The select committee needs to get to the bottom of what happened last January, yes. But it can also perform a broader, and hugely important, function.

Is the man who wanted Donald Trump to declare martial law prepping for some American Armageddon? Or is he doing something more subtle that the press is missing entirely?

What may appear to be a breakthrough moment for the January 6 commission actually heralds a low-water mark for Congress and its oversight authority.

The White House has allowed top aides to testify before Congress many times before.

Donald Trump is trying to tie them up in endless litigation, but Joe Biden has the authority to release them now.

A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power

Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to preemptively undermine the results of the next election. Bannon is happy to help with that.

We knew David Horowitz when he was a radical leftist. Then he became a conservative. Then he joined the MAGA cult.

How Steve Bannon led the vanguard of the Capitol riots

The president goes out on a seamy and haphazard note, pardoning those who did crimes on his behalf.

The first night of the GOP convention was the dying gasp of the party’s feeble crack at right-wing populism.

They’re floating castles of crime, polluting our air and water.

What enabled the rise of today’s right-wing media empire?

How thwarted Hollywood ambitions, Silicon Valley hubris, and a long war on objectivity gave rise to Drudge, Breitbart, and other right-wing media insurgents

Britons are used to being able to humiliate their politicians, but the besieged Tory adviser is determined to survive his coronavirus bungle.

The coronavirus pandemic is exactly the excuse Washington has been looking for to start a conflict with China.

The American right's unyielding ardor for federal power

How the junior senator from Missouri has become the face of the post-liberal movement—and positioned himself as the philosophical heir to Trump.

The conservative media’s delirious efforts to conjure up a socialist nightmare

The more politically frustrated Trump becomes, the more he embraces his most extreme adviser. Brace yourself, America.