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Capitol Riot
June 17, 2021
Magazine
Win McCormack
A Third Reconstruction, or a Second Civil War?
American democracy may perish from the earth.
June 16, 2021
Matt Ford
Republicans Are on the Brink of Embracing the Capitol Rioters
The party once freely condemned the would-be insurrectionists who attempted to waylay democracy. You’d hardly know it now.
June 7, 2021
Magazine
Alex Pareene
Why Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Won’t Be Punished for Fomenting a Riot
The U.S. Senate is incapable of policing itself—and the two Republicans are too shameless to resign.
June 3, 2021
Alex Thomas
Elizabeth MacDonough Is the Most Quietly Consequential Person in Washington
The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.
May 20, 2021
Matt Ford
The Republicans Would Like You to Please Forget That January 6 Ever Happened
Party leaders, taking their cues from Donald Trump, are trying to shove the violence he instigated into the memory hole.
May 18, 2021
Magazine
Hannah Gais
A New “War on Terrorism” Is the Wrong Way to Fight Domestic Extremists
One was a State Department official. The other was in the Army. Their stories show why we don’t need post-9/11 tactics to root out far-right threats.
May 17, 2021
Tal Lavin
The U.S. Military Has a White Supremacy Problem
What is the Biden administration going to do about it?
May 6, 2021
Walter Shapiro
The Washington Media Is Overblowing the Liz Cheney Story
The Republican coup against her is an irresistible story, but it’s hardly a national referendum on Trump.
May 5, 2021
Magazine
Ronald Radosh
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Sol Stern
Our Friend, the Trump Propagandist
We knew David Horowitz when he was a radical leftist. Then he became a conservative. Then he joined the MAGA cult.
May 4, 2021
Matt Ford
The Republican Party Is for Liars Only
Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are discovering that there’s no room in the GOP for anyone who acknowledges that Biden beat Trump fair and square.
April 29, 2021
Walter Shapiro
Joe Biden’s Bold Defense of American Democracy
In his first joint address to Congress, the president spoke out against the forces that threaten democratic values. That may be what defines his legacy.
April 28, 2021
Matt Ford
The Walls Are Finally Closing in on Rudy Giuliani
Federal agents searched his home and seized documents, as Biden’s Justice Department charges ahead with a long-overdue investigation.
April 8, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
What Kind of Monster Is Matt Gaetz?
What we already know about the Florida congressman is plenty contemptible and corrosive without having to fall back on pernicious myths about sex trafficking.
March 22, 2021
Magazine
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America
How partisans on all sides overlook the brutal legacies of white supremacy
March 16, 2021
Audrey Clare Farley
The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community
Its embrace of an ignominious president is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with the movement’s embrace of white supremacy and illiberal politics.
March 10, 2021
Magazine
Adele M. Stan
Insurrectionist in Chief
How Steve Bannon led the vanguard of the Capitol riots
March 4, 2021
Matt Ford
Pence Is Still Pushing Trump’s Big Lie
The former vice president reemerges from a brief hiatus in the throes of Stockholm Syndrome.
March 2, 2021
David W. Blight
James Weldon Johnson’s Ode to the “Deep River” of American History
What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot
February 24, 2021
Matt Ford
Dominion Voting Systems’ Legal Rampage Against Trump’s Grifters
The company’s lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell have laid bare the cynical scam at the heart of conservative media.
February 23, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The Depressing Whiplash of the Senate’s Capitol Riot Hearing
Republican senators culpable in the violence looked elsewhere, as did the police, for explanations of what went wrong on January 6.
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