Following Trump’s intensely polarizing presidency, Biden’s message of decency, truth, constitutional integrity, and care for one another is more imperative than ever.
Biden can help us get it back.
Millions of Americans sympathize with the Capitol insurrection. Everyone else must figure how to coexist with them.
Trump leaves behind a wounded nation, and it will take time to heal.
Supporters are recoiling from some Republican politicians, not because they betrayed their campaign-trail promises, but because they fulfilled them.
President Joe Biden—and those who follow him—will navigate a new political landscape, reshaped by four years of Donald Trump.
Three particular failures secure Trump’s status as the worst chief executive ever to hold the office.
The proper response to these extremists isn’t counterterrorism. It is mental hygiene.
If the right likes to call out left-wing theatrical exaggerations, it has also learned from them and in the past weeks has emulated them.
Last year, Black women called upon themselves, made themselves heard, and shared their political talents and minds.
Failing to do so simply because most of the rioters are white and regard themselves as “patriots” would be deeply unjust.
As the Capitol rocked, capital shrugged. How can that be?
In his second inaugural address, the 16th president had a message for a war-weary nation.
Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.
The Senate must convict Trump in order to disqualify him from ever holding public office again.
More than a week after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, video recordings, news reports, and federal charges are revealing a situation even more dire than it seemed at the time.
One hundred and forty-seven Republican members of Congress voted to sustain a delusion in the American mind.
And Washington, D.C., looms large in their struggle.
After 17 years without a federal execution in the United States, the Trump administration has gone on what can only be called a killing spree.
All movements adjust their tactics over time. The president’s most extreme supporters have concluded that violence is useful.