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.

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 …

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

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases  —  Who needs soft-on-crime judges when the district attorney doesn't even want to lock up the bad guys?  —  Manhattan's new DA has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for hordes of criminals …