It was an act of country love. This is what we have repeatedly been told about the insurrection at the Capitol, one year ago this week. The claim began, as brazen lies so often seem to, with Donald Trump. “These are the things and events that happen,” he said, “when a sacred ...
by Alexander Keyssar For a brief moment last January, in the immediate wake of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, it appeared that the final chapter of the Trump era was being written. After protesters had been cleared from the building, both branches of Congress affirmed, by large ...
by Lorraine Ali This time last year, there was a cruel joke in circulation: The most spiteful year in recent memory would reset itself at midnight Dec. 31, and we’d be forced to relive 2020 from the beginning. Funny, right? Not really. But we could tell the joke then because we ...
One of the reasons Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew GOP participation from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection was Democrats’ refusal to let Trumpian firebrand Jim Jordan be seated on the committee. Now Democrats’ stance regarding the Ohio Republican has been ...
A fundraiser benefiting Sandwich University owner George Tanios — facing 10 charges for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol — and his family has raised over $60,000, but one for his co-defendant Julian Khater has raised much less. Khater also faces 10 charges for ...
She slammed down her white privilege like you’d slam down an American Express black card. Which is to say, with supreme confidence. Two months after posting video of herself in the mob of right-wing thugs who stormed the U.S. Capitol, Jenna Ryan went on Twitter to taunt her detractors. ...