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On Jan. 6, a mob of pro-Trump extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results. President Trump fomented the MAGA mob and celebrated it, along with several of his lackeys, particularly disgraced former New York City Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. When people attacked the Capitol, the Trump lapdog falsely proclaimed to the gathered crowd that "every single thing that has been...

The violent, anti-democratic attack on the Capitol doesn’t fit the technical definition of a coup even though the president incited and encouraged it. That matters, experts say, because different actions are required to prevent this type of attack from harming democracy. A coup is an illegal attempt to take power through force or the threat of force, usually involving at least

Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap? Despite Newsome’s yeoman efforts at the French Laundry...

The single biggest foreign policy decision Joe Biden faces Vox.com 12/14/2020 Alex Ward © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event to announce new Cabinet nominations on December 11, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. When I spoke last week with Gérard Araud, France’s ambassador in Washington from 2014 to 2019, I expected to hear about the world’s reaction to President-elect Joe Biden and his Cabinet. My aim was to understand the decis...