secede.

Koch money and the US Chamber of Commerce are behind senators Manchin and Sinema's stubborn defense of the filibuster.

Former Guatemalan soldiers face charges for murdering and disappearing people during the US-supported dirty war.

The Keystone XL pipeline has been cancelled. The owner yielded in the face of Biden's decision to revoke the permit.

Now what about the Line 3 pipeline? That would carry tar sands oil too, if it is allowed to be built.