One of the rioters’ lawyers wants to create a panel that would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe were unfair prosecutions.

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How to bend political reality in two easy steps.

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How to bend political reality in two easy steps.

It isn’t just members of the MAGA faithful who are feeling let down.

Rather than conserve or build, some people just want to destroy.

The nation’s most trusted institution must not be reduced to a political tool.

Trump isn’t just shaping the nation; he’s also changing the evangelical church.

Being an anti-feminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power.

In the great dance between the two rivals, it’s getting harder to tell which of them is leading and which is following.