These hearings are an attempt to reassure us all that the American story we were taught as kids is not some fairytale that adults told us to help us sleep or to make us easier to manipulate.

The defenders of democracy need a vision beyond opposition to Donald Trump.

Readers respond to America’s January 2022 editorial, marking the one-year anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.

Why do some members of our church, clergy and laity alike, perceive racial justice movements as more of a threat to the republic than the movement that led to the assault on Congress?

Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, talks with Gloria Purvis about how the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 are not as different from ordinary Americans as you might think.

The United States must be capable of holding to account those who abandon deliberative self-governance for a politics based on exploiting outrage and resentment.