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. 

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.

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 that make America exceptional, and not in a good way.”

Seeing Putin’s aggression through European eyes.

“Police on Trial” features many of the Star Tribune reporters who worked on the story for the paper. 

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.”

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. 

David Rieff, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Barbara F. Walter and Michael Tomasky sounded off. 

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 degree of difference across left and right in the U.S. dwarfed those gaps in the U.K., France and Germany. 

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.  

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.

New Republic Editor Michael Tomasky argues that reporters should be what he calls “partisans for democracy.”

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.

Frontline’s “The Power of Big Oil,” covers the oil industry’s increasingly desperate, more-than-four-decade-long-and-still-going struggle to deny, delay, dispute and minimize climate change.

Eliot A. Cohen, of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, offers a smart overview of the state of the war. 

Remembering the passage of the 13th Amendment.