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Francis Fukuyama / New York Times:
One Single Day. That's All It Took for the World to Look Away From Us. — Mr. Fukuyama is the author of the forthcoming book “Liberalism and Its Discontents.” — The Jan. 6 attack on Congress by a mob inspired by former President Donald Trump marked an ominous precedent for U.S. politics.
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Matt Fuller / The Daily Beast:
The Real Tragedy of Jan. 6 Is That It's Still Not Over — I had a front-row seat to the riot. A year later, one thing is clear: Nothing has changed. … It was around noon on Jan. 6, 2021, and I was already late. — I was supposed to be covering the counting of the electoral votes …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but One Big Question Remains — In the year since the assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, more than 700 people have been arrested, with little public indication from the Justice Department of how high the investigation might reach.
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Did the January 6 Coup Fail? — By warping the Republican party, Trump made another coup attempt possible. — January 6th should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugarcoaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Real accountability for Jan. 6 requires political reform
Real accountability for Jan. 6 requires political reform
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Associated Press:
Images of chaos: AP photographers capture US Capitol riot
Images of chaos: AP photographers capture US Capitol riot
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Washington Post, WAMU, Forbes and Mediaite
John Nichols / The Nation:
To Avert Another January 6, Expel Coup Plotters From Congress
To Avert Another January 6, Expel Coup Plotters From Congress
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The Hill, Breitbart, Rochester Beacon, Unlicensed Punditry, Roll Call, PRESS RUN and NPR
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump's effort to overturn election
More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump's effort to overturn election
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Raw Story, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, Insider and RedState
CNN:
Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol insurrection
Fact check: Five enduring lies about the Capitol insurrection
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Jan. 6 committee may hold prime-time hearings
Jan. 6 committee may hold prime-time hearings
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans dodge and deflect ahead of Jan. 6
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans dodge and deflect ahead of Jan. 6
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Jan. 6 committee seeking phone records from Sebastian Gorka
Jan. 6 committee seeking phone records from Sebastian Gorka
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Emily Davies / Washington Post:
Another U.S. Capitol Police officer sues Trump for damages from Jan. 6
Another U.S. Capitol Police officer sues Trump for damages from Jan. 6
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New York Times, Law & Crime, Daily Kos and CBS News
Washington Post:
How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act — Edward B. Foley is a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University, where he heads the university's election law program. Michael W. McConnell, formerly a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform
McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform
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Daily Kos
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Omicron, snowstorm thwart Schumer's midterm year quick start
Omicron, snowstorm thwart Schumer's midterm year quick start
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RedState, Washington Post and The Hill
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin floats modest Senate rules changes
Manchin floats modest Senate rules changes
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David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
2022 House Overview: Still a GOP Advantage, but Redistricting Looks Like a Wash — The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor than the last decade's.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Surprise: Democrats dodged a gerrymandering fiasco. A top analyst explains why. — The long-awaited, long-feared Gerrymandering Apocalypse of 2021 has not materialized for Democrats after all. — Throughout last year, many analysts and panicked Democrats alike concluded that Republicans …
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Lawmakers begin early talks about another round of coronavirus relief targeting businesses — Democrats and Republicans have discussed setting aside billions to help restaurants, gyms and performance venues, though GOP concerns about spending could scuttle the effort
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Leila Abboud / Financial Times:
Macron says his strategy is to ‘piss off’ France's unvaccinated as Covid surges — Parliament suspends vaccine pass debate and rivals criticise president for ‘vulgar’ expression and ‘lack of empathy’ — President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire from political rivals for saying he wanted to …
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Alejandro Alvarez / WTOP News:
I-95 in Va. reopens as motorists battle bailout traffic jam on Route 1 — Have you or someone you know been stuck on I-95? Tell WTOP about your experiences. — Listen to WTOP live online and on the radio at 103.5 FM. Download the free WTOP News app for Android and Apple phones to sign up for custom traffic and weather alerts.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Don't Look Up Doesn't Get the Climate Crisis — Don't Look Up is an obscenely overlong, occasionally funny satire of American media and politics. But it aspires to be something more. — As he has emphasized in interviews, director Adam McKay conceived of the film as an allegory for the climate crisis.
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Brooke Staggs / Orange County Register:
Husband: Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died of COVID-19 complications — GOP leaders say Ernby's death won't deter them from speaking out against coronavirus vaccine mandates. — Deputy District Attorney and GOP activist Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died early this week …
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Milorad Dodik and Associated Media Platform for Destabilizing and Corrupt Activity — Dodik's Destabilizing and Corrupt Activities Undermine 26 years of Progress Since the Dayton Peace Accords — WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP isn't even trying to sound coherent anymore — We must stop pretending the GOP is a real political party made up of coherent adults. To understand why, let's examine a single day this week. — On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump, the undisputed head of the party …
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American Greatness:
The Ridiculous Fantasy of a National Divorce — The solution is not some sort of secession or civil war. The solution is for the Right to stop being rank amateurs when it comes to politics and governance. — Every now and then an absurd idea enters the discourse and picks up a sort of memetic traction in spite of itself.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Try Canceling Joan Didion — If it's really true, as Michael Wolff reported on Monday for Richard Rushfield's Hollywood newsletter The Ankler, that Random House will not be releasing a planned compilation of Norman Mailer's writings on some sort of political-correctness grounds …
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Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Ben Smith Can't Say What His New Media Venture Is — The departing Times media columnist and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News wants to push the envelope but isn't yet ready to say just how. — Ben Smith had a hundred-and-forty-four unread text messages when we talked …
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Ben Winslow / KSTU:
Entrata founder emails Utah tech CEOs, claiming COVID vaccine part of extermination plot by ‘the Jews’ — SALT LAKE CITY — The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silcon Slopes tech firm, sent an email to a number of tech CEOs and Utah business and political leaders, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine …
Reuters:
Kazakhstan government resigns after violent protests over fuel price — Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government's resignation on Wednesday, his office said, after a fuel price increase in the oil-rich Central Asian country triggered protests in which nearly 100 police were injured.
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