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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill Cain
Trump's supporters felt if they could get what they wanted, the rest would take care of itself. It doesn’t work that way. Ask Thomas More.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Peter Lucier
Every self-styled “patriot” who stormed the Capitol yesterday disgraced the legacy of American activists and soldiers.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Schneider
It is worth remembering that occupying a legislature can be an act of democracy. We in the United States might need to do it again.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff appear together at a campaign rally in Augusta, Ga., Jan. 4, 2021.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Matthew J. Cressler
The white Trump supporters who desecrated the U.S. Capitol proved Rev. Warnock’s point. One cannot serve both God and whiteness.
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier on Jan. 6 at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bill McCormick, S.J.
Will the Republican Party reject the counterfeit politics of conspiracy and fantasy? If not, writes Bill McCormick, S.J., the violence of Jan. 6 will not be an isolated event.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Bryan N. Massingale
What we saw today is a clear declaration that many white people would rather live in a white dictatorship than in a multiracial democracy.