most deal with how we get along as citizens or neighbors, or simply as members of our participatory democracy, which we've all been learning isn't so simple anymore. in georgia tonight the defense rested in the trial of three white men charged with murdering a black man, ahmaud arbery. as with the circumstances of his killing, the trial itself complete with defense attorney trying to exclude black pastors from the courtroom has made race a central issue in the matter. policing and vigilante justice and guns all figure highly in the trial of kyle rittenhouse, and the jurors went home after a third day of deliberations and the judge barring an entire cable news outlet from the courtroom and showing the degree to which rittenhouse is barely old enough to vote has been a figure in right-wing politics. florida republican congressman matt gaetz last night all but offered him an internship. meantime, in a case that goes straight to congress' power to conduct oversight and constitutional questions dating back to the founding, lawyers for trump associate steve bannon were in court today making moves