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Driver Rams Barrier, Killing Capitol Police Officer And Triggering Lockdown Reprinted with permission from Alternet U.S. Capitol Police announced Friday afternoon that one officer was killed and another hospitalized after a driver plowed a car into a barrier outside the Capitol complex. The driver of the vehicle, who was reportedly shot by police after he left the car and lunged at them with a knife, officials said. Reports of the incident first emerged on Friday around 1 p.m. when Capitol Hill was put on lockdown, and staff were alerted about an "external security threat" via text m...

With the Senate’s acquittal of President Trump There are basically two options left on the table. The first was mentioned by Trump’s defense lawyers as an alternative to an impeachment conviction: a criminal investigation and indictment through the executive branch of the federal government or a state or local government, with a possible trial in the judicial branch.  The second is to squeak out some accountability through the U.S. Congress. Some have called for a sanction under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. But more important for the rule of law and the Constitution going forward wou...

Democrats wanted to know about the House minority leader's conversation with the former president on the day of the Capitol riot.

© Julia Nikhinson What can the 25-year civil war in the small island nation of Sri Lanka teach the United States at this time? It may offer relevant and disturbing lessons as we face domestic terror driven by grievance, misinformation and the politics of division, race and ethnicity.   The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was deeply disturbing. However, we must look beyond the horror of the event to understand what is behind the conflict and address the risk that domestic conflict in our country is morphing into an institution capable of sustaining and creating a spiral of violence.  Con...

The GOP once was “America’s party” because it understood that most Americans are centrist and pragmatic.