By shedding the detritus of race-based nationalism, today’s insurgents have harnessed the power of white innocence.

The reimplementation of Covid restrictions in the House chamber has outraged many Republicans—and they’re not shy about letting you know.

On the opening day of testimony, the Capitol’s defenders tried to rescue the January 6 commission from the all-consuming partisan rancor that spawned it.

Reporting revealing that top military officials were prepared to resign to defy Trump shouldn’t make us feel better about the the state of U.S. institutions.

Trump and his sycophants are trying to turn the slain rioter into a martyr—an attempt to obscure their own responsibility for the January 6 insurrection.

Aspiring Republicans once had to sign Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge. Now they must be devoted to the former president’s perfidies.

The events of January 6 have made reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 a vital step to protect our democracy.

American democracy may perish from the earth.

The party once freely condemned the would-be insurrectionists who attempted to waylay democracy. You’d hardly know it now.

The U.S. Senate is incapable of policing itself—and the two Republicans are too shameless to resign.

The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.

Party leaders, taking their cues from Donald Trump, are trying to shove the violence he instigated into the memory hole.

One was a State Department official. The other was in the Army. Their stories show why we don’t need post-9/11 tactics to root out far-right threats.

What is the Biden administration going to do about it?

The Republican coup against her is an irresistible story, but it’s hardly a national referendum on Trump.

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

Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are discovering that there’s no room in the GOP for anyone who acknowledges that Biden beat Trump fair and square.

In his first joint address to Congress, the president spoke out against the forces that threaten democratic values. That may be what defines his legacy.

Federal agents searched his home and seized documents, as Biden’s Justice Department charges ahead with a long-overdue investigation.

What we already know about the Florida congressman is plenty contemptible and corrosive without having to fall back on pernicious myths about sex trafficking.