What Jim Jordan knows about Trump's coup attempt — and what he may cover up  —  The House select committee examining Jan. 6 appears increasingly focused on a highly consequential question: What did Donald Trump say and do as he watched the violent assault on the Capitol unfold over the course of at least two hours?

The problem with performative centrism  —  In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism of the Republican Party, belittle those who speak honestly about it or otherwise act in ways that make it harder to combat that radicalism.

Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory  —  It remains wild that there is still, to this day, a concerted effort to suggest that the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was somehow not directly a function of President Donald Trump and his supporters.

Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87  —  Joan Didion, a virtuosic prose stylist who for more than four decades explored the agitated, fractured state of the American psyche in her novels, essays, criticism and memoirs, and who as one of the “New Journalists” …

Kim Potter, ex-Minnesota officer, found guilty of manslaughter in death of Daunte Wright  —  Watch live: Jury reaches outcome in death of Daunte Wright  —  A Minneapolis jury on Thursday convicted former police officer Kim Potter on all charges she faced for fatally shooting Black motorist Daunte Wright earlier this year.