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Trump supporters outside the Capitol building in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: Smile, you’re on an FBI tip list! US Capitol rioters couldn’t resist taking selfies

January 19, 2021 at 3:44 p.m.

Even now, deep into the age of Twitter and YouTube, I am bemused by the fact that the violent mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 couldn't resist...

A member of the National Guard stands behind a fence toped with razor wire on Capitol Hill a week after a pro-Trump mob broke into and took over the Capitol, Jan. 14, 2021, in Washington.

Column: Searching for hope in a capital city under tight security

January 17, 2021 at 11:55 a.m.

If there are any silver linings to be found amid the big clouds of bad news, I try to find them, as hard as that might be in a time...

Demonstrators gather after painting a sign in the middle of Broadway outside the historic Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis on Jan. 9, 2021. Speakers called for Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., to resign following a seizure and occupation of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Column: Twitter’s action against Trump opens a can of First Amendment worms

January 12, 2021 at 2:17 p.m.

Ironies abound in the debate over free speech, now that Twitter has taken away President Donald Trump's favorite bullhorn. "We are living Orwell's 1984," his son Donald Trump Jr. tweeted...

Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: Pro-Trump protesters can be thieves, too

January 8, 2021 at 2:01 p.m.

"Protesters? Sorry, they look like looters to me." That was how I responded last summer when a Black Lives Matter organizer tried to justify a brutal rampage of thievery and...

Trump supporters participate in a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Column: All Trumpsters are not a mob. But when the combat boot fits, wear it.

January 6, 2021 at 8:55 p.m.

As supporters of President Donald Trump turned violent Wednesday in our nation's capital, the question no one needed to ask was this: Who started it? The pro-Trump rioters who stormed...

Supporters of President Donald Trump rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020. Some supporters of Trump are certain the election was fraudulent. Others aren't so sure. What becomes of their skepticism has important implications for American democracy.

Column: Politics in 2021 — Will the blurring of reality and fantasy continue?

December 30, 2020 at 1:32 p.m.

President Donald Trump is on his way out of the White House, but not much else seems as certain. If anything, 2020 will be remembered as a year that blurred...

Mimi Groves at her parents' home in Leesburg, Virginia, Oct. 27, 2020. Groves withdrew from her chosen college after a publicly released three-second video caused an uproar online.

Column: Two cheerleaders and the F-I-G-H-T for free speech

December 29, 2020 at 2:19 p.m.

In some ways, it makes perfect sense that the future of free speech on the internet could turn on the cases of a couple of high school cheerleaders. Young people...

J.D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy," near the U.S. Capitol building in Washington in 2017.

Column: When Hollywood came to my Ohio hometown (the book was better)

December 25, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Among other momentous events, I'll remember 2020 as the year when, decades after leaving my Ohio hometown, Hollywood brought it back to me. Appropriately, reactions to Ron Howard's film, "Hillbilly...

Column: ‘Twas the night before Blursday

December 22, 2020 at 4:15 p.m.

With understandable apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, here's my update on his "A Visit from St. Nicholas" for this pandemic Christmas season: On the night before Christmas in our little...

Supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside of a hotel before a Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee public hearing to discuss 2020 election issues and irregularities with Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Nov. 25 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Column: Our democracy is fighting a bad case of ‘truth decay’

November 25, 2020 at 8:03 p.m.

Surely I'm not the only American who is reminded by President Donald Trump's refusal to concede of the loony scene with the Black Knight in "Monty Python and the Holy...

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