‘So, So Angry’: Reporters Who Survived the Capitol Riot Are Still Struggling  —  The reporters who survived the insurrection are still covering Congress.  But things don't feel normal.  —  CJ  —  Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox?  Sign up here.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates to join Howard University faculty  —  Hannah-Jones said she would not join faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill after tenure controversy  —  Journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are joining Howard University's faculty, school officials announced Tuesday …

Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over  —  The Department of Defense announced Tuesday it's calling off the $10 billion cloud contract that was the subject of a legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft.

I'm joining the Lincoln Project to make sure Republicans don't win Congress in 2022  —  Donald Trump is fueling an authoritarian movement abetted by far too many Republican senators and House members.  We must unite to preserve democracy.  —  America is exhausted.

Taliban parade new weapons seized from Afghan military as U.S. withdraws … KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have showed off containers full of weapons and military hardware seized from the Afghan military as American forces withdraw from the country and the militants march across the country.

Russian State Hackers Breached Republican National Committee  — Hackers part of ‘Cozy Bear,’ people familiar with matter say  — RNC official says ‘no indication’ computer systems hacked  —  Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week …

Republicans weigh ‘cracking’ cities to doom Democrats  —  Kentucky's GOP congressional delegation entered the redistricting cycle with an unusual request for their state legislative counterparts: leave Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth alone.  —  The group, which includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …

The GOP's main voter bloc is shrinking  —  The electorate is shifting — and not in the Republican Party's favor  —  A new deep dive into the 2020 electorate by Pew Research contains mostly bad news for Republicans, whose approaching demographic doom is less racial than it is generational.

We Still Won't Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie  —  CLUELESS … Six months after the insurrection it triggered, it's clear that the stolen-election nonsense is just a drop in a tidal wave of bullshit.  —  How could so many Americans believe in “the Big Lie?”  We see the numbers and we shake our heads.

The Paradox of Trumpist Patriotism  —  Claiming to love America while believing that it is broken and that many of your fellow citizens are your enemies.  —  How is it that we hear the loudest jingoistic yelps from dismal patriots who cannot stand the state of the nation and half the people in it?

Ivanka Just Might Flip on Her Dad, Mary Trump Says  —  “She's much less likely to stay loyal than Allen Weisselberg.”  —  The Trump Organization is now feeling the heat, with its CFO under indictment for grand larceny.  Prosecutors are clearing to get that money man, Allen Weisselberg, to flip on his boss.

April Powers Condemned Jew-Hate.  Then She Lost Her Job.  —  The inclusion officer's identity as a black Jew should have made her unassailable.  Instead, it was used to discredit her.  —  1 hr ago … On first viewing, it looked like a Tik-Tok riff on The Purge: a caravan of cars rolls down La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Is Critical Race Theory Taught in K-12 Schools?  The NEA Says Yes, and That It Should Be.  —  The public debate over critical race theory (CRT) is in large part a semantics argument, with the anti-CRT faction attempting to include “all of the various cultural insanities” …

After the Attack: The Future of the U.S. Capitol Police  —  It has been six months since rioters attacked the United States Capitol and our brave police officers and law enforcement partners who fought valiantly to protect elected leaders and the democratic process.

Fox's New Channel Changes the Climate for Weather TV  —  As viewers tune out cable news, Rupert Murdoch is preparing the debut of Fox Weather, a potentially powerful new player in a sphere long dominated by the Weather Channel.  —  Weather is taking the media industry by storm.

What the DOJ Isn't Telling Us About Jan. 6  —  Today marks six months since the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and the effort to find, investigate and prosecute the people responsible is moving forward on many fronts—including just last week, with the House voting along party lines to create …

Meet the Consulting Firm That's Staffing the Biden Administration  —  WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years.  Now it's in the White House.  —  This piece has been co-published with The Intercept  —  From its headquarters just blocks from the White House …

What Does Mitch McConnell Do Now?  —  To visit Mitch McConnell at his office in the Capitol, you must first pass through a faded world that he has meticulously preserved.  A fireplace in the reception room still bears a crack left by a fire British soldiers set during the War of 1812.

Why Saving Comedy Is So Crucial To Saving America  —  People aren't dumb.  They've looked around, and they see that telling the wrong joke — or even simply laughing at one — is a quick way to destroy your life.  —  Conan O'Brien did his final late night show last week, after 28 years on air.

FBI Washington Field Office Releases New Videos of Suspects in Violent Assaults on Federal Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help in Identifying Them  —  The FBI's Washington Field Office has released 11 new videos of suspects in violent assaults on federal officers during the riots …

A horn-wearing ‘shaman.’ A cowboy evangelist.  For some, the Capitol attack was a kind of Christian revolt.  —  Late last month, one of the accused Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists told a D.C. judge that she didn't recognize his authority and was making a “divine special appearance.”

No, children don't need to see kink at Pride parades  —  If I didn't know better, I'd think a post titled, “Yes, kink belongs at Pride.  And I want my kids to see it,” was such an outrageous invitation to spar in the public square that it was not worthy of a response.

New Khashoggi revelations show we don't have the full story about his killing.  The Biden administration must disclose what it knows.  —  Sarah Leah Whitson is the executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), the organization founded by Jamal Khashoggi.

Sen. Lankford responds to ‘unheard of’ lack of neutrality from state GOP chairman  —  In addition to challengers in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate next year, incumbent Sen. James Lankford said he is contending with opposition from a high-ranking member of his own party.

Trump sees Walker as ‘unstoppable’ candidate, but many in GOP are wary  —  Herschel Walker hasn't lived in Georgia for decades.  He's never held public office, doesn't attend the sort of Republican events that are mainstays on the political calendar and has bypassed the backslapping fundraising circuit …