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What did all those weird tattoos mean?
As the raid on the U.S. Capitol has shown, some kinds of rhetoric can set fire to the world — and it exists in Canada, too. Here’s how to tamp it down and focus on positive forms of rhetoric.
What can Biden’s picks for his cabinet tell us about his administration?
Donald Trump has failed to understand that the constitutional separation of powers in the United States is its source of strength, not weakness.
Twitter has permanently suspended the account of the U.S. president, saying Donald Trump’s tweets glorified the violence of the siege on the Capitol.
Rather than denigrating other nations as banana republics for their penchant for insurrections and lawless coups, the United States needs to take a long look inward following the raid on the Capitol.
When supporters of Donald Trump stormed into the US Capitol in Washington, it wasn’t the first time this had happened. The last time was during a British invasion in 1814.
The attack on the U.S. Capitol follows some familiar patterns of violence inspired by politicians around the world who won’t accept electoral defeats.
The first amendment could not have anticipated the rise of digital media which has profoundly changed the nature of public speech.
After blazing an unprecedented post-election path of inciting violence, Donald Trump’s path forward contains some potential landmines.
U.S. citizens and lawmakers failed to account for the threat to democracy that resulted in the storming of the Capitol. This reflects a denial of the series of events that led to this moment.
Vice President Pence could invoke the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, also known as the Disability Clause, if he believes Trump is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’
Donald Trump’s tenure as president reveals how pathologies are part of what Americans see as their “exceptionalism.”
Conspiracy theories spread online are the backbone of Donald Trump’s falsehoods about his loss in the U.S. election. The real world consequences of those conspiracies have now exploded.
Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, disrupting Congress’s certification of Joe Biden as president-elect. Coup experts explain this violent insurrection wasn’t technically a coup.
A conflict scholar calls events at the U.S. Capitol ‘a messy riot where people lashed out at the heart of American democracy.’
Trump has claimed for weeks the election is stolen. Having fired up his supporters in this way, it became much harder to control mob behaviour.
The process of counting and certifying the Electoral College votes usually generates very little attention. Not so this year, with rebel Republicans planning to challenge the votes in several states.
The outgoing president has threatened US democracy. There must be consequences.
Top contributors
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Professor in American Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
