A judge has let indicted January 6 defendant Barbara Balmaseda leave the country for an unbelievable reason.

Threats and anti-LGBTQ+ harassment at Pride events are increasingly inseparable from other political developments.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan noted that another insurrection is completely possible.

It started as an irreverent—and sometimes repulsive—print magazine. Then it jettisoned everything that made it unique to try to cash in on the digital media bubble.

Increasingly ignored by the mainstream, right-wing edgelords are amassing power behind the scenes.

A new Senate report savages the FBI and DHS for ignoring pre–January 6 intel.

The big crowd in Miami for Trump’s arraignment failed to materialize. But his foot soldiers are at work across the country.

Our democratic institutions are flawed but in dire need of defense against the right’s racist and antisemitic threats.

At this year’s CPAC, the unifying myth of the Big Lie—and a funhouse-mirror version of the Capitol riot—has fully taken hold.

The January 6 committee’s damning final report makes clear that the former president sought to steal the 2020 election by force. Will Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice take the baton?

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Tuesday that Trump threw dishes, wanted to allow armed supporters at his January 6 rally, and tried to strangle a Secret Service agent.

How strongmen use personality cults and alternate realities to stay in power

Plus, Proud Boys leader Enrico Tarrio will remain in jail, and Ginni Thomas admits she attended Trump’s “peaceful” rally.

Capitol Police turned out in force to confront the “Justice for J6” rally. They needn’t have bothered.

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

The chaos unfolding outside of a Los Angeles spa is a case study in how the right’s media and political ecosystems feed each other, often resulting in very real violence.

How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology

Trump’s cultists truly believed the 2020 election would be overturned. With those hopes dashed, the putsch is on.

How the president-elect should deal with Trump’s Republican enablers

As the Georgia runoffs descend into attacks on the Reverend Raphael Warnock’s faith, the right’s long-simmering antipathy for Black theological traditions is swinging into view.