January 6 Insurrection
News and commentary on the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection and its subsequent investigation.
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Mark Peterson / Redux The Reason Liz Cheney Is Narrating the January 6 Story
The committee is laying out the facts in a way optimally designed to cultivate trust.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The Dumbest Coup Attempt
America was saved by pure indolence.
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Eric Lee / Bloomberg / Getty A Withering Indictment of the Entire GOP
Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony was damning. If anyone was surprised, they shouldn’t have been.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Kevin McCarthy, Have You No Sense of Decency?
If, after the latest January 6 hearing, House Republicans persist in their policy of pro-Trump cover-up, American democracy is in dire peril.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Most Damning January 6 Testimony Yet
Cassidy Hutchinson’s account of Donald Trump’s behavior destroys any defense the president once had.
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Michael Reynolds-Pool / Getty What Are Trump Supporters So Afraid Of?
The voice inside that tells them how wrong they are.
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Photograph by Bill McCullough for The Atlantic The Insurrectionist in the Flower Shop
Jenny Cudd might regret storming the Capitol. But she’s still pushing election conspiracies.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Trump’s Savviest Aides Already Headed for the Exits
The hearings give the former president’s followers a new excuse to quietly back away.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The January 6 Committee’s Most Damning Revelation Yet
Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the election was not a whisper, but a roar.
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Stephen Voss / Redux The January 6 Committee Is Not Messing Around
Its first two sessions have already made a powerful case for why this investigation matters.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Make America Remember Again
Caroline Edwards’s testimony about the January 6 insurrection was a reminder that words can convey truths that even images cannot.
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The Atlantic; Murat Taner / Getty The Moral Desolation of the GOP
The sheer scale of Donald Trump’s depravity is unmatched in the history of the American presidency, and the Republican Party made it possible.
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The Atlantic; Jon Cherry / Getty The Other Cause of January 6
Without the Electoral College, America would never have come so close to an overthrow of its government.
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Ting Shen / Bloomberg / Getty Trump Gets the January 6 Trial He Long Dodged
The first of six House Select Committee hearings aimed to shape the president’s standing in the eyes of future voters.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The One Witness at the January 6 Hearing Who Matters Most
It’s you.
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The Atlantic; Getty January 6 Is a Dangerous Shorthand
Just as Watergate was not only about the Watergate break-in, January 6 shouldn’t come to stand only for the events of that date.
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The Atlantic Daily: Trump’s Seven-Hour Records Gap
Two of our writers look at the former POTUS’s sometimes-tenuous relationship with history itself.
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C-SPAN; Bettmann / Getty; The Atlantic Trump Can’t Just Erase History Like Nixon Did
The seven-hour gap in the record of January 6 should still be knowable, despite efforts to suppress it.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty What Trump Is Hiding
Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Federal Judge Just Told the Truth About Trump
Judge David Carter sliced through rhetorical nonsense and confirmed what everyone saw on January 6.
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