Rep. Keith Ellison: GOP Tax Bill Would Reorder Society & Create “Hereditary Aristocracy” for Rich; Honduras: Protesters Defy Military Crackdown and Flood the Streets to Protest Alleged Vote-Rigging; Rep. Keith Ellison Says Franken & Conyers Should “Examine Their Conscience” over Sexual Harassment; Rep. Ellison Condemns Apparent Election Tampering in Honduras & Calls for Halting U.S. … Continued


Marcy Wheeler: Mike Flynn’s Guilty Plea to FBI Will Shape How GOP Handles Russia Investigation; GOP Quietly Moves to Open Arctic Refuge to Oil & Gas Drilling While Earth Undergoes 6th Extinction; New Investigation Finds U.S. Special Forces Massacred Somali Civilians & Orchestrated a Cover-Up; Is Trump Plan to Replace Rex Tillerson a Push for … Continued


Mehdi Hasan Rips Thomas Friedman’s “Nauseating” Column in NYT Praising Saudi Arabia; White House Defensive as Trump Shares British Hate Group Videos, Drawing International Condemnation; Will Trump’s Latest Islamophobic Tweets Impact Court Rulings on His Mostly-Muslim Travel Ban? Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Trump Tax Plan to Worsen Inequality, Expand Loopholes; Anti-Globalization in the Era … Continued


In Surprise Move, Illinois Rep. Gutiérrez Won’t Seek Re-Election, Says He’ll Focus on Puerto Rico; As GOP Tax Plan Faces Senate Vote, Critics Say Bill Would Give Hundreds of Billions to Top 1 Percent; Graduate Students Plan Nationwide Walkouts Against GOP “Assault” On Post-Secondary Education; Cherokee Writer: Trump Pocahontas Slur Reflects Centuries of Colonial Violence … Continued