The January 6 Hearings May Be Surprisingly Worthwhile
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Normal criminal law covers the alleged acts without politicizing proceedings.
How Stewart Rhodes went from denouncing authoritarianism to urging an authoritarian crackdown
The damage caused by election lies is not worth abandoning free speech traditions.
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A ruling in a dispute over emails sought by the January 6 committee agrees that Trump's actions likely violated two federal laws.
This new HBO documentary portrays the January 6 riot as more of a temper tantrum than an incipient coup.
Prof. Derek Muller explains why states cannot invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to exclude those who sought to overturn the 2020 election results from the ballot.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats can be trusted to give an honest account of what happened that day.
The North Carolina congressman's opponents argue that the 14th Amendment disqualifies him from seeking reelection.
This is the first time that participants in the Capitol riot have been charged with sedition.
We've already seen how this can abuse Americans' civil liberties with little increase in public safety.
Social media accounts are windows into your activities, and the cops are watching.
Proving that claim requires more than reckless rhetoric, which is constitutionally protected.
Jay Inslee says we should make it a crime for politicians to lie about election results. What could go wrong?
There are good reasons to think polls grossly exaggerate the number of Americans who support political violence.
As awful as things are, Trump is not Milošević, Republicans are not unified behind him, Stacey Abrams is not a hero, and every day is not January 6.
The Capitol riot was awful, but it shouldn't serve as an excuse to violate civil liberties.
After the cops killed her, the A.P. gave her the "no angel" treatment.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
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The Biden administration is greatly increasing FBI caseloads and agents. That's bad news for anybody who is worried about federal overreach.
The new advisory “is not based on any actual threats or plots” but is purely a response to a “rise in anti-government rhetoric.”
The political right's movement toward authoritarianism is exemplified by its refusal to embrace facts that don't conform to their alternative reality.
The House of Representatives gave the agency $2 billion in additional funding.
The suspension is based on "demonstrably false and misleading statements" that Giuliani made as Donald Trump's lawyer.
From Mitch McConnell's perspective, an independent commission can only mean trouble.
"At the time of Mr. Trump's posts, there was a clear, immediate risk of harm."
Blame the media for running anonymous sources, but don't let government off the hook for its secrecy and misinformation.
Songs like "Gun Totin' Patriot" and "We Outside" might be ridiculous, Trump-worshiping schlock, but their embrace of controversial themes breathes some rebelliousness back into rap.
Rioters who ransacked a Senate office may have prevented a few Trump policies from taking effect.
"We don't need to use a faulty model and apply it to the very real terrorism problem that we have at home," says terrorism expert Max Abrahms.
Violent acts are already illegal, and new tools will inevitably be used against those who annoy the powerful.
More than 5,000 members of the National Guard descended on Washington, D.C., following the January 6 riot.
The agency also missed an FBI bulletin citing "specific calls for violence."
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The Senate minority leader's triangulation does not bode well for the GOP's ability to stand for something other than a personality cult.
Whether the reality-show-star-turned-first-president-to-be-impeached-twice has a future in American politics, however, sadly remains an open question.
He betrayed his oath and duties as president by hesitating to intervene and refusing to unambiguously condemn the violence.
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The 33-year-old successor to Justin Amash's House seat says his party has abandoned limited government, economic freedom, and individualism.