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Joe Biden plans to lead a unique nationwide memorial service on the eve of his inauguration to honor the grim toll of nearly 400,000 American lives lost to the coronavirus. The presidential inauguration committee (PIC) announced recently that it would host a lighting...

In his new film MLK/FBI, Sam Pollard lays bare the injustices the FBI heaped on the civil rights leader, but paints a picture of a complex man dealing with his personal life and its baggage alongside his political beliefs. As a child in 1960s east Harlem, documentary...

On January 6, while Congress was certifying the 2020 election results, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. They smashed windows, broke through doors, breached the building, and ran through it, snapping photos of themselves carting...

By Kathy Roberts Forde, Associate Professor, Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Kristin Gustafson, Associate Teaching Professor in Media and Communication, University of Washington, Bothell While the attempted coup by Trump fanatics on...

By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May, more Americans will have died from the virus than during the Civil War, which killed 655,000, and the Spanish flu pandemic...

By Deborah Whitehead, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder Mike Pence had remained one of the only constants in the chaotic Trump administration. Variously described as “vanilla,” “steady” and loyal to the point of being...

By Danielle K. Kilgo, John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality, University of Minnesota The chaos at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was not typical. Nor was the coverage. Footage carried live by cable news and clips and photos...

The U.S. Capitol building was assaulted and occupied on January 6 by an angry and violent insurrectionary mob incited by Donald Trump and his closest family members and cronies. Was it a “coup?” Republican House member Adam Kinzinger said so. Many have called it that....

Wisconsin’s Congressional delegation split along party lines on January 13 for the bipartisan vote to impeach President Donald Trump over his role in inciting the deadly January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In statements, press conferences and speeches on...

By Lee Bebout, Professor of English, Arizona State University Despite failed lawsuits, recounts and formal confirmation that President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump and his supporters continue to maintain that the election...

The far-right siege on the U.S. Capitol has been called “unbelievable,” “shocking,” and “beyond imagination.” And let’s not forget the attacks on statehouses around the nation and all the symbols hate deployed – guillotine, hangman’s noose, confederate and Nazi...

By Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University One of the many horrifying images from the January 6 rampage on the U.S. Capitol shows a long-haired, long-bearded man wearing a...