Riots
The Political Scene Podcast
A January 6th for the “Trump of the Tropics”
When Brazilian protesters stormed government buildings over the weekend, were they intending to evoke the attack on the United States Capitol?
The Front Row
“Athena,” Reviewed: When Social Thought Becomes Hectic Spectacle
Romain Gavras’s new film is technically stunning but hollow at its apolitical core.
Comment
Why Republican Leaders Ignored the January 6th Hearing
The House select committee’s task is to establish who knew what about the insurrection—but most Republicans don’t seem to want to find out.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Republicans Protest Lack of Rioters on January 6th Commission
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the commission “little more than a gussied-up festival of anti-riot propaganda.”
Under Review
The Unknown History of Black Uprisings
In a new book, the historian Elizabeth Hinton reveals that, in the late sixties and early seventies, there were hundreds of local rebellions against white violence and racial inequality.
Daily Comment
The G.O.P. Looks for New Ways to Ignore the Capitol Riot
As a House vote on a bipartisan commission to study the insurrection made clear, it’s Trumpists vs. the truth.
Daily Comment
Garland Is the Last, Best Chance to Uncover Trump’s Role on January 6th
The ongoing federal criminal inquiry is the most promising route to the truth.
Daily Comment
Law Enforcement and the Problem of White Supremacy
Police chiefs have tended to dismiss the political activities of their officers as their First Amendment right to express themselves.
Shouts & Murmurs
What in Hamnation
I won’t lie—the ham became very demanding. It wanted to watch TV all the time.
The Political Scene Podcast
Representative Jamie Raskin on Impeaching Donald Trump—Again
The Maryland lawmaker took shelter during the January 6th insurrection and then led the impeachment that followed, all within weeks of losing his son.
The Bench
Meet SG3: The Élite Legal Squad That Vowed to Safeguard the Election
Calling themselves the Three Amigos, a self-appointed legal SWAT team of former Solicitors General ran through all the Doomsday scenarios they could think of—except armed insurrection at the Capitol.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: Trump’s Second Impeachment
From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about the significance of impeachment.
U.S. Journal
When Reporting Becomes a Defense for Rioting
John Sullivan claims that he was at the Capitol insurrection as a neutral journalist. Others say he was a riot chaser who urged the mob to “burn this shit down.”
News Desk
A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection
How claims by Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones spurred a parent of eight to become one of the Capitol riot’s biggest mysteries, and a fugitive from the F.B.I.
Our Columnists
Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason?
Few events in American history have matched the Framers’ definition as clearly as the insurrection of January 6th.
Letter from Washington
Why McConnell Dumped Trump
After the Capitol assault—and after losing his perch as Majority Leader—the senator finally denounced the outgoing President. Was it a moral reckoning or yet another act of political self-interest?
Our Columnists
Trump May Be Gone, But Trumpism Isn’t
Even to the disgraceful end of his Presidency, Trump managed to persuade other conservative opportunists that his brand of right-wing populism represents the future of the G.O.P.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
Trump’s Boundless Benevolence
. . . And you get a pardon, and you get a pardon, and you get a pardon!
Comment
Why Trump Must Go on Trial
The insurrectionists whom the President directed to the Capitol have, in a sense, been redeployed in an effort to secure impunity for him.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Donald Trump’s American Carnage Comes to Washington
The New Yorker’s reporters and writers reflect on the convulsive end to the Trump years. And a game designer explains why the fiction of QAnon has been so appealing and so dangerous.