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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters Brazil’s ‘January 6 Moment’ Is a Warning
The threat from authoritarian populists endures.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters What the Rioters in Brazil Learned From Americans
Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters showed that antidemocratic revolutions can be contagious too.
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Andalou Agency / Getty The January 6 Attack Is Not Over
America still needs accountability at every level.
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Stanislav Beloglazov / Getty; Tasos Katopodis / Getty; … The GOP Is a Battering Ram Against Truth
For Trump, the violence on January 6 was a bonus.
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Tom Williams / Getty; The Atlantic An Ousted Trump Target on Leaving Congress
Outgoing Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler reflects on the forces that ended her 12-year term, and what might have been different.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Biggest Takeaway from the January 6 Report
Rather than conducting a large-scale dragnet, the committee zeroed in on the former president.
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The Atlantic The Prosecution of Trump Runs Into Some Serious First Amendment Troubles
But they are surmountable if the government takes into account his other actions on January 6, 2021.
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Win McNamee / Getty Justice Is Coming for Donald Trump
Every effort to hold Donald Trump accountable has been thwarted by those who made it someone else’s job. Not anymore.
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Mark Peterson / Redux The Prospect of Prison Time Spoils Far-Right Fantasies
Making extremist leaders answer for their actions will deter future violence.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Why Did the Oath Keepers Do It?
What was the point of an insurrection that, in the end, was about nothing?
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Philip Pacheco / Anadolu Agency / Getty It Was Sedition
The Oath Keepers imagine themselves to be true patriots, but, as a jury of their peers found this week, their deeds were a crime against the United States.
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Erin Scott / Bloomberg / Getty Mike Pence Refuses to Connect the Dots
In his new memoir, the former vice president selectively edits his four years with Trump to avoid a necessary reckoning.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Republicans Really Thought on January 6
The president turned his back on seemingly everyone.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty The January 6 Hearings Changed My Mind
House investigators have come far closer than I anticipated to pinning both moral and legal responsibility for the insurrection directly on Donald Trump himself.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Tipping Point of Stupid
In most states, you can’t pass yourself off as an election-denying January 6 truther and still be taken seriously by a majority of voters.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Memes Led to an Insurrection
A president who understood the power of memes was able to send thousands of people into battle against democracy itself.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Most Important Public Servants You’ve Never Heard Of
We need to ensure that inspectors general can do an effective job of keeping other government officials honest.
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Drew Angerer / Getty; House Select Committee / … Mike Pence Owes the Country an Explanation
The constitutional authority to call out the military is vested in the president of the United States. So what was Pence doing on January 6?
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Peter Zay / Anadolu Agency / Getty The Bad and Good News About Trump’s Violent Supporters
The FBI search at Mar-a-Lago prompts sincere talk of violence. But some threats remain mere threats.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Drew Angerer / Getty; … Conservatives Believe Trump Is Above the Law
Republicans’ reflexive insistence that the Mar-a-Lago raid is politically motivated is unmoored from the available evidence.
