The ‘insurrection’ - who dunnit?
The Pentagon’s timeline of its response to the January 6 mob attack on the Capitol features multiple discrepancies with the public record, while the first federal indictment details specific legal charges that likely will be brought against others
The violent last days of Trump's regime
Reaching higher ground vs “getting back” to a normal that never was
The fourth volume in historian Rick Perlstein’s critical series on the rise of the modern GOP’s far right shows Reagan as key in uniting a rank coalition that still epitomizes and explains much of the Republican Party’s sway.
The violent right’s influence in intelligence, police, conservatism - and how to fight it
No exit in Europe? Walden Bello says we can beat the far right, and more reports from four continents
The pandemic inflames inequalities throughout the country
No light reading this week. The Isles, Canada, Mideast, Asia, Africa, Latin America - and a call for eco-socialism
“Our biggest fear is not that there are people out there who hate us, but that rightwing extremists have infiltrated the institutions who are meant to protect us, like the police or the domestic intelligence agencies.”
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