Marist Poll shows 10-point swing toward Democrats since April and after abortion ruling
But will the June numbers hold up until midterm elections in November?
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Cassidy Hutchinson further damages Donald Trump’s reputation; your scribe apologizes to former president
The latest testimony makes clear that Trump really wanted to accompany his rioters to the Capitol and had to be physically restrained and dispatched back to the White House to watch the carnage he had inspired.
The Battle of the Little Big Horn, 146 years later
They don’t make movies lionizing George Armstrong Custer any more, a small step in acknowledging the historical crime.
Latest hearing on coup attempt relied heavily on Republican witnesses, including Trump supporter and AZ House Speaker Rusty Bowers
“The President’s lie was — and is — a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” testified Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat.
Eastman’s scheme: arrange for neither Trump nor Biden to win a majority of the electoral votes
If the Electoral College had not produced a majority winner, and if all Republican legislators had backed Trump over Biden, Trump would actually have won a second term even though he lost both the national popular vote and the national electoral vote.
The Jan. 6 committee plumbs the fragile ego that fueled the Capitol attack
Trump’s need to believe — and to convince others — that he had defeated Joe Biden seemed to drive the series of high crimes and misdemeanors he committed in the aftermath of the election.
An impressive opening act for the Jan. 6 committee
With Trump having never acknowledged his 2020 defeat and still hoping to mount a 2024 comeback, the stakes underlying the special committee’s probe are high.
Why making U.S. Senate campaigns all about Roe makes sense
Marshall isn’t just calling for commitments from Democratic Senators to enact Roe into federal law, but also to set aside the normal filibuster rules.
It’s the guns
“It’s the guns that make America exceptional, and not in a good way.”
Understanding how Europe sees Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Seeing Putin’s aggression through European eyes.
The new Frontline-Star Tribune documentary offers a powerful, sobering look at George Floyd’s murder
“Police on Trial” features many of the Star Tribune reporters who worked on the story for the paper.
Do yourself a favor and watch Yamiche Alcindor and Michele Norris discuss race, policing and George Floyd
Alcindor is now the moderator of “Washington Week” on PBS and a Washington correspondent for NBC News. Minneapolis-native Norris currently writes a Washington Post column and was, of course, the long-time host of NPR’s, “All Things Considered.”
Amy Klobuchar, John McCain (who’s dead) and Morgan Freeman: Russia’s very weird ‘black list’
In response to what it called recent “hostile actions taken by Washington,” Russia has banned almost a thousand Americans, some of whom are actually still alive.
Assessing the depressing state of democracy around the globe
David Rieff, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Barbara F. Walter and Michael Tomasky sounded off.
Yes, it’s time for another rant against the Electoral College
You can call complaining about the Electoral College partisan sour grapes. What I don’t think you can do is make a fair, rational or intellectually honest case that it is a net-positive feature of our system.
The divided states: It turns out the U.S. is more divided than just about any other industrialized nation
The degree of difference across left and right in the U.S. dwarfed those gaps in the U.K., France and Germany.
Laying waste to McCarthy’s lie
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is distinguished, in at least two fairly disgraceful cases, not only by a willingness to lie, but by a willingness to compound his lies.
An intriguing idea around enforcing voting rights
A recent New Republic piece suggests an obscure section of the 14th Amendment offers the possibility for punishing states that try to make it harder for some citizens to vote.
On democracy — and objectivity
New Republic Editor Michael Tomasky argues that reporters should be what he calls “partisans for democracy.”
The other factor playing against Democrats in the 2022 midterms: retirements
According to a recent Washington Post overview, 30 House Democrats have announced that they will retire at the end of the current session of Congress, compared with just 17 House Republicans.
