Americans, who are used to being winners, now look around and see a country that can't secure its own seat of government... that struggles to …
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Can American Democracy Be Saved?
Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the most shocking days in U.S. history. For the first time since the War of 1812, the Capitol was stormed. But many historians and political scientists say we shouldn't be surprised by what happened. Over 74 million Americans voted for a man who has consistently lied about his election loss. Many of these voters will not accept Joe Biden as the legitimate president. So where do we go from here? Is there any hope for our republic?
I spent the last election cycle immersed in the metastasizing paranoia behind Wednesday’s assault on Congress. Nobody should be surprised by what just happened. On the evening of November 5, the president of the United States addressed the American people from the White House and disgorged a …
A mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, leading to evacuations of lawmakers and at least four deaths — a surreal, embarrassing scene that felt like a predictable finale to this whole sordid era. There’s a debate about whether to call the events of Wednesday a “coup” (before …
Democrats need to support the pro-democracy Republicans that repudiate Trumpism however they can. What happened Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol should be a moment of rupture for our political system. Something needs to change. America needs a serious democracy reform agenda, one that gives a new and …
The unprecedented, shocking and disgraceful violent attack on the U.S. Capitol Wednesday as lawmakers met to certify Electoral College votes shows that the foundation of America’s democracy is at risk. We are deeply divided and in peril here at home, and this puts America at a heightened risk from …
How the president-elect should deal with Trump’s Republican enablers Even as America hits low ebb with an out-of-control pandemic and staggering …
Eighty years ago this week, Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his eighth State of the Union address to a divided nation. As Nazis blitzkrieged Europe, …
When people get contempt and condescension, they're more inclined to put all their trust in leaders like Trump. When people have nobody to trust but …
HOURS AFTER Sen. James Lankford’s speech challenging Arizona’s electoral college vote was interrupted as a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, the Oklahoma Republican returned to the floor Wednesday night with a welcome, and far different, message. “We’re the United States of …
The path from the Nov. 3 election has been harrowing for American democracy. Though state and local officials ran clean, well-functioning elections, leaving no doubt that Joe Biden was the victor, President Trump and a sizable faction of Republicans in Congress have relentlessly tried to subvert …
January 6, 2021: a day that will go down in history as one of the most shameful and infamous in American history. The day the president of the United …
Yesterday’s assault on the United States Capitol by a right-wing extremist mob may have only modestly damaged the building, but it gravely injured …
The bad news about America is all around us. This is surely one of the darkest weeks in the country’s history. But there is good news hidden within it — or at least the chance for a renewal of America’s promise. I don’t want to sugarcoat the reality. We have lived through the most serious threat to …
Wednesday’s failed insurrection shows how the global ambitions of foreign-policy elites are divorced from reality—and undermined by domestic …
It was not a great day for the image of American democracy. Leaders from New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern to India’s Narendra Modi issued statements …
The Capitol building of the United States was breached yesterday by a mob seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election at a sitting president’s behest. Waving Trump banners and Confederate flags, it forced the evacuation of the building and temporarily delayed the timely ceremonial counting …
