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Republicans Can Agree to Disagree Over Democracy Hans Noel © Getty / The Atlantic Less than six hours after rioters forced legislators to stop their debate over certifying the electors from Arizona on January 6, senators were back on the floor again. The insurrection failed to stop Congress from playing its constitutional role in certifying Joe Biden as the next president. That may be a metaphor for the resilience of American institutions under assault, but the Senate’s quick return to business also shows that the antidemocratic attitudes of the protesters were nothing new...

Just as events during Reconstruction did, the Capitol insurrection will fail | Opinion Jeff Strickland, Special to the USA TODAY Network © Saul Loeb, AFP via Getty Images Carrying a Confederate flag, a supporter of President Donald Trump protests in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Throughout U.S. history, violent protests by white extremists such as the events at the Capitol have been futile, last-ditch attempts to preserve their supremacy in America.  If history has shown us anything, these events — which include some of the most tragic and...

Purpose.   The first duty of government is to ensure domestic tranquility and defend the life, property, and rights of its citizens.  Over the last 5 weeks, there has been a sustained assault on the life and property of civilians, law enforcement officers, government property, and revered American monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial.  Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies — such as Marxism — that call for the destruction of the United States system of government. ...

Today is the 157th  anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln when the outcome of the rebellion of the Southern slave states against the Union was still up in the air was a watershed for civil rights in the United States. Though it was a military order that only affected slaves in the rebellious states, it also set the stage for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and other legal rulings that affected not only African Americans and former slaves, but also Native Americans, Women, other racial minorities and LGBTQ people. It is something that in...

The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement Deborah Cohen © Provided by The Atlantic Illustration by Valerie Chiang; images from Hulton Archive / Shel Hershorn / Gado / Getty; Associated Press This article was published online on December 20, 2020. Women’s-suffrage campaigners and their equally adamant opponents were in full agreement on one fundamental point: Giving women the vote would change everything. It would end poverty, and wars, too! So promised Britain’s militant suffragists, envisioning a civilization in which the patriarchy was upended and society’s evils wer...