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The vote to acquit former President Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol is a symptom of the dramatic decline of the US constitutional system, which is being eroded from within.
Language affects behavior. When words champion aggression, make violence acceptable and embolden audiences to action, incidents like the insurrection at the Capitol are the result.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was first used against Confederate leaders after the Civil War to expel seditionist politicians. Now it could be used against Donald Trump.
To distill the violent insurrection at the US Capitol into a tale of angry male rage is to overlook the threat that women in the mob posed.
Since its creation, the infamous diagonal blue cross with white stars on a red background has been a symbol of white resistance to giving Black Americans more political power.
Donald Trump has failed to understand that the constitutional separation of powers in the United States is its source of strength, not weakness.
The insurrection at the Capitol was unprecedented. So too was the coverage, according to a scholar who monitors how media reports on protests
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.
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.'
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Columbus State University
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PhD candidate Individualized Program, 2020-2021 Public Scholar, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Research Affiliate and Senior Analyst, University of Central Florida
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Law, IUPUI
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Assistant Professor of Public Communication, American University School of Communication
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Associate Professor, Michigan State University
