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.

How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election

The make-or-break issue for the election over the next few weeks will be the economy, not the Proud Boys.

Let there be no “both-sidesing” of the primary cause of American anxiety.

The conservative movement’s go-to media grifters have a dark history of collaborating with Trump’s new favorite far-right gang.

Trump has no debate strategy other than submerging himself in the riptide of his own chaos.