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Capitol Riot
January 12, 2021
Nick Martin
JPMorgan Chase and Amazon Discover Campaign Finance Reform by Way of Social Collapse
Corporations are temporarily turning off the money tap after helping to fund an insurrection. Let’s make the change permanent.
January 12, 2021
Alex Pareene
Against a Domestic Terrorism Law
We have enough cops, and they don’t need new laws. What happened on January 6 requires a political, not criminal response.
January 12, 2021
Matt Ford
Republicans Want Impunity, Not Unity
Having whipped its base into a violent frenzy, the GOP now wants you to believe it wants to heal the nation.
January 11, 2021
Laura Weiss
Stop Comparing the Capitol Riot to Banana Republics. It’s Lazy—and Wrong.
Commentators have relied on fallacious allusions to the developing world to explain a problem unique to the United States.
January 11, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Why Are Journalists and Surveillance Researchers Helping the FBI to Catch Capitol Rioters?
Some civilian investigators are even using facial-recognition technology to identify perpetrators—then reporting them to law enforcement.
January 11, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
The Democrats’ Stark, Historic Choice
Disempower the GOP now and preserve democracy, or squander the opportunity and lose the future.
January 11, 2021
Katie McDonough
Die Laughing at the Capitol
The storm on Congress was extremely goofy and deadly serious. Making sense of it will require some dexterity.
January 11, 2021
Chris Lehmann
Feeling Trump’s Pain
The weird therapeutic communion at the root of the Capitol riot.
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