President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with President Biden at the White House on Feb. 10, 2023, to discuss several joint issues. But democracy is job one.
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Comic book creators with a history of galvanising social action on America’s streets have created a graphic novel about the US Capitol attacks.
The insights of an ancient historian show that the causes of civil unrest are often the same over time and across societies.
Why deep state conspiracies keep on spinning out of control.
The rise in contemporary right-wing political extremism – and violence – can be traced back to events in the 1990s.
Worrying about how many people believe false ideas misses the real danger – that people are influenced by them whether they believe them or not.
Nationalist militia groups like the Oath Keepers have changed over the last several years – especially since the Capitol attack – in a few important ways, generally becoming more extreme.
The investigation into the January 6 Capitol riots asks: is the nation’s well-being ensured by allegiance to its laws or its leaders? The founding fathers chose the former – could we say the same for Trump’s inner circle?
The vice president has said he looks forward to meeting the framers of the Constitution in heaven. That is not the mindset of someone with short-term vision.
Today’s media landscape is a far cry from the days of Watergate. A media scholar looks at the challenge the Jan. 6 committee faces in getting the hearings to break through in the age of TikTok.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol held its first hearing to present what it has learned during its almost year-long probe. Three scholars analyze the event.
On the eve of public hearings held by Congress’ January 6 investigative committee, a former oversight staffer for the House of Representatives explains what such hearings aim to accomplish.
Framers of the Constitution put in a clause giving lawmakers immunity from liability for any ‘speech or debate.’ Interpreting it may be key in the battle to get some Republicans to testify.
Rioters at the Capitol represented a ‘dagger against the throat’ of American democracy, President Biden said in an address laden with imagery.
Addressing American domestic radicalism will require new ways of thinking about the nation’s problems, and new ways of solving them.
The word ‘patriot’ has a particular meaning to many Americans. But some of them took their idea of patriotism a bit far on January 6.
The domed neoclassical Capitol building was inspired by European cathedrals and the Roman Pantheon – shrines to imperial power, not rule by and for the people.
Two leaders in academia weigh in how numbers and statistics can enforce institutional racism.
The whole world saw the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. How will the textbooks read by America’s students describe what took place?
Journalists say that if they are forced to turn over to law enforcement any news information they have gathered, it will erode the trust of sources and the public – and place them in danger.
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Chancellor, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of 20th Century American History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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