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January 19, 2023
Did Twitter Let Trump Post His Way Into a Coup?
The January 6 report omits the committee’s own analysis of the role social media played in the insurrection at the US Capitol.
Chris Lehmann
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January 13, 2023
The Failures of the January 6 Report
Historian Jill Lepore’s effective critique in The New Yorker is marred by a lazy counternarrative.
Jeet Heer
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January 12, 2023
Did Avoiding the “Big Lie” Help the Iowa GOP Win Big?
With unified messaging and a reluctance to embrace election denialism, Republicans in Iowa were able to outperform the party nationally and secure nearly every statewide office.
Nina Baker
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January 12, 2023
Fintan O’Toole on the Next Insurrection, Plus Katha Pollitt on “She Said”
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, lessons for a future coup and a review of a film about the reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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January 6, 2023
January 6 Comes for Kevin McCarthy
He won’t become House speaker even though he absolved Donald Trump of the insurrection.
Joan Walsh
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January 6, 2023
The January 6 Report and Trump’s Gospel of Success
On the anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol, the House select committee’s report documents the former president’s culpability—and his state of mind.
Chris Lehmann
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December 28, 2022
The January 6 Committee Dropped the Ball When It Failed to Call for Abolition of the Electoral College
Abolishing the Electoral College could eliminate future threats to American democracy and ensure that future elections are decided by the popular will of the people.
John Nichols
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December 28, 2022
The “Faces” of Black Conservatism Tell Us Everything—About the GOP
Republicans’ embrace of Kanye West and Herschel Walker says more about how the GOP thinks about Black people than it does about Black conservatism in America.
Elie Mystal
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December 20, 2022
The January 6 Committee Just Put Kevin McCarthy in Charge of an Investigation Into Kevin McCarthy
Nearing the anniversary of the Capitol riots, the dysfunctional structure of the House Ethics Committee virtually guarantees inaction by a Republican-controlled House.
John Nichols
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December 19, 2022
DOJ Lawyers Are Cowards if They Don’t Indict Trump
The January 6 committee gave Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice more than enough to charge Donald Trump.
Elie Mystal