On Jan. 6, the vice president will preside as Congress counts the Electoral College’s votes. Let’s hope that he doesn’t do the unthinkable — and unconstitutional. By Neal K. Katyal and John Monsky, Dec. 29, 2020. President Trump recently tweeted that “the ‘Justice’ Department and FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Read more…
No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future. By Erica Newland, Dec. 20, 2020, Ms. Newland worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department from 2016-18. I was an attorney at Read more…
December 15, 202012:17 PM ET Hannah Allam, KQED The widespread embrace of conspiracy and disinformation amounts to a “mass radicalization” of Americans, and increases the risk of right-wing violence, veteran security officials and terrorism researchers warn. At conferences, in op-eds and at agency meetings, domestic terrorism analysts are raising concern Read more…
by Accidental Talmudist Barthel Schink was a German teenager who led a resistance movement of Hitler Youth dropouts who fought Nazi tyranny. Born to a postal worker and a homemaker in Cologne in 1927, Barthel was one of five children. Like millions of other young Germans he was conscripted into Read more…
Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. By Jochen Bittner HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times. Read more…