January 6 Archives - YES! Magazine

The Danger of Normalizing Trump’s Enablers

Testifying against Trump in the Jan. 6 Committee hearings should not absolve his enablers of the harm they helped him inflict.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Jul 14, 2022

Contextualizing the Jan. 6 Hearings

According to political analyst John Nichols, the House Select Committee hearings remind us that Trump was at the center of an attempted coup and, at the very least, that ought to make him ineligible for future elections.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Jun 24, 2022

Can We Still Save U.S. Democracy?

Voting rights reform has died an ignoble death in Congress. The way forward isn’t clear or inspiring, but at least we still have one.

Chris Winters | Jan 25, 2022

A Year Later, Justice for the Insurrection Remains Elusive

White rage and violence in American society are age-old phenomena. It should not surprise us that the wheels of justice are moving so slowly to respond to last year’s D.C. riots.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Jan 6, 2022

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