by Randy Vealey No, I don’t remember it like it was yesterday, but I never forgot the most compelling television programming in my life. In May 1973, […]
Tag: Jan. 6 commission
Trump removed, ripped up and flushed records
It has become clear in recent days that former President Donald Trump mishandled official presidential documents to an astonishing and possibly illegal extent while in office. Multiple […]
These are no ‘ordinary citizens’
They stormed through police barricades, these “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” They shattered windows and chanted death to the vice president, these “ordinary citizens engaged […]
SCOTUS won’t play along with Trump’s obstruction
During his single presidential term, Donald Trump had a penchant for referring to federal judges and Supreme Court justices as though they ruled based on loyalty to […]
Kevin McCarthy owes us the truth
by Robin Abcarian Now that Devin Nunes has slunk off to the Trump-a-verse, is there anyone in Washington who is as transparently cynical, cowardly and dishonest as […]
Jan. 6: One year later
Jan. 6 is no longer just a date. It is a day that will haunt America’s history for the rest of time, the way Dec. 7 will […]
How will historians judge Jan. 6?
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 […]
Fearing the worst, hoping for the best
by Jackie Calmes We can argue whether 2021 was “the least bad year of the last two years,” as “The Daily Show” claimed, considering that it began […]
Jordan’s scheme is latest proof of GOP’s contempt for democracy
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 […]
America’s broken justice system
by Will Bunch You’ve probably heard the old political maxim, most popular in the crime-ridden 1970s, that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. In the […]
