January 6

Taking Facts for Granted

By Dan Nexon

In democracy

On February 9, 2022

TOPSHOT - A supporter of US President Donald Trump sits inside the office of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as he protest inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated...

hacks , hacktacular

A Hack by Any Other Name Would Still be a Hack

By Dan Nexon

On October 16, 2021

Speaking of perhaps the most mendacious living recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, it appears no one at LGM has blogged about his most recent self-immolation. It blazed brighter than a.

republicans

Truth, Commissions, and Republican Brokeness

By Dan Nexon

On May 19, 2021

Senate Republicans appear poised to block a bipartisan investigation of the first non-peaceful transfer of executive power in modern American history. McConnell has found some procedural objections to hide behind,.

Would a coup by any other name smell so wrong?

By Dan Nexon

In 2020 Election , Trump

On January 9, 2021

Paul Musgrave argues that the effort to prevent Congress from declaring Biden the next president was, in fact, a coup. As I write this a few hours later, rioters incited by President Donald Trump have stormed the Capitol building. Both the House and the Senate...

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