Here is CNN: Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president amid lagging poll numbers and financial challenges, vowing to help elect “principled Republican leaders” moving forward. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign...
Longtime readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of John Inazu’s work, especially his book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Until I read this interview at Inazu’s Substack, I did not realize...
In order to justify his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had to rewrite history. So did Josef Stalin. On Monday night, Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021. He got help from Speaker of the House...
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Here is CNBC: The House Jan. 6 select committee’s next public hearing will reveal new material about former President Donald Trump’s plans and how much he knew about the Capitol riot, one of the panel’s members said Tuesday. The committee’s ninth...
The Washington Post broke the story tonight: The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors who...
Straight from the editorial page of the conservative-leaning newspaper which also happens to be the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States: No matter your views of the Jan. 6 special committee, the facts it is laying out...
The Missouri Senator’s hometown newspaper pulled no punches after seeing Hawley’s run through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: Josh Hawley is a laughingstock. During Thursday night’s televised hearings of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup...
The conservative pro-Trump think tank has a John Eastman problem. Here is Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker at The Washington Post: Early in 2016, as Donald Trump’s march toward the Republican presidential nomination gathered the air of inevitability, alumni of...
Last night the January 6th Committee provided more evidence to prove that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt, depraved, and immoral president in the United States history. Here is what we learned last night: Donald Trump ignored all...
It looks like the House Select Committee now has a Harvard study to bolster its argument. Here is NBC News: Researchers at Harvard University who conducted the largest study yet of what motivated Jan. 6 rioters say the data is...
Over at The New York Times Magazine, Charles Homans offers a long-form essay on how the Big Lie has captured the Republican Party. Much of the piece focuses on Pennsylvania and its current GOP gubernatorial candidate, Doug Mastriano. Here is...
For those of you who are not paying attention to the historic January 6th hearings, here is what happened yesterday in the words of Amanda Carpenter, writer for the conservative-leaning The Bulwark: Donald Trump’s defenders can finally drop the idea...
This morning I am trying to reconcile two parts of a CNN story on Paul Ryan and the January 6, 2021 insurrection. First there is this: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6, 2021, attack...
Here is the July 2 editorial: After another week of riveting testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee, it is natural to wonder: How many laws were broken, by whom, and will there be prosecutions? Some argue that former president Donald Trump...
That’s four “deeps” from John Podhoretz, the editor of the conservative Commentary magazine. Here is a taste of his piece: The testimony this afternoon of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, cannot be dismissed. If...
Historians will have the last say, but in the meantime here is a taste of Jonathan Chait’s recent piece at New York Magazine: At this point, even with the hearings in progress, it seems safe to rate this as the...
Sadly, this guy is my congressman. Here is The Washington Post: Of all the fantastical false claims of fraud and vote manipulation in the 2020 presidential election, “Italygate” was one of the most extreme. And Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) was...
I knew Trump’s catchphrase, “drain the swamp” would one day be good for something. Those watching the January 6th hearings are witnessing the machinations of the most corrupt president in American history and the people who stood with him and...
Watch Rusty Bowers testifying yesterday before the House Select Committee on January 6th: Here is E.J. Dionne at The Washington Post: Note to every politician in the GOP: You have to decide. You can be a Rusty Bowers Republican. Or you can...
