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The Atlantic Daily: January 6 Isn’t Going Away
We discuss the Capitol attack’s evolving place in our cultural memory.
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Leah Millis / Reuters January 6 Wasn’t a Riot. It Was War.
Four Hours at the Capitol, a new HBO documentary, is a vivid, terrifying picture of violent insurrection.
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Getty; The Atlantic The New Lost Cause
Republicans are holding up the January 6 insurrection—an effort to overthrow the American government—as the high-water mark of patriotism.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Hardly Anyone Showed Up at the ‘Justice for J6’ Rally
The right-wing rally at the Capitol turned out to be a forum for random grievances, and an opportunity to dress like Batman.
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ALEX BRANDON / AFP / Getty The Capitol Rioters Attacked Police. Why Isn’t the FOP Outraged?
Police unions aren’t usually bashful about defending officers, but they’ve been conspicuously subdued in discussing the January 6 attacks.
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Eva Marie Uzcategui / Getty Don’t Let Anyone Normalize January 6
If you can shrug it off as just another incident of Trump talking too much, then you have already signed up for the next incident—and the one after that.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Insurrection Was Just Part of the Plot
The full contours of Trump’s effort to overturn the election are coming into view.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty Republicans Refuse to Reckon With January 6
Just as striking as the officers’ testimony today is GOP lawmakers’ refusal to engage with it.
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Jon Cherry / Getty The Capitol Riot Was Prologue
In this month’s newsletter: a crisis for American democracy. Plus: a Q&A with George Packer, and a selection of must-read stories from the past several weeks.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty The Capitol Rioters Won
Although some Republican leaders deplored their violence, most have come to support the rioters’ claim that Trump’s defeat meant the election was inherently illegitimate.
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Matt McClain / The Washington Post / Getty The Moral Cost of Choosing Stability Over Justice
The events of January 6 illustrate the flaw in accommodating extremists in the name of stability.
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The Atlantic The Whole Point Was to Avoid Mob Violence
The Founders would have been appalled by the attack on the Capitol but not surprised.
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Jim Lo Scalzo /Getty Don’t Erase What Happened at the Capitol
The building should resemble the United States, a still-broken country in need of fixing.
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Wikimedia / The Atlantic How a ‘False Flag’ Cry Has Divided Republicans in Oregon
The state GOP’s embrace of a false conspiracy theory shows the deep imprint of Trumpism within the party and has prompted a backlash from leaders who want to move on.
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Getty / The Atlantic January 6 Was Just One Day in a Sustained Campaign
The impeachment trial offers a chance to show how Donald Trump tried to undermine the election’s legitimacy for months—not just on the day of the Capitol attack.
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Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists
We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism.
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The Atlantic Daily: The Riot Sympathizers Aren’t Going Away
America’s divisions won’t disappear under President Biden. How do we move forward? Then: Do coronavirus vaccines still work against mutated variants?
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Craig Ruttle / Redux Coexistence Is the Only Option
Millions of Americans sympathize with the Capitol insurrection. Everyone else must figure out how to live alongside them.
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Stephanie Keith / Getty America Can’t Exhale Just Yet
Demonstrations across the country after the Capitol riot were small, but more violence may soon come.
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Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Capitol Rioters Are Giving Insurrection a Bad Name
Civil society cannot allow mistrust in institutions to become violent rebellion.
